part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the
rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western
Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national
celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston
1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues
in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly
sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889;
edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert
Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man,
a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. _d._ Winthrop st.
Boston 10 Aug. 1890. _bur._ Holyhood cemetery, Brookline,
Massachusetts 12 Aug. _J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly_
(1891) _portrait_; _Cosmopolitan ix_ 768 (1890) _portrait_;
_Irish Monthly xiii_ 19 (1885).
O’REILLY, MONTAGU FREDERICK. _b._ 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835,
lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870,
R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut.
of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at
Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct.
1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the
Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea
and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches
are at Windsor Castle. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May
1888.
O’REILLY, MYLES WILLIAM PATRICK (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of
Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). _b._ Dublin 13 March 1825;
educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845,
LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles
militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish
brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept.
1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862
to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in
Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity
in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those
who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted
under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors,
New York 1878. _d._ Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Philipstown near
Knock Abbey.
ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford
1752–1822). _b._ Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord
Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the
admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh
5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim
1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17
Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West
Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth
1833–6. _d._ Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.
ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding).
_b._ Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord
Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East
Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. _d._ 6
Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.
O’RIORDAN, DANIELL O’CONNELL. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28
Feb. 1880. _d._ 13 Aug. 1890.
ORKNEY, GEORGE WILLIAM HAMILTON FITZMAURICE, 6 Earl of (1 son of
5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). _b._ 6 May 1827; known as viscount
Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23
Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold
out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture
of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to
sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G.
28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for
Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the
Ionian islands 1864. _d._ 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London
21 Oct. 1889.
ORLEANS, HELENE LOUISE ELISABETH, Duchess of (youngest dau.
of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, _d._
1816). _b._ Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; _m._ at palace of
Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans,
prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the
French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July
1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution
Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very
frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William
Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. _d._ Cambourne house,
Richmond 18 May 1858. _H. Castille’s Portraits politiques_,
_La duchess d’Orleans_ (1856); _The duchess of Orleans_, _a
translation by Mrs. Austin_ (1859); _I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp._
168–9, _29 May 1858 p._ 544 _portrait_; _G.M. June 1858 p._ 668.
ORLEBAR, JOHN (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house,
Bedfordshire 1775–1833). _b._ Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810;
entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1
Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30
years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. _d._ 91 Pevensey road, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. _An account of families of Boase_
(1893) 112.
ORMATHWAITE, JOHN BENN-WALSH, 1 Baron (only son of sir John
Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). _b._ Warfield park, Bracknell,
Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church,
Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2
bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested
Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P.
Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug.
1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite,
Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland
in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the
improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on
parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial
plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the
state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The
practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology
compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. _d._
Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.
ORME, COSMO. _b._ Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn,
bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees,
London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803,
retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’
provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug.
1859. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug.
personalty sworn under £200,000. _Bookseller Aug. 1859 p._ 1169;
_G.M. vii_ 312 (1859).
ORME, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826;
pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in
weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds
lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham,
£50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds
lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again,
£100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10
May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near
Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31
rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for
the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public
house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. _d._ 103 Shoreditch,
London 9 June 1864. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 14 June. _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 253–70, 330–8 (1880) _portrait_; _F.
W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring_ (1888) 160–7;
_Fights for the championship_, _by the editor of Bell’s Life_
(1860) 244–55, 405; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 196, 203 (1864)
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was
the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.
ORMEROD, EDWARD LATHAM (6 son of the succeeding). _b._ London
27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at
St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius
coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and
scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851;
demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7;
physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex
county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and
museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations
on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy
and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. _d._
14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. _St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital reports vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873); _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874)
503–6.
ORMEROD, GEORGE (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.)
_b._ High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school,
Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818;
purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his
death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author
of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester,
with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s
Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby,
3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays
illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6;
Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. _d._
Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. _G. Ormerod’s History of
Chester_, _2 ed. vol._ 1 (1875) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 575
(1873).
ORMEROD, GEORGE WAREING (2 son of the preceding). _b._
Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford,
Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S.
1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874;
wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of
the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject
in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to
the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the
Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club
1888. _d._ Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. _Athenæum 10 Jany.
1891 p._ 56; _Academy xxxix_ 43 (1891).
ORMEROD, THOMAS JOHNSON (brother of the preceding). _b._ 27
July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew
lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A.
1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining
chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in
univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to
1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall
with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author
of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges,
lectures, and sermons. _d._ Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec.
1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200.
_I.L.N. lxv_ 571 (1874).
ORMEROD, WILLIAM PIERS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Welbeck
st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator
of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec.
1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec
1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical
collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in
anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in
an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, _d._
Canterbury 10 June 1860. _bur._ St. Martin’s, Canterbury. _St.
Bartholomew’s hospital reports_, _vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873).
ORMISTON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a
builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the
Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7;
chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay
1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief
engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay
wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of
engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany.
1880. _d._ Freshwater, Isle of Wight 9 July 1882. _Minutes of
proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi_ 409–15 (1883).
ORMOND, FRANCIS (son of capt. Ormond of the mercantile marine).
_b._ Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1829; educ. Liverpool; a squatter in
Victoria, Australia, made a fortune; gave £40,000 for building
the Presbyterian coll. Melbourne 1877–87; contributed to the
Working men’s coll. 1887 and was the first president; founded
Ormond coll. Melbourne; gave £20,000 to endow a chair of music
at the Melbourne univ. 1887; member of legislative council;
resided Egoleen, Toorak, Melbourne. _d._ Pau, France 5 May 1889,
left £40,000 to Ormond coll., £10,000 to Melbourne Working men’s
coll., and many other gifts to institutions and charities. _P.
Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 356–7; _Times 11 May 1889
p._ 12.
ORMONDE, JOHN BUTLER, 2 Marquess of (eld. child of James Butler,
1 marquess of Ormonde 1774–1838). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 24
Aug. 1808; educ. Harrow 1821 etc.; known as viscount Thurles
1808–38; succeeded as 2 marquess 22 May 1838; hereditary chief
butler of Ireland 1838 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen
Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. 1853 to death; K.P. 17 Sept.
1845; author of An autumn in Sicily, an account of the remains
of antiquity in that island, Dublin 1850; translated F. P. G.
Guizot’s Meditations and moral sketches 1855, and A. Dumas’
Memoirs of a mâitre d’ armes 1856. _d._ Loftus hall, co. Wexford
25 Sept. 1854. _bur._ in Kilkenny cathedral 2 Oct. _G.M. xlii_
505 (1854); _I.L.N. xxv_ 361 (1854).
ORMONDE, ALFRED. _b._ Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. _d._
April or May 1852. _Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852
portrait._
ORMSBY, ARTHUR SYDNEY (youngest son of rev. Owen Ormsby). _b._
Seatown house, Dundalk Feb. 1825; articled to George Halpin,
engineer 1839–44; resident engineer on a portion of Midland
great western line; an engineer in U.S. of America 1849–51;
assistant colonial engineer Melbourne, Australia 1852; executive
engineer public works department Calcutta 1858–61; experimented
on the water supply to London 1861, proposing to collect the
rain fall before it reached the ground, and to discriminate
between the potable water and the water for ordinary purposes;
constructed water works at Hillbottom, Berks.; author of A new
idea for the water supply of towns 1867. _d._ London 24 Feb.
1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_ 479–81 (1887).
ORMSBY, HENRY W. (son of Henry Ormsby, R. of Kilskier, co.
Meath). _b._ Kilskier Feb. 1812; educ. Trinity college, Dublin,
B.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher
of King’s Inns 1874; solicitor general for Ireland 1868 and 12
March 1874; attorney general 21 Jany. to 12 Nov. 1875; P.C.
Ireland Jany. 1875; judge of landed estates court 12 Nov. 1875;
judge of chancery division of high court of justice in Ireland
1878–85. _d._ Marine terrace, Bray 17 Sept. 1887. _Law Times 1
Oct. 1887 p._ 386.
ORMSBY, JOHN WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 6 Aug. 1828; colonel
R.A. 9 Aug. 1858; M.G. 5 April 1866; lieut. governor and
commandant royal military academy Woolwich 1 April 1867 to
death. _d._ Woolwich 17 March 1869.
ORNSBY, GEORGE (eld. son of George Ornsby of the Lodge,
Lanchester, Durham, _d._ 1823). _b._ Darlington, Durham 9 March
1809; educ. Durham gr. sch. 1823–7; practised as a solicitor in
Durham; studied theology at Univ. coll. Durham 1839–41; C. of
Newburn, Northumberland 1841–3; C. of Sedgefield, Durham 1843–4;
C. of Whickham, Durham 1845–50; V. of Fishlake, South Yorkshire
July 1850 to death; hon. M.A. Durham 1872; F.S.A. 29 May 1873;
preb. of York 15 Feb. 1879 to death; author of Sketches of
Durham 1846; York 1882 in Diocesan histories; edited for the
Surtees society The works and letters of D. Granville, dean
of Durham 1861–5; The correspondence of John Cosin, bishop of
Durham, 2 vols. 1869–72, and Selections from the household book
of lord William Howard of Naworth castle 1878. _d._ Fishlake
vicarage 17 April 1886. _Proc. of soc. of antiq. xi_ 376 (1886);
_Biograph July 1881 pp._ 26–8.
ORNSBY, ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 1820; educ. Linc.
coll. Oxf.; exhibitioner 1836–43; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow
of Trin. coll. 1843–7, and lecturer in rhetoric 1844; master
of the schools; C. of St. Peter-the-less, Chichester 1845–7;
entered the church of Rome May 1847; helped to manage the Tablet
newspaper in Dublin; professor of classical literature in the
Catholic univ. Dublin Oct. 1854–82; librarian at Arundel Castle
a short time; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland and examiner in
Greek 1882 to death; author of The life of St. Francis de Sales
1856; Η Καινη Διαθηκη the Greek testament from cardinal Mai’s
edition of the Vatican bible, with notes, Dublin 1860; Memoirs
of James Robert Hope Scott, Q.C., 2 vols. 1884. _d._ Earlsfort
terrace, Dublin 21 April 1889. _E. G. K. Browne’s Tractarian
Movement_ (1861) 145, 151.
O’RORKE, PATRICK HENRY. _b._ co. Cavan, Ireland 25 March 1837;
taken to U.S. of America 1838; educ. Rochester, New York; a
marble cutter; second lieut. of engineers in the Federal army
24 June 1861, first lieut. 3 March 1863, brevet colonel 2 July
1863; served at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861; colonel of the
140th regiment of New York volunteers Sept. 1862, which became
one of the best in the army of the Potomac; _killed_ in the
battle of Gettysburg 2 July 1863. _Appleton’s American biography
iv_ 591 (1888) _portrait_.
O’ROURKE, HUGH. Professor of English, rhetoric and French in
royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1862–85; elected bishop
of Clonfert 10 Feb. 1881, but declined the charge. _d._ 1885.
ORPEN, SIR RICHARD JOHN THEODORE (2 son of Francis Orpen, V. of
Kilgarvan, co. Kerry, _d._ 1805). _b._ Cork 6 Nov. 1788; educ.
Middleton and Cork; solicitor at Dublin 1809 to death; president
of Incorporated society of attorneys and solicitors of Ireland
1860 to death; one of the comrs. to inquire into practice
of courts of law and equity in Ireland; knighted by duke of
Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868. d. 41 George’s st. Great North, Dublin 4
May 1876. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 8 May. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 478
(1876); _Irish Law Times x_ 266, 281, 300 (1876).
ORR, SIR ANDREW (eld. son of Francis Orr of Glasgow, wholesale
stationer). _b._ Glasgow 1802; educ. univ. of Glasgow; partner
in firm of S. Orr and Co., stationers, Glasgow; member of town
council 1842–60; lord provost of Glasgow 1854–7; knighted
at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; took an active part in
procuring for Glasgow a water supply, public parks, and a
gallery of arts 1857–9; chairman of Glasgow and south western
railway 1849; acquired estates of Harvieston and Castle Campbell
1859, Aberdona 1860, and Sheardale 1861. _d._ Bridge of Allan,
Perthshire 19 April 1874. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii_ 253–4
(1886) _portrait_.
ORR, CHARLES ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Madras engineers 9 June
1831, colonel 29 June 1863; colonel commandant 24 March 1871 to
death; L.G. 20 March 1876. _d._ 6 Oct. 1876.
ORR, JOHN H. _b._ Grey Abbey, co. Down 26 Nov. 1826; ordained at
Antrim 19 March 1851; D.D.; clerk of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in Ireland 1869 to death; moderator of the
general assembly 1887; sec. of the trustees of the fund of the
Regium Donum; sent letters to The Times on 1 and 6 July 1892 in
reply to Mr. Gladstone, giving the views of Irish Presbyterians
on home rule. _d._ Antrim 23 Jany. 1895. _Daily Graphic 22 March
1893 p._ 4 _portrait_.
ORR, ROBERT SCOTT (son of a chemist). _b._ Edinburgh 1819;
apprentice to sir George Newbigging; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1840,
M.R.C.S. 1866, M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1856;
medical assistant royal lunatic asylum; superintendent Glasgow
royal infirmary 1843, afterwards physician; member of general
medical council 1 April 1878 to death; president of Faculty of
physicians and surgeons 1880–3; author of Statistical tables
of the Royal infirmary of Glasgow 1845–7, 3 vols.; Historical
sketch of epidemic fever in Glasgow 1848. _d._ 9 Albany place,
Glasgow 15 May 1886. _Lancet i_ 1001 (1886).
ORR, SUTHERLAND GEORGE GORDON. _b._ 1816; ensign European
regiment (left wing) 23 Feb. 1836; captain 23 Madras light
infantry 12 March 1846 to death; commandant 3 regt. Hyderabad
cavalry 27 Jany. 1854 to death. _d._ at the residence of his
brother-in-law Greenhill, Barnet, Herts. 19 June 1858. _Mrs. C.
Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine of a soldier’s life._
ORR, WILLIAM ADAM (eld. son of Wm. Orr, _d._ 1816). _b._ 1810;
educ. Addiscombe coll.; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 15 Dec. 1826,
colonel 9 June 1862 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 1862 to
death; C.B. 21 March 1859; succeeded to the property of Patrick
Orr of Bridgeton 1828. _d._ Weston super Mare 11 Sept. 1869.
ORR, WILLIAM SOMERVILLE. Publisher at 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s
churchyard, London 1837–59; the London publisher of W. & R.
Chambers’ works 1850; published Orr’s Circle of the Sciences, 9
vols. 1854–6; A primary atlas of ancient and modern geography
1855; in the employment of Chapman and Hall, publishers, London,
at time of his death. _d._ 129 Blenheim crescent, Notting Hill,
London 6 Jany. 1873. _The Publishers’ circular 1 Feb. 1873 p._
72.
ORRIDGE, BENJAMIN BROGDEN. _b._ 1814; a medical agent and valuer
at 30 Bucklersbury, London; common councilman for ward of Cheap
1863–9; chairman of the library committee of city of London;
F.G.S.; member of London and Middlesex archæological society to
1870; author of A letter on eminent Londoners and civic records
1866; Some account of the citizens of London and their rulers
from 1060 to 1867, 1867; Some particulars of alderman Philip
Malpas and alderman sir Thomas Cooke, K.B. 1868; Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s rebellion from researches in the Guildhall
records 1869. _d._ 33 St. John’s Wood park, London 17 July 1870.
_Trans. of London and Middlesex Archæol. Soc. iv_ 70–1 (1871).
ORRIDGE, ELLEN AMELIA (eld. dau. of Edward Orridge of 2 Houghton
place, Ampthill square, London). _b._ London 1856; educ. Royal
academy of music under Manuel Garcia 1875, took bronze medal
1876, silver and gold medal 1877, Parepa gold medal, second
Christine Nilsson prize and certificate of the Academy 1878;
had a fine contralto voice; sang in Mr. Pyatt’s autumnal tour
concerts 1877 and 1878, at John Boosey’s ballad concerts 1878,
and at A. and S. Gatti’s promenade concerts 1878; sang in
oratorios at Birmingham and other places. _d._ Guernsey 16 Sept.
1883. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 21 Sept. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news x_ 265, 271 (1878) _portrait_.
ORROCK, HECTOR HEATLEY (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). _b._
Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an
architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in
Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish
academy exhibitions. _d._ 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb.
1862.
ORTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1817; solicitor in city of London
1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of
enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties
were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor
at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an
alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served
under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen;
master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. _d._
Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893.
ORTON, JAMES. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809,
surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay
medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. _d._
3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857.
ORTON, REGINALD (only son of James Orton, inspector-general
of Bombay hospitals). _b._ Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810;
educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father
in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S.
1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862;
surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland
obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one
of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on
glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of
reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling
apparatus. _d._ Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862.
_G.M. Nov. 1862 pp._ 644–6.
OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (son of George Osbaldeston of
Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, _d._ 1794). _b._ Wimpole st.
London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll.
Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at
Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced
under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single
wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he
removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from
the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of
the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8,
and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs.
he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed
himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket
5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard
Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won;
fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17
April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East
Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the
Squire. _d._ 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866.
_C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_ (1867) 6–54; _Baily’s Mag.
ii_ 295–306 (1861) _portrait_; _Sporting Review lvi_ 170–80
(1866) _portrait_; _Day’s Reminiscences of the turf_ (1891) 84,
85; _Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck_ (1892) 402–8;
_Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences_ (1843) 43–6; _Wildrake’s Cracks
of the day_ (1841) 32–5; _H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport_
(1895); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 342 (1862); _Grace’s
Cricket_ (1891) 21 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news ix_
144, 163 (1878) _portrait_.
OSBORN, GEORGE (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper
1764–1836). _b._ Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister
at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester
1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the
Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission
secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863
and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a
supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical
works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols.
1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of
Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. _d._ 24 Cambrian
road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. _Wesleyan Methodist mag.
June 1891 pp._ 468–78 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp._ 124,
126 _portrait_, _2 May 1891 p._ 563 _portrait_.
OSBORN, MARMADUKE CLARK (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). _b._
Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist
minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and
at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death;
secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged
William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist
ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed.
1882. _d._ of influenza at Hydropathic establishment, Baslow,
Derbyshire 11 May 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 15 May. _Wesleyan
Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp._ 553–5; _J. E. Ritchie’s Religious
Life of London_ (1870) 227; _Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p._
377 _portrait_.
OSBORN, ROBERT DURIE (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col.
13 Bengal N.I., _d._ 1849). _b._ Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26
Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian
mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60;
lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired
with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment
of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of
1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death;
London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam
under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2
ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed.
1884. _d._ of syncope while playing lawn tennis at the Hyde Park
tennis court, London 19 April 1889, portrait by J. R. Hodgson
exhibited at the R.A. 1877. _Academy xxxv_ 304 (1889); _Athenæum
i_ 538 (1889).
OSBORN, SAMUEL (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91).
_b._ Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield
1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker,
Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of
Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield;
master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy
liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of
12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884,
and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of
Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885.
_d._ Blackpool 7 July 1891. _bur._ Ecclesall 11 July. _Sheffield
Independent 8 July 1891 p._ 5, _10 July p._ 6, _13 July pp._ 5–6.
OSBORN, SHERARD (eld. son of Edward Osborn, colonel Madras
army). _b._ 25 April 1822; entered navy Sept. 1837; commanded
the Pioneer steam tender in the Arctic expedition under captain
Austin 1850–1; commanded the Pioneer again in the Arctic
expedition under sir Edward Belcher 30 Oct. 1852, all the ships
were abandoned 20 Aug. 1854; commanded the Vesuvius in the
Black Sea 1855; senior officer in Sea of Azov June 1855 to
end of the war; commanded the Furious in the Chinese war 1857,
and the Donegal in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war
1861–2; commanded the Royal Sovereign 1864; agent at Bombay to
the Great Indian Peninsular railway 1865–6; managing director
of the Telegraph construction and maintenance company 1867–71;
R.A. 29 May 1873; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; contested Birkenhead 18
Nov. 1868; wrote many papers in Blackwood’s Mag.; F.R.S. 2 June
1870; author of Stray leaves from an Arctic journal 1852, 2 ed.
1865; Quedah, or stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters
1857, 2 ed. 1865; A cruise in Japanese waters 1859; The career,
last voyage and fate of sir John Franklin 1860; The past and
future of British relations in China 1860; Japanese fragments
with facsimiles of illustrations 1860; edited The discovery of
a north-west passage by captain M’Clure 1856, 3 ed. 1865. _d._
33 Charles st. Berkley sq. London 6 May 1875. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. 10 May. _Geographical Mag. ii_ 161 (1875); _Colburn’s
United service mag._ 1875 _part_ 2, _p._ 254; _I.L.N. xx_ 336
(1852) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 475, 489, 495, 571 (1875) _portrait_;
_Graphic xi_ 486, 492 (1875) _portrait_.
OSBORNE, CATHERINE REBECCA (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major
R.E.). _b._ 1795; _m._ 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8
baronet, _b._ 1757, _d._ 3 June 1821. She _d._ Newton Anner,
co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. _Memorial of life of Lady Osborne_,
_edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne_ 2 _vols._ (1870).
OSBORNE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (3 son of the organist of Limerick
cathedral). _b._ Limerick 24 Sept. 1806; studied music at
Brussels 1824–6; chapel master to the prince of Orange
1826–31; wrote with Charles A. de Bériot 33 duets for violin
and pianoforte; served as a volunteer on the royalist side
during Belgian revolution of 1830; resided in Paris 1831–44,
and in London 1844 to death; made tours of the provinces with
other musicians; a popular teacher of the piano, noted for his
performances of Bach’s music; member of the Philharmonic Society
and of the Musical Association and a director of the Royal
academy of music; wrote Sylvia and another opera; La pluie de
perles, valse brillante 1848; Classical pianoforte works 1851–2,
thirty numbers; Fallen leaves, twelve short pieces 1861; The
reapers, a part song 1862; The communion service 1878; his name
is attached to upwards of 250 pieces of music 1834–84. _d._ 5
Ulster terrace, Regent’s park, London 17 Nov. 1893. _Musical
times Dec. 1893 and Jany. 1894._
OSBORNE, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY. _b._ 1808; second lieut. Madras army
6 April 1820; lieut. 19 Madras N.I. 17 July 1823, captain 25 May
1830, major 14 March 1843, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1850 to 1855;
lieut. col. of 46 N.I. 1855–7, of 31 light infantry 1857–8, of
32 N.I. 1858–60, of 48 N.I. 1860–1, and of 33 N.I. 1861 to 31
Dec. 1861; commandant Thayat Mew 22 March 1859 to 31 Dec. 1861;
retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ 5 Lower Seymour st. London 21
Oct. 1880.
OSBORNE, HUGH STACEY. _b._ 1770; entered Bombay army 1788;
lieut. 1 Oct. 1790; captain European infantry 6 March 1800,
major 25 Feb. 1807 to 6 July 1811, lieut. col. 1813–15; lieut.
col. 1 Bombay N.I. 1815; col. 14 N.I. 27 May 1825 to death; M.G.
10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1854. _d._
Brighton 15 Sept. 1855.
OSBORNE, JOHN. _b._ Yorkshire; hunting groom to Mr. Taylor of
Kirton; trained Ararat for Liverpool races; trained horses in
the North; trained for the marquis of Westminster 1842; trained
some horses which his son rode; ran Exact and Lambton at York
1852; had 40 brood mares; ran Brown Brandy. Cherry Brandy, and
Lord Alford; trained for lord Zetland, lord Londesborough, and
sir Charles Monk. _d._ Aug. 1865. _bur._ Coverham ch. yard.
_Sporting Review Sept. 1865 pp._ 165–8.
OSBORNE, JOHN (son of Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol). _b._ 10 Oct.
1810; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835; Q.C. 29 Nov. 1862; judge of
county courts circuit S. Lancashire 26 Jany. 1871 to death. _d._
Bent house, near Prestwich, Lancs. 23 Nov. 1872. _Law Times liv_
122 (1872).
OSBORNE, JOHN WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY. _b._ 25 Sept. 1833; ensign
Indian army 1 Jany. 1850; executive engineer Mhow division July
1855; political agent at Réwah 1857, defeated the mutineers near
Réwah in nine actions 1857, and preserved Bandalkhand during the
mutiny; lieut. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 1
Jany. 1876 to death; hon. aide-de-camp to the governor general
Feb. 1858; C.B. 18 May 1860; adviser to the Begum of Bhopal
1860; administered the Gwalier state to death, where he was in
much favor with Scindhia; colonel in the army 2 April 1877; hon.
A.D.C. to the viceroy of India; author of A pilgrimage to Mecca
by Sikandar Begam, followed by a sketch of the reigning family
of Bhopal 1870. _d._ Mussoree 4 Oct. 1881. _Army and navy mag.
iii_ 539–45 (1882); _Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny v_ 75–7,
134, _vi_ 167 (1889).
OSBORNE, SIDNEY GODOLPHIN (3 son of 1 baron Godolphin
1777–1850). _b._ Stapleford, Cambs. 5 Feb. 1808; educ. Rugby
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Stoke-Pogis, Bucks.
1832–41; R. of Durweston-with-Bryanstown, Dorset 1841–75;
inspected the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean war 1855;
granted the rank of a duke’s son 28 June 1859; wrote letters in
the Times, all signed with the initials S. G. O. 1844–88; author
of A word or two about the new poor law 1835, 8 ed. 1836; Hints
to the charitable 1838; Hints for the amelioration of the moral
condition of village populations 1839; Gleanings in the west of
Ireland 1850; Lady Eva, her last days, a tale 1851; Scutari and
its hospitals 1855. _d._ Lewes, Sussex 9 May 1889. _Letters of
S. G. O. edited by Arnold White_, 2 _vols._ (1888) _portrait_;
_The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 25 May 1889 p._ 647
_portrait_; _Punch 18 May 1889 p._ 235.
OSBORNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of William Osborne of
Worcester). _b._ Clapham, Surrey 1814; educ. St. Paul’s sch.
1824, captain of the school 1831–2; Camden exhibitioner to Trin.
coll. Camb. 1832; Craven scholar 1836, senior chancellor’s
medalist 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; ordained 1838; head master
Macclesfield gram. sch. 1836–49; head master of Rossall sch.
1849, retired on £400 a year 1869; English chaplain Wiesbaden
1870–75; R. of Doddington, Somerset 1876–88; prebendary of
Wells 1876 to death; author of The revised version of the New
Testament, a critical commentary 1882; with C. Girdleston Horace
with notes 1848. _d._ Melrose house, Hampton road, Teddington,
Middlesex 4 Jany. 1891. _The Little Journal i_ 219–21 (1884).
OSCROFT, JOHN. _b._ Arnold, Notts. 21 July 1807; a frame work
knitter; played in Nottingham cricket matches many seasons;
in Nottingham _v._ England match 1845 he was 3½ hours at the
wicket; bowler to various clubs in England and Scotland; kept
a public house at Nottingham 1854 to death. _d._ of dysentery
Nottingham 28 Sept. 1857. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii_ 85
(1862).
OSCROFT, JOHN. _b._ Arnold, Notts. 24 March 1846; a frame work
knitter; professional cricketer at the Old Trafford ground,
Manchester 1864, at Lord’s 1865, at Bradford 1866–7; played in
Gentlemen of Yorkshire v. M.C.C. at Lord’s 18 and 19 May 1865;
played with the All England eleven 1868; engaged with the East
Lanarkshire club at Blackburn 1870–3, and at Burnley 1874–5; a
good hitter and fine medium pace bowler. _d._ Arnold 16 June
1885. _Marylebone club cricket scores ix_ 25 (1877); _Bell’s
Life in London 17 June 1885 p._ 4.
OSGOOD, JAMES RIPLEY. _b._ Fryeburg, Maine, U.S. of America
1836; graduated at Bowdoin college, Maine; a manager for Charles
Dickens in America 1867; agent for Harper brothers, publishers
at 30 Fleet st. London 1888–90; head of the firm of Osgood,
Mc Ilvaine and co. publishers 45 Albemarle st. London 1890 to
death; compiled Massachusetts Artists’ centennial album 1876;
Osgood’s Pocket guide to Europe 1882. _d._ 161A Piccadilly,
London 18 May 1892. _J. Forster’s Charles Dickens iii_ 391, 395
(1874).
O’SHANASSY, SIR JOHN (son of Denis O’Shanassy, land surveyor,
_d._ 1831). _b._ Henry street, Tipperary 1818; landed in Port
Philip bay, Victoria 15 Nov. 1839; a draper in Melbourne 1846;
a promoter of the Colonial bank 1856, chairman of the board of
directors 14 years; founded the St. Patrick’s society; one of
the members for Melbourne in the first legislative council of
Victoria 29 Oct. 1851; leader of the opposition in the council;
a member of the gold commission 1855, and of the crown land
commission 1855; member for Kilmore of the first legislative
assembly Sept. 1856 to 1866; premier and chief secretary 11
March to 29 April 1857, premier again 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct.
1859, and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; negotiated the first
Victorian loan of eight millions; created knight of the order
of St. Gregory the Great by pope Pius IX in 1866; member for
Central province of the legislative council Feb. 1868 to 1874;
member of the assembly for Belfast May 1877 to death; C.M.G. 15
Jany. 1870, K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; author of Primary education
in Victoria, speeches, Melbourne 1878. _d._ Tara hall, near
Melbourne 8 May 1883. _Irish Monthly xvii_ 586–90 (1889); _James
F. Hogan’s The Irish in Australia_ (1887) 13, 265–8, 271–4.
O’SHAUGNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR. _b._ London 14 March 1844;
a junior assistant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861,
assistant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death,
prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to
herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of
women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and
moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of
Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; _m._ 1873 Eleanor,
dau. of Westland Marston, the dramatist, she _d._ 8 Feb. 1879;
he _d._ 163 Goldborne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany.
1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. _L. C. Moulton’s Arthur
O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work_ (1894), _memoir pp._ 13–46
_portrait_; _E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets_ (1887) 284, 440;
_A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii_ 171–92 (1893); _H. B.
Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871) 508–12; _T. H. Ward’s English
poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 629–32 (1883).
O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. _b._ 1797; called to Irish bar 1828;
Q.C. 16 June 1859. _d._ Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept.
1884.
O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William
O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick).
_b._ Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830;
entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant
surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major
1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta;
laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847,
director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed
the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854;
connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired
1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov.
1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A.
Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases
1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842;
The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta
1844. _d._ Southsea 10 Jany. 1889. _Laurie’s Distinguished
Anglo-Indians_, _1st series_ (1887) 281–2.
OSLER, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Osler). _b._ Falmouth 30 Jany.
1798; educ. Guy’s hospital, London, M.R.C.S. 1818; resident
house surgeon to Swansea infirmary about 1819–25; a surgeon in
the navy 1825; visited the West Indies; on the staff in London
and Bath of the Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge
about 1836; edited at Truro the Royal Cornwall gazette 1841 to
death; published with rev. W. J. Hall Psalms and hymns, adapted
to the services of the church of England 1836, to which he
contributed 15 versions of the psalms and 50 hymns, including
the well known hymn O God unseen yet ever near; author of The
voyage 1830, a poem; Life of admiral viscount Exmouth 1835,
revised editions 1841 and 1854; Church and dissent considered
in their practical influence 1836. _d._ The Parade, Truro 7
March 1863. _bur._ Kenwyn where is memorial window. _Julyan’s
Hymnology_ (1892) 873.
OSMENT, DAVID. _b._ 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of
benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D.,
tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an
annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death.
_d._ Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. _I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p._
345 _portrait_.
OSSINGTON, JOHN EVELYN DENISON, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John
Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P.
Chichester, _d._ 6 May 1820). _b._ Ossington 27 Jany. 1800;
educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L.
22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings
1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P.
Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord
high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of
commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but
refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18
and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education
of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known
as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of
Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. _d._ Ossington hall,
Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. _C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire
worthies_ (1882) 366–68 _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873)
20–21 _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world iii_ 65 (1859)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_ 455, 456 (1857) _portrait_, _lxii_ 259,
297, 355 (1873) _portrait_.
OSTEN, WILHELM, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light
dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16
lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834;
K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. _d._ Rufford abbey,
Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 299 (1852).
OSTREHAN, GEORGIANA AUGUSTA (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan).
_b._ 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the
Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under
name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. _d._ at the Convent 5
Jany. 1884. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890)
221–32 _portrait_.
O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL. _b._ 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at
English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in
Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath.
Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member
of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at
Solihull from 1879. _d._ Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892.
O’SULLIVAN, MORTIMER (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel,
Tipperary). _b._ Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school
and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master
of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s
chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20
Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug.
1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on
the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan
lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near
Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author
of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the
recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an
Irish gentleman in his search for a religion, Dublin 1833; The
case of the protestants of Ireland stated 1836; Of the apostasy
predicted by St. Paul, Dublin 1842; Theory of developments in
Christian doctrine 1846; The hour of the Redeemer 1853. _d._
Dublin 30 April 1859. _bur._ Chapelizod churchyard.
O’SULLIVAN, SAMUEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ Clonmel
13 Sept. 1790; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A.
1818, M.A. 1825, D.D.; C. of St. Catherine’s, Dublin 1818,
and chaplain of the Marshalsea, Dublin 1819; chaplain to the
royal Hibernian military school in Phœnix park, Dublin 1827 to
death; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag., Fraser’s Mag., and the
Dublin Univ. review; author of The agency of divine providence
manifested in the principal transactions connected with the
history of Great Britain from the reformation to the revolution
in 1688, Dublin 1816; The catechism of the united church of
England and Ireland explained and confirmed, Dublin 1850. _d._
Royal Hibernian school, Dublin 6 Aug. 1851. _bur._ churchyard
of Chapelizod, Dublin 9 Aug. _Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1851 pp._
504–8; _Remains of rev. S. O’Sullivan_, 3 _vols._ (1853) _memoir
vol. i pp. i–xlviii_.
O’SULLIVAN, WILLIAM HENRY (only son of Thomas Luke O’Sullivan
of Rathkeale, co. Limerick). _b._ 1829; merchant Kilmallock,
co. Limerick; under strict police surveillance, his house at
Kilmallock being the rendezvous of the Fenians down to 1867,
when they resorted to arms; imprisoned in Limerick gaol some
months, but never brought to trial 1867; sat as a home rule M.P.
for co. Limerick 1874–85; a follower of C. Parnell for some
time; chairman of Kilmallock board of guardians. _d._ Kilmallock
27 April 1887.
OSWALD, ALEXANDER HALDANE (son of Richard Alexander Oswald, _d._
1822). _b._ 1811; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; M.P.
Ayrshire 1843–52; contested Weymouth 10 July 1852, and Ayrshire
30 Dec. 1854; inherited Aunchincruive estate near Ayr, from his
uncle James Oswald, M.P. in 1853; assumed the name of Haldane.
_d._ Aunchincruive house 6 Sept. 1868. _I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1868 p._
283.
OSWELL, WILLIAM COTTON (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrewsbury).
_b._ Leytonstone, Essex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and
Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to
South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting
and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Livingstone 1849,
and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros
was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853;
served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war
in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan
to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groombridge, Kent
1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C.
P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. _d._ Hillside, Groombridge
1 May 1893. _C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting_ (1894) _memoir
vol. i_ 28–34; _Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp._ 307–12; _Daily
Graphic 9 May 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.
OSWIN, CHARLES HANNAY. A member of the Marylebone literary and
scientific institution, established April 1832, where he was
known as Alphabet Owen; a writer on the Dispatch 1838; a writer
of verses; was residing in Harley st. London in 1842; author of
Elsdale hall, or the days of Oliver Cromwell, a play in 3 acts,
with the pirate’s bride and other poems 1843. _The Town ii_ 513
(1838).
NOTE.--Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842.
OTLEY, JONATHAN. _b._ Loughrigg, Westmoreland 11 Jany 1766;
resided at Keswick; author of A concise description of the
English lakes, with observations on mineralogy and geology,
Keswick 1825, 6 ed. 1837, 8th ed. to which is added an excursion
through Lonsdale to the caves 1849. _d._ Keswick 7 Dec. 1856.
OTTAWAY, CUTHBERT JOHN (only son of James Cuthbert Ottaway of
Inverness terrace, Bayswater). _b._ Dover 20 July 1850; educ.
Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., scholar 1869–74, B.A. 1874; in
the Eton eleven 1867–69, in the Oxford eleven 1870–3, secretary
of the Oxford univ. cricket club 1872, president 1873; played
for the Gentlemen against the Players 1870; one of Fitzgerald’s
eleven in America 1872; played for Middlesex 1872, making an
average of 89 runs; the Oxford racquet and tennis champion
1870–2; played in the football team against Scotland 1872,
and in the first match Oxford against Cambridge 3 Dec. 1873;
barrister I.T. 1876. _d._ 34 Westbourne place, Harrow road,
London 2 April 1878. _Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 350; _Marylebone
club cricket scores x_ 177 (1878).
OTTER, FRANCIS (1 son of Francis Otter of Ranby hall, Louth).
_b._ 4 Nov. 1832; educ. Rugby and Corpus Christi coll. Oxf.,
scholar 1850–61, fellow 1861–75, tutor, vice-president 1871;
B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856; mathematical moderator 1859, 1861, and
1869; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; returned as a liberal for
Louth division of Lincolnshire Dec. 1885 to 1886; contested the
Sleaford division of Lincolnshire Sept. 1889; an intimate friend
of George Eliot. _d._ 37 Gordon sq., London 29 May 1895.
OTTER, HENRY CHARLES. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; commanded
the Sparrow, the Avon, the Porcupine and the Shamrock surveying
vessels 1844 etc.; capt. R.N. 8 Sept. 1854; retired R.A. 1
April 1870; compiled Scotland, North West coast, Little Minch,
its lights, buoys, etc. 1859; F.R.A.S. 11 Nov. 1842; published
Sailing directions for the west coast of Scotland 1867; and with
W. Stanton Western Hebrides, sailing directions for the sound
of Harris 1859. _d._ Clare park, Hants. 26 March 1876. _Monthly
Notices of R.A.S. xxxvii_ 152 (1877).
OTTER, WILLIAM BRUERE (eld. son of Wm. Otter, bishop of
Chichester 1768–1840). Educated St. Peter’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1828, M.A. 1838; V. of Cowfold, Horsham 1839 to death;
prebendary of Chichester cathedral 1850 to death; archdeacon
of Lewes 1855 to death; author of The ornaments of ministers,
Brighton 1866. _d._ Cowfold vicarage 25 June 1876.
OTTLEY, HENRY (son of William Young Ottley, F.A.S., 1771–1836).
_b._ 1811; author of Remarkable sieges, from the siege of
Constantinople in 1453 to that of Sebastopol 1854, 1854;
Fechter’s version of Othello critically analysed 1861; A
biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers,
forming a supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of painters 1866;
On the errors of diplomacy, with reference to the treaty of
Washington 1872. _d._ Torquay 3 Feb. 1878. _Times 6 Feb. 1878
p._ 1.
OTTLEY, LAWRENCE. _b._ 1808; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1850 to death; canon
of Ripon 1858 to death; proctor in convocation for Richmond;
revised W. Barne’s A selection of psalms and hymns 1852; and
printed some sermons. _d._ London 11 June 1861.
OTTON, GEORGE RALPH. _b._ 1825; entered the house of Simpkin,
Marshall and co. publishers, Stationers’ hall court 1837, where
he became the right hand man of the chief partner Mark Lockwood;
a partner in the firm 1859 to death. _d._ 34 Highbury hill,
London 24 Jany. 1878. _The Bookseller 1 Feb. 1876 p._ 84.
OTWAY, SIR GEORGE GRAHAM, 2 baronet (son of sir Robert Waller
Otway, bart. 1772–1846). _b._ Westwood, near Southampton Sept.
1816; entered navy 15 July 1828; succeeded his father 13 May
1846; captain 18 May 1846; commander of Virago steam sloop in
Mediterranean; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. _d._ the Rione
Amadeo, Naples 22 Aug. 1881.
OTWAY, JOHN HASTINGS (eld. son of rev. Cæsar Otway 1768–1842).
_b._ Celbridge, co. Kildare 25 July 1808; educ. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1832;
professor of law of personal property at Dublin twice; Q.C. 9
Nov. 1852; judge of Antrim county court 1858 to death; recorder
of Belfast 1867 to death; author of Public opinion, a lecture
1854. _d._ Lisburn, co. Antrim 28 May 1884.
OTWAY, LOFTUS (only son of sir Loftus Wm. Otway, K.C.B., colonel
84 foot 1774–1854). _b._ Brighton 4 Sept. 1815; attached to the
missions at Stockholm 1830, at St. Petersburgh 1833, and at
Madrid 1834; paid attaché at Lisbon 1843, at Madrid 1845; sec.
of legation at Madrid 1850 and chargé d’affaires 1852, 1854,
1855, 1856, 1857; minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic
19 Feb. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1859; consul general at Milan 2 April
1860 to death; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. _d._ Madrid 26 Sept. 1861.
OTWAY, SIR LOFTUS WILLIAM (4 son of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway,
_d._ Dec. 1800). _b._ 28 April 1775; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17
May 1796; major 18 dragoons 12 Feb. 1807 to 1811, when placed
on h.p; served in Ireland during rebellion 1798; saw service
in Peninsular war, commanded 3 regt. of Portuguese cavalry at
Albuhera; colonel 84 foot 30 Dec. 1840 to death; general 11 Nov.
1851; knight commander of Spanish order of Charles III; knighted
by prince regent 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. _d._ 13
Grosvenor square, London 7 June 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_G.M. xlii_ 389 (1854); _Cansick’s Epitaphs at St. Pancras ii_
76 (1872).
OUDIN, EUGENE (of French parentage). _b._ New York 1858; a
member of the New York bar 1879; came to London 1886 and sang at
private parties; appeared as the Templar in Sullivan’s Ivanhoe
at the English opera house, London 31 Jany. 1891 with great
success; a baritone; sang in Peter Tschaikowsky’s opera Eugene
Onegin at the Olympic theatre on 17 Oct. 1892; translated Albert
Carré’s The Basoche 1891, and P. Ferrier’s Elaine, an opera
1892; sang at concerts French songs, which he adapted to English
verse; sang at Birmingham festival Oct. 1894; an expert amateur
photographer; taken ill at the Richter concert at the Queen’s
hall 20 Oct. 1894, carried home in an ambulance. _d._ 31 Linden
gardens, Bayswater, London 4 Nov. 1894. _bur._ Brompton cemetery
8 Nov. _The Times 5 Nov._ 1894; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 10
Nov. 1894 p._ 337 _portrait_.
OUSELEY, SIR FREDERICK ARTHUR GORE, 2 Baronet (younger son
of sir Gore Ouseley, diplomatist, 1 baronet 1770–1844). _b._
Grosvenor square, London 12 Aug. 1825, godson of dukes of
Wellington and York; educ. privately and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1846, M.A. 1849, Mus. Bac. 1850, Mus. Doc. 1854, incorporated
Mus. Doc. at Durham 1856, Cambridge 1862, and Dublin 1888;
succeeded his father 1844; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London,
and C. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London 1849–51; precentor
of Hereford cathedral 1855; professor of music in univ. of
Oxford May 1855 to death; LL.D. Camb. 1883, LL.D. Edinb. 1884;
canon residentiary of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; composed
music at three years of age and opera to words by Metastasio
at eight; composed two oratorios The martyrdom of St. Polycarp
1855, and Hagar 1873; bequeathed his musical library of about
5,000 vols. to the college of St. Michael, Tenbury, which he
built and partially endowed, the church was consecrated and the
college opened 29 Sept. 1856, when he became the first vicar and
warden, he spent £64,000 on this college; edited E. Naumann’s
The history of music 1882; author of A treatise on harmony,
Oxford 1868, 2 ed. 1875; A treatise on counterpoint, canon, and
fugue, based upon that of Cherubini, Oxford 1869, 2 ed. 1880; A
treatise on musical form and general composition, Oxford, 1875;
his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music. _d._
suddenly in the Birmingham, Dudley and district bank, Hereford
6 April 1889. _bur._ St. Michael’s, Tenbury. _F. T. Havergal’s
Memorials of sir F. A. G. Ouseley_ (1889) _portrait_; _J. S.
Bumpus’s Compositions of sir F. A. G. Ouseley_ (1892); _Church
portrait journal_, _n.s. ii_ 17 (1881) _portrait_.
OUSELEY, JOSEPH WALKER JASPER. _b._ 1799; attached to the
college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of
Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and
Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent
of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian
at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner
in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83;
colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ 10 Inverness
terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. _Times 1 Nov. 1889 p._ 5, _9 Nov.
p._ 6.
OUSELEY, THOMAS JOHN. Published and edited the Manx Punch
several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. _d._ May 1874.
OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM GORE (eld. son of sir Wm. Ouseley,
orientalist 1767–1842). _b._ London 26 July 1797; attached to
British embassy at Stockholm Nov. 1817; attaché at Washington
Nov. 1825; secretary of legation at Rio de Janiero June 1832;
chargè d’affaires in Brazil 20 April 1838; minister to the
Argentine confederation 13 Dec. 1844; went on a special mission
to Monte Video Jany. 1847; secured the evacuation of Uruguay
by the Argentine troops and the withdrawal of their fleet from
Monte Video; sent on a special mission to Central America 30
Oct. 1857; returned to England 1860, retired on a pension of
£1,000; K.C.B. 29 June 1852, D.C.L. Oxford 20 June 1855; author
of Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the
United States 1832; Notes on the slave trade 1850; A description
of views in South America from original drawings made in Brazil,
the river Plate, the Parana, &c. 1852. _d._ 31 Albemarle st.
Piccadilly, London 6 March 1866. _G.M. i_ 588–9 (1866); _I.L.N.
xxxi_ 460 (1857) _portrait_.
OUTRAM, SIR BENJAMIN FONSECA (son of captain Wm. Outram). _b._
Kilham, Yorkshire 1774; educ. United Borough hospitals, London;
entered naval medical service 1794, surgeon 1796; surgeon in
the Superb in the action off Cadiz 12 July 1801; surgeon to
the Royal Sovereign yacht several years; studied at univ.
of Edinb. 1806–9, M.D. 24 June 1809; L.C.P. London 16 April
1810, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1852; a physician at Hanover sq. London
1810–50; physician to the Welbeck st. dispensary; F.R.S. 3 May
1838; F.R.G.S.; medical inspector of fleets and hospitals 1841;
K.C.B. 17 Sept. 1850; author of De feber continuâ, Edinburgh
1809; Suggestions to naval surgeons, previous to, during, and
after a battle. _d._ Brighton 16 Feb. 1856. _bur._ at Clifton.
_Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 90 (1878); _Quarterly journal
of Geol. Soc. xiii_ 66–8 (1857).
OUTRAM, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Outram 1732–1810, manager of
the Clyde ironworks, near Glasgow). _b._ the Clyde ironworks 25
March 1805; educ. Leith high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate
Scottish bar 1827; edited the Glasgow Herald May 1837 to death;
member of the Edinburgh angling club; author of Legal lyrics and
metrical illustrations of the Scotch forms of process 1851, 2
ed. 1874, new ed. by J. H. Stoddart 1887; privately printed a
collection of legal anecdotes; assisted John Wilson in his Dies
Boreales, a series of articles contributed to Blackwood’s Mag.
1836–46. _d._ Rosemore on the Holy Loch 15 Sept. 1856. _bur._
Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. _George Outram’s Lyrics_ (1888),
_memoir pp._ 1–26 _portrait_.
OUTRAM, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Benjamin Outram, civil
engineer 1764–1805). _b._ Butterley hall, Derbyshire 29 Jany.
1803; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen 1818–19; ensign 4 Bombay
N.I. 2 May 1819; lieut. 1 grenadier N.I. 4 Aug. 1819; lieut.
23 Bombay N.I. 1824, major 1848–53; raised and commanded a
corps of Bhils 1825; conducted an expedition into disturbed
districts, lying between Kabul and Kandahar 1839; political
agent in Lower Sind Dec. 1839, and in Upper Sind 18 Aug. 1841 to
1842; called by sir Charles James Napier 5 Nov. 1842 the Bayard
of India; defended the British residency at Haidarabad against
8,000 Baluchis Feb. 1843; presented with a sword and piece of
plate at Bombay April 1843; resident at Sattara 26 May 1845, at
Baroda May 1847 to 1852; lieut. col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 1854–5;
resident at Baroda again 19 March 1854; political agent and
commandant at Aden June 1854; resident at Lucknow Nov. 1854;
Oudh was annexed Feb. 1856 after his report on that country
had been made; commanded the army during the Persian war Nov.
1856, defeated the Persians at Khush-áb 8 Feb. 1857; commanded
Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions of the Bengal army during the
mutiny from 8 Aug. 1857; chief comr. of Oudh 5 Aug. 1857 to 4
April 1858; besieged in Lucknow Sept. to Nov. 1857; captured
Lucknow 19 March 1858; military member of the governor-general’s
council 16 April 1858 to July 1860; created baronet 9 Oct. 1858;
voted an annuity of £1,000 by house of commons; presented with
a silver shield by his friends in Bombay June 1858, which is on
loan at South Kensington Museum; L.G. 16 July 1858; presented
with freedom of city of London 20 Dec. 1860; K.C.B. 5 Feb.
1856, G.C.B. 30 July 1857; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; hon. D.C.L.
Oxf. June 1862; author of Rough notes of the campaigns in Sinde
and Afghanistan in 1838–9, 1840; The conquest of Scinde 1846;
Baroda intrigues and Bombay Kutput 1853; A few brief memoranda
of the public services rendered by lieut. colonel Outram 1853;
Lieutenant general Sir James Outram’s Persian campaign in
1857–8, 1860. _d._ Pau 11 March 1863. _bur._ Westminster abbey
25 March, bust by Matthew Noble, R.A. over the doorway on
south side of the nave. _Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s James Outram, a
biography_, 2 _vols._ (1880) _portrait_; _J. Chapman’s Baroda
and Bombay, in relation to removal of lieut. col. Outram from
office of resident at Gaekwar_ 1853; _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of
the Victorian age ii_ 109–72 (1880); _E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated
history of British empire in India ii_ 635 (1860) _portrait_;
_Golden Hours_ (1869) 599–610 _portrait_; _J. B. Robinson’s
Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 17–20 _portrait_.
NOTE. There is an equestrian statue of him by Foley in the Maidan of
Calcutta, another by Noble on the Thames embankment, London, erected
Nov. 1871, Illust. Times 2 Dec. 1871 p. 345 view of his monument in
Westminster abbey, uncovered 29 May 1866.
OUVRY, FREDERIC (3 son of Peter Aimé Ouvry of the Ordnance
office). _b._ 6 Abingdon st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1814; partner
in firm of Robinson, King, and Ouvry, solicitors 13 Tokenhouse
yard 1837; partner with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W.
J. Farrer 66 Lincolns Inn Fields 1855 to death; member of
Incorporated law society 12 March 1838, member of council 21
July 1861 to death, vice-president 1870–1, president 1871–2;
solicitor to regiment of Scots Guards 9 Nov. 1858 to death;
member of Weavers’ company; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1848, member of
council 1850–78; treasurer 1854–74, vice-president 1874,
president 4 Jany. 1876 to 1878; is depicted by Charles Dickens
in a paper in Household Words as Mr. Undery; printed The Cobler
of Canterburie 1862; T. Eulenspiegel’s Howleglas 1867; G.
Markham’s The famous whore 1868; T. Cranley’s Amanda 1869, and
other facsimiles of rare publications; his library, including
the first four folios of Shakespeare, was sold for £6,169 at
Sotheby’s 30 March to 5 April 1882. _d._ 12 Queen Anne st.
London 26 June 1881. _bur._ at Acton, bust by Marshall Wood at
Society of Antiquaries. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series_, _ix_
7 114–7 (1881–3).
OVANS, CHARLES. _b._ about 1793; entered Bombay army 1808;
ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1809; lieut. European regiment 6
July 1811, captain 17 Dec. 1821; major of right wing of the
regiment 8 Feb. 1829 to 10 Nov. 1835; quarter master general
Bombay 1835–8; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 1837–8, and of 4 N.I. 1838
to 1845; commander and political agent at Sattara 22 June 1837
to 26 Feb. 1845, where he was the chief agent in dethroning
the Raja 1845, and was impeached before the court of directors
of H.E.I.C. in London on 24 Sept. 1845, but the motion was
negatived; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 1845 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel
of 19 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1856, and of 14 N.I. 1856 to death;
M.G. 20 June 1854; author of An account of the settlements made
with the Naiks and Bheels of the districts comprising the Kumir
agency 1830. _d._ Gloucester sq. London 19 July 1858. _Case of
Krushnajee Sudasew Bhider, the accuser of lieut. col. Ovans, of
bribery_ 1845; _Debate at India house on case of deposed rajah
of Sattara and impeachment of col. C. Ovans_ 1845.
OVENS, EDWARD (son of Hugh Ovens of St. Catherine’s, Fermanagh).
_b._ 1817; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838; barrister M.T.
21 Nov. 1845; chairman of Salford hundred quarter sessions 31
May 1858 to 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 8 (Manchester)
6 May 1862 to death. _d._ Enville house, Bowdon 19 Feb. 1869.
_Law Times xlvi_ 418 (1869).
OVERALL, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Overall). _b._ St.
John’s Wood, London 18 Jany. 1829; educ. City of London
college; employed in the town clerk’s office at the Guildhall,
London 1847–57; sub-librarian of the corporation library 1847,
librarian 23 March 1865 to death; removed the collections to the
new building in Basinghall st. and arranged the museum; F.S.A.
11 June 1868; member of council of the Library Association
1879, and of the London and Middlesex archæological society;
presented with freedom and livery of Clockmakers’ co. 1877;
author of Catalogue of Sculpture, paintings and other works of
art belonging to the corporation of the City of London, 2 vols.
1867–8; Some account of the ward of Vintry and the Vintners
company 1869; The dictionary of chronology or historical and
statistical register 1870; Catalogue of books, pictures, etc.
presented by Mrs. Letitia Hollier to, and also of books and
music in the library of Gresham college 1872; A catalogue of
books, manuscripts, clocks, watches, paintings and prints in
the library and museum of the company of Clockmakers 1875; A
catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters, etc. belonging to the
Dutch church, Austin Friars, London 1879; edited The accounts
of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill
from 1456 to 1608, 1871; Civitas Londinum, a survey of the
cities of London and Westminster, published in facsimile with
a biographical account of Ralph Agas 1874. _d._ Crouch End,
Middlesex 28 June 1888. _bur._ St. Pancras cemetery, Finchley 3
July. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 391 (1887–9).
OVEREND, WILLIAM (youngest son of Hall Overend of Sheffield).
_b._ 1809; educ. Sheffield gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 21 Nov.
1837, bencher 2 Nov. 1855 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1855; contested
Sheffield 7 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Pontefract 29
April 1859, resigned Jany. 1860; contested East Derbyshire 23
Nov. 1868; chief comr. to assess damage by bursting of the
Bradfield reservoir 11 March 1864, which resulted in the loss of
250 lives and property valued at nearly half-a-million; chief
comr. to inquire into Sheffield trade outrages, commission sat
at Sheffield 3 June to 8 July 1867; retired from practice about
1872. _d._ East Retford, Notts. 24 Dec. 1884. _Law Times 3 Jany.
1885 p._ 177.
OVERSTONE, SAMUEL JONES LOYD, 1 Baron (only child of Lewis
Loyd of London, banker 1768–1858). _b._ 43 Lothbury, London 25
Sept. 1796; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A.
1822; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; a banker in Manchester 1844 to 23
Dec. 1848; M.P. Hythe 1819–26; contested Manchester 15 Dec.
1832; the last survivor of those who held seats in the house
of commons in the reign of George III; sheriff of Warwickshire
1838; presided over a great liberal meeting at the London tavern
15 June 1841; head of Jones Loyd and co. bankers, London 1844,
afterwards merged in London and Westminster bank 1864; chairman
of the Irish famine committee of 1847; member of senate of univ.
of London July 1850 to 1877; a great authority on finance, the
Bank act of 1844 was chiefly based on his principles; cr. baron
Overstone of Overstone and of Fotheringay, Northamptonshire 5
March 1850; author of Reflections on the causes and consequences
of the pressure on the money market 1837; Further reflections
on the currency and the action of the Bank of England 1837; A
letter on the management of the Bank of England 1840; Remarks
on the management of the circulation of the Bank of England and
of the country issues 1840; Thoughts on the separation of the
departments of the Bank of England 1844; Tracts and publications
on metallic and paper currency 1858. _d._ 2 Carlton gardens,
London 17 Nov. 1883. _bur._ Lockinge, Berks. 23 Nov.; will
proved under £2,100,000 Dec. 1883. _Times 19 Nov. 1883 p._ 8,
_cols._ 1, 3, _p._ 9, _col._ 3; _Graphic xxviii_ 560 (1883)
_portrait_; _W. J. Lawson’s History of banking_ (2 _ed._ 1855)
232–34; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 525 (1883) _portrait_; _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 130–47; _Manchester Guardian 20 Nov.
1883 p._ 8.
OVERTON, CHARLES (6 son of John Overton 1763–1838, rector of St.
Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). _b._ York 1805; assistant curate
of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37;
V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull
1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s
progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage
lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848;
The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2
vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham
1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. _d._
Cottingham 31 March 1889. _Memoir of rev. Charles Overton_
(1889).
OVERWEG, ADOLF. _b._ Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made
explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he
was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further
than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. _d._ of fever
near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. _Notice of recent
discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg._ _By J.
Hogg_ 1852; _Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi_ 130 (1851), _xxii_
133 (1852), _xxiii p. cx_ (1853), _xxvi pp. clxi, clxii_ (1857);
_Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv_ 19–24 (1887).
OWDEN, SIR THOMAS SCAMBLER (youngest son of John Owden of
Brighton). _b._ Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in
City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845,
alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord
mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member
of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new
winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. _d._ Mulgrave house,
Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_
(1884) 139–47; _Graphic xvi_ 436 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_.
OWEN, ANEURIN (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe).
_b._ 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the
Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant
tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law
comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the
adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to
death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for
the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in
the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp.
153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles
of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and
Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848)
pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or
The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab
Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). _d._ Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July
1851. _Archæologia Cambrensis_, _3 ed. series iv_ 208–12, 245–9
(1858), _vi_ 184–6 (1860), _vii_ 93–103, 169–71, 263–7 (1861),
_viii_ 289–90 (1862).
OWEN, CONRAD JOHN. Entered Bombay army 1823; captain 1 Bombay
light cavalry 30 Oct. 1838, major 7 Dec. 1850, lieut. col. 28
May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1858 to death; C.B.
21 March 1859. _d._ Malta 3 April 1860.
OWEN, DAVID (son of Benjamin Owen of Llanpumpsant, near
Carmarthen, shoemaker). _b._ Llanpumpsant 1794; originally
known as David Benjamin; kept school at Gilfach, near Aber,
Carnarvonshire; in charge of the Baptist churches of Talygraig,
Galltraeth, Tyndomen and Rhos Hirwaen in Carnarvonshire;
expelled from the Baptist denomination; member of the
Independent church at Capel Newydd; wrote an article signed
Brutus on The poverty of the Welsh language in Seren Gomer, the
leading Welsh magazine 1824; edited an undenominational monthly
magazine entitled Lleuad yr Oes, Swansea 1827–31; edited at
Llandovery an Independent magazine entitled Efengydydd 1831–5,
and a church magazine entitled The Haul 1835 to death; author
of A treatise in defence of infant baptism, Aberystwith 1828;
Allwedd y Cyssegr new Eglurhad byr ar yr Ysgyrthyrau Sanctaidd,
Llanmddyfri 1834; Proceedings of the established church 1841;
Eliasia. By Bleddyn 1844, being notes on the career of
John Elias of Anglesey; Brutusiana 1855, a selection of his
non-controversial writings. _d._ Bron Arthen near Llandovery 16
Jany. 1866. _bur._ Llywel churchyard. _Ashton’s History of Welsh
literature_ (1894); _Red Dragon iii_ 385–405 (1883) _portrait_;
_Y Traethodydd_, _Denbigh_ (1867) 213–27, 421–8.
OWEN, DAVID DALE (son of Robert Owen, the Socialist 1771–1858).
_b._ Lanarkshire 24 June 1807; graduated at Ohio medical college
1835; conducted the survey of Minnesota territory 1849–52;
state geologist of Kentucky 1854–7, of Arkansas 1857–9, and
of Indiana 1859 to death; author of Report of a geological
survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, Philadelphia, 2 vols.
1852; Report of a geological reconnoisance of Indiana 1839; A
geological report of the Marble hall quarry 1853; Report of the
geological survey in Kentucky, 2 vols. 1856–7; Reports of a
geological reconnoisance of Arkansas, 2 vols. 1858–60. _d._ New
Harmony, Indiana 13 Nov. 1860.
OWEN, EDWARD (only son of Edward Owen of Garthyngharad,
Merioneth). Educ. Friars school, Bangor, and Clare coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1852; C. of St. George, Hulme 1856–7; C. of Stockton Heath,
Cheshire 1858–9; in charge of Eastham, Cheshire 1859–60; V. of
St. Peter’s, Oldham 1861 to death; author of A brief history of
the church and parish of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1868; Jottings on
the rubrics for morning and evening prayer 1874. _d._ Oldham 22
Jany. 1883 aged 52. _bur._ Chaddington cemetery.
OWEN, EDWARD PRYCE (only son of Hugh Owen 1761–1827, archdeacon
of Salop). _b._ March 1788; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1810, M.A. 1816; minister of Park st. chapel, Grosvenor sq.
London; V. of Wellington and R. of Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors,
Shropshire 1823–40; contributed several plates to Owen and
Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury 1825; published Etchings of
ancient buildings in Shrewsbury, 2 numbers 1820–1; Etchings
1826, containing 45 plates with his portrait; The book of
etchings, 2 vols. 1842–55. _d._ Roderic house, Cheltenham 15
July 1863.
OWEN, ELLIS (son of Owen Ellis of Cefnymeusydd in the parish of
Ynys Cynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, farmer). _b._ 31 March 1789;
educ. Penmorfa and Shrewsbury; farmer at Cefnymeusydd to his
death; a local antiquary and genealogist; a writer of englynion
(stanzas); president of the Literary Society of Cefnymeusydd
1846–57; F.S.A. 23 Jany. 1868; his poetical and prose writings
were published with a biographical notice under the title of
Cell Mendwy, The Hermit’s Cell 1877. _d._ Cefnymeusydd 27 Jany.
1868.
OWEN, SIR FRANCIS PHILIP CUNLIFFE (3 son of Charles Cunliffe
Owen, captain R.N.) _b._ 8 June 1828; entered navy 1840,
served in the Mediterranean and West Indies 1840, retired from
ill health 1845; clerk in the Science and art department,
Marlborough house, London 1854; one of the superintendents of
the British section of the International exhibition at Paris
1855; deputy general superintendent of the South Kensington
museum 1857, assistant director 1860–73, and director 1873–93;
director of the foreign sections of the London exhibition 1862;
assistant executive comr. at Paris exhibition 1867; secretary
of the English commission at the Vienna exhibition 1873;
entertained at a banquet in London and presented with 3,500
guineas for his services as secretary of royal commission at
Paris exhibition of 1878, 12 March 1881; one of the executive
committee of the Fisheries exhibition 1883, the Health
exhibition 1884, and the Inventions exhibition 1885; executive
officer of the Colonial and Indian exhibition 1886; C.B. 5 Jany.
1875, K.C.B. 28 June 1886, K.C.M.G. 29 Oct. 1878; C.I.E. 30 June
1879; grand officer of the legion of honour. _d._ Lowestoft 23
March 1894. _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1260 (1879) _portrait_;
_Touchstone 3 May 1879 pp._ 1–2 _portrait_; _Biograph
March–April 1882 pp._ 249–51; _Huish’s Year’s Art_ (1892) 15
_portrait_; _Graphic xiii_ 459, 472 (1876) _portrait, and 20 May
1893 p._ 562 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 445 (1873) _portrait_.
OWEN, FREDERICK. _b._ 1800 or 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; R. of Aghold with Mullinacuffe, co.
Wicklow 1857–89; precentor of Leighlin 1880–90; dean of Leighlin
1890 to death. _d._ Aghold rectory 3 July 1895.
OWEN, GEORGE. Secretary of the Welsh property defence
association; organized the landlord’s case for the Welsh land
commission; chief organizer of the conservative party in North
Wales; _committed suicide_ by taking poison at Carnarvon 9 July
1895.
OWEN, HENRY CHARLES CUNLIFFE (brother of Sir Francis P. C. Owen
1828–94). _b._ Lausanne, Switzerland 16 Oct. 1821; 2 lieut.
R.E. 19 March 1839, lieut col. 1 April 1862 to death; served
in the Boer war 1845, and the Kaffir war 1846–7; computer of
space for the United Kingdom at the Great exhibition 1851, then
superintendent of the foreign departments, and lastly general
superintendent of the exhibition; inspector of art schools in
the department of practical art at Marlborough house 1851–4;
assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 3 Feb. 1852; lost his leg in the
Crimean war 1855; granted pension of £100 per annum; C.B. 4 Feb.
1856; assistant inspector-general of fortifications at the war
office Oct. 1855, deputy inspector-general April 1856 to Aug.
1860; commanded R.E. of the Western district Aug. 1860 to death;
colonel in the army 22 Nov. 1861; a founder of the English
church union 1860. _d._ Plymouth 7 March 1867, memorial window
in St. James’s church, Plymouth.
OWEN, HENRY JOHN (son of John Owen, minister of Park chapel,
Chelsea 1812–22, _d._ Ramsgate 1822). _b._ 22 Sept. 1796;
perpetual curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1822–34; Miss Hughes
miraculously cured in the chapel July 1831; Dr. Bayford spoke in
the spirit there; built the Catholic Apostolic church in College
st. Chelsea, ordained to be the angel there 1834, some of his
former congregation joined him there, held office to his death,
it was generally known as Owen’s chapel; author of Discourses on
the Lord’s Supper 1830; The prayer of faith viewed in connexion
with the healing of the sick 1831; We are not our own, a
discourse 1859. _d._ 11 Foulis terrace, South Kensington, London
26 Nov. 1872. _A. Beaver’s Memorials of Old Chelsea_ (1892) 146,
342; _Miller’s Irvingism i_ 139–40 (1878).
OWEN, HUGH. _b._ Denbigh 23 May 1784; captain Shropshire
volunteers 24 Nov. 1803; cornet in sir Stapleton Cotton’s
regiment 31 July 1806; captain of cavalry in the Portuguese army
1810; brigade major to sir Loftus Otway and then to sir Benjamin
D’Urban; led a brigade into action at battle of Vittoria 21
June 1813; captain 18 hussars 22 June 1813; placed on h.p. 25
May 1816; sold out of British army 4 Sept. 1817; went with lord
Beresford to Brazil 1820; retired and resided on his estate
near Oporto; knight commander of San Bento d’Aviz and knight of
the Tower and Sword; author of A Guerra civil em Portugal, o
sitio do Porto e a morte de Don Pedro. Por hum Estrangeiro 1836;
The civil war in Portugal and the siege of Oporto 1836; Memoir
of major the hon. Somers Cocks, privately printed by sir John
Rennie. _d._ Garratt’s hall, Banstead, Surrey 16 Dec. 1861.
OWEN, SIR HUGH (son of Owen Owen). _b._ Voel, parish of
Llangeinwen, Anglesea 14 Jany. 1804; educ. Carnarvon 1812–17;
clerk to W. Bulkeley Hughes, barrister the Temple, London 1825;
clerk to R. Vaughan Williams, solicitor, Hatton garden 1819 and
for many years; clerk in the poor law office, Somerset house
22 Feb. 1836; advanced to be in the secretary’s office; chief
clerk of the poor law board 1853 to Nov. 1872, gave evidence
before parliamentary committees on the poor law board which
led to the establishment of local government board; sec. to a
committee for establishing the South Islington and Pentonville
British schools 1839; a great advocate of improved education in
Wales and a promoter of the Bangor training college, established
1858, and the Swansea training college for women; founded social
science section of the national Eisteddfod at Carnarvon 1862; a
founder of the honorable society of the Cymmroderion Nov. 1873;
chief founder of the University college of Wales at Aberystwith,
opened Oct. 1872; member of London school board for Finsbury 3
April 1872; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. _d._ Mentone 20
Nov. 1881. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 26 Nov., bronze statue
unveiled at Carnarvon 22 Oct. 1888, bust at royal institution,
Swansea. _Red Dragon i_ 291–300 (1882) _portrait_; _The Times 8
and 23 Oct. 1888_.
OWEN, SIR HUGH OWEN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Owen, _d._
1861). _b._ Lincoln’s inn, London Jany. 1804; M.P. Pembroke
boroughs 1826–38 and 1861–68; lieut. col. Pembrokeshire militia
1830; succeeded 6 Feb. 1861; lieut. col. commandant royal
Pembroke artillery 14 May 1872, hon. col. 10 Feb. 1875 to death;
aide-de-camp to the queen 24 May 1872 to death. _d._ Cranmore,
Midhurst, Sussex 5 Sept. 1891.
OWEN, JACOB. _b._ North Wales 28 July 1778; clerk of the works
to royal engineer department at Portsmouth 1804–32; principal
engineer and architect at Irish board of works in Dublin
1832–56; erected criminal lunatic asylum at Dundrum, near Dublin
1848, and Mountjoy prison, Dublin 1850; erected model schools
and other government buildings in Ireland. _d._ Great Bridge,
Tipton, Staffs. 26 Oct. 1870. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery,
Dublin. _Dictionary of architecture vi_ 54 (1877).
OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS (son of Jacob Owen 1778–1870). Educ. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1852; architect to Irish board of
works at Dublin, in succession to his father, 1856 to death.
_d._ 9 April 1891.
OWEN, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 March 1796; served in
battles of Camperdown and Trafalgar; commanded the detachment
of marines at Languilia, which defeated the 52 French regt.
1812; commanded marines in lord John Hay’s squadron on coast of
Spain 1836–7; aide-de-camp to the sovereign 21 April 1837 to 11
Nov. 1851; deputy adjutant general of R.M. 1 Jany. 1838 to 13
Dec. 1854; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1844 to Nov. 1851; L.G.
20 June 1855; K.H. 1 Jany. 1833, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 23
Feb. 1852. _d._ 47 Connaught sq. London 15 Feb. 1857.
OWEN, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Lord of Pembroke,
_d._ 15 June 1801). _b._ Pembroke 1776; barrister I.T. 23 May
1800; M.P. Pembrokeshire 1806–41; M.P. Pembroke district of
burgh 1841 to death; assumed by R.L. name of Owen in lieu of
Lord on succeeding to estates of sir Hugh Owen on 23 Aug. 1809;
cr. baronet 12 Jany. 1813; governor of Milford Haven 14 June
1821 to death; lord lieut. of Pembrokeshire 1824 to death. _d._
Taynton house, near Newent, Gloucestershire 6 Feb. 1861.
OWEN, JOHN. V. of Thrussington, Leicestershire 1845 to death;
rural dean 1853; translated from the Latin of John Calvin
Commentaries on the twelve minor Prophets 1846; On Paul to the
Romans 1849; On Jeremiah and Lamentations 1850; On Paul to the
Hebrews 1853; On the Catholic Epistles 1855; from the Latin of
Martin Luther Commentary on the Galatians 1845; from the Welsh
of W. Rees The Mercy seat 1861; author of A memoir of rev.
Daniel Rowlands 1840; Lectures on popery 1843; Memoirs of rev.
T. Jones 1851; Church government according to the New Testament
1852. _d._ 1867.
OWEN, JOHN (son of the captain of a small vessel). _b._ Crane
st. Chester 14 Nov. 1821; apprenticed to Messrs. Powell and
Edwards, cutlers; became a professional musician 1844; organist
successively of Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, S. Paul’s, Boughton,
St. Bridgets, St. Mary’s, and the Welsh church, all in Chester;
known in Wales as Owain Alaw 1863; won the prize for the best
anthem at the royal Eisteddfod of Rhuddlan 1850; edited Gems of
Welsh melody, 2 series 1862, 4 series 1873; composed The prince
of Wales cantata 1862; The festival of Wales cantata 1866; The
Welsh harp, national songs 1880; wrote glees, songs, and anthems
in Welsh musical magazines; his name is attached to upwards of
25 pieces of music. _d._ Lorne st. Chester 30 Jany. 1883. _Y
Geninen_, _Carnarvon_ (1883) 124–30; _The musical world 3 Feb.
1883 p._ 74.
OWEN, JOHN BLACKMAN. In the service of Great Eastern railway
from 1836, secretary 1850 to death. _d._ 17 Upper Hornsey Rise,
London 31 July 1873. _bur._ Great Northern cemetery, Southgate 7
Aug.
OWEN, JOHN PICKARD. _b._ Goodge st. Tottenham court road,
London 5 Feb. 1832; received baptism by immersion in a pond
near Dorking; joined the church of Rome; became a Deist, but
afterwards a believer in christianity; author of The fair haven,
a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord’s
ministry upon earth, by J. P. Owen, ed. by W. B. Owen 1873,
memoir pp. 1–70. _d._ 15 March 1872.
OWEN, JONATHAN. _b._ 3 April 1820; billiard player; teacher of
billiards; marker in annual matches between Oxford and Cambridge
many years; known as Oxford Jonathan; father of Fred Owen, the
actor. _d._ Craven Buildings, Strand, London 26 March 1879.
_Bell’s Life in London 29 March 1879 p._ 2.
OWEN, JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH (5 son of Jacob Owen, architect,
Dublin 1778–1870). _b._ Portsmouth 22 July 1809; educ. St.
Paul’s gram. sch. near Portsmouth, and at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of Walsall Wood, Staffs. 1835;
in charge of Farthingstone, Northants. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary,
Bilston, Staffs. 1838–54, also preacher at St. George’s ch.
Wolverhampton, on leaving received a service of plate valued
at £1,000; incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London
1854–7, when the chapel fell in and the ruins were taken
down; preached in Store st. music hall 1857; preacher at St.
Swithin’s, Cannon st. 1856; chairman of directors of Royal
Polytechnic soc. 1857 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Chelsea 1858
to death; lecturer St. John’s, Wapping 1858 to death; author of
Six plain sermons on the Sabbath 1835; Six lectures on the rite
of confirmation 1840; The pottery schoolmaster, a biographical
sketch of Silas Even 1852; Diligent in business, a memoir of
G. B. Thornycroft 1856; Business without christianity, with
statistics and facts 1856, 2 ed. 1858; The mischief and miseries
of temper 1857; Cliques, social, professional, and religious,
with sketches of the Latch-Key and the Lock-out-the-Town’s libel
1864; The homes of scripture 1865; Men’s infirmities, natural
and acquired 1865. _d._ 40 Cadogan place, London 18 May 1872.
_bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May. _Lectures and sermons by J.
B. Owen_ (1873), _memoir pp._ 1–96; _R. Simms’s Bibliotheca
Staffordiensis_ (1874) 339–40.
OWEN, SIR RICHARD (younger son of Richard Owen, West India
merchant 1754–1809). _b._ Brock st. Lancaster 20 July 1804;
educ. Lancaster gr. sch. 1810–20; apprenticed to Leonard Dickson
of Lancaster, surgeon 11 Aug. 1820; matric. at univ. of Edinb.
Oct. 1824, where he founded with Gavin Milroy the Hunterian
society; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825–6; M.R.C.S.
18 Aug. 1826; surgeon at 11 Cook’s court, Carey st. Lincoln’s
inn fields 1826; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St.
Bartholomew’s 1829; assistant conservator to Hunterian museum
at royal college of surgeons 1827, joint conservator 1842,
sole conservator 1849; started the Zoological Magazine Jany.
1833, sold it in July; F.R.S. 13 Dec. 1834, royal medallist
1846, Copley medallist 1851; Hunterian professor of comparative
anatomy and physiology at royal college of surgeons April
1836 to 1856; Wollaston gold medallist of Geological Society
1838; corresponding member of Institute of France 1839; helped
to found Royal microscopical society 1839, president 1840–1;
granted civil list pension of £200, 25 Nov. 1842; resided at
Sheen lodge, Richmond park, lent to him by the queen 1852 to
death; juror of Paris exhibition 1855, created a knight of
the Legion of Honour; devised the exhibition of models of
extinct animals at the Crystal palace 1855; superintendent of
natural history department of British museum 26 May 1856 to
1883, with £800 a year; new Natural history museum at South
Kensington opened 1881; Fullerian professor of physiology in
the Royal institution 1859–61; president of British association
at Leeds 1858; Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1859; awarded the
prix Cuvier of the French academy 1857; went to Egypt 1869,
1871, 1872, and 1874; C.B. 3 June 1873, K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1884;
granted another civil list pension of £100, 26 Feb. 1884; the
first gold medallist of the Linnæan society 1888; author of
Odontography, text and atlas, 2 vols. 1840–5; Lectures on the
comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals
1843, 2 ed. 1855; A history of British fossil mammals and birds
1846; A history of British fossil reptiles, 4 vols. 1849–84;
On the anatomy of vertebrates 3 vols. 1866–8; his name is
attached to upwards of 50 works. _d._ Sheen lodge, Richmond park
18 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Ham churchyard, portrait by Holman Hunt
exhibited in Grosvenor gallery 1881. _Rev. R. Owen’s Life of
Richard Owen_, 2 _vols._ (1884) 4 _portraits_; _British medical
journal 19 Dec. 1892 special supplement_; _Maguire’s Portraits
of distinguished naturalists_, _Ipswich_ (1852) _portrait_;
_Walford’s Representative men_ (1868) _portrait_; _Nature
xxii_ 577–79 (1892) _portrait_; _Modern thought March 1883
pp._ 97–101; _The coward conscience by Charles Adams_ (1882)
_passim_; _Graphic xxviii_ 260 (1883) _portrait_; _Vanity Fair 1
March 1873 p._ 71 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 19 Dec. 1892 p._ 8
_portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 274 (1891) 3 _portraits_.
OWEN, ROBERT (6 child of Robert Owen of Newtown,
Montgomeryshire, saddler). _b._ Newtown 14 May 1771; employed
by James Mc Guffog, draper, Stamford, Northants 1780–5; a
machine maker at Manchester, then a yarn spinner; manager of Mr.
Drinkwater’s spinning business, Manchester 1790–4; founded the
Chorlton Twist company 1794–5; he and his partners purchased
David Dale’s mills at New Lanark on the falls of the Clyde for
£60,000, which he managed from about 1 Jany. 1800, in 1814 he
and six others bought the business for £114,000; founded schools
at his works for all children under twelve, claimed to be the
founder of infant schools 1816; gave up the Lanark works 1823;
at meeting at London tavern 14 Aug. 1817 declared that all the
religions in the world were founded in error; contested the
Lanark district of burghs 31 March 1820; retired from business
1819; started the Economist a paper explanatory of the new
system of society, No. 1 27 Jany. 1821, No. 26 21 July 1821,
succeeded by the Political economist 1823, and The advocate of
the working classes 1827; bought the village of New Harmony in
Illinois and Indiana with 20,000 acres for £30,000 April 1825,
the scheme failed and he retired 1827; edited The Crisis, or
the change from error and misery to truth and happiness, a
penny paper, No. 1 14 April 1832, last issue No. 20, vol. iv 23
Aug. 1834; opened an Equitable labour exchange at The Bazaar
in Gray’s Inn road, London 3 Sept. 1832, which was moved to
Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. 1 May 1833, and ultimately became
bankrupt; took part in the seven cooperative congresses 1830–4,
and in the 14 socialist congresses 1835–46; published The new
moral world 1834–41; presented to the queen by lord Normanby
5 Jany. 1840; published the Rational quarterly June 1853;
author of A statement regarding the New Lanark establishment
1812; A new view of society, or essays on the principle of
the formation of the human character 1813–4, 3 ed. 1817; The
addresses of R. Owen 1830; The book of the new moral world
containing the rational system of society 1836; The catechism of
the new moral world 1840; An outline of the rational system of
society 1840, 9 ed. 1871; Manifesto of R. Owen, the discoverer
of the rational system of society 1840, 8 ed. 1841; The signs
of the times or the approach of the millenium 1841; The future
of the human race 1853; R Owen’s Journal, No. 1, Nov. 2 1850,
No. 104 Oct. 23,1852, 4 volumes. _d._ Bear’s head hotel,
Newtown, Montgomeryshire 17 Nov. 1858. _The Life of R. Owen_,
_written by himself_ 1857, _vol._ 1, _no more published_; _C.
Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living_ (1877) 3–6;
_J. Grants Portraits of public characters ii_ 163–91 (1841);
_H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ 1876 307–15;
_Georgian Era iv_ 37–41 (1834); _The Times 9 Aug. 1817 p._ 4,
_with A view of the Agricultural and manufacturing village of
Unity and Mutual Co-operation_ _8 Jany. 1840 p._ 7, _11 Feb. p._
7, _26 March p._ 4; _S. J. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873)
275–8; _Reynold’s Miscellany xviii_ 88 (1857) _portrait_; _G.M.
v_ 643–5 (1858).
OWEN, ROBERT DALE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Glasgow 9 Nov.
1800; educ. at the Swiss college of Hofwyl, near Berne 1820–3;
joined his father’s community at New Harmony 1825; became
a citizen of U.S. of America 1827; published with Francis
Wright at New York The free inquirer Nov. 1828 to 1832; member
of the legislature of Indiana 1835, member of the house of
representatives 1843; chairman of committee for promoting the
Smithsonian institution 1846, one of the regents; United States
chargé d’ affaires at Naples 1853, minister 1853–8; chairman of
a committee to examine into condition of emancipated freedmen
1863; author of Moral physiology 1831, 12 ed. 1870; Darby and
Susan, a tale of Old England 1840; Footfalls on the boundary
of another world 1859; The wrong of slavery, the right of
emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United
States 1864; The debatable land between this world and the next
1872. _d._ at his summer residence on Lake George, New York 17
June 1877. _R. D. Owen’s Threading my way_ (1874); _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 615 (1888) _portrait_.
OWEN, ROBERT HENRY. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A.
1863; called to Irish bar 1839; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. _d._ 15 Lower
Pembroke st. Dublin 8 Jany. 1869 aged 64.
OWEN, SAMUEL. _b._ Drayton, Shropshire 1774; introduced steam
boats to Sweden. _d._ Stockholm 15 Feb. 1853. _Historiskt
Bildergalleri_, _No. iii_, _Samuel Owen_ (_Norrkoping_ 1863)
_portrait_.
OWEN, SAMUEL. _b._ about 1769; water-colour painter; exhibited
2 paintings and 6 drawings at the R.A. 1794–1807; member of
the Associated artists in water-colours 1808, resigned 1810,
exhibited 29 pictures; made 84 drawings, engraved by W. B.
Cooke, for his work The Thames 1811, and 7 drawings for the
Picturesque tour on the river Thames, published by Wm. Westall
and himself 1828; his Shipping in a calm, and 9 other river
and sea pieces are in South Kensington museum. _d._ Sunbury,
Middlesex 8 Dec. 1857.
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (brother of Joseph Butterworth Owen
1778–1870). Architect at Portsmouth; surveyor for the
South Hampshire district; helped to develop Southsea as a
watering place; designed the French protestant church at St.
Martin’s-le-Grand, London 1842–3, and the church of St. Jude’s,
Southsea 1851. _d._ 1862.
OWEN, WILLIAM (son of Luke Owen, maltster). _b._ Rotherham 1810;
apprentice to Sandford and Yates, Phœnix foundry, Greasborough
road, Rotherham 1823, a partner 1832, sole proprietor to March
1864, when the Wheathill foundry works were transferred to a
limited liability co., chairman and managing director 1864–72;
chairman of Midland wagon co.; a judge of machinery at Royal
agricultural society’s meetings; A.I.C.E. 3 March 1857; member
of Instit. of Mechanical engineers 1847; author of several
inventions for making solid wrought-iron wheels and tires.
_d._ Clifton house, Rotherham 20 Jany. 1881. _Min. of Proc.
of Instit. C.E. lxiii_ 333 (1881); _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._
(1882) 10.
OWEN, WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM (son of Wm. Owen, captain R.N., _d._
1778). _b._ 1774; entered navy 4 June 1788; explored the Maldive
Islands Sept. 1806, discovered the Sea-flower channel between
Si-biru and Si-pora on the west coast of Sumatra; captain 2
May 1811; surveyed the Canadian Lakes 1815–6; captain of the
Leven Aug. 1821, surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–5; settled
the colony at Fernando Po 1827; R.A. on h.p. 21 Dec. 1847, V.A.
on h.p. 27 Oct. 1854; granted a pension 6 Feb. 1855; author of
Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia,
and Madagascar in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, 2 vols. 1833.
_d._ St. John’s, New Brunswick 3 Nov. 1857.
OWEN, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 5 May 1817; ensign 11 Madras N.I. 7
Aug. 1835, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col Madras infantry 30
April 1866, colonel 30 April 1878; M.G. 4 Aug. 1866; commanded
the Ceded districts 1874–6; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ Folkestone 1 May
1895.
OWENS, JOHN EDWARD (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Liverpool 4 May
1824; taken to Philadelphia 1834; first appeared on the stage
at National theatre, Philadelphia, where he acted until 1843;
played at Peak’s museum, Baltimore 1844–7; one of proprietors
of Baltimore museum 1849–53; opened the Charles st. theatre
with Uncle Tom’s cabin, playing Uncle Tom 1853; manager of the
Varieties in New Orleans 1858–60; played with great success at
the Broadway, New York 29 Aug. 1864 to 14 April 1865; played
Solon Shingle at Adelphi theatre, London 3 July 1865; acted
at Broadway theatre again 8 Jany. to 28 April 1866; played in
California 1880, where he lost most of his fortune in mining
speculations; acted in Esmeralda in many American cities 1882;
owner of the Academy of music, Charleston, South Carolina to his
death. _d._ near Towson, Baltimore county, Maryland 6 Dec. 1886.
_Atlantic xix_ 750 755–8 (1867); _T. A. Brown’s American stage_
(1870) 270 _portrait_.
OXBERRY, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Oxberry, actor 1784–1824).
_b._ Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ.
Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney;
apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first
appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam
Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in
connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32;
acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833;
played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he
was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played
the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in
Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of
Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and
Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre
for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20
March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39
original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he
wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey
theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English
opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s
theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre
Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria
March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec.
1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre
March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama,
Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; _m._ (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster;
_m._ (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master
shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was _b._ Portsmouth 28
April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres
and in the provinces. _d._ on 28 February 1852. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 5 March. _Dramatic and musical review_ 1842 _p._
102 _et seq._; _Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp._ 49–50
_portrait, and iv_ 25–6 (1849) _portrait of his second wife_;
_Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 129–30 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_ 194
(1852).
OXENDEN, ASHTON (5 son of sir Henry Oxenden, 7 baronet
1756–1838). _b._ Broome park, Canterbury 20 Sept. 1808; educ.
Ramsgate, Harrow and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1859,
D.D. 1869; C. of Barham, Kent Dec. 1833, resigned 1838; R. of
Pluckley with Pevington, Kent 1848–69; hon. canon of Canterbury
1864 to death; bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada
(nine dioceses) May 1869, resigned April 1878, consecrated in
Westminster Abbey 1 Aug. 1869, installed in Montreal cathedral
5 Sept.; V. of Hackington or St. Stephen’s, near Canterbury 30
May 1879 to 1884; dean of Canterbury 1879 to 1884; author of
The cottage library, 6 vols. 1846–51; The pathway of safety
1856, circulated 350,000 copies; The Barham tracts, 49 numbers,
collected and published as Cottage readings 1859; My first year
in Canada 1871; The Christian life 1877; his name is attached to
upwards of 50 works. _d._ Biarritz 22 Feb. 1892. _A. Oxenden’s
History of my life: an autobiography_ (1891); _A. Oxenden’s
Plain sermons_ (1893) _memoir pp. xiii–lxxxv with portrait_;
_Graphic 5 March 1892 p._ 298 _portrait_.
OXENFORD, HENRY. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s
Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. _d._ Putney 26 Nov.
1883, in his 100 year.
OXENFORD, JOHN (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, _d._
London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). _b._ Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812;
educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted
his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on
commercial and financial matters; taught himself German,
Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times
newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first
performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks,
a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a
farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a
drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta,
Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2
Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct.
1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of
fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a
farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s
gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10
March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov.
1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864;
Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of
Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama,
Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a
drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of
40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s
operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s
Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he
translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography
1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe
1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853;
F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon
of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and
English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of
French songs 1851. _d._ 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. _Life of E. L. Blanchard
ii_ 465 (1891) _portrait_; _Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp._
270–2; _Illust. sp. and dr. news vi_ 553 (1877) _portrait_;
_Graphic xv_ 236 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 229 (1877)
_portrait_; _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 78 _portrait_;
_The theatre i_ 55–57 _and_ 68 (1877); _You have heard of them
by Q_ (1854) 121–27; _E. Yates’s Recollections i_ 307–10 (1884);
_Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Illust.
Times 1 Dec. 1866 p._ 340 _portrait_; _The Period 11 Feb. 1871
p._ 55 _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_.
OXENHAM, HENRY NUTCOMBE (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second
master of Harrow school). _b._ Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow
and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A.
1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall,
Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857;
entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London
oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor
at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school,
Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems,
Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and
the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement
1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876;
Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated
Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols.
1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the
churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop
C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. _d._
42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. _bur._ St.
Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. _Tablet 31 March 1888
p._ 534, _7 April pp._ 571–2; _Saturday Review lxv_ 380 (1888).
OXENHAM, WILLIAM (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter
1771–1844). _b._ Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ.
Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826;
assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death;
author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862;
Death the christian’s gain 1861. _d._ Somers villa, Reigate 13
Oct. 1863. _bur._ Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. _G.M. xvi_ 660 (1863).
OXFORD, EDWARD (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in
Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop
in the Borough road, London). _b._ Birmingham 19 April 1822;
discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert
as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open
phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840,
found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then
to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but
not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. _Reports of state
trials iv_ 498–555 (1892); _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials
i_ 102–50 (1850); _L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials_
(1871) 528–45; _A. Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 285–9 (1884); _The
Reginacide_ (1840).
NOTE.--The pistol with which he shot at the queen is in the criminal
museum at the convict office, New Scotland Yard, Victoria embankment,
London.
OXFORD, JACOB. _b._ 1834; only 4 feet high; played the
concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for
28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100
lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in
The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. _d._ Morpeth court,
Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.
OXLEE, JOHN (son of a farmer). _b._ Guisborough in Cleveland,
Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch.
1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave
1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July
1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60
more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin
review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer,
and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of
the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and
maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six
letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any
attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. _d._ Molesworth
rectory 30 Jany. 1854. _Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1882) 55–6
_portrait_; _Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography_ (1839)
183, 184; _Church review 22 March 1862 pp._ 175–6; _G.M. April
1854 p._ 437, _and Feb. 1855 pp._ 203–4; _G. Smales’s Whitby
authors_ (1867) 105–11.
OXLEY, RICHARD. _b._ Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles
Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton
Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed
pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race
cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings
at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at
Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed
Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. _d._
13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.
OXTOBY, THOMAS. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to
Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman
to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to
Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife
fox hounds 1853–9. _Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds_
(1883) 92 _portrait_.
P
PACIFICO, DAVID. _b._ Gibraltar 1784; in business at Lagos,
Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his
property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in
Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5
Jany. 1837, dismissed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant
at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter,
4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who
delaying to make compensation, lord Palmerston sent the British
fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs.
endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted
in a quarrel, and the French ambassador left London 15 May 1850;
Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder
of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in
London and _d._ 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854.
_bur._ Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. _Correspondence
respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in
Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851_; _Hansard’s Debates 25
June 1850_, _cols._ 380–444; _Ashley’s Life of lord Palmerston
i_ 176–227 (1876); _Finlay’s History of Greece vii_ 209–14
(1877); _Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy_ (1855) 412–25;
_McCarthy’s History of our own time ii_ 41–62 (1879); _G.M. June
1854 p._ 666.
PACKE, CHARLES WILLIAM (1 son of Charles James Packe of
Prestwold hall, near Loughborough). _b._ 23 Sept. 1792; M.P.
South Leicestershire 1836 to death; chairman of Leicestershire
quarter sessions to death. _d._ 7 Richmond terrace, Whitehall,
London 27 Oct. 1867.
PACKE, GEORGE HUSSEY (brother of preceding). _b._ 1 May 1796;
educ. Eton; cornet 13 dragoons 24 June 1813; captain 21 light
dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817, sold out
1861; sheriff of Lincs. 1843; chairman of Sleaford quarter
sessions; deputy chairman of Great northern railway company
1851, chairman 1865 to death; contested Newark 31 July 1847;
M.P. South Lincolnshire 1859–68. _d._ 41 Charles st. Berkeley
sq. London 2 July 1874.
PACKER, SIR CHARLES (3 son of John Culling Packer of Barbados).
_b._ Barbados 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1839;
barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; solicitor general of Barbados 12
March 1847 to 1874; escheator general 1859; vice-chancellor,
judge of the admiralty court, and chief justice 30 Oct. 1874 to
1886; member of general assembly 1846–67, speaker 1861–7; member
of legislative council 1868–76; knighted by patent 29 Oct. 1879.
_d._ Ruttal house, Barbados 21 Feb. 1888. _Law Times lxxxiv_ 396
(1888), _lxxxvi_ 265 (1889).
PACKER, JOHN GRAHAM. _b._ 1812; educ. Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green,
London 1837–41; V. of St. Peter, Bethnal Green 1841–73; R.
of Wootton, Kent 1873–9; V. of Arreton, Isle of Wight 1879
to death; author of Companion to Euclid 1835; Plain sermons
1838; Bethnal Green sermons, sermons on the Lord’s prayer
1848; Theopolis 1850; Sermons on death 1856. _d._ St. Audries,
Bridgwater, Somerset 1 Aug. 1883. _Guardian 8 Aug. 1883 pp._
1168, 1169.
PADDOCK, THOMAS. _b._ Redditch, Worcs. 1824; beat Elijah Parsons
in 23 rounds 3 Dec. 1844; beat Nobby Clarke in 42 rounds 27
Jany. 1846, and again in 35 rounds 6 April 1847; beaten by Wm.
Thompson, the champion known as Bendigo, at Mildenhall 5 June
1850, £200 a side, 49 rounds in 59 minutes; beaten by Wm. Perry
at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes;
beaten by Harry Paulson at Sedgebrook, near Grantham 23 Sept.
1851, £25 a side, 71 rounds in 95 minutes; beat Paulson at
Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, £50 a side, 86 rounds in 95
minutes, sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour
for this fight March 1852; beat Paulson at Mildenhall 14 Feb.
1854, £100 a side, 102 rounds in 2½ hours; beat Aaron Jones
at Long Reach, Kent 18 July 1854, £100 a side, 121 rounds in
2 hours and 24 minutes; beat Aaron Jones again at Mildenhall
26 June 1855, £100 a side, 61 rounds in 89 minutes; beat Harry
Broome at Bentley, Suffolk 19 May 1856, £200 a side, 51 rounds
in 63 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers, the champion, at Canvey
island 16 June 1858, £150 a side, 21 rounds in 80 minutes;
fought Samuel Hurst for £200 a side, near Aldermaston, Berkshire
5 Nov. 1860, when Hurst won in five rounds and obtained the
champion belt. _d._ 41 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 30
June 1863. _bur._ Finchley 5 July, his widow _d._ 9 July 1863.
_Bell’s Life in London 5 July 1863 p._ 6, _12 July p._ 7; _H.
D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 271–307 (1881) _portrait_; _F. W.
Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 130–9, 168–81; _J. Hannan’s British
Boxing_ (1850) 15–26.
PADMORE, RICHARD (1 son of Thomas Padmore of Ketley, Salop).
_b._ Ketley 28 Sept. 1789; educ. Wellington school; came to
Worcester as a working man, became member of firm of Hardy and
Padmore, iron founders, retired some years before his death;
sheriff of Worcestershire 1845; alderman of Worcester 1838,
mayor 1848 and 1852, retired from the corporation 1874; M.P.
Worcester 1860–8; managing director of Worcester City and
County banking co.; gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert asylum,
Worcester. _d._ Henwick hall, near Worcester 12 Jany. 1881.
_bur._ Worcester cemetery 19 Jany. _Berrow’s Worcestershire
Journal 15 Jany. 1881 p._ 5, _22 Jany. p._ 5.
PADWICK, HENRY (2 son of William Padwick, butcher, _d._ 1834).
_b._ Horsham, Sussex 1805; a solicitor at 38 Davis st. Berkeley
sq. London 1846, retired 1855; resided at 2 Hill st. 1855–68,
at 4 Hill st. 1868 to death; commenced horse racing 1849 under
the name of Howard; his horses were trained at Danebury, then
transferred to Findon under John Barnham Day 1853; with Virago
won the 1,000 guineas 1854; sold Kangaroo to the marquess of
Hastings for £12,000 in 1865, and Oulston to Mr. Elwes for
£8,000; won £80,000 on Virago, and lost the money the same year
on the stock exchange 1854; J.P. for London and Westminster;
deputy lieutenant for Sussex; deputy keeper of Holyrood palace,
Scotland; a well known money lender. _d._ 4 Hill st Berkeley
sq. London 23 Sept. 1879. _J. Rice’s History of British Turf i_
371–80 (1879); _W. Day’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 1–34;
_Times 25 Sept. 1879 p._ 9.
PAE, DAVID (son of a miller). _b._ Amulree, Perthshire 6 May
1828; was with Thomas Grant, publisher, Edinburgh 1848; wrote
stories for the Penny Post and the North Briton, Edinb.; editor
of The Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Numbers 1851–2; edited for some
years the People’s Journal, Dundee, a weekly paper; wrote 27
works of fiction, printed in instalments in the Journal from 5
Sept. 1863 to his death; wrote the dramatic criticisms for the
Evening Telegraph, Dundee, from 1877; wrote Mrs. Macgregor’s
Levee for W. C. Gourlay, the Comedian, and other dramas; author
of The coming struggle among the nations of the earth 1853, 2
ed. 1854, five replies were made to this work; The coming rest
for the nations of the earth 1853; The mission and destiny of
Russia as delineated in scripture prophecy 1853; Jessie Melville
or the double sacrifice 1856; The merchant’s daughter 1857;
Fraud and friendship 1857; Two years after and onward, or the
approaching war among the powers of Europe 1864; The present war
among the powers of Europe 1866; Hard times, or the trials of
the Linwood family, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ Craigmount, East Newport,
Fife 9 May 1884. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 13 May. _Dundee
Advertiser 10 May 1884 p._ 5, _12 May p._ 5, _14 May p._ 3.
PAGAN, JAMES (son of James Pagan, a bleacher). _b._ Trailflat,
parish of Tinwald, near Dumfries 18 Oct. 1811; educ. Dumfries
academy; a compositor and reporter on the Dumfries Courier;
partner in a printing firm in London; reporter and sub-editor of
the Glasgow Herald 1839, and editor 1856 to death, he converted
it into a daily paper 1857; the correspondent of The Times
in Glasgow 1857 to death; edited The prospective observer, a
broadsheet; author of Sketches of the history of Glasgow 1847;
History of the cathedral and see of Glasgow 1851, 2 ed. 1883;
Glasgow, past and present, illustrated in dean of guild reports,
3 vols. 1851–6, another ed. 1884; Old Glasgow and its environs
1864; with J. H. Stoddart Relics of ancient architecture in
Glasgow 1885. _d._ Glasgow 11 Feb. 1870. _In memoriam, Mr.
James Pagan_ (1870); _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 255–60 (1886)
_portrait_; _Newspaper Press iii_ 82, 106 (1870).
PAGAN, JOHN. _b._ Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire 21 May 1842;
assistant surveyor to corporation of Preston 1867–9, and to
corporation of Bradford 1869–72; deputy borough surveyor
Sheffield 1872–5; borough surveyor Wakefield 1875–9, where he
executed the main sewerage extension; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1875;
surveyor general to the Gold Coast, May 1879 to death. _d._
Accra 13 Dec. 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvi_ 348–9
(1889).
PAGAN, JOHN M. (only son of Andrew Pagan, sheep farmer). _b._
Halglenmuir, parish of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Jany. 1802; M.D.
Edinb. 1823; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827, hon. librarian some years;
in practice at Preston, Lancs. 1825, removed to Glasgow 1827;
had a class for forensic medicine 1839; regius professor of
midwifery and the diseases of women and children, univ. of
Glasgow 1840 to death; president Glasgow Medico-chirurgical soc.
1860; invented an obstetric forceps known by his name; author of
De syncope anginosa 1823; The medical jurisprudence of insanity
1840. _d._ Blythswood sq. Glasgow 19 May 1868. _Glasgow Medical
journal i_ 129–31 (1869).
PAGANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. _b._ Borgomanero province of Novara,
North Italy 14 May 1806; a priest 1828; prefect in theological
seminary, Novara 1829; professor of dogmatic theology and canon
law; spiritual director of the young ecclesiastics 1831–6;
served his noviciate at San Michele della Chiusa, near Turin,
in connection with the Institute of Charity 1836–7; joined Fr.
Gentili at Prior park, Bath, July 1837, where he was professor
of theology to 1841; superior of the English province of the
Institute of Charity, established 8 houses with 80 brethren;
elected general of the order of the Institute of Charity at Rome
24 July 1855, visited England every year; translated Liguori’s
Instructions on the religious state 1848; L’ Anima amante or
the soul loving God 1848; Leonardo’s The path to Paradise 1850;
author of The Anima Divota, translated by the rev. J. Shepherd,
Prior Park 1844; The way to heaven, a manual of devotion 1849;
The life of the rev. A. Gentili 1851; The one thing needful,
or the attainment of our last end 1852; A help to devotion, a
collection of novenas 1853, new ed. 1892; The science of the
saints in practice 1853–5, 3 vols.; The end of the world 1855.
_d._ Rome 25–26 Dec. 1860. _G. B. Pagani’s The Anima Divota_
(1891) _memoir pp._ 7–12; _G.M. x_ 230 (1861).
PAGE, AUGUSTINE. _b._ 1783; master of Boys’ hospital, Ampton 6
March 1821 to death; author of Memoranda concerning the Boys’
hospital at Ampton in Suffolk, Ipswich 1838; A supplement to the
Suffolk traveller 1843, another copy is dated 1844. _d._ Bury
St. Edmunds 18 Sept. 1853.
PAGE, DAVID (son of a mason and builder). _b._ Lochgelly,
Fifeshire 24 Aug. 1814; educ. univ. of St. Andrew’s 1828–34;
lecturer and editor of a Fifeshire newspaper; scientific editor
to W. and R. Chambers in Edinburgh 1843–51; professor of geology
in Durham univ. college of physical science at Newcastle July
1871 to death; F.G.S. 1853; president of Geological society
of Edinb. 1863 and 1865; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1867; author of
Introductory text book of geology 1854, 12 ed. 1888; Advanced
text book of geology, descriptive and industrial, Edinb. 1856, 5
ed. 1872; Handbook of geological terms and geology 1859, 2 ed.
1865; Introductory text book of physical geography 1863, 12 ed.
1887; The earth’s crust 1864, 6 ed. 1872; Geology for general
readers 1866, 12 ed. 1888; and 13 other books. _d._ Newcastle 9
March 1879, his widow was granted civil list pension of £100, 2
Aug. 1890.
PAGE, JAMES AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin;
vice-chancellor’s prize 1844, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1865; C. of Lymm,
Cheshire 1845–6, and V. of Tintwistle 1846–73; lecturer at
Rusholme, near Manchester 1873 to death; author of Gathered
leaves 1843; The ruined cities of Central America 1844; My
church 1845; Protestant ballads 1852. _d._ Anson terrace,
Rusholme 25 March 1880.
PAGE, THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Page of City of London,
solicitor). _b._ London 26 Oct. 1803; employed by Edward Blore,
the architect; A.I.C.E. 2 April 1833, M.I.C.E. 18 April 1837;
one of the assistant engineers on the Thames tunnel works 1835,
acting engineer 1836 until completion of tunnel 25 March 1843;
designed the embankment of the Thames from Westminster to
Blackfriars 1842, but the scheme was abandoned; prepared plans
for harbours at Holyhead and Port Denllaen, also for docks at
Swansea; designed and executed the Albert embankment between
Vauxhall and Battersea bridges, and the Chelsea suspension
bridge, opened 28 March 1858, the Albert embankment was opened
24 Nov. 1869; designed Westminster bridge, commenced May 1854,
opened 24 May 1862; engineer for the town of Wisbeach; invented
a system for firing guns under water; author of Report on the
eligibility of Milford Haven for ocean steam ships, and for a
naval arsenal 1859. _d._ Paris 8 Jany. 1877. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xlix_ 262–5 (1877).
PAGE, WILLIAM EMMANUEL (2 son of rev. Wm. Page of Westminster).
_b._ 9 April 1808; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1826,
faculty student 1826–56; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.M. 1834, D.M.
1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838, treasurer; lecturer on theory and
practice of medicine St. George’s hospital, senior physician
at his decease; author of Oratio ex Harveii instituto in
ædibus collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis habita 1860; An
introductory address delivered at St. George’s hospital 1864.
_d._ 106 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 2 Jany. 1868.
_Medical Times and Gazette i_ 49 (1868).
PAGET, ALFRED HENRY (5 son of 1 Marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854).
_b._ 29 June 1816; educ. Westminster; cornet royal horse guards
6 July 1832, lieut. 14 March 1834; captain 7 hussars 3 July
1841, placed on h.p. with rank of major 16 May 1845; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July
1881; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to
March 1852, Dec. 1852 to March 1858, and June 1859 to Aug. 1874;
clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to death; his boat the
Mystery 25 tons was the first iron yacht built; M.P. Lichfield
1837–65; _m._ 8 April 1847 Cecilia, 2 dau. of George Thomas
Wyndham, she was one of the Court beauties in 1858; he _d._ on
board his yacht Violet at Inverness 24 Aug. 1888. _bur._ Hampton
churchyard 30 Aug. _H. Vizetelly’s Glances back through seventy
years ii_ 6 (1893); _Yachting_ (_Badmington Library_ 1894) _ii_
15, 185–6.
PAGET, CHARLES (elder son of Joseph Paget). _b._ Loughborough,
Leics. 1799; a manufacturer at Nottingham; sheriff of Notts.
1844; a practical and scientific farmer; established schools
for his labourers’ children at Ruddington, near Nottingham;
M.P. Nottingham 1856–65; contested Nottingham 11 July 1865;
author of Results of an experiment on the half-time system of
education in rural districts, as carried on at Ruddington 1859;
_drowned_ with his wife off Filey Brigg, Yorkshire 13 Oct. 1873.
_Scarborough Mercury 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 4, _25 Oct. p._ 2.
NOTE.--Mr. and Mrs. Paget while standing on a ridge of rocks known as
Filey Brigg, were washed off by a huge wave, and the bodies were not
recovered.
PAGET, CLARENCE EDWARD (4 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey
1768–1854). _b._ 17 June 1811; educ. Westminster school 1821–3;
entered navy 1827; a midshipman on board the Asia at Battle of
Navarino; captain 26 March 1839; commanded the princess Royal,
91 guns, in the Baltic 1854, and during blockade and bombardment
of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 1 April 1870,
placed on retired list 18 June 1876; M.P. Sandwich 1847–52 and
1857–66; secretary to the admiralty 1859–66; commander-in-chief
in the Mediterranean 28 April 1866 to 28 April 1869; C.B. Feb.
1856, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886; P.C. 9 May 1866;
_m._ 1852 Martha Stuart, dau. of admiral Sir Robert Otway, she
_d._ 23 March 1895; he _d._ Brighton 22 March 1895, they were
both _buried_ at Patcham, near Brighton 28 March. _Illust. news
of the world viii_ (1861) _portrait_.
PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD (eld. son of sir Edward Paget, general
1775–1849). _b._ 24 May 1806; educ. Westminster school 1817–24
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1825–36; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; R. of
Elford, near Lichfield 1835 to death, the church was restored
1848; chaplain to Dr. Bagot, bishop of Bath and Wells; author
of Caleb Kniveton, the incendiary, Oxford 1833; St. Antholin’s,
or old churches and new 1841; Milford Malvoisin, or pews and
pewholders 1842; The warden of Berkingholt, or rich and poor
1843; The owlet of Owlstone Edge 1856; The curate of Cumberworth
and the vicar of Roost 1859; Lucretia, or the heroine of the
nineteenth century 1868, a satire on the sensational novel; Some
records of the Ashstead estate and of its Howard possessors,
Lichfield 1873; A student penitent of 1695, 1875; Homeward bound
1876; edited The Juvenile Englishman’s library, and wrote for it
5 volumes, namely, Tales of the village children 1845, 2 vols.;
The hope of the Katzekopfs 1845, also issued separately under
pseudonym of William Charme of Staffordshire; Luke Sharp 1845;
Tales of the village 1860. _d._ Elford 4 Aug. 1882. _Guardian 16
Aug. 1882 p._ 1124; _Church congress_ (1883) 55.
PAGET, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (brother of Clarence E.
Paget 1811–95). _b._ Burlington st. London 16 March 1818; educ.
Westminster school 1829; cornet 1 life guards 25 July 1834,
lieut. 1837–41; captain 4 light dragoons 17 June 1842, lieut.
col. 29 Dec. 1846, placed on h.p. 1 May 1857; served at battles
of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman; commanded the light brigade
in the Crimea 25 Feb. to 29 July 1855; brigadier general in the
Crimea 30 July 1855 to 14 May 1856, and at Aldershot 1 April
1860 to 31 Aug. 1861; commanded the Sirhind division of the
Bengal army 26 Dec. 1862 to 23 March 1865; inspector general of
cavalry at head quarters 1 April 1865 to 31 March 1870; col. of
7 dragoon guards 28 Jany. 1868, and of 4 hussars 7 Jany. 1874 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. Beaumaris 1847–57; C.B. 5 July
1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; author of The light cavalry brigade in
the Crimea, 1875, 2 ed. 1881. _d._ Farm st. Mayfair, London 30
June 1880. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 461 (1858) _portrait_; _Times 2 July
1880 p._ 5.
PAGET, SIR GEORGE EDWARD (7 son of Samuel Paget of Great
Yarmouth, merchant). _b._ Great Yarmouth 22 Dec. 1809; educ.
Charterhouse 1824–7, and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1827,
scholar 1828, eighth wrangler Jany. 1831; fellow of his college
1832 to 11 Dec. 1851, elected fellow again 2 May 1881; B.A.
1831, M.B. 1833, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1838; studied medicine at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; physician to Addenbrooke’s
hospital, Cambridge 1839–84; Linacre lecturer on medicine at
St. John’s college, July 1851 to 1872; president of Cambridge
philosophical society 1855–6; member of council of the senate
of Cambridge univ. 1856, and their representative on general
council of medical education 27 Nov. 1863 to 9 July 1869,
president 9 July 1869 to 18 July 1874; president of British
medical association 1864; regius professor of physic at
Cambridge 15 Feb. 1872 to death; delivered Harveian oration at
royal college of physicians 1866; F.R.S. 12 June 1873; K.C.B.
19 Dec. 1885; author of Notice of an unpublished manuscript
of Harvey 1850; The Harveian oration 1866. _d._ St. Peter’s
terrace, Cambridge 29 Jany. 1892. _Proc. of royal society l_,
_p. xii_ (1892); _Some lectures by sir G. E. Paget_, _edited by
C. E. Paget_, _Cambridge_ (1893) _memoir pp._ 1–26 _portrait_;
_Graphic 6 Feb. 1892 p._ 174 _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs
of medical men_ (1865) _portrait_ 6.
PAGET, JOHN (son of John Paget). _b._ Thorpe Satchville, Leics.
1808; a lay student in Manchester college, York 1823–6; studied
medicine in univ. of Edinb. 1826, M.D. 1830 but never used title
of doctor; studied medicine in Paris and Italy; _m._ at Rome
1837 baroness Polyxena Wesselingi, widow of baron Ladislaus
Bánffy, she _d._ 1878; developed his wife’s estates in Hungary,
where he introduced an improved breed of cattle, and paid
special attention to viniculture; member of the Unitarian church
of Transylvania; author of Hungary and Transylvania, 2 vols.
1839, 2 ed. 1855; Unitarianism in Transylvania, in J. R. Beard’s
Unitarianism exhibited 1846, pp. 296–315. _d._ Gyeres, Hungary
10 April 1892. _bur._ Kolozsvár 12 April. _Keresztény Magretö_
(1893) _pp._ 90 _et seq._, _memoir and portrait_; _Inquirer 30
April 1892 p._ 278.
PAGET, THOMAS TERTIUS (1 son of Thomas Paget, M.P.) _b._ 27 Dec.
1807; proprietor of banking firm of T. T. Paget, Leicester;
M.P. South Leicestershire Nov. 1867 to Nov. 1868; contested S.
Leicestershire 26 Nov. 1868, 13 June 1870 and 14 Feb. 1874;
M.P. S. Leicestershire 1880 to death; sheriff of Leicester
1869; proprietor of the opera-house in Leicester; well known in
the hunting field; author of Talbot _v._ Talbot, a statement
of facts 1855; A letter on the judgement of the high court of
delegates in Talbot _v._ Talbot 1856. _d._ Humberstone, near
Leicester 16 Oct. 1892, will proved 1 Nov., personalty amounted
to over £589,000.
PAGET, WILLIAM (2 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854).
_b._ Wigmore st. London 1 March 1803; entered navy 1 April
1817, captain 18 Oct. 1826; M.P. for Carnarvon 1826–30, and for
Andover 1841–7. _d._ Boulogne 17 May 1873. _A.R._ (1844) 21–4,
25; _I.L.N. lxii_ 523 (1873).
PAGLIARDINI, TITO. _b._ Italy 1817; second French master St.
Paul’s sch. London 28 July 1853, head French master 4 Feb. 1859
to 1879; member of the order of the Corona d’Italia 1893; a
member of Workman’s Peace association, of the National Education
association, of the National health soc., of the Paddington
parliament, and of the Social science congresses; translated L.
Manzotti’s Excelsior, a ballet at Her Majesty’s theatre 1885;
C. Lisei’s Giovanni Bottesini 1886; L. Manzotti’s Amor love, a
choreographic poem 1886; author of Le petit précepteur; Le petit
grammairien 1868. _d._ 21 Alexander st. Westbourne park, London
26 March 1895.
PAICE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1836; educ. University coll. sch.; matric.
Univ. of London 1852, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; edited Light, a
journal devoted to the highest interests of humanity, both
here and hereafter, No. 1, 8 Jany. 1881; author of Energy and
motion, a text book of elementary mechanics 1884. _d._ 1 Portman
mansions, Baker st. London 24 Jany. 1895.
PAIN, JAMES (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). _b._
Isleworth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the
architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as
architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George
at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of
Buttevant, Midleton, and Carrigaline, the gaols at Limerick and
Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near
Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitchelstown castle, near Cork,
for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of
first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the
churches and glebe houses; George _b._ London 1793, _d._ 1838,
_bur._ St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James _d._ Limerick 13 Dec.
1877. _bur._ Limerick cathedral. _Dictionary of architecture
vi_, _Letter P_, 6–7 (1881).
PAINTER, EDWARD. _b._ Stratford, near Manchester March 1784; a
brewer by trade; fought J. Coyne of Kilkenny at St. Nicholas,
near Margate 23 Aug. 1813 and won in 40 minutes; beat J.
Alexander in 20 rounds at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 20 Nov. 1813;
beaten by Tom Oliver 17 May 1814; beaten by John Shaw the
lifeguardsman in 28 minutes at Hounslow heath 18 April 1815;
beaten by Harry Sutton the Black at Moulsey Hurst 23 July 1817;
beat Sutton at Bungay, Suffolk in 15 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beaten
by Tom Spring at Mickleham Downs, Surrey in 31 rounds 1 April
1818; beat Spring at Russia farm, near Kingston in 42 rounds
7 Aug. 1818; beat Tom Oliver at North Walsham 17 July 1820;
landlord of the Anchor inn, Lobster lane, Norwich 1818 many
years, then of the White Hart inn, Market place, Norwich. _d._
at his son’s residence near the Ram, Lakenham, Norwich 18 Sept.
1852. _bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard, Norwich 22 Sept. _Miles’
Pugilistica ii_ 74–88 (1880) _portrait_: _The Fancy._ _By An
Operator i_ 393–400 (1826) _portrait_.
PAKENHAM, CHARLES REGINALD (4 son of Thomas Pakenham, 2 earl of
Longford 1744–1835). _b._ 21 Sept. 1821; ensign 72 foot 14 June
1839; captain 69 foot 1 Dec. 1846; lieut. grenadier guards 5
March 1847, sold out 2 May 1851; aide de camp to the queen, and
accompanied her to Ireland 1849; sold all his possessions and
gave the proceeds to charitable institutions 1851; joined the
order of the ‘Barefooted clerks of the most sacred passion of
our Lord Jesus Christ’ 1854, ordained a priest 29 Sept. 1855;
visited Rome 1856; rector of the ‘Retreat of blessed Paul of
the Cross’ at Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Aug. 1856 to death; known
as Father Paul Mary. _d._ Harold’s Cross, Dublin 1 March 1857.
_bur._ in chapel of the Retreat 4 March. _The Tablet 7 March
1857 p._ 148.
PAKENHAM, EDWARD WILLIAM (1 son of sir Hercules Robert Pakenham
1781–1850). _b._ Ireland 20 Sept. 1819; M.P. Antrim July 1852
to death; ensign grenadier guards 12 Jany 1838, captain 24
Feb. 1854 to death; one of the foremost at the battle of the
Alma, in the charge of the guards, he was the officer who first
jumped over the embrasure of the Russian battery; at Inkerman he
defended at the head of the 7 company of grenadier guards the
Sand-bag battery and _fell_ pierced by many wounds 5 Nov. 1854.
_bur._ 6 Nov. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 167–8.
PAKENHAM, JOHN (4 son of admiral sir Thomas Pakenham 1757–1836).
_b._ 18 Oct. 1790; entered navy 22 April 1804; commanded the
Harrier on the Cork station 1825; captain 26 Aug. 1826, retired
1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 15 June 1864. _d._ Cannes 1 June
1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 851.
PAKENHAM, SIR RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Pakenham
hall, Castle Pollard, Westmeath 19 May 1797; educ. Trin. coll.
Dublin; attaché at the Hague 15 Oct. 1817; secretary to the
legation in Switzerland 26 Jany. 1824, and to the legation in
Mexico 29 Dec. 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the United
Mexican states 12 March 1835, obtained treaty for abolition of
the slave trade 1841; P.C. 13 Dec. 1843; envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to United States of America 14 Dec.
1843, went on leave of absence 29 May 1847, retired on a pension
22 March 1849; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
at Lisbon 28 April 1851, retired on pension 28 June 1855; sent
on a special mission to Lisbon 7 Aug. 1855, returned to England
Oct. 1855, granted pension. _d._ Coolure, Castle Pollard 28
Oct. 1868. _Men of the time_ (1868) _p._ 630; _I.L.N. liii_ 459
(1868).
PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP (eld. son of Edmund Paley, R. of
Easingwold, near York, then R. of Gretford, Lincs., _d._
1850). _b._ Easingwold 14 Jany. 1815; educ. Shrewsbury and
St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; resided at
St. John’s 1838–46; an original member of Cambridge Camden
society, hon. secretary and member of committee, contributed
to the Ecclesiologist; joined the church of Rome 1846; tutor
to Bertram Talbot, heir to earldom of Shrewsbury 1847–50;
tutor in the Throckmorton family 1850–2; non-resident tutor in
the family of Kenelm Digby 1852–6; resided at Cambridge as a
private tutor 1860–74, examiner in the classical tripos 1873–4;
professor of classical literature at the new catholic univ.
college at Kensington 1874–7; classical examiner to univ. of
London 1875–80, and to the civil service commission; hon. LL.D.
Aberdeen 1883; edited the greater part of the Greek tragedies
separately in Cambridge Greek and Latin texts with notes;
published Ecclesiologists’ guide to the churches within seven
miles of Cambridge 1844; Æschyli quæ supersunt omnia 1850; A
manual of Gothic mouldings 1845, 5 ed. 1891; S. A. Porpertii
Carmina with English notes 1853, 2 ed. 1872; The tragedies
of Æschylus with an English commentary 1855, 4 ed. 1879; The
tragedies of Euripides, 3 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1872; The Epics of
Hesiod, with an English commentary 1861, 2 ed. 1883; The Iliad
of Homer, with English notes, 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1884. _d._
Apthorp, Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth 11 Dec. 1888. _bur._ R.C.
churchyard, Boscombe.
PALEY, GEORGE BARKER (eld. son of John Green Paley of Langcliffe
and Oatlands, Yorkshire 1774–1860). _b._ 28 Oct. 1799; educ.
St. Peter’s coll. Camb., 25 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825,
B.D. 1833; fellow of his college 1822–32; P.C. of Little St.
Mary, Cambridge 1832–3; V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs. 1833–5; R.
of Freckenham, Suffolk 14 Oct. 1835 to death; published Form
of family prayer for Sunday and daily use 1839; A tract for
the foundry, or hear what the furnace teacheth 1846; Saul of
Tarsus, a drama 1855. _d._ 90 Onslow gardens, London Feb. 1880,
personalty sworn as £300,000, 10 April 1880. _Times 14 Feb. 1880
p._ 10.
PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS (only son of Meyer Cohen, member of the
stock exchange). _b._ London July 1788; articled to Loggin and
Smith, solicitors, Basinghall st. 1803, and was their managing
clerk 1808–22; solicitor in King’s Bench walk Temple 1822;
barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, engaged in pedigree cases before
the house of lords; became a Christian 1823; _m._ 13 Oct. 1823
Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., by Mary, 2 dau.
of William Palgrave of Coltishall, Norfolk, having assumed by
R.L. the name of Palgrave in lieu of Cohen 30 Sept. 1823; his
plan for publication of the public records was accepted Aug.
1822, edited for the record commission Parliamentary writs and
writs of summons, 2 vols. 1827–34; Rolls and records of the
court held before the king’s justiciars or justices 1195–1199,
2 vols. 1835; The antient kalendars and inventories of the
treasury of his majesty’s exchequer, 2 vols. 1836; Documents
and records illustrating the history of Scotland preserved in
the treasury of her majesty’s exchequer 1837; knighted at St.
James’s palace 31 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1821; one
of the municipal corporations’ comrs. 18 July 1833, but withheld
his signature from their report; deputy keeper of her majesty’s
records Dec. 1838 to death; collected at the rolls’ office the
national muniments from 56 different offices in Lendon, issued
22 annual reports 1840–61; author of History of England vol. 1
only 1831; The rise and progress of the English commonwealth,
Anglo-Saxon period, 2 parts 1832; An essay on the original
authority of the King’s council 1834; Documents and records
illustrating the history of Scotland, vol. 1 1837; Handbook for
travellers in Northern Italy 1842, and 6 other editions 1847–60;
The history of Normandy and of England, 4 vols. 1851–64. _d._
The Green, Hampstead 6 July 1861, after residing there from 19
March 1834. _Proc. of royal soc. xii_ 13–20 (1862); _G.M. Oct.
1861 pp._ 441–5; _Palgrave family memorials_, _edited by C. J.
Palmer and S. Tucker_ (1878) 91, 108, _portrait of sir F. and
lady Palgrave_; _Blackwood’s Mag. June 1857 pp._ 731–47.
PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD (2 son of sir Francis Palgrave
1788–1861). _b._ 22 Parliament st. Westminster 24 Jany. 1826;
educ. Charterhouse 1838–43, gold medallist and captain of the
school; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1843–7; 2 lieut. 8 Bombay
N.I. 1847; entered a Jesuit establishment in Madras and was
ordained a priest; employed in the missionary work of the order
in Southern India until June 1853; a missionary in Syria 1853,
made many converts, barely escaped from the massacre at Damascus
June 1861; a perfect Arabic scholar; delivered lectures in
Ireland on the Syrian massacres 1861, published under title
of Four lectures on the massacres of the Christians in Syria
1861; travelled across Central Arabia disguised as a Syrian
christian doctor and merchant 1862–3; sent on a special mission
to Abyssinia to obtain from king Theodore the release of consul
Cameron, July 1865; British consul at Soukem-Kaleh 23 July 1866,
and at Trebizond 20 May 1867; consul at St. Thomas in the West
Indies 30 Jany. 1873, and at Manila 3 April 1876; consul-general
in Bulgaria 23 Sept. 1878, and in Siam 26 Nov. 1879;
minister-resident in Uruguay 16 Jany. 1884 to death; F.R.G.S.
1878; author of Narrative of a year’s journey through Central
and Eastern Arabia, 2 vols. 1865, with portrait; Hermann Agha,
2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1878; Essays on eastern questions 1872;
Dutch Guiana 1876; Ulysses, or scenes and studies in many lands
1887; A vision of life, semblance and reality 1891; _m._ 1868
Katherine, dau. of G. E. Simpson of Norwich, she was granted
civil list pension of £50, 23 Jany. 1889; he _d._ Monte Video 30
Sept. 1888. _bur._ St. Thomas’s cemet. Fulham. _T. Cooper’s Men
of mark_, _vol. iv_ (1880) _portrait_ 4.
PALIN, WILLIAM (youngest son of Richard Palin). _b._ Mortlake,
Surrey 10 Nov. 1803; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 17 Dec.
1829; migrated to Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1851,
M.A. Oxf. 1861; C. of Stifford, Essex, Trinity Sunday 1833; R.
of Stifford 6 June 1834 to death, restored the parish church
1861–3; edited the Churchman’s Magazine 1853–7; author of
Village lectures on the litany 1837; Bellingham, or narrative
of a christian in search of the church 1839; The history of the
church of England 1688–1717, 1851; The Christian month, original
hymns, set to music by Ann Sheppard Mounsey 1842; Stifford
and its neighbourhood, past and present 1871, and More about
Stifford and its neighbourhood 1872. _d._ Stifford rectory-house
16 Oct. 1882. _W. Palin’s Stifford_ (1871) 72, 179–80.
PALIN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of an officer in H.E.I.C. service).
_b._ India 1824; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1840, captain 21
May 1855, retired 29 May 1857; chief constable of Manchester
1857, resigned Feb. 1881. _d._ 24 Belvidere road, Prince’s park,
Liverpool 16 June 1882. _bur._ Southern cemetery, Withington.
PALLISER, FANNY BURY (dau. of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich
1832–4). _b._ 23 Sept. 1805; (_m._ 8 Aug. 1832 captain Richard
Bury Palliser, 3 son of John Palliser of Derrybuskan, co.
Tipperary, he _d._ Cowley Grove, Middlesex 29 Oct. 1852, aged
55); contributed to the Art Journal and the Academy; helped to
organise the international lace academy held at South Kensington
1874; author of The modern poetical speaker 1845; History of
lace 1856, 3 ed. 1875; Brittany and its byways 1869; Historic
devices, badges and war cries 1870; A descriptive catalogue of
the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington museum 1871,
3 ed. 1881; Mottoes for monuments 1872; The china collector’s
pocket companion 1874, 2 ed. 1875; A brief history of Germany
to the battle of Könizgratz; translated from the French J.
Labarte’s Handbook of the arts of the middle ages 1855; A.
Jacquemarts History of the ceramic art 1873, and A history
of furniture 1878. _d._ 33 Russell road, Kensington 16 Jany.
1878. _F. Marryat’s Life of captain Marryat i_, 256–60 (1872);
_Academy i_ 73 (1878).
PALIOLOGUS, WILLIAM THOMAS (son of Nicholas Paliologus of
Calcutta, notary public _d._ 1840). _b._ Calcutta 20 Oct. 1827;
educ. by Frederick M. Walter, P.C. of St. Petrox, Dartmouth,
England 1840–6; matric. at univ. of London 1846; studied
medicine in London; M.R.C.S. 1851; F.R.G.S.; assistant surgeon
in the army 1 Sept. 1854, served in the Crimea and India
1854–9; surgeon 20 Oct. 1869, placed on h.p. 13 April 1872;
was a representative of the Palæologus family, emperors of the
East. _d._ Isleworth, near Twickenham, Middlesex 15 July 1873.
_Illustrated Times 17 Jany. 1863 p._ 45 _portrait_; _N. and Q. 1
S. v_ 173 _et seq._ (1852); _Archæologia xviii_ 84–104 (1817).
PALLISER, HENRY. _b._ 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 4 June 1810, colonel
13 Dec. 1854 to 22 Feb. 1863; M.G. 22 Feb. 1863. _d._ Victoria
park, Dover 17 Dec. 1864.
PALLISER, JOHN (eld. son of Wray Palliser of Comragh, co.
Waterford, _d._ 1862). _b._ 29 Jany. 1817; sheriff of Waterford
1844; captain Waterford artillery militia; went on a hunting
expedition among the Indians of the western states of America
1847; appointed by the government leader of the expedition for
exploring the west of British North America 31 March 1857;
explored the Rocky Mountains 1858, for which he was granted the
Victoria gold medal of the royal geographical society, May 1859;
returned to England 1861; C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of Solitary
rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies 1853, eighth
thousand 1856. _d._ Comragh, co. Waterford 18 Aug. 1887.
PALLISER, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Dublin
18 June 1830; educ. Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, Trin. hall,
Camb., and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 22 April 1855,
lieut. 31 Aug. 1855; lieut. 18 hussars 1858, captain 5 Aug.
1859; brigade major of cavalry Dublin 6 July 1860, placed on
h.p. 4 Oct. 1860; major in the army 4 Oct. 1864, sold out Dec.
1871; patented improvements in the construction of ordnance
and in the projectiles to be used therewith 11 Nov. 1862; took
out a patent for screw-bolts 6 Dec. 1862, and another for
chill-casting projectiles 27 May 1863, which were introduced
into the service 1866; took out 14 patents relating to guns,
bolts, and projectiles 1867–81; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at
Osborne 16 Jany. 1873; granted cross of a commander of the crown
of Italy 1875; contested Dungarvon 15 July 1865, and Devonport
18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Taunton April 1880 to death; author of Notes
of recent experiments at Shoeburyness with chilled shot and
shells 1866, which he withdrew from circulation; The use of
earthen fortresses for the defence of London and as a preventive
against invasion 1871; _m._ 1868 Anna, dau. of George Perham,
she was granted civil list pension of £150, 20 June 1883. _d._
21 Earl’s court sq. London 4 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 9
Feb. _Professional papers of the corps of R.E. xiii_ 128, _xiv_
163, _xvi_ 125; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 418–21
(1882); _I.L.N. lxii_ 177, 178 (1873) _portrait_.
PALMER, ARTHUR (only son of John Jordan Palmer of Bristol).
_b._ 1783; barrister G.I. 16 May 1821; judge of county courts,
circuit 55, comprising Bristol, Thornbury, and Chipping-Sodbury
15 March 1847, resigned Jany. 1854. _d._ the Hot Wells, Clifton
19 Nov. 1856. _J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 303.
PALMER, CHARLES (eld. son of John Palmer, projector of
mail-coaches 1742–1818). _b._ Weston, near Bath 6 May 1777;
educ. Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1793; cornet
10 dragoons 17 May 1796, lieut. col. 3 May 1810 to 12 Nov. 1814;
lieut. col. 23 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1814, placed on h.p. 25
Dec. 1814; A.D.C. to the prince regent, afterwards the king,
8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; served during the whole of the
Peninsular war; M.G. 27 May 1825; M.P. Bath 1808–26 and 1830–7;
proprietor of the Bath theatre from 1818; a large vine-grower in
the Gironde; author of Speech on the state of the nation, on the
third reading of the reform bill 1832. _d._ 17 April 1851. _G.M.
July 1851 p._ 92; _Royal military calendar iv_ 243 (1820).
PALMER, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1808; collector of rare prints and
etchings; bought the great etching by Rembrandt of “Christ
healing the sick,” better known as “the hundred guilder print,”
at sir Charles Price’s sale for £1,180, the largest sum ever
paid for a print down to May 1883; some of his paintings were
sold at Christie’s on 16 May 1868. _d._ 46 Portland place,
London 3 Jany. 1868. _Athenæum 18 Jany. 1868 p._ 98.
PALMER, CHARLES JOHN (only son of John Danby Palmer, ship
owner). _b._ Yarmouth 1 Jany. 1805; articled to Robert Cory,
attorney 1822–7; a freeman of Banff 12 Oct. 1824, and of
Yarmouth 28 June 1825; a notary public 10 May 1827; an attorney
29 June 1827; proctor to admiralty court, Yarmouth 12 Aug.
1827; practised at Yarmouth 1827–77; an alderman of the old
corporation to 1835, member of the town council, mayor 1854
and 1855; chief promoter of the Victoria building company; a
promoter of the Wellington pier and of the assembly rooms; hon.
sec. of church restoration committee 1845–75; F.S.A. 1830;
edited The history of Great Yarmouth by Henry Manship 1854;
author of The history of Great Yarmouth 1856; The perlustration
of Great Yarmouth with Gorleston and Southtown, 3 vols. 1872–5;
Memorials of the family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth and of New
York 1873; edited with Stephen I. Tucker, Palgrave family
memorials, Norwich 1878. _d._ Villa Graham, Great Yarmouth 24
Sept. 1882. _Leaves from the diary of C. J. Palmer_, _edited by
F. D. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _Law Times lxxiii_ 388 (1882).
PALMER, EDWARD (3 son of James Burden Palmer of Charlottetown,
Prince Edward island). _b._ Charlottetown 1 Sept. 1809; called
to the local bar 1831, admitted solicitor 1834; Q.C. 1857;
member of the assembly to 1860, of the legislative council 1860;
solicitor general Prince Edward island 1848–51; attorney general
1854, 1863–9, and 1872–3; president of executive council 1859;
judge of county court of Queen’s county 1873, and chief justice
July 1874 to death. _d._ Charlottetown 3 Nov. 1889. _Law Times
25 Jany. 1890 p._ 229.
PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Palmer, schoolmaster).
_b._ Green st. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1840; educ. Perse gr. sch.
Cambridge; clerk in the office of Hill and Underwood of
Eastcheap, London, wine merchants 1856–9; learnt Persian,
Arabic and Hindustani; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Camb. 9 Oct.
1863, scholar 16 June 1865, fellow 5 Nov. 1867 to death; B.A.
1867, M.A. 1870; catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish
manuscripts of King’s and Trinity colleges and of the university
library; one of the surveyors of Sinai for the Palestine
exploration fund 1869; walked from Sinai to Jerusalem with C.
F. T. Drake, identifying sites and searching for inscriptions
1870; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Cambridge 10 Nov.
1871 to death, lectured on Arabic, Persian and Hindustani
1873–81; barrister M.T. 6 June 1874; wrote leading articles
for the Standard, London, daily paper Aug. 1881 to June 1882;
sent by the government to Egypt on a secret-service mission
June and July 1882; rode from Alexandria across the desert to
Suez; interpreter-in-chief to British forces in Egypt Aug. 1882;
started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, _shot_ by Bedouins
at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. _bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cath.
London 6 April 1883; portrait in hall of St. John’s coll. Camb.,
his widow was granted civil list pension of £200, 2 Feb. 1883;
author of Oriental mysticism, a treatise on the Sufiistic and
unitarian theosophy of the Persians 1867; A catalogue of the
Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in Trinity college,
Cambridge 1870; The desert of the exodus, journeys on foot
1871; A grammar of the Arabic language 1874; A dictionary of
the Persian language 1876; The Arabic manual 1881; Simplified
grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic 1882; with W. Besant,
Jerusalem the city of Herod and Saladin 1871, 2 ed. 1888; with
C. G. Leland English gipsy songs 1875. _W. Besant’s Life of E.
H. Palmer_ (1883) _portrait_; _A. E. Haynes’ Man-hunting in
the desert, a narrative of Palmer’s Search-expedition_ (1894)
_portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_ 469 (1882) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_
461 (1882) _portrait_.
PALMER, EDWIN (4 son of William Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, V.
of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 18 July 1824; educ.
Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1841, scholar 1841–5;
Hertford and Ireland scholar 1843; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1850, D.D.
1878; fellow of Balliol 29 Nov. 1845 to 19 Sept. 1867, hon.
fellow 1870; senior dean 1855, catechetical lecturer 1871;
select preacher univ. of Oxf. 1865–6 and 1873–4; fellow Corpus
Christi coll. 1870–8, vice-president 1877, hon. fellow 1878;
Corpus professor of Latin literature 1870–8; examining chaplain
to bishop of Oxford 1869; archdeacon of Oxford with canonry of
Christ Church 1878 to death; edited The Apology of Plato 1867;
Catulli Veronensis Carmina selecta 1872; The Greek testament
1881; author of Bishop Patteson missionary bishop and martyr
1872, and of charges and sermons. _d._ Christ Church, Oxford 17
Oct. 1895. _bur._ Osney cemet. Oxford 21 Oct. _I.L.N. 26 Oct.
1895 p._ 510 _portrait_; _Black and White 26 Oct. 1895 p._ 530
_portrait_.
PALMER, FRANCIS ROGER. _b._ 21 Oct. 1811; ensign 89 foot 22
March 1833; 1 lieut. rifle corps 26 Feb. 1836, lieut. col. 22
June 1858 to death; colonel in the army 22 June 1863; C.B. 16
Nov. 1858. _d._ Villa d’ Este, Lake Como, Italy 18 Oct. 1872.
PALMER, GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Palmer of Wanlip, Leics. and of
London, merchant, _d._ 1821, aged 53). _b._ 11 Feb. 1772; educ.
Charterhouse; served in the East India company’s navy 1786–99;
East India merchant and shipowner at 28 Throgmorton st. London
1802; master of the Mercers’ company 1821; connected with the
National lifeboat institution 1826, lifeboats on his plan were
used at more than 20 ports until 1858, deputy chairman 25 years,
resigned Feb. 1853; chairman of the General shipowners’ society
1832; contested South Shields Dec. 1832; M.P. South Essex
1836–47; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1818; sheriff of Essex; author
of Memoir of a chart from the strait of Allas to the island
Bouro 1799; A new plan for fitting all boats so that they may be
secure as lifeboats at the shortest notice 1828. _d._ Nazeing
park, Essex 12 May 1853. _The lifeboat July 1853 pp._ 28–32;
_G.M. June 1853 pp._ 656–7.
PALMER, GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of Henry Palmer of Brynbank,
Carmarthenshire). _b._ Wernligoes parish, Llanvalteg,
Carmarthenshire 29 Dec. 1831; educ. Narberth and Carmarthen
college; usher at a school in France; a student of univ. of
Glasgow Nov. 1853, M.A. 1856; resident lecturer in classics and
history at cavalry college, Richmond, Jany. to Dec. 1859; sec.
of Law amendment society 8 April 1861 to 1864; barrister G.I. 6
June 1861; contributed to Law Magazine and Law Times; edited a
trades’ protection paper 1863; edited The law magazine and law
review 1864; secretary of jurisprudence department of Social
science association 1864; left Gravesend for Melbourne in the
steamer “London” 30 Dec. 1865, the ship foundered in the Bay
of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. _Law Mag. and Law Review xxi_ 129–36
(1866).
PALMER, GEORGE JOSIAH (son of George Josiah Palmer, printer
in Savoy st. Strand, London). _b._ Clapham, Surrey 30 June
1828; educ. Clapham gram. sch. and King’s coll. sch. London; a
compositor in his father’s establishment, then manager of the
printing office; a printer at 27 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1853–60;
removed to 32 Little Queen st. Holborn 1860; publisher of the
Union newspaper to 27 June 1862; started The Church Times, a
penny weekly paper in the high church interest, which he also
edited, No. 1 7 Feb. 1863, editor to his death; hon. treasurer
of Church of England working men’s soc.; a publisher of books.
_d._ Ramsgate 27 Jany. 1892. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 Feb.
_Church portrait journal 15 July 1885 pp._ 45–6 _portrait_;
_Church Times 29 Jany. 1892 p._ 97, _5 Feb. 1892 p._ 119.
PALMER, HENRY. _b._ 11 July 1807; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 13 Feb.
1826, major 5 June 1853; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 4 Oct.
1857, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877;
served against Bheel tribes 1827–8; served in Afghan and Belooch
campaigns 1838–40; commanded 48 B.N.I. at Modkie and Ferozeshah;
brigade major of general Wheeler’s force in the Punjab 1848–9.
_d._ Mussoorie, North West Provinces of India 23 Aug. 1892.
PALMER, HENRY ANDREWES (son of Arthur Palmer of Bristol,
solicitor). _b._ 1803; articled to his father 1817–22; solicitor
at Bristol 1826–60; comr. of bankruptcy for Bristol district
1833 to date when local courts of bankruptcy were established;
registrar and deputy judge of the Tolzey court, Bristol 1838–60;
defended owner of Ashton Court estates against Thomas Provis,
calling himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth, 8–10 Aug. 1853, he
was found guilty of perjury and forgery and sentenced to be
transported for 20 years. _d._ South Dulwich 16 Dec. 1884.
_Solicitor’s Journal 3 Jany. 1885 p._ 156.
PALMER, HENRY SPENCER (youngest son of colonel John Freke Palmer
of the East India company’s service). _b._ Bangalore, Madras 30
April 1838; lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1856, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882,
retired with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1887; surveyed in British
Columbia 1858–63; joined the ordnance survey Dec. 1863, surveyed
Kent and East Sussex; assistant comr. in the parliamentary
boundaries’ commission 1867–8 and 1869; surveyed the Sinaitic
peninsula Oct. 1868 to May 1869; chief of the party sent to New
Zealand to observe the transit of Venus, June 1874; went to
Barbados Nov. 1875, A.D.C. to the governor Feb. 1877 to March
1878; went to Hongkong Jany. 1878, engineer of the admiralty
works, A.D.C. to the governor 11 May 1878 to June 1880; designed
a physical observatory for Hong Kong 1881; commanding R.E. of
the Manchester district July 1883; designed and constructed
waterworks for Yokohama, Japan 1883–7; superintendent of the
Yokohama harbour works and engineer to the Yokohama docks’
company 1889 to death; published with sir C. W. Wilson Ordnance
survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, &c. 1869; author of The
ordnance survey of the kingdom: its objects, mode of execution,
history, and present condition 1873; Ancient history from the
monuments, Sinai from the fourth Egyptian dynasty to the present
day 1878, new ed. 1892. _d._ Tokio, Japan 10 March 1893. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxiii_ 373–5 (1893).
PALMER, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (youngest son of John Palmer
1752–1827, R. of Great Torrington, Devon). _b._ Torrington 27
June 1803; a surgeon in London to 1839; surgeon to St. George’s
and St. James’s dispensary to 1838; went to New South Wales
1839; a doctor at Port Philip some time, then a manufacturer of
cordials, then a wine merchant; mayor of Melbourne 1846; member
for Port Philip of legislature of New South Wales Sept. 1848 to
July 1849; member for Normanby district of legislative council
of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851, elected speaker Dec. 1851; member for
Western province to the new legislative council 23 Nov. 1855,
first president 21 Nov. 1856, re-elected five times, resigned
Oct. 1870; knighted by patent 13 July 1857; edited The works of
John Hunter, 4 vols. 1835–7; and A dialogue in the Devonshire
dialect 1837. _d._ Burwood road, Hawthorn, Melbourne 23 April
1871. _Colby’s Pedigree of Palmer family_ (1892) 7–9.
PALMER, JOHN BERNARD (son of Wm. Palmer of Charmouth, Dorset,
farmer). _b._ 15 Oct. 1782; joined the Church of Rome 1806;
a novice in the Cistercian monastery of St. Susan, Lulworth,
Dorset 1808, professed there by the name of Bernard 21 Nov.
1810; received minor orders at the abbey of La Meilleraie, near
Nantes, where the community had taken refuge in 1817; the abbey
was suppressed 1831 and Palmer was confined at Nantes by the
French government 1831–7; joined a community of Cistercian monks
in Charnwood forest, Leics. March 1837, received priest’s orders
31 July 1838, superior of the monastery 1841, a new monastery
called Mount St. Bernard was built by Pugin 1844, the monastery
was constituted an abbey and Palmer appointed abbot 9 May 1848,
consecrated with mitre, crozier, ring, and gloves 18 Feb. 1849,
being the first English mitred abbot since the reformation. _d._
Mount St. Bernard abbey 10 Nov. 1852. _The metropolitan and
provincial catholic almanac for 1855 pp._ 1–16 _portrait_; _G.M.
Jany. 1853 p._ 101.
PALMER, JOHN HINDE (only son of Samuel Palmer of Dulwich common,
Surrey). _b._ Surrey 1808; barrister L.I. 24 Jany. 1832, bencher
16 June 1869 to death; Q.C. 10 June 1859; contested Lambeth 7
Aug. 1850; M.P. Lincoln 16 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested
Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874. _d._ 11 St. George’s sq. London 2 June 1884.
PALMER, JOHN HORSLEY (4 son of Wm. Palmer of Nazeing park,
Essex). _b._ 7 July 1779; partner with his brother George
Palmer and captain Wilson as East India merchants in City of
London 1802, retired April 1857; a director of the bank of
England 1811–57, governor 1830–2, gave evidence before the
committee of secrecy on the bank of England charter 1832; a
leading authority on currency and finance; a member of royal
commission on bankruptcy and insolvency 4 Dec. 1839; examined
by select committee on banks of issue 1840; author of Reasons
against the proposed Indian joint-stock bank 1836; The causes
and consequences of the pressure upon the money market, with a
statement of the action of the bank of England from 1 Oct. 1833
to 27 Dec. 1836, 1837; Reply to the reflections of Mr. Samuel
Jones Lloyd on the pamphlet entitled ‘Causes and consequences’
1837. _d._ Mulgrave house, Hurlingham, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1858.
_Maclaren’s History of the currency_ (1858) 173–8.
PALMER, NATHANIEL (son of Nathaniel Palmer government contractor
for the navy and stamp distributor at Great Yarmouth). _b._
Great Yarmouth Oct. 1792; solicitor at Great Yarmouth; barrister
I.T. 27 Nov. 1827, went Norfolk circuit; a county comr. of
bankruptcy; judge of Guildhall court of record at Norwich;
recorder of Great Yarmouth June 1836 to death. _d._ Coltishall,
near Norwich 30 March 1872. _Law journal vii_ 264 (1872).
PALMER, RICHARD (son of Robert Palmer, landlord of the White
Horse inn, Preston). _b._ Lancaster 23 Feb. 1773; articled to
Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, attorney 6 June 1788; admitted
attorney March 1794; partner with N. Grimshaw Dec. 1799; one
of coroners for Lancashire 12 Nov. 1799 to death; town clerk
of Preston 1801 to death, officiated at the three guilds of
1802, 1822, and 1842, when a medal was struck in his honour;
N. Grimshaw died in 1835, when all his public offices were
conferred on Palmer; clerk to local board of health 7 Oct. 1850,
resigned 12 Feb. 1852; attended the Lancaster assizes for the
127th time 7 Aug. 1852. _d._ Preston 13 Dec. 1852. _G.M. Feb.
1853 pp._ 212–3.
PALMER, ROBERT (1 son of Richard Palmer of Hurst and Sonning,
Berks.) _b._ 31 Jany. 1793; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.;
sheriff of Berks. 1818; M.P. Berks. 1825–59; chairman of Berks.
quarter sessions. _d._ Holme park, near Reading 24 Nov. 1872.
_bur._ Sonning churchyard 29 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 527 (1872).
PALMER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Palmer, bookseller, _d._ Dec.
1848). _b._ Surrey sq. St. Mary’s, Newington 27 Jany. 1805;
educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1817 etc.; exhibited 57
landscapes at R.A., 20 at B.I., and 8 at Suffolk st. 1819–80;
his first picture exhibited at the British institution sold
1819; resided at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent 1826–32; lived
at Rome and Naples 1837–9; associate of Society of painters in
water-colours Feb. 1843, member June 1854; member of the Etching
society 1853; nearly the last of the ideal school of landscape
painters; resided at Mead Vale, Redhill 1862 to death; his eight
pictures, illustrating Milton’s poems L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso
were exhibited at the Water-colour society 1868–82; seven of his
plates were published by the Etching club 1872–80; author of
English version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with illustrations
1883; he illustrated A. A. Procter’s Legends and lyrics 1866,
and The shorter poems of John Milton 1889; _m._ 1837 Hannah,
eld. dau. of John Linnell, the painter, she exhibited 8 Italian
views at the R.A. and B.I. 1840–2, and _d._ Nov. 1892 in 76
year; he _d._ Furze hill house, Mead Vale, Redhill 24 May 1881.
_bur._ Reigate old church 28 May; a collection of his works was
exhibited by Fine Art Society 1881, and 17 of his drawings were
lent to the winter exhibition of the R.A. 1893. _A. H. Palmer’s
Life and letters of S. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _S. Palmer,
a memoir by A. H. Palmer_ (1882) _portrait_; _P. G. Hamerton’s
Etching and etchers_ (1876) 325–38; _The Portfolio_ (1872)
161–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 616 (1881) _portrait_; _F. G. Stephens’
Notes on a collection of drawings by S. Palmer, with an account
of the Milton series_ (1881).
PALMER, SHIRLEY (son of Edward Palmer, solicitor). _b._
Coleshill, Warws. 27 Aug. 1786; educ. Coleshill gr. sch.
and Harrow; M.R.C.S. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1815; practised at
Tamworth, Staffs. 1807 to death, also at Birmingham from 1831;
edited with Wm. Shearman and James Johnson the New medical
and physical journal 1815–9; and with D. Uwins and S. F. Gray
the London medical repository 1819–21; author of The Swiss
exile, Lichfield 1804; Popular illustrations of medicine 1829;
Popular lectures on the vertebrated animals of the British
islands 1832; A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in
anatomy, physiology, pathology, practical medicine, &c. 1845.
_d._ Tamworth 11 Nov. 1852. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_
(1894) 345.
PALMER, SILAS (son of Mr. Palmer of 47 regt.) _b._ Stirling
castle 1815; educ. in medicine at Paris, Vienna, and Rome;
M.D. Edinb. 1836; L.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Speenhamland,
Newbury, Berks. 1846 to death; a leading authority on
archæological matters in Berks.; local sec. of congress of
British Archæological assoc. at Newbury in 1859; a founder of
the Newbury district field club 1870; contributed to Provincial
medical journal, to the Lancet, and to British Archæol. journal.
_d._ London road, Newbury 24 March 1875. _A rod taken out of
pickle, correspondence between J. Taylor and S. Palmer during
the late annual meeting at Newbury, Berks. 1860_; _Journal
British Archæol. assoc. xxxii_ 282–3 (1876).
PALMER, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I.
28 Oct. 1804, capt. 11 Jany. 1818; major 39 N.I. 30 Sept. 1827,
and lieut. col. 15 Oct. 1832 to 18 June 1834; lieut. col. of 21
N.I. 18 June 1834 to 1840, and of 27 N.I. 1840 to 16 April 1844;
col. of 72 N.I. 16 April 1844 to death; commanded at Delhi 13
June 1846 to 14 July 1851; commanded Cawnpore division 9 April
1852 to death. _d._ Mussoorie 15 April 1854.
PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffs.,
timber merchant). _b._ Rugeley, _baptised_ there 21 Oct.
1824; educ. Rugeley gr. school; apprenticed to Evans and
Sons, druggists, Liverpool, dismissed for opening letters;
apprenticed to Dr. Tylecote at Heywood, near Rugeley 1842;
studied at Stafford infirmary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital
1846, house surgeon 8 Sept. 1846, resigned Oct. 1846; M.R.C.S.
10 Aug. 1846; practised at Rugeley from 1846 for several years;
owner and breeder of racehorses 1850; won the Liverpool autumn
handicap with The Chicken Nov. 1855, this horse afterwards named
Vengeance won the Cesarewitch; _m._ 7 Oct. 1847 Ann, dau. of
colonel William Brookes, insured his wife’s life for £13,000,
she died of bilious cholera 25 Sept. 1854, when he was paid the
amount; insured his brother Walter Palmer’s life for £13,000,
he died suddenly 16 Aug. 1855, when the insurance office refused
to pay, on account of the suspicious circumstances; arrested 15
Dec. 1855 on the charge of poisoning his friend, John Parsons
Cooke, a betting man from Lutterworth, who _d._ 21 Nov. 1855 at
the Talbot arms, Rugeley; verdicts of wilful murder were found
against Palmer at the inquests on the exhumed bodies of his wife
and brother; tried at the Old Bailey before lord chief justice
Campbell 14–27 May 1856, found guilty of murder 27 May; _hanged_
outside Stafford gaol 14 June 1856, in the presence of 20,000
people; he had poisoned many persons 1850–6. _Illustrated life
of William Palmer_ (1856) _portraits_; _Central criminal court
proceedings xliv_ 5–225 (1856); _A. S. Taylor On poisoning by
strychnine_ (1856); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_
(1883) 84–232; _J. F. Stephen’s General view of the criminal
law of England_ (1890) 231–72; _J. F. Stephen’s History of
the criminal law iii_ 389–425 (1883); _Simms’s Bibliotheca
Staffordiensis_ (1894) 345–6; _Reynolds’s Miscellany xvi_ 377–9,
391–2 (1856) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxvi_ 110–14 (1856);
_Law Mag. and Law Review i_ 332–56 (1856); _I.L.N. xxviii_
560–4, 554–5, 566–7, 598–9, 694 (1856); _A.R._ (1856) 13, 60–62,
387–529; _Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 432–9 (1884).
PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of George Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex).
_b._ 9 Nov. 1802; educ. St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1828; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; had a large practice as a
conveyancer; professor of civil law at Gresham college, city of
London 1836 to death; author of An inquiry into the navigation
laws 1833; Discourse on the Gresham foundation, two introductory
lectures 1837; The law of wreck considered with a view to its
amendment 1843; Principles of the legal provision for the relief
of the poor 1844. _d._ 56 Eaton place, London 24 April 1858.
_Law Times xxxi_ 87, 101 (1858).
PALMER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, R.
of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 12 July 1811; educ.
Rugby and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 1826–32, fellow 1832–55, tutor
1838–43; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; tutor and censor and member of
the senate in univ. of Durham 1833–6; examiner in classical
schools at Oxford 1837–9; resided in Russia examining oriental
christianity 1840–1; sought admission to the Greek church, but
was refused 1841–52; received into church of Rome in chapel
of Roman college at Rome 27 Feb. 1855; resided at Rome 1855
to death; always known as Palmer of Magdalen; author of Aids
to reflection on the foundation of a Protestant bishopric at
Jerusalem, Oxford 1841; Short poems and hymns 1843; Harmony
of Anglican doctrine with the doctrine of the Eastern church,
Aberdeen 1846, translated into Greek 1851; An appeal to the
Scottish bishops and clergy, and generally to the church of
their communion. By N. N., deacon of the church of England,
Edinburgh 1849; Dissertations on subjects relating to the
orthodox or eastern-catholic communion 1853; Egyptian chronicles
with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, 2 vols. 1861;
Commentatio in Librum Danielis, Rome 1874; The Patriarch Nicon
and the Tsar, 6 vols. 1871–6. _d._ Piazza di Santa Maria in
Campitelli, Rome 5 April 1879. _bur._ cemet. of S. Lorenzo in
Campo Verano 8 April. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen
college vii_ 297–318 (1881); _Life of Leon Papin Dupont_ (1882)
55–64; _Contemporary Review May 1883 pp._ 636–59; _H. P.
Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii_ 287 (1893).
PALMER, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Palmer of St. Mary’s, Dublin,
_d._ 1865). _b._ 14 Feb. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1824; M.A. Oxf. 1829; incorporated at Magd. hall, Oxf. Oct.
1828, removed to Worcester coll. 1831; always known as Palmer
of Worcester; founded with Hurrell Froude and Hugh James Rose
the Association of friends of the church 1833; he wrote No. 15
of the Tracts for the Times 13 Dec. 1833, On the apostolical
succession in the English church, but it was revised and
completed by J. H. Newman; V. of Monkton-Wyld, Devon and Dorset
1846–69; V. of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Dorset, with Chideock,
Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, in Dorset and Wilts. 1846
to death; preb. of Salisbury 1849–58; claimed and assumed the
title of baronet on his father’s death 1865; author of Origines
liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual, 2 vols. Oxford
1832, 4 ed. 1845; A treatise on the church of Christ, 2 vols.
1838, 3 ed. 1842; A letter to N. Wiseman, D.D. (calling himself
bishop of Melipotamus) containing remarks on his letter to
Mr. Newman, Oxford 1841; A narrative of events connected with
the publication of Tracts for the times 1843, 4 ed. 1883; The
doctrine of development and conscience considered in relation
to the evidences of Christianity and of the Catholic system
1846; Results of the expostulations of W. E. Gladstone in their
relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism. By Umbra Oxoniensis
1875. _d._ London Oct. 1885. _J. H. Newman’s Essays_, _2 ed. i_
143–85, _ii_ 454 (1846); _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i_
263, _ii_ 146, 524, _iii_ 137, 485 (1893–95).
PALMER, WILLIAM ISAAC. _b._ Manor house, Elberton,
Gloucestershire 31 May 1824; educ. at a quaker school at Sidcot,
Somerset; signed the temperance pledge 1836; an apprentice at
Reading, then in Liverpool; one of the founders of the firm of
Huntley and Palmer, Reading Biscuit factory, the most extensive
manufactory in the United Kingdom, employing continuously
4,000 hands; gave £5,000 towards Reading municipal buildings;
connected with and contributed liberally to all the Reading
public institutions and libraries; presented with his portrait
19 March 1885; a great supporter of the Blue Ribbon movement and
the first to wear the ribbon 1882; for many years he conducted
a weekly gathering of the work people of Reading for a pleasant
Saturday evening. _d._ Hillside, Reading 4 Jany. 1893. _bur._
Friends’ ground 9 Jany. _Reading Mercury 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 5, _14
Jany. p._ 2; _Daily Graphic 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.
PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry
Temple, 2 viscount Palmerston 1739–1802). _b._ Park st.
Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, _bapt._ St. Margaret, Westminster
23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb.
M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April
1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov.
1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes;
M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard
Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the
election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Bletchingley
1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord
of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first
speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer
Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov.
1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April
1818, by lieut. David Davies, who _d._ of apoplexy at Bethlehem
hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov.
1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July
1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec.
1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime
minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18
Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon
whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27
March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the
Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals
of tours in France (1871). _d._ Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct.
1865. _bur._ north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will
proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. _Bulwer’s Life of viscount
Palmerston to 1847_, 3 _vols._ (1870) _portrait_; _Ashley’s
Life of viscount Palmerston_, 2 _vols._ (1879) _portrait_; _W.
H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc._, _New
York_ (1863) _pp._ 137–44; _The drawing room portrait gallery
of eminent personages_, _1st series_ (1859) _portrait_; _Justin
McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii_ 121–63 _and_ 259–94
(1879); _Rice’s History of the British turf i_ 319–22 (1879);
_Opinions and policy of viscount Palmerston, with a memoir
by George Henry Francis_ (1852); _The two great statesmen,
a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Russell and Viscount
Palmerston_ (1862); _Materials for the true history of Lord
Palmerston_ (1866); _Memoir by Edward Walford_ (1865); _Lord
Palmerston, a biography by John McGildrist_ (1865); _Life
and times of Lord Palmerston by J. Ewing Ritchie_ (1867);
_Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 163 _portrait_;
_Orators of the age by G. H. Francis_ (1847) 124–41; _Illust.
news of the world i_ (1858) _portrait_; _D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs
of parties_ (1859) 154–84; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches
4 ed._ (1876) 143–53; _G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of
British parliament_ (1880) 268–78; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 229–35
(1861) _portrait_; _The betrayal of England by Wm. Coningham_;
_The British cabinet in 1853 pp._ 70–113; _I.L.N. i_ 309 (1842)
_portrait_, _xvi_ 457 (1850) _portrait_; _Representative
statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii_ 294–355 (1879); _St. Stephens_. _By
Mask_ (1839) 164–72; _Malmesbury’s Memoirs_, 2 _vols._ (1884)
_passim_; _Sporting Review liv_ 317–20 (1865); _Sporting Times 9
May 1885 p._ 2; _W. Day’s Reminiscenses_, _2 ed._ (1886) 210–7;
_Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp._ 312–3, _double page portrait_;
_P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii_ 307–36 (1881).
NOTE.--Lord Palmerston was dismissed from the office of foreign sec. on
17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French
republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject.
_Ashley’s Life ii_ 193–228.
He had race horses in training from 1815. He first raced at Winchester
in 1816, with Luzborough he won small races in 1824, with Iliona he won
the queen’s plate at Guildford in 1840 and the Cesarewitch in 1841,
with Buckthorn the Ascot stakes in 1853. His horse Maidstone was a
favourite for the Derby in 1860. A member of the Jockey club 1845, he
frequently rode from London to the Derby race at Epsom, and in 1864
trotted from London to Harrow to hear the speeches, twelve miles in one
hour.
At his funeral in Westminster Abbey the Rev. H. Sullivan threw into the
grave several diamond and gold rings, as ‘a precious offering to the
dead.’ _Times 28 Oct. 1865 p._ 9.
PALMERSTON, EMILY MARY, Viscountess (1 dau. of Penistar Lamb,
1 viscount Melbourne, _d._ 1828). _b._ 21 April 1787; _m._
20 July 1805 Peter Leopold, 5 earl Cowper, who _d._ 27 June
1837; a leader of society; one of the first six patronesses
of Almacks when quadrilles were introduced 1813; _m._ (2) 16
Dec. 1839 Henry J., 3 viscount Palmerston, who _d._ 1865; her
houses at Panshanger park, Herts. and Cambridge house, London,
were frequented by the élite of society, including diplomatists
and politicians; resided later on at Brocket hall, Herts. and
Broadlands; on death of her brother Frederick, 3 viscount
Melbourne 1853, she inherited the family estates in Herts. and
Derbyshire. _d._ Brocket hall 11 Sept. 1869. _bur._ Westminster
abbey 17 Sept., will proved 22 Jany., resworn June 1870 under
£170,000. _A. Hayward’s Essays ii_ 293–302 (1873); _A.R._ (1869)
101; _Register and Mag. of Biography Oct. 1869 pp._ 189–90;
_Every Saturday viii_ 503 (1873).
PANIZZI, SIR ANTHONIO GENESIO MARIA (son of Luigi Panizzi of
Brescello in duchy of Modena). _b._ Brescello 16 Sept. 1797;
educ. Reggio and univ. of Parma 1814–8; practised as an advocate
1818; became a Carbonaro March 1820, arrested 22 Oct. 1822,
escaped and fled to Lugano, was sentenced to death 6 Oct. 1823
in his absence, having published a pamphlet entitled I Processi
di Rubiera, denouncing the Modenese government; came to London
May 1823; taught Italian in Liverpool to 1828; professor of
Italian at London univ. May 1828 to 1837, the univ. opened 1
Oct. 1828; assistant librarian in the British Museum 27 April
1831, keeper of the printed books 15 July 1837, principal
librarian 6 March 1856, procured an annual grant of £10,000
for the library 1845; submitted a design for the new reading
room to the trustees 5 May 1852, foundations were laid May 1854
and the building opened 2 May 1857; resigned librarianship 26
June 1866 on his full pay; naturalised 24 March 1832; received
cross of the legion of honour 24 Dec. 1851; received Sardinian
order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus Dec. 1855; a senator of the
Kingdom of Italy 12 March 1868; a commander of the order of
crown of Italy 22 April 1868; K.C.B. 27 July 1869; edited Works
of Ariosto 1818, Bojardo 1830, and Dante 1858; author of An
elementary Italian grammar for the use of students in the London
university 1828; Extracts from Italian prose writers 1828; On
the supply of printed books from the library to the reading
room of the British museum 1846; On the collection of printed
books at the British museum, its increase and arrangement 1845.
_d._ 31 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 April 1879. _bur._ St. Mary’s
catholic cemet. Kensal Green 12 April, bust by Marochetti and
portrait by Watts at British Museum. _L. Fagan’s Life of sir A.
Panizzi_, 2 _vols._ (1880) _portrait_; _R. Cowtan’s Biographical
sketch of sir A. Panizzi_ (1873); _F. Espinasse’s Literary
recollections_ (1893) 15–21; _L. Fagan’s reform club_ (1887)
125–6 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 369 (1879) _portrait_; _Graphic
xix_ 396 (1879) _portrait_; _Leisure Hour xxx_ 344 _portrait_.
PANMURE, WILLIAM MAULE, 1 Baron (2 son of George Ramsay, 8 earl
of Dalhousie, _d._ 15 Nov. 1787). _b._ 27 Oct. 1771; succeeded
to the greater part of the Panmure estates on death of his great
uncle Wm. earl of Panmure 4 Jany. 1782, when he assumed the name
of Maule; cornet 11 dragoons 10 Oct. 1788; raised an independent
company of foot, which was disbanded 1791; M.P. Forfarshire 25
April 1796 to 20 May 1796, and 24 June 1805 to 9 Sept. 1831, and
was a great supporter of Fox; a boon companion of George IV;
cr. baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar, co. Forfar, by letters
patent 10 Sept. 1831, on coronation of William IV; his dinner
parties were sometimes protracted to eighteen hours, when the
consumption of claret was enormous; gave considerable sums in
charity to Dundee and neighbouring towns. _d._ Brechin castle,
Forfarshire 13 April 1852, portrait in Dundee town hall. _G.M.
xxxvii_ 515 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 315 (1852); _Norrie’s Dundee
celebrities_ (1873) 136–9; _Times 16 April 1852 p._ 8.
PANOFKA, HEINRICH. _b._ Breslau 2 Oct. 1807; a singer and
violinist; gave concerts in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Paris
1827 etc.; came to London 1844; an assistant of Benjamin Lumley
at Her Majesty’s opera 1847; resided in London as a teacher of
music and singing to 1852; composer of The practical singing
tutor, 24 studies 1849; Twelve two part studies for soprano and
contralto 1850; Two romances for the violin and piano 1851; The
dear old Linden tree, a song 1852; The mountain flower, a song
1872; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music
1830–85. _d._ Carlsruhe or Florence 18 Nov. 1887. _Allgemeine
Deutsche biographie xxv_ 124 (1887).
PANTIN, THOMAS PINDEN (son of Thomas Pantin of St. Sepulchre’s,
London). _b._ 1792; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1827; R. of Westcote, Gloucs. 1828 to death; author of
Observations on certain passages in Dr. Arnold’s Christian duty
of granting the Roman Catholic claims, Lutterworth 1829; The
novelty of popery in matters of faith and practice 1837; The
church of England apostolical in its origin, episcopal in its
government, and scriptural in its belief 1849; edited G. Bull’s
The corruptions of the church of Rome 1836; and Stillingfleet’s
Origines Britannicæ, 2 vols. Oxford 1842. _d._ Westcote rectory
2 Sept. 1866.
PANTON, CHARLES. _b._ 1802; educ. Westminster; clerk in the Pipe
office in the exchequer 1819–33, when office was abolished;
clerk in the Queen’s Remembrancer’s office 1833, and chief clerk
1855 to Nov. 1879. _d._ 18 Woburn square, London 27 Sept. 1882.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29 Sept. _Law Times lxxiii_ 388
(1882).
PANTON, DAVID BROOKE. _b._ 1832; educ. Gonville and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; C. of Birnan Wood and St.
Andrew’s parish ch. Jamaica to 1884; R. of Mandeville and acting
archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica 1884 to death. _d._ Mandeville
14 Sept. 1891.
PANTON, WILLIAM. Surgeon Bengal army 23 June 1818; inspector
general of hospitals 16 Feb. 1844; surgeon general 15 Feb. 1845;
physician general 24 July 1848, retired 10 Feb. 1849. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 10 May 1858.
PAPAFFY, NICHOLAS. _b._ Hungary; alchemist; professed to have
an invention by which he could convert base metals into silver;
with bismuth, aluminium and other ingredients, a crucible and
a furnace he manipulated, in the presence of Barnet, Cox,
Cole, and co., and produced 10 pounds of silver; a company was
formed to work the patent, with offices at 104 Leadenhall st.
London, the inventor to receive £12 a week; having drawn £600 in
advance and raised £10,000 on bills in the name of the company,
he decamped 1860 and was not heard of afterwards. _Bell and
Redwood’s Progress of pharmacy_ (1880) 297.
PAPE, C. First clarionet in Crystal palace band 1855 to death.
_d._ 11 St. Hugh road, Anerley, Surrey 7 Sept. 1874.
PAPINEAU, LOUIS JOSEPH (son of Joseph Papineau, notary
1752–1841). _b._ Montreal 7 Oct. 1786; educ. Quebec seminary;
member for Kent of legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1809,
member for West ward of city of Montreal 1811; called to the bar
1811; served in the militia in the American war 1812; speaker of
the legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1815–37; denounced the
government in violent speeches 1837; attended the meeting held
at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, when armed rebellion was decided
on; fled to the U.S. of America 1837; resided in Paris 1839–47;
member of the Lower house of Canadian legislature 1847–54, was
paid £4,500 arrears of salary as speaker. _d._ Montebello,
Quebec 28 Sept. 1871. _L. O. David’s Ls.-Jos. Papineau_ (1872)
_portrait_; _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of Canadians_ (1862)
327–30; _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie i_ 352 _etc._,
_ii_ 13 _etc._ (1862); _S. Walpole’s History of England iii_
413–35 (1880); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 642 (1888)
_portrait_.
PAPWORTH, EDGAR GEORGE (only son of Thomas Papworth of London,
builder 1773–1814). _b._ 20 or 21 Aug. 1809; pupil of E. H.
Baily, R.A.; student at the R.A. 15 Dec. 1826, silver medallist
1829 and 1831, and gold medallist 1833, travelling student 1834;
exhibited a panorama of Rome at a gallery in Great Portland
st. about 1844; published Original sculptural designs executed
in Rome 1834–6, London 1840; exhibited 62 busts and statuettes
at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. 1832–60; his best
known works are Adam and Eve, The woman of Samaria, and The
Moabitish maiden; executed Bunyan’s memorial tomb in Bunhill
Fields; gained the third prize of £300 in the competition for
the Wellington monument for St. Paul’s cathedral 1857. _d._ 90
Milton st. Dorset sq. London 26 Sept. 1866. _bur._ Highgate
cemet.
PAPWORTH, GEORGE (3 son of John Papworth of London, builder
1750–99). _b._ 9 May 1781; exhibited 4 drawings at R.A.
1796–1803; an architect in Dublin 1812 to death; constructed
the King’s bridge, Dublin 1822–7; designed two Roman Catholic
churches in Dublin; built the Kilkenny lunatic asylum 1849, and
the museum of Irish industry, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1851;
architect to the ecclesiastical comrs. for province of Connaught
1837–42; architect to Dublin and Drogheda railway and to the
Royal bank, Dublin; member of royal Hibernian academy 1831,
treasurer 1849; introduced into Ireland external decoration in
architectural design especially in private houses. _d._ Dublin
14 March 1855.
PAPWORTH, JOHN WOODY (elder son of John Papworth, architect
1775–1847). _b._ 4 March 1820; secretary to the council of
the government school of design, Somerset House, opened 1
June 1837; associate of Institute of British architects 1841,
a fellow 1846; made designs for glass, pottery, terra cotta,
paper hangings and other art manufactures; designed the carpet
presented by 150 ladies to the queen, exhibited at great
exhibition of 1851; designed the Albert Institution, Gravel
Lane; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1837–51; author of An
alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families
in Great Britain and Ireland upon a new plan 1874; author with
his brother, Wyatt A. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in
the Italian style, selected from the designs of Raffaello in
the Vatican 1844; Museums, libraries, and picture galleries,
their establishment, formation, arrangement, and architectural
construction 1853; contributed papers to the Architectural
Publication society. _d._ 13 Hart st. Bloomsbury sq. London 6
July 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _Dict. of architecture vi
p._ 39 (1881); _Builder 16 July 1870 pp._ 559–60.
PAPWORTH, THOMAS. Wrote poetry; author of Letter of
recommendation, a romance of the Levant by Frank P. Worth, 2
vols. 1870. _d._ Smyrna Feb. 1871.
PAPWORTH, WYATT ANGELICUS VAN SANDAU (brother of John Woody
Papworth). _b._ London 23 Jany. 1822; employed by the comrs.
of sewers for Westminster; assistant surveyor to the Alliance
assurance company June 1866, sole surveyor, retired on a pension
1887, designed and erected a branch office at Ipswich; member
of the clothworker’s company, junior and senior warden 1879–81,
master 1889; founded the Architectural publication society
for the production of detached essays and illustrations 1848;
edited and compiled Dictionary of explanation and reference,
brought out in parts May 1853 to April 1892, making 11 vols.
at cost of nearly £10,000; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, member of council
many years; curator of sir John Soane’s museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, London Jany. 1893 to death, rewrote catalogue of the
museum and brought out a new edition of the General description;
edited Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of architecture, 2 ed. 1867, 3 ed.
1876 and 4 ed. 1889; author with his brother, J. W. Papworth,
of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style 1844, and of
Museums, libraries, and picture galleries 1853; author alone
of J. B. Papworth, a brief record of his life and works 1879;
Memoir of A. W. W. Morant 1881; The renaissance and Italian
style of architecture in Great Britain 1883. _d._ the Soane
museum, London 19 Aug. 1894. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 Aug.
PARADISE, JOHN. _b._ 1812; editor of Lincoln Rutland and
Stamford Mercury. _d._ 24 St. Mary st. Stamford 29 Jany. 1887.
PARDEY, JOHN QUIN. _b._ 17 Feb. 1796; ensign 66 foot 18
July 1811; ensign royal staff corps 22 Oct. 1811, lieut. 17
Dec. 1812; in Spain 1813 in connection with quartermaster
general’s department, engaged in constructing the rope bridge
at Alcantara; present at Vittoria, San Sebastian and Toulouse
1813–4; aided in restoring French bridges 1814; war medal and
clasp; received Decoration du Lis 1819; captain 53 foot 9 July
1830; paymaster 12 Feb. 1836, placed on h.p. 1 May 1844; served
at Gibraltar, Malta, and Ionian islands; adjutant of auxiliary
forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. _d._ 12 Sion hill, Bath 17
March 1887.
PARDOE, JULIA S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal
waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). _b._
Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided
in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols.
1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833;
Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3
vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the
Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854;
The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the
Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839,
reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The
romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of
the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The
Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty
woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858;
Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century,
3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties,
3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis,
king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3
vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3
vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady
Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home,
tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor
relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history
during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life
struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La
Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of
the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven
authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list
pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. _d._ at her lodgings, Upper
Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi_
323–4 (1849) _portrait_; _S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record_, _2
ed._ (1855) 765 _portrait_; _Eclectic Mag. xlii_ 135–6 (1857)
_portrait_; _Godey’s Lady book xlvii_ 344 (1853); _J. Pardoe’s
Beauties of the Bosphorus_ (1839) _portrait_.
PARDON, CHARLES FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 28
March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press
Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to
his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting
agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack,
under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886;
an original member of London press club and president Jany.
1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and
the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist
1888. _d._ 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London
18 April 1890. _Sell’s World’s Press_ (1891) 83 _portrait_;
_London Figaro 26 April 1890 p._ 10 _portrait_.
PARDON, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ London 1824; sub-editor of the
Evening Star 1841–2; on staff of European mail 1870; projected
the Illustrated exhibitor 1852, a weekly description of the
exhibition; projected and edited the Popular educator and other
publications for John Cassell; he edited The people’s and
Howitt’s journal 1847–50; The quarterly magazine of the order
of Odd Fellows 1858; The Working man’s friend 1850; The family
friend and the home companion 1854–5; The literary gift book
1858; Tales from the opera 1858; B. Taylor’s A visit to India
1860; Hoyle’s Games modernized 1863; The London magazine, vols.
2 and 3 1876–7; author of The juvenile museum by Quiet George
1850; The Christmas tree 1856; The faces in the fire 1856; The
months 1858; Games for all seasons 1858, 2 ed. 1868; Stories
about animals and birds, 2 vols. 1858; Dogs, their sagacity,
instinct, and use 1857, 2 ed. 1877; Boldheart the warrior 1859;
Handbooks of chess, whist, draughts, and billiards, 4 vols.
1860–2; A guide to the international exhibition 1862, 20th
thousand 1862; The card player 1863; The popular guide to London
1862, 2 ed. 1866; Parlour pastimes 1868; Noble by heritage,
a novellette 1877; under the name of Rawdon Crawley he wrote
17 works, but many of these seem to be same as those under his
own name, Billiards, its theory and practice 1857, 10 ed. 1876;
Backgammon 1858; Cricket 1866; Croquet 1866; Gymnastics 1868;
The book of manly games for boys 1873; Bezique 1876. _d._ Fleur
de Lis hotel, Canterbury 5 Aug. 1884. _Bookseller Sept. 1884 p._
907; _Illust. sporting news v_ 381 (1866) _portrait_.
PARE, WILLIAM (son of John Pare cabinetmaker). _b._ Birmingham
1805; apprenticed to his father; became a reporter; kept a
tobacconist’s shop in New st. Birmingham; an original member of
council of the Political Union 1830; secretary of the Reformer’s
registration society 1835; the first registrar of Birmingham
under the act legalising civil marriages 1837–42; a member of
the first town council of Birmingham 1830; a founder of the
first Birmingham co-operative society 1828, presided at the
anniversary 28 Dec. 1829; lectured in support of co-operation at
Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, one of the secretaries
of the co-operative congresses 1830–8; vice-president of Robert
Owen’s society The Association of all classes of all nations
to 1840; acting governor of Owen’s community at Queenwood,
Hampshire 1842–4; a railway statist in London 1844–6; resided
near Dublin and managed ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool,
and Chepstow 1846–65; literary executor of Robert Owen 1858,
presided at the Owen centenary 1871; edited Wm. Thompson’s
Inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most
conducive to human happiness, 2 ed. 1850; author of The claims
of capital and labour, with a sketch of practical measures for
their conciliation 1854; A plan for the suppression of the
predatory classes 1862; Co-operative agriculture, a solution of
the land question as exemplified in the history of the Ralahine
co-operative association, co. Clare, Ireland 1870. _d._ at his
son’s house, Ruby lodge, Park hill, Croydon 18 June 1873. _bur._
Shirley churchyard, near Croydon 23 June. _Holyoake’s History
of Co-operation_ (1875) _passim_; _Holyoake’s Sixty years of an
agitator’s life i_ 40, 41, 77, 141 (1893); _Bunce’s History of
the corporation of Birmingham i_, 109, 113, 131, 145, 155, 158,
245, 289 (1878).
PAREPA-ROSA, EUPHROSYNE (dau. of baron Georgiades de Boyesku, a
Wallachian noble, _d._ about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer,
_d._ 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). _b._ Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil
of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta
1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence,
Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at
the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritani; played Camille
in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several
years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La
reine Topaze in Massé’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in
Macfarren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860
and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S.
of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa
English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in
Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided
at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera,
Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half
octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; _m._ (1) Dec. 1863
captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde
park, London, he _d._ Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; _m._ (2) in New
York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, _b._ 22 March 1842,
he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and
_d._ 30 April 1889; she _d._ 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale,
London 21 Jany. 1874. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 26 Jany. _The
Western monthly iii_ 213–21 (1870); _Musical World_ (1873) 113,
265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, _&c._; _Graphic ix_ 124, 131 (1874)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 129 (1874) _portrait_; _Orchestra 23
Jany. 1874 p._ 266, _30 Jany._ pp. 281–2.
PARES, THOMAS. _b._ Leicester 30 Oct. 1790; educ. Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb.; M.P. Leicester 1818–26; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1818;
sheriff of Derbyshire 1845. _d._ Hopwell hall, near Derby 26
April 1866.
PARFITT, EDWARD (son of Edward Parfitt 1800–75, gardener to lord
Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk). _b._ East Tuddenham,
Norfolk 17 Oct. 1820; gardener with his father; gardener
to Anthony Gwyn, Sennow lodge, Norfolk; while on a voyage
shipwrecked near Cape of Good Hope; gardener to John Milford,
Conver house, Exeter Nov. 1848 to 1860; studied plants, insects,
geology, and palæontology, and wrote in Trans. of Devonshire
association, Annals and mag. of natural history, Entomological
mag., the Naturalist, Trans. Royal microscopical soc., Bath and
West of England journal, and the Zoologist; curator of Somerset
Archæological and natural history soc. at Taunton 1860–1;
librarian of Devon and Exeter institute, Exeter 26 Jany. 1861
to death; published The fauna of Devon, 22 parts 1866–91; left
in M.S. The fungi of Devonshire, 12 vols., illustrated by 1,530
plates, drawn and painted by himself. d. at the Devon and Exeter
institution, Cathedral close, Exeter 15 Jany. 1893. _N. and Q.
30 Sept. 1893 p._ 262; _Natural Science_, _April 1893_.
PARHAM, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Benjamin Parham of Ashburton,
Devon 1769–1851). _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827;
went Western circuit; judge of county courts, circuit 23,
Worcestershire March 1847, resigned Oct. 1859. _d._ Chelstone
manor house, Torquay 16 Aug. 1861. _County Court chronicle Oct.
1861 p._ 266; _Law Times xxxvi_ 523 (1861).
PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT D’ ORLEANS, Comte de (elder son
of Ferdinand, duc d’Orleans 1810–42). _b._ Pavilion Marsan,
the Tuileries, Paris 24 Aug. 1838; became heir to the French
throne 13 July 1842; a refugee in England 1849; confirmed by
cardinal Wiseman at French ch. Portman sq. London 1849; resided
in Devonshire 1852; visited the East 1860, and U.S. of America
1861; permitted to return to France 1872, and had some of his
estates restored to him; banished from France and returned to
England June 1886; conspired with general Boulanger in London
March 1889; leased Stowe house, Bucks. from trustees of duke of
Buckingham 1873; received large sum of money by will of duke de
Galliera; _m._ in R.C. chapel at Kingston 30 May 1864 his cousin
Marie Isabella, dau. of the duke de Montpensier; author of The
trades’ unions of England 1869; History of the civil war in
America 1875. _d._ Stowe house, Bucks. 8 Sept. 1894. _bur._ R.C.
chapel, Weybridge 12 Sept. _Illustrated Times 4 June 1864 p._
361, _view of marriage_; _Times 10 Sept. 1894 p._ 4; _Saturday
Review 26 Dec. 1891 pp._ 716–7; _A.R._ (1894) 178–81; _I.L.N. 15
Sept. 1894 pp._ 333, 339–47 _portraits and views of Stowe house_.
PARIS, JOHN AYRTON (son of Thomas Paris of Cambridge). _b._
Cambridge 7 Aug. 1785; entered Caius coll. Camb. 30 June 1803,
scholar Oct. 1803 to 1808; Tancred student in physic 3 Jany.
1804; M.B. 1808, M.D. 1813; physician to Westminster hospital
1809–13; practised at Penzance 1813–7, chief founder and
first secretary of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall
1814–17, contributed many papers to its Transactions; returned
to London 1817, practised at 27 Dover st. Piccadilly 1818 to
death; lectured on materia medica in Windmill st. 1818, etc.;
candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sept. 1813, fellow 30 Sept. 1814,
censor 1817, 1828, 1836 and 1843, lectured at the college on
materia medica 1819–26, Harveian orator 1833, president 20
March 1844 to death, Swiney prizeman 20 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 21
June 1821; author of Pharmacologia 1812, 9 ed. 1843, by which
he made £5,000; A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End 1815,
2 ed. 1824; A memoir of the life and scientific labours of
the Rev. William Gregor 1818; Medical jurisprudence 1823; The
elements of medical chemistry 1825; A treatise on diet 1827,
5 ed. 1837; Philosophy in sport made science in earnest 1827,
8 ed. 1857; The life of Sir Humphry Davy 1831. _d._ 27 Dover
st. London 24 Dec. 1856. _bur._ Woking cemet. _Munk’s College
of physicians iii_ 120 (1878); _Lives of British physicians_
(1857) 369–87; _Munk’s Goldheaded cane_ (1884) 186–90, 196–219;
_The Bibliographer i_ 65–7 (1882), _this a key to Philosophy in
sport_.
PARISH, JAMES. Champion of the Thames; a member of Waterman’s
hall; the coxswain and trainer of the Leander club; kept the
Lion public house 1 Newcastle st. Strand, London 1852 to death.
_d._ 1861. _Diprose’s Parish of Saint Clement Danes i_ 110
(1868).
PARISH, JOHN EDWARD (2 son of succeeding). _b._ 1823; educ.
Naval coll. Portsmouth; entered R.N. 1836, commander 1857,
captain 25 March 1863, retired 11 July 1876, R.A. 11 Dec. 1878;
commander of the Ardent in Brazil 1859–61; refused to give up
the ex-president of the Argentine government when received on
board the Ardent in the Parana, the English government approved
of his conduct; captain of the Satellite 1862; commanded the
Sphinx on North American station 1873; good service pension of
£150, 1875; retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884. _d._ Beech hill, Headley
22 Jany. 1894.
PARISH, SIR WOODBINE (eld. son of Woodbine Parish). _b._
14 Sept. 1796; educ. at Eton; entered foreign office 1812,
sent to Sicily 1814, to Naples 1815, then to Paris; was with
lord Castlereagh at meeting of the allied sovereigns at
Aix-la-Chapelle 1818; comr. and consul general at Buenos Ayres
1823; concluded a treaty of amity and commerce 2 Feb. 1825,
chargé d’ affaires 1825–32, when the government presented him
with letters of citizenship and a diploma to take and bear the
arms of the republic for himself and his descendants; K.C.H.
1832; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837;
sent to Naples as chief comr. to settle the British claims
upon the Neapolitan government in consequence of the sulphur
monopoly 17 Nov. 1840; joint plenipotentiary with sir Wm.
Temple to make a new commercial treaty with the king of Naples
1842, treaty signed 1845; F.R.S. 4 March l824; F.G.S. 1832;
F.R.G.S., vice-president many years; author of Buenos Ayres and
the provinces of Rio de la Plata 1838. _d._ Quarry house, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 16 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Fairlight cemet. Hastings
22 Aug. _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxix_ 39 (1883);
_Proc. of royal Geol. Soc. iv_ 612 (1882); _Conduct of the
consul-general Mr. Parish to J. Oughgan in Buenos Ayres_ (1824).
PARK, ALEXANDER ATHERTON (younger son of sir James Allan Park,
judge 1763–1838). _b._ 1802; educ. Harrow 1813–9, and at Balliol
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 May 1827;
went Midland circuit; prothonotary and master of court of common
pleas 1837 to death. _d._ Heddon house, Isleworth, Twickenham 21
Nov. 1871. _Law Times lii_ 90 (1871).
PARK, ANDREW. _b._ Renfrew 7 March 1807; educ. Glasgow univ.; in
a warehouse in Paisley 1826; salesman in a hat manufactory in
Glasgow 1827; began business on his own account 1828; resided
in London to 1840; a bookseller, Ingram st. Glasgow 1841 for a
short time; visited Egypt 1856; author of A vision of mankind,
Glasgow 1833; The bridegroom and the bride 1834; Blindness
1839; Miscellaneous poems 1844; Silent love. By James Wilson,
druggist, Paisley 1843, re-issued 1845; Veritas 1849; Beauty
1853; The poetical works of A. Park 1854; Egypt and the East
1857; The world 1862; several of his lyrics have been set to
music by Auber, Donizetti and others. _d._ Glasgow 27 Dec. 1863.
_bur._ Paisley cemet. 2 Jany. 1864, memorial monument erected
7 March 1867. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii_
289–92 (1877); _C. Rogers’s Scottish minstrel v_ 248–57 (1857);
_Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 92.
PARK, JOHN (son of John Park, wine merchant). _b._ Greenock 14
Jany. 1804; educ. at Aberdeen and at Glasgow univ.; licensed as
a probationer 1831; assistant at West church, Greenock, and then
at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire; minister of Rodney st. presbyterian
church, Liverpool 1832–43; minister of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire
1843–54; minister at St. Andrews 1854 to death; D.D. St. Andrews
1854; composed O gin I were where Gadie rins, Montgomery’s
mistress, The miller’s daughter, and other popular airs; author
of Lectures and sermons, Edinburgh 1865; A Greenockian’s visit
to Wordsworth 1887. _d._ suddenly from paralysis at St. Andrew’s
8 April 1865. _bur._ in grounds of St. Andrew’s cathedral.
_Songs composed and in part written by the late Rev. John Park_,
_Leeds_ (1876), _with memoir and portrait_; _D. H. Edwards’s
Modern Scottish Poets_ (1889).
PARK, PATRIC (3 child of Matthew Park, mason and builder). _b._
Glasgow 12 Feb. 1811; apprenticed to Mr. Connell, a builder
1826–9; employed by Gillespie, the architect 1829–31; pupil
of Thorwalsden, the sculptor, in Rome 1831–3; executed the
full-length statue of Michael Thomas Sadler, exhibited at the
R.A. 1837 and erected in Leeds 1841, and the colossal statue of
Charles Tennant in the Glasgow necropolis; resided in Edinburgh
1848–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1849,
R.S.A. Feb. 1851, exhibited nearly 90 works in the R.S.A.
1839–56; modelled a colossal statue of Wallace at Edinb. about
1850; executed a bust of Napoleon III in Paris 1854, which is
at South Kensington museum; exhibited 54 sculptures at R.A., 8
at B.I., and 29 at Suffolk st. 1836–55; author of On the use
of drapery in portrait sculpture, privately printed 1846. _d._
Warrington, Lancs. 16 Aug. 1855. _G.M. ii_ 451–8 (1884).
PARKE, THOMAS ADAMS. _b._ 1781; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 May 1795,
colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the
sovereign 21 Aug. 1835 to 11 Nov. 1851; general 6 Feb. 1857;
C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. _d._ Hythe, near Southampton 3 Sept. 1858.
PARKE, THOMAS HEAZLE (2 son of Wm. Parke, justice of the
peace). _b._ Clogher house, Drumsna, co. Roscommon 27 Nov.
1857; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1878, hon. F.R.C.S. 1890; L.K. and
Q.C.P. Ireland and licentiate in midwifery 1879; surgeon to the
Eastern dispensary at Bath; surgeon in army medical department
Feb. 1881; served in the Tel-el-Kebir campaign of 1882; senior
medical officer at the Helouan cholera camp near Cairo 1883;
served in the Nile expedition 1884–5, and went with the column
across the Bayuda desert to rescue Gordon; served at the battles
of Abu Klea and Gubat; went with H. M. Stanley as a volunteer to
the Congo forest for the relief of Emin Pasha 1887–8, returned
to England May 1890; hon. D.C.L. Durham 1890; granted the gold
medals of royal geographical societies of London and Antwerp
1890; received the orders of the Medjidie and the Brilliant
star of Zanzibar; attached to the 2 lifeguards in London 1890;
employed at royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1891; author of
Report to the war office on the cholera outbreak in Egypt 1883;
Evidence before the vaccination commission 1890; My experiences
in Equatorial Africa 1891; A guide to health in Africa, with
notes on the country and its inhabitants 1893; and of articles
in periodicals. _d._ while on a visit to the duke of St.
Albans at Alt-na-Craig in Argyleshire 10 Sept. 1893. _bur._ at
Kilmessan, co. Leitrim 16 Sept. _Graphic 16 Sept. 1893 p._ 351
_portrait_; _Westminster Budget 15 Sept. 1893 p._ 29 _portrait_.
NOTE.--An oil portrait by Miss Ffolliott is in the masonic lodge,
Boyle, co. Roscommon, but is to be removed to the Parke memorial, being
erected at Carrick-on-Shannon. A fund has also been opened to erect a
statue of Parke in Dublin.
PARKE, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Roger Parke of Dunally, co.
Sligo, lieut. col. of Sligo militia). _b._ March 1779; ensign
53 foot 14 Dec. 1791; major 2 foot 27 June 1811; major 66 foot
5 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1817, when placed on h.p.; served in
the West Indies, Egypt, Holland, the Peninsula, Walcheren, and
St. Helena; wounded in battle of Corunna; sheriff of co. Sligo
twice; knighted by marquess of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland
1836. _d._ Dunally, Sligo 1 Sept. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 453 (1851).
PARKE, WILLIAM (son of James Parke). _b._ Churchgates of
Brewood, Staffordshire 23 March 1797; educ. Brewood gram.
sch.; apprenticed to Mr. Smart, bookseller and printer, High
Green, Wolverhampton 1812–8, partner in the business 1828, sole
proprietor 1833 to death; part proprietor of Wolverhampton
chronicle 1831–2; a great friend of Harrison Ainsworth from
1872; exercised great hospitality to literary men; known as the
Murray of Wolverhampton; warden of Wolverhampton collegiate ch.
1856 to death. _d._ the Deanery, Wolverhampton 10 June 1876.
_bur._ Brewood 15 June. _W. Parke, a sketch by J. B. Brodhurst_,
_Wolverhampton_ (1876).
PARKER, CHARLES. _b._ 1800; pupil of sir Jeffrey Wyatville;
studied in Italy many years; architect in London about 1830;
designed Messrs. Hoare’s bank in Fleet st., the Italian Roman
Catholic church at Kingston, Surrey, and the chapel in Stamford
st. Blackfriars 1830–2; F.R.I.B.A. 1834, retired 15 Nov. 1869,
contributed many papers to the sessional meetings; F.S.A. 9
Jany. 1834, withdrew 1844; steward and surveyor to duke of
Bedford’s London property 1859–69; became totally blind;
author of Villa rustica, selected from the buildings and scenes
in the vicinity of Rome and Florence, and arranged for rural
and domestic dwellings 1832, 2 ed. 1848. _d._ 48 Park road,
Haverstock hill, London 9 Feb. 1881.
PARKER, SIR CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 5 Baronet (3 son of
vice-admiral Christopher Parker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Harley st.
London 16 June 1792; entered navy June 1804; commander of the
Harlequin on the coast of Ireland 1819–22; captain 23 April
1822, retired R.A. 7 Oct. 1852, retired admiral 27 April 1863;
succeeded his brother, sir J. E. G. Parker, as baronet 18 Nov.
1835. _d._ Clifton 13 March 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_
387–8, 524 (1869).
PARKER, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Second lieut. R.M. 23 Sept. 1811,
lieut. colonel 13 Dec. 1852, colonel commandant 6 Feb. 1857;
retired on full pay as major general 24 Feb. 1858; war medal
with one clasp, and the cross of the Tower and sword of
Portugal. _d._ Park villa, Charlotte st. Park st. Bristol 8 June
1875.
PARKER, FRANKE. _b._ 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827,
M.A. 1831; C. of Sampford Peverell, Devon 1829–31; C. of
Starcross, Devon 1831–2; R. of Luffincott, near Launceston 30
Jany. 1838 to death; author of The church, with a chart 1851;
Chronology, 2 vols. 1858; The Parian chronicle subversive of the
common chronology 1859; Replies to the first and second part
of the bishop of Natal’s Pentateuch 1863, and Replies to the
third and fourth part 1864; A light thrown upon Thucydides to
illustrate the prophecy of Daniel 1865; The Athenian year and
its bearing on the eclipses of Thucydides and Ptolemy and the
metonic cycle 1866. _d._ Luffincott rectory 3 April 1883.
PARKER, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Wm. George Parker,
2 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ 1813; educ. at Addiscombe; cadet
Bengal army 1833; lieut. 74 Bengal N.I. 30 Jany. 1837, captain
3 Oct. 1845 to death; superintendent of Akbara and joint
magistrate at Meerut 10 June 1847 to June 1852; succeeded his
brother as 3 baronet 24 March 1848; returned to India Dec. 1854;
superintendent of Akbara and magistrate at Cawnpore 5 May 1856
to death; major in the army June 1857. _d._ of sunstroke during
the sortie from Cawnpore 6 July 1857. _Malleson’s History of the
Indian mutiny ii_ 228 (1889).
PARKER, GEORGE (3 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent
1772–1861). _b._ 1 April 1804; educ. Charterhouse 1818 etc.;
solicitor at Lewisham 1831–63; gave £2,000 towards restoration
of nave of Lewisham parish church; built at his own cost church
of St. George’s, Perry Hill, Greenwich 1878–80. _d._ Lewisham
house, 224 High st. Lewisham 10 March 1889.
PARKER, GEORGE CHARLES (son of a captain in the marines). _b._
Havant, Hants. 19 Feb. 1836; midshipman H.E.I.C.S. 3 April 1853
to 30 April 1863, retired as a lieut. and was transferred to the
Indian marine, captain 1883; served in the China wars 1856–7 and
1860; in naval brigade in Indian mutiny 1857–8; port officer at
Carwar 1863; master attendant at Karáchi 1873, where he aided
in improving the port; raised and formed the Karáchi brigade of
naval volunteers; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ at sea on
his voyage to England 15 Nov. 1890. _Min. of Proc. of Instit.
C.E. civ_ 318–20 (1891).
PARKER, GEORGE HARGREAVE. Educ. St. Bees theol. coll.; C. of
Anstey, Leics. 1838; C. of Grooby 1841; V. of St. Andrew’s,
Bethnal Green, London 1843 to death; edited Juliana’s Sixteen
revelations of divine love 1843; J. Eaton’s The true doctrine of
baptism 1850; author of Letters on the great revolution of 1848,
1848. _d._ 3 Grove st. South Hackney, London 18 April 1864.
PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (son of Robert Parker of Devonport,
drawing master). _b._ Devonport 15 March 1795; a portrait
painter at Plymouth 1815, and at Newcastle 1816; secretary of
the Northumberland institution, Newcastle, for the promotion
of the fine arts 1822; became known as ‘Smuggler Parker’ from
his pictures of smugglers; gave his picture of the rescue of
John Wesley from the fire at Epworth in 1709 to the Wesleyan
conference 1840, to be placed in the centenary hall, London;
exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I., and 23 at Suffolk
st. 1817–63; drawing master at Wesley college, Sheffield
1840–4; resided in London 1844 to death; author of Critiques
on paintings, together with a few slight etchings showing the
compositions, Newcastle 1835. _d._ 1 Blenheim villa, Goldhawk
road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 11 Nov. 1873. _Walford’s Men of
mark twixt Tyne and Tweed iii_ 249 (1895); _Newcastle Weekly
chronicle 22 Aug. 1891 portrait, and 3–8 Nov. 1894_; _I.L.N. 23
May 1874 p._ 493 _portrait_.
PARKER, HENRY PERROTT (son of Joseph Parker). _b._ Upton
Cheyney, Gloucestershire 21 Sept. 1852; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1875; at Church missionary coll. Islington; C. of
Holy Trinity, Exeter 1876–8; sec. of Church missionary soc. and
chaplain to bishop of Calcutta 1878; missionary at Urgui, Africa
1882; bishop of the church of England in Eastern Equatorial
Africa Oct. 1886, consecrated 14 Oct. _d._ in the Unyoro country
to the south east of the Albert Nyanza 26 March 1888. _Times 15
Oct. 1886 p._ 9, _19 Oct. p._ 7, _2 May 1888 pp._ 7, 11.
PARKER, HENRY WALTER. _b._ 9 Oct. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’
sch. 1820 etc.; barrister G.I. 15 June 1832, went home circuit;
assistant sec. poor law board 9 April 1836 to 21 April 1839;
author of The rise, progress, and present state of Van Diemen’s
land 1833; Letters to sir James Graham on the proceedings
connected with Andover union 1845; A digest of the laws relating
to the relief of the poor 1849. _d._ Adelaide 1874.
PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (4 son of Thomas Watson Parker of
Lewisham, Kent). _b._ Lewisham 1808; private secretary to sir
George Gipps, governor of New South Wales 1838–46; member of
legislative council of N.S.W. 8 Dec. 1848 to 1856, chairman of
committees 17 May 1849; member for Paramatta of legislative
assembly 1856; contested the speakership 1856, when beaten by
one vote; premier 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sept. 1857; knighted at
Buckingham palace 7 May 1858; resided in England about 1859 to
death; contested Greenwich against W. E. Gladstone 18 Nov. 1868;
K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; a comr. for the exhibitions held at Sydney
1880 and Melbourne 1881. _d._ Stawell house, Richmond, Surrey 2
Feb. 1881.
PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (son of John Goodhand Parker of
Kingston-upon Hull). _b._ 1825; admitted solicitor Nov. 1853;
partner with Fred. Clarke 1857–81; head of firm of Parker,
Garrett, and Parker, St. Michael’s rectory, Cornhill. London
1881 to death; a royal comr. on Loss of life at sea 1884–7;
member of council of Incorporated law society 20 Aug. 1873, V.P.
1885–6, and president 1886–7; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887.
_d._ 10 Rosslyn hill, Hampstead, London 31 May 1894. _bur._ St.
Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 5 June. _Solicitor’s Journal
9 June 1894 p._ 527.
PARKER, HYDE (eld. son of admiral sir Hyde Parker 1739–1807).
_b._ about 1782; entered royal naval academy 5 Feb. 1796; a
volunteer on board the Cambrian, Sept. 1799; captain 13 Oct.
1807; extra naval aide-de-camp to Wm. 4, 5 Sept. 1831; C.B. 18
April 1839; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral superintendent Portsmouth
4 Aug. 1842 to 15 Dec. 1847; V.A. 4 June 1852; one of lords’
comrs. of the admiralty 30 Dec. 1852 to death. _d._ Ham, Surrey
25 May 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 76 (1854).
PARKER, SIR HYDE, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Harry Hyde Parker, 5
Bart., _d._ 1812). _b._ 1785; succeeded his brother, sir William
Parker, 6 Bart. 21 April 1830; M.P. West Suffolk 1832–5. _d._
Government house, Devonport 21 March 1856. _G.M. xlv_ 519 (1856).
PARKER, SIR JAMES (son of Charles Steuart Parker of Blochairn,
near Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1803; educ. Glasgow gr. sch. and
college, and Trin. coll. Camb., seventh wrangler 1825; B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1829. bencher 1844 to
death; went northern circuit; Q.C. July 1844; vice-chancellor
8 Oct. 1851 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851;
member of the chancery commission 11 Dec. 1850; contested
Leicester 30 July 1847. _d._ Rothley Temple, Leics. 13 Aug.
1852. _Foss’s Judges ix_ 233–5 (1864); _Law Mag. xlviii_ 321–2
(1852).
PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Netherton Parker of Sweeney
hall, Shropshire, _d._ 1854). _b._ 3 Oct. 1798; educ. Eton and
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825; R. of Llanmarewic,
Montgomeryshire 1827–44, added a tower and south porch to his
church; designed the church and vaulted apse of Trinity church,
Oswestry 1835; V. of Llan-y-Blodwell, Shropshire 1844 to death,
rebuilt the church at his own cost and from his own designs
and carved the altar-piece himself; local secretary of the
Cambrian archæological association; author of The Passengers
[a dialogue between three tourists in North Wales] 1831. _d._
Llan-y-Blodwell vicarage 13 Aug. 1860. _G.M. Dec. 1860 pp._
675–8.
PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Parker of High Wycombe, Bucks.) _b._
1801; solicitor at High Wycombe 1823–80; town clerk 40 years;
clerk to the bench of magistrates many years; registrar of
Wycombe county court; author of A brief history of the church of
Christ in Crendon lane meeting house, Chipping Wycombe 1848; The
early history and antiquities of Wycombe 1878. _d._ High Wycombe
22 Dec. 1880. _Solicitor’s Journal xxv_ 183 (1881).
PARKER, JOHN (eld. son of Hugh Parker of Tickhill, near
Doncaster, _d._ 1861). _b._ Woodthorpe, near Sheffield 21 Oct.
1799; educ. Repton school and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820,
M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; M.P. Sheffield 15 Dec.
1832 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 18 July 1837 to 23
June 1841; first secretary of the admiralty 9 June to 10 Sept.
1841, and 21 May 1849 to 3 March 1852; joint-secretary of the
treasury 7 July 1846 to 22 May 1849; P.C. 24 Oct. 1854. _d._
71 Onslow square, London 5 Sept. 1881. _bur._ Healaugh, near
Tadcaster 9 Sept. _Law Times lxxi_ 366 (1881); _Chapters in the
political history of Sheffield_ (1884).
PARKER, JOHN. _b._ 1822; huntsman of the Sinnington hunt, Malton
1853, retired 1890; subscription raised for him by editor of
Vanity Fair, April 1890. _d._ 14 Nov. 1890. _St. Stephens Review
24 May 1890 pp._ 15–16 _portrait_, _22 Nov. p._ 15 _portrait_;
_W. S. Dixon’s In the North countree_ (1889) 137–40 _portrait_;
_Blair Athol by Blinkhoolie_, 3 _vols._ 1881.
PARKER, JOHN BOTELER. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1802; lost his
left leg at Waterloo; lieutenant governor of royal military
academy, Woolwich; lieut. col. R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on
full pay 20 July. 1840; C.B. 22 June 1815; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846.
_d._ Woolwich 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 665 (1851).
PARKER, JOHN HENRY (son of John Parker of London, merchant).
_b._ London 1 March 1806; bookseller and publisher at the Turl,
Oxford 1832, retired 1863; secretary of Oxford architectural
society 1839; issued the libraries of the Fathers and of
Anglo-catholic theology and the series of Oxford pocket
classics; published Dr. Pusey’s works, also all John Keble’s
works 1832–73; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; went to Rome 1863, where
he excavated the walls, especially the gates, and took 3,300
photographs; hon. M.A. Oxf. 27 June 1867; endowed the keepership
of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, with £250 a year 1869, keeper
of the museum 1870 to death; member of the Oxford architectural
society, vice-president; knight of Italian order of St. Maurice
and Lazarus, April 1879; awarded a gold medal by Pope Pius IX
for his researches in Rome; C.B. 30 Oct. 1871; author of A
glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
architecture 1836, 4 ed. 1845; A handbook for visitors to Oxford
1847; An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture 1849,
6 ed. 1881; The mediæval architecture of Chester 1858; Mosaic
pictures in Rome and Ravenna 1866; Historical photographs
illustrative of the Archæology of Rome, 7 vols. 1872–5;
The archæology of Rome, 1874–6, second ed. 1878; Historical
photographs, a catalogue of 3,300 historical photographs
of antiquities in Rome and Italy 1879; A.B.C. of Gothic
architecture 1881, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ The Turl, Oxford 31 Jany.
1884. _bur._ St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Oxford 5 Feb. _Proc. of
Soc. of Antiq._ (1884) 79–81; _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873)
312–24; _Bookseller March 1884 pp._ 247–50; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_ 157
(1884) _portrait_.
PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Mr. Parker of the royal navy).
_b._ 1792; apprenticed to William Clowes, printer, Duke st.
Blackfriar’s road, London 1806, became manager of the business;
worked on his own account; superintendent of the Cambridge
university press Feb. 1829, retired 1854; publisher at 445
Strand, London 1832–63; publisher to the Society for promoting
Christian knowledge; published and edited the Saturday Magazine
1832; printer to univ. of Cambridge 15 Nov. 1836; publisher
to the committee of council on education 1839; published
Fraser’s Mag. and the works of Buckle, Froude, Hare, Kingsley,
Lewes, Maurice, Mill, Whately Whewell, and others; partner as
publishers with Wm. Butler Bourn 1860, they sold the business to
Messrs. Longman 1863 for £20,000; partner with Thomas Richard
Harrison as printers in St. Martin’s lane 1863 to death, they
printed the London Gazette; author of Bibles, testaments, books
of common prayer and proper lessons, printed at the Cambridge
university press by J. W. Parker 1839. _d._ Warren corner
house, near Farnham, Surrey 18 May 1870. _Curwen’s History of
booksellers_ (1873) 317–24; _R. Bowes’ Biographical notes on the
university printers_ (1886) 329; _Bookseller 16 Jany. 1861 p._
2, _and 1 June 1870 pp._ 491–2.
PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of the preceding). _b._ 1820; partner
with his father 1845 to death; edited Fraser’s Magazine about
1848 to death. _d._ 9 Nov. 1860. _G.M. Feb. 1861 pp._ 221–4.
PARKER, KENYON STEVENS. _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Oct. 1805; 1
lieut. on half pay 1 Sept. 1814 to death; barrister G.I. 27 Nov.
1819; migrated to Lincoln’s inn, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C.
Nov. 1841; examiner in court of chancery Jany. 1853 to death;
run over by a cab in Chancery lane and _d._ 49 Lancaster gate,
London 2 June 1866. _Law Times xli_ 607 (1866).
PARKER, RICHARD. _b._ 29 June 1803; cornet 1 life guards 2 Aug.
1822, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Aug. 1861; colonel of 5
dragoon guards 7 Dec. 1871 to death; M.G. 24 Aug. 1861, L.G. 2
Jany. 1871; placed on retired list with rank of general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Castle Malwood, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire 15 March
1885.
PARKER, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Parker comptroller of customs
in New Brunswick). _b._ 1796; educ. Bideford, Devon, and King’s
coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia; solicitor general of Nova Scotia
1828; acted as attorney general; puisne judge of New Brunswick
31 Oct. 1834; chief justice of supreme court Sept. 1865 to
death. _d._ St. John’s, New Brunswick 24 Dec. 1865.
PARKER, ROBERT TOWNLEY (only son of Thomas T. Parker, _d._
1794). _b._ 27 Aug. 1793; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf.
17 Oct. 1811; sheriff of Lancs. 1817; M.P. Preston 1837–41 and
1852–7; contested Preston 29 June 1841 and 29 July 1847; guild
mayor of Preston 1862; constable of Lancaster castle 1874. _d._
Cuerden hall, near Preston 11 Aug. 1879. _I.L.N. xli_ 285 (1862)
_portrait_.
PARKER, ROGER. Ensign 113 foot 30 June 1795; lieut. 39 foot 1
Oct. 1795, major 25 Feb. 1808, lieut. col. 18 May 1826, served
in the Peninsula 1809–12; silver medal for Albuera; lieut. col.
22 foot 6 March 1828, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1828; M.G. 9 Nov.
1846; granted distinguished service reward 26 July 1847; col. 86
foot 26 May 1852 to death. _d._ 28 April 1854.
PARKER, SAMUEL WILLIAM LANGSTON (son of Wm. Parker, surgeon).
_b._ Birmingham 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital
and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1828, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in
Birmingham 1830 to death; professor of comparative anatomy at
Queen’s college, Birmingham 25 years, a college which with Sands
Cox he had established; surgeon to the Associated hospital
1840–65, and consulting surgeon 1865 to death; an authority
on syphilis, introduced new methods of treatment; author of
The stomach, in its morbid state 1838; The modern treatment
of syphilitic diseases 1839, 5 ed. 1871; Digestion and its
disorders 1849; The treatment of secondary syphilis 1850; On the
nature of some painful affections of bone 1852; The treatment
of cancerous diseases by caustic 1856; The mercurial vapour
bath 1868. _d._ Paradise st. Birmingham 27 Oct. 1871. _bur._
Ashton-juxta-Birmingham. _Literary remains of S. W. L. Parker_,
_edited by Josiah Allen_ (1876); _Medical times and gazette ii_
602, 605 (1871); _Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vii_
43–44 (1875).
PARKER, TASS, ring name of Hazard Parker. _b._ West Bromwich,
Staffs. 10 April 1811; fought Hammer Lane for £25 a side at
Kensale Corner 15 Sept. 1835, when Lane won in 48 rounds; fought
Lane again for £50 a side at Woodstock 7 March 1837, when Lane
won in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours; beat Harry Preston near Castle
Donnington in 13 rounds for £100 a side; fought Tom Britton
for £100 a side at Woore, Staffs. 8 May 1838 after 33 rounds
the fight was adjourned to 5 March 1839, when they met at Wem
in Shropshire, but Britton was arrested by the police; beat
Britton at Worksop, Notts. 9 June 1840 in 77 rounds lasting 110
minutes; fought Brassey for £100 a side at Brunt Lays, Worksop
10 Aug. 1841, when Parker won in 158 rounds; fought Wm. Perry
for £100 a side at Dartford Marshes 19 Dec. 1843, the police
interfered after 67 rounds; fought him again for same sum at
Horley 27 Feb. 1844, after 133 rounds Parker went down without
a blow; fought him again for same sum at Lindrick Common 4 Aug.
1846, beaten again in 23 rounds lasting 27 minutes; beat Con.
Parker for £100 a side at Trimley Green 26 Nov. 1849 in 27
rounds lasting 97 minutes; fought a drawn battle with Burton of
Leicester, £100 a side, 87 rounds in 100 minutes 19 May 1851;
employed by James Merry the great racing man. _d._ June 1884.
_Fistiana by the editor of Bells’s Life in London_ (1868) 95;
_W. Day’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 319–23; _H. D. Miles’s
Pugilistica iii_ 187–99, 344–55 (1881); _J. Hannan’s British
boxing_ (1850) 29–30.
PARKER, THOMAS LISTER (eld. son of John Parker of Browsholme
hall, Yorkshire 1755–97). _b._ Browsholme hall 17 Sept. 1779;
educ. Clitheroe gr. sch. and Christ’s coll. Camb.; formed a
collection of antiquities and pictures; bought many engravings
and prints during a tour on the continent 1800 and 1801; F.S.A.
14 May 1801; F.R.S. 1 June 1815; sheriff for Lancashire 1804;
trumpeter to the queen; hereditary bow-bearer of the forest of
Bowland, Lancs. 1797; author of A description of Browsholme
hall and of the parish of Waddington 1815; some of his letters
are printed in F. R. Raine’s Miscellanies of rev. Thomas Wilson
(Chetham Soc. vol. xlv 1858) pp. 20, 159–64, 170, 205. _d._ the
Star inn, Deansgate, Manchester 2 March 1858. _bur._ in his
family chapel Waddington church, Yorkshire 9 March. _Whitaker’s
History of Wally i_ 336 (1872).
PARKER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (3 son of George Parker of
Almington, Staffs. 1730–1819). _b._ Almington hall 1 Dec. 1781;
entered navy Feb. 1793; captain 9 Oct. 1801; commanded the
Amazon, 38 guns, Nov. 1802 to 16 Jany. 1812; commanded the
Warspite in the Mediterranean 1828; commanded the royal yacht
Prince Regent Dec. 1828 to 22 July 1830; R.A. 22 July 1830;
second in command of the channel squadron April to Sept. 1831;
commanded a squadron in the Tagus river Sept. 1831 to June 1834;
a lord of the admiralty July to Dec. 1834 and April 1835 to 12
May 1841; commanded a squadron on coast of China 10 Aug. 1841;
captured Amoy, Ningpo, Woosung, Shanghai, and Chin-kiang-foo;
concluded peace at Nankin 27 Aug. 1842; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
16 July 1834, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; granted good-service pension
of £300 a year 26 April 1844; created baronet 18 Dec. 1844;
commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 27 Feb. 1845 to 17 Jany.
1852; commanded the Channel fleet May 1846 to 28 April 1852;
principal A.D.C. to the queen 10 Dec. 1846 to death; admiral 29
April 1851; chairman of committee to inquire into the manning
of the navy, July 1852; commander-in-chief at Devonport 1 May
1854 to 4 May 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1861;
R.A. of the United Kingdom 20 May 1862, admiral of the fleet 27
April 1863 to death. _d._ Shenstone lodge, near Lichfield 13
Nov. 1866. _bur._ Shenstone churchyard, monument in Lichfield
cathedral. _Sir A. Phillimore’s Life of Sir W. Parker_, 3
_vols._ (1876–80) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lv_, 233 (1869) _view of
monument_.
PARKER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of John Parker, principal
keeper of judicial records of Scotland). _b._ Edinburgh 4
Dec. 1818; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; assistant keeper
of judicial records in general register house, Edinb. 1839;
advocate at Edinb. 1853; chief judge and member of legislative
council of the Gold Coast 1866; chief justice and judge in
admiralty of St. Helena 8 April 1869 to 1875; chief justice of
British Honduras 1 Nov. 1875, retired on a pension 1881; an
originator and first hon. sec. of Architectural Institute of
Scotland. _d._ Hillside, Gorey, Jersey 27 July 1886. _Journal of
jurisprudence xxx_ 495 (1886); _Law Times 14 Aug. 1886 p._ 283.
PARKER, WILLIAM KITCHEN (2 son of Thomas Parker, yeoman farmer).
_b._ Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough 23 June 1823; apprenticed to
a druggist at Stamford 1839; articled to Mr. Costal at Market
Overton 1842–4; studied at Charing Cross hospital 1844; L.S.A.
1849; a general practitioner at 124 Tachbrook st. Pimlico,
London 1849, at 18 Bessborough st. 1853, and at 36 Claverton
st. to 1883; M.R.C.S. 1873, Hunterian professor of comparative
anatomy at the college, 1873, gave ten courses of lectures;
wrote 99 scientific memoirs in Trans Palæontographical Soc.,
Trans. Ray Soc., Trans. Royal Irish academy, Annals and Mag. of
Natural history, and Trans. Microscopical Soc.; F.R.S. 1 June
1865, gold medallist 1866; Baly medallist of royal college of
physicians; president of royal microscopical society 1871–3;
a director of the Star life assurance soc. 1874; with T. H.
Huxley he made a minute study of the skull; differed from sir
R. Owen about the anatomy of animals; author of On mammalian
descent, the Hunterian lecture 1885; and with G. T. Bettany
The morphology of the skull 1877; in the Ray Society series he
printed A monograph on the structure of the shoulder-girdle
and sternum in the vertebrata 1868. _d._ in his son’s house 74
Llandaff road, Cardiff 3 July 1890. _bur._ Wandsworth cemet.
London 7 July. _T. J. Parker’s W. K. Parker_ (1893) _portrait_;
_Proc. of royal soc. xlviii pp. xv–xx_ (1890); _G. T. Bettany’s
Professor W. K. Parker_ (1891).
PARKER, WINDSOR (eld. son of William Parker of Hardwick court,
Gloucs.) _b._ 1802; cornet 6 Bengal light cavalry 24 Nov.
1820; lieut. 10 Bengal light cavalry 1 May 1824, captain 30
July 1829; served at siege of Bhurtpore 1825–6; aide-de-camp
to commander-in-chief 1827–8; brigade major Malwa field force
1829–35; brigade major in Oude 1835–6; sheriff of Suffolk 1854;
M.P. western division of Suffolk 1859–80; major west Suffolk
militia 9 Oct. 1852 to 6 May 1869; celebrated his golden wedding
1880. _d._ Clopton hall, Rattlesden, Suffolk Feb. 1892.
PARKES, ALEXANDER (son of a brass lock manufacturer). _b._
Suffolk st. Birmingham 29 Dec. 1813; in charge of the casting
department in the works of Messrs. Elkington; took out a patent
for the electro-deposition of works of art 1841; patented a
method of electro-plating flowers 1843; took out 66 patents in
46 years; superintended the erection of Elkington and Mason’s
copper-smelting works at Pembrey, South Wales 1850–3; his method
of using zinc for the desilverisation of lead, patented 1850,
is in universal use in America; showed articles made from the
compound of pyroxyline, named Parkesine, at exhibition of 1862,
when he received a medal, this compound is now known as zylonite
or celluloid. _d._ Rosendale road, West Dulwich 29 June 1890.
_Engineering 25 July 1890 p._ 111; _Birmingham Weekly Post 5
July 1890_.
PARKES, CAROLINE. _b._ Islington, London 1 Jany. 1838; appeared
as Bacchus in a ballet at Her Majesty’s 1842; a columbine
at Sadler’s Wells 1849, and often from that time to 1865;
acted many characters in Phelps and Greenwood’s revivals
of Shakespeare’s dramas at Sadler’s Wells 1850–60; a great
favourite at the Marylebone theatre; chief dancer at the Eagle
tavern, danced in Jason and Medea there 28 Aug. 1851; columbine
at the Surrey 1851, at Sadler’s Wells 1852–3, 1855, 1857, and
1859; acted Donaldbain in Macbeth at Her Majesty’s 19 Jany.
1858; had a character in Cock Robin pantomine, Lyceum 1867;
played Joe Tiller in Poll and my Partner Jo burlesque, St.
James’ 6 May 1871; acted Dicky Dilver in Little Dicky Dilver
pantomime, Princess’s 26 Dec. 1871; Jack in Jack and the bean
stalk pantomime, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; played in Crystal palace
pantomime 20 Dec. 1873, and several succeeding years, when her
songs and dances were very popular; was seen at the majority
of the London theatres and music halls; a teacher of dancing;
_m._ Charles Gill Fenton, actor and scene painter, _d._ 15 Feb.
1877. She _d._ 17 Medina road, Holloway, London 7 March 1887.
_Illustrated Sporting News 15 Nov. 1862 p._ 308 _portrait_;
_Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard i_ 86 _etc._, _ii_ 397, 720
(1891).
PARKES, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1816; clerk in election office of
house of commons; clerk to Dyson and co., parliamentary agents
24 Parliament st. London, partner in the firm; a director of
the Eastern counties’ railway 1869, deputy chairman Aug. 1873,
chairman Nov. 1874 to July 1893, greatly improved the line,
increased the traffic, built and then enlarged Liverpool station
at a cost of £3,000,000, and developed the continental traffic
by a route from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, the quays at
Harwich are called after him, the main line was renamed the
Great Eastern 1862, was voted sum of £2,000 on retirement from
the chairmanship. _d._ Netherfield, Weybridge 9 May 1895. _bur._
Weybridge cemetery 14 May. _Times 17 May 1895 p._ 10; _I.L.N. 25
May 1895 p._ 638 _portrait_.
PARKES, EDMUND ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Parkes of the Marble-yard,
Warwick). _b._ Bloxham, Oxfordshire 29 March 1819, or Warwick
30 March 1819; educ. Christ’s hospital, and Univ. coll. and
hospital; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1840; assistant
surgeon to 84 foot April 1842, served in Madras and Moulmein
1842–5, retired Sept. 1845; practised in London 1845; special
professor of clinical medicine at Univ. college 1849–60,
emeritus professor 1860; physician to Univ. coll. hospital
1849; edited British and foreign medico-chirurgical review
1852–5; sent to Turkey to select a site for and organize and
superintend a large civil hospital, he selected Renkioi on the
Asiatic bank of the Dardanelles and remained there till 1856;
professor of hygiene in army medical school at Fort Pitt,
Chatham 27 March 1860, the school was transferred to the royal
Victoria hospital, Netley 1863; invented the new military valise
which displaced the old knapsack; the founder of the science
of modern hygiene; wrote an annual review of the progress of
hygiene in the army medical department blue-book 1861–75; crown
member of general medical council 17 Nov. 1863 to death; F.R.S.
6 June 1861, member of council; member of senate of univ. of
London 1871 to death; author of Remarks on the dysentery and
hepatitis of India 1846; Researches into Asiatic or algide
cholera 1847; On self-training by the medical student 1856; The
composition of the urine in health and disease 1860; A manual of
practical hygiene for use in the army 1864, 8 ed. 1891; A scheme
of medical tuition 1868; On the issue of spirit ration during
the Ashanti campaign 1875. _d._ Sydney cottage, Bitterne, near
Southampton 15 March 1876. _bur._ Solihull, near Birmingham,
bust at Univ. coll. London. _Good Words_ (1879) 553–8; _Medical
times and gazette i_ 348–9 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 325, 326
(1876) _portrait_; _Saturday Review 2 June 1883 p._ 687.
NOTE.--The Parkes museum of hygiene was instituted 1876 at University
college, London, in 1882 it was incorporated and removed to Margaret
st. Cavendish sq. and opened by the duke of Albany 26 May 1883, it was
incorporated with the Sanitary institute of Great Britain Aug. 1888.
In Dec. 1894 Hermann Weber, M.D., M.R.C.P, gave the royal college of
physicians the sum of £2,500 in trust for the purpose of founding a
prize to be called the Weber-Parkes prize to be given at intervals for
the best essay in tubercular consumption.
PARKES, GEORGE. _b._ 1827; a barber in Old Bridge court, Cannon
row, Westminster 1845; had a fine baritone voice, sang at
Vauxhall and Cremorne gardens and the Bower saloon, Stangate
st.; lessee with Wm. Tanner of the Alhambra music hall,
Shoreditch 1871–5, and of the Raglan music hall, Southwark;
in partnership with Wm. Tanner, lessee of the Elephant and
Castle theatre 1880, and alone 1881–3, produced Walter Burnot’s
burlesque of The German silver king 24 March 1883; proprietor
of Richardson’s theatre at the World’s fair at the Agricultural
hall, Islington Dec. 1883 to Feb. 1884; generally known as Baron
Parkes. _d._ 29 Hercules road, Lambeth, London 16 Oct. 1895.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 21 Oct.
PARKES, SIR HARRY SMITH (youngest child of Harry Parkes
of Walsall, ironmaster, _d._ 1833). _b._ Birchill’s hall,
Bloxwich, near Walsall 24 Feb. 1828; educ. Birmingham gr. sch.
1838–41; joined his sisters in China 1841; attached to sir
Henry Pottinger’s suit 1842; interpreter at Foo-chow March
1845 to Aug. 1846; interpreter at Shanghai Aug. 1846 to 1850;
interpreter at Canton 21 Nov. 1851; consul at Amoy 10 Aug. 1854;
secretary to special mission to Siam March 1855, first treaty
signed 18 April 1855; acting-consul at Canton June 1856, city
stormed by sir Michael Seymour, who entered it with Parkes 29
Oct. 1856, Canton was bombarded 28 Dec. 1857, after which Parkes
tracked and arrested commissioner Yeh 5 Jany. 1858, who was
transported to Calcutta; British comr. of the allied commission
at Canton 9 Jany. 1858; attached as joint Chinese secretary to
earl of Elgin’s special embassy in China 1860 to Feb. 1861;
accompanied vice-admiral Hope when he advanced upon Tien-tsin
23 Aug. 1860; taken prisoner by the Chinese at Tungchow 18
Sept. 1860, released 8 Oct.; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary and consul-general in Japan 28 March 1865,
obtained the ratification of the treaties of 1858 by the Mikado
24 Nov. 1865, left Japan Aug. 1883; minister plenipotentiary in
China July 1883; concluded a treaty with the Korean government
Nov. 1883; minister plenipotentiary to king of Korea 7 March
1884; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 19 May 1862. _d._ Peking 22 March
1885. _bur._ Whitchurch 26 June, statue at Shanghai unveiled
by duke of Connaught April 1890, memorial bust by T. Brock,
R.A. unveiled in St. Paul’s cathedral 1887. _S. Lane-Poole and
F. V. Dickins’s Life of sir Harry Parkes_, 2 _vols._ (1894)
_portrait_; _D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii_ 250 _etc._,
827 (1884); _Illust. times 19 Jany. 1861 p._ 31 _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxvii_ 587 (1860) _portrait_; _Times 23 March 1885 p._
7.
PARKES, JOSEPH (younger son of John Parkes, manufacturer).
_b._ Warwick 22 Jany. 1796; articled to a solicitor in London
1817–22; practised as a solicitor in Birmingham 1822–33; a
member of Birmingham political union 10 May 1832, made active
preparations for an armed rebellion; secretary of the commission
on municipal corporations 1833; parliamentary solicitor at 21
Great George st. Westminster 1833–47; taxing master to court
of exchequer Nov. 1847 to death; secretary to commission for
inquiry into public charities 1840; author of A history of
the court of chancery 1828; author with Herman Merivale of
Memoirs of sir Philip Francis, K.C.B., with correspondence and
journals, 2 vols. 1867. _d._ 17 Wimpole st. London 11 Aug. 1865.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 17 Aug. _Law mag. and law review xx_
174 (1865).
PARKES, JOSIAH (brother of the preceding). _b._ Warwick 27 Feb.
1793; worked in his father’s mill at Warwick 1810–20; carried
out near Woolwich a new process for refining salt; A.I.C.E.
11 March 1823, M.I.C.E. 26 Dec. 1837; carried on business at
Puteaux-sur-Seine 1825–30; fought on the popular side in the
revolution 1830, after which he returned to England; a land
drainer 1830–54, employed 1,000 men; drained part of Chat
Moss, Lancs. for Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, invented the deep
drainage system of not less than four feet; in 1846 sir Robert
Peel advanced four millions to be spent in draining on the
Parkesian principle; drained the fortifications at Yaverland and
Warden Point, Isle of Wight for the war office 1862–9; author
of Lecture on draining 1846; Essay on the philosophy and art of
land drainage 1848; Fallacies on land drainage exposed 1851.
_d._ Freshwater, Isle of Wight 16 Aug. 1871. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 231–6 (1872).
PARKES, WILLIAM. _b._ Gloucester 6 Oct. 1822; in the office
of James Walker, C.E. 1845; resident engineer at the Alderney
harbour works 1847–9; a civil engineer in Parliament st. and
then at 23 Abingdon st. London from 1849; connected with the
lake Fucino, Italy, draining works 1853; reported on Kurrachee,
India, harbour 1854, and again in 1868, the breakwater, the
first constructed on the sloping-block system, completed 1873;
designed and erected lighthouses in the Red sea 1860; at Madras
in 1873 and 1876 in connection with the harbour works, which
were destroyed by a cyclone in 1882; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1849,
M.I.C.E. 17 April 1860. _d._ 8 Grove road, Surbiton 1889. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 328–30 (1889).
PARKIN, GEORGE LEWIS (son of George Patey Parkin of Woolwich).
_b._ 30 Sept. 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1829;
admitted solicitor 1841; partner with H. W. Woodhouse many
years; partner with Frederick John Pagden, retired 1884;
one of the Antients and subsequently principal of Barnard’s
inn; a governor of Christ’s hospital; an early member of the
Solicitors’ Benevolent institution, _d._ 22 Park lane, London 23
April 1885. _Solicitors’ Journal 2 May 1885 p._ 442.
PARKINS, WILLIAM. _b._ Great Berkhampstead, Herts.; a
manufacturing stationer in Hanway st. London about 1842;
introduced cheap paper and envelopes; partner with Henry
Gotto at 25 Oxford st. 1851 to death, having a very large
establishment of fancy goods, especially of articles for
presents, employed nearly 500 people; published Parkins and
Co.’s Almanack and price list 1850 etc.; Parkins and Gotto’s
Rent book 1858; Parkins and Gotto’s Annual Diary 1861 etc. _d._
43 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 19 Sept. 1872. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 25 Sept. _Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxx_
494–8 (1881); _Puseley’s Companies_ (1858) 167.
PARKINSON, EDWARD. Cornet 33 light dragoons 27 Feb. 1796;
captain 33 foot 3 July 1805, major 17 March 1814, placed on h.p.
11 Sept. 1817; C.B. 19 July 1831; granted distinguished service
reward 15 Nov. 1849; colonel 93 highlanders 10 Dec. 1852 to
death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1858.
PARKINSON, JOHN. _b._ 1779; practised as solicitor in London;
solicitor to the Grenadier guards 19 July 1831 to death. _d._
Gray’s Inn sq. London 30 Jany. 1855.
PARKINSON, JOSEPH (son of James Parkinson, proprietor of
a museum in London 1730–1813). _b._ 1783; articled to Wm.
Pilkington, the architect, London; designed the library to
the Surrey institution 1809; laid out Bryanston square 1811;
surveyor to the Union assurance society to 1854; directed
rebuilding of body of Streatham church 1831; had many
professional pupils. _d._ 41 Sackville st. London 17 May 1855.
_bur._ Kensal Green.
PARKINSON, RICHARD (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.)
_b._ Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric.
from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824,
B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston
1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St.
Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St.
Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept.
1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize
at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41;
fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean
lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church
1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham
society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the
society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography
of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of
John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of
doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and
miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation:
Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880.
_d._ the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented
to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. _R. Parkinson’s Old
church clock_, _5 ed._ (1880), _memoir pp. ix–xcvii_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 198–204; _G. Huntington’s
Random recollections_ (1893) 263–82; _Raines’s Fellows of the
collegiate church of Manchester ii_ 361 (1891); _G.M. iv_ 556–8
(1858).
PARKINSON, STEPHEN (7 child of a land agent). _b._ Keighley,
Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar
and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845;
fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics,
tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to
death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D.
1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate
1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise
on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed.
1884. _d._ Newnham, Cambridge 2 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Madingley,
Camb. _Cambridge Review 24 Jany. 1889 pp._ 148–9; _The Eagle
March 1889 pp._ 356–62; _Proc. of royal soc. xlv pp. i–iii_
(1889).
PARKYNS, MANSFIELD (2 son of Thomas Boultbee Parkyns). _b._
Ruddington, Notts. 16 Feb. 1823; matric. from Trin. coll. Camb.
Oct. 1839; travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan 1843–50, living
like a native, and was given up for dead by his relatives,
during the first part of the time he was in correspondence with
the Foreign office; attaché to embassy at Constantinople 15
Feb. 1850 to 1852; knew many languages and dialects; resided at
Woodborough hall, Notts. 1852; in the Sherwood forest militia;
lieut. col. of Nottinghamshire rifle volunteers; comptroller
of court of bankruptcy, London, Jany. 1870 to 1884; F.R.G.S.;
author of Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during
three years’ residence in that country, 2 vols. 1853, new ed.
1868; carved the oak choir stalls for Woodborough church. _d._
Woodborough hall 12 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Woodborough church,
Notts. _Times 19 Feb. 1894 p._ 8.
PARLBY, BROOK BRIDGES (son of Samuel Parlby, C. of
Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk). _b._ 1 June 1783; educ. Rugby
1796–8; entered Madras army 1798; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 15 Dec.
1800, major 15 April 1817; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 1823–28; lieut.
col. 13 N.I. 1828 to 13 Nov. 1829; col. 35 N.I. 13 Nov. 1829 to
5 July 1854; col. 20 N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 13 Oct.
1857; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826; in the battle of the Argaum; wounded
at storming of Gawilghur 1803, and at Lassoulgaum Oct. 1804;
commanded a division at Rangoon 8 Dec. 1824, and at Melloon
13 Jany. 1826; in Burmese war 1824; author of Revenge, or the
novice of San Martino, a tragedy 1818; A brief sketch of the
establishment of the Anglican church in India 1851. _d._ Upper
Norwood, Surrey 7 March 1873.
PARLBY, WILLIAM. _b._ 19 May 1801; cornet 8 dragoons 3 Oct.
1816; captain 4 dragoons 7 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846;
lieut. col. 10 hussars 7 Aug. 1846 to 10 Aug. 1856, when placed
on h.p.; col. 21 hussars 24 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1880; general 22
May 1876; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; col. 4 hussars 1
July 1880 to death. _d._ Hubberston, Milford Haven 26 Oct. 1881.
PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART (2 son of John Henry Parnell of
Avondale, co. Wicklow, _d._ 1859). _b._ Avondale 27 June 1846;
educ. at Yeovil, Somerset; matric. as a pensioner from Magdalene
coll. Camb. 1 July 1865, left Cambridge May 1869; resided at
Avondale 1869–72; an officer in the Wicklow militia; travelled
in the U.S. of America 1872–3; sheriff of Wicklow 1874;
contested co. Dublin 19 March 1874; M.P. co. Meath 1875–80;
joined the Amnesty association 1876; his plan for obstructing
the business of house of commons caused the house to sit
continuously from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. on the following evening
31 July to 1 Aug. 1877, this was then the longest recorded
sitting; president of the National land league of Ireland,
founded at a convention in Dublin Oct. 1879; went to U.S. of
America to obtain funds for the league 21 Dec. 1879, addressed
the house of representatives at Washington 2 Feb. 1880, also
addressed the legislatures of 5 states; M.P. Cork city 1880 to
death; chairman of the home rule party in the house of commons
17 May 1880; founded The Irish national newspaper and publishing
company, July 1881; held a great land league convention at
Dublin 15 Sept. 1881; arrested at Morrison’s hotel, Dublin 13
Oct. 1881, imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol, released 2 May 1882;
at a meeting of the Ladies’ land league at Dublin 2 Jany.
1882 Parnell was described as the uncrowned King of Ireland,
which title was adopted by his supporters; attended a national
conference in Dublin 17 Oct. 1883, when the Land League was
revived as the Irish national league; presented with sum of
£37,000 at a banquet at the Rotunda in Dublin 11 Dec. 1883;
elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party 11 Jany.
1886, re-elected 25 Nov. 1890; the freedom of city of Edinburgh
was conferred on him 20 July 1889; his friend capt. Wm. Henry
O’Shea obtained a decree nisi for a divorce 17 Nov. 1890 with
costs against Parnell as co-respondent; on 25 June 1891,
Parnell married Mrs. Katherine O’Shea in the registry office at
Steyning, near Brighton; deserted by 45 of his followers in the
house of commons 6 Dec. 1890; repudiated by the Roman Catholic
archbishops and bishops 4 Dec. 1890. _d._ of inflammation of
the lungs at his residence 10 Walsingham terrace, Aldrington,
Brighton 6 Oct. 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. Dublin 11 Oct.
_T. P. O’Connor’s Life of C. S. Parnell_ (1891) _portrait_;
_R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume, C. S. Parnell_ (1892), _memoir
pp._ 1–210 _four portraits_; _J. S. Mahoney’s C. S. Parnell_
(1886) _two portraits_; _T. Sherlock’s Life of C. S. Parnell_
(1887) _portrait_; _J. Connellan’s Life of C. S. Parnell_ (1888)
_portrait_; _A. Filon’s Profils Anglais_, _Paris_ (1893); _H.
Le Caron’s Twenty five years in the secret service_ (1892) 178
_portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1887 The Times published articles entitled Parnellism and
Crime, and on 18 April gave a facsimile of a letter said to be by C.
S. Parnell in which he extenuated the Phœnix park murders. On 22 Oct.
1888 three judges, forming a special commission, commenced inquiring
into all the charges which had been made against Parnell. On 1 March
1889 Richard Piggott, who had forged the letter, committed suicide at
Madrid. The report of the commission acquitted Parnell of any sympathy
with the Phœnix park murders 13 Feb. 1890. He brought an action for
libel against The Times claiming £100,000 damages, but the action was
compromised by a payment of £5,000 on 3 Feb. 1890. _Annual Register
1887 p._ 99 _etc._, 1888 _p._ 233 _etc._, 1889 _pp._ 477–507, 1890 _p._
7; _David Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons_ (1884) 202–21;
_I.L.N. lxxix_ 389 (1881) _portrait_; _Graphic 10 Oct. 1891 p._ 424
_portrait_.
PARNELL, FANNY (sister of the preceding). _b._ Avondale, co.
Wicklow 3 Sept. 1854; contributed poems to the Irish People,
the Fenian newspaper, under signature of Alena or Alerta 1867,
and wrote poetry in the Nation and the Irishman; went with her
mother to America and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey;. wrote
much verse in the Boston Pilot and Dublin Nation 1879–82; made
many speeches during the land league agitation in America 1880;
organized in 1881 the despatch to Ireland of Irish-American
women to take the places of women who had helped to administer
the ladies’ land league in Ireland and had been imprisoned.
_d._ Bordentown, New Jersey 29 July 1882. _bur._ Mount Auburn
cemetery, near Boston. _R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume_ (1892)
_p._ 3 _portrait_.
PARR, GEORGE. _b._ Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. 22 May 1826; first
played at Lord’s 1845; member of Clarke’s touring eleven 1847,
captain 1857; played for the Players against the Gentlemen
1846–65; played for Notts. 1846–70, made 130 runs against Surrey
1859; took a team to Canada 1859, winning all the five matches
against twenty-twos; coached the Harrow eleven 1859–62; captain
of a team in Australia 1863, winning ten matches; captain of
the All England eleven 1857–70; played his last match 1871;
the finest batsman in England, especially famous for his leg
hitting. _d._ Radcliffe-on-Trent 23 June 1891. _Baily’s Mag. ii_
215–20 (1860) _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 115
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 161 (1864) _portrait_,
_v_ 36 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 161
(1874) _portrait_.
PARR, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; travelled in Dorset and Devonshire as
a dealer in tea; began racing 1839 with two horses, increased
his stud to about 20; ran second for the Cesarewitch with
Giselle; won 18 races with Rataplan 1854; won the St. Leger with
Saucebox 1855; won the Queen’s vase and 22 other races with
Fisherman 1856; won the Goodwood stakes and the Cesarewitch with
Weathergaze and the Cambridgeshire with Odd Trick and Malacca.
_d._ Manor house, Letcomb Regis 19 Jany. 1880. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 286–300; _W. Day’s The race horse
in training_ (1880) 19.
PARR, THOMAS CHASE (son of John Owen Parr of London). _b._
1802; entered Bombay army 1818; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 5 Feb.
1819; captain 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827, major 19 Oct. 1839 to 21
Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 1 European regiment right wing 21 Jany.
1846 to 15 Aug. 1847; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to
1850, of 7 N.I. 1850–1, of 2 N.I. 1851–3, and of 6 N.I. 1853–6;
commandant Kurrachee 28 March 1854 to 13 March 1856; col. of 2
European regiment 18 March 1856 to 1863, and of 12 N.I. 1863;
general 10 Feb. 1876. _d._ Powis lodge, Bickley, Kent 15 June
1883.
PARR, WILLIAM CHASE (2 son of rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of
Preston). _b._ 4 Dec. 1826; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 27 Jany. 1844,
captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 Sept.
1869; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 2 July 1885;
general 1 April 1894. _d._ King’s Holt, West Lyss, Hants. 6
March 1895.
PARRAVICINI, STEFANO ANNONI DE (only son of Carlo De
Parravicini, advocate, Milan). An officer in the Italian army;
joined an opera company in England; business manager to Willert
Beale to 1856; a musical and professional agent 49 Duke st.
St. James’, London 1856–86, in partnership with Wardle Corbyn
and then with J. F. P. Hyatt 1876–86; agent for Blondin; for
the Alhambra music hall, under F. Strange, where he introduced
Madame Pitteri, the dancer; he brought Pauline Virginie Déjazet
to the Charing Cross theatre Oct. 1870; agent for the circuses
at Covent garden, for Barnum’s show and Venice at Olympia; joint
lessee with W. Corbyn of Park theatre, London, opened Oct. 1875.
_d._ Addison road north, London 13 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s
R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 18 Jany. _The Era 21 Jany. 1893._
PARRIS, EDMUND THOMAS (son of Edward Parris). _b._ parish of
St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and
metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered
schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for
the Colosseum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama
of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many
of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, &c.; made a
sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury
Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of
which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture
of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the
cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph
of Arimathea converting the Britons; repainted Thornhill’s
paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter
to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at
B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the
mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at
his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when
mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was
widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Countess of
Blessington’s The confessions of an elderly gentleman 1836,
her Flowers of loveliness 1836, and her The confessions of an
elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. _d._ 27 Francis
st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853
portrait xxix_, 145, 146 (1856) _portrait_, _lxiii_ 543, 564,
587 (1873) _portrait_.
PARROTT, THOMAS. _b._ 1796; admitted attorney 1826; practised
at Macclesfield, Cheshire 1826 to death; town clerk 27 Jany.
1830 to death; partner with Thomas Michael Colville and with
John May 1839, firm becoming Parrott, May and Sons; clerk to
the county and borough magistrates, also coroner; his portrait
was presented to the corporation of Macclesfield March 1879; a
successful proprietor of a dairy farm. _d._ Green bank, Higher
Sutton, Macclesfield 29 May 1879. _bur._ St. James’ ch. yard,
Sutton 6 June. _The Macclesfield courier 31 May 1879 p._ 5, _7
June p._ 5.
PARROTT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; exhibited 25 landscapes at
the R.A., 19 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–69.
_d._ 3 Nether st. North Finchley, London 23 Sept. 1893.
PARRY, ALBERT WOODWARD (son of Richard Parry, builder). _b._
Salford 19 Jany. 1834; principal assistant to borough surveyor,
Bradford 1863–71; borough surveyor, Reading 1871–91, completed
the sewerage, enlarged the water works, and erected the sewage
farm buildings; consulting engineer for Reading 1891 to death; a
surveyor with his son Richard Parry at 27 Great George street,
Westminster 1893; A.I.C.E. 1 April 1873, A.M.I.C.E. 1878. _d._
Reading 13 July 1894. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii_
462–3 (1894).
PARRY, CHARLES HENRY (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician
1755–1822). _b._ Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen;
travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb.
24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812;
practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital,
Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De
Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et
efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments
on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments
and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir
of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. _d._ 5 Belgrave place, Brighton
21 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Weston, near Bath. _Munk’s College of
physicians ii_ 385–8, _iii_ 45–6 (1878).
PARRY, EDWARD (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). _b._
Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey
1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered
Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870;
D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to
1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to
A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining
chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69,
and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of
Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26
Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel
25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882;
author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed.
1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. _d._
St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. _bur._ in churchyard of St.
Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral.
_Graphic 19 April 1890 p._ 444 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 19 April 1890
p._ 483 _portrait_.
PARRY, FRANCIS CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of
Speen, Berks., _d._ 1788). _b._ Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and
Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June
1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of
bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh
Review 1819–23. _d._ Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. _Law Times
lxvi_ 213 (1879).
NOTE.--He occupied a prominent place in the Collier Shakespeare
controversy as having been the possessor of a folio which was for some
time wrongly identified with the Perkins folio.
PARRY, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ India 8 Dec. 1794; first played
at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818;
played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from
1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket,
a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park,
Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. _d._ Mentone 11 Jany. 1872.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 407 (1862).
PARRY, HENRY HUTTON (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). _b._ 18
Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A.
1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity,
Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college,
Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon
of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop
of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia
20 May 1876 to death. _d._ Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov.
1893.
PARRY, JAMES (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited
landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal
Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in
Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from
his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’
work. _d._ Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in
royal Salford museum.
PARRY, JOHN. _b._ Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined
the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to
play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the
same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of
the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens
from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15
June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb.
1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives
or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My
uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the
Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received
degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter
of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to
Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of
the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times
for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang
his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal
musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer
of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800;
Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814;
Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel
boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of
Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts
and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The
vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian
divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the
antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp,
2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and
Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion
1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions
1800–50. _d._ 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April
1851. _Grove’s Dictionary of music i_ 484, 651, _ii_ 248, _iv_
443 (1878).
PARRY, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52
Charlotte st. Portland place, London). _b._ London 1809; clerk
in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds
theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract
1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s
management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good
as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria
theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. _Actors by
gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp._ 161–2 _portrait_; _Theatrical times 3
July 1847 pp._ 201–2 _portrait_.
PARRY, JOHN BILLINGSLEY (2 son of James Parry of Preston
Montford hall, Salop). _b._ 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.;
barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845;
judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847,
resigned Sept. 1874. _d._ Brighton 28 March 1876.
PARRY, JOHN HAYDN (son of Dr. Joseph Parry of univ. coll. of
South Wales, Cardiff). _b._ April 1864; musical instructor
Harrow school; professor of London Guildhall school of music
Sept. 1889 to death; composer of Gwen, a cantata produced by
students of Guildhall school of music 1890; Cigarette, an opera,
T.R. Cardiff 15 Aug. 1892, and Lyric theatre, London 7 Sept.
1892; Miami, a musical version of The green bushes, Princess’s
theatre 16 Oct. 1893; O Lord abide with me, a song 1894. _d._ 87
Broadhurst gardens, West Hampstead, London 29 March 1894. _bur._
West Hampstead cemet. 2 April.
PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (son of John Humffreys Parry, Welsh
antiquary 1786–1825). _b._ London 24 Jany. 1816; employed in the
printed-book department of the British Museum, engaged on the
new catalogue Jany. 1839 to June 1843; barrister M.T. 9 June
1843, bencher 15 Nov. 1878 to death; obtained a large criminal
practice; sergeant-at-law 9 June 1856, obtained patent of
precedence 9 Feb. 1864; largely employed in compensation cases;
leader of the home circuit; retained in the trials of Manning
1849, Muller 1864, Overend and Gurney 1869, the Tichborne
claimant 1873–4, and Whistler _v._ Ruskin Nov. 1878; a founder
of the Complete suffrage association 1842; contested Norwich
30 July 1847 and Finsbury 30 March 1857; edited The National
association gazette, No. 1–28, 1841–2. _d._ 56 Holland park,
Kensington, London 10 Jany. 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 15 Jany.
_M. William’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 39, 50, 58, 90, 127, 141,
143, 181, 218; _Law Times lxviii_ 211 (1880); _I.L.N. lxxvi_ 85
(1880) _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_ 93 (1880) _portrait_.
PARRY, JOHN ORLANDO (only son of John Parry 1776–1851). _b._
London 3 Jany. 1810; first appeared as a vocalist at Hanover sq.
rooms, London 7 May 1830; sang at the Antient and Philharmonic
concerts, and at musical festivals; pupil of Luigi Lablache
at Naples 1833; sang at St. James’s theatre in a burletta The
Sham prince 29 Sept. 1836, and in Charles Dickens’s Village
Coquettes 6 Dec.; sang at concerts and in the provinces 1842–9;
produced an entertainment by Albert Smith entitled Notes,
vocal and instrumental, at the Store st. music hall, Bedford
sq. London 25 June 1850, gave another entertainment there The
portfolio for children of all ages 17 Aug. 1852 to Aug. 1853;
was mentally deranged some time; organist at St. Jude’s church,
Southsea; gave musical monologues with Mr. & Mrs. German Reed at
Gallery of illustration, Regent st. London 1860–9; wrote his own
entertainments and composed his own music; received prizes for
songs from the Melodists’ club; his farewell benefit at Gaiety
theatre 7 Feb. 1877 realised £1,300; lost his 40 years’ savings
1877; author of Ridiculous things: scraps and oddities 1854;
composer of Wanted a governess, a song 1840; Charming Chloe
Cole 1854; Don’t be too particular 1868; Take a bumper and try
1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 compositions. _d._
at his daughter’s residence Pembroke lodge, East Molesey, Surrey
20 Feb. 1879. _bur._ East Molesey cemet. 25 Feb. _Theatrical
times ii_ 201 (1847) _portrait_; _Dramatic and musical review
ii_ 541–3 (1843); _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1879) 253–5; _I.L.N.
iv_ 389 (1844) _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iv_ 657
(1865) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news x_ 572, 574 (1879)
_portrait_; _Life of Ignatz Moscheles i_ 289, _ii_ 10, 107
(1873).
PARRY, LOUISA (3 dau. of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont,
Essex). Author of The young christian’s Sunday evening or
conversations on scripture history, the Old Testament 1836,
Second series, on the Four gospels 1837, Third series, on the
Acts of the Apostles 1840; _m._ 1824 Rev. Thomas Parry 1795–1870.
PARRY, SIR LOVE PARRY JONES- (eld. son of Thomas Jones of
Lwynen, Denbighshire, who took surname of Parry 1780). _b._
London 28 Nov. 1781; educ. Westminster sch.; elected to Trin.
coll. Camb. 1799; gentleman commoner Ch. Ch. Oxf. 8 May 1799;
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1811; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1802; ensign 105
foot April 1794; captain 112 foot 30 Oct. 1794, placed on h.p.
June 1795; captain 81 foot 9 July 1803; major 90 foot 28 Aug.
1804, placed on h.p. 16 June 1808; major 103 foot 5 Sept. 1811;
commanded a brigade on the Canadian frontier during the war
1812–4; major 6 garrison battalion 1 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p.
1814; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted 1835; K.H. 1836; M.P. Horsham
1806, re-elected 1807 but unseated on petition; M.P. Carnarvon
1835–37; contested Shrewsbury 30 June 1841; sheriff of Anglesey
1840; chairman of quarter sessions of Carnarvon many years. _d._
Madryn park, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire 23 Jany. 1853. _bur._ in
family vault, Llanbedrog church 1 Feb.
PARRY, ROBERT. _b._ Carnarvon Feb. 1804; a lecturer in the
Principality; a Welsh bard of great renown; known as Robyn Ddu
Eryri; received grant of £100 from Royal Bounty fund; author of
Awdl ar etholiad, Arglwydd Newborough yn aelod seneddawl dros
Swydd Caernafon 1826; Teithiau a barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri
1857. _d._ Ludlow, Salop Nov. 1892. _bur._ Ludlow 8 Nov.
PARRY, SEFTON HENRY. _b._ 1822; conducted dramatic performances
at Cape Town 1859; travelled with a small company in various
parts of the world; designed and built the Holborn theatre,
which he opened with Boucicault’s drama The flying scud 6 Oct.
1866, lessee of the house until 1872; built the Globe theatre,
which he opened with Byron’s Cyril’s success 28 Nov. 1868,
lessee until 1871; built the Avenue theatre, which he opened
with Offenbach’s Madame Favart 11 March 1882; proprietor of
theatres at Hull and Southampton; wrote The bright future, a
drama, produced at the opening of Grand theatre, Islington 4
Aug. 1883. _d._ Cricklewood lodge, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1887.
_bur._ Old Willesden churchyard 24 Dec. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_
(1891) 283, 327, 364, 552, 613; _Era 24 Dec. 1887 p._ 14.
PARRY, THOMAS (brother of John Parry of the Britannia theatre).
_b._ 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he
wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and
the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight,
a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s
trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a
comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama,
Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The
First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. _d._
Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862.
_The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p._ 11.
PARRY, THOMAS (4 son of Edmund Parry, R. of Llanferras,
Denbighshire). _b._ Llanferras 1795; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of Balliol coll. 1816;
R. of St. Leonard’s, Colchester 1817; archdeacon of Antigua
1824–40; archdeacon of Barbados 1840–2; bishop of Barbados
1842–69, consecrated in Westminster abbey 21 Aug. 1842; author
of Parochial sermons preached in the West Indies, Oxford, 1828;
A practical exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1832; The
apostleship and priesthood of Christ: an exposition of the
epistle to the Hebrews 1834; Ordination vows, a series of
sermons 1846. _d._ Malvern 16 March 1870. _bur._ West Malvern.
_I.L.N. lvi_ 386, 643 (1870).
PARRY, THOMAS GAMBIER (only child of Richard Parry, director
of H.E.I.C.) _b._ 22 Feb. 1816; educ. Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1848; purchased estate of Highnam, near
Gloucester 1838, which he raised from a small hamlet to an
important parish; built and endowed Highnam church, adorned the
walls with frescoes of his own designing, for which he invented
and employed a process named by him spirit frescoe; painted from
his own designs the frescoes on the six eastern bays of the roof
of the nave of Ely cathedral 1862–5; painted frescoes in St.
Andrew’s chapel, Gloucester cathedral; reported officially on
Painting on glass in the Paris exhibition of 1867, and on Mosaic
and glass painting in the London exhibition of 1871; founded and
endowed in Gloucester the free hospital for children, the St.
Lucy’s home for orphans, and the Gloucester schools of science
and art; author of Spirit fresco painting, an account of the
process 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The ministry of fine arts to the
happiness of life 1886. _d._ Highnam court, near Gloucester 28
Sept. 1888.
PARRY, SIR THOMAS LOVE DUNCOMBE JONES-, 1 Baronet (eld. son
of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). _b._ Llanbedrog,
Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ.
coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain
royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon
1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug.
1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. _d._ Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec.
1891. _bur._ Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.
PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry,
physician 1755–1822). _b._ Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30
June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to
the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition
to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville
island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the
freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26
Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another
expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer
1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and
wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the
admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from
Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827,
reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained
until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr.
for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834;
D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk
7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department
of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of
Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852;
lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death;
author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage
for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to
the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery
of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for
the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the
first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an
attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose
and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental
character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. _d._ Ems 8 July 1855. _bur._
in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July,
portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. _E.
Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry_ (1857) _portrait_; _Marshall’s
Royal naval biography viii_ 315 (1833); _G.M. ii_ 233–9 (1826);
_Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_ 603–12 (1855); _Georgian era iii_
87–91 (1833).
PARSELLE, JOHN. _b._ 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen;
attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9;
acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market,
Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s
management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he
also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860,
Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut.
Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward
Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865;
wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept.
1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April
1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went
to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected
with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New
York 1873 to death. _d._ New York 17 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Evergreen
cemetery. _Entr’acte Annual_ (1882) 58 _portrait_; _Scott and
Howard’s E. L. Blanchard_ (1891) 105, 720.
PARSONS, BENJAMIN (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). _b._
Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at
Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5;
congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to
death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has
been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have
you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a
baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud
1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question
settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts
for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. _d._ at
the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. _E. P. Hood’s The Earnest
minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons_ (1856) _portrait_; _The
lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ (1856) 520–41; _S. Couling’s
History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 339–40.
PARSONS, DANIEL (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne,
Dorset). _b._ 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A.
1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs.
1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican
orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870;
edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain
parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. _d._
Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.
PARSONS, ELIZABETH (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon,
congregational minister). _b._ Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted
a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for
whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her
pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become
popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to
meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns
for adults; _m._ 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she _d._ Plymouth
1873. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 69, 834, 882,
996, 1267; _W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover_ (1889) 442.
PARSONS, GEORGE SAMUEL. _b._ 1783; entered R.N. July 1795;
signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut.
1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy
from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on
board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander
15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from
memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany.
1854. _G.M. July 1854 p._ 79.
PARSONS, GERTRUDE (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall,
captain in 22 foot, _d._ 30 June 1838). _b._ Restormel near
Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844;
_m._ 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman,
or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June
1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30
Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established
church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The
romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3
vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3
vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint
Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879;
Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends
1890. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. _bur._ the Priory
church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub._ (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; _Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p._ 348.
PARSONS, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal
N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May
1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18
N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846
to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany.
1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July
1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53;
col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death;
commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18
March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of
France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree
war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign
and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. _d._ Almorah,
N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.
PARSONS, JAMES (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational
minister 1762–1833). _b._ Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the
academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at
Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York,
opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman
of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the
Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society
1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of
Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827;
Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of
his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. _d._ York 20
Oct. 1877. _bur._ York 26 Oct. _The lamps of the temple_, _3
ed._ (1856) 282–323; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 332–5;
_Congregational magazine_ (1831) 229–40; _Congregationalist_
(1877) 748–53; _The Pulpit v_ (1826) _portrait and xvi_ 250–2,
365; _E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials_ (1878)
343–80.
PARSONS, JOHN MEESON (youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport,
Shropshire). _b._ Newport 27 Oct. 1798; a member of the Stock
exchange, London; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1839; a director of London and
Brighton railway company 9 Feb. 1843 to 21 Aug. 1848, chairman
19 June 1843 to 11 April 1844; a director of the Shropshire
union railway 1845–9; resided at 6 Raymond buildings, Gray’s
inn to 1869; collected a gallery of pictures of the German and
Dutch schools and of water-colour drawings by English artists;
bequeathed 92 oil and 47 water-colour paintings to South
Kensington museum 1870; he also gave three pictures to the
National gallery, and many fine engravings to British Museum.
_d._ 45 Russell sq. Bloomsbury, London 25 March 1870. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 252–3 (1871).
PARSONS, NEEDHAM THOMPSON. _b._ 1 Nov. 1826; ensign 1 European
Bengal fusiliers 26 July 1845; captain 101 foot 12 March 1858,
major 15 Sept. 1869; lieut.-col. 103 foot 24 July 1872, placed
on h.p. 8 Dec. 1877; lieut.-col. regimental district 19 Dec.
1877 to 19 Dec. 1882; honorary M.G. 17 Nov. 1883; served in the
Burmese war 1852–3, the Indian mutiny 1857, and the Indian north
west frontier war 1863. _d._ Isle of Man 7 Aug. 1895.
PARSONS, PERCIVAL MOSES (son of John Parsons of Seraptoft house,
Leics.) _b._ London 1819; under chief engineer Portsmouth
dockyard 1834–6; articled to Braithwaite, Milner & co. 1836–40;
engaged laying out Eastern counties’ railway 1841–5; an engineer
in London from 1850; invented improved switches and axle-boxes;
connected with the Permanent way co.; designed a central railway
station for London on north bank of the Thames, near Charing
Cross 1853; patented an invention for rifled cannon which
had occupied him 8 years; patented improved bolts Feb. 1867;
engineer to the Bessemer steel and ordnance co. 1871; invented
white brass for shaft bearings, and manganese bronze for
propellers; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1873; took out 52 patents 1851–89;
author of Proposed London railway 1853; Guns versus armour
plates 1863. _d._ Melbourne house, Blackheath, Kent 5 Nov. 1892.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxi_ 385–9 (1893).
PART, JAMES. _b._ Wigan 1809; apprentice to Christopher Morris
of Wigan; educ. St. Bartholomew’s, Aldersgate sch. and Univ.
coll.; L.S.A. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1854; F.M.C. and
C.S. 1851; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1860; surgeon Artists’ annuity fund
soc.; president North London medical soc.; author of Medical and
surgical case book. _d._ 89 Camden road, London 1 Oct. 1875.
_Lancet 24 Dec. 1875 p._ 931; _Proc. of royal Med. and Chir.
soc. viii_ 71 (1875).
PARTINGTON, CHARLES FREDERICK. Lecturer on modern improvements
in mechanics and on other subjects at mechanics’ institutions;
published Lectures on select subjects in mechanics and
hydrostatics by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present
state of science 1825; The century of inventions by the Marquis
of Worcester, with notes and a biographical memoir 1825; edited
The scientific gazette July 1825 to 4 Feb. 1826; edited with
Wm. Newton the second series of The London journal of arts and
sciences, 9 vols. 1834–42; edited with other authors The British
cyclopædia of arts and sciences, 10 vols. 1835–8; author of An
historical and descriptive account of the steam engine 1822, 3
ed. 1826; A brief account of the royal gardens, Vauxhall 1822; A
manual of natural and experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 1828; The
builder’s complete guide 1852; he was living in 1857.
PARTON, JAMES. _b._ Canterbury 9 Feb. 1822; taken to America
1827; a teacher in Philadelphia and New York; a contributor to
the Home journal 3 years; a public lecturer; resided in New York
to 1875, then at Newbury Port, Massachusetts; _m._ Jany. 1856
Sarah Payson Willis (1811–72) widow of Charles H. Eldredge,
she became a well known author under the name of Fanny Fern;
he was the author of The life of Horace Greeley 1855; General
Butler in New Orleans 1864; The life of Aaron Burr 1861; Life
of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1864; Life of J. J. Astor 1865;
Famous Americans of recent time 1867; Eminent Women of the age
1868; People’s Book of biography 1869; Life of Thomas Jefferson
1874; Caricature and other comic art in all times 1877; The
humorous poetry from Chaucer to Saxe 1881; Life of Voltaire, 2
vols. 1881; Life of Andrew Jackson, 3 vols. 1883. _d._ Newbury
port, Massachusetts 17 Oct. 1891. _Appleton’s American Biog. iv_
665–6 (1888) _portraits of J. and S. P. Parton_.
PARTRIDGE, JOHN (son of Samuel Partridge). _b._ Glasgow 28
Feb. 1790; pupil of Thomas Phillips, R.A. about 1814; studied
in France and Italy 1823–7; a fashionable portrait painter
in London 1827; painted portraits of the queen and prince
Albert 1840; portrait painter extraordinary to the queen 1842;
exhibited 72 pictures at R.A. and 58 at B.I. 1815–61; presented
to the National portrait gallery 1872 his picture entitled
Meeting of the fine art commission at Gwydyr house, Whitehall in
the year 1846; author of On the constitution and management of
the royal academy 1864. _d._ 60 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London
25 Nov. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1873) 44.
PARTRIDGE, RICHARD. _b._ 19 Jany. 1805; apprenticed to his uncle
W. H. Partridge of Birmingham 1821–7; entered St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1827; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council
1852, examiner 1854, Hunterian orator 1865, and president 1866;
L.S.A. 1827; demonstrator of anatomy at Kings’ college, London
1831–6, professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy 1836 to
death; assistant surgeon to Charing Cross hospital 23 Dec. 1836,
surgeon 8 Jany. 1838 to 13 April 1840; surgeon to Kings’ college
hospital 13 April 1840 to 1870; F.R.S. 23 Feb. 1837; professor
of anatomy at the royal academy 1853 to death; fellow of royal
Med. and Chir. soc. of London 1828, secretary 1832–6, member of
council 1837–8 and 1861–2, vice-pres. 1847–8, president 1863–4.
_d._ 18 Wimpole st. London 25 March 1873. _Illust. times 4 Oct.
1869 p._ 369 _portrait_; _Lancet 29 March 1873 pp._ 456, 464.
NOTE.--The body of the murdered Italian boy Carlo Ferrari was brought
to Kings’ coll. hospital for dissection, and it was through Partridge’s
astuteness that the murderers Bishop and Williams were arrested, and
executed 5 Dec. 1831.
PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM (1 son of John Partridge of Monmouth). _b._
2 Jany. 1818; educ. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840,
M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 12 June 1840; barrister
M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; stipendiary magistrate, Wolverhampton 1860–3;
police magistrate at the Thames court 2 April 1863, at Southwark
1867–79, at Westminster 1879–89, at Lambeth 1889–90, and at
Marylebone 1890 to death; presided in his court 29 Aug. 1891.
_d._ The Grange, Uxbridge road, London 10 Sept. 1891. _Graphic
19 Sept. 1891 p._ 327 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1891 p._ 369
_portrait_.
PASCO, JOHN. _b._ 20 Dec. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1784;
lieutenant of the Victory in the Mediterranean April 1803;
served at the blockade of Toulon, in the chase of the French
fleet to the West Indies, and in the battle of Trafalgar, where
as signal officer, he made Nelson’s famous signal England
expects that every man will do his duty, severely wounded in the
right arm for which he was afterwards granted pension of £250 a
year; captain 3 April 1811; captain of the Rota frigate on the
Lisbon station 1811–5; commanded the Victory at Portsmouth 1846;
R.A. 22 Sept. 1847. _d._ East Stonehouse, Devon 16 Nov. 1853.
_O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 869–70.
PASCOE, FRANCIS POLKINGHORNE (only child of Wm. Pascoe of
Penzance, Cornwall, _d._ 1817). _b._ Penzance 1 Sept. 1813;
studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1835;
assistant surgeon in the navy 1836–43; resided in London
1851–91, where he formed the entomological collection, which is
in the Natural history museum at South Kensington; F.L.S. June
1852; member of Entomological society of London 1854, president
1864–5; author of Zoological classification 1877, 2 ed. 1880;
Hints for collecting and preserving insects 1882; The student’s
list of British coleoptera 1882; Notes on natural selection and
the origin of species 1884; List of British vertebrate animals
1885; Analytical lists of the orders of the animal kingdom
1886; The Darwinian theory of the origin of species 1890. _d._
Brighton 20 June 1893. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_
427–9, _iii_ 1302 (1882–90); _Entomologists’ monthly mag._
(1893) 194–6.
PASHLEY, ROBERT (son of Robert Pashley of Hull). _b._ York 4
Sept. 1805; admitted at Trin. coll. Camb. 3 May 1825, fellow
1830–53; took a double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832;
travelled in Greece, Asia Minor and Crete 1833; barrister I.T.
17 Nov. 1837, bencher 1851 to death; Q.C. July 1851; contested
King’s Lynn 9 July 1852; assistant judge of the Middlesex
sessions 19 Jany. 1856 to death; author of Travels in Crete, 2
vols. 1837; Pauperism and poor laws 1853; Observations on the
government bill for abolishing the removal of the poor 1854,
2 ed. 1854. _d._ 16 Manchester sq. London 29 May 1859. _bur._
Kensal green cemet. 4 June. _G.M. vii_ 191 (1859); _Law Times
xxxiii_ 154, 225 (1859).
NOTE.--He acquired great reputation as a settlement lawyer, raising the
most ingenious points and arguing them with such pertinacity, that the
act for regulating appeals which gave the court the power of amendment
was jocosely called in Westminster Hall “An act for the better
suppression of Pashley” about 1850.
PASLEY, CHARLES (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ Brompton
barracks, Chatham, Kent 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Rochester gr.
sch. and R.M. Academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1843;
served in Canada and Bermuda 1846–50; on the staff of the Great
Exhibition 1851; colonial engineer to the colony of Victoria 18
Sept. 1853, member of legislative council 16 Oct. 1854; comr.
of public works for Victoria 25 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857,
professional head of department of public works 1857–60; served
in the war in New Zealand 1860, where he was wounded in the
attack of the pah at Kaihihi, for which he was granted a pension
of £100 per annum; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; special agent for
Victoria in London 1864 to Dec. 1868; in charge of the great
extension works at Chatham dockyard Oct. 1865 to 1873; secretary
to the committee on designs for ships of war Dec. 1870, member
of the committee May 1871, drafted the report; colonel in the
army April 1876, retired as major general Aug. 1881; director
of engineering works and of architecture at the admiralty Sept.
1873 to Sept. 1882; acting agent general for Victoria with title
of chairman of the board of advice May 1880 to 1882; C.B. 23
April 1880. _d._ 7 Queen Anne’s grove, Bedford park, Chiswick 11
Nov. 1890. _Royal engineer’s journal_ (1891); _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. ciii_ 388–92 (1891).
PASLEY, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM. _b._ Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire
8 Sept. 1780; educ. at Selkirk and R.M. academy, Woolwich;
2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 April 1798, col.
commandant 28 Nov. 1853 to death; served at the battle of
Corunna, also in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege
of Flushing 1809; director of the establishment for field
instruction at Chatham June 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; hon. M.I.C.E.
1820; presented with freedom of city of London, for having
removed the brig William and the schooner Glenmorgan from the
bed of the Thames, near Gravesend in 1838; blew up wreck of the
Royal George at Spithead 1839–43; formed the schools for the
royal engineers and for the navy; inspector general of railways
23 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.S. 7 March 1816; general 20 Sept.
1860; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831, K.C.B. 21 Dec. 1846; author of Essay
on the military policy and institutions of the British empire
1810, 4 ed. 1812; Course of instruction for use of the royal
engineer department, 3 vols. 1814–7; A course of elementary
fortifications, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1822; The practical operations of
a siege, 2 parts 1829–32; Observations on limes, calcareous,
cements, mortar, stuccos, and concretes 1838. _d._ 12 Norfolk
crescent, Hyde park, London 19 April 1861, portrait in royal
engineers’ mess-room at Chatham. _Proc. of royal society xii_
20–5 (1862); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 545–50
(1862).
PASLEY, SIR THOMAS SABINE, 2 Baronet (only son of colonel
John Sabine of the grenadier guards 1773–1805). _b._ Welbeck
st. London 26 Dec. 1804; succeeded his grandfather sir Thomas
Pasley as baronet 29 Nov. 1808; assumed surname of Pasley by
R.L. 20 March 1809; entered navy Dec. 1818; captain 24 May
1831; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1849–54; captain of
the Agamemnon in the Black sea Nov. 1854 to 31 Jany. 1856;
superintendent of Devonport dockyard Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862;
commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1866 to 25 Feb. 1869;
admiral 20 Nov. 1866; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Moorhill,
Shedfield, Botley, Hampshire 13 Feb. 1884.
PASSMORE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1822; member of firm of Alabaster and
Passmore, printers and publishers, 34 Wilson st. Finsbury,
London 1853, Alabaster died 1891; a member of C. H. Spurgeon’s
church, actively assisted in building the Tabernacle
institutions and in founding the Stockwell orphanage 1867;
suggested the weekly issue of Spurgeon’s Sermons 1855 and
continued printing it without intermission 36 years; printed and
published the whole of Spurgeon’s works 1855–95. _d._ at his
residence in London 1 Aug. 1895. _Bookseller Sept. 1895 p._ 778.
PASTA, GIUDITTA (dau. of Mr. Negri, a Jew). _b._ Sarrano, near
Milan 1798; had a soprano voice of two octaves and a half, from
A above the bass clef note to C flat and even to D in alt.;
appeared at King’s theatre, London 11 Jany. 1817 as Telemaco in
Cimarosa’s Penelope; then acted Cherubino in Nozze de Figaro;
appeared at King’s theatre 24 April 1824 as Desdemona and was a
great success, her salary being £14,000; was also seen in London
1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1831, 1837, 1850; among her parts were
Tancredi, Romeo, Desdemona, Medea, Semiramide, Maria Stuarda,
Niobe, Anna Bolena, and Norma; lost her fortune in the failure
of Guymuller’s bank, Vienna 1841. _d._ at her villa at Como 1
April 1865. _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii_ 1–32 (1863)
_portrait_; _Musical gem for 1831 p._ 2 _portrait_.
PASTRANA, JULIA, called the Nondescript; said to have been born
near Copala, Mexico 1834; a servant to Pedro Sanchez, governor
of the state of Sinaloa to 1854; brought to the United States
April 1854 and was publicly exhibited; her nose, forehead, face,
shoulders and arms were covered with thick black hair, and all
her body was hairy except her bosom, hands and feet; had no
apparent pupil in the eye, no cartilage in the nose; possessed
double gums in her jaws, but only one row of front teeth; spoke
and sang in English and Spanish, and danced the Highland fling,
etc.; could sew, cook, wash and iron; 4 ft. 6 inches high
and weighed 112 pounds; was exhibited at the Regent gallery
69 Quadrant, London Aug. 1857; _m._ Lewis B. Lent, circus
manager. _d._ in childbirth at Moscow April 1860. _Account of
Miss Pastrana_, _London_ (1857) _portrait_; _F. T. Buckland’s
Curiosities of Natural history_, _3 Series_, _ii_ 40–2 (1868);
_G. Van Hare’s Fifty years of a showman’s life_ (1888) 46.
NOTE.--Mr. Lent sold her body to Dr. Suckaloff for £500, who embalmed
it so naturally that Lent thought he could make a fortune by exhibiting
it and gave the doctor £800 for it, but the authorities would not allow
him to show it in Russia; he exhibited it at the Burlington gallery,
191 Piccadilly, London in March 1862.
PATCH, JOHN. _b._ 1798; surgeon Bombay army 29 Dec. 1833;
superintending surgeon in Sinde 31 March 1846 to 1848; surgeon
general Bombay army 29 Aug. 1848, retired 17 Sept. 1849. _d._
Penzance, Cornwall 20 Aug. 1865.
PATE, ROBERT (son of Robert Francis Pate of Wisbeach, sheriff
of Cambs. 1848). Cornet 10 hussars 5 Feb. 1841, lieut. 22 July
1842, sold out March 1846; struck the Queen on the head with
his cane, outside Cambridge house, 94 Piccadilly 27 May 1850,
sentenced at central criminal court to 7 years’ transportation
11 July 1850; resided Hobart Town, Tasmania. _d._ Broughton,
Ross road, South Norwood, Surrey 6 Feb. 1895, will proved for
£22,464. _A.R._ (1850) 73, 331–9; _Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 93
(1884).
PATER, WALTER HORATIO (younger son of Richard Glode Pater of
Shadwell, London, physician). _b._ Shadwell 4 Aug. 1839; educ.
at Enfield and King’s school, Canterbury; entered Queen’s
college, Oxford as a commoner 11 June 1858; B.A. 1862, M.A.
1865; fellow of Brasenose college 1864, junior dean 1866, tutor
1867–83, dean 1871, lecturer 1873; wrote an essay on Winckelmann
in the Westminster Review Jany. 1867, which made him famous;
wrote essays in the Fortnightly Review and other periodicals;
is caricatured by W. H. Mallock in his novel The new republic,
2 vols. 1877, under the name of Mr. Rose; author of Studies
in the history of the renaissance 1873, 2 ed. called The
renaissance 1877, 4th thousand 1888; Marius the epicurean 1885,
2 ed. 2 vols. 1892; Imaginary portraits 1887; Appreciations,
with an essay on style 1889; Plato and Platonism 1893; The child
in the house, an imaginary portrait 1894. _d._ 64 St. Giles’s,
Oxford 30 July 1894. _bur._ St. Giles’s cemet. Oxford 2 Aug.,
his sisters Hester and Clara Pater were granted civil list
pensions of £50 each 8 Jany. 1895. _W. H. Pater’s Greek Studies,
a series of essays_ (1895) _portrait; Contemporary Review Dec.
1894 pp._ 795–810; _I.L.N. 4 Aug. 1894 p._ 135 _portrait_;
_Westminster Budget 3 Aug. 1894 p._ 21 _portrait_.
PATERSON, ADAM (son of rev. Mr. Paterson). _b._ Kinghorn manse,
Flint-shire 8 March 1811; educ. St. Andrew’s univ. LL.D. 1871;
partner in firm of H. and R. Moncrieff, writers, Glasgow 1837 to
death; defended some of directors of Western bank of Scotland
1857; dean of faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1870–5; member of
Soc. of Sons of the clergy 1848 to death, and president 1858;
a royal comr. on the Scotch courts of justice 1878, issued 5
reports. _d._ Springhall, Rutherglen, near Glasgow 1 July 1881.
_Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 261–2 (1886) _portrait_; _Law Times
lxxi_ 254 (1881).
PATERSON, EMMA ANNE (dau. of Henry Smith 1808–64, head master
of the schools of St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London).
_b._ London 5 April 1848; a German and Italian scholar;
assistant secretary of the Workmen’s club and institute union
1867–72; secretary of the Women’s suffrage association Feb.
1872, resigned 1873; visited America 1873; founded the Women’s
protective and provident league 8 July 1874, honorary secretary
to death, attended many annual conferences; contributed to
the Labour News 1874; a delegate to the trade union congress
at Glasgow, being the first female delegate 1875; edited
the Women’s union journal, a monthly record of the league
proceedings, started Feb. 1876, and wrote greater part of the
contents; founded the Women’s printing society at Westminster
1876; _m._ 24 July 1873 Thomas Paterson 1828–1852; she _d._
at her lodgings in Great college st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1856.
_bur._ in Paddington cemet. Willesden 6 Dec. _The Woman’s union
journal Dec. 1886 pp._ 111–18; _Englishwoman’s Rev. Dec. 1886
pp._ 540–3.
PATERSON, JAMES (son of James Paterson, farmer at Struthers,
Ayrshire). _b._ Struthers 18 March 1805; apprenticed to a
printer at Kilmarnock; stationer and printer at Kilmarnock
1826–35; Dublin correspondent of the Glasgow Liberator 1835;
wrote at Edinburgh the letter-press for Kay’s Edinburgh
portraits 1837–9; edited the Ayr Observer 1839–46; author
of The contemporaries of Burns and the more recent poets of
Ayrshire 1840; History of the county of Ayr 1847; Memoir of
James Fillans, sculptor 1854; Origin of the Scots and of the
Scottish language 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Wallace and his times 1858,
4 ed. 1870. _d._ Edinburgh 26 May 1876. _James Paterson’s
Autobiographical reminiscences_ (1871) _portrait_.
PATERSON, JAMES (3 son of Alexander Paterson of Janefield,
Lauder, Berwickshire). _b._ 1823: barrister M.T. 24 May 1850;
author of The wine and beer house act 1869–70, with notes 1870;
The bastardy laws amendment act 1872, 1873; The intoxicating
liquor acts 1872; Commentaries on the liberty of the subject,
2 vols. 1877–8; The liberty of the press, speech, and public
worship 1880; Notes on the law of master and servant 1885. _d._
10 Hyde park mansions, London 10 Dec. 1894.
PATERSON, JOHN (3 child of George Paterson of Duntocher, near
Glasgow). _b._ Duntocher 26 Feb 1776; educ. univ. of Glasgow
1798; a preacher under the rev. Robert Haldane; congregational
missionary in Denmark 1804–7, at Stockholm 1807–12, at St.
Petersburgh 1812; conducted the affairs of the Russian bible
society 1822–5; served at Edinburgh as secretary for Scotland
of the London missionary society many years; chairman of the
committee of the Congregational union; doctor of theology univ.
of Abo in Finland 1 Nov. 1817; author of The book for every
land, reminiscences of labour in the work of bible circulation
in the North of Europe and in Russia, edited by W. L. Alexander
1858, memoir pp. xi–xxxv. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 6 July
1855. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 162–4.
PATERSON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1775; ensign 28 foot 17 May 1779;
captain 77 foot 7 May 1807; major York chasseurs 29 Sept. 1814,
placed on h.p. 14 Dec. 1819; lieut.-col. on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825;
lieut.-col. rifle brigade 1 Jany. 1838 to 6 Feb. 1839, when
placed on h.p.; colonel commandant of 60 rifles 14 April 1857 to
death; a cavalry volunteer in Irish rebellion 1798; served in
Egypt 1801, in the Peninsula 1811–14, also in the West Indies
and Canada; L.G. 26 Aug. 1858. _d._ at the residence of his
niece Lower Baggot st. Dublin 31 March 1863.
PATERSON, NATHANIEL (eld. son of Walter Paterson,
stone-engraver). _b._ parish of Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire 1787;
educ. univ. of Edinb.; church of Scotland minister of Galashiels
1821–33; minister of St. Andrew’s parish church, Glasgow
1833–43; minister of free St. Andrew’s, Glasgow 1844 to death;
moderator of the free church assembly 1850; author of The Manse
Garden 1836, 9th thousand 1860. _d._ Glasgow 25 April 1871.
_Letters to his family by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., with memoir
by Rev. Alexander Anderson_ (1874).
PATERSON, NOEL HUNTINGDON (son of John Paterson, commander
R.N., of Calcutta and Camberwell, London). _b._ London 14 June
1844; educ. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1853–63; exhibitioner of
Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1863, resigned to take Stuart exhibition at
St. John’s coll. 1863; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1872; barrister M.T.
17 Nov. 1869; went south eastern circuit; published A manual
of the usages of the stock exchange 1870; edited Woolrych’s
Metropolitan building acts, 2 ed. 1877; assisted in editing
Wharton’s Law lexicon, 6 ed. 1876. _killed_ by an accident on
the Lyskamm, near Zermatt 6 Sept. 1877. _bur._ at Zermatt 10
Sept. _Law Times lxiii_ 353 (1877).
PATERSON, THOMAS (son of Robert Paterson of Plewlands,
Ayrshire). _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1795, col. commandant
15 Aug. 1850 to death; served in Canada and West Indies
1796–1804, in expedition to Copenhagen 1807, and in Walcheren
expedition 1809; superintendent of royal military repository at
Woolwich 1836–46; L.G. 30 June 1854. _d._ Woolwich 13 June 1856.
PATERSON, THOMAS (son of a cabinet maker in London). _b._ Elgin
1828; a cabinet maker and wood carver in London; a political
economist; member of council of Women’s protective and provident
league 1874; hon. sec. Clerkenwell Working men’s club 1863;
hon. sec. of Working men’s club and Institute union 1866,
vice-chairman of the council; member of council of Workmen’s
Peace association to death; with Auberon Herbert and J. W.
Probyn organised the Workmen’s international exhibition at
Agricultural hall, London 1870; much engaged in endeavouring to
improve the education and prosperity of the working classes.
_d._ 2 Queen sq. place, Bloomsbury, London 15 Oct. 1882. _bur._
Paddington cemet. Willesden 19 Oct. _T. Paterson’s A new method
of mental science_ (1886) _memoir pp. i–viii_; _The women’s
union journal Nov. 1882 pp._ 89–90.
PATERSON, THOMAS VARLEY. _b._ 1811; author and journalist in
England and America; author of How to get money quickly or
thirty ways of making a fortune 1868; The art of living or good
advice for the young and old 1875. _d._ 35 Harrison st. Gray’s
Inn road, London 2 Feb. 1880.
PATERSON, WILLIAM (son of a market gardener). _b._ Shepherd’s
Loan, Dundee; assisted in his father’s business; experimented
in raising new varieties of potatoes from 1853; produced the
new varieties known as Paterson’s Seedlings, which since 1860
have been extensively cultivated, not only in the United
Kingdom but also on the Continent, in America and Australasia;
awarded silver medal of Manchester and Liverpool agricultural
society and gold medal of Highland and agricultural society of
Scotland; received medal of the Erfurt society and their diploma
of honour. _d._ 3 Jany. 1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_
(1873) 352.
PATESHALL, EVAN (youngest son of David Thomas of Welfield,
Radnor). _b._ 21 Dec. 1817; educ. Shrewsbury and King’s coll.
London; M.P. Hereford 1874–8; _m._ 1842 Anne Elizabeth, only
child of William Pateshall of Hereford, and assumed name of
Pateshall 1855. _d._ Allensmore court, Hereford 9 April 1885.
PATEY, CHARLES GEORGE EDWARD (son of Charles Patey, commander
R.N.). _b._ 1811; entered navy 20 Jany. 1824, commander 4 Nov.
1840; commanded the Resistance troopship March 1842 to 18
May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; organized the emigration from
Liverpool to Australia 1851 and was head emigration officer at
Liverpool to 1852 when he received a testimonial; captain of
the Amphion at Sheerness Dec. 1852 to 1853; emigration officer
at Plymouth 1855–7; superintendent of the packet service at
Southampton 1857–64; administrator at Lagos 1866, at the Gambia
Oct. 1866; governor of St. Helena 6 Dec. 1869, retired on
abolition of the office 1873; C.M.G. 8 May 1874; retired admiral
1 Aug. 1877. _d._ Newton St. Loe, near Bath 25 March 1881.
_I.L.N. xxii_ 181 (1853), _view of testimonial plate_.
PATEY, CHARLES HENRY BENNET (son of preceding). _b._ 1844;
clerk in secretary’s office, Post office, London 1863; actively
employed in purchasing the telegraphic lines from the railway
companies 1868 etc.; assist. sec. to post office 1877; third
sec. 1882; conducted negotiations for taking over telephones
from private companies 1881; re-organised the department on
introduction of sixpenny telegrams 1883; attended International
telegraph congresses and corresponded with continental
governments on international telegraphy; C.B. 3 Aug. 1886; _m._
1871 Helen, dau. of Nathaniel Overberry, she was granted civil
list pension of £200, 10 May 1889. _d._ South lawn, Bickley,
Kent 28 March 1889.
PATEY, JANET MONACH (dau. of Andrew Whytock of London, grocer).
_b._ 30 Kingsgate st. Holborn, London 1 May 1842; first sang
in 1860 at Birmingham, under name of Ellen Andrews; pupil of
Ciro Pinsuti and Mrs. Sims Reeves; made her first concert tour
1865; _m._ 23 April 1866 John George Patey, baritone singer;
principal contralto at Worcester festival 1866, at Birmingham
1867, and at Norwich 1869; the principal English contralto 1870
to death; sang in America 1871; sang in four performances of the
Messiah in French in Paris Jany. 1875; sang at two conservatoire
concerts there 31 Jany. and 7 Feb. 1875, when presented with
a medal; was known as the English Alboni; made a tour in
Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan 1890; began a farewell
tour of the English provinces at end of 1893. _d._ of apoplexy
at the royal Victoria hotel, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1894. _bur._
Brompton cemet. London 3 March. _Biograph Jany. 1882 pp._ 36–8;
_London sketch book 7 Aug. 1875 pp._ 8–9 _portrait_; _Illust.
sp. and dr. news v_ 12 (1876) _portrait_, _xv_ 217 (1881)
_portrait_, _3 March 1894 p._ 885 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391,
393 (1875) _portrait_.
PATMORE, GURNEY (younger brother of Coventry Patmore, poet, _b._
1823). Sub-editor of Daily News; edited Derby Mercury; connected
with Melbourne Argus; returned to England about 1868. _d._
Manchester 24 March 1883.
PATMORE, HENRY (3 son of Coventry Patmore the poet, _b._ 1823).
_b._ Finchley 8 May 1860; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw
1870–7; matric. at univ. of London 1877; lost sight of one eye
1878; went a voyage to the Cape 1881; articled to Henry Watson
Parker, solicitor, London 1882; author of Poems by Henry Patmore
(1884) memoir pp. i–vi. _d._ Hastings 24 Feb. 1883.
PATMORE, PETER GEORGE (son of Peter Patmore, dealer in plate and
jewellery). _b._ Ludgate hill, London 1786; friend of Charles
Lamb and Wm. Hazlitt from 1824; edited the New monthly magazine
1841–53; contributed to the Liberal, the Westminster and the
Retrospective reviews, Blackwood and the London magazines;
author of Letters on England, by Count Victoire de Soligny [a
pseudonym], 2 vols. 1823; Mirror of the month 1826, anon;
British galleries of art 1824, anon; Imitations of celebrated
authors, or imaginary rejected articles 1826, anon, 4 ed.
1844; Sir Thomas Lawrence’s cabinet of gems 1837; Chatsworth
or the romance of a week, 3 vols. 1844, anon; Finden’s Gallery
of beauty, or the court of queen Victoria 1844; Marriage
in Mayfair, a comedy 1854; My friends and acquaintances,
recollections of deceased celebrities of the nineteenth century,
3 vols. 1855. _d._ near Hampstead 25 Dec. 1855.
NOTE.--W. Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris 1823 was based on letters written by
P. G. Patmore, and some of Charles Lamb’s epistles are addressed to
him. _P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii_ 34–9 (1886).
PATON, ADAM (son of Hugh Paton, publisher). _b._ Edinburgh 1836;
an inventor of lithographic machines; was engaged in working at
a multi-colour machine at time of his death. _d._ Belston road,
Leeds 7 Jany. 1893.
PATON, ANDREW ARCHIBALD (son of Andrew Paton, saddler). _b._
75 Broughton st. Edinburgh 19 March 1811; travelled in Eastern
Europe, Syria, and Egypt; private secretary to colonel George
Hodges in Egypt 1839–40; acting consul-general in Servia Oct.
1843; vice-consul at Missolonghi in Greece 5 April 1858, and
at Lubeck 19 Aug. 1859; consul at Ragusa and at Bocca di
Cattaro 12 May 1862 to death; F.R.G.S. 11 Feb. 1857; author of
The modern Syrians. By An Oriental student 1844; Servia, or a
residence in Belgrade 1845, 2 ed. 1855; Highlands and islands
of the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1849; The Mamelukes: a romance of life
in Grand Cairo, 3 vols. 1851, republished as Melusina, a new
Arabian nights entertainment 1861; Researches on the Danube and
the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1861. _d._ 5 April 1874.
PATON, JOHN STAFFORD (son of John Forbes Paton, captain Bengal
engineers). _b._ 3 March 1821; lieut. 14 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct.
1840, captain 8 Feb. 1851; served in the Sikh war 1845–6, and
the Punjaub campaign 1848–9; A.Q.M.G. at Lahore 12 Sept. 1851,
deputy Q.M.G. 15 Sept. 1858, Q.M.G. in Bengal 10 April 1863 to
1868; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; was mentioned in
despatches and orders 30 times; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 86 Oxford
terrace, London 28 Nov. 1889.
PATON, Mary Ann (eld. dau. of George Paton, writing-master at
the Edinburgh high school). _b._ Edinburgh Oct. 1802; appeared
at public concerts as a singer and as a performer on the harp
and pianoforte 1811; sang at concerts in London 1811–14; played
Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro at the Haymarket 3 Aug. 1822;
sang at Covent Garden as Mandane in Artaxerxes, Rosetta in Love
in a village, Adriana in The comedy of errors, and Clara in
The Duenna 21 Dec. 1825; sang Agatha in Der Freischutz 14 Oct.
1824, and created part of Reiza in Weber’s opera Oberon 12 April
1826; the leading English soprano singer many years; sang in
La Cenerentola and other Italian operas at the King’s theatre
1831, and Alice in Robert le Diable at Drury Lane 1832; sang in
America 1834–6; retired to a convent for a year, but reappeared
at Princess’s theatre and at concerts, finally retired 1844;
became a Roman catholic 1843; lived abroad 1854–63; _m._ (1)
7 May 1824 lord Wm. Pitt Lennox (1799–1881), she obtained a
divorce in the Scotch court of session in 1831; _m._ (2) 1831
Joseph Woods, tenor singer; she _d._ Bulcliffe hall, near
Chapelthorpe, Wakefield 21 July 1864. _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of
song ii_ 45–67 (1863); _The London stage_, _vol. iv portrait_;
_Georgian era iv_ 309 (1834); _W. Ball’s London Spring Annual
for 1834_, _pp._ 34–35 _portrait_; _Musical Gem for 1832_,
_p._ 46 _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography v_ 19 (1826)
_portrait_.
PATON, WALLER HUGH (son of Joseph Neil Paton, damask designer).
_b._ Wooers-Alley, Dunfermline 27 July 1828; pupil of John
Houston, R.S.A.; an associate of the R.S.A. 1857, member 1865,
contributed pictures to its exhibitions 1851 to death; prepared
with his brother, sir Noel Paton, illustrations for Aytoun’s
Lays of the Scottish cavaliers 1863; exhibited 16 landscapes
at Royal academy, London 1860–80; F.S.A. Scotland 1869; member
of royal Scottish society of water-colour painters 1878;
his diploma picture Lamlash Bay is in the national gallery,
Edinburgh; illustrated Poems and songs of R. Burns 1868; and The
poetical works of E. A. Poe 1869. _d._ 14 George sq. Edinburgh 8
March 1895.
PATON, WALTER. _b._ 1793; an eminent penman; author of
Penmanship 1825; Paton’s Flowers of penmanship 1840. _d._
Richmond, Surrey 11 Sept. 1855.
PATRICK, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 4 June 1803; a musical composer; made
collections of books, paintings, and minerals; Associate British
Archæol. assoc. from 1847; composer of Forget me not, a ballad
1829. _d._ 20 Feb. 1859. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc.
xvi_ 168 (1860).
PATTEN, GEORGE (son of Wm. Patten, miniature-painter, _d._
1843). _b._ 29 June 1801; student at the R.A. 1816; painted
miniatures 1819–30, and portraits and historical pictures
1830 to death; A.R.A. 1837; portrait painter in ordinary to
the prince consort; painted the only portrait of Paganini,
the violinist, exhibited at the R.A. 1833; exhibited his own
portrait at the R.A. 1858; painted mythological, fancy, and
scriptural subjects; exhibited 131 pictures at R.A. and 16 at
Suffolk st. 1819–64. _d._ Hill house, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
11 March 1865. _bur._ St. James’s churchyard, Friern, Barnet.
_Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 211 (1862).
PATTERSON, ALEXANDER SIMPSON (son of Robert Paterson of
Crofthouse, Alnwick). Licensed by presbytery of Dunbar 5 Dec.
1822; minister at Whitehaven 3 May 1837; elected by Glasgow
church building soc. 11 March 1839, served to 28 June 1843;
called to the Free church, St. Andrews 1847; minister of
Hutchesonton free church, Hospital st. Glasgow to death; edited
The Imperial illustrated bible 1858; The self-explanatory
family bible 1859; Illustrated family bible 1876; author of
A brief commentary on the First epistle to the Thessalonians
1846; A commentary on the Hebrews 1856; Commentaries on the
First epistle to the Thessalonians, the Epistle of James, and
the First epistle of John 1857; Poets and preachers of the
nineteenth century 1862; The Redeemer and the redemption,
discourses 1865; Sketches in verse of a continental tour 1866.
_d._ 1885. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 238–44; _H.
Scott’s Fasti ii_, _part_ 1 _p._ 48.
PATTERSON, SIR JAMES BROWN (youngest son of James Patterson,
district road inspector). _b._ Alnwick, Northumberland 18 Nov.
1833; went to Forest Creek goldfields, Victoria 1852; member for
Castlemaine of legislative assembly of Victoria 1871 to death;
comr. of public works and vice-president of the board of land
and works 23 Aug. to 20 Oct. 1875 and 28 May 1877 to March 1880;
postmaster general July 1878 to March 1880 and Sept. to Nov.
1890; minister of railways Aug. 1880 to July 1881; minister of
customs Feb. 1889 to Sept. 1890; minister of public works June
to Sept. 1890; K.C.M.G. 26 May 1894. _d._ Melbourne 30 Oct.
1895. _I.L.N. 9 Feb. 1895 p._ 574 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 12
July 1893 p._ 4 _portrait_.
PATTERSON, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Patterson, merchant). _b._
Belfast 18 April 1802; apprenticed to his father’s business
1818; one of the 8 founders of the Natural history society of
Belfast 1821, president many years; an early member of British
association, one of the secretaries of the natural history
section 1839–44; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; one of the Belfast harbour
comrs. 1858–70; author of Letters on the insects mentioned in
Shakespeare’s plays 1838; Introduction to zoology 1848; First
steps to zoology 1849; Patterson’s Zoological diagrams 1859.
_d._ 6 College sq. North, Belfast 14 Feb. 1872.
PATTERSON, ROBERT. _b._ Cappagh, co. Tyrone 12 Jany. 1792; taken
to Delaware county, Pennsylvania 1798; served in the war of
1812 as first lieut. of infantry; major general of volunteers
in the Mexican war; commanded the Pennsylvania militia; M.G. of
volunteers in the civil war 15 April to 27 July 1861; one of the
largest mill-owners in the United States; president of board
of trustees of Lafayette college; author of A narrative of the
campaign in the valley of the Shenandoah 1865. _d._ Philadelphia
7 Aug. 1881. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 673 (1888)
_portrait_.
PATTERSON, ROBERT HOGARTH. _b._ Edinburgh Dec. 1821;
press-corrector in John Ballantyne’s printing office; edited the
Edinburgh Advertiser 1852–8; editor in London of The Press 1858,
afterwards proprietor; edited The Globe newspaper 1865–9; member
of board of referees appointed by parliament to investigate
and report upon the best means of purification of coal-gas in
London 1869 to death; edited in Glasgow the Glasgow News 1872–4;
F.S.S., member of council; author of The new revolution, or
the Napoleonic policy in Europe 1860; Essays in history and
art 1862; The economy of capital, or gold and trade 1865; The
science of finance 1868; Robespierre, a lyrical drama 1877; The
new golden age and the influence of the precious metals upon
the world, 2 vols. 1882. _d._ 22 Wingate road, Hammersmith,
Middlesex 13 Dec. 1886. _Athenæum ii_ 863 (1886).
PATTERSON, WILLIAM THOMAS LAIRD (son of James Patterson of 57
Wimpole st. London). _b._ 17 Oct. 1820; ensign 91 foot 22 Feb.
1839, lieut-col. 12 Nov. 1860, placed on h.p. 16 Jany. 1869;
brigadier major in Greece 2 June 1855 to 24 Dec. 1855; assistant
adjutant general Cork district 1 July 1870 to 30 June 1875;
lieut.-col. 88 foot 23 Oct. 1875, placed on h.p. 18 Dec. 1875;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._
2 April 1889.
PATTESON, SIR JOHN (2 son of rev. Henry Patteson of Drinkstone,
Suffolk). _b._ Coney Weston, Suffolk 11 Feb. 1790; educ. at Eton
1802–8; scholar of King’s coll. Camb. 1809, fellow 1812, B.A.
1813, M.A. 1816; the first Davies univ. scholar 1810; student
at Middle Temple 1813, barrister 6 July 1821; began practice
as a special pleader 1821; one of the legal comrs. on the
reform of the Welsh judicature 1829; judge of court of king’s
bench 12 Nov. 1830, resigned 10 Feb. 1852, when presented with
a testimonial by the Metropolitan common law clerks 30 June;
knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; P.C. 2
Feb. 1852, member of the judicial committee; a comr. to examine
into the state of the city of London July 1853; arbitrator in
disputes between the crown and duchy of Cornwall, between the
post office and the Great Western railway, and between the
university and town of Cambridge; edited Sir E. Saunders’ The
reports of cases in the king’s bench, 5 ed. 1824, another ed.
1845. _d._ Feniton court, Honiton, Devon 28 June 1861. _bur._
Feniton churchyard 5 July, memorial window placed in Feniton
church Jany. 1865. _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_ (1895)
95–9 _portrait_; _Creasy’s Eminent Etonians_ (1876) 589–90;
_I.L.N. xxii_ 45 (1852), _view of testimonial_; _Law Magazine
xlvii_ 90–104 (1852); _Law magazine and law review xiii_ 197–224
(1862); _Foss’s Judges ix_ 235 (1864).
NOTE.--No other instance has ever occurred of a barrister of only nine
years’ practice being raised to the bench.
PATTESON, JOHN COLERIDGE (elder son of preceding). _b._ 1827;
educ. Ottery, St. Mary gr. sch. 1835–8, and Eton 1838–45,
captain of the cricket eleven; a commoner of Balliol coll.
Oxford 1845–8; B.A. 1848, M.A. 1853, D.D. 1861; fellow of Merton
1852 to death; C. of Alphington, South Devon Sept. 1853 to March
1855; landed at Auckland, New Zealand May 1855; took boys from
the Melanesian islands and taught them in New Zealand 1856–61;
missionary bishop in Melanesia 1861 to death; learnt to speak
23 languages, translated into the Mata language the gospels of
St. Luke and St. John and other parts of scripture; _killed_ by
the natives on the island of Nukapu, Melanesia 20 Sept. 1871.
_bur._ at sea 21 Sept., memorial cross erected at Nukapu 1884.
_C. M. Yonge’s Life of J. C. Patteson_, 2 _vols._ (1878), _two
portraits_; _F. Awdry’s Story of a fellow soldier_ (1875);
_Creasy’s Eminent Etonians_ (1876) 624–8; _I.L.N. lix_ 559, 561
(1871) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 383, 384 (1874) _portrait_.
PATTI, CARLOTTA (dau. of Salvator Patti, singer, _d._ 21 Aug.
1869). _b._ Florence 30 Oct. 1835; first appeared as a concert
singer at Academy of music, New York 1861; toured in North
America with Max Strakosch’s concert party 1862; came to London
22 March 1863; sang at Covent Garden theatre and Crystal palace
16 April and 9 May 1863; sang in France, Belgium, Holland, and
Germany 1863–9; sang the Queen of the night in Mozart’s opera
Die Zauberflöte and other parts with Strakosch’s company in
New York 1869; sang in Rossini’s Barber of Seville and in Don
Pasquale at Buenos Ayres 1870; sang with Mario in the United
States 1872, and at the London Philharmonic, and other concerts
from 1872; had a soprano voice extending from C below the clef
to G sharp in alt.; retired 1879; _m._ 3 Sept. 1879 Ernest de
Munck, solo violoncellist to the grand duke of Saxe Weimar; she
_d._ from cancer at her house, Rue Pierre-Charron, Paris 27
June 1889. _London sketch book Nov. 1874 pp._ 1–2 _portrait_;
_Illust. news of the world xi_ 221 (1862) _portrait_; _Illust.
sporting news iv_ 441 (1865) _portrait_, _v_ 529 (1866)
_portrait_; _Illust. times 13 June 1863 p._ 405 _portrait_.
PATTINSON, HUGH LEE (son of Thomas Pattinson of Alston,
Cumberland, retail trader _d._ 19 May 1812). _b._ Alston 25 Dec.
1796; assay master to the lords of the manor at Alston 1825,
discovered method of separating the silver from lead ore Jany.
1829, which he patented 1833; manager of Wentworth Beaumont’s
lead works 1831–4; established with John Lee and George Burnett
chemical works at Felling 1834, and at Washington, 1843, both
in Durham; his process for desilverisation of lead has led
to the invention of the German verb Pattinsoniren and French
substantive Pattinsonage; discovered a simple method for
obtaining white lead, by a process which gave rise to formation
of the new compound oxychloride of lead, patented 1841, a new
process also patented 1841 for manufacturing magnesia alba;
F.G.S.; F.R.A.S.; F.C.S.; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; author of 8 papers
on lead mining and electrical phenomena; originally a quaker
but was baptised into the church of England 23 Dec. 1815 when
he took the additional name of Lee. _d._ Scot’s House, near
Gateshead 11 Nov. 1858. _Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv_
273–320 (1873) _portrait_; _Percy’s Metallurgy lead_ (1875)
121–44.
PATTISON, DOROTHY WYNDLOW (youngest dau. of Mark James Pattison
1788–1865, rector of Haukswell, near Richmond, Yorkshire). _b._
Haukswell 16 Jany. 1832; village schoolmistress in parish
of Little Woolston, near Blatchley, Bucks. 1861–4; member of
the sisterhood of the Good Samaritan at Coatham, near Redcar,
Yorkshire 1864, and adopted the name of Sister Dora; nurse at
a small cottage hospital at Walsall 1865, was in charge of the
new hospital built 1867, resigned Feb. 1877; trained lady nurses
at Walsall; left the community of the Good Samaritan 1874; was
in charge of the municipal epidemic hospital in Walsall Feb.
1877 to 21 June 1878, where the cases were chiefly smallpox.
_d._ Walsall 24 Dec. 1878, memorial window in the parish church
and statue unveiled at Walsall 11 Oct. 1886. _M. Lonsdale’s
Sister Dora_ (1880) _portrait_; _Ridsdale’s Sister Dora_ (1880);
_Sister Dora and her statue_, _Walsall_ (1886) _portrait_;
_Fortnightly Review May 1880 pp._ 656–71.
PATTISON, GEORGE HANDASYDE (eld. son of Wm. Pattison of Wooler,
Northumberland). _b._ Wooler 1806; educ. high sch. and univ.
of Edinb.; advocate in Edinburgh 1834; sheriff of counties of
Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk 1868 to death. _d._ 9 Albyn place,
Edinburgh 5 April 1885.
PATTISON, GRANVILLE SHARP (youngest son of John Pattison of
Kelvin Grove, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1792; member of faculty of
physicians and surgeons of Glasgow 1813; lectured privately on
anatomy in Philadelphia 1818; professor of anatomy, physiology,
and surgery in the univ. of Maryland in Baltimore 1820–5;
returned to England July 1827; professor of anatomy at London
univ. 1827, removed from his professorship 23 July 1831; surgeon
to the univ. dispensary to 1831; professor of anatomy in the
Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia 1831–40; professor
of anatomy in univ. of New York 1840 to death; edited the
American recorder 1820, and the Register and library of medical
and chirurgical science, Washington 1833–6; co-editor of the
American medical library and intelligencer, Philadelphia 1836;
translated J. N. Masse’s Anatomical atlas, New York 1881; author
of Experimental observations on the operation of lithotomy,
Philadelphia 1820; A lecture on the question, has the parotid
gland ever been extirpated 1833. _d._ New York 12 Nov. 1851.
_Pattison’s Statement of his connexion with university of
London_ (1831); _New York journal of medicine viii_ 143 (1852).
PATTISON, MARK (brother of Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison 1832–78).
_b._ Hornby, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1813; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1851; lived in Newman’s house in St.
Aldate’s 1838–9; fellow of Lincoln coll. 8 Nov. 1839 to 1860,
Greek lecturer 1841, tutor 1843–55, bursar 1843, sub-rector
1846, rector Feb. 1861 to death; Denyer theological prizeman
1841 and 1842; examiner in school of literæ humaniores 1848,
1853, and 1870; assistant comr. to report upon continental
education 1859; pro vice-chancellor 1861; curator of Bodleian
library May 1869; curator of Taylor institution at Oxford 4
March 1873; contributed Tendencies of religious thought in
England 1688–1750 to Essays and reviews 1860, which went to 5
editions; wrote the articles Religion and philosophy in the
literary chronicle of the Westminster Review to end of 1855;
wrote for the Saturday Review 1855–77; edited for the Clarendon
press Pope’s Essay on man 1869, 2 ed. 1872, and Pope’s Satires
and epistles 1872, 2 ed. 1874; wrote seven biographical notices
in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; collected
about 14,000 volumes, the largest private library, at Oxford,
which was sold at Sotheby’s July and Aug. 1885; is drawn by
Rhoda Broughton in her novel Belinda 1883 as professor Forth;
author of The life of Isaac Casaubon 1875, 2 ed. 1892; Sermons
1885; Essays, 2 vols. 1889. _d._ Harrogate 30 July 1884. _bur._
in Harlow Hill churchyard, near Harrogate. _Memoirs by Mark
Pattison, edited by Mrs. Pattison_ (1885); _L. A. Tollemache’s
Stones of stumbling_ (1893) 119–203; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1885
pp._ 31–49; _Journal of education_ (1885) 149, 253–65, 427–8;
_Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1884 pp._ 401–8; _Academy 9 Aug. 1884
pp._ 92–4; _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 181 (1884) _portrait_.
PATTISON, SAMUEL ROWLES (son of S. R. Pattison 1785–1865).
_b._ Stroud, Gloucs. 27 October 1809; a solicitor 1831; at
Launceston, Cornwall 1836–53; F.G.S.; solicitor London 1853;
head of firm of Pattison, Wigg, Gurney, and King, solicitors 11
Queen Victoria st. London 1875; author of Chapters on fossil
botany 1849; Some account of the church of St. Mary Magdalen,
Launceston 1852; Notes on Launceston castle 1852; The religious
topography of England 1882; The earth and the world, or
geology for bible students 1858; On the history of evangelical
christianity 1875; The rise and progress of religious life in
England 1864; resident at 17 Edwardes square, Kensington 1896.
PATTLE, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1812; cornet 16 light dragoons 13
June 1834, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to 11 Feb. 1859; lieut. col.
1 dragoon guards 11 Feb. 1859 to 12 July 1868, when placed on
h.p.; served in China as brigadier in command of cavalry in the
campaign of 1860; col. 2 dragoon guards 27 Oct. 1881 to death;
C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 5 Camden crescent,
Dover 21 Dec. 1881.
PATTLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1783; cadet 1798; cornet in Bengal 19
March 1801, capt. 8 Jany. 1816, major 26 June 1826; lieut.-col.
4 Bengal light cavalry 27 April 1833; lieut. col. of 10 light
cavalry 1837–8, of 8 light cavalry 1838–40, of 1 light cavalry
1840–1, and of 9 light cavalry 1841–3; commanded the cavalry
throughout sir Charles Napier’s campaign in Scinde 1843;
aide-de-camp to the queen 4 July 1843 to 20 June 1854; col. 1
Bengal light cavalry 5 Jan. 1844 to 1848; col. 11 light cavalry
1848–49; col. 4 light cavalry 1849–58; col. 3 European light
cavalry 1858–62; col. 19 hussars 30 Sept. 1862 to death; general
9 Oct. 1863; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ Dawlish, Devon 9 Feb. 1865.
PATTON, ARTHUR (son of a clergyman). _b._ 1854; educ. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1876; called to the Irish bar 1884; an
energetic speaker against the home rule movement in England and
Scotland from 1886; a musician; edited Blue, white and red, a
Christmas annual, Rathmines, Dublin 1872. _d._ Cirencester 20
Oct. 1892. _Times 21 Oct. 1892 p._ 7.
PATTON, GEORGE, Lord Glenalmond (3 son of James Patton,
sheriff-clerk of Perthshire). _b._ the Cairnies, Perth 1803;
educ. univ. of Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. Camb. 1826;
admitted advocate 1828; solicitor general for Scotland 3
May 1859; M.P. Bridgwater Aug. 1865 to May 1866; contested
Bridgwater 7 June 1866; lord advocate 12 July 1866; lord justice
clerk and lord president of second division, with title of lord
Glenalmond 27 Feb. 1867 to death; P.C. 4 Nov. 1867; planted
extensive forests of coniferous trees on his Glenalmond estate
1831 etc.; cut his throat and threw himself into the river
Almond at Glenalmond 20 Sept. 1869, body found near bridge of
Buchanty 24 Sept. _bur._ Monzie churchyard. _T. Hunter’s Woods,
forests, and estates of Perthshire_ (1883) 356–64; _Law mag. and
law review xxix_ 267–71 (1870); _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 195
(1869); _Law Journal iv_ 520, 534 (1869).
PATTON, HUGH (son of colonel Patton, governor of St. Helena).
Entered navy Oct. 1804; commanded the Alban 12 guns on Plymouth
station 1815–18; captain 12 Aug. 1819; retired 1 Oct. 1846; R.A.
19 Jany. 1852, V.A. 10 Sept. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. _d._
Cockspur st. London 18 March 1864.
PATTON, JOHN. _b._ 24 March 1800; ensign 33 foot 18 Sept. 1817;
lieut. 46 foot 1821; captain 12 foot 16 Aug. 1826, lieut. col.
18 Aug. 1843; inspecting field officer of recruits 8 Feb. 1850
to 19 Feb. 1859; col. of 47 foot 8 Dec. 1867 and of 12 foot 2
Nov. 1875 to death; general 10 Oct. 1874. _d._ Vicar’s Hill,
Lymington, Hampshire 27 Feb. 1888.
PATTON, ROBERT (son of Charles Patton, captain R.N.) _b._
1791; entered navy 1 Feb. 1804; served at battle of Trafalgar
1805; captain 30 April 1827; retired R.A. 7 Aug. 1854; retired
admiral 16 Sept. 1864. _d._ Fareham, Hampshire 30 Aug. 1883.
_Graphic xix_ 217 (1879) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 285 (1883)
_portrait_.
PATTON-BETHUNE, ANNE FLORENCE LOUISA MARY (2 dau. of Walter
Douglas Phillips Patton-Bethune of Clayton priory, Sussex, _b._
1821, col. 74 highlanders). _b._ Stoke house, Stoke St. Mary,
near Taunton 17 March 1866; a good horsewoman, well known in
the Sussex hunting fields; author of 2 novels Debonnair Dick
1892; Bachelors to the rescue 1894, 2 ed. 1894; while lieut.
Constantine Palæologus of 29 Punjaub infantry was driving her in
a tandem in Hyde park on 12 April 1894 the horses bolted and she
was thrown out, she was taken to St. George’s hospital and _d._
of a fracture of the skull 13 April.
PATULLO, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin about 1806; a grocer in
Dundee; emigrated to New York about 1830; a liquor seller in New
York especially of Scotch whiskey, became known as ‘The whiskey
punch king’; left a fortune of half a million dollars. _d._ New
York Sept. 1868. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 317–8.
PATULLO, JAMES BRODIE. Ensign 30 foot 24 April 1840, lieut. col.
9 March 1855 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; present at Alma and
Inkermann. _killed_ in the storming of Sebastopol 8 Sept. 1855.
PATY, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (son of William Paty of Bristol). _b._
1788; ensign 32 foot 28 April 1804, captain 28 April 1808,
placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; served in Copenhagen 1807, and in
the Peninsula 1811–14; major 96 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on
h.p. 9 June 1825; lieut. col. 94 foot 11 June 1826 to 31 Dec.
1841, when placed on h.p.; granted distinguished service reward
1 April 1848; col. 70 foot 8 May 1854 to death; general 14 March
1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.H. 1832. _d._ 24
Regent st. London 8 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 523 (1868).
PAUL, HAMILTON. _b._ Parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 10 April 1773;
educ. Glasgow univ.; partner in a printing establishment at Ayr;
edited the Ayr Advertiser 3 years; licensed to preach by the
presbytery 16 July 1800, assistant at Coylton 1800; minister of
Broughton, Kilbucho, and Glenholm, Peebleshire 1813 to death;
author of Paul’s first and second epistles to the dearly beloved
the female disciples or female students of natural philosophy
in Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1800; Vaccination, or beauty
preserved 1805; edited The works of Robert Burns 1819. _d._
Broughton 28 Feb. 1854. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland i_
498–500 (1876).
PAUL, ISABELLA, stage name of Isabella Hill (dau. of George
Thomas Hill, leather merchant). _b._ Dartford, Kent 1833; educ.
France and Italy; had a contralto voice ranging from A in the
bass clef to A in alt.; first appeared in London as Isabella
Featherstone at Strand theatre, playing captain Macheath in the
Beggar’s opera March 1853; Lucy Lockit in Beggar’s opera Strand
5 May 1853; Juana in Mark Lemon’s Paula Lazarro Drury Lane 9
Jany. 1854; appeared at Wallack’s theatre, New York 10 Sept.
1855; acted Sir Launcelot de Lake in the Lancashire witches
Lyceum 3 July 1858; _m._ 13 July 1854 at St. Paul’s, Covent
Garden, London G. Henry Howard Paul, actor and dramatist, _b._
Philadelphia, U.S. of America 16 Nov. 1835 (son of Stephen
Carmick Paul); they gave entertainments in London and the
provinces from 1860, in which she imitated Sims Reeves, Henry
Russell and other vocalists; gave an entertainment, Ripples
on the Lake, Strand 2 Sept. 1867; she played Lady Macbeth and
Hecate in Macbeth at Drury Lane Feb. 1869, and Mistigris in
Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; sang
in comic opera in Paris; played the title role in Offenbach’s
Grand Duchess at the Olympic 20 June 1868, and in Paris in a
French version; played Little Gil Blas in Farnie’s extravaganza
Little Gil Blas at Princess’s 24 Dec. 1870; toured the provinces
with a company of her own in an entertainment 1873; played Lady
Sangazure in W. S. Gilbert’s The Sorcerer at Opera Comique 17
Nov. 1877; taken ill while performing in The crisis at Sheffield
30 May 1879. _d._ 17 The Avenue, Bedford park, Turnham Green,
London 6 June 1879. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 11 June. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic list_ (1880) 414; _The Period 14 Jany. 1871 p._ 15
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news vi_ 561 (1867) _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news ii_ 489, 491 (1875) _portrait_, _xi_
302, 305 (1879) _portrait_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 107,
721; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 678 (1888); _The Era
1 June 1879 p._ 9, _15 June p._ 12. PAUL, JOHN. Presbyterian
minister, Maybole; minister of St. Cuthbert’s or West Kirk,
Edinb. 17 April 1827 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 27 April
1847; moderator of the general assembly 20 May 1847; author of
The miraculous propagation of the gospel 1834. _d._ 4 Nov. 1883.
PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 1 Baronet (elder son of John Paul, M.D.
of Salisbury, _d._ 15 June 1815). _b._ 25 Dec. 1775; educ.
Westminster 1787, king’s scholar 1788; exhibited 20 landscapes
at the R.A. 1802–37; partner in Snow, Strahan, Paul and co.,
bankers, which became Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, 218 Strand,
London; baronet by patent dated 3 Sept. 1821; created D.C.L.
Oxf. 13 June 1834; author of Journal of a party of pleasure
in Paris 1802, 2 ed. 1814; The former times, an address by A
Norfolk Independent whig 1820; Rouge et noir, Versailles, and
other poems 1821 anon.; The man of ton, a satire 1828 anon.;
Joseph, a poem 1840; Ruth, a poem, 1841; The country doctor’s
horse, a tale 1847. _d._ Hill house, Stroud 16 Jany. 1852.
PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). _b._
218 Strand, London 27 Oct. 1802; educ. Westminster 1811 and Eton
1817; partner in Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, bankers and
navy agents of 217 Strand, London 1828, which suspended payment
11 June 1855; Strahan, Paul and Bates, the partners in the
firm, signed and handed in to the court of bankruptcy a list of
securities amounting to £113,625 belonging to their clients but
which had been fraudulently sold or deposited by them; they were
indicted at the Old Bailey 26 Oct. 1855 for converting to their
own use Danish bonds value £5,000 belonging to John Griffith,
canon of Rochester, they were found guilty and sentenced to
transportation for 14 years 27 Oct.; the debts proved against
the firm amounted to three quarters of a million, the business
was taken over by the London and Westminster bank; released from
Woking prison 23 Oct. 1859; lived at Lower Lancing, Shoreham,
Sussex 1861–7; a wine merchant at Wheathampstead near St.
Albans 1867 to death; illustrated his father’s book The country
doctor’s horse 1847; author of Harmonies of scripture and
short lessons for young christians 1846; Bible illustrations,
or the harmony of the old and new testament 1855; A.B.C. of
fox-hunting, consisting of twenty six coloured illustrations
by the late sir John Dean Paul, bart. 1871. _d._ St. Albans 7
Sept. 1868. _D. M. Evans’s Facts, failures and frauds_ (1859)
106–53; _Price’s Handbook of London bankers_ (1876) 128–30; _P.
Fitzgerald’s Chronicles of Bow st. ii_ 244–51 (1888); _Diprose’s
St. Clement’s i_ 108, 249, 315 (1868).
NOTE.--His grandnephew Wentworth Francis Dean Paul (2 son of Sir
Edward John Dean Paul, 4 baronet), _b._ 26 Nov. 1870; one of the best
four-in-hand whips in England or America, took first prize for driving
a team at the Chicago world’s fair 1893; much dejected owing to his
debts; _poisoned himself_ with prussic acid at Bath hotel, Piccadilly,
London 20 Dec. 1893.
PAUL, MATTHEW COMBE. _b._ 1791; entered Bengal army 1804; lieut.
8 Bengal N.I. 23 Feb. 1807, captain 9 Nov. 1818; major 9 N.I. 11
April 1828 to 19 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 9 N.I. 31 March 1835 to
2 Feb. 1845; col. of 29 N.I. 2 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 17 May
1859. _d._ 43 Harewood sq. London 7 Jany. 1865.
PAUL, ROBERT (son of Wm. Paul, pastor of the West Kirk, Edinb.
1754–1802). _b._ Edinburgh 15 May 1788; educ. Edinb. univ.;
clerk in Commercial bank, Edinb. 1807, secretary 1823, manager
to 1853, then a director to death; joined the Free church
disruption 1843, an elder under Dr. R. S. Candlish at St.
George’s ch. Edinb. 1843; assisted in promoting the theological
college and library, the Soc. for training the children of
ministers and missionaries, and the Orphan hospital; author of
The finest of wheat, extracts from the writings of the older
divines 1849; Memoir of rev. James Martin. _d._ Kirkland lodge,
near Edinb. 16 July 1866. _R. Bell’s Memoir of R. Paul_ (1872)
_portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 429–34.
PAUL, ROBERT BATEMAN (eld. son of Richard Paul, rector of
Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall, _d._ 7 Dec. 1805). _b._ St.
Columb-Major, Cornwall 21 March 1798; educ. Truro gr. sch.
and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1817 to 11 Jany. 1827,
bursar and tutor 1825; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; public examiner
in classics 1826–7; C. of Probus, Cornwall to Jany. 1824; V.
of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1825–9; V. of Llantwit-Major with
Llyswarney, Glamorganshire 1829–35; V. of St. John, Kentish
Town, London 1845–8; V. of St. Augustine, Bristol 1848–51; went
to New Zealand 1851; archdeacon of Waimea or Nelson 1855–60;
R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1864–72; prebendary of Lincoln 1867
to death; confrater of Browne’s hospital, Stamford 1868 to
death; author of An analysis of Aristotle’s ethics 1829, 2 ed.
1837; An analysis of Aristotle’s rhetoric 1830; Journal of a
tour to Moscow 1836; History of Germany 1847; Some account
of the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand 1854; Letters from
Canterbury 1857; New Zealand as it was and as it is 1861; The
autobiography of a Cornish rector. By the late James Hamley
Tregenna [pseudonym] 2 vols. 1872; published many editions of
the plays of Sophocles and translations of German handbooks on
subjects of geography and antiquities. _d._ Barnhill Stamford
6 June 1877. _bur._ Little Casterton churchyard 9 June. _Boase
and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 431–3, _iii_ 1303 (1874–82);
_Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 662, 1394–5.
PAUL, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; ensign
5 Bengal N.I. 6 Oct. 1801, captain 16 Dec. 1814; major 20 N.I.
22 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 30 July 1828, col. 9 July 1840 to
death; general 22 Nov. 1862. _d._ 4 Melcombe place, Dorset sq.
London 11 June 1866.
PAUL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1810; connected with journalism from 1834;
proprietor of The Chronicle of Convocation 1859 till it was
remodelled by lower house of convocation; edited the Railway
Times to 1881. _d._ at his house, West Kensington, London 12
April 1884. _Railway Times 19 April 1884 p._ 496.
PAUL, WILLIAM (son of rev. William Paul, professor of natural
philosophy, Aberdeen). _b._ Manse of Marycutter 27 Sept
1804; M.A. Aberdeen 1822, D.D. 1853; assistant minister of
Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeen 1826, minister 1834 to death; author
of Analysis of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1852; The scriptural
account of creation vindicated by the teaching of science 1870;
Past and present of Aberdeenshire 1881. _d._ Banchory-Devenish
manse, end of April 1884. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 2,
_p._ 494 (1871).
PAULET, FREDERICK (5 son of 13 Marquess of Winchester
1765–1843). _b._ 12 May 1810; ensign Coldstream guards 11 June
1826, lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 13 Dec. 1860; M.G. 13 Dec.
1860; col. 32 foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death; comptroller of the
household and equerry to the duchess of Cambridge 1867 to death;
L.G. 12 Feb. 1870; officer of the legion of honour 1856; C.B. 29
Dec. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 1 March 1860.
_d._ D2 the Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1871.
PAULET, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ Rupert house,
Southampton 12 Aug. 1803; educ. royal naval college; embarked 18
Dec. 1819; captain 18 Nov. 1833, R.A. 21 July 1856, V.A. 3 April
1863, admiral 20 March 1867; the king of the Sandwich islands
having offered indignities to British subjects, the islands
were ceded to Paulet in Feb. 1843, but restored 31 July 1843;
commanded Bellerophon 7 Nov. 1850 to 1855; aide-de-camp to the
queen 22 Sept. 1854 to 21 July 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ 21
Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Nov. 1879.
PAULET, SIR HENRY CHARLES, 1 Baronet (1 son of vice-admiral
lord Henry Paulet 1767–1832). _b._ 1 Aug. 1814; cornet 2
dragoon guards 13 Nov. 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1839, sold out 4
Aug. 1843; cr. a baronet 18 March 1836; a verderer of the New
Forest; chairman of New Forest hunt club; often acted as a judge
of horses at agricultural shows; resided 5 St. James’ place,
London. _d._ Little Testwood, Southampton 11 Dec. 1886. _Baily’s
Mag. xlvii_ 72 (1887).
PAULET, WILLIAM (brother of George Paulet 1803–79). _b._ Amport
house, Andover, Hants 7 July 1804; educ. Eton; ensign 85 foot
1 Feb. 1821; major 68 foot 18 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 21 April
1843, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1847; assistant adjutant-general
of the cavalry division in the Crimea 8 March to 18 Nov. 1854;
served at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commandant at Scutari
19 Nov. 1854 to 18 Jany. 1855; was in command on the Bosphorus
at Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 19 Jany. 1855 to 9 Sept. 1855;
commanded the light division in the Crimea; commanded the first
brigade at Aldershot 1856–60, and the south-western district
1860–5; adjutant general of the forces 1 July 1865 to 30 Sept.
1870; colonel of 87 foot 27 July 1863, and of 68 foot 9 April
1864 to death; general 7 Oct. 1874, field-marshal 10 July 1886;
C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._
18 St. James’ sq. London 9 May 1893. _Times 10 May 1893 p._ 5;
_Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p._ 8 _portrait_.
PAULI, GEORG REINHOLD. _b._ Berlin 25 May 1823; private sec.
to C. C. J. baron de Bunsen, Prussian ambassador in England
1852–5; professor of history at Rostock 1857, at Tubingen 1859,
at Marburg 1867, and Gottingen 1869 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 15
April 1874, hon. LL.D. Edinb. 22 April 1874; edited J. Gower’s
Confessio amantis 1857; The libell of English policye 1878;
author of The life of king Alfred, a translation revised by the
author 1852; Der Hansische Stahlhof in London, Bremen 1856; Der
Gang der internationalen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und
England, Gotha 1859; Bilder aus Alt-England 1860; Pictures of
Old England, translated by E. C. Otté 1861; Simon de Montfort,
earl of Leicester 1876. _d._ Bremen 3 June 1882. _Allgemeine
Deutsche biographie xxv_ 268–73 (1887); _F. Frensdorff’s R.
Pauli_, _Gottingen_ (1882); _The Academy 17 June 1882 p._ 433.
PAULING, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Rochester 10 March 1821; district
engineer of Wellington railway, Cape Town 1859, resident
engineer 1864; chief resident engineer of the western railways
1881; engineer in chief to Cape government railways 1885–91,
having control of 2,000 miles of lines; M.I.C.E. 4 May 1880.
_d._ Cape Town 8 Sept. 1892. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
cxii_ 359 (1893).
PAULL, JAMES. _b._ 1781; D.D. of St. Andrews 1844; minister
of College chapel of ease, Aberdeen 1804–12; minister of
Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire 1813; convenor of Supplementary
orphan fund; moderator of general assembly 1846; one of her
majesty’s chaplains in ordinary in Scotland 29 May 1852 to
death. _d._ Tullynessle 21 Oct. 1858. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3,
_part_ 2, _p._ 571 (1871).
PAULSON, HENRY. _b._ Nottingham 4 May 1819; a ballast-heaver
at Nottingham; beat Tom Paddock for £25 a side at Sedgebrook
near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851; beaten by Paddock for £50 a side
at Cross End near Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, there was a
disgraceful riot, both men were apprehended and sentenced to ten
months’ imprisonment in Derby gaol with hard labour, March 1852;
beaten by Paddock for £100 a side at Mildenhall, Suffolk 14 Feb.
1854, in 102 rounds lasting 152 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers
£50 a side at Appledore, Kent 29 Jany. 1856, in 109 rounds
lasting 3 hours and 8 minutes; beat Harry Tyson £50 a side at
Kentish Marshes 14 May 1859. _d._ at his daughter’s house,
Newmarket yard, Sneinton Market, Nottingham 11 Dec. 1890. _bur._
15 Dec. _F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 130–9; _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 277–83, 371–9 (1881); _Illust. sporting
news iii_ 261 (1861) _portrait_; _Sportsman 12 Dec. 1890 p._ 4.
PAULTON, ABRAHAM WALTER (son of Walter Paulton of Bolton,
Lancs.) _b._ Bolton 1812; educ. Stonyhurst college; apprenticed
to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton; lectured for the
anti-corn-law league 1838–9; editor at Manchester of the
Anti-corn-law circular April 1839, the title was changed to
Anti-bread-tax circular in April 1841; edited in London the
League newspaper Sept. 1843 to 1846; purchased with Henry Rawson
the Manchester Times which he edited 1848–54; great friend of
John Bright and Richard Cobden. _d._ Boughton hall, Guildford,
Surrey 6 June 1876. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Prentice’s
Anti-corn-law league i_ 64 _et seq._ (1853).
PAUMIER, MUNGO NOBLE. _b._ 1813; tragedian; first appeared
in London at Drury Lane theatre 17 May 1836 as Hamlet; acted
in many of the principal theatres in Great Britain; lessee
of Whitehaven theatre 1867–71. _d._ Castle view, Egremont,
Whitehaven, of cancer of the tongue 31 Jany. 1876. _bur._
Egremont cemet. 3 Feb. _The Era 6 Feb. 1876 p._ 5; _Cumberland
Pacquet 8 Feb. 1876 p._ 3.
PAUNCEFOTE, BERNARD (only son of Bernard Pauncefote of
Cuddalore, Madras presidency). _b._ Cuddalore 28 June 1848;
educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1870; played his
first cricket match at Lords in the match Marlborough _v._ Rugby
3 and 4 July 1865; scored 211 runs not out in a match Brasenose
_v._ Corpus at Oxford 3 June 1868; in the Oxford univ. eleven
1868–70, captain 1869–70; played in the match Gentlemen _v._
Players 1869; student at Inner Temple 9 May 1870; a merchant at
Colombo in Ceylon 1875. _d._ Blackheath, Kent 24 Sept. 1882.
PAUNCEFORT, GEORGIANA (dau. of Mr. Edwards). _b._ 1825; came
from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at
Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the
Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire
in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat
15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864;
Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in
A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty
Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty
Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at
Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4
Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22
Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played
at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother
Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in
Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore
in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept.
1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876,
Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit
in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878,
Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in
The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880,
Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept.
1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s
theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June
1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham
26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court
theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller
at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; _m._ (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at
Boston and Philadelphia; _m._ (2) Mr. Cooke. _d._ 4 Shawfield
st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. _Era 28 Dec.
1895_; _T. A. Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) 281.
PAVER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; registrar of births and deaths at 4
Rougier st. York 1867; author of Original genealogical abstracts
of the wills of individuals of noble and ancient families
resident in the county of York, Sheffield 1830; Pedigrees of
families of the city of York, from a manuscript entitled “The
heraldic visitations of Yorkshire consolidated,” York 1842; his
collections relating to Yorkshire were bought by the British
Museum 1874; his transcripts of marriage licenses commencing
in 1567 were printed by rev. C. B. Norcliffe in Yorkshire
archæological and topographical journal, vii 289 et seq. (1882).
_d._ Rishworth st. Wakefield 1 June 1871.
PAXTON, JAMES. _b._ London 11 Jany. 1786; M.R.C.S. 16 March
1810; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; served in army medical service;
practised at Long Buckley, Northamptonshire 1816–21, at Oxford
1821–43, and at Rugby 1843–58; assistant surgeon to Oxfordshire
militia; edited Paley’s Natural theology, with plates and
notes, 2 vols. Oxford 1826; An introduction to the study of
human anatomy, 2 vols. 1831–4, new ed. 1841 republished in
America; The medical friend, or advice for the preservation of
health, Oxford 1843; The works of W. Paley, 5 vols. 1845; Living
streams, or illustrations of the natural history and diseases of
the blood 1855. _d._ Ledwell, in parish of Sandford St. Martin,
Oxfordshire 12 March 1860. _E. Marshall’s Account of Sandford_
(1866) 40.
PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near
Woburn, Bedfordshire). _b._ Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener
to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821,
constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural
society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent
of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his
woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid
houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40;
travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the
village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the
fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height;
succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the
first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of
1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected;
knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the
re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director
of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the
army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854
to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières,
France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president;
F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844;
edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and
general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany
and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s
magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley,
Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical
dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on
the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. _d._ Rockhills, Sydenham 8
June 1865. _bur._ Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. _Journal
of horticulture viii_ 446 (1865) _portrait_; _G.M. ii_ 247–9
(1865); _Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p._ 491: _Practical
Mag. vi_ 161 (1876) _portrait_; _Catalogue of the library at
Chatsworth iv_ 161 (1879) _view of his house_; _The Crystal
palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior_ (1851); _I.L.N.
xviii_ 343, 344 (1851) _portrait_, _xlvi_ 601 (1865) _portrait_;
_Times 9 June 1865 p._ 9, _16 June p._ 9.
NOTE.--He devised a plan for girdling London with an arcade resembling
the transept of the old Crystal palace, in which were to be lines of
railway on the atmospheric principle, bordered by dwellings and shops.
This plan he laid in detail before a committee of the house of commons
in 1855.
PAYN, SIR WILLIAM (son of William Payn of Kidwells, Maidenhead,
clerk to the Thames comrs.) _b._ 3 Feb. 1823; ensign 53 foot 27
May 1842, lieut. col. 13 July 1858; lieut. col. 72 foot 14 Aug.
1860 to 2 Dec. 1876; served in the Sutlej and other campaigns in
India 1845–52; staff officer at Smyrna March 1855 to May 1856;
in the Indian mutiny 1857–8, present at Cawnpore and Lucknow;
brigadier general in Bengal 14 June 1872 to 9 March 1877; C.B.
14 May 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; commanded Mysore division of
Madras army 1879–84; general 12 Aug. 1888, placed on retired
list 20 Feb. 1889; col. of Bedfordshire regt. 26 Jany. 1892 to
death. _d._ Lynwood, Ashtead, Epsom 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic
21 June 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.
PAYN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Anthony Payn of Dover). _b._ Dover
1802; educ. Henri Quatre college, Paris; solicitor at Dover
1827–79; proclaimed accession of queen Victoria at Dover 1837;
coroner for Dover 1860–82; member of town council, mayor
1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Dover 16
April 1855, presented with diamond snuff box and gold medal by
the emperor when he embarked for Calais 21 April 1855. _d._
Kearsney, near Dover 14 Sept. 1887. _Law Times 29 Oct. 1887 p._
450.
PAYNE, ARTHUR GAY (son of John Robert Payne, _d._ 6 Nov. 1877).
_b._ Camberwell, Surrey 7 Feb. 1840; educ. Univ. college school,
London and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1866, coxswain of his
college boat; a gourmet; a friend of J. G. Chambers (athlete
1843–83); advised and aided Matthew Webb the swimmer; sporting
editor of the Standard 1871–83; assistant editor of Land and
water to 1883; contributed to Bell’s Life in London and the
Girls’ own paper; edited M. Webb’s Art of swimming [1875], and
W. Cook’s Billiards 1884; edited Cassell’s Dictionary of cookery
1875–6, and wrote The principles of cookery, prefixed; author
of Common sense cooking [1877]; Choice dishes at small cost
1882; Cassell’s Shilling cookery 1888; Cassell’s Popular cookery
1889; Cassell’s Vegetarian cookery 1891; edited The billiard
news 1875–8; in Cassell’s Popular recreation 1873 he wrote on
Conjuring, cricketing, etc. _d._ Bay View terrace, Penzance 1
April 1894.
PAYNE, CHARLES. Entered Bombay army 1803; ensign 8 Bombay N.I.
12 Aug. 1805, captain 31 Oct. 1822; major 16 N.I. 29 Dec. 1828
to 16 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 16 Sept. 1833–9, of 13 N.I.
1839–44, of 13 N.I. 1844–5, and of 22 N.I. 1845–7; brigadier at
Baroda 20 Sept. 1844 to March 1846; col. of 15 N.I. 9 June 1847
to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ 24 April 1858.
PAYNE, CHARLES. _b._ 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5;
whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in
and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65;
huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. _d._ 30 Dec. 1893. _bur._
Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. _Sporting Review xliv_ 14
(1860); _Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp._ 135–6.
PAYNE, FREDERICK (younger son of W. H. S. Payne 1804–78). _b._
Jany. 1841; first appeared in pantomime of the Forty thieves
at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; played harlequin at Covent Garden
theatre about 1863–73; played harlequin also in the opening of
E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22
Dec. 1874; his mind became affected while playing in pantomine
The yellow dwarf at Alexandra palace Jany. or Feb. 1877. _d._
3 Alexandra road, Finsbury park, London 27 Feb. 1880. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 2 March. _Era 29 Feb. 1880 p._ 6.
PAYNE, GALLWAY BYNG. Second lieut. R.M. 17 May 1831, lieut. col.
11 Aug. 1858, col. 22 May 1862; col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864 to
12 June 1865, when he retired on full pay as major general. _d._
Torquay 19 May 1870.
PAYNE, GEORGE (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall,
Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). _b._
3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf.
12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about
£300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in
a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the
Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to
death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose
colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated
them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards
with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the
St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine
1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron
de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. _d._ 10 Queen
st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.
6 Sept. _Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt_ (1888) 4, 99, 117–48
_portrait_; _Rice’s British turf ii_ 296–388 (1879) _portrait_;
_Famous racing men_. _By Thormanby_ (1882) 113–20 _portrait_;
_Baily’s Mag. i_ 183–6 (1860) _portrait_, _xli_ 148–53 (1883);
_Westminster Papers x_ 139 (1878) _portrait_; _Racing in
Badminton library_ (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; _Illust. sp. and dr.
news iv_ 475, 496 (1876) _portrait_; _Sporting Times 8 May 1875
pp._ 305, 308 _portrait_.
PAYNE, HENRY EDWARD (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). _b._ 1831;
first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–;
played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings
of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a
noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden
Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted
Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871;
clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at
Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. _d._ Norfolk house 322 Camden road,
London 27 Sept. 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858
16 6. _Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p._ 832, 2 _portraits_;
_Illust. sporting news v_ 808 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news xx_ 432 (1884) _portrait_; _St. James’s Budget 4
Oct. 1895 p._ 33 _portrait_; _Era 28 Sept._, _5 Oct._, _24 Nov.
1895_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 214, 403, 721.
PAYNE, JOHN. Officer in charge of H.M. Indian mails 31 years;
his grandfather René Payne was the founder of the banking house
of Smith, Payne and Smiths’, London 1759. _d._ Dove’s Nest,
Margate 17 Dec. 1893.
PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD (son of William Payne, schoolmaster). _b._
New York 9 June 1791; in a counting house 1805; first appeared
at Park theatre, New York as Young Norval 24 Feb. 1809; first
appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval 4 June
1813; played in principal cities of Great Britain; edited The
opera glass, for peeping into the microcosm of the fine arts and
more especially of the drama, London, 26 numbers 2 Oct. 1826
to 24 March 1827; resided in London and Paris, where he wrote
dramas, chiefly adaptations from the French; his tragedy of
Brutus was produced at Drury Lane 3 Dec. 1818 with Edmund Kean
as Brutus; The accusation at Drury Lane 1 Feb. 1816; his dramas,
Ali Pacha 19 Oct. 1822; The two galley slaves 6 Nov. 1822, and
Charles the Second 3 May 1824, all at Covent Garden; his name is
attached to upwards of 50 dramas; his song of Home sweet home,
sung by Miss Tree in his Clari or the Maid of Milan, produced at
Covent Garden 2 May 1823, made him famous all over the world,
more than 100,000 copies were sold in twelve months; a friend
and correspondent of Coleridge and Charles Lamb; returned to
U.S. of America 1832; had a benefit at the Park theatre, New
York 29 Nov. 1832 producing 4,200 dollars; American consul at
Tunis 1841–4, and May 1851 to death. _d._ Tunis 10 April 1852,
memorial monument in St. George’s cemet. Tunis, his body was
reinterred in Oak Hill cemet. Washington June 1883, where is
monument, colossal bust in Prospect park, Brooklyn. _C. H.
Brairard’s John Howard Payne_ (1885); _Memoirs of J. H. Payne,
the American Roscius_ (1815) _portrait_; _Appleton’s American
biog. iv_ 68 (1888) _portrait_; _The Theatre vi_ 211–6 (1885).
PAYNE, JOSEPH (son of Wm. Payne of St. Alphage, London). _b._
13 Nov. 1797; matric. from St. Edmund’s hall, Oxf. 6 May 1818;
barrister L.I. 14 June 1825; migrated to Middle Temple; deputy
assistant judge of court of sessions for Middlesex May 1859
to death; author of Lines written to commemorate the opening
of London bridge 1831; An Easter Monday ode 1837; with F. A.
Carrington Reports of cases at nisi prius 1825; and with J.
B. Moore Reports of cases in the common pleas and exchequer
chambers 1828. _d._ Westhill, Highgate 29 March 1870. _bur._
Highgate cemetery, where is marble memorial 16 feet high erected
by friends of ragged schools and temperance societies. _Illust.
Times 19 Nov. 1870 p._ 333, _view of memorial in Highgate
cemetery_; _Lectures edited by J. F. Payne_ (1883) _portrait_;
_Christian cabinet illustrated almanac for 1860 pp._ 37–8.
PAYNE, JOSEPH. _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 2 March 1808; assistant
master in a school in New Kent road, London 1828, a believer
in Joseph Jacotot’s style of teaching; with Mr. Fletcher kept
the Denmark Hill grammar school 1828–45; kept the Mansion
house school at Leatherhead with great success 1845–63; member
of council of Social science association 1871; chairman of
council of Philological society 1873–4; chairman of the central
committee of the Women’s education union 1871–5; professor of
education at the College of preceptors, London Dec. 1872 to
death; author of A compendious exposition of professor Jacotot’s
celebrated system of education 1830; C. F. Lhomond’s Universal
instruction, Epitome historiæ sacræ, a Latin reading book on
Jacotot’s system 1831; Select poetry for children 1839, 18 ed.
1874; Studies in English poetry 1845, 8 ed. 1881; Studies in
English prose 1868, 2 ed. 1881; A visit to German schools 1876;
The works of Joseph Payne, edited by his son Dr. J. F. Payne, 2
vols. 1883–92, two portraits. _d._ 4 Kildare gardens, Bayswater,
London 30 April 1876, portrait in common room of college of
preceptors. _Educational Times 1 June 1876._
PAYNE, LOUISA. First appeared theatre royal Birmingham; under
Mrs. Nye Chart at Brighton theatre many years, where she was
a favourite; acted in The world Drury Lane 31 July 1880, and
played Maligna in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Mother Goose at
Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1880; played Ursula in Much ado about nothing
11 Oct. 1882, and Bessy in Faust 19 Dec. 1885, at Lyceum. _d._
from cancer at Elm Bank, Malvern 11 April 1887.
PAYNE, WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Payne of London). _b._ 1799;
coroner of London and Southwark 1829 to death, revived the
ancient practice of holding an inquest touching fires 22 Aug.
1845; chief clerk at the Guildhall, London 1833, resigned Oct.
1843; student G.I. 13 June 1832; barrister G.I. 22 Nov. 1843;
high steward of Southwark and judge of borough court of record
1850 to death; serjeant-at-law 11 May 1858. _d._ 26 Brunswick
sq. London 25 Feb. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 207 (1872).
PAYNE, WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD. _b._ City of London 1804;
played small parts at T.R. Birmingham; studied pantomime and
clowning under Grimaldi and Bologna at Sadler’s Wells theatre
1823; played small parts at Pavilion theatre 1825–31; played
Medow Mawr the Welsh ogre in Charles Farley’s pantomime Hop
o’ my thumb and his brothers at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1831,
and Tasnar in Puss in boots 26 Dec. 1832; played harlequin to
Grimaldi’s clown at Sadler’s Wells 1827, and dandy lover to
young Joe Grimaldi’s clown; danced in grand ballet with Cerito,
Grisi, and the Elsslers, and played in state before George IV,
Wm. IV, Victoria, and Napoleon III; played Guy, earl of Warwick,
in the pantomime at Covent Garden Dec. 1841; danced in a ballet
at Vauxhall gardens 31 March 1847; played at T.R. Manchester
1848–54; in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells
Dec. 1854; at Covent Garden about 1860–73; in E. L. Blanchard’s
pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874. _d._
Calstock house, Dover 18 Dec. 1878. _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane ii_ 204–5 (1881); _Spectator 28 Dec. 1878 pp._ 1633–4; _Era
22 Dec. 1878 p._ 12; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 57, 444,
721; _The Sun 27 Dec. 1893 p._ 1.
PAYNE, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of William Payne, serjeant-at-law
1799–1872). _b._ 1822; barrister L.I. 7 June 1844; counsel of
the Southwark court of record 1852–72; steward of Southwark
and judge of the Southwark court of record 1872 to death;
coroner for duchy of Lancaster Jany. 1857 to death; recorder of
Buckingham 10 Feb. 1866 to death; deputy coroner for the city of
London and borough of Southwark Aug. 1843, coroner July 1872 to
death. _d._ Fonthill, Reigate at midnight 14 April 1884. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 19 April. _Law Times 26 April 1884 p._ 465.
PAYNE-SMITH, ROBERT (1 son of Robert Smith, land agent, _d._
1827). _b._ Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 7 Nov. 1819; educ. Campden
gr. sch. and Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1837; Boden Sanskrit scholar
1840, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1843; B.A. 1841,
M.A. 1843, B. and D.D. 1865; fellow of Pemb. coll. 1843–50;
a well known Syriac scholar; C. of Crendon, Oxf. and C. of
Thame Bucks.; classical master at Edinburgh academy 1847–53;
incumbent of Trinity chapel, Edinb. 1848–53; head master
of Kensington proprietary school 1853–7; sub-librarian at
Bodleian library, Oxford 1857–65; regius professor of divinity
at Oxford and R. of Ewelme 1865 to Jany. 1870; delivered the
Bampton lectures on Prophecy a preparation for Christ 1869,
2 ed. 1871; helped to found Wycliffe hall 1877, chairman of
council 1877 to death; canon of Christ Church 1865–71; dean of
Canterbury Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Old Testament
revision committee 1870–85; the intermediate church schools
at Canterbury have been rechristened the Payne-Smith schools;
edited Commentarii in Lucæ evangelium quæ supersunt Syriace
1858; Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ
pars sexta codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendacos, complectens
1864; An Old Testament commentary for scripture readers in
Genesis 1882, new ed. 1885; translated The third part of
the Ecclesiastical history of John, bishop of Ephesus 1860;
author of The authenticity and messianic interpretation of
the prophecies of Isaiah vindicated 1862; Thesaurus Syriacus
1868–91; An exposition of the historical portion of Daniel 1886.
_d._ the deanery, Canterbury 31 March 1895. _bur._ St. Martin’s
churchyard 3 April, memorial in cathedral. _Church portrait
journal_, _v i_ (1884) _portrait_; _Times 1 April and 3 April
1895_.
PAYNTER, HOWEL (1 son of David Renwa Paynter). _b._ 1812; ensign
56 foot 21 Nov. 1828; lieut. 24 foot 5 April 1833, lieut. col.
14 Jany. 1849 to 8 Aug. 1851; wounded at Chillianwallah 13 Jany.
1849; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Bath 13 Nov. 1851.
PAYNTER, JAMES AYLMER DORSET (2 son of David Renwa Paynter of
Dale castle, Pembroke). _b._ 21 Oct. 1814; entered navy 1 Jany.
1826; captain 17 April 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; mayor
of Bath 1874–6; author of Notes on night quarters and boat
service 1848. _d._ 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 17 Dec. 1876.
PAYNTER, JOSHUA (son of Joshua W. Paynter). L.S.A. 1837,
M.R.C.S. 1837; assistant surgeon 60 foot 7 June 1839; surgeon
73 foot 11 Feb. 1848; surgeon 13 light dragoons 16 Aug. 1850
to 9 Feb. 1855, placed on h.p. 31 July 1857; deputy inspector
general of hospitals 31 Dec. 1858; inspector general at Malta 4
Sept. 1867, retired 19 Oct. 1872; C.B. 20 May 1871; served in
Kaffir war 1846 and Crimean war 1854–5. _d._ The Croft, Tenby 19
June 1883.
PAYNTER, THOMAS (2 son of James Paynter of Boskenna, Cornwall
1748–1800). _b._ Boskenna 24 July 1794; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.,
senior optime Feb. 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 23
Nov. 1824; revising barrister Suffolk and Norfolk 1833; recorder
of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1838–41; police magistrate
Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–5, at Hammersmith and Wandsworth
1845 to Dec. 1855, and at Westminster Dec. 1855 to death;
author of The practice at elections, instructions for sheriffs
and other returning officers 1837, 4 ed. 1852. _d._ 53 Thurloe
square, London 20 April 1863.
PEABODY, GEORGE (2 son and 3 child of Thomas Peabody). _b._
Danvers, Massachusetts 18 Feb. 1795; managed his uncle’s
business at Georgetown, Columbia 1812–4; opened with Elisha
Riggs dry goods’ warehouse at Georgetown 1814, moved to
Baltimore 1815, opened branches in New York and Philadelphia
1822; resided in London 1837 to death; retired from his
American business 1843; a merchant and banker in London 1843
to death; negotiated in London a loan of £1,600,000 for the
state of Maryland 1835; gave £2,000 for the Kane expedition
in search of Franklin 1852; founded the Peabody institute at
Baltimore 1857, gave it £200,000; gave Harvard university
£60,000, 1866; gave £700,000 for negro education in the south
1866–9; presented £150,000 to the city of London in 1862 for
the poor, gave altogether half a million to London from which
the Peabody dwellings have been built, the first block was
opened in Spitalfields 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 26 June 1867; bronze
statue of him by W. W. Story, on east side of royal exchange
unveiled by prince of Wales 28 July 1869; voted freedom of
city of London 22 May 1862, admitted 10 July 1862; declined a
baronetcy and the grand cross of the Bath. _d._ at the house
of sir C. M. Lampson 80 Eaton sq. London 4 Nov. 1869, body lay
for a month in Westminster abbey, taken to America and _bur._
at Danvers 8 Feb. 1870; personalty sworn under £400,000, 25
Nov. 1869. _I.L.N. lv_ 498, 517–18, 519–20, 645, 648, 655, 661,
664–5 (1869), _lvi_ 277–8 (1870); _L. S. Mockett’s Men of our
day_ (1868) 540–5; _James Dafforne’s The Pictorial table book_
(1873) 121–22; _H. N. F. Bourne’s Famous London merchants_
(1869) 285–300 _portrait_; _Illust. Times 5 April 1862 p._ 217,
_whole page portrait_; _Leisure hour xi_ 776 _portrait_, _xv_
471 _portrait_; _S. T. Wallis’s Discourse on character of G.
Peabody_ (1870); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 688–9 (1888)
_portrait_.
PEACE, CHARLES (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). _b._
Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at
a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern
Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a
portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4
years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme,
received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary
at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in
prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a
picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson
at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a
wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing
burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina
road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct.
1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude
for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an
associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the
police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a
railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany.
1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25
Feb. 1879. _The life of C. Peace_ (_London_ 1878) _portrait_;
_M. Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 257–63; _Times 26 Feb.
1879 p._ 10, _cols._ 1–3; _Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15,
22 Feb._, _1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March_, _5 April 1879 portraits_;
_Graphic xix_ 121 (1879) _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Secrets of
the prison house i_ 30, _ii_ 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).
NOTE.--Nicholas Cock a policeman was shot by a burglar at Whalley
Range, Manchester on 1 Aug. 1876, and William Habron, chiefly on the
evidence of the police, was convicted of the offence and sent to penal
servitude. Peace afterwards confessed that he had committed the murder
and Habron was released 18 March 1879. _Did Peace commit the Whalley
Range murder_ (_Manchester_ 1879).
His folding ladder by which he could ascend to a first floor window is
in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland yard, Thames
Embankment.
PEACE, JOHN (son of Peter Peace). _bapt._ St. Peter’s ch.
Bristol 8 Dec. 1785; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb. for some terms;
an acquaintance of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; keeper of
the city library Bristol for 40 years: edited Sir T. Browne’s
Religio medici, with resemblant passages from Cowper’s Task
1844; author of An apology for cathedral service, anon. 1839; A
descant on the penny postage, signed XAP 1841; A descant upon
railroads, signed XAP 1842. _d._ Swiss cottage, Durdham downs,
Clifton 28 March 1861. _Axiomata Pacis by J. Peace_ (1862)
_anon._, _memoir pp. v–xxi_; _G.M. x_ 577 (1861).
PEACE, MASKELL WILLIAM. _b._ 1834; solicitor Wigan 1855 to
death; town clerk of Wigan 1866–85; sec. to Mining association
of Great Britain; sec. of the Wigan coal and iron co.; sec.
of the Lancashire association; great supporter of Wigan
mining industry; author of South Lancashire and Cheshire coal
association, report on private bills 1885; The coal mines
regulation act 1888. _d._ Lynwood, Southport 9 Nov. 1892.
PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (son of Charles Wm. Peach, yeoman). _b._
Wansford, Northamptonshire 30 Sept. 1800; a coastguardman at
Weybourne, Norfolk Jany. 1824, at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to
1845; employed in the customs at Fowey, 1845–9, at Peterhead
1849–53, at Wick 1853, retired on a pension 1861; discovered
many new species of sponges, cælenterates and molluscs;
discovered fish remains in the Devonian rocks of the south west,
and fossils which determined the age of the quartzites of Gorran
Haven, and of the Durness limestone of Sutherlandshire; received
Neill medal from royal society of Edinburgh 1875; author of 71
papers. _d._ Haddington place, Leith walk, Edinburgh 28 Feb.
1886. _Nature 11 March 1886 pp._ 446–7; _Academy xxix_ 171
(1886).
PEACH, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; Hulsean prizeman 1818; fellow of St. John’s 20
March 1820 to 1823; P.C. of Brampton, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1826
to death; rural dean of Brampton 1836; author of The probable
influence of revelation on the writings of heathen philosophers,
Hulsean essay 1819; Themis, a satire 1853; Cwm Dhu or the Black
Dingle, and other poems 1853. _d._ Brampton 31 Jany. 1867.
PEACOCK, SIR BARNES (3 son of Lewis Peacock of 38 Lincolns Inn
Fields, London, solicitor and messenger to the great seal, _d._
1839). _b._ 1810; practised as special pleader 1831–6; barrister
I.T. 30 Jany. 1836, bencher 10 May 1850 to death, reader 1864;
one of the counsel for Daniel O’Connell in his appeal to the
house of lords Aug. 1844; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; legal member of
supreme council of the viceroy of India at Calcutta 2 April
1852 to April 1859; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal
1859–70; vice-president of legislative council of India June
1859; knighted by patent 26 May 1859; P.C. 6 July 1870; a paid
member of judicial committee of privy council 10 June 1872 to
death. _d._ 40 Cornwall gardens, Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1890.
_Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 250–7; _I.L.N. 20 Dec.
1890 p._ 771 _portrait_; _Pictorial world 18 Dec. 1890 p._ 772
_portrait_; _Saturday Review lxx_ 675 (1890); _Times 4 Dec. 1890
pp._ 8 _and_ 14.
PEACOCK, DIMITRI RUDOLF (son of Charles Peacock, estate
manager). _b._ village of Shakmanovka, district of Kozlov in the
government of Tambov, Russia 26 Sept. 1842; educ. at a school
in England and univ. of Moscow; British vice-consul at Batoum
25 Oct. 1881, consul 27 Jany. 1890, consul general at Odessa 14
Oct. 1891 to death; author of Original vocabularies of five west
Caucasian languages, Georgian, Mingrelian, Lazian, Svanetian,
and Apkhazian in the Journal of Royal Asiatic society for 1877,
pp. 145–56; wrote a book on the Caucasus, which has not been
published. _d._ Odessa 23 May 1892. _Times 17 June 1892 p._ 8.
PEACOCK, ELIZABETH, who was a Miss Stone. _b._ 1772; _m._ John
William Peacock, cooper; successor to Johanna Southcott 1814;
issued a proclamation to the believers in the divine mission
of Johanna Southcott to attend their parish churches 3 June
1864; issued one number of The Morning Star Dec. 1864. _d._ 49
Westmoreland road, St. Peter’s, Walworth, Surrey 10 March 1875,
aged 103.
PEACOCK, FREDERICK BARNES (eld. son of sir Barnes Peacock
1810–90). _b._ 1836; educ. Haileybury; entered Bengal civil
service 1 Feb. 1857, registrar of the high court May 1864;
student I.T. 16 April 1866, barrister 9 June 1880; officiating
secretary to board of revenue Bengal Nov. 1871; a magistrate
and collector July 1873; comr. of the Dacca division April 1878
to 1881, and of the Presidency division May 1881 to 1883; chief
secretary to government of Bengal for the judicial, political
and appointments departments March 1883 to 1890; an acting
member of board of revenue 1884, member 1887–90, when he retired
on annuity; C.S.I. 21 May 1890. _d._ on board the Britannia off
Sicily 14 April 1894. _Times 25 April 1894 p._ 10.
PEACOCK, GEORGE (youngest son of Thomas Peacock 1756–1851,
perpetual curate of Denton, near Darlington 50 years). _b._
Thornton hall, Denton 9 April 1791; a sizar at Trin. coll.
Camb. 21 Feb. 1809, scholar 12 April 1812, fellow 1814–39;
second wrangler and second Smith’s prizeman 1813; B.A. 1813,
M.A. 1816, D.D. 1839; lecturer in mathematics at Trin. coll.
1815, joint tutor 1823–35, sole tutor 1835–9; moderator
1816–7, 1818–9 and 1820–1, and introducer of the symbols of
differentiation into the papers set in the senate house 1816–7;
one of the syndics for building the new observatory 1817, and
for building the Fitzwilliam museum 1835; F.R S. 29 Jany.
1818, member of council 30 Nov. 1836, vice-president; F.R.A.S.
1820, F.G.S.; Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at
Cambridge Jany. 1837 to death; dean of Ely 7 May 1839 to death,
installed 22 May, raised a large sum of money for restoration
of the cathedral; prolocutor of the lower house of convocation
1841–7 and 1852–7; R. of Wentworth, near Ely 1847 to death;
member of commission of enquiry into statutes of Cambridge
university 1850, and of commission for making new statutes for
the univ. and colleges 1855; author of A collection of examples
of applications of the differential and integral calculus 1820;
A treatise on algebra 1830; Syllabus of a course of lectures
upon trigonometry and the application of algebra to geometry
1833, 2 ed. 1836; A treatise on algebra, 2 vols. 1842–5; Life of
Thomas Young, M.D. 1855; edited vols. 1 and 2 of Young’s works
1855. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 8 Nov. 1858. _bur._ Ely
cemetery. _Proc. of Royal soc. ix_ 536–43 (1858); _G.M. April
1859 pp._ 426–8.
PEACOCK, GEORGE (son of Richard George Peacock, a master in
the navy). _b._ Starcross, near Exeter 1805; entered navy
1828; master of the Medea steamer in the Mediterranean 21
Sept. 1835; made a survey of the isthmus of Corinth, marking
line of a possible canal, presented with a gold snuff-box by
king Otho 1836, and received order of the Redeemer of Greece
1882; resigned the navy 1840; superintended the building of the
steamers of the Pacific steam navigation company, commanded the
first steamer which he took through the Strait of Magellan,
acted as the company’s marine superintendent 1841–6; started a
company under style of Peacock and Buchan for manufacture of an
anti-fouling composition for the bottoms of iron ships 1848;
dockmaster at Southampton 1848–58; a shipowner at Starcross
from 1858; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the Sahara
for the discovery of nitrates 1860; took out a patent for chain
cables 1873; edited Handbook of Abyssinia 1867; author of A
treatise on ships’ cables, with the history of chains, their
use and abuse 1873; The resources of Peru 1874, 4 ed. 1874; On
the supply of nitrate of soda and guano from Peru 1878. _d._ at
house of his son-in-law Henry Cookson, 16 Holly road, Fairfield,
Liverpool 6 June 1883. _bur._ Starcross.
PEACOCK, JOHN MACLEAY (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine,
Perthshire). _b._ Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker;
employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some
years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems
and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. _d._ Glasgow 4 May 1877.
_Selections of verse_, _edited by W. Lewin_ (1880) _portrait_.
PEACOCK, MARK BEAUCHAMP. _b._ 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London
1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to
death. _d._ Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.
PEACOCK, RICHARD (7 son of Ralph Peacock, superintendent of
mines, _d._ 1843). _b._ Swaledale, North Riding of Yorkshire
9 April 1820; apprentice to Fenton, Murray, and Jackson,
locomotive makers, Leeds 1834–8; locomotive superintendent Leeds
and Selby railway 1838–40; worked under sir David Gooch on Great
Western railway 1840–1; locomotive superintendent Manchester and
Sheffield railway 1841–54, and builder of the Gorton locomotive
depôt, Manchester; partner with Charles Beyer as locomotive
and machine tool makers at Gorton 1854, with works covering 14
acres; experimented on the blast pipe and locomotives; M.I.C.E.
1 May 1849; a founder of the Institution of Mechanical engineers
1847; M.P. Gorton 1885 to death. _d._ Gorton hall, Manchester 3
March 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii_ 404–7 (1889);
_W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii_ 271–4 (1890) _portrait_; _Figaro 9
March 1889 p._ 9 _portrait_.
PEACOCK, THOMAS BEVILL (son of Thomas Peacock, merchant).
_b._ York 21 Dec. 1812; apprentice to J. Fothergill, surgeon,
Darlington 1828–33; studied at Univ. college, London, and at
St. George’s hospital 1833–5; M.R.C.S. 1835; L.S.A. 1835; went
two voyages to Ceylon 1835–6; house surgeon to the hospital at
Chester 1838–42; M.D. Edinb. 1842; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1850,
Croonian lecturer 1865; founded a dispensary in Liverpool st.
London, which became the City of London hospital for diseases of
the chest, physician to the hospital 1848; assistant physician
to St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1849, physician 1862, retired
1877; dean of the medical school, delivered lectures on medicine
to the nurses; a founder of the Pathological society of London
1846, secretary 1850, vice-president 1852–6, president 1865–6;
member Med. and Chir. soc. 1845, sec. 1855–6, referee 1857–65,
vice-president 1867; author of On the influenza or epidemic
catarrh fever of 1847–8, 1848; On malformations of the human
heart 1858, 2 ed. 1866; On French millstone makers’ phthisis
1862; On the prognosis in cases of valvular diseases of the
heart 1877; and of many papers in medical periodicals; gave his
preparations of cardiac diseases and malformations to Hunterian
museum. _d._ St. Thomas’s hospital, London 31 May 1882. _bur._
Friends’ ground at Tottenham. _St. Thomas’s hospital reports xi_
179–85 (1882); _Medico-Chirurgical transactions_ (1883) 20–3.
PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (only child of Samuel Peacock of St. Paul’s
church yard, London, glass merchant, _d._ 1788). _b._ Weymouth,
Dorset 18 Oct. 1785; secretary to sir H. R. Popham on board the
fleet before Flushing 1808–9; made the acquaintance of Shelley
at Nant Gwillt, North Wales 1812, Shelley’s executor 1822; clerk
in East India house 1819, assistant examiner of correspondence
1822, chief examiner 1836, retired on a pension March 1856;
author of The monks of St. Mark 1804; Palmyra 1806; The genius
of the Thames 1810, 3 ed. 1817; The philosophy of melancholy
1812; Sir Proteus. By P. M. O’Donovan, Esq. 1814; Headlong
hall 1816, anon.; Melincourt 1817, 2 ed. 1856; Rhododaphne, or
the Thessalian spell 1818; Nightmare abbey 1818; Maid Marian
1822, dramatised by Planche as an opera and produced at Covent
Garden 3 Dec. 1822; The misfortunes of Elphin 1829; Crotchet
Castle 1831, new ed. 1887; Paper money lyrics and other poems
1837; Gryll Grange 1861; and two translations, Gl’ingannati,
The deceived, a comedy performed at Siena 1851, and Ælia Laelia
Crispis 1862. _d._ Lower Halliford, near Shepperton, Middlesex
23 Jany. 1866. _bur._ new cemet. Shepperton. _Macmillan’s
Mag. liii_ 414–27 (1886); _Temple bar lxxx_ 35–52 (1887); _G.
B. Smith’s Poets and novelists_ (1875) 111–50; _T. H. Ward’s
English poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 417–26 (1883); _St. James’s mag.
Sept. 1875 pp._ 332, 600–10; _H. Cole’s Works of T. L. Peacock_,
3 _vols._ (1875), _memoir in i_, _xxv–lii portrait_; _R.
Garnett’s Works of T. L. Peacock_, 10 _vols._ (1891) _memoir in
x_ 7–43.
NOTE.--He married 20 March 1820 Jane Gryffydh, known as the
Caernarvonshire nymph and ‘the Beauty of Caernarvonshire,’ she is
celebrated by Shelley as the Snowdonian Antelope, and _d._ 1852. _W. M.
Rossetti’s Poetical works of P. B. Shelley ii_ 322 (1878), _in Letter
to Maria Gisborne line_ 240.
PEACOCKE, GEORGE JOHN. _b._ 3 April 1825; ensign 16 foot 8 July
1842, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1859, placed on h.p. 2 July 1870;
A.A.G. North Britain 15 July 1871 to 31 Jany. 1876; lieut. col.
brigade depôt 12 April 1876, placed on retired list with hon.
rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. _d._ 23 Lowndes sq. London 15 Dec.
1895.
PEAKE, THOMAS LADD (son of sir Henry Peake, surveyor of the
navy). _b._ 1785; entered navy 1798; served in Walcheren
expedition 1809; as first lieut. in the Victorious took part
in action with the Rivoli 21 Feb. 1812; special magistrate at
Cape of Good Hope 4 years; inspecting commander of coastguard 31
Aug. 1820 to 1825; captain 1 March 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846,
rear-admiral 7 Oct. 1852, vice-admiral 28 Nov. 1857, admiral 27
April 1863. _d._ Cumberland st. London 19 Jany. 1865.
PEARCE, ELIZABETH. A popular serio-comic singer and dancer at
the principal London and provincial music halls many years;
created the famous songs Betsy Gay, Buy a broom, and When the
family are from home; retired some years before her death; _m._
Richard Arnold Burnett, map mounter; she _d._ 146 York road,
Waterloo road, London 24 Dec. 1890.
PEARCE, PAULIN HUGGETT (son of Edward Pearce of Ramsgate, _d._
25 Sept. 1851, aged 81, by Susannah his wife, who _d._ 19 May
1869, aged 92). _b._ Ramsgate 1809; a well known swimmer;
saved many lives and had medals from Royal humane soc. 1818
etc.; instrumental in saving lives of crew of the Colonist
at Barbadoes 1826; gave swimming exhibitions off Ramsgate
pier; author of The funeral of lord Nelson 1850; The duke of
Wellington’s grand funeral ode 1854; King Edward IV, a play
1868; King Richard I, a play 1868; Lord Nelson’s battles 1868;
A treatise and poem on swimming 1868; P. H. Pearce’s Tragedy
of the battle of Waterloo 1869; The infallible art of swimming
1869; The warrior’s swimming book 1869; Alexander the Great, a
play 1872; Godwin island, a play 1872; King Darius of Persia,
a play 1872; King Petri and the Black prince, a tragedy 1874;
Tippo Sahib, the sultan of Mysore, a poem 1876. _d._ 10 Harbour
st, Ramsgate 23 Nov. 1888. _bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard.
NOTE.--His brother Frederick Pearce was residing at Ramsgate 1894. His
brother Charles Pearce made a fortune as a boot maker at No. 10 Harbour
st. Ramsgate, was organist of St. Peter’s church 1846–91, _d._ 29 May
1891, aged 66.
PEARCE, THOMAS (youngest son of Francis Pearce, rector of
Hatford, Berks.) _b._ 1820; educ. Lincoln coll. Oxf, B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1848; C. of Golden hill, Staffs. 1845–7; C. of Highcliffe,
Hants. 1847–9; C. of Waterperry, Oxon. 1850–2; C. of Sparsholt,
Berks. 1852–3; V. of Morden, Wilts. 1853 to death; author of The
dog, with directions for his treatment and notices of the best
dogs of the day, by Idstone 1872; The Idstone papers, by Idstone
of the Field 1872, 2 ed. 1874; he wrote a considerable portion
of The dogs of the British islands edited by Stonehenge [John
Henry Walsh] 1867. _d._ Kempstone, Westcliffe, Bournemouth 24
Sept. 1885.
PEARCE, WALTER. _b._ 1854; educ. St. Mary’s hospital, Univ.
coll. London, and Rotunda hospital, Dublin; studied at school
of mines; B.Sc. univ of London 1874, M.R.C.S. 1881, M.B. and
B.S. 1885, M.D. 1886; L.R.C.P. 1886. M.R.C.P. 1886; took diploma
in Sanitary science 1887; took diploma in Mental medicine of
Medico-Psychological assoc. 1886; medical superintendent, then
assist. surgeon St. Mary’s hospital, London; acting surgeon of
the 20th Middlesex volunteers (Artists’ corps) 23 Aug. 1884;
resided 63 Montagu square, London. _shot himself_ in medical
staff room St. Mary’s hospital 15 May 1890. _Lancet 24 May 1890
p._ 1156.
PEARCE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1789; quartermaster 4 West India foot 26
Dec. 1805; lieut. 44 foot 21 Sept. 1810; captain 60 foot 15 Aug.
1813, major 25 Dec. 1825; placed on h.p. as lieut. col. 29 Aug.
1826; K.H. 1835. _d._ Ffowdgrech, Brecknockshire 5 Feb. 1871.
PEARCE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (son of Joseph George Pearce of
Brompton, near Chatham). _b._ Brompton 8 Jany. 1833; apprenticed
in Chatham dockyard; superintended the building of the Achilles,
the first ironclad built in a royal yard 1861; surveyor of
Lloyd’s registry for the Clyde district 1863; general manager
of the works of Robert Napier and son 1864; shipbuilder with
Ure and Jameson, under style of John Elder and Co. 1869, his
partners retired in 1878; the business was turned into a limited
company under name of the Fairfield shipbuilding and engineering
company of which he was chairman 1885; built all the steamers
for the North German Lloyd’s and for the New Zealand shipping
company; built 11 stern-wheel vessels for service on the Nile
in 28 days 1884; chairman of the Guion steamship company and of
the Scottish oriental steamship company; M.P. Govan division of
Lanarkshire Dec. 1885 to death; created baronet 25 July 1887.
_d._ 119 Piccadilly, London 18 Dec. 1888. _bur._ Gillingham,
Kent 22 Dec., personal estate declared at £1,069,669. _R. F.
Gould’s History of freemasonry ii_ 409 (1884) _portrait_; _D.
Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding_ (1884) 30.
PEARCEY, MARY ELEANOR, taken name of Mary Eleanor Wheeler (dau.
of James Whitford Wheeler, a marine, _d._ 17 Aug. 1882). _b._
Ightham, Kent 26 March 1866; worked as a furrier in Cannon st.
Stepney; lived with Charles Pearcey about Nov. 1885 to Nov.
1888, and took his name; invited Phœbe Hogg to visit her at
2 Priory st. Kentish town 24 Oct. 1890, and then quarrelled
with her and fractured her head and cut her throat, conveyed
the body in a perambulator to Crossfield road, Eton avenue,
South Hampstead, where it was found on 25 Oct. as well as the
dead body of her young child; _executed_ Newgate 22 Dec. 1890.
_Central criminal court minutes of evidence cxiii_ 44–72 (1891);
_Times 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Oct. 1890_, _1, 3, 18 Nov._, _6, 18,
20, 23, 24 Dec._; _Western Morning News 14 Nov. 1890 p._ 3;
_Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Dec. 1890_, _many
portraits_.
PEARD, JOHN WHITEHEAD (2 son of vice-admiral Shuldham Peard
1761–1832). _b._ Fowey, Cornwall, July 1811; educ. King’s
school, Ottery St. Mary, and Exeter college, Oxford, B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836, stroke of his college boat; student Inner
Temple 16 Nov. 1832, barrister 17 Nov. 1837; captain in Duke of
Cornwall’s Rangers 4 June 1853, displaced 24 Dec. 1861; joined
the forces of Garibaldi and organized and commanded a company of
revolving-rifle soldiers 1860, distinguished himself at battle
of Melazzo in Sicily 20 July 1860, raised to rank of colonel;
commanded the English legion in the advance to Naples, received
cross of the order of Valour from Victor Emmanuel; generally
known as Garibaldi’s Englishman; was visited by Garibaldi at
his seat Penquite on the Fowey river 25–7 April 1864; sheriff
of Cornwall 1869. _d._ Trenython, Par, Cornwall 21 Nov. 1880.
_bur._ Fowey cemet. 24 Nov. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub.
ii_ 439, _iii_ 1456 (1874–82); _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._
(1890) 690, 1018; _Sir C. Forbe’s Campaign of Garibaldi_ (1861)
94–9, 143, 200, 217–31; _Trollope’s What I remember ii_ 222–1
(1887–9); _Pycroft’s Oxford memories i_ 48–9, _ii_ 71 (1886);
_Sir F. H. Doyle’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 222–3; _I.L.N. 11 Aug.
1860 p._ 135 _portrait_; _Illust. times 9 Feb. 1861 p._ 83
_portrait_.
NOTE.--His name was never inserted in the Law List, this is a very
remarkable case.
PEARL, CORA, assumed name of Emma Elizabeth Crouch (one of the
16 children of Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, _b._ 31 July
1808, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen, who went to America in
1845). _b._ Caroline place, East Stonehouse, Devon 23 Feb. 1842;
educ. at Boulogne to 1855; seduced by an admirer in London and
thenceforth led a life of dissipation under the name of Cora
Pearl 1856; went to France with the returning Persigny embassy
March 1858; had a series of liaisons with persons connected with
the imperial court; large sums of money, diamonds and jewellery
passed through her hands; maintained an establishment in the
Rue de Chaillot, which was known as Les Petits Tuileries; kept
the finest horses and carriages of any one in Paris, crowds
assembled daily to see her in the Bois de Boulogne and ladies
imitated her dress and manners; appeared for 12 nights at Les
Bouffes Parisiens as Cupid in Offenbach’s opera Orphée aux
Enfers 1869; refused admission at the Grosvenor hotel, London
1870; converted her Paris residence into an ambulance during
the war and spent 25,000 francs on the wounded 1870; a son of
Pierre Louis Duval, founder of the Duval restaurants, spent
seventeen million francs on her 1870–1, after which she deserted
him and he attempted suicide; expelled by the police at various
times from France, Baden, Monte Carlo, Nice, Vichy and Rome;
blackmailed her acquaintances, to keep their names out of her
printed memoirs; often called La lune rousse in allusion to her
round face and red hair; her figure in marble was modelled by M.
Gallois in 1880. _d._ of cancer in squalid poverty in a small
room in the Rue de Bassano, Paris 8 July 1886. _Memoirs de Cora
Pearl_, _Paris_ (1886); _The memoirs of Cora Pearl_, _London_
(1886); _Folly’s Queens_, _New York_ (1882) 23–7; _Truth 15 July
1886 pp._ 105–6; _London Figaro 24 July 1886 p._ 6 _portrait_;
_Daily News 10 July 1886 p._ 5.
PEARS, STEUART ADOLPHUS (7 son of rev. James Pears, head-master
of Bath gram. sch.) _b._ Pirbright, Surrey 20 Nov. 1815; scholar
of C. C. coll. Oxf. 1832–6, fellow 1836, dean 1844–6; B.A. 1836,
M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846; tutor to lord Goderich 1838–42; sent
abroad by the Parker society to search the libraries of Zurich
and other places for correspondence relating to the English
reformation 1843; fellow and tutor of univ. of Durham 1846–7;
assistant master at Harrow 1847–54; head-master of Repton school
July 1854, resigned March 1874, raised the school from a local
grammar school of fifty boys to a first-grade public school of
nearly 300; R. of Childrey, Berkshire 1874 to death; translated
from the Latin The correspondence of sir Philip Sidney and
H. Languet 1845; author of Sermons 1851; Three lectures on
education 1859; Short sermons on the elements of christian truth
1861; Sundays at school, sermons in Repton school chapel 1870;
Sermons 1877. _d._ Childrey rectory 15 Dec. 1875.
PEARS, SIR THOMAS TOWNSEND (brother of preceding). _b._ 9 May
1809; lieut. Madras engineers 17 June 1825; commandant of
the Madras sappers and miners 1836; chief engineer with the
field force in Karnul 1839; commanding engineer with the army
in China under sir Hugh Gough 1841–2, was present at nearly
every action; consulting engineer for railways to government
of Madras 1851–7; lieut.-col. 20 June 1854, col. 16 Feb. 1856;
chief engineer in the public works’ department for Mysore 1857,
retired on a pension with honorary rank of M.G. 8 Feb. 1861;
military secretary at the India office, London 1861; organised
the arrangements for the Abyssinian expedition, retired 1877;
C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 June 1871. _d._ Eton lodge, Upper
Richmond road, Putney 7 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Mortlake cemet. _H.
M. Vibart’s Madras engineers ii_ 133 _et seq._ (1883); _J.
Ouchterlony’s Chinese war_ (1844) 47 _et seq._; _Daily Graphic
12 Oct. 1892 p._ 8 _portrait_.
PEARSALL, ROBERT LUCAS (son of Richard Pearsall). _b._ Clifton
14 March 1795; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821, went the western
circuit 4 years; contributed to Blackwood’s and other magazines;
wrote a cantata Saul and the witch of Endor 1808; studied music
at Mayence 1825–9, and at Carlsruhe, Munich and Vienna 1830–6;
a member of Bristol madrigal society 1837; sold Willsbridge
house, Gloucs. 1837; purchased castle of Wartensee on the lake
of Constance 1837, resided there to his death; received into
the R.C. church and became known as R. L. de Pearsall; composed
many settings of psalms, madrigals, a requiem, etc.; composer
of Great God of love, an eight part madrigal 1840; The hardy
Norseman’s house of yore 1840; O, who will o’er the downs so
free 1853; The bishop of Mentz, a four part song 1863; 24 Choral
songs 1864; Sir Patrick Spens, a ballad dialogue in ten parts
1880; The sacred compositions of R. L. de Pearsall 1880; Lay a
garland, a madrigal 1883; his name is attached to upwards of 80
musical compositions 1840–83; published translations in English
verse of Faust and Wilhelm Tell. _d._ Wartensee castle 5 Aug.
1856. _G.M. Oct. 1856 pp._ 511–2; _Musical Times 1882 p._ 376;
_Grove’s Dict. of music ii_ 678 (1880).
PEARSALL, THOMAS J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). _b._ at
the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London
10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution,
London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the
Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution,
Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on
Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals
from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association
1853. _d._ London May 1883. _Catalogue of Scientific papers iv_
794 (1870).
PEARSE, GEORGE. _b._ 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical
establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the
medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon
Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals,
Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861;
hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. _d._
Cheltenham 28 March 1885. _Times 2 April 1885 p._ 7.
PEARSE, GEORGE. _b._ Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852;
solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire
volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire
regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon
1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in
U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made
highest aggregate score. _d._ Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894.
PEARSE, JOHN. _b._ 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at
siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on
Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to
United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval
architecture, Plymouth 1835. _d._ 1864. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog._
(1849) 882.
PEARSE, RICHARD BULKELEY (son of B. Pearse of Munkham,
Woodford). _b._ 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the
Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten
and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in
1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was
named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during
the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war
1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired
admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. _d._ 9 Hyde park st. London 19
Nov. 1895. _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 10.
PEARSE, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death,
68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address,
the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning
1848. _d._ Westoning 14 June 1891.
PEARSON, ALFRED. _b._ 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while
taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre
royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. _d._ Oldham 29
Dec. 1868. _bur._ Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. _The Era 3 Jany.
1869 p._ 14.
PEARSON, CHARLES (son of Thomas Pearson, merchant). _b._ London
1794; educ. Eastbourne, Sussex; admitted solicitor 1816;
solicitor to the Irish society 1839 to death; city solicitor
1839 to death; solicitor to city comrs. of sewers July 1859 to
death; M.P. Lambeth 31 July 1847 to July 1850; the original
promoter of Metropolitan underground railway 1859; author of
The subject of an address, a brief history of the corporation
of London as an asylum of English freedom in past ages 1844;
Are the citizens of London to have better gas 1849; An address
on the Fleet valley improvements 1852; City improvements 1853;
A letter in favour of the Metropolitan railway and city station
1859. _d._ Oxford lodge, West hill, Wandsworth 14 Sept. 1862.
_Law Times xxxvii_ 577, 590 (1862).
PEARSON, CHARLES BUCHANAN (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson
1767–1856). _b._ Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832
to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct.
1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853;
contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays
for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862;
Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations
1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. _d._ 2
Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.
PEARSON, CHARLES HENRY (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson
1787–1865). _b._ 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept.
1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter
coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union
debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on
English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor
of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863;
lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a
sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history
at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’
Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education
in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member
for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for
the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry
administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education
18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the
system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent
secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to
death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent
traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861;
History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols.
1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen
centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873;
National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H.
Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii
Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; _m._ 6 Dec. 1872 Edith
Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she
was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he _d._
at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 June. _Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894
p._ 4 _portrait_.
PEARSON, SIR EDWIN (son of John Pearson, F.R.S. of Yorkshire).
_b._ 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S.
5 Dec. 1833; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 13 Feb. 1836,
resigned April 1842; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 May 1836;
vice-president of the French Institut d’Afrique. _d._ Rozel,
Sunnyside, Wimbledon 18 April 1883.
PEARSON, EMMA MARIA (1 dau. of capt. Charles Pearson, R.N. of
Great Yarmouth). Sent out as a volunteer by the Red Cross soc.
under the auspices of the Order of St. John to nurse the sick
at Sedan, at Paris, and at Orleans 1870; nursed the wounded in
Servia 1877; had medals and decorations from Germany, France,
and Servia; wrote for the St. James’ Mag. and other periodicals;
author of From Rome to Mentana 1868; One love in a life, 3 vols.
1874; His little cousin, a tale, 3 vols. 1875; with Louisa
Elizabeth Maclaughlin she wrote Our adventures during the war
1870; Under the red cross 1872; Service in Servia under the red
cross 1877. _d._ Florence 3 June 1893, aged 65. _Times 12 June
1893 p._ 6.
PEARSON, HUGH (4 son of succeeding). _b._ 25 June 1817; educ.
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1841; V. of Sonning,
Berkshire 1841 to death, restored the church; rural dean of
Henley-on-Thames 1864–74, and of Sonning 1874–6; chaplain to
bishop of Manchester 1870; canon of St. George’s, Windsor 26
Feb. 1876; deputy clerk of the closet to the queen 2 Aug.
1881 to death; great friend of dean A. P. Stanley 1836–81,
frequently went abroad with him; declined the deanery of
Westminster 1881. _d._ Sonning vicarage 13 April 1882. _bur._
Sonning church 18 April. _Times 19 April 1882 p._ 12.
PEARSON, HUGH NICHOLAS (only son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington,
Hants.). _b._ Lymington 1777; educ. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A.
1800, M.A. 1803, B. and D.D. 1821; proctor 1813; gained the
prize of £500 offered by Claudius Buchanan for the best essay
on Missions in Asia 1807, printed under title of A dissertation
on the propagation of christianity in Asia, Oxford 1808; V.
of St. Helen’s, Abingdon 1822–3; R. of Chiddingfold, Surrey
1826–31; R. of Guildford, St. Nicholas, Surrey 18 June 1832 to
1837, laid first stone of the new church 7 June 1836, finished
Aug. 1837; dean of Salisbury 9 April 1823, resigned June 1846;
domestic chaplain to George IV at Brighton 4 Feb. 1823 to 1830;
author of Memoirs of the life and writings of the rev. Claudius
Buchanan, 2 vols. Oxford 1827; Memoirs of the life of the rev.
Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a sketch of
the history of Christianity in India, 2 vols, 1834, 3 ed. 1839.
_d._ Sonning, Berkshire 17 Nov. 1856. _W. H. Jones’s Fasti
Sarisburiensis_ (1879) 325; _Brayley’s Surrey i_ 355–60 (1850).
PEARSON, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Norman Pearson of Bower
hall, Essex 1787–1865). _b._ 5 Aug. 1819; educ. Gonville and
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June
1844, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1884–5; Q.C. 13
Dec. 1866; judge in chancery division of high court of justice
24 Oct. 1882 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Nov. 1882;
member of councils of legal education and law reporting; author
of The duty of laymen in the church of England 1856. _d._ 75
Onslow sq. South Kensington, London 13 May 1886. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery. _Law quarterly review ii_ 373–8 (1886); _Law Times 22
May 1886 p._ 69.
PEARSON, JOHN ARMITAGE. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals;
L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1856; surgeon of Woolton
dispensary, Liverpool 25 years; surgeon of Devonshire hospital
and Bath charity, Buxton to death; author of Reports of cases
treated at the Buxton bath charity and Devonshire hospital 1861.
_d._ St. Anne’s hotel, Buxton 6 June 1863. _bur._ St. John’s
church 11 June.
PEARSON, JOHN HENRY (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). _b._
Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers,
Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East,
London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great
name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st.
Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in
U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s,
Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master
at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. _d._ Southport 1 July
1887. _bur._ Southport cemet. _Era 10 July 1887._
PEARSON, JOHN NORMAN (son of John Pearson, surgeon 1758–1826).
_b._ 7 Dec. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., Hulsean prizeman
1807; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; chaplain to marquess of Wellesley;
the first principal of the Church Missionary society’s college
at Islington 1826–39; V. of Holy Trinity church Tunbridge
Wells 1839–53; author of A critical essay on the ninth book of
Warburton’s Divine legation of Moses, Cambridge 1808; Christ
crucified: or some passages of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus
Christ, devotionally and practically considered 1826; The candle
of the Lord uncovered, or the bible rescued from papal thraldom
by the Reformation 1835; The days in paradise 1854. _d._ Bower
hall, near Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 4 Oct. 1865. _G.M. ii_ 792
(1865).
PEARSON, JOSIAH BROWN (son of Benjamin Pearson). _b._
Chesterfield 1841; educ. Chesterfield gram. sch.; scholar
St. John’s coll. Camb.; a first in the moral science tripos
1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, LL.M. 1871, LL.D. 1874, D.D.
1880; fellow of St. John’s 1864–80, lecturer 1864–71; C. of
St. Michael, Camb. 1865–7; C. of St. Andrew the great, Camb.
1867–9; V. of Horningsea, Cambs. 1871–4; Whitehall preacher
1872–4; Hulsean lecturer and Ramsden preacher 1872; V. of Newark
1874–80; commissioner to bishop of Melbourne 1876–80; bishop
of Newcastle, New South Wales 1880, consecrated in St. Paul’s
cathedral 1 May 1880, resigned Nov. 1890; V. of Leck Kirkby,
Lonsdale 1893 to death; author of The divine personality, the
Burney prize essay 1865; Creed or no creed, three sermons 1871;
Disciples in doubt, five sermons 1879. _d._ Leck vicarage 10
March 1895.
PEARSON, JULIUS ALEXANDER. _b._ 1839; educ. King’s coll. London;
LL.D.; admitted solicitor 1862; practised at 46 Hyde park sq.
London 1864; junior partner in Cope, Rose, and Pearson 26 Great
George st. Westminster 1867 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag.,
and Notes and Queries, chiefly upon heraldic matters; F.S.A.
7 June 1866. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 29 April 1871. _Solicitors’
Journal xv_ 511 (1871).
PEARSON, RICHARD LYONS OTWAY (son of Henry Shepherd Pearson).
_b._ 1831; educ. Eton and at Sandhurst; ensign 95 foot 10 Dec.
1847; captain 7 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. grenadier guards
20 July 1855, captain 27 Dec. 1864, sold out 2 Jany. 1869;
aide-de-camp to sir George Brown during Crimean war 1854–5,
present at Alma, Inkerman, the expedition to Kertch, and the
siege of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; assistant commissioner
of metropolitan police 1 July 1881 to death; C.B. 21 June 1887.
_d._ 57 Warwick sq. London 30 May 1890.
PEARSON, THOMAS HOOKE (son of John Pearson, advocate-general of
India). _b._ June 1806; educ. Eton; cornet 11 light dragoons
14 March 1825; served at siege of Bhurtpore Nov. 1825; captain
59 foot 23 Aug. 1831; captain 16 lancers 9 Dec. 1831, major 23
April 1847, placed on h.p. 7 April 1848; served at battle of
Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843 and in the first Sikh war; commanded
his regiment during latter part of battle of Aliwal (and saved
the battle by a spirited cavalry charge) 28 Jany. 1846, and
at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; on retired list as L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel 12 lancers 4 Feb. 1879 to
death; C.B. 2 June 1869; won the One thousand guineas, Great
Yorkshire stakes, St. Leger and Doncaster cup with Achievement
1867, her foals did not live and she died in 1872. _d._ The
Hasells, Sandy, Beds. 29 April 1892. _Times 3 May 1892 p._ 10.
PEARSON, WILLIAM (son of capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N.) _b._ Hilton,
Kilmany, Fifeshire 20 Sept. 1818; a squatter in Gippsland,
Australia 1841, owning Lindenow and Kilmany park stations;
member for North Gippsland to legislative assembly 1868 and
1871; member for the Eastern province in legislative council;
largest shareholder in Long tunnel gold mine, Walhalla; a
breeder of race horses from 1842; a winner of several hundred
races; great supporter of the turf in Victoria; an exceedingly
wealthy man. _d._ Melbourne Sept. 1893.
PEARSON-GEE, ARTHUR BEILBY (elder son of Wm. Pearson, Q.C., _b._
1824). _b._ 2 Nov. 1855; educ. Rugby and Trin. hall, Camb., B.A.
1877; barrister I.T. 25 June 1879; went north eastern circuit;
member of joint legal board of examiners 1881 to death; assumed
additional surname of Gee by R.L. 15 Jany. 1885; edited J. P.
Benjamin’s Treatise on the law of sale of personal property, 3
ed. 1883, and 4 ed. 1888; author with H. F. Boyd of Factors acts
1823 to 1877, 1884, and alone of The new factors acts annotated
1890. _d._ 19 Portland place, London 9 Jany. 1896. _Times 11
Jany. 1896 p._ 6.
PEASE, EDWARD (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer).
_b._ Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at
Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected
George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first
rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27
Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson
money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was
constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder
in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death.
_d._ Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. _Annual Monitor_
(1859) 123–64; _S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R.
Stephenson_ (1874) 123–32, 385 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858
p._ 121; _Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888)
487–95.
PEASE, EDWARD (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). _b._ 24 June
1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’
institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly;
chief promoter of British and foreign training college for
female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar
school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at
Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. _d._ Lucerne 13
June 1880. _bur._ Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25
Sept. 1880. _First Report of E. Pease public library_ (1887).
PEASE, HENRY (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). _b._ 4 May 1807;
helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in
1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England,
the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied
Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation
from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas
with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war
10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of
Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation
from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society
1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871;
the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway
jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. _d._ while attending
the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May
1881. _bur._ at Darlington, personalty sworn at £360,489, 13
Aug. 1881. _Fortunes made in business i_ 331–78 (1884); _I.L.N.
xxiv_ 201 (1854) _portrait_; _J. Sturge’s Some account of a
deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia_ (1854);
_London Society_ (1881) 431–46.
PEASE, JOHN (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). _b._ Darlington
1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a
minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings
in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S.
of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an
original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825;
a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great
Ayton, Yorks. 1841. _d._ Darlington 29 July 1868. _Biog. Cat. of
lives of Friends_ (1888) 495–500.
PEASE, JOSEPH (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen
manufacturer). _b._ Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his
father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project
the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the
treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate
co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member,
objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed
to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.;
assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president
of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind
before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books;
had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality
translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of
Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy
1841. _d._ Southend, Darlington 8 Feb. 1872, personalty sworn
under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington
unveiled 1875. _J. H. Bell’s British folks and British
India_ (1891) 39, 42, 131; _Joseph Pease, a memoir_ (1872);
_Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888) 503–7;
_I.L.N. lx_ 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) _portrait_; _Leisure Hour
xxi_ 375 _portrait_; _J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway
system_ (1875); _Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp._ 321, 328, _view of
statue_.
PEASE, JOSEPH WALKER (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866).
_b._ Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1
East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to
July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull
7 Feb. 1874. _d._ Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.
PEAT, DAVID. _b._ Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy
2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had
frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was
several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29
July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard
1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug.
1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ end of Dec. 1880.
PEBODY, CHARLES (son of Charles Pebody). _b._ Watford or
Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor
at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford
Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying
Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented
with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at
Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial
paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at
work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882;
wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under
signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post.
_d._ Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. _bur._
Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. _Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p._ 5, _4
Nov. p._ 4.
PECHELL, SIR GEORGE RICHARD BROOKE, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir
Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). _b._ London 30 June
1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded
the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820;
commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822;
gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen
Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton
13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded
his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852,
and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820.
_d._ 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.
PECHELL, HORACE ROBERT (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone,
London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). _b._ 12 May
1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All
Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of
Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary
in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. _d._
Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.
PECHEY, WILLIAM CRISP. _b._ Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838;
educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng.
1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort
Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868
to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji
islands 1871. _d._ at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st.
Walthamstow 22 June 1871. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 236
(1871).
PECK, CHARLES. _b._ Beverley 1801; a jockey; horse trainer at
Highfield, near Malton in succession to William Perren for 6
years; had some breeding mares of his own; a trainer at Grove
house, Malton from 1842 for sir R. Bulkeley, lord Glasgow,
Stanhope Hanke, Mr. Wentworth, major Yarburgh, and Mr. Pedley;
for Mr. Wilkins trained Old Dan Tucker and Napoleon, which won
the Great Yorkshire stakes 185- and 1859; trained Mr. Graham’s
horses 1863. _d._ Malton 16 Jany. 1867. _bur._ Malton 21 Jany.
_Sporting Review Feb. 1867 pp._ 85–6.
PECK, LILLIAN or LYDIA ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Wm. Priest Peck of
Chelmsford, Wesleyan minister). _b._ 1850; under the pseudonym
of Ruth Elliott she wrote Margery’s Christmas box 1875; Little
Ray and her friends 1877; James Daryll 1877; Undeceived, Roman
or Anglican, a story of English ritualism 1877; John Lyon 1879;
My first class 1881; A voice from the sea 1881; Talks with
the bairns 1882; Auriel 1883; Fought and won 1885; Archie and
Nellie 1885; Twixt promise and vow 1886. _d._ New London road,
Chelmsford 25 Oct. 1878.
PECKHAM-MICKLETHWAIT, SIR SOTHERON BRANTHWAYT, 1 Baronet
(younger son of Nathaniel Micklethwait of Beeston, Norfolk
1760–86). _b._ 30 May 1786; cornet 3 dragoon guards 15 Jany.
1803, captain 5 Jany. 1807, sold out 15 Sept. 1808; assumed
surname of Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet
27 July 1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty
and the duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of
Sussex 1848. _d._ Iridge place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.
PECKOVER, ALGERNON (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech,
Cambridge, _d._ 1833). _b._ 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of
Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other
places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s
Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. _d._
10 Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.
PEDDER, JAMES. _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went
to U.S. of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture
of sugar in Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an
agricultural journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844
to death; author of a book of conversations entitled Frank,
which ran to several editions; The yellow shoestrings, or
obedience to parents 1814, 17 editions; Report made to the beet
sugar society of Philadelphia on the culture in France of the
beet root 1836; The farmer’s land measure, New York 1854. _d._
Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.
PEDDER, JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and
tutor, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham
Dec. 1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of
North Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. _d._ 13 Somerset place, Walcot,
Bath 12 July 1890.
PEDDER, SIR JOHN LEWES (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle
Temple, barrister). _b._ 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B.
1822; barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van
Diemen’s Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a
dispute with sir William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s
Land in 1848; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8
Bedford square, Brighton. _d._ 24 March 1859.
PEDDIE, JOHN. Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept.
1813; captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825,
placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827;
lieut. col. 31 foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April
1832; lieut. col. 90 foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840;
K.H. 1832. _d._ 1873.
PEDDIE, JOHN CROFTON. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814,
major 5 Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March
1849, sold out 27 Dec. 1850. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man during a
service in St. Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.
PEDDIE, JOHN DICK (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet).
_b._ Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years;
architect 1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn
st. Edinb., the Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank,
Glasgow; A.R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of
council; M.P. Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock
burghs 1885; a leader in the disestablishment movement 1880.
_d._ 33 Buckingham terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. _Scotsman 13
March 1891 p._ 5.
PEDDIE, WILLIAM (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister
1758–1845). _b._ 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ.
of Edinb. and Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to
preach May 1827; colleague to his father at the Bristo street
secession chapel, Edinb. Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel
11 Oct. 1845 to death; moderator of the United Presbyterian
synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania 1843;
edited the United Presbyterian magazine several years; edited
Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a memoir 1846. _d._ Edinburgh
23 Feb. 1893. _United Presbyterian Magazine April 1893._
PEDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ.
Independent college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street
1848; pastor of Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland
1857; pastor at Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to
death; author of The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest
times to the end of 1860, 1863. _d._ Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872.
_H. J. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 304.
PEDLEY, MR. _b._ Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses
which he trained at Danebury; _m._ a daughter of John Gully
and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others
being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner;
won the Derby with Cossack 1847. _d._ about 1872. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 76–8.
PEEBLES, ALEXANDER MARSHALL. _b._ 1837; an architect at Highbury
hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London;
member of common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook
1882–5; F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London
1887 to death, built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and
vegetable market. _d._ 23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood,
London 21 May 1891. _bur._ Kensal green 25 May. _I.L.N. 6 June
1891 p._ 735 _portrait_; _City Press 23 May 1891 p._ 2.
PEEBLES, ALLAN LAING (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot).
_b._ Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut.
Devonshire regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death;
adjutant of the first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894;
inspector of small arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in
charge of Maxim battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and
other eastern languages; made improvements in the maxim gun;
with the Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river
Panjkora, Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.
PEEBLES, JAMES. _b._ 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28
Jany. 1858. _d._ 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.
PEEBLES, PHILIP CADELL. _b._ 23 April 1842; head of the firm of
A. M. Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire,
paper manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for
illustrated journals; made improvements in dry printing; member
of hon. artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name
of Mr. Renfrew from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two
years’ old plate at Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great
Lancashire handicap in 1888. _d._ 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park,
London 26 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Kensal green 30 Nov. _I.L.N. 7 Dec.
1895 p._ 694 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895
p._ 467 _portrait_.
PEED, THOMAS THORPE. _b._ 1825; educ. Royal academy of music
under Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis
to D. F. M. Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a
singing class at the academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic
institution; conducted a lecture on the music of the Beggars’
opera; lessee of the Alexandra theatre, Camden Town, opened 31
May 1873 with his own operetta Marguerite and Robert Reece’s
3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s debt; produced The magic
pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball, music by himself 29
Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto by R. Reece, music
by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon quadrilles 1843;
Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not gold, a song
1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a song 1880.
_d._ Margate 9 Nov. 1888. _I.L.N. xxxv_ 243 (1859) _portrait_.
PEEK, JAMES (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). _b._ 8
June 1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London,
the firm being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the
firm of Peek, Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead,
St. Saviours, London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir
Henry Peek, 1 baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. _d._
Watcombe, Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_
13–17 (1865).
PEEL, ARTHUR (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham,
Lincs.) _b._ 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848,
M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of
islands of Antigua and Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. _d._ 15
Oct. 1873.
PEEL, JOHN. _b._ Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with
Miss White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole
expense a pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide
reputation by a song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel
with his coat so grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the
old Cumberland tune of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to
music by Metcalfe; Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John
Peel and At the grave of John Peel. _d._ Ruthwaite, Cumberland
13 Nov. 1854. _bur._ Caldbeck churchyard. _S. Gilpin’s Songs of
Cumberland_ (1866) 408–15; _H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin_
(1870) 106; _West Cumberland Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886_.
PEEL, JOHN (5 son of Thomas Peel of Peelfold, Lancashire,
calico printer). _b._ 4 Feb. 1804; educ. Manchester gram. sch.;
a merchant; M.P. Tamworth 1863–8, and 28 March 1871 to death;
contested Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868. _d._ Middleton hall, Tamworth 2
April 1872, personalty under £300,000, 27 July 1872.
PEEL, JOHN (4 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart., _d._ 1830).
_b._ 22 Aug. 1798; educ. Rugby 1812–7, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1822, M.A. 1826, B.D. and D.D. 1845; V. of Stone, Worcs. 1828
to death; canon residentiary of Canterbury cathedral 1829–45;
dean of Worcester 9 Dec. 1845 to death. _d._ Waresley house,
Worcester 18 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 211, 403 (1875).
PEEL, JOHN (4 son of succeeding). _b._ 11 April 1829; ensign 34
foot 22 June 1847, captain 25 Nov. 1853; served in Crimean war,
severely wounded; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, placed on
h.p. 23 Oct. 1857; assistant military secretary at Malta 1864–7;
A.A.G. S.W. district 1867–72; A.A. and Q.M.G. home district 1
May 1876 to 10 July 1880; M.G. 11 July 1880; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of L.G. 11 July 1885. _d._ at his residence
near Herne Bay 17 Nov. 1892.
PEEL, JONATHAN (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830).
_b._ Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ.
Rugby 1811–5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71
foot 18 Feb. 1819 to 13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7
Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825; major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June
1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June 1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug.
1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P.
Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–68; surveyor general of
the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for war 26 Feb. 1858
to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March 1867; began
racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with Archibald 1832,
ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando and Ionian
1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851; kept race
horses again 1869 to death. _d._ Marble hall, Twickenham 13
Feb. 1879. _bur._ Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. _Famous racing
men._ _By Thormanby_ (1882) 120–4; _Rice’s British Turf ii_
323–7 (1879); _Baily’s Mag. iii_ 273–8 (1861) _portrait_; _New
sporting mag. xv_ 371 (1838) _portrait_; _Sporting Times 13 Feb.
1875 portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 201, 202 (1874)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 224 (1879) _portrait_.
PEEL, JONATHAN (eld. son of Robert Peel of Accrington house,
Lancs., _d._ 16 April 1839). _b._ 1 May 1806; educ. St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 3 May 1833; contested
Cheltenham 24 July 1837 and Clitheroe Lancs. 23 Aug. 1853;
resided at Knowlmere manor, near Clitheroe, where he kept a
large flock of Lonk sheep, his ram Mountain King won 40 first
prizes and died 12 Nov. 1864; bred short horn cattle 1851 to
death, lost all his first herd by murrain 1856. _d._ Knowlmere
manor 6 March 1885. _H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin_ (1870)
358–65.
PEEL, SIR LAWRENCE (3 son of Joseph Peel of Bowes farm,
Middlesex, _d._ 1821). _b._ 10 Aug. 1799; educ. Rugby and St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 7
May 1824, bencher 8 May 1856 to death, treasurer 3 Dec. 1866;
advocate general at Calcutta 1840–2; chief justice of supreme
court at Calcutta 11 Feb. 1842, retired Nov. 1855; knighted by
patent 18 May 1842; vice-president of legislative council at
Calcutta 1854–5; gave away in charity his official income of
£8,000, was voted a statue at Calcutta Nov. 1855; P.C. and paid
member of the judicial committee 4 April 1856; a director of the
East India company 1857; D.C.L. Oxford 1858; president of Guy’s
hospital Jany. 1864; author of Horæ Nauseæ 1841, and of A sketch
of the life and character of Sir R. Peel 1860. _d._ Garden
Reach, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 22 July 1884.
PEEL, LAURENCE (brother of Jonathan Peel 1799–1879). _b._ 28
June 1801; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1819; one of the
secretaries of the India board; M.P. Cockermouth 1827–30. _d._
32 Sussex sq. Brighton 10 Dec. 1888.
PEEL, SIR ROBERT, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Robert Peel,
2 baronet 1788–1850). _b._ London 4 May 1822; educ. Harrow
1835–41; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 May 1841; attaché to
British legation at Madrid 18 June 1844; secretary of legation
in Switzerland 2 May 1846, chargé d’affaires there Nov. 1846,
resigned on his father’s death 2 July 1850; M.P. Tamworth
20 July 1850 to 24 March 1880; shipwrecked off the coast of
Genoa in the steamboat Ercolano 24 April 1854; captain in
Staffordshire yeomanry 1854–9; a junior lord of the admiralty
March 1855 to May 1857; secretary to lord Granville’s special
mission to Russia at coronation of Alexander II. July 1856;
chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland 26 July 1861,
resigned Nov. 1865; P.C. 25 July 1861; G.C.B. 5 Jany. 1866;
contested Gravesend 1 July 1880; M.P. Huntingdon 21 March 1884,
the borough was disfranchised 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. Blackburn 24
Nov. 1885 to 26 June 1886; contested the Inverness burghs 9 July
1886 and Brighton 25 Oct. 1889; raced on the turf under name
of Mr. F. Robinson from about 1856, bred horses at Bonehill,
near Tamworth; sold his father’s collection of 77 pictures
and 18 drawings, including Ruben’s Chapeau de Poil, to the
National gallery for £75,000, March 1871; _found dead_ in his
bedroom at 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 9 May 1895. _bur._
Drayton-Bassett parish church 16 May. _St. Stephen’s Review 9
May 1891 pp._ 13–4 _portrait_; _Sporting Times 1 May 1875 pp._
297, 300 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 29 March 1851 p._ 254 _portrait,
and 18 May 1895 p._ 606 _portrait_.
PEEL, SIR WILLIAM (3 son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet
1788–1850). _b._ 2 Nov. 1824; midshipman R.N. 7 April 1838;
commander 27 June 1846; commanded the Daring on the North
American and West Indies’ station 1847–8; captain 10 Jany.
1849; captain of the Diamond frigate in the Mediterranean Oct.
1853; served with the naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol
1854–5, threw a live shell over the parapet of his battery 18
Oct. 1854; led the ladder party at the assault on the Redan 18
June 1855; one of the first recipients of the Victoria cross
24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858; captain
of the Shannon, 50 guns, 13 Sept. 1856; formed a naval brigade
at Calcutta July 1857, and served at all the chief operations
during Sepoy mutiny; severely wounded in the thigh in the second
relief of Lucknow 9 March 1858; A.D.C. to the queen 21 Jany.
1858 to death; author of A ride through the Nubian desert 1852.
_d._ Cawnpore 27 April 1858, statues in Eden gardens at Calcutta
and in painted hall, Greenwich, and portrait by John Lucas in
painted hall at Greenwich. _I.L.N. xxxviii_ 68 (1861) _view of
statue at Greenwich_; _E. H. Verney’s The Shannon brigade in
India, account of Peel’s naval brigade in the Indian campaign_
(1862) _portrait_.
PEEL, WILLIAM YATES (2 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart.
1750–1830). _b._ Chamber hall, Bury 3 Aug. 1789; educ. Harrow
and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M. A. 1815; barrister
L.I. 6 Feb. 1816; M.P. Bossiny 1817–8; M.P. Tamworth 1818–30;
M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1830; M.P. univ. of Cambridge
1831–5; M.P. Tamworth again 1835–47; comr. of board of control
2 June 1826 to 4 June 1827; under sec. of state for home
department 5 April 1828 to 5 Aug. 1830; a lord of the treasury
31 July 1830 to 24 Nov. 1830, and 31 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835;
P.C. 20 Dec. 1834. _d._ Bagington hall, Warwickshire 1 June
1858. _G.M. Aug. 1858 p._ 191.
PEELE, EDWARD. _b._ 1838; educ. for musical profession;
L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland and L.M. 1872; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1873; on
staff of hospital for diseases of the throat, Dublin; physician
to hospital for incurables; demonstrator of anatomy royal coll.
of surgeons’ medical school; visiting physician to Coombe
lying-in hospital. _d._ of typhus fever 41 Lower Bagot st.
Dublin 18 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 21 Feb. _Medical
times and gazette i_ 416 (1881).
PEENE, WILLIAM GURDEN. _b._ 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1823, M.A. 1826, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1833; in practice at Maidstone,
Kent. _d._ Maidstone 20 June 1853, left £1,700 for purchase of
books for the library of University college, London.
PEER, JOHN. Drove the Southampton Telegraph team, being the
crack whip of his day, dressed in a surtout olive coat, white
waistcoat, buckskin breeches and top boots; always stood in a
leaning position when driving; patronised by the marquis of
Worcester, afterwards duke of Beaufort; started a coach from
London to Southampton and lost his money. _d._ in poverty Fetter
lane, London at an advanced age. _Sporting Review lii_ 113
(1864); _Driving, by the duke of Beaufort_ (1889) 245.
PEERS, CHARLES (only son of Robert Peers of Chislehampton lodge,
Wallingford, Oxon.) _b._ 1774; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1799, M.A. 1804; gained Seatonian prize for Christ’s
lamentation over Jerusalem 1805; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1802;
recorder of Henley-upon-Thames; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 14 June 1820;
sheriff of Oxfordshire 1821; F.S.A.; author of The siege of
Jerusalem, a poem 1823. _d._ Chislehampton lodge, Oxfordshire 6
Feb. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 551 (1853).
PEET, JOHN. Educ. Univ. college, London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1841;
M.D. Aberdeen 1866; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1858, F.R.C.P. 1860;
assistant surgeon Bombay army 2 May 1842, surgeon 23 June 1858;
professor of anatomy and of surgery Grant Medical coll. Bombay
Oct. 1845; acting principal of the college 1854–6, principal
1858, retired 1865; surgeon Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital
1858–65; member of Medical and physical soc. of Bombay, sec.
1849–53, president 1863 and 1864, contributed many papers to
the Transactions; author of Principles and practice of medicine
1864, translated into 3 vernacular languages; resided at
Shanklin from 1865. _d._ Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 18
Jany. 1874. _Medical times and gazette 7 Feb. 1874 p._ 168.
PEET, THOMAS. _b._ Wigan 24 March 1788; educ. Wigan gram. sch.;
capt. Wigan local militia; local sec. of British archæological
assoc. at Manchester 1851; a calico printer at Manchester;
director of Union bank of Manchester; received present of plate
from Salford market committee for his researches which enabled
them to establish their right to the ancient market Feb. 1844.
_d._ Manchester 14 Jany. 1862. _Journal of British Archæol.
assoc. xix_ 155 (1863).
PEILE, THOMAS WILLIAMSON (eld. son of John Peile of Whitehaven).
_b._ 10 Nov. 1806; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the school;
entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, Davies’ scholar 1824; 18
wrangler 1828; B.A 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1843; fellow of Trin.
coll. 1 Oct. 1829 to 1831; head master of Liverpool collegiate
school 1829; P.C. of St Catherine’s, Liverpool 1831; tutor in
univ. of Durham 1834; P.C. of Croxdale, near Durham 1836; head
master of Repton school 1841–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1857–60; V.
of St. Paul, South Hampstead Oct. 1860, resigned 1873; edited
the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1839, and The Cheophoræ 1840; author
of Annotations on the apostolical epistles, 4 vols. 1847–52;
Sermons, doctrinal and didactic 1866; Three sermons on the holy
communion 1871; his name is attached to upward of 35 works. _d._
37 St. John’s Wood park, London 29 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Buckhurst
Hill churchyard 2 Dec., portrait in hall of Repton school. _The
Guardian 6 Dec. 1882 p._ 1716.
PEILL, JOHN NEWTON. _b._ Liverpool 14 Dec. 1808; educ. royal
institution, Liverpool and Queen’s coll. Camb., 7th wrangler
and B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1841; fellow of his college
1832–53, bursar 1843–50, dean 1850–1 and tutor 1850–3; R. of St.
Botolph’s, Camb. 1843–53; R. of Newton Toney, Wilts. 1853 to
death; rural dean of Amesbury; diocesan inspector of schools;
F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1869; with his own astronomical instruments
made observations at Newton Toney. _d._ Newton Toney 12 June
1879. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Society xl_ 204
(1880).
PEITHMAN, EDWARD (son of major Peithman, who fell at Jena).
_b._ Osnabruck, Hanover 1804; educ. Bonn, Halle and Berlin;
L.L.D.; came to England June 1824; lectured on education in
Oxford and Cambridge; tutor to sons of baron Cloncurry at Lyons,
near Dublin 1835, dismissed for refusing to take part against a
girl seduced by one of his pupils; confined in Kilmainham gaol
as a lunatic to prevent his giving evidence in the law courts
1835, transferred to Dublin house of industry, then to Swift’s
hospital; lectured before university of Dublin and the Royal
society; tutor to earl Fortescue’s sons at Dublin castle to
1840; called twice at Buckingham palace to obtain situation of
librarian to prince Albert 1840, confined in Bethlehem hospital
1840–54; made calls at Buckingham palace 1854, confined in
Hanwell asylum; went to Prussia where his case was commented
on by count Arnim in the Upper chamber; awarded £100 a year,
paid by the British embassy at Berlin. _Thomas Mulock’s British
lunatic asylums_ (1858) 38–47.
PELHAM, DUDLEY ANDERSON WORSLEY (younger son of Charles, 1 earl
of Yarborough 1781–1846). _b._ Stratford place, London 20 April
1812; entered R.N. 4 Aug. 1825, captain 26 Oct. 1840; M.P.
Boston 2 Aug. 1849 to death. _d._ Motcombe st. Belgrave sq.
London 13 April 1851. G.M. XXXV 664 (1851).
PELHAM, FREDERICK THOMAS (2 son of Thomas, 2 earl of Chichester
1756–1826). _b._ 2 Aug. 1808; entered navy 27 June 1823; served
on the coast of Spain 1835; commanded the Tweed, 20 guns, on
Lisbon station 1837–8; captain 3 July 1840; commanded Odin steam
frigate in Mediterranean 1847; R.A. 6 March 1858; C.B. 5 July
1855; K.S.F. of Spain; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to
June 1861. _d._ Brighton 21 June 1861. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
PELHAM, JOHN THOMAS (3 son of 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826).
_b._ 21 June 1811; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1832, M.A. and D.D. 1857; C. of Eastergate, Sussex 1834–7; R.
of Bergh Apton, Norfolk 1837–52; honorary canon of Norwich
cathedral 1847–57; chaplain to the queen 18 June 1847 to 1857;
P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hampstead 1852–5; R. of St. Marylebone, London
27 Dec. 1854 to 1857; bishop of Norwich 30 April 1857, resigned
early in 1893, consecrated in Marylebone church 11 June 1857;
founded a diocesan church association for building churches
and in 1879 a diocesan conference; published Hymns for public
worship 1855, and printed 7 charges and sermons. _d._ Sunnyhill,
Thorpe, Norwich 1 May 1894. _bur._ Berghampton 5 May. _Church
of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859) _part_ 45
_portrait_; _Black and White 12 May 1894 p._ 571 _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xlvii_ 365 (1865) _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 1 Feb. 1893
p._ 14 _portrait_.
NOTE.--His fourth, son Herbert Pelham, _b._ 1855; educ. Haileybury and
Magd. coll. Oxf.; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877 and
1878; B.A. 1878; C. of St. Philip’s, Heigham, Norfolk 1878 to death;
_d._ at Les Avants, Switzerland 30 May 1881 from injuries received in a
fall while mountain climbing. _Times 1 June 1881 p._ 12.
PELHAM, RICHARD WARD. _b._ 1816; was often known as R. W.
Pell; the first to introduce negro entertainments in America
and England, the four original Virginia minstrels were R. W.
Pelham, F. M. Brower, D. D. Emmett, and W. Whitlock; took
farewell benefit at Park theatre, New York 19 April 1843,
arrived in England 21 May 1843; gave 5 concerts at Bold st.
hall, Liverpool, 6 concerts at the Athenæum, Manchester, and 6
nights at Queen’s theatre, Manchester, the first theatre a band
of minstrels ever appeared in; made first appearance at Adelphi
theatre, London 19 June 1843, under John Henry Anderson, at
expense of £100 a week; the oldest manager of negro minstrels
in the world. _d._ 2 Harford st. Liverpool 8 Oct. 1876. _bur._
Anfield cemetery 11 Oct. _G. W. Moore’s Bones_ (1870) _pp._ 3–4,
_Dedicated to R. W. Pelham_.
PELHAM-CLINTON, ROBERT RENEBALD (6 son of 4 duke of Newcastle
1785–1851). _b._ Clumber 15 Oct. 1820; educ. Eton; matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 11 Dec. 1839; M.P. North Notts. 17 July 1852 to 6
July 1865; first lieut. Sherwood rangers 1853. _d._ Earlswood,
Reigate 25 July 1867.
PELL, GILBERT WARD. _b._ New York 1825; the original “Bones” of
the negro entertainments; opened St. James’s theatre, London
under title of the “Ethiopian serenaders” 10 Feb. 1846, Pell
was bones, Harrington concertina, White violin, Stanwood banjo
and Germain tambourine, Juba a real black and a splendid dancer
in boots was also in the company. _d._ 21 Dec. 1872. _bur._ St.
Helen’s cemetery, Lancs. 24 Dec.
PELL, MORRIS BIRKBECK. _b._ U.S. of America about 1826; educ.
St. John’s coll. Camb., B. A. 1849, senior wrangler and Smith’s
junior prizeman 1849; fellow of his college March 1850 to March
1852; the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
in univ. of Sydney N.S.W. Jany. or Feb. 1852, retired on a
pension 1877; fellow of the senate of the univ. 1878; barrister
of supreme court of N.S.W. 1863; member of the water and
sewerage and the Hunter river floods preventions commissions;
actuary of the Australian mutual provident society; author of
Geometrical illustrations of the differential calculus 1850.
_d._ Sydney 7 May 1879.
PELL, OLIVER CLAUDE (youngest son of sir Albert Pell, judge of
court of review, _d._ 1832), _b._ Pinner hill, Middlesex 3 Sept.
1826; educ. Rugby 1839–44; first match at Lord’s Marylebone
_v._ Rugby 16 June 1842, a fine back player combined with hard
forward hitting to leg, could throw a ball a great distance;
in the university and All England cricket elevens; educ. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; barrister L.I. 14 Nov.
1851; took an active part in the public affairs of Isle of
Ely, chairman of bench of magistrates, chairman of Isle of Ely
county council 1888 to death; won many rifle shooting prizes at
Wimbledon, a member of the English eight which defeated Scotland
1868; lord of the manor and lay rector of Wilburton; author of A
new view of the geldable unit of assessment of domesday, printed
in P. E. Dove’s Domesday studies (1888) vol. i, pp. 227–385.
_d._ Wilburton manor, Ely 18 Oct. 1891. _Lillywhite’s Cricket
scores iii_ 81 (1863).
PELL, SIR WATKIN OWEN (son of Samuel Pell of Sywell hall,
Northamptonshire). _b._ 1788; entered navy April 1799; lost his
left leg in the capture of the French frigate Pallas 6 Feb.
1800; commander 29 March 1810; commanded the Thunder bomb at the
defence of Cadiz 1810–12; captured the Neptune privateer 9 Oct.
1813; captain 1 Nov. 1813; captain of the Menai frigate on the
coast of North America 1814–7; senior officer on the Jamaica
station May 1833 to March 1837; knighted by queen Victoria at
St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; K.C.H. 1837; captain of the
Howe 1840; superintendent of Deptford victualling yard Aug.
1841, then at Sheerness dockyard; superintendent of Pembroke
dockyard 17 Dec. 1841 to 18 Feb. 1845; a comr. of Greenwich
hospital 18 Feb. 1845; R.A. 5 Sept. 1848, V.A. 28 Dec. 1855,
admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Greenwich hospital 29 Dec. 1869.
_I.L.N. lvi_ 82 (1870).
PELLATT, APSLEY (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the
glass lenses known as deck lights, _d._ 21 Jany. 1826). _b._ 80
High Holborn, London 27 Nov. 1791; in business with his father
at the Falcon glass works, Holland st. Southwark; took out a
patent for crystallo-ceramic or glass incrustation 1819; took
out a patent for improvements in the manufacture of pressed
glass articles 1831, and another with his brother Frederick for
improvements in the composition of glass 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb.
1838, member of council 1840; member of court of common council
of city of London 7 years; M.P. Southwark 1852–7; contested
Southwark 31 March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for
facilitating dissenter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his
bill to define the law as to crossed cheques was passed and
became the act 19 and 20 Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided
at Staines 1843 to death; one of jurors at exhibition of 1862,
and wrote the report on glass manufactures; author of Memoir
on the origin, progress and improvement of glass manufactures
1821; Brief memoir of the Jews in relation to their civil and
municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities of glass making 1849.
_d._ of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law Mr. Field,
Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxiii_ 511 (1863); _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_ 67–9 (1865);
_Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 166; _I.L.N. xxii_ 237
(1853) _portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for
which Venice was so celebrated.
PELLEGRINI, CARLO (son of a land owner). _b._ Capua, Italy
March 1839; dissipated his fortune in Naples where he led the
fashion; fought as a volunteer under Garibaldi at the Volturno
and at Capua 1861; came to London Nov. 1864; drew caricatures
of statesmen and other public characters, these appeared in
Vanity Fair weekly from 30 Jany. 1869 to his death, the first
few caricatures were signed Singe, but all the rest Ape;
executed a statuette in red plaster of Robert Lowe standing on
a matchbox 1871; painted portraits in oils of sir Edwin Watkin,
sir Algernon Borthwick and other friends; exhibited at the R.A.
1878, and several times at the Grosvenor gallery; gave his name
to a cigarette. _d._ 53 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 22
Jany. 1889. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemet. Kensal Green. _Vanity
Fair 26 Jany. 1889 pp._ 55, 67, _also 27 April 1889 p._ 309
_portrait_; _Pall Mall Budget 2 March 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_;
_London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_.
PELLEW, SIR FLEETWOOD BROUGHTON REYNOLDS (2 son of 1 viscount
Exmouth 1757–1833). _b._ 13 Dec. 1789; entered navy March 1799,
commander 12 Oct. 1807; captain of the Phæton, 38 guns, 14 Oct.
1808 to Aug. 1812; served at reduction of the Mauritius 1810
and of Java 1811; captain of the Révolutionnaire, 46 guns, Aug.
1818, placed on h.p. June 1822; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 25
Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836; naval
A.D.C. to the queen 4 July 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov.
1846; commander-in-chief on the East India and China stations 6
Dec. 1852, was recalled 19 Jany. 1854 in consequence of a mutiny
on board the Winchester caused by his refusing the men leave at
Hongkong Sept. 1853; V.A. 22 April 1853, admiral 13 Feb. 1858.
_d._ Marseilles 28 July 1861.
PELLEW, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ Flushing, Cornwall
3 April 1793; educ. Eton 1808–11, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815,
M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. Nov. 1828; V. of Nazeing, Essex 16 Feb.
1819; V. of Sutton Galtres, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1820; seventh
canon in Canterbury cathedral 14 Nov. 1822 to 1828; R. of St.
George-the-Martyr, Canterbury 27 Dec. 1826 to 1828; prebendary
of York 1824–52; R. of St. Dionis Backchurch London 1828–52;
dean of Norwich 27 Nov. 1828 to death; R. of Great Chart,
Kent 1852 to death; author of A letter to sir Robert Peel on
the means of rendering cathedral churches most conducive to
the efficiency of the established church 1837; The life and
correspondence of H. Addington, first viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols.
1847; Sermons on many of the leading doctrines and duties taught
by the church of England, 2 vols. 1848. _d._ Great Chart rectory
13 Oct. 1866. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 441, _iii_
1307 (1874–82); _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 697; _Church
of England photographic portrait gallery_ 1859, _portrait_ 46.
PELLY, SIR HENRY CARSTAIRS, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir John Henry
Pelly, 2 baronet 1809–64). _b._ Balls park, near Hertford 23
April 1844; succeeded 20 Dec. 1864; cornet 2 light dragoons 2
Sept. 1862, lieut. 26 May 1865; captain 2 life guards 19 Oct.
1872, retired 25 June 1873; major 15 Middlesex volunteers 12 May
1875 to death; M.P. Hunts. 13 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 4 June
1877.
PELLY, HENRY JOSEPH (3 son of John Hinde Pelly of Bombay civil
service 1786–1852). _b._ 9 Jany. 1818; ensign 16 Bombay N.I. 11
July 1835; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 13 Oct. 1836, major 1 Oct. 1859;
served in Scinde 1840–7; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 March
1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; thrown from his carriage while driving through
Hereford 9 Dec. _d._ Wye bank, Tower road, Hereford 10 Dec.
1891. _Hereford Journal 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8.
PELLY, SIR JOHN HENRY 1 Baronet (eld. son of Henry Hinde Pelly
of Upton house, near Bow, Essex, captain H.E.I. co. 1744–1818).
_b._ 31 March 1777; a director of Hudson’s Bay company 1806,
deputy governor 1812–23, governor 1823 to death; sent exploring
parties under Dease and Simpson for discovery of the north west
passage and the coast line of North America, Cape Pelly marks
on the map the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson strait;
elder brother of the Trinity house 1823, deputy master 1834–52;
a director of the Bank of England 1839 to death, deputy governor
1839–41, governor 1841–2; created baronet 12 Aug. 1840; F.R.S. 2
April 1835. _d._ Upton house, Essex 13 Aug. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_
527–8 (1852); _I.L.N. xxi_ 130, 187 (1852).
PELLY, SIR LEWIS (brother of Henry Joseph Pelly 1818–91). _b._
Hyde house, Minchinhampton, Stroud 14 Nov. 1825; educ. Rugby
1838–40; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1841; assistant to the
resident at the court of Baroda 1851–2; A.D.C. to general
John Jacob in the Persian war 1857; secretary of legation at
Teheran 1859, chargé d’affaires there 1860; sent on a special
mission through Afghanistan and Baluchistan 1860; political
agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861; political resident on the
Persian gulf Nov. 1862 to Nov. 1872; lieut. col. Bombay staff
corps 12 Dec. 1866; went with Bartle Frere on an anti-slavery
mission to the east coast of Africa and Arabia 1872–3; chief
comr. to the states of Rajputana 1873–5; special comr. to
investigate the disordered condition of Baroda 30 Nov. 1874, he
arrested the gaekwar of Baroda Jany. 1875 who was tried by a
commission and deposed; sent to Pesháwar as envoy-extraordinary
for Afghan affairs Dec. 1876, recalled March 1877; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1882; general 31 March
1892; M.P. North Hackney 25 Nov. 1885 to death; C.S.I. 8 Dec.
1868, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of The
views and opinions of brigadier-general John Jacob, C.B. 1858;
Journal of a journey from Persia to India 1866; The miracle play
of Hasan and Husain: collected from oral tradition, 2 vols.
1879. _d._ Falmouth 22 April 1892. _Graphic xviii_ 508 (1878)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 April 1892 p._ 543 _portrait_; _Pictorial
World 30 April 1892 p._ 3 _portrait_.
PELLY, SAVILLE MARRIOTT (brother of preceding). _b._ 28 March
1819; educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841,
F.R.C.S. 1859; assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841;
served in Sind 1843, and with the Sind irregular horse in sir
C. Napier’s campaign 1844–5; with the army of observation at
Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8;
served in Rajpootana during the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior
medical officer was present at attack on Nimbhaira, the action
of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch and the pursuit of Tantia Topee,
Indian medal and clasp for Central India; principal medical
officer of Indian medical department in Abyssinian campaign
1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector general of hospitals
Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867, retired as inspector
general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. _d._ Woodstock
house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895.
PEMBERTON, CHRISTOPHER PEACH (elder son of Christopher Robert
Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). _b._ May 1838; ensign
Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22
Aug. 1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The
Times during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps
under the crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat.
By Leo, 2 vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton;
_killed_ by a chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny
and Fond de Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. _bur._ in churchyard of
Newton, Cambs. 3 Dec. _I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p._ 336 _portrait_,
_10 Jany. 1874 p._ 44, _view of monument_; _Times 10 Sept 1870
p._ 6, _11 Oct p._ 6, _2 Dec. p._ 7, _5 Dec. p._ 11.
PEMBERTON, EDWARD LEIGH (2 son of Robert Pemberton, barrister
of Bispham hall, Lancs. and brother of 1 baron Kingsdown
1793–1867). _b._ 18 Feb. 1795; admitted solicitor 1816;
practised in London 1816–69; member of council of Incorporated
law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1856–7,
president 1857–8. _d._ Torry hill, near Sittingbourne, Kent 12
March 1877. _Solicitors’ Journal 24 March 1877 p._ 399.
PEMBERTON, EDWARD LOINES. _b._ U.S. of America 1844; educ. in
England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps
1859; author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to
detect them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5;
author of The philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp
collector’s handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps
at Southampton to decease. _d._ Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. _The
Philatelic Record i_ 2 (1879–80) _with portrait_.
PEMBERTON, GEORGE (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll.
Oxf. 1743–1831). _b._ 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March
1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold
out 22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. _d._ Bainbridge, Holme,
Durham 6 April 1851.
PEMBERTON, GEORGE RICHARD. _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1805;
ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain
56 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut.
col. of 67 N.I. 1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel
19 March 1849 to death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. _d._ York house,
Chertsey 28 April 1866.
PEMBERTON, HENRY LEIGH (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton
1795–1877). _b._ 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of
Pemberton, Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London;
solicitor to the Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec.
1871; official solicitor to chancery division of the supreme
court 1875, and to supreme court of judicature 1876 to death;
solicitor to honourable society of Lincoln’s Inn to death. _d._
20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 29 March 1895. _Law
Journal 6 April 1895 p._ 238.
PEMBERTON, JOHN. L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical
superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. _d._ Droitwich 4 May
1854.
PEMBERTON, MORDAUNT (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St.
Kitts, West Indies). _b._ 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ.
Brighton college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868,
practised in Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of
Nevis July 1870; deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward
islands 1880, and acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887;
barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1886. _d._ Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec.
1887. _Law Times 31 Dec. 1887 p._ 162.
PEMBERTON, SHOLTO THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis,
West Indies). _b._ Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis
about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis
1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua
1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of
Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death;
acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of
British Honduras and of the Bahamas. _d._ Queen’s house, Nevis
29 June 1889. _Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p._ 359.
PEMBROKE, GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, 13 Earl of (1 son of
Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). _b._ 5 Carlton
gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron
Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl
of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of
state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley
travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result
being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and
the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for
tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he
also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40
(Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll.
Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers
2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for
Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover
1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. _d._ Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort,
Germany 3 May 1895. _bur._ at Wilton. _Waagen’s Treasures of art
iii_ 142–65 (1854); _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 249 (1875) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p._ 570 _portrait_; _The new budget 9 May
1895 p._ 3 _portrait_; _Times 4 May 1895 p._ 11.
PENDARVES, EDWARD WILLIAM WYNNE (2 son of John Stackhouse of
Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). _b._ 6 April
1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796,
sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32;
M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed
additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that
of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815.
_d._ Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.
PENDER, DANIEL. _b._ 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff
commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the
Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station
in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic
department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant,
and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb.
1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ 20 Oxford
gardens, London 12 March 1891.
PENDLEBURY, SIR RALPH (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport,
bleacher). _b._ Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at
Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of
chartist disturbances of 1839. _d._ Mersey bank house, Heaton
Mersey, near Manchester 1861.
PENDLETON, FREDERICK HENRY SNOW. _b._ 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ.
of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s,
Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey
Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May
1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives
of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by
French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic
of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31
Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C.
of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882
to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. _d._ St. Sampson’s
rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. _Times 19 Sept. 1888 p._ 4.
PENFOLD, CHARLES. _b._ 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author
of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of
rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc.
1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863;
A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads,
printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful
knowledge 1840). _d._ Twickenham 23 May 1864.
PENGELLY, WILLIAM (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting
vessel 1788–1861). _b._ Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany.
1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped
to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay
Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a
founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of
literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught
mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various
parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which
was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of
the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at
Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay
1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863;
president of geological section of British Association meeting
1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with
a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait
in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of
the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in
the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by
M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four
parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity
of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is
attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian
periodicals. _d._ Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. _bur._ Torquay
cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to
Torquay natural history society. _Quarterly journal of Geol.
soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii_; _Geol. Mag._ (1894) 192, 238–9;
_Natural science May 1894_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.
PENGILLY, RICHARD. _b._ Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a
Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in
the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7;
minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first
nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new
testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on
baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed.
1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle
and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. _d._ Newcastle 22 March 1865.
_S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men_ (1884) 224–5.
PENLEAZE, JOHN STORY. _b._ 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17
Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832
and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants.
_d._ Hereford 12 April 1855.
PENLEY, AARON EDWIN. _b._ 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and
landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70;
member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856,
reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and
queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe
college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861;
master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy
to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The
English school of painting in water colours, in theory and
practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869;
A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. _d._ 5
Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. _H. M. Vibart’s
Addiscombe_ (1894) 210–2 _portrait_.
NOTE.--His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and
teacher of painting, he became paralysed and _d_. 1866.
PENLEY, BELVILLE (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor,
Drury Lane, _d._ Paris April 1832). _b._ 1809; manager of Drury
Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle;
with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general
superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the
Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley,
an actress at the Bath theatre, _d._ Budleigh Salterton, Devon
1879 aged 82; he _d._ 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. _B. S.
Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 118.
PENN, ALFRED. _b._ Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful
slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from
1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. _d._ 18
Oct. 1889.
PENN, JOHN (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). _b._
Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his
partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins
1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then
exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed;
fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s
oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made
engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878;
patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors
with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of
council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers
1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business
1875. _d._ The Cedars, Lee, Kent 23 Sept. 1878. _bur._ St.
Margaret’s ch. Lee 29 Sept., personalty sworn under £1,000,000,
26 Oct. 1878. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 298–308
(1880); _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 325–6 (1878) _portrait_.
PENN, JOHN (son of farrier major Penn). _b._ in 14 regt. of
dragoons; in the service of lady John Bethell; private in 3
light dragoons to 1853; served in Afghanistan campaign 1842,
Cabul medal; in Sutlej campaign, wounded at Modkee 18 Dec.
1845, lay on the field all night, despite his wounds present
at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; with the army at Lahore, in action
of Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849, at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849;
volunteered into 17 lancers June 1854, at the Alma and at
Balaklava 1854, medal, in gallant style cut down a Russian
officer; in battle of Inkerman, received a clasp, invalided home
July 1855. _E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i_ 552–3 (1857)
_portrait_.
PENN, LEWIS WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1847;
lieut. col. 1 April 1872 to death; brevet colonel 23 Jany. 1875;
aide-de-camp to the queen 23 Jany. 1875 to death; C.B. 14 Aug.
1868. _d._ Kirkee, near Poona 14 Dec. 1877.
PENN, RICHARD (younger son of Richard Penn 1736–1811, M.P.
Lancaster 1796–1802). _b._ 1784; served in the colonial office
under lord Hobart, viscount Castlereagh, and earls Camden and
Bathurst; arranged a cipher for use in despatches which is
illustrated in his pamphlet On a new mode of secret writing
1829; F.R.S. 18 Nov. 1824; author of Maxims and hints for an
angler and miseries of fishing, illustrated by sir Francis
Chantry, to which is added Maxims and hints for a chess player,
with portrait caricatures of Penn and Chantry 1833, enlarged ed.
1839, and another ed. containing Maxims and hints on shooting
1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 21 April 1863, portrait by E. W.
Eddis engraved by M. Ganci 1884.
PENNA, CATHERINE (dau. of the succeeding). Pupil of sir George
Smart; concert vocalist, a soprano. _d._ 25 Victoria road,
Kilburn, London 15 June 1894.
PENNA, CATHERINE LOUISA (niece and goddaughter of Catherine
Stephens, countess of Essex, who _d._ 1882). Soprano of the duet
singers called the “Misses Smith” who toured chiefly in Scotland
and Ireland; _m._ Frederic Penna, who was living in 1879; mother
of William Penna, known as W. W. Whitlock. _d._ 44 Westbourne
park road, Bayswater, London 27 Dec. 1879.
PENNEFATHER, _Catherine_ (eld. dau. of James Wm. King,
rear-admiral, _d._ 1848, 7 child of second earl of Kingston).
_b._ about 1825; _m._ 16 Sept 1847 rev. Wm. Pennefather 1816–73;
greatly aided her husband in his evangelical work at Mellifont,
Walton and Barnet; carried on religious work at the conference
hall, Mildmay park, Islington 1873 to death; author of Follow
thou me, discipleship 1881; Follow thou me, service 1881; Songs
of the pilgrim land 1886; That nothing be lost 1892; author with
others of The homeward journey 1888, a selection of poems. _d._
68 Mildmay park, Islington, London 12 Jany. 1893. _Christian
portrait gallery_ (1889) 287; _The Record 13 Jany. 1893 p._ 39;
_Times 17 Jany. 1893 p._ 10.
PENNEFATHER, EDWARD (1 son of Edward Pennefather 1774–1847, lord
chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland). _b._ 1809; called to
the Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s inns,
Dublin 1863 to death. _d._ 6 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Feb.
1895. _Law Times 2 March 1895 p._ 432.
PENNEFATHER, JOHN (2 son of Richard Pennefather 1773–1859). _b._
1814 or 1815; entered Harrow school Feb. 1830, in the cricket
eleven 1832–3; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 25 May 1833 B.A.
1837; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 17 June
1836 from Westminster to Putney; a student of Inner Temple
1835; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1838; crown prosecutor at
Tipperary assizes to death; chairman of Killarney junction
railway to death. _d._ 7 April 1855.
PENNEFATHER, Sir John Lysaght (3 son of rev. John Pennefather of
New Park, co. Tipperary). _b._ 1800; cornet 7 dragoon guards 14
Jany. 1818, lieut. 1823–5; captain 22 foot 8 April 1826, lieut.
col. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. col. 28 foot 2 Dec. 1847, placed on
h.p. 21 July 1848; commanded the infantry brigade at battle of
Meanee, India 17 Feb. 1843 when he was shot through the body;
A.D.C. to the queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; assistant
Q.M.G. in the Cork district 1849–54; commanded the first brigade
of second division in the army sent to Russia 1854; at the
battle of the Alma; commanded the second division at battle of
Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 when with less than 3,000 men he defeated
35,000 Russians who lost nearly 12,000 men; commanded the second
division again Nov. 1854 to July 1855; colonel of 46 foot
19 Nov. 1854 to 13 Feb. 1860; commanded the troops at Malta
1855–60, in the northern district 1860, and at Aldershot 1860–5;
col. of 22 foot 13 Feb. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1860,
general 9 May 1868; governor of Chelsea hospital 27 Aug. 1870 to
death; C.B. 4 July 1843, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 May 1867;
grand officer of Legion of Honour; commander of Sardinian order
of St. Maurice and St. Lazare; bailiff ad honores of order of
St. John of Jerusalem 16 Feb 1858. _d._ Chelsea hospital 9 May
1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 15 May. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of
the Crimea_ (1855) 97–100.
PENNEFATHER, RICHARD (eld. son of major Wm. Pennefather of 13
light dragoon, M.P. Cashel). _b._ Knockeven, Tipperary 1773;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, and King’s inns, Dublin;
called to Irish bar 1795; practised in court of chancery and
on the Munster circuit; king’s counsel; chief baron of Irish
court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1821, resigned Feb. 1859. _d._ at his
residence, near Clonmel 7 Aug. 1859. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish
bar_ (1879) 288–92; _Dublin univ. mag. liv_ 532–5 (1859).
PENNEFATHER, WILLIAM (youngest son of preceding). _b._ Merrion
sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin Feb. 1832
to 1840, B.A. 1840; C. of Ballymacugh, Kilmore 1841–4; V. of
Mellifont, near Drogheda 1844–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Walton,
near Aylesbury 1848–52; V. of Ch. Ch. Barnet, Herts. 1852–64;
held conferences on missionary enterprise at Barnet and then at
Mildmay 1855 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Mildmay park, Islington
1864 to death; known as a mission preacher all over England;
author of The church of the first-born 1865; The bridegroom
king 1875; Hymns, original and selected 1875, of these he wrote
25; Original hymns and thoughts in verse 1875, a collection
of 71 pieces. _d._ Melford lodge, Muswell hill, Middlesex 30
April 1873. _bur._ Ridge, near Barnet, next to his friend Capt.
Trotter 6 May. _R. Braithwaite’s Life of W. Pennefather_ (1878)
_portrait_; _Julian’s Dict. of hymnology_ (1892) 888–9; _Woman’s
work ii_ 161–70 (1873).
PENNELL, EDMUND BURKE. _b._ 1840; clerk in office of sec. of
state for the colonies April 1859, third class clerk April
1863; private sec. to W. E. Forster, under sec. to 6 July 1866,
to sir C. Adderley to 1 Oct. 1866, and to lord Blachford from
1 Oct. 1866; assist. clerk 20 May 1867, first class clerk 30
Sept. 1872; sent to Paris on a special mission 1874; principal
clerk 1 May 1879; British comr. on Anglo-French commission on
Newfoundland fisheries, in Paris 1884–5, in Newfoundland 1884–5,
again in Paris 1886; C.M.G. 1 Feb. 1886. _d._ at his brother’s
residence, The cottage, East Moulsey, Surrey 16 March 1895.
_bur._ West Moulsey.
PENNELL, FOLLETT WALROND (6 son of Wm. Pennell, consul at Rio
de Janeiro). _b._ 4 Feb. 1804; entered navy Feb. 1818; captain
14 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 2 May 1855; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept.
1865. _d._ Ravenside, near Carlisle 30 July 1876.
PENNETHORNE, SIR JAMES (son of Thomas Pennethorne of Worcester).
_b._ Worcester 4 June 1801; pupil of John Nash and Augustus
Pugin 1820–4; studied in France and Italy 1824–6; elected a
member of the academy of St. Luke; principal assistant of
John Nash 1826; directed the West Strand improvement 1829,
and the King Wm. st. opening 1831; employed by the comrs. of
the woods and forests to prepare plans for improvements in
London 1832; four streets New Oxford st. opened 1847, Endell
st. 1846, Cranbourne st. 1843, and Commercial st. 1870, were
made by him at a cost of one million pounds, also Garrick st.
1864, Southwark st. 1864, and Old st. 1855; built Crockford’s
bazaar in St. James’s st. 1832, and Christ church in Albany st.
1836; his design for rebuilding the Royal exchange was one of
the five selected in the competition 1838; joint surveyor of
houses in London in the land revenue department June 1840; sole
surveyor and architect of the office of woods 1843–70; a comr.
to inquire into construction of work-houses in Ireland 1843;
designed and laid out Victoria park at cost of £115,000, 1842
etc., and Battersea park 1846–58; cleared away the houses from
the walls of Windsor Castle 1851–3; architect of the Museum
of economic geology in Jermyn st. opened in 1851; removed the
colonnade of the Quadrant, Regent st. and designed the balcony
1848; completed the west wing of Somerset House 1852–6, for
which he received a gold medal from the R.I.B.A. 18 May 1857;
built the ball-room at Buckingham palace, completed 1856, the
duchy of Cornwall office, and district post office 1852, the
Record office 1856–70, the stables at Marlborough house 1863,
the Patent office library, opened 1855, and the new stationery
office 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, royal gold medallist 1865;
designed the University of London in Burlington Gardens 1866–8;
knighted at Windsor castle 29 June 1870. _d._ Worcester park
house, Wimbledon, Surrey 1 Sept. 1871. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Transactions of the R.I.B.A._ (1871–2) 53–69; _The Builder_
(1866) 877–98.
PENNETHORNE, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ Worcester 4
Jany. 1808; pupil of John Nash in London; studied in France,
Italy, Greece, and Egypt 1830–5; made an elaborate study of the
Parthenon at Athens 1832, 1834 and 1837; author of The elements
and arithmetical principles of the Greek architects and artists,
recovered by study of the remaining works of architecture
designed and erected in the age of Pericles 1844; and with
J. Robinson The geometry and optics of ancient architecture,
illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome 1878;
contributed to the Transactions of the R.I.B.A. a paper on
The connection between ancient art and the ancient geometry
as illustrated by works of the age of Pericles Feb. 1879 pp.
105–36. _d._ Hamstead, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 20 Jany. 1888.
_Dictionary of architecture_, _vol. vi p._ 18 (1881).
PENNEY, JOHN. Cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 25 April 1824,
lieut. col. 7 Dec. 1850 to 1852, and 24 April 1854 to death;
lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1852 to 24 April 1854;
changed his name from Penny to Penney 1845. _d._ of heat
apoplexy in the retreat from Nasírábád 28 May 1857.
PENNEY, WILLIAM, lord Kinloch (eld. son of Wm. Penney,
merchant). _b._ Glasgow 1801; educ. Glasgow univ. where he took
honours; advocate 1824, had a large practice; judge of court of
session 7 May 1858, took courtesy title of lord Kinloch; judge
of the first division court Oct. 1868 to death; author of The
circle of Christian doctrine 1861, 3 ed. 1865; Time’s treasure
or devout thoughts for every day of the year, expressed in verse
1863, 5 ed. 1865; Studies for Sunday evening 1866; Faith’s
jewels presented in verse 1869; Thoughts of Christ for every day
in the year 1871; Readings in holy writ 1871; Hymns to Christ
1872. _d._ Hartrigge house, near Jedburgh 31 Oct. 1872. _Journal
of jurisprudence xvi_, 650, 664 (1872); _Law mag. and law review
i_ 1075–7 (1872); _I.L.N. lxi_ 452 (1872) _portrait_.
PENNINGTON, JAMES (son of Wm. Pennington, bookseller). _b._
Kendal, Westmoreland 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil
of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in business in London;
appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company
1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy
club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for
regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading
authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by
the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on
the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious
metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British
colonies 1848. _d._ 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23
March 1862. _A. R. Pennington’s Recollections of persons and
events_ (1895) 109–11.
PENNY, CHARLES (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 1810;
educ. Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B. and D.D. 1850;
C. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1832–4; C. of Sutton Courtney, Berks.
1834–6; C. of Dorchester 1836–7; C. of West Ilsley, Berks.
1837–8; head master of Crewkerne gr. sch. 1838 to death; R. of
Chaffcombe, Somerset 1848 to death; author of A sermon preached
before the university of Oxford 1851. _d._ Greenham house,
Beaminster, Dorset 15 Dec. 1875.
PENNY, FREDERICK (3 son of Charles Penny, wholesale stationer,
Cheapside, London). _b._ London 10 April 1816; studied under
Henry Hennel, chemical operator to the soc. of apothecaries
1830–6; professor of chemistry Anderson’s institution, Glasgow
1839 to death, where he had a large number of pupils; retained
by the crown in criminal cases; doctor of philosophy of Giessen
univ.; F.R.S. Edinb.; wrote On the conversion of chlorates
and nitrates into chlorides and of chlorides into nitrates,
_Philos. Trans. 1839 pp._ 13–33; author of On the composition
and phosphorescence of plate-sulphate of potash 1855; with J.
Adams On the detection of aconite, in reference to trial of E.
W. Pritchard 1865; with W. Wallace Notes on chloride of arsenic
1852. _d._ 44 Windsor terrace, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow
Medical Journal ii_ 258–70 (1870); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of
Edinb. vii_ 25 (1872).
PENNY, JOHN (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 16 Feb.
1803; educ. King’s school, Sherborne; proprietor and editor of
the Sherborne Journal by purchase from Chiswick and co. 1 May
1828, retired 1858; head stamp distributor for Dorset, residing
at Dorchester, about 1833, and at Leeds shortly afterwards,
retired on a superannuation; author of Dorsetshire emancipated
from Tory dominion 1832; Practical retrenchment the object of
reform 1833; Stephen, king of England, or the Danish usurpation
1851, a drama produced at the Leeds theatre; resided Chetnole,
Dorset. _d._ 27 Pulteney st. Bath 7 Feb. 1885. _bur._ in the
catacombs at Exeter 12 Feb. _Mayo’s Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis_
(1885) 33, 79; _Sherborne Journal 12 Feb. 1885 p._ 8, _16 Feb.
p._ 3.
PENNY, NICHOLAS (son of Robert Penny of Weymouth). _b._ Nov.
1790; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1830, lieut. 19 Dec. 1812;
captain 69 Bengal N.I. 1829, lieut. col. 29 July 1848 to 1849;
served at the siege of Bhurtpore 1825; brigade-major on the
Muttra and Agra frontier 1826–8; assistant adjutant general of
a division 9 July 1832; commanded the Nusseree battalion 2 June
1841 to 7 Oct. 1848; commanded the second infantry brigade in
the first Sikh war 1846; lieut. col. of 2 European fusiliers
1849–51, of 40 Bengal N.I. 1851–2, of 61 Bengal N.I. 1852 to 16
Jany. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 5 June 1849 to 20 June 1854;
commanded the Jullunder field force 2 Feb. 1852, the Sirhind
division 28 Aug. 1852, the Lind-Sangor district 22 Feb. 1853,
and the Sialkot district 19 Jany. 1854; commanded the Cawnpore
division May 1855; commanded the Meerut division 30 June 1857
to death, and the Delhi field force 30 Sept. 1857 to death;
_killed_ by the rebels at Kakràtá, near Bareilly 30 April 1858.
_Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny iv_ 73–6, 349–351 (1889).
PENNY, WILLIAM CARPENTER (eld. son of William Ponsford Penny,
bookseller, Frome, _d._ 1856). _b._ Frome 2 May 1822; in his
father’s business, Bath st. Frome; clerk to Whittaker and co.
London; with his brother James Penny succeeded to the business
in Frome 1856; established and edited the Frome Times 1859,
ultimately purchased by Frome newspaper co. and became The
Somerset Standard; published W. J. E. Bennett’s The old church
porch 1854–62; a witness in the case of Sheppard _v._ Bennett.
_d._ Church-slope, Frome 15 May 1887. _bur._ the parish cemetery
18 May. _Bookseller June 1887 p._ 546; _The Somerset and Wilts.
journal 21 May 1887 p._ 5.
PENNYCUICK, JAMES FARRELL (eld. son of John Pennycuick,
brigadier-general, _killed_ near Chillianwalla 13 Jany. 1849).
_b._ 10 Aug. 1829; educ. royal military academy 1844–7; 2 lieut.
R.A. 2 May 1847, colonel 1 May 1880, placed on retired list with
hon. rank of general 4 Jany. 1886; served in the Crimean war,
the Indian mutiny 1857–8, and the expedition to China 1860; M.G.
8 Nov. 1880, L.G. 1 July 1885; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Bedford 6
July 1888. _bur._ Bedford cemet. 10 July.
PENON, JULES FRANCOIS CHARLES. _b._ France 1814; instructor
in French at royal naval college, Greenwich 1874 to death;
naturalised in England 17 Feb. 1876. _d._ 2 Dovercourt villas,
Lee, Kent 13 May 1881.
PENRHYN, EDWARD GORDON DOUGLAS-PENNANT, 1 Baron (3 son of
colonel the hon. John Douglas 1786–1818, and brother of 17 earl
of Morton 1789–1858). _b._ 20 June 1800; ensign grenadier guards
31 Aug. 1815, lieut. 13 May 1824, captain 18 April 1834, placed
on h.p. 25 April 1834; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; captain
Scots fusilier guards 10 Dec. 1847, sold out same day; one of a
crew of 6 officers of the guards who for a bet of 600 guineas
undertook to row in a wherry from Oxford to Westminster bridge
within 16 hours 24 April 1824, the distance, 118 miles, was
rowed in 15¾ hours; proprietor of the Penrhyn slate quarries,
Wales; _m._ 6 Aug. 1833 Juliana, co-heiress of George Hay
Dawkins-Pennant and took by R.L. name of Pennant 12 Jany. 1841,
was given precedence as the son of an earl, by royal warrant
26 Aug. 1835; M.P. Carnarvonshire 1841–66; cr. baron Penrhyn
of Llandegai, co. Carnarvon 3 Aug. 1866; lord lieutenant of
Carnarvonshire 14 Sept. 1866; hon. col. Carnarvon militia 30
Aug. 1852 to death. _d._ Penrhyn castle, Llandegai 31 March
1886. _Annual Register_ (1824) 59–60; _Practical Mag. ii_ 161
(1873) _portrait_.
PENROSE, CHARLES THOMAS (2 son of John Penrose 1778–1859,
vicar of Bracebridge, Lincoln). _b._ Bracebridge 15 July 1816;
educ. Rugby 1828–36; Bell scholar Trin. coll. Camb. 1836, B.A.
1839, M.A. 1842; rowed in the first and second races against
the Leander eight oared boat 1837 and 1838; rowed No. 5 in the
Cambridge boat against Oxford from Westminster to Putney 3 April
1839; head master of Grosvenor college, Bath 1843–5; head master
of Sherborne gr. sch. 1845–55; C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. 1856;
P.C. of North Hykeham 1859 to death; edited Select private
orations of Demosthenes with notes 1843, 2 ed. 1853; author of
Eight village sermons, Lincoln 1857. _d._ North Hykeham 5 May
1868. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 453 (1878).
PENROSE, JOHN (eld. son of John Penrose 1754–1829, rector of
Fledborough, Notts.). _b._ Cardinham, near Bodmin 15 Dec. 1778;
educ. Tiverton school 1794–5; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 3
July 1795; migrated to C.C. coll. 26 Nov. 1795; B.A. 1799, M.A.
1802; Bampton lecturer 1808; V. of Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs.
Dec. 1802 to death; V. of Poundstock, Cornwall 1803–9; V. of
Bracebridge, Lincs. 1809–38; P.C. of North Hykeham, Lincs.
Nov. 1837 to death; author of An attempt to prove the truth of
christianity, Bampton lecture 1808; An inquiry into the nature
and discipline of human motives 1820; Of the use of miracles in
proving the truth of a revelation 1824; Familiar introduction to
the Christian religion. By a Senior 1831; Explanatory lectures
on the gospel of St. Matthew 1832; On the moral principle of the
atonement 1843, 2 ed. 1846; Lives of vice-admiral sir Charles
Vinicombe Penrose and captain James Trevenen. By their nephew
1850; Fifty-four sermons for Sunday reading in families 1851,
2 ed. 1859; _m._ 1814 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Edmund Cartwright,
rector of Goadby-Marwood, Leics., she was _b._ 3 Aug. 1780,
wrote many school histories under pseudonym of Mrs. Markham,
and _d._ Lincoln 24 Jany. 1837; he _d._ Langton 9 Aug. 1859.
_J. Penrose’s Life of rev. J. Penrose of Fledborough_ (1880);
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 454–8 (1874–8); _Boase’s
Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 712, 1084.
PENSON, JAMES (son of a dockyard artizan). _b._ Devonport 1814;
a teacher of drawing; studied in Sass’ academy, Bloomsbury,
London; a water colour painter; exhibited at Royal academy,
London 1850. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 104.
PENTLAND, JOSEPH BARCLAY. _b._ Ireland 1797; educ. Armagh and
univ. of Paris; secretary to British consulate in Peru 1827;
consul-general in republic of Bolivia 1 Aug. 1836 until 1839;
surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes 1826–7, and was
the first to measure height of the mountains; travelled in the
southern province of ancient Peru 1838; spent his winters in
Rome from 1845, acted as guide to the prince of Wales twice;
edited for John Murray A handbook of Rome and its environs,
9 ed. 1860, 10 ed. 1871, and 11 ed. 1872; A handbook for
travellers in Southern Italy, 6 ed. 1868; and A handbook for
travellers in Northern Italy, 11 ed. 1869. _d._ 3 Motcomb st.,
London 12 July 1873. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Athenæum 6 Sept.
1873 p._ 309.
PEPLOE, ANNIE (2 dau. of John Molyneux of Gavel Hill, Salop,
captain R.N.) _b._ Ludlow 21 Feb. 1805; _m._ 3 Jany. 1828 John
Birch Webb, vicar of Weobly, Herefordshire, who took name of
Peploe 1866, he was _b._ Court lodge, Kent 9 Sept. 1801 and _d._
Garnstone, Herefordshire 26 Jany. 1869; author of Naomi, or the
last days of Jerusalem 1841, 20 ed. 1895; A tale of the Vaudois
1842, 2 ed. 1854; Julamerk, a tale of the Nestorians, 3 vols.
1849, 3 ed. 1854; The martyrs of Carthage, 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed.
1857; Alypius of Tagaste 1865, 2 ed. 1891; Benaiah, a tale of
the captivity 1865; Oliver Wyndham 1867; Pomponia, or the gospel
in Cæsar’s household 1867; I know, or the verities of the Bible
1879; her name is attached to upwards of 25 works 1841–79. _d._
25 Onslow gardens, London, the residence of her son rev. Hanmer
Wm. Webb Peploe 13 Jany. 1880. _Reg. and mag. of biog. March
1869 p._ 253.
PEPLOE, DANIEL PEPLOE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 15 Feb.
1829; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; cornet 4
royal Irish dragoon guards 14 May 1852, captain 11 Dec. 1857,
sold out 3 July 1860; assumed name of Peploe 16 July 1866; M.P.
Herefordshire 1874–80; contested Herefordshire 6 April 1880.
_d._ 4 Nov. 1887.
PEPOLI, COUNT CARLO. _b._ 1800; joined in attempts to overthrow
the Papal government and was head of provisional government in
Bologna 1831; lived in England 1831–59; naturalised in England
18 Feb. 1847; held an appointment in Glasgow univ.; brought with
him from Italy a collection of pictures by the old masters which
was sold in London 1850; rector of Bologna univ. 1859; Rosa M.
Kettle in her novel My home in the shires 1876 introduced him
under the name of The Marchese di Petralva; author of I puritani
e cavalieri, a serious opera in 3 acts 1835; Malek-Adel, a drama
1837; On the language and literature of Italy, an inaugural
lecture in University college London 1838; he also published
various works in Bologna, Ginevra, Milan, and Pinerolo 1827–81.
_d._ Palazzo Pepoli, giá Albergati, Bologna 6 Dec. 1881.
_Colburn’s New monthly mag. Dec. 1882 pp._ 29–35; _Art Journal
ii_ 127 (1850).
PEPYS, HENRY (younger brother of 1 earl of Cottenham 1781–1851).
_b._ Wimpole st. London 18 April 1783; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1840; fellow of St. John’s
coll. 1804; R. of Aspeden, Herts. 1818–27; R. of Moreton,
Essex 1822–40; prebendary of Wells 3 Feb. 1826 to 1840; R. of
Westmill, Herts. 1827–40; bishop of Sodor and Man 27 Jany.
1840, consecrated at Whitehall 1 March, installed at St. Mary’s
Castleton 8 May; bishop of Worcester 4 May 1841 to death; author
of The remains of the lord viscount Royston, with a memoir
of his life 1838; Six charges and two single sermons. _d._
Hartlebury castle, Stourport, Worcs. 13 Nov. 1860. _G.M. Dec.
1860 p._ 674.
PEPYS, PHILIP HENRY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 14 Nov.
1824; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister
L.I. 8 June 1849; sec. of presentations to lord chancellor
1846–51, and 1852–62, principal sec. 1862–4; chancellor of
diocese of Worcester 1855 to death; one of the registrars of
court of bankruptcy London about 1 June 1864 to death; author
of Constance Tyrell, or the half-sister, 3 vols. 1852. _d._
Brighton 6 Feb. 1886. _Law Times 6 March 1886 p._ 330.
PEPYS, WILLIAM HASLEDINE or HASELDINE (son of W. H. Pepys of
24 The Poultry, London, cutler). _b._ London 23 March 1775; a
founder of Askesian society March 1796, which led to foundation
of British mineralogical and geological societies, and the
London institution of which he was an original manager and
honorary secretary 1821–4; treasurer of Geological society
1811, then vice-president; succeeded his father as a cutler and
carried on the business to his death; worked with Desvignes on
soda-water apparatus 1798; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1808; president of
the Royal Institution 1816; F.L.S. 1821; invented the mercury
gasometer and water gasholder, both still in use; one of the
first to use mercury contacts for electrical apparatus and
tubes coated with indiarubber for conveying gases; invented an
eudiometer which he calibrated by a method still used for the
purpose 1807; author of many papers in Tilloch’s Philosophical
magazine, the Philosophical transactions of the Royal society,
and the Journal of science and the arts. _d._ 11 Earls terrace,
Kensington road, London 17 Aug. 1856. _Life of Wm. Allen_, 3
_vols._ (1846–7) _passim_; _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs ii_ 101
(1872).
PERCEVAL, ALEXANDER (2 son of rev. Philip Perceval of Temple
house, Ballymote, co. Sligo). _b._ Temple house 10 Feb. 1787;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. colonel of Sligo militia 12
April 1809 to 16 June 1855; M.P. co. Sligo 17 May 1831 to
Sept. 1841; created D.C.L. Oxford 13 June 1834; treasurer of
the ordnance Dec. 1834 to April 1835; treasurer of the Orange
association of Ireland, dissolved 1835; sergeant-at-arms of the
house of lords Sept. 1841 to death; one of the 6 comrs. for
executing the office of treasurer of the exchequer of Great
Britain 6 to 16 Sept. 1841. _d._ 28 Chester st. London 9 Dec.
1858. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd series_ (1846)
_portrait xi_; _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.
PERCEVAL, ARTHUR PHILIP (youngest son of 2 baron Arden
1756–1840). _b._ at the Admiralty, London 22 Nov. 1799; educ.
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, B.C.L. 1824; fellow of All
Soul’s coll. 1821–5; R. of East Horsley, Surrey 18 June 1824
to 1846; chaplain to the sovereign 7 March 1826 to death;
author of The Roman schism illustrated from the records of the
Catholic church 1836; The origin of church rates 1837; Sermons
preached chiefly at the chapel royal, St. James’s 1839; An
apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession 1839, 2
ed. 1841; A vindication of the principles of the authors of
the Tracts for the times 1841, of which he wrote Nos. 23, 35,
36, and perhaps 17; A collection of papers connected with the
theological movement of 1833, 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Results of an
ecclesiastical tour in Holland and Northern Germany 1846; Plain
lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 1846; Origines
Hibernicæ. By A. P. P. Dublin 1849; his name is attached to
upwards of 40 works. _d._ Little Bookham, Surrey 11 June 1853
after taking laudanum, verdict temporary insanity. _Liddon’s
Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 247, 264, _ii_ 178 (1893–4); _E.
Sheppard’s St. James’s Palace ii_ 341–2 (1894); _G.M. Aug. 1853
p._ 208.
PERCEVAL, CHARLES SPENCER (only son of succeeding). _b._ 11 Feb.
1829; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1853, LL.D. 1858; fellow
of his college 1855–67; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; principal
secretary to lords chancellors Chelmsford and Cairns 1866–8;
secretary to comrs. in lunacy May 1872 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany.
1860, director 1847–72, treasurer 1874 to death, catalogued the
collection of impressions and matrices of seals belonging to the
society; edited Catalogue of a collection of works on pageantry
bequeathed to the Society of antiquaries by F. W. Fairholt 1869;
and with W. S. Walford Three rolls of arms of the thirteenth
century 1864. _d._ 64 Eccleston sq. London 29 Jany. 1889. _bur._
Norwood cemet. 2 Feb. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 383–4
(1889); _Law Times 2 March 1889 p._ 340.
PERCEVAL, DUDLEY MONTAGUE (4 son of Spencer Perceval 1762–1812,
prime minister). _b._ 22 Oct. 1800; educ. Harrow Oct. 1811 to
Dec. 1815, and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1822; student of Lincoln’s Inn
1823; clerk of the council at Cape of Good Hope 1825–8; first
clerk and deputy teller of the exchequer in London 1828–34,
when the tellerships were abolished; contested Finsbury 26
July 1837 and univ. of Oxford 20 Jany. 1852; wrote a series of
letters signed Philalethes in the Standard on the Irish church
temporalties bill; author of Quietus optabilissimus, or the
nature and necessity of real securities for the United church
with a settlement of the catholic question 1829; Remarks on the
character ascribed by colonel Napier, in the History of the war
in the Peninsula, to the rt. hon. S. Perceval 1835, 2 ed. 1835.
_d._ 16 Wilton st. London 2 Sept. 1856. _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._
649–52.
PERCEVAL, FREDERICA. Attended the Mildmay conference Islington,
London 1874; the chief means of establishing a protestant
preacher at Spa, Belgium. _d._ Bruges, Belgium July 1875.
_Women’s Work iv_ 299–301 (1875).
PERCEVAL, SPENCER (brother of D. M. Perceval 1800–56). _b._ 57
Lincoln’s inn fields, London 11 Sept. 1795; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., M.A. 1816; received a grant from parliament on the
assassination of his father 1812; one of the four tellers of
the exchequer by patent 15 Feb. 1813, office abolished 10 Oct.
1834; M.P. Ennis 1818–20; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1827–31;
M.P. Tiverton 1831–2; attended Henry Drummond’s meetings at
Albury park 1826–30; called to be an apostle of the Irvingite
or Catholic apostolic church 18 Dec. 1833, representing the
tribe of Manasseh and taking Italy as his sphere; a compiler
of The Testimony which he delivered to William IV and all the
privy councillors 1836; with H. Drummond delivered a testimony
to the Pope July 1838; the rev. Hugh M’Neile addressed him in
“Letters to a Friend who has felt it his duty to secede from the
church of England” 1834; resided 31 Portman sq. London. _d._
of apoplexy, Weymouth 16 Sept. 1859. _Spencer Walpole’s Life
of S. Perceval i_ 26, _ii_ 303 (1874); _E. Miller’s History of
Irvingism i_ 41, 98, 139, 178, 180, 191, 285–6 (1878); _Weymouth
Journal 23 Sept. 1859 p._ 2.
PERCEVAL, SPENCER. _b._ 1817; ensign Coldstream guards 13 Jany.
1837, lieut. col. 2 July 1861 to 9 Nov. 1862; M.G. 9 Nov. 1862;
L.G. 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 6 Down st. Piccadilly, London 5 July
1877.
PERCIVAL, CHARLES. _b._ England; lived in France 1789 to death;
rode at Sablonville for comte d’Artois, afterwards Charles X, in
the first race ever publicly run in France. _d._ Chantilly, near
Paris Feb. 1865.
PERCY, CHARLES GREATHEED BERTIE (youngest son of Algernon,
2 earl Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Portman sq. London 4 March
1794; educ. Eton 1805–9, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; M.P. Newport, Cornwall 1826–30; _m._ 20 March 1822 Anne
Caroline, heiress of Bertie Bertie Greatheed, with whom he
acquired the historic mansion Guy’s cliff, near Leamington, and
assumed by R.L. the surname of Greatheed Bertie 1 April 1826;
obtained precedence of a duke’s youngest son 16 March 1865.
_d._ Alnwick castle, at the residence of his nephew the duke of
Northumberland 11 Oct. 1870. _I.L.N. 22 Oct. 1870 p._ 435.
PERCY, SIR HENRY HUGH MANVERS (3 son of 5 duke of Northumberland
1778–1867). _b._ Burwood house, Cobham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1817;
educ. Eton 1832–5; ensign grenadier guards 1 July 1836,
major 19 June 1860 to 3 Oct. 1862; served during Canadian
insurrection 1838, and the Crimean war 1854–5; wounded at
battles of Alma and Inkerman; brigadier general in command of
the British-Italian legion in the Crimea 31 Aug. 1855; A.D.C.
to the queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Feb. 1865; V.C. 5 May 1857
for bravery at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; sent to New Brunswick in
command of first battalion of Grenadier guards Dec. 1861; col.
of 89 foot 28 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. North
Northumberland 19 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; K.C.B. 24 May 1873;
author of Explanation of the manœuvres of a brigade of infantry
1852; Caution for company and battalion drill 1855; _found
dead_ in his bed at 40 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1877. _bur._
in Northumberland vault, Westminster abbey 7 Dec. _O’Byrne’s
Victoria Cross_ (1880) 31, 79.
PERCY, HUGH (brother of C. G. B. Percy 1794–1870). _b._ London
29 Jany. 1784, twin with Josceline Percy; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825; migrated to St. John’s coll. Camb.;
D.D. Oxf. 1834; R. of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent 1809;
chancellor of Exeter 30 Jany. 1810 and prebendary 16 April 1810
to 1816; chancellor of Salisbury cathedral 21 Dec. 1811 to
death; prebendary of Canterbury 16 May 1816 to 1825; prebendary
of St. Paul’s 12 July 1816 to death; archdeacon of Canterbury 26
April 1822, dean 20 June 1825; bishop of Rochester 21 June 1827,
consecrated at Lambeth palace 15 July 1827; bishop of Carlisle
17 Sept. 1827 to death; established a Clergy aid society 1838
and a diocesan education society 1855; restored Rose castle the
episcopal residence and spent £40,000 of his own money on the
gardens and grounds. _d._ Rose castle, Carlisle 5 Feb. 1856.
_bur._ Dalston churchyard. _R. S. Ferguson’s Diocesan history of
Carlisle_ (1889) 2, 242; _G.M. April 1856 p._ 421.
PERCY, JOHN (3 son of Henry Percy, solicitor). _b._ Nottingham
23 March 1817; studied medicine in Paris and Edinb.; M.D. Edinb.
1838; physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1839; F.R.S. 22
April 1847, member of council 1857–9; F.G.S. 1851; lecturer on
metallurgy at Metropolitan school of science in London 1851,
which became the Royal school of mines where he was professor to
Dec. 1879; invented the silver process and discovered aluminium
bronze; lecturer on metallurgy to artillery officers at Woolwich
about 1864 to death; superintendent of ventilation of houses of
parliament 6 Feb. 1865; member of commission on application of
iron for defensive purposes 1861, and on Gibraltar shields 1867;
member of royal commissions on coal 1871 and on spontaneous
combustion of coal in ships 1875; awarded Bessemer medal of
the Iron and steel institute 1876, president 1885–6; wrote many
letters to The Times signed Y; author of An experimental enquiry
concerning the presence of alcohol in the ventricles of the
brain after poisoning by that liquid 1839; On the importance
of scientific knowledge to the practical metallurgist 1852; On
the metallurgical treatment and assaying of gold ores 1852, 2
ed. 1853; Metallurgy, the art of extracting metals from their
ores and adapting them to the purposes of manufacture, 4 vols.
1861–70, 2 ed. 1875; The manufacture of Russian sheet iron
1871; awarded Albert medal of Society of arts 18 June 1889.
_d._ 1 Gloucester crescent, Hyde park, London 19 June 1889, his
metallurgical specimens went to South Kensington museum, his
other collections were sold. _Temple Bar July 1890 pp._ 354–74;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi pp. xxxv–xl_ (1890); _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xcix_ 343–6 (1890); _Nature 27 June 1889 p._
206; _Spon’s Industrial arts i_ 320 (1879).
PERCY, JOSCELINE (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). _b._
London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept.
1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus
1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal
to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841;
commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845;
V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851
to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26
Sept. 1831. _d._ at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts.
19 Oct. 1856.
PERCY, JOSCELINE WILLIAM (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland
1778–1867). _b._ Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton
and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston
1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in
inscriptions and documents 1847. _d._ Pembroke lodge, Sonning
hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881.
PERCY, SIDNEY RICHARD (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape
painter). _b._ about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard
Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the
name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at
B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted
chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views
on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’
_d._ Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and
sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. _Athenæum i_ 592
(1886).
PERCY, WILLIAM HENRY (younger brother of Josceline Percy
1784–1856). _b._ 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801;
commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the
Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set
his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the
Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on
Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846;
M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany.
1849. _d._ at the residence of his brother the earl of Beverley
8 Portman sq. London 5 Oct. 1855.
PEREIRA, JONATHAN (son of an underwriter at Lloyd’s). _b._
Shoreditch, London 22 May 1804; educ. Aldersgate st. general
dispensary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 6 March 1823;
M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1845; apothecary to the dispensary
1823–32, lecturer on chemistry 1826–8, lecturer on materia
medica 1828–41; F.L.S. 1828; professor of materia medica
in new medical school in Aldersgate st. 1832; lecturer on
chemistry at the London hospital 1833–51, assistant physician
1841–51, physician 1851 to death; F.R.S. 3 May 1838, member of
council 1843; examiner in materia medica to univ. of London
1839; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845, curator of the museum to
death; M.D. Erlangen 1840; professor of materia medica to
Pharmaceutical society 1843–52; author of A translation of the
pharmacopæia of 1824, 1824; A selection of prescriptions for
students 1824, 18 ed. 1890; Manual for medical students 1826;
General table of atomic numbers 1827; The elements of materia
medica, 2 parts 1839–40, 6 ed. 1874; A treatise on food and diet
1843; Lectures on polarised light 1843, 2 ed. 1854. _d._ 47
Finsbury sq. London 21 Jany. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.,
bust by McDowall executed for London hospital. _Pharmaceutical
Journal March 1853 p._ 409 _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc.
ii_ 237–9 (1855); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880)
224; _G.M. xxxix_ 320–2 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_ 77, 78 (1853)
_portrait_.
PEREIRA, MENASSAH LOPEZ. _b._ 1776; entered Madras army 1796;
lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, major 6 April 1810 to 19
July 1817; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 19 July 1817 to 1820, and of 18
N.I. 1820–4; lieut. col. commandant 34 N.I. 1 May 1824 to 5 June
1829; col. of 16 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 29 June 1842, of 30 N.I. 29
June 1842 to 11 May 1848, and of 28 N.I. 11 May 1848 to death;
L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Brighton 20 April 1853.
PERFECT, ROBERT (only son of Wm. Perfect, M.D. of Wincanton,
Somerset). _b._ 1799; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1825; founded East Somerset registration soc. 1841; M.P. Lewes
1847–52. _d._ Woolstone house, Castle Cary, Somerset 29 July
1875.
PERIGAL, ARTHUR (son of Arthur Perigal, historical painter
1784–1847). _b._ London Aug. 1816; a drawing-master in Edinburgh
then a landscape painter; travelled in Switzerland, Italy, and
Norway; A.R.S.A. 1841, R.S.A. 1868, treasurer 8 March 1880
to death; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 1 at
Suffolk st. 1861–76; his picture ‘Moorland, near Kinlochee,
Rossshire,’ is in National gallery of Scotland. _d._ 7 Oxford
terrace, Edinburgh 5 June 1884. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery.
PERKINS, ANGIER MARCH (2 son of Jacob Perkins, civil engineer).
_b._ Newbury Port, Massachusetts 1799; came to England 1827;
assisted his father to perfect his method of engraving
bank-notes and of using steam under very high pressure;
introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water
circulating through small closed pipes, carried on a large
business with his son in Harpur st. and then at 43 Regent’s sq.
Gray’s inn road, London; took out a patent for the manufacture
of iron by the use of superheated steam 1843; took out a patent
for heating bakers’ ovens 1851, and another for railway axles
and boxes 1851; A.I.C.E. May 1840; author with G. W. Fitch of A
manual of geographical names 1852. _d._ 22 April 1881. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii_ 417–9 (1882).
PERKINS, FREDERICK. _b._ 1780; F.L.S. 13 March 1816; F.G.S.;
head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark,
London; collected books 1820–60, they were sold by Sotheby’s in
a 7 days sale for £8,500, July 1889; his Shakespeare collection,
47 vols. fetched £2,400. _d._ Chipstead place, Kent 10 Oct.
1860. _Quaritch’s Contributions to a Dictionary of English book
collectors_, _Part v_, _Feb. 1894_.
PERKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1778; partner in firm of Barclay, Perkins
and co. brewers, Southwark, London; began collecting books at
his residence Springfield, near Tooting, Surrey 1823; left his
library to his relative, Algernon Perkins of Hanworth park,
Middlesex, who _d._ 15 Nov. 1872 and whose personalty was sworn
under £250,000, 4 Jany. 1873; the books were sold by Gadsden,
Ellis and co. at Hanworth park 3–6 June 1873, the 865 lots
produced £26,000, being an average of more than £30 each, ten of
the volumes sold for £10,500, the Mazarin bible 2 vols. printed
on vellum sold for £3,400, Biblia sacra Latina 2 vols. 1462
sold for £780, and the manuscript of John Lydgate’s Siege of
Troy sold for £1,370. _d._ Dover 15 April 1855. _A dictionary of
English book collectors_, _part ii_, _September 1892_; _Athenæum
1 March 1873 pp._ 279–80, _14 June 1873 pp._ 762–3; _Chambers’s
Journal l_ 709 (1873).
PERKINS, JULIUS E. _b._ Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S. of America
1845; studied in Paris and in Italy; called himself Giulio
Perkins; came out as a singer in Italy 1868; a bass singer;
joined Mapleson opera co. 1874; acted Baldassare in La Favorita,
Drury Lane 11 April 1874, and Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic flute
4 July 1874; _m._ 1874 Marie Roze, soprano vocalist, she _m._
(2) 1877 Henry Mapleson. _d._ after a few days’ illness Queen’s
hotel, Manchester 25 Feb. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 Feb.
PERKINS, LOFTUS (son of Angier March Perkins 1799–1881). _b._
21 Coram st. London 8 May 1834; employed by his father to 1853
and 1854–62; an engineer in New York 1853–4; an engineer in
Hamburg and Berlin 1862–6, designing and executing installations
for warming buildings; partner with his father as engineers in
Francis st. now Seaford st., Gray’s inn road, London 1866–81;
took out many patents from 1859; experimented on the use of very
high pressure steam as a motive power and on the production of
artificial cold; invented the Arktos, a cold chamber suitable
for preserving food; M.I.M.E. 1861, M.I.C.E. 1881. _d._ 148
Abbey road, Kilburn, London 27 April 1891. _bur._ Kensal green
cemetery 1 May. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cv_ 311–4
(1891); _The Engineer 1 May 1891 p._ 349.
PERKINS, SHIRLEY FARMER STEELE (son of Samuel Steele Perkins
of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.) _b._ 17 April 1768; matric. from
Trin. coll. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1784; barrister L.I. 16 June 1792, went
Midland circuit; comr. of bankrupts for Birmingham 1794 to March
1847. _d._ Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham 15 Jany. 1852.
_G.M. June 1852 p._ 621.
PERKS, GEORGE, stage name of George William Reed. _b._ 1831;
equestrian performer; father of the Perks family equestrian
performers, performing at Agricultural hall, Christmas 1863–4.
_d._ Ernest villa, Hornsey park road, Hornsey 10 June 1893.
_bur._ New Southgate cemetery 17 June. _Illust. Sporting News
2 Jany. 1864 p._ 378, _20 Feb. 1864 p._ 441, _portrait of Mr.
Perks and Son_.
PERKS, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Madeley, Salop 29 Aug. 1819; educ.
Theological instit. Hoxton; Wesleyan methodist minister at
Edinburgh 1843–5, at Manchester 1850–6, at Bristol 1859–62, in
London 1862; visited Africa in connection with the missionaries;
sec. to the committee of privileges; sec. of Didsbury and
Richmond theological institutions; general sec. of Wesleyan
foreign mission 1867 to death; sec. of the conference 1872, and
president 30 July 1873; author of Sermons on standard questions
1882; while preaching taken ill in the pulpit 27 May and _d._
at residence of H. Wigfield, St. Leonard’s house, Rotherham 29
May 1877. _I.L.N. 16 Aug. 1873 p._ 149 _portrait_; _Times 30 May
1877 p._ 6; _Minutes of the conference 1877 pp._ 37–9.
PERRIER, SIR ANTHONY GEORGE (son of George Perrier, merchant).
_b._ Cork 1792; served in the commissariat department in
Peninsular war; British consul at Brest 7 Oct. 1824 to death;
knighted by patent 22 Nov. 1843; delegate to European sanitary
conference assembled at Paris 1851–2, and 25 Feb. 1859 to 25
April 1860; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Brest 8 July 1867. _bur._ in
the cemetery.
PERRIN, LOUIS (son of Jean Baptiste Perrin, teacher of French
in Dublin). _b._ Waterford 15 Feb. 1782; educ. diocesan school
Armagh and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1799, B.A. 1801; called
to Irish bar Jany. 1806; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1832;
M.P. Dublin 6 May 1831, unseated Aug. 1831; M.P. Monaghan 24
Dec. 1832 to 1834; M.P. Cashel 14 Jany. 1835 to Aug. 1835; third
sergeant-at-law 7 Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1835, first sergeant-at-law
Feb. to April 1835; attorney general 29 April 1835 to 31 Aug.
1835; judge of court of king’s bench 31 Aug. 1835, retired
on a pension Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1835. _d._ Knockdromin,
near Rush, co. Dublin 7 Dec. 1864. _bur._ Rush 10 Dec. _J. R.
O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 307–15; _G.M. Jany. 1865 pp._
123–4.
PERRING, JAMES ERNEST. _b._ London 1822; led the soprano chorus
at Her Majesty’s theatre about 1835; studied under sir Julius
Benedict; an intimate friend of Sims Reeves; went to U.S. of
America with Maria Piccolomini in 1858; a singer in oratorios;
composer of The fairy ring, comic ballad, London 1840; I’d be a
gipsy, ballad 1847; I’ll keep thee in remembrance 1854; Life’s
rosy morning, sacred song 1864; Beware, cavatina, New York 1864;
The home of my youth, duet 1870; The wishing gate 1867; his name
is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1840–74. _d._ New
York, U.S. of America 12 Jany, 1889.
PERRING, JOHN SHAE. _b._ Boston, Lincs. 24 Jany. 1813; employed
as an engineer in London 1833; assistant engineer to Galloway
Bey, manager of public works for the viceroy of Egypt March
1836, became a member of the board of public works; helped to
make a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh Jany. to Aug. 1837;
explored and surveyed the pyramids at Abou Roash 1838–9; and
made a trigonometrical survey of the 53 miles of country near
the pyramids; engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway
docks and harbour 1 March 1841 to 1844; resident engineer of the
East Lancashire railway 1846–59; engineer of the Ribblesdale
railway, constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn;
one of the engineers of the Manchester city railway; M.I.C.E.
6 Dec. 1853; M.I.M.E. 1856; author of On the engineering of
the ancient Egyptians 6 numbers 1835; The pyramids of Gizeh
from actual survey and admeasurement 1839; _d._ 104 King st.
Manchester 16 Jany. 1869. _R. W. H. H. Vyse’s Operations at the
pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with a survey by J. S. Perring of the
pyramids of Abou Roash_ 3 _vols._ (1840–3) _portrait_; _C. C.
J. Bunsen’s Egypt’s place in universal history ii_ 28–9, 635–45
(1854); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 455–6 (1870);
_Proc. of instit. of mining engineering_ (1878) 15.
PERRING, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; edited The Carlisle Patriot from
1815, and again from 1848 to 1868; editor and proprietor of
The Intelligencer at Leeds; sub-editor of the Morning Herald;
he encouraged Robert Anderson “The Cumberland bard” who in his
Poetical Works 2 vols. 1820 acknowledges the help given him vol.
i p. xxxiv. _d._ Carlisle 4 Oct. 1869, _bur._ Embleton 7 Oct.
_Newspaper Press iii_ 249 (1869).
PERROT, JULES JOSEPH. _b._ 1800; pupil of Auguste Vestris;
dancer and ballet master at Grand opera Paris 1828; the teacher
of Carlotta Grisi, whom he married and from whom he was
afterwards separated, she was _b._ Visinida 1821; one of the
most famous dancers of his day, well known at the King’s theatre
London; the inventor of the successful ballets Zingari at the
Renaissance 1841 La fille du Bandit 1857. _d._ Sept. 1892.
PERRY, ALFRED JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1853; C. of Plaistow Essex 1853–6; C. of Stanningfield, Suffolk
1856–8; C. of Lackford, Suffolk 1860–2; chaplain to hospital
Bury St. Edmunds 1862–9; C. of St. Augustine, Wisbech 1869 to
death; 3rd classical master of Royal Naval sch. New Cross;
author of The old year and the new 1864; A few plain words on
the real presence 1865. _d._ St. Augustine’s vicarage 10 July
1876.
PERRY, CHARLES (youngest son of John Perry of Moor hall, Essex,
proprietor of Blackwell dockyard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Hackney 17
Feb. 1807; educ. Harrow Feb. 1819 to June 1823, played in the
eleven against Eton; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, senior
wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and seventh classic 1828; aided
in establishing the first eight oared boat on the Cam 1825;
B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1847; fellow of Trinity 1837–41,
tutor 1837–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Barnwell, Cambridge 1842–7;
bishop of Melbourne 25 June 1847 to May 1876, consecrated in
Westminster abbey 29 June 1847; reached Melbourne 23 Jany. 1848;
resided at Jolimont 1848–53 and in the palace of Bishop’s court
1853–74; obtained passing of the Church assembly act 1854;
left Victoria 26 Feb. 1874, resigned May 1876; select preacher
at Cambridge 1863–4; attended and addressed all the church
congresses 1874–88; prelate of the order of St. Michael and
St. George 1878 to death; canon of Llandaff 1878–89; author of
Five sermons preached before the university of Cambridge 1856;
Foundation truths, four sermons 1864; The Galatian lapse, six
lectures 1885. _d._ 32 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 Dec.
1891. _bur._ Harlow, Essex, portrait by Weigall at Ridley hall,
Cambridge, and a memorial in St. Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne.
_G. Goodman’s Church in Victoria during the episcopate of
bishop Perry_ (1892) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 12 Dec. 1861 p._ 758
_portrait_.
PERRY, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Salisbury; a turf commissioner with
a large business in connection with city of London 40 years; in
Blink Bonny, Beadsman and Musjid’s years his settlings were very
heavy; ruined by the failure of Overend, Gurney and co. 1866;
trained and ran some horses under name of E. Hall; chairman of
Victoria club, Wellington st. Strand many years. _d._ 23 Sept.
1890.
PERRY, FREDERICK C. With his son sang and conducted at the
King’s head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night;
a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house;
I’d a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William
Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny
tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes
were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick
French 1867; The charming young girl. In the arcade one evening,
music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette’s my name,
music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876.
NOTE.--He also wrote Daddy’s Knock, a parody on The Postman’s knock,
We’ve taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first
time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from the
Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King’s head music hall.
PERRY, GEORGE. _b._ Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C.
Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at
theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of
Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and
repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845;
his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed
in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket
theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was
produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of
Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old
Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn
road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic
society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast,
a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a
festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio
Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the
princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred
harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of
Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores.
_d._ 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 11 March. _T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism_ (1872)
197–289.
PERRY, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb.,
fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825;
principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr.
in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death;
author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833.
_d._ New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. _Law Journal iv_
330 (1869).
PERRY, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25
Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and
lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second
European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841
to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to
death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20
Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. _d._ 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17
March 1863.
PERRY, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s
hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843;
surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James
st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling
Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical
and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings;
a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of
Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of
Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch
telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some
observations at Burgos. _d._ 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park
gardens, London, Jany. 1870. _Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p._
107; _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p._ 102.
PERRY, RICHARD DAVIS. _b._ 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through
and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year
by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of
fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; _shot himself_ at Phœnix coffee
house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892.
PERRY, STEPHEN JOSEPH (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq.
London, steel-pen manufacturer). _b._ London 26 Aug. 1833; educ.
Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied
theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society
of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied
philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London
1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of
the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866;
made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and
of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society
to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse
of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island
to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a
coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882;
took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in
the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed
the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of
very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register,
Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut
Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. _d._ on board her majesty’s
ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Georgetown, Demerara. _Father
Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed._
(1890) _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv_
(1890); _The Month lxviii_ 305–23, 474–88 (1890); _Nature xli_
279–80, 301 (1890); _Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota)
ix_ 197 (1890) _portrait_; _Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 55, _25
Jany. pp._ 128, 137; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 67 _portrait_.
PERRY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821,
proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). _b._ Wandlebank
house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827
to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary
secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded
the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested
Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832,
student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov.
1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of
supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10
April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852;
knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian
board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was
established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the
natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July
1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug.
1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative
committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author
with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates
determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases
argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry
Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41,
4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life
decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of
India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848.
_d._ 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. _Biograph iii_ 129–37
(1880); _New monthly mag. cxvii_ 382–91 (1880) _portrait_; _Law
Times lxxiii_ 34 (1882).
PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and
insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to
1856. _d._ St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton
22 Dec. 1868.
PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1815; educ. Chichester college
1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London
1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael,
Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon.
canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on
ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments
before the judicial committee in Ridsdale _v._ Clifton 1878;
Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful
church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton _v._
Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of
non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical
considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863;
Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert _v._ Purchas 1877.
_d._ Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.
PERRY, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of James Perry). _b._ 1801; educ.
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent
there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts
of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1
April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided
at Venice 1860 to death. _d._ Venice 24 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lv_
236, 547 (1874).
PERRY, WILLIAM. _b._ Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a
navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher
from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles
Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec.
1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought
him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38
rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman
was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of
consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years
and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67
rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the
police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in
152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side,
23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846;
presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847;
beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking
17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the
champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a
side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall
29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again
1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom
Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in
102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857
when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s
novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments
at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old
leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. _d._
Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_
157–205 _portrait_, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); _John Hannan’s British
boxing_ (1850) 26–9; _Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p._ 9.
PERSIANI, FANNY (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and
teacher of music, _d._ 1859). _b._ Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her
father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; _m._ at Florence
1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da
Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia
di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12
Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina
1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18
notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris
alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847;
sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda,
Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death.
_d._ Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. _Grove’s Dict.
of music ii_ 693–4 (1880); _C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera_
(1845) 17 _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii_ 257–73
(1863); _I.L.N. ii_ 438 (1843) _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s The
prima donna ii_ 191–6 (1888).
PERSIANI, or PERSIANO GIUSEPPE. _b._ Recanati in the Papal
States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed
several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo
come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera
Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana
savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against
Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one
of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent
Garden on lease in 1847. _d._ Paris 14 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag.
of biog. ii_ 151 (1869); _Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii_
3 (1864), _ii_ 325 (1880); _H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii_
196–204 (1888).
PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, DUC DE (son of M. Fialin,
_killed_ at Salamanca 1812). _b._ St. Germain-Lespinasse,
Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a
journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de
Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s
Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account
entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis,
London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten
knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839;
sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis
Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848;
minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860
to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and
May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16
June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in
England 1871. _d._ Nice 12 Jany. 1872. _H. Castille’s Portraits
politiques_ (1857) _pp._ 1–60 _portrait_, _No._ 20; _Weekly
Reporter xi_ 146 (1863).
PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). _b._ Plymouth 1841; clown
and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre,
London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London
and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in
partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. _d._ of cancer of
the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Edgbaston old church, Birmingham
5 Feb. _Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p._ 689 _portrait_.
PERSSE, BURTON ROBERT PARSONS (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode
castle, Galway, _d._ 1859). _b._ 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway
1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway
hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. _d._ Moyode
castle, Galway July 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xliv_ 295 (1885).
PESTER, HENRY. _b._ 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28
Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept.
1864. _d._ 8 Great Quebec st. London 23 Oct. 1870.
PETER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Henry Peter, _d._ 1821). _b._
Harlyn, St. Merryn, Cornwall 22 March 1788; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 28 May 1813; M.P. Bodmin
11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; British consul in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey 13 March 1841 to death; author or editor of
Thoughts on the present crisis in a letter from a constituent
to his representative 1815; Speeches of sir Samuel Romilly
in the house of commons, 2 vols. 1820; Sacred songs being an
attempted paraphrase of some portions of the psalms by W. Peter
1828, new ed. with other poems by a Layman 1834; Poems by Ralph
Ferrars (i.e. Wm. Peter) new ed. 1833; William Tell from the
German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1839, 2 ed. Lucerne 1867; Mary
Stuart from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1841; Maid of
Orleans, Cambridge 1843; Agamemnon of Æschylus, Philadelphia
1852; Specimens of the poets of Greece and Rome by various
translators, Philadelphia 1847. _d._ Philadelphia 6 Feb. 1853.
_bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard, where is monument.
PETERKIN, ALEXANDER (elder son of Alexander Peterkin of
Edinburgh, lawyer and author of many works 1780–1846). _b._
1814; editor of the Berwick Advertiser; shorthand reporter and
sub-editor of the Edinburgh Advertiser; on the staff of The
Times, retired about 1853; author of The study of art 1870, a
poem. _d._ 1889.
PETERMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH. _b._ Bleichrode near Nordhausen,
Saxony 18 April 1822; a pupil of Dr. Heinrich Berghaus at
the Potsdam cartographic institution 1839; came to Edinburgh
1845 to assist Dr. Keith Johnstone in an English edition of
Berghaus’ Atlas of physical geography 1847; came to London 1847;
physical geographer royal; returned to Germany 1854; professor
of geography Gotha university, and in charge of Perthes’
Geographic institution at Gotha to his death; all the German
expeditions to Africa and to the Poles he planned, described and
mapped; contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the English
Cyclopædia, and the Athenæum; author of The search for Franklin,
a suggestion 1852; An account of the expedition to Central
Africa by Richardson, Barth, Over and Vogel 1854; and other
works published at Gotha and Vratislaviæ; _committed suicide_
at Gotha 25 Sept. 1878. _The Times 28 Sept. 1878 p._ 5; _The
Athenæum 5 Oct. 1878 p._ 437.
PETERS, MARY (dau. of Richard Bowly). _b._ Cirencester,
Gloucs. 17 April 1813; _m._ John McWilliam Peters, rector
of Quennington, Gloucs. and afterwards vicar of Langford,
Oxfordshire, _d._ 1834; contributed hymns to the Plymouth
Brethrens’ Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs 1842; author of
Hymns intended to help the communion of saints 1847, selections
from this book were printed in various hymnals 1855–72;
Universal history, or the world’s history from the creation to
the accession of queen Victoria, London, S. Bagster and Sons,
7 vols. 1862, anon., this work is also known as Bagster’s
Universal history. _d._ Clifton 29 July 1856. _Julian’s
Hymnology_ (1892) 891–2.
PETERS, WILLIAM CUMMING. _b._ Woodbury, near Exmouth, Devon 10
March 1805; opened a music store in Louisville, Kentucky 1829;
established branch houses in Cincinnati 1839 and in Baltimore
1849; a leader of concerts and choirs; revised and enlarged J.
F. Burrowes’ Pianoforte primer 1849; wrote Mass in G for soprano
and bass voices 1863, and other music published in Baltimore,
New York and Cincinnati 1841–71; compiled The Catholic harmonist
1850; The eclectic piano instructor 1855; and The Catholic harp
1862. _d._ Cincinnati 20 April 1866.
PETERSDORFF, CHARLES ERDMAN (3 son of Christian Frederick
Petersdorff of 14 Gough sq. Fleet st. London, furrier). _b._
London 4 Nov. 1800; student of Inner Temple 24 Sept. 1818;
barrister I.T. 25 Jany. 1833; one of the counsel to the
admiralty; serjeant-at-law 20 May 1858; judge of county courts,
circuit 57, North Devon and Somerset 1 Jany. 1865, resigned
Dec. 1885; author of A general index to the precedents in civil
and criminal pleadings 1822; A practical treatise on the law of
bail 1824; A practical abridgment of cases in the king’s bench,
common pleas, exchequer and nisi prius from the restoration,
15 vols. 1825–30; A practical abridgment of the common law, 5
vols. 1841–4, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1861–4, supplement 1870, 2 ed. 1871;
The principles and practice of the law of bankruptcy 1861, 2
ed. 1862; Law students and practitioners’ commonplace book of
law and equity. By A Barrister 1871; A practical compendium of
the law of master and servant 1876; _killed_ by falling into
the area of his house 23 Harley st. London 29 July 1886. _Law
Journal 7 Aug. 1886 p._ 467.
PETHERAM, JOHN. _b._ Oldmixon, near Weston-super-mare 1809;
spent some years in U.S. of America in the wholesale drug
trade; secondhand bookseller at 71 Chancery lane, London Sept.
1841, then at 94 High Holborn 1847 to death; compiled and
issued 207 catalogues; issued between 1843 and 1847 Puritan
discipline tracts, being reprints of 6 tracts on the Martin
Mar-Prelate controversy of 1589–92, their titles are An epitome,
An epistle, Pappe with a hatchet, Hay any worke for cooper, An
almond for a parrot, and Bishop Cooper’s admonition; edited
A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfort 1575,
1846, and a Bibliographical miscellany, 5 parts 1859; author
of An historical sketch of the progress and present state of
Anglo-Saxon literature in England 1840; Reasons for establishing
an Authors’ publication society 1863. _d._ 94 High Holborn
18 Dec. 1858. _Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate
controversy_ (1845); _Publishers’ Circular 31 Dec. 1858 p._ 639;
_Bookseller Feb. 1859 p._ 727.
PETHERICK, JOHN (son of John Petherick, _d._ 1861). _b._
Penydarran iron works, Merthyr Tydvil 9 May 1813; resident
in Wales 1813–27 and 1832–4; educ. Brieg, Silesia 1827–32;
engaged in mining in Waterford and Wexford 1834–8; manager of
German mining co.’s mines, Dittenburg 1838–43; mining engineer
to viceroy of Egypt 1845–9; resident at Kordofan in the ivory
and gum trade 1849–59; consul for the Soudan 1850–63; envoy
from Royal geographical soc. to succour captains Speke and
Grant 1861–2, capt. Speke quarrelled with Petherick and he
was deprived of his consulship, his mercantile affairs fell
into disorder and he had to live on a pension given him by the
Egyptian government; author of Egypt, the Soudan, and Central
Africa, with explorations from Khartoum, sketches of sixteen
years’ travels 1861; with J. P. Clemes Report on the silver
mines of Almada and Kurnapa in Mexico 1868; with Mrs. K. H.
Petherick Travels in Central Africa, 2 vols. 1869. _d._ 54
Lancaster road, Westbourne park, London 15 July 1882. _Proc. of
Royal Geog. Soc. iv_ 700 (1882).
NOTE.--He _m._ Katherine Harriet, dau. of Sigismund Edlman. She was
_b._ Malvern July 1827, accompanied her husband in his travels and _d._
St. Gorran Haven 12 Jany. 1877.
PETIT, JOHN LOUIS (eld. son of John Hayes Petit, P.C. of
Shareshall, Staffs., _d._ 1822). _b._ Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs.
31 May 1801; educ. Eton, where he contributed to the Etonian,
and at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826;
M.A. Oxford 1850; ordained deacon 1824; spent his time chiefly
in visiting and sketching old churches in England and abroad
from 1839; C. of Bradfield, near Manningtree, Essex 1840–8; a
founder of the British archæological institute at Cambridge
1844, and a contributor to the Journal; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1850;
an oil painter and etcher on copper; author and illustrator
of Remarks on church architecture, 2 vols. 1841; Remarks on
architectural character 1846; The abbey church of Tewkesbury
1848; Architectural studies in France 1854, 2 ed. 1890; his poem
The lesser and the greater light was printed by his sister 1869;
resided Uplands Shiffnal, Salop 1848–64, and at Lichfield 1867
to decease. _d._ Lichfield 1 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Greenhill church,
Lichfield. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxv_ 318–20
(1869); _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 220–2, 525 (1869); _Architect
2 Jany. 1869 p._ 10.
PETIT, PETER JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1807; ensign
22 foot 19 May 1825; lieut. 50 foot 27 March 1828, lieut. col.
19 Sept. 1848 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ Lichfield 13
Feb. 1852. _G.M. April 1852 p._ 407.
PETO, SIR SAMUEL MORTON, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Wm. Peto of
Cookham, Berkshire 1768–1849). _b._ Whitmoor house, Woking,
Surrey, 4 Aug. 1809; apprenticed to his uncle Henry Peto,
builder, who _d._ 1830 leaving his business to his nephews,
Thomas Grissell and S. M. Peto, they dissolved partnership 2
March 1846, having constructed the Hungerford market 1832–3,
Lyceum theatre 1834, St. James’s theatre 1835, Reform club
1836, Conservative club 1840, Great Western railway works
between Hanwell and Langley 1840, the Nelson column 1843, and
a large part of the South Eastern railway 1844; partner with
Edward Ladd Betts 1846–72, they constructed the loop line of
the Great Northern railway from Peterborough to Doncaster, the
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway 1852, the Oxford and
Birmingham railway, the Victoria docks, London 1852–5, and the
Norwegian Grand Trunk railway; constructed with Thomas Brassey
and E. L. Betts railway lines in Australia 1858–63, the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada, the Jutland and Schleswig lines 1852,
and the London, Tilbury and Southend railway 1852; paid for the
building of Bloomsbury baptist chapel; purchased the Diorama in
Regent’s park 1855 and converted it into a baptist chapel; M.P.
Norwich 1847–54, M.P. Finsbury 1859–65, and M.P. Bristol 1865–8;
obtained passing of Peto’s act 13 and 14 Vict. cap. 28, 1850,
which simplified titles by which religious bodies hold property;
A.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1839; deputy chairman of metropolitan comrs. of
sewers 1 Sept. 1851; constructed a railway line, 39 miles long,
between Balaklava and the entrenchments 1854–5; created baronet
14 Feb. 1855; presented with a service of plate for making
East Suffolk railway 18 July 1860; Peto and Betts suspended
payment 11 May 1866 with liabilities of four millions and assets
estimated at five millions; author of Divine support in death
1842; Observations on the report of the defence commissioners
1862; Taxation, its levy and expenditure, past and future 1863;
The resources and prospects of America, ascertained during a
visit to the states 1866. _d._ Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells 13
Nov. 1889. _bur._ Pembury. _Sir Morton Peto, a memorial sketch_
(1893) 2 _portraits_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix_
400–3 (1890); _I.L.N. xviii_ 105–6 (1851) _portrait_, _xxx_ 24–6
(1857) _three views of his residence, Somerleyton,_ _Suffolk_,
_xxxvii_ 147 (1860) _view of service of plate_; _Eclectic mag.
lxvi_ 381 (1878) _portrait_.
PETRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH PETRE, 13 Baron (eld. son of 12 baron
Petre 1817–84). _b._ Leamington 26 Feb. 1847; in holy orders of
the church of Rome; domestic prelate at court of the Vatican to
death; succeeded to the peerage 4 July 1884; author of Remarks
on the condition of catholic liberal education 1877; At Antiock
again, a sermon 1886. _d._ 21 Hyde Park gardens, Paddington,
London 8 May 1893. _bur._ in private burial ground at Thorndon
park. _Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p._ 9 _portrait_.
PETRE, HENRY WILLIAM (younger son of 11 baron Petre 1793–1850).
_b._ Thorndon hall, near Brentwood, Essex 23 Jany. 1820; an
original colonist of New Zealand, where he introduced well bred
horses; postmaster general 1853; member of legislative council
1854; master, with a committee, of the Isle of Wight fox hounds;
master of the Roothing stag hounds, Essex; author of An account
of the settlement of the New Zealand company 1841, 5 ed. 1842;
Half a century of British colonization 1889. _d._ the Manor
house, Writtle, Chelmsford 3 Dec. 1889. _Baily’s Mag. xxiv_ 63–4
(1874) _portrait_.
PETRIE, GEORGE (only child of James Petrie, portrait painter).
_b._ Dublin 1 Jany. 1790; studied in the Dublin society’s art
school 1802; painted landscapes of Irish scenery 1808 etc.;
contributed 96 illustrations to Thomas Kitson’s Cromwell’s
Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. 1820; exhibited 2 landscapes
at R.A. London 1818; A.R.H.A. 1828, librarian 1830, president
resigned 1859; wrote many antiquarian articles in the Dublin
examiner 1816, and in the Dublin Penny journal 1832–3; edited
the Irish Penny journal 1840–41; M.R.I.A. 1828, where he read 27
papers, member of council 1829, gold medallist 3 times; attached
to the ordnance survey of Ireland 1833–46; LL.D. Dublin 1847;
granted civil list pension of £100, 13 Oct. 1849 and another
pension of £100, 2 Jany. 1851; president of the Old Irish music
soc. 1851; author of On the history of Tara hill 1839; A letter
to sir W. R. Hamilton on charges made against the author by
sir W. Betham 1840; The ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland
1845; he illustrated G. N. Wright’s Ireland 1831; G. N. Wright’s
An historical guide to Dublin 1821; G. N. Wright’s A guide to
the county of Wicklow 1822, and Picturesque sketches of the
landscapes and coast scenery of Ireland 1835. _d._ 7 Charlemont
place, Dublin 17 Jany. 1866. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, near
Dublin. _W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie_ (1868); _Graves’s
Eloge on the late George Petrie_ (1866); _W. Allingham’s
Varieties in pose iii_ 161–73 (1893); _I.L.N. xlviii_ 201, 202
(1866) _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. xiv_ 638 _portrait_.
PETRIE, JOHN GORDON. _b._ 1822; second lieut. Bombay artillery
11 June 1841, colonel 26 April 1866, retired 31 Dec. 1878;
M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, hon. L.G. 31 Dec. 1878; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868;
served in the Scinde campaign 1843, and the Indian mutiny 1857;
commanded artillery in Abyssinia campaign from 1 Jany. 1868.
_d._ 9 Cranbury terrace, Southampton 31 Dec. 1890.
PETRIE, MARTIN (2 son of commissary-general Wm. Petrie, _d._
1842). _b._ the Manor house, King’s Langley, Herts. 1 June 1823;
ensign royal Newfoundland companies 14 April 1846, captain 5
May 1854; captain 14 foot 26 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov.
1856; captain 14 foot again 9 Jany. 1857, major 13 July 1867;
assistant in topographical department of the war office 14 Jany.
1859 to 30 June 1864; major 97 foot 18 Dec. 1867, placed on
h.p. 31 Aug. 1872; examiner in military education at the staff
college 1864–82, and at the royal military college to 1882;
author of The strength, composition, and organisation of the
armies of Europe 1860; Organisation, composition and strength
of the army of Great Britain 1863, 5 ed. 1867; Equipment of
infantry 1865; Hospital equipment 1866. _d._ Hanover lodge, 14
Hanover terrace, Kensington park, London 19 Nov. 1892. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery.
PETRIE, SAMUEL. _b._ 1797; deputy assistant commissary general
25 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 13 June 1828; C.B. 22 Nov. 1858.
_d._ 113 Ebury st. Belgravia, London 2 March 1871.
PETTER, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Barnstaple 1824; printer 3 Crane
court, Fleet st. London 1848, removed to Playhouse yard 1852
where Thomas Dixon Galpin joined him, then to La Belle Sauvage
yard, Ludgate hill 1857; purchased John Cassell’s publications
1858 and took him in as a partner; started Cassell’s Illustrated
family bible 1860 and The popular natural history 1859; J.
Cassell _d._ 1865; started The Echo, the first halfpenny daily
paper in London 8 Dec. 1868, sold it to baron Grant 1868; firm
converted into a Limited co. 1883 when he retired from active
work; author of Some objections to the repeal of the paper duty
considered, in reply to Mr. H. G. Bonn’s pamphlet upon the
question 1860. _d._ Leeholme, Bournemouth 16 Sept. 1888, his
personal estate was valued at £520,560. _Bookseller 9 Oct. 1888
p._ 1021–22.
PETTIE, JOHN (son of Alexander Pettie, tradesman). _b._ East
Linton, Haddingtonshire 17 March 1839; studied at the Trustees’
academy Edinburgh June 1856; first exhibited at Scottish academy
1859 and at the R.A. London 1860; exhibited 58 pictures at R.A.,
3 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1860–80; shared a studio with W.
Q. Orchardson in Pimlico, London 1862 and later at 37 Fitzroy
sq. to 1865; A.R.A. 8 May 1866, R.A. Oct. 1873; resided at 21
St. John’s Wood road 1869–81 and at 2 Fitzjohn’s avenue 1881 to
death; he illustrated J. De Liefde’s The postman’s bag 1862, 2
ed. 1867; Wordsworth’s Poems for the young 1863, 2 ed. 1866;
C. Camden’s The boys of Axleford 1869; W. D. S. Moncrieff’s
The abdication 1881; L. G. Seguin’s Rural England 1881; an
exhibition of his works was held at Burlington house in winter
of 1894. _d._ Hastings 21 Feb. 1893. _bur._ Paddington cemet.
27 Feb. _I.L.N. xlviii_ 637, 638 (1866) _portrait_; _Graphic
lx_ 442, 456 (1874) _portrait_, _and 25 Feb. 1893 p._ 199
_portrait_; _Art Journal xxi_ 265.
PETTIFER, MARY ANN (dau. of Henry Pettifer of 224 Holborn,
London, cheese monger). _b._ Holborn July 1822; appeared at
Olympic theatre as Cupid in burlesque of The Paphian bower 26
Dec. 1832; at Adelphi in Frankenstein; in the burletta The
Frolics of the fairies, Victoria 1833; first walking lady at
Strand theatre 1837; at Drury Lane in A night in the Bastille
4 Dec. 1839, and in Mary Stuart 22 Jany. 1840; played at the
Garrick theatre, Leman st. Whitechapel as Virginius in Rogers’
burlesque Virginius the Rum-Un 1840; by her performance of
William in Black-eyed Susan she established herself as a first
class East-end favourite; _m._ 1841 John Bond Ratcliffe, lessee
of Victoria theatre from 2 Sept. 1840, who _d._ about 1848; she
acted at Victoria theatre in The Yew tree ruins 11 Jany. 1841;
played again at the Garrick until it was burnt down 3 Nov. 1846;
acted at the Effingham and the Pavilion; first appeared at the
Britannia 21 Nov. 1853; latterly she played old women; was a
very handsome woman with a Grecian cast of features. _d._ 290
Cambridge road, Hackney 25 Dec. 1892. _The Era 11 Feb. 1893 p._
7.
PETTIGREW, SAMUEL THOMAS (youngest son of succeeding). _b._
1824 or 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C.
of Norton-Mandeville, Essex 1848–9; fellow of St. Augustine’s
college, Canterbury 1853–5, hon. fellow 1873 to death;
chaplain Madras ecclesiastical establishment 1855–78; C. in
charge of Pudleston, near Leominster 1878–80; V. of Hatfield,
Herefordshire 1880 to death; author of Daily office for my
schools 1867; Episodes in the life of an Indian chaplain 1882.
_d._ Leominster 19 May 1889.
PETTIGREW, THOMAS JOSEPH (son of Wm. Pettigrew, surgeon in the
navy, _d._ 1825). _b._ Fleet st. London 28 Oct 1791; studied
at the Borough hospitals; member of Medical society of London
1808, secretary 1810, registrar 1813; M.R.C.S. 1812, F.R.C.S.
1843; a founder of City philosophical society 1808, and of
Philosophical society of London 1810; secretary of Royal humane
society 1813–20; surgeon extraordinary to duke of Kent, then
surgeon in ordinary, also surgeon to duchess of Kent; vaccinated
the present queen, Victoria 1819; surgeon to duke of Sussex,
compiled a catalogue of his library in Kensington palace in two
vols. entitled Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827–39, the library was
sold 1844–5; surgeon to Dispensary for treatment of diseases
of children 1816–9; surgeon to Asylum for female orphans 1819;
surgeon to Charing Cross hospital on its foundation 1832 to
1835; practised in Savile row 1835–54; Ph. Doc. Göttingen 7 Nov.
1826; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1827; treasurer of British archæological
association 1843; author of Views of the base of the brain and
cranium 1809; Memoirs of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. 3 vols.
1817; Observations on cholera 1831; A history of Egyptian
mummies 1834; Medical portrait gallery, 4 vols. 1840; Memoirs of
the life of lord Nelson, 2 vols. 1849. _d._ 16 Onslow crescent,
South Kensington 23 Nov. 1865. _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical
portrait gallery iv pp._ 1–40 (1840) _portrait_ 9; _Journal of
British archæol. assoc._ (1866) 327–35; _Physic and physicians
ii_ 386 (1839).
PETTINGALL, EDWARD. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 19 Bengal
N.I. 1 Feb. 1807; captain 39 N.I. 21 Oct. 1821, major 25 July
1839, lieut. col. 18 March 1845 to 1846; commandant 5 irregular
cavalry 1 Nov. 1832 to 18 March 1845; lieut. col. of 26 N.I.
1846–50, of 38 N.I. 1850–1, of 60 N.I. 1851–2, of 55 N.I.
1852–4, and of 12 N.I. 1854; col. of 12 N.I. 25 Feb. 1855 to
death; M.G. 4 Nov. 1856. _d._ 134 Regent st. London 17 Nov. 1860.
PETTITT, GEORGE. Educ. Church missionary college, Islington;
ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832; missionary to Church
missionary society in South India and Ceylon 1833–55; chaplain
to general hospital at Birmingham 1855–6; V. of St. Jude’s,
Birmingham 1856 to death; author of A history of the church
missionary society’s mission in Tinnevally, South India 1850;
Sermons on the creed, in the Tamil language. _d._ 1873.
PETTITT, HENRY ALFRED (son of Edwin Pettitt, civil engineer,
author under name of Herbert Glyn of The cotton lord, 2 vols.
1862, 2 ed. 1864, and Uncle Crotty’s relations, 2 vols. 1863,
2 ed. 1866). _b._ Smethwick, near Birmingham 7 April 1848;
appeared at Sadler’s Wells in The Rose of Blarney, a pantomime;
clerk in office of Pickford & co. carriers London 1860–2;
junior English master in North London collegiate school, High
st. Camden Town about 1869, then secretary; wrote for Boy’s
miscellany and other periodicals; treasurer, secretary, and
author with J. H. Clynds, lessee of Gloucester theatre; wrote
with Paul Merritt, British born, Grecian theatre 17 Oct. 1872;
treasurer of Grecian theatre; his drama Golden fruit, produced
at East London theatre 14 July 1873, for which he received £5;
wrote with George Conquest for Grecian theatre Dead to the world
12 July 1875, Sentenced to death 14 Oct. 1875, Snatched from
the grave 13 March 1876, Queen’s evidence 5 June 1876, Neck or
nothing 3 Aug. 1876, Sole survivor 5 Oct. 1876, Schifter, the
one-eyed pilot 2 April 1877, During her majesty’s pleasure 21
May 1877, and five other pieces; his pantomime Harlequin king
Frolic, produced at Grecian theatre 24 Dec. 1880, played to
April 1881 the longest run on record; wrote with Paul Merritt
and Augustus Harris The World, Drury Lane 31 July 1880; visited
America 1880–1; wrote a version of Le voyage en Suisse for the
Hanlon-Lee troupe; his Taken from life produced at Adelphi 31
Dec. 1881; Love and money by Pettitt and Charles Reade produced
there 18 Nov. 1882, In the ranks by Pettitt and G. R. Sims 6
Oct. 1883, and Harbour lights by the same 23 Oct. 1885; Human
nature by Pettitt and A. Harris produced at Drury Lane 12 Sept.
1885, they also wrote A run of luck 28 Aug. 1886 (which brought
in £25,000 in 12 weeks), and A million of money 6 Sept. 1890;
wrote with Sydney Grundy for the Adelphi The bells of Haslemere
28 July 1887, and The Union Jack 19 July 1888; wrote with G. R.
Sims The silver falls, Adelphi 22 Dec. 1888, and London, day by
day, Adelphi 14 Sept. 1889, also Faust up to date, Gaiety 30
Oct. 1888, and Carmen up to date, Gaiety 4 Oct. 1890; wrote with
sir A. Harris The prodigal daughter, Drury Lane 17 Sept. 1892,
and A life of pleasure 21 Sept. 1893, transferred to Princess’s
Dec. 1893; wrote A sailor’s knot Drury Lane 5 Sept. 1891; A
woman’s revenge Adelphi 1 July 1893. _d._ of typhoid fever
352 Goldhawk road, Hammersmith 24 Dec. 1893. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery 29 Dec., personalty declared at £48,477. _The little
journal i_ 103–9 (1884); _Theatre xiii_ 15 (1889) _portrait_;
_W. Archer’s Theatrical world_ (1893) 187; _Entr’acte annual_
(1893) 34 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 30 Dec. 1892 p._
562 _portrait_; _The Era 30 Dec. 1893 p._ 11.
NOTE.--At one time 22 companies were on tour in England and 6 in
America playing his pieces. In Australia 6 of his plays were before the
public and his name was on the bills of two London theatres. Six dramas
in which he had collaborated were on in London the same evening.
PETTITT, JOSEPH PAUL. _b._ Birmingham; landscape painter at
Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.;
exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph
Gillott of Birmingham. _d._ Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9
Sept. 1882. _Architect xxvii_ 182 (1882).
PETTIT, WALTER. _b._ London 14 March 1835; studied at royal
academy of music; violoncellist in the orchestra of Her
Majesty’s theatre 1851, remained there many years; succeeded
Charles Lucas as principal violoncello in Philharmonic orchestra
1861; took place of Guillaume Paque in Her Majesty’s private
band 1876. _d._ London 11 Dec. 1882. _Grove’s Dictionary of
music ii_ 696 (1880).
PEVERELL, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Callow). _b._ London 17 July
1792; _m._ in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April
1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near
Edmonton. _d._ Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. _bur._
Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. _Times 10 Jany. 1896 p._ 4.
PEW, JAMES. _b._ Leith, Scotland 1793; clerk in the stores
department Tower of London 1807; auditor to the vestry of
Camberwell 1827, overseer of the poor 1829, vicar’s warden
1839–63, hon. sec. of the cholera committee 1839; a governor of
Dulwich college; member for Camberwell of Metropolitan board of
works 1858–69; chairman of Camberwell vestry, his portrait was
placed in Camberwell vestry hall April 1860. _d._ Asiago, in the
Italian Tyrol Sept. 1876. _bur._ Padua. _W. H. Blanch’s Parish
of Camberwell_ (1877) 186–8 _portrait_.
PEW, JOHN. Choirmaster to the Carl Rosa opera company 1873,
brought the choir to a high state of efficiency, assistant
conductor to the opera co.; conducted English opera in London
and the provinces. _d._ Feb. 1890.
PEYTON, SIR ALGERNON WILLIAM, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry
Peyton 1804–66). _b._ Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton
1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb.
1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3;
succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach;
sheriff of Oxon. 1871. _d._ Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25
March 1872. _Baily’s Mag. xvi_ 51 (1869) _portrait_.
PEYTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Dashwood
Peyton, _d._ 1789). _b._ Narborough hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk
1 July 1779; succeeded May 1789; M.P. Cambridgeshire 5 May to 26
June 1802; a member of the Four-in-hand club; always took part
in the procession of mail coaches on 1 May, the last procession
was in 1838; a member of the Bedford driving club, drove a
yellow coach and grey horses; introduced the metal cap at the
bottom of the whip stick and the thumb ferule at the top of
the leather hand piece; the first amateur whip in England with
the exception of another Cambridgeshire baronet. _d._ Swift’s
house, near Bicester 24 Feb. 1854. _bur._ in the family vault
at Doddington 3 March. _G.M. xli_ 421 (1854); _Baily’s Mag.
Jany. 1869 p._ 52; _Driving by the Duke of Beaufort_ (_Badminton
library_ 1889) 189, 190, 236, 244, 274, 281, 282.
NOTE.--Thackeray in alluding to him and his driving in the park, calls
him The ancient charioteer who must soon depart.
PEYTON, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet (son of sir H. Peyton, _d._ 1854).
_b._ Grafton st. London 30 June 1804; educ. Harrow 1816; matric.
from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 29 April 1822; cornet 1 life guards 1 Nov.
1824; lieut. on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; capt. Oxfordshire yeomanry;
an accomplished whip; member of Four-in-hand club; M.P.
Woodstock 1837–8; succeeded 24 Feb. 1854. _d._ Swift’s house,
Bicester 18 Feb. 1866. _G.M. i_ 585 (1866).
PEYTON, SIR THOMAS, 5 Baronet (2 son of rev. Algernon Peyton
1786–1868, a driver of coaches, rector of Doddington). _b._
1817; educ. Eton 1832–5, and at Cambridge to 1838; drove coaches
at Cambridge; ensign 14 Madras N.I. 26 June 1839, major 28 Oct.
1864 to 1 Oct. 1867; assistant quarter master general of Pegu
division 6 Dec. 1864 to 1868, and of Hyderabad subsidiary force
1868–71; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Dec. 1864; deputy
Q.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871, retired as M.G. 3 Oct. 1872; succeeded
his cousin sir Algernon Peyton 25 March 1872; a member of the
Four-in-hand and Coaching clubs; a partner in the Windsor coach
driving it five times a week; drove the Dorking coach two days a
week. _d._ Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1888. _Baily’s Mag.
xli_ 125–7 (1883) _portrait_; _The Field 25 Feb. 1888 p._ 275.
PFEIFFER, EMILY JANE (dau. of R. Davis of Oxfordshire, an
officer in the army). _b._ 26 Nov. 1827; travelled in Asia and
America; _m._ 1853 Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer, merchant in city of
London, who _d._ Jany. 1889; author of The holly branch, an
album 1843; Valioneria 1857; Margaret or the motherless 1861;
Gerard’s monument 1873, 2 ed. 1878; Poems 1876; Glan Alarch
1877; Quarterman’s grave 1879; Sonnets and songs 1880, 2 ed.
1886; Under the aspens 1882; The rhyme of the lady of the rock
1884; Flying leaves from east and west 1885; Woman and work
1888; Flowers of the night 1889; a writer in the Contemporary
review and other periodicals; established an orphanage; designed
the endowment of a school of dramatic art; left money to
trustees for the promotion of women’s higher education, £2,000
from this fund was allotted towards erecting at Cardiff the
Aberdare hall for women-students of the university of South
Wales, opened 1895. _d._ Mayfield, West hill, Putney 23 Jany.
1890. _A. H. Miles’s Poets and poetry of the century vii_ 555–72
(1891), _where the birth and death are incorrect_; _Academy i_
80–81 (1890).
PHAYRE, SIR ARTHUR PURVES (son of Richard Phayre). _b._
Shrewsbury 7 May 1812; educ. Shrewsbury school; cadet Bengal
army 13 Aug. 1828; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 10
Jany. 1855 to 1859; captain and comr. of Arakan 1849–52; comr.
of Pegu in Lower Burma 1852–62; sent on a special mission to
the king of Ava at Burma 1855; chief comr. of British Burma
1862–7; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 22 Jany. 1859; governor
of Mauritius 14 Nov. 1874 to Dec. 1878; C.B. 31 March 1863;
G.C.M.C. 24 Jany. 1878; author of Coins of Arakan, of Pegu, and
of Burma 1882; History of Burma 1883. _d._ Bray, near Dublin 14
Dec. 1885. _bur._ Enniskerry, memorial statue in Rangoon and
portrait by sir Thomas Jones in coffee-room of East India united
service club, St. James’ sq. London. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc.
vii_ 103–12 (1886); _H. Yule’s Narrative of the mission to the
court of Ava_, _Calcutta_ (1856); _A. Fytche’s Burma i_ 184,
_ii_ 220–3, 247 _etc._ (1878).
PHELAN, MICHAEL. _b._ Kilkenny, Ireland 1816; an apprentice
to a silversmith and jeweller in U.S. of America; became an
accomplished billiard player; exhibited his playing in Ireland
1851; opened billiard rooms Broadway, New York 1852; went to
San Francisco; returned to New York and became a billiard table
manufacturer with Hugh W. Collender; also kept billiard rooms
and took part in matches; author of The game of billiards 1850,
2 ed. New York 1857; The illustrated handbook of billiards, the
American game 1863. _d._ New York city 21 Oct. 1871.
PHELAN, PATRICK. _b._ near Kilkenny 1 Feb. 1795; educ. Montreal
coll. Canada; a R.C. priest 26 Sept. 1825; a member of the
Sulpicians 21 Nov. 1825 to 14 Sept. 1842; bishop of Carrha
in partibus infidelium and co-adjutor to Dr. Gaulin, bishop
of Kingston Feb. 1843, succeeded him as bishop 8 May 1857,
was bishop of Kingston only 28 days, as he caught cold at Dr
Gaulin’s funeral and _d._ Kingston 6 June 1857. _Battersby’s
Catholic Directory_, _Dublin_ (1858) 259.
PHELPS, EDMUND (2 son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). _b._ Albany
st. Regent’s park 17 March 1838; acted in the provinces; acted
Ulrick in Werner, Sadler’s Wells 21 Sept. 1860. Leonardo Gonzago
in The Wife 10 Dec. 1860, Faulconbridge in King John 16 Feb.
1861; at the Princess’ the Prince in King Henry IV 23 May
1861; at Sadler’s Wells St. Lo in Lovell’s Love’s Sacrifice 5
Nov. 1863, Sir Gerard Fane in Marston’s Pure gold 9 Nov. 1863;
at Drury Lane Pisanio in Cymbeline 17 Oct. 1864, Eugene in
Falconer’s Love’s ordeal 3 April 1865; Faust in Bayle Bernard’s
version 20 Oct. 1866, and hon. Tom Shuffleton in Colman’s John
Bull 31 Jany. 1867; _m._ 30 March 1863 Sarah Eliza, only dau. of
John Hudspeth, she first appeared at the Lyceum in 1859. _d._
Edinburgh 1 April 1870. _bur._ Dean cemet. Edinb. 5 April. _C.
E. Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1879) 257–8.
PHELPS, JOHN. _b._ 1805; an apprentice to a waterman at Fulham
1819; won the second prize in the race for Doggett’s coat
and badge 1 Aug. 1827; a well known sculler who won several
contests; a waterman at Fulham; one of the four champion
scullers 1846; judge of the University boat race many years,
lost the judging after the dead heat of 1877; his son H. J. M.
Phelps won Doggett’s coat and badge 1860. _d._ Fulham 6 Dec.
1890. _bur._ All Saints, Fulham 11 Dec. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news 4 April 1874 pp._ 137, 138 _portrait_, _and 20 Dec. 1890
p._ 463 _portrait_.
PHELPS, JOSEPH (brother of Wm. Phelps, known as Brighton Bill,
who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight at Melbourne Heath,
Cambs. 13 March 1838). _b._ 1823; beat Joseph Barnash, £25 a
side, 45 rounds in 59 minutes near Horley 7 Oct. 1845; beat Sam
Martin, £50 a side, 68 rounds in 3 hours at Hope Point 22 Sept.
1846, beat him again, £100 a side, 49 rounds in 97 minutes, at
Purfleet 26 May 1847; beaten by Alec Keene, £100 a side, 119
rounds in 165 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sept. 1847; a clipper
of poodle dogs at 66 Ship st. Brighton about 1876–84. _d._
Dorset gardens, Brighton 15 Oct. 1889. _Sporting Life 16 Oct.
1889 p._ 7.
PHELPS, ROBERT (brother of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). _b._ 1808;
scholar of Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1843,
D.D. 1843; fellow and Taylor lecturer of Sidney Sussex coll.
1833–43, master and bursar 1843 to death; vice-chancellor
1844 and 1847, refused any information to the university
commissioners 1872; R. of Willingham, near Newmarket March
1848 to death; author of An elementary treatise on optics, to
elucidate the construction of telescopes 1835. _d._ the Master’s
lodge, Sidney Sussex college 11 Jany. 1890. _The Times 13 Jany.
1890 p._ 7.
PHELPS, SAMUEL (2 son of Robert M. Phelps, outfitter, _d._
1820). _b._ 1 St. Aubyn st. Plymouth Dock, now Devonport 13
Feb. 1804; educ. under Dr. Samuel Reece at Saltash; junior
reader to the press in office of the Plymouth Herald for 3
months in 1820; reader to the Globe and Sun newspapers in London
1820; played as an amateur at the Rawston st. theatre and the
Olympic 1825; acted on the York circuit at 18s. a week 1826;
played in England, Ireland, and Scotland 1826–37; appeared at
Haymarket, London 28 Aug. 1837 as Shylock; played at Covent
Garden 1837–9; acted Othello and Iago at Haymarket Aug. 1839
to Jany. 1840; played at Drury Lane Jany. to March 1840 and
1841–3, the original Captain Channel in Jerrold’s Prisoners of
war 8 Feb. 1842, Lord Lynterne in Marston’s Patrician’s daughter
10 Dec 1842, Lord Tresham in Browning’s Blot on the scutcheon
11 Feb. 1843, Lord Byerdale in Knowles’s Secretary 24 April
1843, and Dunstan in Smith’s Athelwold 18 May 1843; the first
Almagro in Knowles’s The Rose of Arragon at Haymarket 4 June
1842; lessee with Mrs. Warner and Thomas Greenwood of Sadler’s
Wells theatre 27 May 1844, Mrs. Warner retired from management
in 1847, Greenwood in 1860, and Phelps 15 March 1862, produced
all the plays of Shakespeare except Richard II, the three parts
of Henry the Sixth, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida
1844–62; the original Henri IV in Sullivan’s King’s friend 21
May 1845, Walter Cochrane in White’s Feudal times 18 Feb. 1847,
John Savile in White’s John Savile of Haysted 3 Nov. 1847,
Calagnos in G. H. Boker’s tragedy Calagnos 10 May 1849; played
Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, the first time of performance
for a century 22 Oct. 1849; the original Garcia in Tomlins’s
Garcia or the noble error 12 Dec. 1849, Blackbourne in George
Bennett’s Retribution 11 Feb. 1850, James VI in White’s James VI
6 March 1852; revived Pericles, not acted since the Restoration,
14 Oct. 1854; the original Bertuccio in Tom Taylor’s Fool’s
Revenge 18 Oct. 1859, and Louis XI in Delavigne’s Louis XI 21
Sept. 1861; played in Berlin and Hamburg May 1859; at Princess’s
theatre 1860; acted Richelieu at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1861;
played at Drury Lane 1863–8 acting Manfred 14 Oct. 1863,
Mephistopheles in Faust 20 Oct. 1866, the Doge in Byron’s Marino
Faliero 2 Nov. 1867, and James I and Trapbois in Halliday’s King
o’ Scots 26 Sept. 1868; acted at Astley’s amphitheatre March
1870; first appeared at Gaiety Dec. 1873 as Dr. Cantwell in the
Hypocrite; acted Falstaff there Dec. 1874; acted at Aquarium
theatre from 1877, making his last appearance as Wolsey in Henry
VIII 1 March 1878; author of The Plays of William Shakespeare
under the supervision of S. Phelps with illustrations by
Nicholson, 2 vols. 1851–4, another ed. 2 vols. 1858, originally
came out in parts; resided at 420 Camden road, Holloway,
London to 1878. _d._ Anson’s farm, Coopersale, near Epping,
Essex 6 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 13 Nov., portrait as
Cardinal Wolsey at Garrick club. _Phelps and Robertson’s Life
of S. Phelps_ (1886) _three portraits_; _J. Coleman’s Memoirs
of S. Phelps_ (1886); _M. Williams’ Some London theatres_
(1883) 17–29; _The theatre i_ 325–29, 338–44 (1878); _Saturday
Programme 27 Nov. 1875 pp._ 8–10 _portrait_; _W. Marston’s Our
recent actors ii_ 1–49 (1888); _J. Coleman’s Players i_ 117–208
(1888); _G.M. Sept. 1872 pp._ 308–10; _Drawing room portrait
gallery of eminent personages_, _2nd series_ (1859) _portrait_;
_Theatrical times i_ 81 (1847) _portrait_; _Tallis’ Drawing
room table book_, _part_ 7 _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_
(1879) 258–65.
PHELPS, WILLIAM (son of rev. John Phelps of Flax Bourton,
Somerset). _b._ 1776; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 18 Nov.
1793, migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1797; V. of Bicknoller,
Somerset 1811–51; V. of Meare, Somerset 1824–51; R. of Oxcombe,
Lincs. 1851 to death; author of Calendarium botanicum, or a
botanical calendar of all the British plants 1810; The history
and antiquities of Somersetshire, 2 vols. 1836–9; Observations
on the great marshes and turbaries of Somerset 1836; A mirror
of the duchy of Nassau, or a guide to the Brunnens 1842; An
historical guide to Frankfort-on-Maine 1844. _d._ Oxcombe 17
Aug. 1856.
PHELPS, WILLIAM ROBERT (eld. son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78,
actor). _b._ 1828; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; parliamentary
reporter for The Times; connected with a Manchester paper; chief
justice of supreme court of island of St. Helena 1 June 1863
to death. _d._ St. Helena 16 Nov. 1869, monument in Highgate
cemetery.
PHELPS, WILLIAM WHITMARSH (eld. child of John Phelps of Wilton,
near Salisbury, master of the free school, _d._ 21 Nov. 1823
aged 57). _b._ Wilton 1 Oct. 1797; educ. Hyde abbey sch.
Winchester 1810; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815 to
1822; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fellow of his college 10 Oct. 1822
to 1824; C. of Hindon, Wilts. 1822–6; assistant master Harrow
April 1826 to 30 July 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading 1 March
1840; C. of Sonning 1 July 1841; C. of Sulhampstead 22 May 1842;
Incumbent of Trinity church, Reading 1845–64; examining chaplain
to bishop of Carlisle 10 Aug. 1860; archdeacon of Carlisle 1863
to death, collated 26 Feb. 1863; V. of Appleby 18 Jany. 1865 to
death; author of Sermons and studies in scripture subjects 1876.
_d._ Appleby vicarage 22 June 1867. _bur._ in Appleby churchyard
27 June. _The life of W. W. Phelps by rev. Charles Hale_, 2
_vols._ (1871–73) 2 _portraits_.
PHILIP, JOHN (son of a schoolmaster). _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fife 14
April 1775; studied at Hoxton theological college three years;
minister of the First Scottish congregational chapel in Great
George st. Aberdeen 1804–18; conducted an inquiry into the state
of the South African missions of the London missionary society
1819–22; superintendent of the society’s South African stations
1822; pastor of the new Union chapel at Cape Town, opened Dec.
1822; tried for libelling Wm. Mackay, landrost of Somerset,
verdict for Mackay 16 July 1830; left for England 28 Feb. 1836,
made several lecturing tours in Great Britain to rouse public
opinion against the Cape government; unofficial adviser to
governor sir G. T. Napier at Cape Town in all questions relating
to the treatment of the natives Feb. 1838 to 1843; undertook
tours in 1839 and 1842 to promote the establishment of a belt of
native states to the north and east of the colony; known as The
Wilberforce of the Hottentots; the most prominent politician in
Cape Colony for 30 years; author of Memoir of Mrs. Matilda Smith
1824; Researches in South Africa, the religious condition of
the native tribes, 2 vols. 1828. _d._ Hankey, Cape of Good Hope
27 Aug. 1851. _Robert Philip’s The Elijah of South Africa, or
the character of the late John Philip_ (1851); _Ralph Wardlaw’s
What is death, a sermon_ (1852); _G. M. Theal’s History of South
Africa iii_ 477 (1891), _iv_ 605 (1893).
PHILIP, JOHN BIRNIE (son of Wm. Philip). _b._ London 23
Nov. 1824; pupil of John Rogers Herbert, R.A.; exhibited
22 sculptures at R.A. 1858–75; executed the reredos of Ely
cathedral 1857, the reredos of St. George’s chapel, Windsor
1863, eight statues of kings and queens for the royal gallery in
houses of parliament, and the statues on the front of the Royal
academy, Burlington house; executed the friezes on the podium
on the north and west sides of the Albert memoria, representing
87 sculptors and architects 1864–72, he also modelled for the
canopy of the memorial four bronze statues of geometry, geology,
physiology, and philosophy, and the eight angels clustered at
the base of the cross on the summit; executed the capitals
of the columns on Blackfriars bridge 1869, and the statue of
colonel Edward Akroyd, M.P., erected at Halifax; _m._ 1854
Frances Black, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 19
June 1875; he _d._ Merton villa, 280a King’s road, Chelsea
2 March 1875. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _J. Dafforne’s Albert
memorial_ (1877) 40–1, 63–6, 69–70, _three plates; I.L.N. lxvi_
257, 258 (1875) _portrait_; _Graphic xi_ 296 (1875) _portrait_.
PHILIP, MICHEL MAXWELL (eld. son of Michel Maxwell Philip of
South Napanina, Trinidad). _b._ Cooper Grange estate, South
Napanina 12 Oct. 1829; educ. St. Mary’s catholic college,
Blairs, Scotland; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1854; acting inspector
of schools, Trinidad 1856 and 1865; solicitor general, Trinidad
March 1871 to death, acting attorney general 1873–4; author of
Emmanuel Appadocca, a tale of the boucaneers. 2 vols. 1854. _d._
Loyola, Maraval, Trinidad 29 June 1888.
PHILIP, ROBERT. _b._ Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1791; educ. Hoxton
academy 1811–5; Independent minister at Liverpool 1815;
minister of Maberley chapel, Ball’s end road, London 1 Jany.
1826, resigned 1855; advocated the claims of London missionary
society; D.D. Dartmouth college, U.S. of America 1852; author
of Christian experience, or a guide to the perplexed 1828, 10
ed. 1847; The life and times of the rev. George Whitfield 1837;
The life, times, and characteristics of John Bunyan 1839; with
G. Offor The works of John Bunyan 1853, 2 ed. 1862; his name is
attached to upwards of 35 publications. _d._ 15 Gwlden terrace,
Richmond road, Dalston, London 1 May 1858. _J. M. Clintock and
J. Strong’s Cyclopædia of biblical literature viii_ 91 (1879);
_Congregational year book_ (1859) 213–4.
PHILIPPART, JOHN. _b._ London about 1784; private secretary
to 1 baron Sheffield, president of the board of agriculture
1809–11; a clerk in the war office 1811; knight of St. John of
Jerusalem 11 Nov. 1830, chevalier of justice 1831, bailiff ad
honores 6 July 1847, chancellor of the order 1831 to death;
knight of the Swedish orders of Gustavus Vasa and of the Polar
star of Sweden 1832; helped to found the Fulham and Hammersmith
general dispensary, now the West London hospital, 1856, honorary
treasurer 1856–61; M.R.I.A.; owned and edited a journal called
The military panorama, 4 vols. Oct. 1812 to Sept. 1814; author
of Northern campaigns from 1812 to June 4, 1813, 2 vols. 1813;
Memoirs of the prince royal of Sweden 1813; Memoirs of general
Moreau 1814; The royal military calendar containing the services
of every general officer in the British army, 3 vols. 1815–6, 3
ed. 5 vols. 1820; The East India military calendar 1823; General
index to the first and second series of Hansard’s parliamentary
debates 1834; Memoirs of prince Edward, duke of Kent and
Strathearn 1819. _d._ College house, Church lane, Hammersmith 8
May 1875, will dated 3 May 1873, proved under £10,000, 19 July
1875, all left to his daughter Mrs. Bennett. _I.L.N. 31 July
1875 p._ 119.
PHILLIPPE, MONSIEUR, stage name of Phillippe Talon. _b._ Alais,
near Nismes; a confectioner; in business in London, then in
Aberdeen, disposed of his confectionery in a lottery at the
Aberdeen theatre; travelled through England and Scotland as
a conjuror under the name of Monsieur Phillippe; erected a
temporary theatre in Glasgow 1840; while performing in Dublin
learnt the gold fish trick and the ring puzzle from a Chinese
juggler; played in Paris 1841 and in Vienna; at the St James’
theatre, London 1845, and at Strand theatre with his Soirées
mysterieuses Oct. 1845; two of his most curious tricks were The
hat of Fortunatus and The kitchen of Parafaragaramus; he always
appeared in a fancy dress. _T. Frost’s Lives of the conjurors_
(1876) 271–6; _I.L.N. 4 Oct. 1845 p._ 221 _portrait_; _F.
Volant’s Alexis Soyer_ (1859) 57–9.
PHILIPPS, HENRY (3 son of Wm. Hollingworth Philipps, captain
Notts. militia 1757–1839). _b._ 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Queen’s
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; ordained 1842; author of
Remarks on a bill respecting an alteration in the constitution
of deans and chapters 1840; Litany and prayers for family
worship 1856; composer of The Psalm of Life, words by
Longfellow; Late, late, so late, song, words by Tennyson 1882;
resided at 10 Pitville lawn, Cheltenham many years. _d._ The
Mansion, Bisley 13 Dec. 1892.
PHILIPPS, RICHARD NATHANIEL (eld. son of Nathaniel Philipps of
Moor Lodge, near Sheffield, unitarian minister). _b._ 1807;
educ. Sheffield and Christ’s coll. Camb., captain of the college
boat; LL.B. 1849, LL.D. 1872; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, went
northern circuit; presented with a testimonial at Stafford 17
Jany. 1853; president of Thames subscription club 1859; special
pleader at central criminal court; recorder of Pontefract
Aug. 1871 to death; chairman of committee of court of common
council of city of London to 1865, and chairman of library
committee Feb. 1872 to 1873; F.S.A. 1 March 1855; chairman
of quarter sessions for west riding of Yorkshire. _d._ Broom
hall, Sheffield 5 Sept. 1877. _I.L.N. xxii_ 93 (1853) _view of
testimonial_, _xxxiv_ 475 (1859) _view of testimonial_, _xlvii_
148 (1865) _view of testimonial_, _lxii_ 494 (1873) _view of
loving cup presented to him_.
PHILIPS, SIR GEORGE RICHARD, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George
Philips 1766–1847). _b._ 23 Dec. 1789, educ. Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1812. M.A. 1816; M.P. Steyning 1820–32; M.P.
Kidderminster 1835–7; M.P. Poole 1837–52; sheriff of Warws.
1859. _d._ Weston house, Shipton-on-Stour 22 Feb. 1883.
PHILIPS, JOHN ALEXANDER. _b._ 1790; a midshipman at battle of
Trafalgar; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Aug. 1806; lieut. col. R.M.A. 4
Sept. 1851, adjutant 1828–34; colonel of Woolwich division 28
March 1863 to death; L.G. 29 May 1863. _d._ York Tower, near
Sandhurst 27 Nov. 1865.
PHILIPS, MARK (eld. son of Robert Philips of The Park,
Prestwich, Manchester 1760–1844). _b._ The Park, near Manchester
4 Nov. 1800; educ. Manchester college York, and Glasgow
universities; chairman of the New Quay company, Manchester
1825; M.P. Manchester 1832–47; sheriff of Warws. 1851. _d._
Welcombe, Snitherfield, near Stratford-on-Avon 23 Dec. 1873. _W.
E. A. Axon’s Annals of Manchester_ (1886) 339; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 23
(1874).
PHILIPS, NATHANIEL GEORGE. Ensign 47 foot 19 May 1846, captain
24 Nov. 1854, sold out 6 Nov. 1857; served in the Crimea,
wounded at Alma, medal with clasp; raised in St. George’s
lodge, Liverpool 1855; W.M. of lodge 311 Irish constitution at
Templemore, Tipperary; prince mason of Ireland; received 33
degree in English masonry in London 1864, grand treasurer 1868,
secretary, lieut. grand commander, and sovereign grand commander
at No. 33 Golden sq. London, assisted greatly in the formation
of the library; member of corps of gentlemen at arms 9 July
1858, sub-officer 6 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1874; groom of the privy
chamber Feb. 1874 to 1886. _d._ 1886. _J. G’s Masonic portraits_
(1876) 122–7.
PHILIPS, ROBERT NEEDHAM (brother of Mark Philips 1800–73). _b._
Manchester 20 June 1815; educ. Rugby 1829 etc. and at Manchester
college; merchant and manufacturer Manchester; M.P. Bury 1857–9,
1865–85, when he was presented with a testimonial; sheriff of
Lancashire 1856. _d._ Welcombe house, Stratford-on-Avon 28 Feb.
1890. _I.L.N. xxxi_ 389 (1857) _portrait_, _22 March 1890 p._
366 _portrait_.
PHILLIMORE, GREVILLE (5 son of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855).
_b._ London 5 Feb. 1821; educ. Westminster 1831, Charterhouse
1832–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf, canoneer student 1838, B.A. 1842, M.A.
1844; C. of Henley-on-Thames 1846–7, 1850–1; C. of Shiplake
1847; C. of Wargrave and Fawley 1848–9; V. of Downe-Ampney
near Cricklade 1851–67; R. of Henley 1867–83; R. of Ewelme,
Oxfordshire July 1883 to death; joint editor with H. W. Beadon
and J. R. Woodford of The parish hymn book 1863, 2 ed. 1875,
to which he contributed 11 original hymns; author of Parochial
sermons 1856, 2 ed. 1885; Uncle Z [a story of Triberg in the
Black forest] 1881; Only a black box, or a passage in the
life of a curate 1883; preached at Ewelme on Sunday and _d._
the same night 20 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Shiplake churchyard 25
Jany. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 893; _C. M.
Phillimore’s In memoriam of G. Phillimore_ (1884) _memoir pp.
iii–vi_.
PHILLIMORE, HENRY BOURCHIER (younger son of captain sir John
Phillimore, R.N. 1781–1840). _b._ 25 Oct. 1833; entered R.N. 5
May 1846; captain 14 July 1864; commanded the Curacao 23 guns
in Australia 1863; transferred to the steamer Avon in which he
twice attacked the Maori position at Rangariri 1863, New Zealand
medal; C.B. 13 March 1867; R.A. 8 April 1880, V.A. 24 May 1887,
retired 25 Oct. 1888, retired admiral 5 April 1892; alderman of
Huntingdonshire county council 1889 to death. _d._ Stoneleigh,
Lansdown road, Bath 3 July 1893. _Times 8 July 1893 p._ 10.
PHILLIMORE, JOHN GEORGE (brother of Greville Phillimore
1821–84). _b._ 62 Gower st. London 5 Jany. 1808; educ.
Westminster 1817–1824, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
clerk in the board of control for India 1827–32; barrister L.I.
23 Nov. 1832, bencher Nov. 1851 to death; revising barrister
1837; reader on civil law and jurisprudence at Middle Temple
Jany. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; reader in constitutional law and
history to the Inns of Court June 1852; M.P. Leominster 1852–7;
author of Letter to the lord chancellor on the reform of the law
1846; Thoughts on law reform 1847; Introduction to the study and
history of the Roman law 1848; The history and principles of
the law of evidence 1850; An inaugural lecture on jurisprudence
and a lecture on canon law 1851; Principles and maxims of
jurisprudence 1856; Private law among the Romans 1863; History
of England during the reign of George the third, 1 vol. 1863, no
more published. _d._ Shiplake house, near Reading 27 April 1865.
_Law Times xl_ 327 (1865).
PHILLIMORE, JOSEPH (eld. son of Joseph Phillimore 1750–1831,
vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.). _b._ 14 Sept. 1775; educ.
Westminster 1789–93, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, B.C.L. 1800,
D.C.L. 1804; member of College of advocates 21 Nov. 1804;
regius professor of civil law at Oxford 31 Oct. 1809 to death;
chancellor of diocese of Oxford 1809 to death; judge of court
of admiralty of the Cinque ports 1809 to death; president of
consistory courts of Oxford, Worcester, and Bristol about 1816;
M.P. St. Mawes, Cornwall 1817–26; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
1826–30; one of the original members of a short-lived third
party formed in 1818; member of board of control for India 8
Feb. 1822 to Jany. 1828; principal comr. for final adjudication
of French claims under treaties of 1815 and 1818, 23 Jany.
1833; presided over registration commission appointed 13 Sept.
1836 and drafted the report; king’s advocate in the court
of admiralty 25 Oct. 1834, queen’s advocate 1837 to death;
chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1834 to death; commissary of
deanery of St. Paul’s 1834 to death; chancellor of diocese of
Bristol 1842 to death; judge of consistory court of Gloucester
1846; hon. LL.D. Camb. 1834; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; edited Reports
of cases argued in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors’ commons
and in the high court of delegates, 3 vols. 1818–27; Reports of
cases argued in the arches and prerogative court of Canterbury 2
vols. 1832–3. _d._ Shiplake house, near Reading 24 Jany. 1855.
_Law Review xxii_ 69–71 (1855).
PHILLIMORE, SIR ROBERT JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (brother of John
George Phillimore 1808–65). _b._ Whitehall, London 5 Nov. 1810;
educ. Westminster 1824–8, king’s scholar 1824; student of Ch.
Ch. Oxf. 1828, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834, B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1838;
great friend of W. E. Gladstone, proposed him as candidate for
representation of Oxford 1847; clerk in the office of board
of control 1832–5; advocate at Doctors’ commons 2 Nov. 1839,
steward 1847–50, librarian 1850–1 and 1853–4, treasurer 1851–3;
barrister M.T. 7 May 1841, bencher 1 Feb. 1858 to death,
treasurer 1870; commissary of the deans and chapters of St.
Paul’s and Westminster to 1867; official of the archdeaconries
of Middlesex and London 1840–62; chancellor of the dioceses
of Chichester 1844–67, of Salisbury 1845–67, and of Oxford
1855–67; judge of the Cinque ports Feb. 1855 to 1875; admiralty
advocate Feb. 1855; Q.C. Jany. 1858; queen’s advocate general 28
Aug. 1862 to 1867; knighted by patent 17 Sept. 1862; contested
Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847, 28 April 1852 and 8 July 1852, and
Coventry 27 March 1857; M.P. Tavistock 1853–7; dean of court
of arches 1 Aug. 1867 to 20 Oct. 1875; judge of high court of
admiralty 23 Aug. 1867, resigned 21 March 1883; P.C. 3 Aug.
1867; temporary judge-advocate-general 17 May 1871 to Aug. 1872;
master of the faculties 6 Feb. 1873 to 1875; Swiney prizeman
of society of arts Jany. 1874; created baronet 21 Dec. 1881;
president of Association for reform and codification of law of
nations 1879; member of royal commissions on neutrality 1868,
on naturalisation 1868, on ritual 1867, the building of courts
of justice 1859, and on the judicature and ecclesiastical
courts 1867; edited Memoirs and correspondence of George, lord
Littleton, 2 vols. 1845; author of The law of domicil 1847;
Commentaries upon international law, 4 vols. 1854–61, 3 ed.
1878–89; Judgment delivered by sir R. Phillimore in the cases
of Martin _v._ Mackonochie and Flamank _v._ Simpson 1868; The
ecclesiastical law of the church of England, 2 vols. 1873, 2
ed. 1895. _d._ The Coppice, near Henley-on-Thames 4 Feb. 1885.
_bur._ Shiplake churchyard. _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_
(1895) 163–8 _portrait_; _A generation of judges_ (1886) 204–10;
_F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school_ (1884) 527–9; _I.L.N.
lxxxvi_ 178 (1885) _portrait_.
PHILLIMORE, WILLIAM (brother of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855).
_b._ 6 Feb. 1777; educ. Westminster; barrister L.I. 19 Nov.
1799; equity draftsman; a comr. of lunatics 1815 to 1842, a
visitor of lunatics 1842 to death; chairman of the St. Alban’s
quarter sessions. _d._ Deacon’s Hill, Herts. 28 Nov. 1860.
PHILLIP, JOHN (son of a soldier). _b._ 13 Skene sq. Aberdeen
19 April 1817; apprenticed to Spark, a painter and glazier
in Wallace Nook, Aberdeen 1832–6; studied painting in London
1836–40; subject and portrait painter; exhibited 55 pictures at
R.A., 12 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–67: A.R.A.
Nov. 1857, R.A. Nov. 1859; painted for the queen The marriage
of the princess royal with the crown prince of Germany 1858;
studied and painted in Spain 1851–2, 1856–7, 1860; 200 of his
pictures were in the London international exhibition of 1873.
_d._ 1 South villas, Campden Hill, Kensington 27 Feb. 1867.
_W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 164–8;
_Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 306–8 (1862); _I.L.N.
xxxv_ 543, 560 (1859) _portrait_, _l_ 285 (1867) _portrait_;
_T. O. Barlow’s Catalogue of the works of J. Phillip_ 1873; _J.
Dafforne’s Pictures of J. Phillip_ 1877; _Leisure Hour xvi_ 629
_portrait_; _Illust. Times 9 March 1867 p._ 149 _portrait_.
PHILLIPI, MONSIEUR, stage name of Harry Graham. A clown in
Ginnett’s circus; came out at Ramsgate under management of
Charles W. Montague as M. Phillipi the wizard about March 1859;
performed at the chief towns on the south coast; appeared
with success at the Cabinet theatre, King’s Cross, where he
also played Richard the Third. _d._ a few days afterwards.
_bur._ in Tower Hamlets cemetery about 1860. _C. W. Montague’s
Recollections of an equestrian manager_ (1881) 8–11.
PHILLIPPS, ADELAIDE. _b._ Stratford-on-Avon 26 Oct. 1833; taken
to U.S. of America 1841; appeared on the stage at Tremont
theatre, Boston Jany. 1842; sang at the Boston museum 1843–51;
pupil of Manuel Garcia in London March 1852; made her début at
Brescia as Arsace in Semiramide 1853; sang in Milan and other
cities; sang in Italian opera in Philadelphia and New York;
appeared in Paris as Azucena in Il Trovatore 1860; the Adelaide
Phillipps opera company was organized 1876: sang with the Ideal
opera company 1879–81; last appeared on the stage in Cincinnati
1881; her stage name in Europe was signorina Fillippi; her
voice was a contralto with a compass of 2½ octaves; her best
parts were Rosina, Leonora and Azucena. _d._ suddenly Carlsbad,
Austria 3 Oct. 1882. _A. C. Waterston’s Adelaide Phillipps, a
record, Boston_ (1883); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 758
(1888) _portrait_.
PHILLIPPS, CHARLES MARCH (eld. son of Thomas March of More
Critchill, Dorset, who took additional name of Phillipps in
1796, _d._ March 1817). _b._ 28 May 1779; educ. Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; M.P. Leicestershire 1818–20
and 1831–2; M.P. North Leicestershire 1832–7; sheriff of Leics.
1825. _d._ Cheltenham 24 April 1862. _G.M. June 1862 p._ 788.
PHILLIPPS, EDWARD THOMAS MARCH (brother of preceding). _b._
1784; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., 6
wrangler 1804, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Hathern, Leics.
29 Sept. 1808 to death; minister of Dishley with Thorp Acre
1816–43; chancellor of diocese of Gloucester 1820 to death;
author of Four sermons on the inward life of the believer 1853;
The ordnances of spiritual worship 1863. _d._ Hathern rectory 12
July 1859. _Records of ministry of E. T. M. Phillipps_ (1862);
_G.M. vii_ 189 (1859).
PHILLIPPS, SAMUEL MARCH (brother of preceding). _b._ Uttoxeter
14 July 1780; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb.,
eighth wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1802, B.A. 1802,
M.A. 1805; barrister I.T. 19 June 1806; an exchequer bill loan
comr.; permanent under secretary for home affairs 16 July 1827
to May 1848; P.C. 27 June 1848; author of A treatise on the law
of evidence 1814, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1868; edited State trials,
or a collection of the most interesting trials prior to the
revolution of 1688, 2 vols. 1826. _d._ Great Malvern 11 March
1862.
PHILLIPPS, SIR THOMAS, 1 baronet (son of Thomas Phillipps
1742–1818, of Middle hill, Broadway, Worcestershire). _b._
32 Cannon st. Manchester 2 July 1792; educ. Rugby 1807 etc.
and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; collected rare
manuscripts especially those on vellum, resided in Belgium,
Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland 1820–5; bought three
quarters of the Meerman collection of manuscripts at The Hague
1824, the collection of professor Van Ess of Darmstadt 1824,
and many of the Muschenbrock collection of Dutch charters,
&c. 1827; bought more than 16,000 manuscripts from Thorpe the
bookseller 1836: purchased the earl of Guilford’s collection
of Italian manuscripts in upwards of 1,300 volumes; purchased
more than 400 lots at the Heber sale 1836; bought about 60,000
manuscripts altogether; bought a series of incunabula in about
a thousand volumes 1824; collected 100,000 volumes of printed
books, also coins and pictures; established about 1822 a
private printing press in a tower known as Broadway tower, on
the Middle Hill estate, removed his printing press and library
to Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 1862; F.R.S. 29 June 1819;
F.S.A. 1 April 1819; F.G.S. 1830; created baronet 27 July 1821;
sheriff of Worcs. 1825; contested Grimsby 9 Feb 1826; privately
printed at Salisbury in 1819 Collections for Wiltshire, and at
Evesham in 1820 Account of the family of sir Thomas Molyneux;
Institutiones clericorum in comitatu Wiltoniæ 1297–1810, 2 vols.
1822–5: Monumental inscriptions in the county of Wilton 1822.
_d._ Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 6 Feb 1872. _bur._ the old
church, Broadway, Worcs., portrait by Thomas Phillips, R.A. at
Thirlestane house. _Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s manual iii_ 1856–8
(1864), _and Appendix pp._ 225–37; _Book Lore iv_ 141–3 (1886);
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. v_ 310–11 (1870–73); _Trubner’s Record
vii_ 112 (1872); _I.L.N. lx_ 163 (1872), _lxi_ 22 (1872).
NOTE.--First portion of library, 8,346 lots producing £2,200. 15, was
sold by Sotheby 3–10 Aug. 1886.
PHILLIPPS-DE LISLE, AMBROSE LISLE MARCH (eld. son of Charles
March Phillipps 1779–1862). _b._ 17 March 1809; educ. King’s
coll. Camb.; joined R.C. church while an undergraduate 1828;
great advocate for the reunion of christendom; a friend of the
hon. and rev. George Spencer (Father Ignatius) from 1829, and
the means of his conversion 1830; sheriff of Leicestershire
1868; is depicted in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby, 3 vols. 1844,
as Eustace Lyle of St. Geneviéve; took name of De Lisle; author
of The catholic christian’s complete manual 1847; Manual of
devotion for use of the brethren of the confraternity of the
Living rosary 1843; Mahometanism in its relation to prophecy
1855. _d._ Garendon park, Leicestershire 5 March 1878. _Life of
father Ignatius of St. Paul_ (1866) 186–95; _Times_, _8 March
1878 p._ 9.
PHILLIPS, ALFRED. _b._ 1802; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., 28
wrangler and B.A. 1824, M.A. 1837, B.D. and D.D. 1841; V. of
Kilmersdon, Somerset 1833–41; head master of Crewkerne gram.
sch.; principal of King William’s coll. Isle of Man, principal
of Cheltenham coll. 1841–5; V. of Bushbury, Staffs. 1864–7. _d._
Stalbridge rectory, Blandford, residence of rev. G. E. Phillips
10 June 1880.
PHILLIPS, ALFRED. _b._ 1844; surveyor to rural sanitary
authority of Dorchester 1877–80; surveyor to Festiniog 1880 to
death, where he brought in a supply of water from a lake in
the mountains five miles distant; A.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1874. _d._
Festiniog 8 Feb. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvii_
422 (1889).
PHILLIPS, BENJAMIN. _b._ about 1805; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; F.R.S.
18 Dec. 1834; surgeon to the Westminster hospital; resided
Brent Bridge house, Hendon; author of Epidemic, contagion and
infection, with their remedies 1832; A series of experiments
shewing that arteries may be obliterated without ligature,
compression or the knife 1832; A treatise on the urethra 1832;
Scrofula, its nature and treatment 1846. _d._ Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 11 June 1861.
PHILLIPS, SIR BENJAMIN SAMUEL (son of Samuel Phillips). _b._
London 4 Jany. 1811; warehousemen and importers of fancy goods
as Faudel, Phillips and Sons 36 to 40 Newgate street 1830–86;
common councilman 1847, being the first Jew elected in London;
alderman of city of London for ward of Farringdon within 24 June
1857 to April 1888, sheriff 1859–60, lord mayor 1865–6; caused
collections to be made for relief of cholera patients in England
1866, and for relief of the famine in India 1866; entertained
king and queen of the Belgians at the mansion house 6 July 1866,
visited Brussels where he was received by the king who made
him a commander of the order of Leopold Oct. 1866; knighted at
Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; president of Society of Hebrew literature
16 Dec. 1873. _d._ 17 Grosvenor street, London 9 Oct. 1889. _J.
E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_ (1884) 129–38; _Illust. sp. and
dr. news xxiii_ 390 (1885) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 11 Nov.
1865 p._ 292 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 456 (1865) _portrait_.
PHILLIPS, SIR BENJAMIN TRAVELL (2 son of Stephen Howell Phillips
of 12 Norfolk st. Strand, London, solicitor). _b._ in parish of
St. Clement Danes, Strand, London 13 Oct. 1804; educ. Merchant
Taylor’s school 1813 etc.; cornet 7 Bengal light cavalry 16
Jany. 1821, major 28 Sept. 1841 to 6 Sept. 1851; lieut. col. 4
Bengal light cavalry 1852 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut. col. 3 Bengal
light cavalry 28 Nov. 1854 to 3 May 1856; raised the Bengal
cavalry depôt at Cawnpore 1842; in Sikh campaign of 1848–9,
medal; M.G. 25 March 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 18
Feb. 1858; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 23 July 1857 to
Dec. 1861. _d._ Paris 10 May 1880.
PHILLIPS, CHARLES (son of Charles Phillips, a councillor of
Sligo, _d._ 1800). _b._ Sligo 1786; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1806; student at the Middle Temple 1807; called to Irish
bar 1812, went Connaught circuit; one of the chief agitators
for Roman Catholic emancipation, presented with a national
testimonial 1813; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1821; became leader of
the Old Bailey bar; called Counsellor O’Garnish, his conduct
of the defence of Courvoisier 1840 generally condemned; comr.
of Liverpool bankruptcy court 21 Oct. 1842; comr. of insolvent
debtors’ court of London 25 June 1846 to death; author of
A letter to the editor of the Edinburgh Review 1810; The
consolations of Erin: a eulogy 1810; The loves of Celestine
and St. Aubert, 2 vols. 1811; The emerald isle, a poem 1812,
2 ed. 1812; A garland for the grave of R. B. Sheridan 1816;
The speeches of Charles Phillips 1817; Recollections of Curran
and some of his contemporaries 1818, 5 ed. 1857; The queen’s
case stated 1820, 20 ed. 1820; Napoleon the third by A man of
the world 1854; Vacation thoughts on capital punishment 1856,
2 ed. 1857. _d._ 39 Gordon sq. London 1 Feb. 1859. _bur._
Highgate cemet. left £40,000. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public
characters i_ 185–216 (1841); _The Pantheon of the age iii_ 134
(1825) _portrait_; _Burke’s Connaught circuit_ (1885) 188–202;
_O’Rorke’s History of Sligo ii_ 511–21 (1890); _European Mag.
lxx_ 387–90 (1816) _portrait_: _Public characters iii_ 134–5
(1824) _portrait_; _Belgravia xxi_ 216–28 (1873).
PHILLIPS, CHARLES PALMER (son of Wm. Edward Phillips, governor
of Prince of Wales’s island). _b._ 1822; educ. Eton and Ch.
Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1846;
chief sec. to lord chancellor Chelmsford Feb. 1859; a revising
barrister for city of London 1864; sec. to lunacy comrs. Dec.
1865 to April 1872; comr. in lunacy April 1872 to death; author
of The law concerning lunatic idiots 1858; The law of copyright
1863. _d._ Elstree 27 Sept. 1895.
PHILLIPS, DAVID (son of a ship builder). _b._ Aberarth,
Cardiganshire 19 Jany. 1831; articled to T. R. Guppy, civil
engineer 1846; in the steam factory at Portsmouth dockyard
1853–5; assistant engineer in service of P. and O.S.N. Co. at
Bombay 1855, reclaimed the foreshore and built a dockyard 1861,
superintending engineer 1865, chief engineer Hong Kong 1868–71;
on commission on corrosion of boilers in the navy 1874; on the
Thunderer boiler explosion committee 1876; experimented on
boiler explosions etc. 1876 to death; M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1868.
_d._ Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire 31 May 1894. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii_ 450–2 (1894).
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (dau. of Thomas Rouse, lessee of Grecian
theatre, London, or of lieutenant James Rous of Fulham,
Middlesex). _b._ 1810; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I.,
and 27 at Suffolk st. 1832–78; assisted her husband in his
panoramas of The Ganges and of The Queen’s visit to Ireland;
among her better known pictures are The Dutch collection,
Grandfather’s cup and The Erasmus chapel in Westminster abbey;
_m._ 1837 Philip Phillips, the artist, he _d._ 29 May 1864;
resided at Stockwell, South London. _d._ 28 Jany. 1887. _Ellen
C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_ 230–4 (1876); _A.
Graves’ Dictionary of artists_ (1895) 218.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE (3 son of Francis Phillips of Dunwich, Suffolk,
farmer). _b._ Otley, Suffolk 11 Jany. 1804; master in Woodbridge
gr. sch.; master in Worcester gr. sch. to 1824; entered Magdalen
hall Oxf. 19 June 1824; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb. 25 Oct.
1825; eighth wrangler 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839,
D.D. 1859, scholar of his college 1827, fellow 1830–46, tutor
to 1846, president Sept. 1857 to death; R. of Sandon, Essex
1846–57, restored the church; vice-chancellor of Camb. 1861–2;
founded and endowed a scholarship at Queen’s coll. of the annual
value of £40 in 1887; placed a clock called the Phillips clock
in the tower of Otley parish church 1887; author of A brief
treatise on the use of a case of instruments 1823, 2 ed. 1830;
A compendium of algebra 1824; The elements of euclid 1826;
Summation of series by definite integrals 1832; A commentary
on the Psalms, 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1872; Short sermons on old
Messianic texts, Cambridge 1863; Mar Yâkúb’s Scholia on the Old
Testament 1864; Mar Yâkúb’s Letter on Syriac orthography 1869;
A Syriac grammar 1866; The doctrine of Addac the apostle 1876.
_d._ president’s lodge, Queen’s college, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892.
_bur._ Mullingar, co. Westmeath. _Cambridge Review 11 Feb. 1892
p._ 192; _I.L.N. 13 Feb. 1892 p._ 197 _portrait_.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE LORT (1 son of John Lort Phillips, _d._ 1839).
_b._ 4 July 1811; educ. Harrow 1825 etc. and Trin. coll. Camb.;
sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1843; M.P. Pembrokeshire 19 Jany. 1861
to death. _d._ of injuries received while hunting Lawrenny park,
near Pembroke 30 Oct. 1866.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE ROBERT. _b._ 19 Dec. 1820; cornet 5 Madras
cavalry 9 Oct. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Madras staff
corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 18 June 1865; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887.
_d._ Hampstead 24 Jany. 1891.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE SEARLE. _b._ Peterborough Jany. 1816; educ.
Trin coll. Camb.; on staff of the New York World and the Herald
in New York 1836, returned to England 1837; settled at Sturton,
Lincolnshire 1838, a lecturer, removed to Tuxford, Notts.
1842, and to Leeds 1844; second master in school of Mechanics’
institute Leeds 1844; edited the Leeds Times 1845; secretary
of the People’s college at Huddersfield 1846; lecturer to the
Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes and literary societies
1854; on the staff of the Chicago Tribune; literary editor of
the New York Sun some years; confined in the Trenton lunatic
asylum 1873, and in the Morristown asylum New Jersey 1876 to
death; author under the pseudonym January Searle of The life,
character, and genius of Ebenezer Elliott the corn-law rhymer
1850, 2 ed. 1852; Chapters in the history of a life 1850; Leaves
from Sherwood forest 1850; The country sketch book of pastoral
scenes 1851; Memoirs of William Wordsworth 1852; Emerson, his
life and writings 1855; edited The history of Pel Verjuice by C.
R. Pemberton 1853; author of A guide to Peterborough cathedral
1843, 4 ed. 1853; The gypsies of the Danes’ dyke 1864; The
American republic foreshadowed in scripture 1864; Chicago and
her churches 1868; edited with F. R. Lees The truth seeker in
literature 1846–8. _d._ Morristown asylum New Jersey 14 Jany.
1889. _F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds_ (1878) 128;
_Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia_ (1890) 644.
PHILLIPS, GILES FIRMAN. _b._ 1780; painted landscapes in
water-colours, especially views on the Thames; a member of
the new water-colour society; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A.,
10 at B.I., and 50 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–58; author of
Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape
painting 1838, 3 ed. 1840; A practical treatise on drawing and
painting in water-colours 1839. _d._ 31 March 1867.
PHILLIPS, HENRY (son of Richard Phillips, barrister then an
actor, _m._ 1800 Miss Barnett, a singer). _b._ Bristol 13 Aug.
1801; sang soprano parts at the Haymarket and Drury Lane, known
as the singing Roscius 1810–17; a bass in Bishop’s Law of Java
at Covent Garden 11 May 1822, also in Arne’s Artaxerxes 1823;
his voice became baritone; sang the part of Caspar on the first
night of Der Freischutz at Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; took part
in provincial musical festivals; principal bass at the concerts
of ancient music 1825; entered the choir of Bavarian chapel
1825; sang as Hofer in The Tell of the Tyrol at Drury Lane 1830;
in Milner’s Gustave the third at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1833; at
the Lyceum in Loder’s Nourjahad 21 July 1834, and in Barnett’s
Mountain sylph 25 Aug. 1834; gave table entertainments 1843–63;
visited U.S. of America 1844, produced Adventures in America, a
vocal entertainment 1845; sang at Philharmonic concert 15 March
1847; a scena was composed for him by Mendelssohn to words from
Ossian ‘On Lena’s gloomy heath’; retired at a farewell concert
25 Feb. 1863; a teacher of singing in Birmingham and then in
London; composed music to many songs, most popular being The
best of all good company 1840, and Shall I wastynge in despaire;
The emigrant ship 1845; his name is attached to upwards of 50
pieces; author of The true enjoyment of angling with music to
the songs 1843; Hints on declamation 1848. _d._ 192 Dalston
lane, Dalston, London 8 Nov. 1876. _bur._ Woking cemet. _H.
Phillips’s Musical recollections_, 2 _vols._ (1864) _portrait_;
_Actors by daylight ii_ 137 (1838) _portrait_; _The Oddfellow i_
53 (1839) _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 239 (1843) _portrait_; _Era 19
Nov. 1876 p._ 5.
PHILLIPS, HENRY RICHARD. Horse dealer at 44 Cross st. Finsbury,
London 1835–42, and at 9 Albert gate, Knightsbridge 1849 to
death; a very large buyer of horses; held the contract for
supplying horses for the cavalry of the British army; Napoleon
III was one of his best customers and called a favourite horse
Phillips in his honour. _d._ London 10 Sept. 1886.
PHILLIPS, HENRY WYNDHAM (younger son of Thomas Phillips,
portrait painter 1770–1845). _b._ 1820; pupil of his father;
painted a few scriptural subjects 1845–9; painted portraits of
Charles Kean as Louis XI for the Garrick club, Dr. Wm. Prout
for the royal college of physicians, Robert Stephenson for
the Institution of civil engineers and of Nassau Wm. Senior;
secretary of Artists’ general benevolent institution 13 years;
exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–68; his
picture The Magdalen has been engraved by George Zobel and his
Dreamy thoughts by W. J. Edwards. _d._ Hollow Combe, Sydenham,
Kent 8 Dec. 1868. _Athenæum ii_ 802 (1868); _Art Journal_ (1869)
29.
PHILLIPS, JAMES (son of rev. Richard Phillips). _b._ Nevendon,
Essex 22 April 1792; went to U.S. of America 1818; taught in
Harlem, New York; professor of mathematics in univ. of North
Carolina 1826 to death; prepared treatises on algebra, geometry,
trigonometry, and kindred subjects. _d._ Chapel Hill, North
Carolina 16 March 1867.
PHILLIPS, JOHN (son of John Phillips 1769–1808, an officer of
excise). _b._ Marden, Wiltshire 25 Dec. 1800; employed by his
uncle Wm. Smith the geologist in London; arranged the fossils
in the museum at York 1824, keeper of the museum 1824–40, hon.
curator 1840–4; F.G.S. 1828, Wollaston medallist 1845, president
1859–60; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; secretary of York philosophical
society to 1840; assistant secretary of the British Association
1832–59; professor of geology at King’s college London 1834–44,
and at Trin. coll. Dublin 1844–5; employed on the geological
survey 1840–4; matric. from Magdalen coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1853,
M.A. 1853, D.C.L. 13 June 1866; hon. fellow of his college May
1868 to death; deputy at Oxford for Wm. Buckland the professor
of geology 1853–6, reader in geology 1856, professor 1857;
keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford 1854–70; curator of the
new museums at Oxford 1857; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857 and Cambridge
1866; president of British Assoc. 1865; admitted to freedom of
the Turner’s company April 1874; author of Illustrations of
the geology of Yorkshire, 2 vols. 1829–36; A guide to geology
1834; Geological map of the British isles 1842; Memoirs of
William Smith, 2 vols. 1844; Life on the earth, its origin
and succession 1860; Vesuvius 1869; Geology of Oxford and the
valley of the Thames 1871, and of more than a hundred papers
in scientific periodicals. _d._ from the result of a fall on
the staircase All Soul’s college Oxford 24 April 1874. _bur._
the cemetery, York 30 April, bust in museum at Oxford, and
portrait at Geological soc. London. _Geological Mag._ (1870)
301 _portrait_, _and_ (1874) 240; _A. Geikie’s Life of sir R.
I. Murchison i_ 130, _ii_ 106, 374 (1875); _Athenæum 2 May 1874
pp._ 597–8;. _I.L.N. xlvii_ 288 (1865) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 457,
458 (1874) _portrait_; _Graphic ix_ 490, 505 (1874) _portrait_;
_Nature ix_ 510 (1874).
PHILLIPS, JOHN ARTHUR (son of John Phillips, mineral agent
1793–1851). _b._ Polgooth, near St. Austell, Cornwall 18
Feb. 1822; studied at the Ecole des mines, Paris from Dec.
1844, a graduate 1846; employed in a French colliery 1846–8;
mining engineer and consulting metallurgist in London 1848–68;
professor of metallurgy at college for civil engineers Putney
1848–50; went to California 1853, 1865 and 1866; manager of
works of Widnes Metal company at Liverpool 1868–77; F.G.S. 1872,
vice-president to death; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1870; M.C.S. 1847;
F.R.S. 2 June 1881; author of A manual of metallurgy 1852, 3
ed. 1859; Gold mining and assaying 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Records of
mining and metallurgy 1857; Elements of metallurgy 1874, 3 ed.
1891; with W. H. Dorman edited W. Truran’s The iron manufacture
of Great Britain, 2 ed. 1862; and of many papers in scientific
periodicals 1842–86. _d._ 18 Fopstone road, Kensington, London 4
Jany. 1887. _Boase and Courtney’s Bill Cornub. i_ 481–2 (1874),
_iii_ 1312 (1882); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_
481–4 (1887); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. iii–iv_ (1888);
_Academy xxxi_ 29 (1887); _Nature xxxv_ 248 (1887).
PHILLIPS, JOHN JONES. _b._ Wales 1843; educ. Mill hill school,
and at Guy’s hospital 1860; matric. at Univ. of London 1860,
M.B. 1864, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. 1864; L.R.C.P. 1864, M.R.C.P.
1868; assistant obstetric physician at Guy’s 1869; physician
to hospital for sick children and to Royal maternity charity
1869; sec. to the Hunterian and then to the Obstetrical soc.
1871 to death; practised at 26 Finsbury sq. London; joint editor
of Guy’s hospital reports for some time. _d._ 26 Finsbury sq.
London 22 Jany. 1874. _Obstetrical Journal Feb. 1874 pp._ 774–6;
_Lancet 31 Jany. 1874 p._ 182.
PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (only son of David Phillips of Cilgerran,
Pembrokeshire). _b._ Cilgerran 18 June 1844; in a solicitor’s
office at Cardigan; won the prize at Cardigan eisteddfod Aug.
1866 for the best essay on the History of Cilgerran, printed
1867; the first secretary of the Cymrodorion society when
revived in 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1870; deputy associate
on South Wales circuit 1877–80; stipendiary magistrate of West
Ham, near London 22 June 1881 to death, being the first under
the act giving local boards power to appoint magistrates; author
of A list of the sheriffs of Cardiganshire 1868; Memoirs of the
civil war in Wales and the marches, 2 vols. 1874; An attempt
at a concise history of Glamorgan 1879; collated and restored
monuments of Howard family for duke of Norfolk; collected
records for sir W. Harcourt’s commission on city of London 1884.
_d._ The Limes, South Hampstead 3 June 1887. _Bygones in Wales_
(1887) 323; _Law Journal 11 June 1887 p._ 345.
PHILLIPS, JOHN SAMUEL (son of Samuel Phillips, an officer in the
Middle Temple). _b._ in the Middle Temple, London 23 March 1799;
educ. St. Paul’s school 1808–14; law stationer in partnership
with James Taverner Reed of Bishop’s court, Lincoln’s inn;
freeman of the city 1820; a liveryman of the Cooks’ co.; member
of Metropolitan board of works for the Strand district 1857 to
death; member of the court of the Cambridge asylum for soldiers’
widows to death; a founder of the Law writers’ institution and
president 1846 to death. _d._ 54 Euston sq. London 4 Jany. 1879.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. 11 Jany. _Metropolitan 11 Jany. 1879 pp._
26, 29.
PHILLIPS, PHILIP. _b._ 1802 or 1803; pupil of Clarkson
Stanfield; painted dioramas for Surrey theatre 1833–40;
exhibited 17 landscapes at R.A., 24 at B. I., and 42 at Suffolk
st. gallery 1826–65; purchased Duke’s Arms tavern, Upper Lambeth
Marsh, Surrey, where he built the Bower saloon, opened for
musical performances June 1839, from which he retired 1841;
principal scenic artist to Lyceum, Haymarket, and Adelphi
theatres; went with the queen to Ireland 1–12 Aug. 1849,
exhibited a moving diorama of this tour at Chinese gallery,
Hyde Park corner 18 March 1850 to Aug. 1850; painted for Albert
Smith part of the scenery for his entertainment China 1859. _d._
Gloucester house, Larkhall lane, Clapham 29 May 1864. _Era 5
June 1864 p._ 10; _Sunday Times 24 March 1850 p._ 3.
PHILLIPS, RICHARD (son of James Phillips of George yard, Lombard
st. London, printer and bookseller). _b._ London 1778; educ.
as a chemist and druggist under Wm. Allen of Plough court; a
founder of the Askesian soc. 1796, and of Geological soc. 1807;
lecturer on chemistry at London hospital 1817; professor of
chemistry at royal military college, Sandhurst 1818; lecturer
on chemistry at Grainger’s school of medicine, Southwark 1818;
F.R.S. 14 March 1822; chemist and curator of Museum of practical
geology, Jermyn st. London 1839 to death; F.C.S. 1841,
president 1849–50; discovered the true nature of uranite 1823;
edited with E. W. Brayley The annals of philosophy 1821–6; one
of the editors of The philosophical magazine 1827–50; author of
An analysis of the Bath water 1806; An experimental examination
of the last edition of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1811;
Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis
1816; wrote all the chemical articles in the Penny cyclopædia,
and about 70 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 2 Champion
place, Grove lane, Camberwell, London 11 May 1851. _bur._
Norwood cemetery 16 May. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_
(1880) 206; _I.L.N. 14 June 1851 pp._ 547, 548 _portrait_.
PHILLIPS, RICHARD EMPSON (son of a livery stable keeper). _b._
Great Ormond st. Queen sq. London 2 April 1820; in a wine
merchant’s offices 1835; played Edmund Esdale in the Charcoal
burner, Pantheon theatre, Catherine st. May 1840; acted with
Henderson’s company at Ludlow 1840, and in other provincial
towns to 1842; appeared as a negro singer and dancer at theatre
royal, Ipswich Jany. 1843; stage manager Manchester theatre July
1843, played Henry Bertram to Miss Cushman’s Meg Merrilies;
manager of theatres at Sheffield and Chester; acted Iago at
Aberdeen with great success; actor and stage manager Grecian
theatre, London 3 May 1847, where he acted to Sept. 1858 when
he received a testimonial; aided J. W. Anson in establishing
Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 1855; manager for E.
T. Smith of Her Majesty’s theatre Dec. 1860. _Theatrical times 4
Sept. 1847 pp._ 273–4 _portrait_; _The Players 5 Jany. 1861 p._
207–8 _portrait_.
PHILLIPS, ROBERT NEWTON. _b._ 24 June 1815; ensign 53 foot 27
May 1836, captain 12 Jany. 1844; capt. 43 foot 5 Jany. 1844,
lieut. col. 29 July 1853; lieut. col. 94 foot 21 April 1854;
lieut. col. provisional battalion, Chatham 26 Sept. 1854, placed
on h.p. 6 Feb. 1863; col. 65 foot 13 July 1876 to death; general
1 Oct. 1877; served in Caffre war 1851–3, medal. _d._ Pipe
Grange, Lichfield 21 Dec. 1888.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL (3 son of Philip Phillips of 71 St. James’s
st. London, glass manufacturer, _d._ 1837). _b._ 28 Dec. 1814;
recited before duke of Sussex who became his patron; declaimed
Collins’s Ode to the passions at Haymarket theatre; played in
Richard the third at Covent Garden theatre 23 June 1829; studied
at univ. of Gottingen 1835–6; pensioner at Sidney Sussex coll.
Camb. 12 Sept. 1836, left on death of his father early in 1837;
lamp manufacturer with his brother Ralph Phillips at 190 and
223 Regent st. London 1837, they became bankrupt 20 Nov. 1840;
tutor to lord Francis Bruce 1843; wrote two leaders a week for
the Morning Herald 1845–6; wrote literary reviews for the Times
about 1845 to death; secretary to the Richmond association for
support of the farmers who had been injured through fiscal
changes 1845; proprietor and editor of John Bull weekly paper
1845–6; contributed to the Literary gazette 1851–4; LL.D.
Gottingen 1852; literary director of the Crystal palace co. 1853
to death, and treasurer for a time; suggested formation of a
society for promoting Assyrian archæological exploration Aug.
1853; author of Caleb Stukely, 3 vols. 1844 anon. (reprinted
from Blackwood’s Mag.) published with his name 1862; The
literature of the rail 1851; Essays from the Times 1851 anon.;
A second series of essays from the Times 1854 anon.; both
volumes were republished in 1871 as by Samuel Phillips, B.A.
with his portrait; Guide to the Crystal palace and park 1854, 3
ed. 1854; We’re all low people there 1854; Memoir of the duke
of Wellington 1856. _d._ of a rupture of a vessel on the lungs
Brighton 14 Oct. 1854. _bur._ Sydenham church 21 Oct. left about
£11,000. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxxviii_ 129–36 (1855); _Tait’s
Mag. Jany. 1855 pp._ 41–2; _Literary Gazette_ (1854) 906–7;
_G.M. Dec. 1854 pp._ 635–6.
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Phillips of the excise
department). _b._ London 6 July 1760; apprenticed to an
apothecary at Hay in Breconshire; pupil of John Hunter;
M.R.C.S.; surgeon’s mate of the Danae frigate 1780, and
then surgeon of the Hind; entered service of East India co.
1782; inspector of hospitals in colony of Botany Bay 1796–8;
superintendent surgeon Bengal 1802–17; member of Calcutta
medical board to 1817; presented upwards of 20,000 volumes to
St. David’s college, Lampeter, established 6 scholarships at
the college and left by his will £7,000 to found a Phillips’
professorship in natural science; founded the Welsh educational
institution at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire 1847, endowed the
library with £140 a year, gave 7,000 books and left it about
£11,000. _d._ 5 Brunswick sq. London 13 June 1851. _bur._ in
catacombs of St. Pancras church 20 June. _G.M. June 1851 pp._
655–6.
NOTE.--He left £1,000 to Balliol coll. Oxf. and £1,000 to Jesus coll.
to found scholarships for the pupils of the Institution at Llandovery.
PHILLIPS, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Phillips of Llanellan
house, Monmouthshire). _b._ Llanelly, Breconshire 1801;
solicitor in partnership with Thomas Prothero at Newport,
Monmouthshire June 1824 to Jany. 1840; mayor of Newport 1838–9,
read the riot act from the Westgate inn when John Frost entered
the town at the head of 7,000 chartists 4 Nov. 1839, when he
was wounded with slugs in the arm and hip; knighted free of
expense at Windsor castle 9 Dec. 1839; voted freedom of city
of London 26 Feb. 1840, admitted 7 April 1840; barrister I.T.
10 June 1842, bencher 5 May 1865 to death; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1865;
the arbitrator in many law suits; built a church and schools at
Court-y-hella, near Newport for the use of his colliers; member
of the National society 1848; president of council of Society
of arts; author of Wales, the language, social condition, moral
character, and religious opinions of the people considered in
their relation to education 1849; The life of James Davies, a
village schoolmaster 1850, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 77 Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 26 May 1867. _bur._ Llanellan. _J. Morgan’s
Four biographical sketches_ (1892), _Sir T. Phillips pp._
159–79; _A.R._ (1839) 314–6, _and_ (1840) 203–19; _Law Times
xliii_ 48, 110 (1867); _G.M. July 1867 p._ 107.
PHILLIPS, WATTS. _b._ Nov. 1825; the only pupil of George
Cruikshank 1844; resided in Paris 1845–66, with occasional
visits to London; drew the cartoons for Diogenes comic weekly
paper Jany. 1853 to June 1854, and wrote in it under signature
of The ragged philosopher; his book The wild tribes of London
1855 was dramatised by Wm. Travers and produced at City of
London theatre; illustrated several works; wrote for the Daily
news and London journal; author of the following plays, Joseph
Chavigny, Adelphi theatre May 1857; The poor strollers, Adelphi
1858; The dead heart, Adelphi 10 Nov. 1859, revived by Henry
Irving at Lyceum 1893; Paper wings, Adelphi 29 Feb. 1860,
revived at Olympic 15 Feb. 1869; A story of the Forty five,
Drury Lane 12 Nov. 1860; His last victory, St. James’s 21 June
1862; Camilla’s husband, Olympic 14 Dec. 1862, the last piece
in which Robson appeared; Paul’s return, Princess’s 15 Feb.
1864; A woman in mauve, Haymarket 18 March 1865; Theodora,
actress and empress, Surrey 9 April 1866; The Huguenot captain,
Princess’s 2 July 1866; Lost in London, Adelphi 16 March 1867;
Nobody’s child, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867; Maud’s peril, Adelphi 23
Oct. 1867; Land rats and water rats, Surrey 5 Sept. 1868; Not
guilty, Queens 13 Feb. 1869; Fettered, Holborn 17 Feb. 1869;
On the jury, Princess’s 16 Dec. 1871; Amos Clark, Queen’s 19
Oct. 1872; wrote in Town talk a novel entitled The honour of
the family, published under title of Amos Clark or the poor
dependent 1862; wrote many novels in the Family herald and
other periodicals; author of An accommodation bill 1850; The
hooded snake, a story of the secret police 1860; Ida Lee, or
the child of the wreck by Fairfax Balfour 1864; Who will save
her, 3 vols. 1874. _d._ 45 Redcliffe road, West Brompton,
London 3 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 8 Dec. _Watt’s
Phillips, artist and playwright._ _By E. Watts Phillips_ (1891)
_portrait_; _J. Coleman’s Truth about the Dead heart_ (1890);
_Dutton Cook’s Nights at the play_ (1883) 159–62; _Illust.
sporting news vi_ 161 (1867) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 534, 558,
585 (1874) _portrait_; _Saturday Review lxxii_ 728 (1891); _M.
H. Spielman’s History of Punch_ (1895) 56, 589.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1808; civil engineer; inventor
of Phillips’s fire annihilator patented 4 June 1844, 16 April
1849, and 5 Oct. 1865; discovered numerous important scientific
problems; wrote On aërial locomotion by machinery without
gaseous buoyancy, Report of Aëronautical soc. vi 53–4 (1871).
_d._ 119 Linden Grove, Nunhead, Surrey 28 Nov. 1884.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM LOVELL. _b._ Bristol 26 Dec. 1816; chorister
Bristol cathedral 1822–31; pupil at Royal academy of music,
London 1831–8, learning singing from Gaetano Crivelli and the
violoncello and harmony from Charles Lucas; sub-professor of
piano, harmony, and violoncello, professor 1831, associate
honorary member; musical director at Olympic theatre, and at
Princess’s; member of orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre,
Philharmonic soc. and Sacred harmonic soc.; organist St.
Catherine’s collegiate church, Regent’s park; author of New and
complete instruction for the violoncello 1846; composer of The
bridge England, song 1840; As you a nutting go, song 1844; The
ivy green, a song 1844; Soft be thy slumbers, serenade 1846; I’m
a little laughing gipsy 1857; The two rosebuds 1859; his name is
attached to upwards of 70 compositions; under the name of Philip
Lovell he wrote Songs of childhood 1843 and other songs; one
of the best violoncello players of his day. _d._ 67 Oakley sq.
Camden town, London 19 March 1860. _W. W. Cazalet’s History of
royal academy of music_ (1854) 311; _Era 25 March 1860 p._ 10.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM PAGE (eld. son of Wm. Page Thomas Phillips
of Melton Grange, Woodbridge, Suffolk, _b._ 1833). _b._
Brent-bridge house, Hendon, Middlesex 5 Aug. 1858; educ. Eton
1871–7; rowed No. 6 in the Eton eight 1876 and was second
captain of the boats 1877; member of Kingston rowing club
stroked their eight and four at Henley regatta 1877; ran 150
yards in 15 seconds at Lillie Bridge and 120 yards twice in 12
seconds at Stamford Bridge 22 May 1880; ran 440 yards in 49
seconds at Aston ground 16 July 1881, 120 yards in 11 seconds
at Stamford bridge 25 March 1882, and 300 yards in 32 seconds
at Stamford bridge 20 May 1882, these five performances were
all bests on record; lieutenant West Suffolk militia 18 March
1882 to death. _d._ 26 March 1884. _bur._ Woodbridge 1 April.
_Sporting Mirror Oct. 1881 pp._ 85–8 portrait; _Illust. sp. and
dr. news 5 April 1884 p._ 72, _19 April pp._ 113, 120 _portrait_.
PHILLOTT, CHARLES GEORGE RODNEY. _b._ 1782; entered navy
27 Jany. 1794; served on board the Amphion 32 guns in the
Mediterranean 1802–10, shewing great gallantry in many attacks
on the enemy; in command of the Primrose 18 guns, served in the
Mediterranean, the North sea, and America 1810–18, retired 1
Oct. 1846; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862.
_d._ 39 Hans place, Chelsea 11 March 1863.
PHILLOTT, FRANCIS (youngest son of James Phillott 1749–1815,
rector of Stanton Priors, Somerset). _b._ Stanton Priors 29 Oct.
1821; educ. Winchester and St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844,
M.A. 1861; C. of Saltford, Cambs. 1845–52; domestic chaplain to
earl of Normanton 1853–9; C. of Huntley, Gloucs. 1865–6; C. of
Lolworth, Cambs. 1872–7. author of A litany hymn for the use
of church schools 1862; The textual witness to the truth and
divine authority of the Pentateuch 1863; Sacred memories, the
Athanasian creed metrically pharaphrased 1870. _d._ 9 Pierpont
place, Dawlish 4 Sept. 1878.
PHILLOTT, HENRY WRIGHT (3 son of Johnson Phillott of Whitcombe,
Gloucs. _b._ 1816; educ. Charterhouse 1827–33, and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., student 1835–51; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; assistant master
Charterhouse; R. of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire 1850–87;
rural dean of Weobly 1854–87; prebendary of Hereford 1864;
chancellor of choir of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death;
resident canon of Hereford 1887 to death; wrote the beautiful
Carmen Carthusianum, which was set to music by Wm. Horsley;
author with W. L. Bevan of Mediæval geography, an essay in
illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi 1873; author of
Selections from English prose writers 1849; Hereford 1888 in
Diocesan histories. _d._ The precincts, Hereford 4 Dec. 1895.
_Guardian 11 Dec. 1895 p._ 1908.
PHILLPOTTS, ARTHUR THOMAS (son of succeeding). _b._ 23 May
1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834, colonel 15 Dec. 1864, col.
commandant 26 Nov. 1880 to death; commanded the R.A. at
Aldershot 1 March 1865 to 6 June 1867 and 1 July 1871 to 18
April 1873; inspector general of artillery at head quarters 1
April 1877 to 31 Aug. 1880; M.G. 6 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 23 May 1882.
_d._ Lawhitton rectory, near Launceston 2 Sept. 1890.
PHILLPOTTS, HENRY (2 son of John Phillpotts, brick factor at
Bridgwater, afterwards landlord of the Bell inn, Gloucester
1744–1814). _b._ Bridgwater 6 May 1778; educ. Gloucester college
school; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 7 Nov. 1791; B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1778, B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of Magdalen coll. 25
July 1795 to 27 Oct. 1804, hon. fellow 2 Feb. 1862 to death;
prælector of moral philosophy 25 July 1800; one of the examiners
for honours 1802 and 1803; select preacher before the univ.
Nov. 1804; V. of Kilmarsdon, near Bath 1 Sept. 1804 to April
1806; R. of Stainton-le-Street, Durham 24 Dec. 1805; chaplain
to bishop of Durham 1806–26; V. of Bishop Middleham, Durham
24 July 1805 to 1808; R. of Gateshead 10 May 1808, master of
Gateshead hospital 12 May 1808; held ninth prebendal stall in
Durham cathedral 24 July 1809, the second stall 30 Dec. 1815
to 20 Sept. 1820, and the sixth stall 22 Jany. 1831 to death;
chaplain of St. Margaret, Durham 28 Sept. 1810; rector of
Stanhope-on-the-Wear, Durham 20 Sept. 1820 to Jany. 1831, with
an income of £4,000, built a parsonage at cost of £12,000; dean
of Chester 13 May 1828; bishop of Exeter 22 Nov. 1830 to death,
consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 2 Jany. 1831, installed 14
Jany.; visitor of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1831 to death; treasurer of
Exeter cathedral 27 Jany. 1831; prebendary of Exeter 27 Feb.
1831; carried on successful lawsuits against rev. John Shore
1843, and rev. H. E. Head 1838; refused to institute rev. G.
C. Gorham to living of Brampford Speke 1847, Gorham appealed
to the privy council and was instituted 8 March 1850, this
matter was discussed in 35 publications; spent about £25,000 in
litigation; gave £10,000 to found a theological coll. at Exeter;
supported Miss Sellon’s sisterhood at Devonport 1852; presented
his library to the clergy of Cornwall, library opened Truro
1871; executed the resignation of his see 9 Sept. 1869, which
did not take effect on account of his death; author of Letters
to C. Butler on his Book of the Roman catholic church 1822; A
letter to G. Canning on catholic emancipation 1827, 6 ed. 1827;
A letter to an English layman on the coronation oath 1828; A
letter to the archbishop of Canterbury 1850, this letter, in
which he excommunicates the archbishop, refers chiefly to the
Gorham case; A pastoral letter on the present state of the
church 1851, 8 ed. 1851; Correspondence with T. B. Macaulay on
statements in his History of England 1860; his name is attached
to upwards of 75 publications to many of which replies were
printed. _d._ at Bishopstowe palace, Torquay 18 Sept. 1869.
_bur._ St. Mary’s, Torquay. _R. N. Shutte’s Life of right rev.
Henry Phillpotts_, _vol._ 1 (1863) _portrait_; _Annual register_
(1869) 162–4; _Edinburgh Rev. Jany. 1852 pp._ 59–94; _Portraits
of eminent conservatives_ 1834 _portrait xx_; _Church of England
photograph portrait gallery_ 1859 _portrait xii_; _Illust. News
of the world_ 1861, _vol. viii_, _portrait xxvii_; _F. Arnold’s
Our bishops and deans i_ 180–206 (1875); _I.L.N. ii_ 191 (1843)
_portrait_, _lv_ 300, 302 (1869) _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s by
Mask_ (1839) 173–82; _The Church goer_, _Bristol_ (1847) 242–52.
PHILLPOTTS, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Bishop
Middleham, Durham 27 Jany. 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A.
1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Uny Lelant with Towednack, Cornwall 4
Nov. 1831 to Sept. 1832; V. of Grimley, Worcs. Sept. 1832 to
1845; prebendary of Exeter 21 Nov. 1840; archdeacon of Cornwall
6 Jany. 1845 to death; V. of Gluvias with Budock, Cornwall 25
March 1845 to death; chancellor of diocese of Exeter Oct. 1860
to death; precentor of Exeter cathedral 1870; author of An
answer to the infidels, a charge to the clergy 1864; Reply to
canon Farrar’s Eternal hope 1878. _d._ St. Gluvias vicarage 10
July 1888.
PHILP, ELIZABETH (elder dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Falmouth
17 Jany. 1825; studied singing under Manuel Garcia and Madame
Marchesi, and composition under Dr. Ferdinand Hiller of Cologne;
a teacher of singing in London; author of How to sing an English
ballad 1869, 4 ed. 1870; composer of O, had I the voice of a
bird 1855; I once had a sweet little doll 1867; Lillie’s good
night 1870; At rest 1884; her name is attached to 150 pieces
of music. _d._ 67 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London
26 Nov. 1885. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1878–82)
487–91, 1313; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 735, 1808; _F.
Hays’ Women of the day_ (1885) 159.
PHILP, JAMES (son of Robert Kemp Philp, unitarian minister
1769–1850). _b._ Falmouth 4 Oct. 1800; printer and publisher
Falmouth to 1836, and at Bristol 1836–46; compiled A Panorama of
Falmouth 1827, printed it himself and bound a copy with his own
hands, which he presented to the duke of Clarence 1827; edited
The christian child’s faithful friend 1829, which ran for some
years; printed The selector or Cornish magazine, 4 vols. 1826–9,
and The Falmouth packet 1829 etc. which he for sometime edited;
celebrated his golden wedding 24 May 1874. _d._ 164 Tuffnell
park road, London 23 April 1887. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub._ (1878–82) 491, 1313.
PHILP, ROBERT KEMP (son of Henry Philp of Falmouth 1793–1836).
_b._ Falmouth 14 June 1819; employed by a printer at Bristol
1835; a newsvendor at Bath; placed in the stocks for selling
a Sunday newspaper; edited with Henry Vincent The national
vindicator, a Bath weekly paper 1838–42; a Chartist lecturer
1839; member of executive committee of the Chartists 1841–3; a
delegate to the conference called by Joseph Sturge at Birmingham
27 Dec. 1842; a member of the national convention which sat
in London from 12 April 1842, drew up the monster petition
signed by 3,300,000 persons in favour of the confirmation of
the charter, which was presented 2 May 1842; contributed to The
Sentinel from its commencement 7 Jany. 1843; publisher at Great
New st. Fetter lane, London 1845; sub-editor of The People’s
journal 1846–8; edited The Family friend, a monthly periodical,
afterwards fortnightly and weekly 1850–5; The family tutor
1851–3, Home companion 1852–6, and The Family treasury 1853–4;
Diogenes, a weekly comic paper 1853–4; author of Enquire within
upon everything 1856 etc. of which more than a million copies
were sold; Notices to correspondents 1856; The reason why
1856; wrote The successful candidate, a two-act comedy 1852;
The mountain rill 1850, and four other songs by him were set
to music; his name as author and editor is attached to upwards
of 40 publications. _d._ 21 Claremont sq. Islington 30 Nov.
1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca
Cornubiensis_ (1874–82) 492–5 _and_ 1313; _The family treasury
vol._ 1 (1853) _portrait_.
PHILPOT, BENJAMIN. _b._ Laxfield, Suffolk 9 Jany. 1791; educ.
Christ’s coll. Camb.; senior optime and B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815;
fellow of Christ’s 1814; C. of Walpole, Suffolk 1815; archdeacon
and vicar-general of Isle of Man 22 May 1832 to 1839; R. of
Great Cressingham with Bodney, Norfolk 1839–59; V. of Lydney,
Gloucs. 1859–71; R. of Dennington, Suffolk 1871–3; author of
Ruth, six lectures 1854; Orpah and Ruth or nature and grace
1855; Nine lectures on the second advent of Christ 1866. _d._
Mona lodge, Oak hill, Surbiton 28 May 1889. _bur._ Lydney.
_Times 3 June 1889 p._ 12.
PHILPOTT, HENRY (younger son of Richard Philpott of Chichester).
_b._ Chichester 17 Nov. 1807; educ. Chichester cathedral school
and St. Catherine’s hall Cambridge, fellow 1829, assistant
tutor, tutor, master 1845–60, hon. fellow 1887 to death; senior
wrangler and 14th classic 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839,
D.D. 1847; second Smith’s prizeman 1830; junior proctor 1834–5;
Whitehall preacher 1837–9; examining chaplain to bishop of Ely
1844; canon of Norwich 1845–60; vice-chancellor of Cambridge
1846–7 and 1856–8; chaplain to prince Albert, chancellor of
Cambridge 1848–60; bishop of Worcester 7 Jany. 1861, consecrated
25 March 1861, resigned Aug. 1890; vice-chairman of Cambridge
univ. commission 1877, chairman 1878; provincial chaplain
of Canterbury; clerk of closet in ordinary to the queen 26
June 1865 to death; admitted to honorary freedom and livery
of Salter’s company 13 Dec. 1876; prosecuted R. W. Enraght,
vicar of Holy Trinity, Birmingham for ritualistic practices
1879; edited Documents relating to St. Catherine’s college
1861; author of ten triennial charges 1862–89. _d._ The Elms,
Cambridge 10 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s church, Hartlebury,
Worcs. 15 Jany. _Church portrait journal iv_ 65 (1883)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxviii_ 303, 322 (1861) _portrait_, _and
16 Jany. 1892 p._ 70 _portrait_; _Graphic 6 Sept. 1890 p._ 271
_portrait_; _Times 11 Jany. 1892 p._ 7.
PHIN, KENNETH MACLEAY (son of the minister of Wick). _b._
Wick 1816; educ. Edinb. univ., D.D. 1869; parish minister
of Galashiel 1841–69; a strong supporter of the Established
church, opposed Dr. Robert Lee’s alterations in the forms and
services of the church; convenor of the army and navy chaplains’
committee 1863, and of the home mission committee 1869 to death;
took up his residence in Edinb. 1871; assessor in the university
court 1867; moderator in the general assembly of the church
1877; author of Scottish episcopacy the pioneer of popery 1856.
_d._ 13 Chalmers st. Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1888. _The Times 13
Jany. 1888 p._ 6; _Scotsman 13 Jany. 1888 pp._ 4, 5.
PHINN, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Phinn, surgeon). _b._ Bath
1814; educ. Eton, captain of the school, and Exeter coll. Oxf.,
scholar 1836; B.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840, bencher
1854 to death; Q.C. with patent of precedence July 1854;
recorder of Portsmouth July 1848 to Jany. 1852; recorder of
Devonport Jany. 1852 to May 1855; a commissioner to investigate
the St. Alban’s bribery case 1851; M.P. Bath 1852–5; contested
Bath 2 May 1859; contested Devonport 12 July 1865; presented
with a silver tea and coffee service by the working men at the
guildhall, Bath 29 Nov. 1859; counsel to board of stamps and
taxes in the exchequer Feb. 1852; counsel to admiralty and
advocate of the fleet April or May 1854; second secretary to
admiralty May 1855, resigned April 1857; reappointed counsel to
admiralty Nov. 1863. _d._ 50 Pall Mall, London 31 Oct. 1866.
_Law Times xlii_ 157 (1866); _I.L.N. 19 Feb. 1853 p._ 152
_portrait_.
PHIPPEN, JAMES. _b._ 1785 or 1786; author of An account of the
planting of the Royal Victoria grove at Tunbridge Wells 1835;
The road guide from London to Tunbridge Wells 1836; Colbran’s
New guide to Tunbridge Wells 1840; Descriptive sketch of
Rochester, Chatham and their vicinities 1862. _d._ 29 July 1862.
PHIPPS, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (4 son of first earl Mulgrave
1755–1831). _b._ The Admiralty, London 18 Oct. 1809; educ.
Harrow 1820–7 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1831; R. of
Halesworth, Suffolk 1834–9; R. of Boxford 1839–53; R. of Euston
with Fakenham Parva and Barnham 1851–82, all in Suffolk; rural
dean of Blackburne 1862–83; chaplain in ordinary to the queen
18 June 1847 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1875 to death. _d._ 27
Eaton square, London 27 Jany. 1896.
PHIPPS, SIR CHARLES BEAUMONT (2 son of 1 earl Mulgrave
1755–1831). _b._ Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 27 Dec. 1801; educ.
Harrow 1813–18; ensign Scots fusilier guards 17 Aug. 1820,
lieut. col. 26 May 1837, placed on h.p. 22 Jany. 1847; brevet
colonel 11 Nov. 1851; secretary to his brother, first marquess
of Normanby, when governor of Jamaica 1832–4; steward of his
brother’s household when lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9;
secretary to master general of the ordnance; equerry to the
queen 1 Aug. 1846; private secretary to prince consort 1 Jany.
1847, and treasurer; keeper of the queen’s privy purse 10 Oct.
1849; treasurer and cofferer to prince of Wales 10 Oct 1849;
receiver-general of duchy of Cornwall 26 May 1862 to death; one
of the council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863 to death; secretary
to prince of Wales as steward of Scotland 8 Feb. 1864; C.B. 6
Sept. 1853, K.C.B. 19 Jany. 1858; _m._ 25 June 1835 Margaret
Anne, 2 dau. of Henry Bathurst, archdeacon of York, she was
granted civil list pension of £150, 23 March 1866, and _d._ 13
April 1874. _d._ Ambassador’s court, St. James’s palace 24 Feb.
1866. _bur._ in catacombs of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 2
March. _Full account of the presentation of a service of plate
to the hon. col. C. B. Phipps in the town hall Scarbro’ Nov. 12,
1841, containing col. Phipps’ speech Scarbro’_ 1841; _G.M. April
1866 pp._ 587–8; _I.L.N. xlii_ 399, 400 (1862) _portrait_.
PHIPPS, CHARLES PAUL (youngest son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps
1771–1841). _b._ Leighton house, near Westbury, Wilts. 26 Sept.
1815; a merchant at Liverpool; M.P. Westbury 27 Feb. 1869 to 26
Jany. 1874; contested Westbury 3 Feb. 1874; sheriff of Wiltshire
1875. _d._ Chalcott, near Westbury 8 June 1880.
PHIPPS, EDMUND (brother of sir C. B. Phipps 1801–66). _b._
the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and
Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June
1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to
death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered
estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection
of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary
crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety
in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin
reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into
English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and
acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words
on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason
1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850;
A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies
between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. _d._ 43 Wilton
crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. _Waagen’s Treasures
of art ii_ 226–29 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 687 (1857).
PHIPPS, EDWARD JAMES (brother of Charles Paul Phipps 1815–80).
_b._ 1806; educ. Exeter coll. Oxf.,B.A. 1828; R. of Devizes
1833–53; R. of Stansfield, Suffolk 1853 to death; author of
Short and easy answers, or a Sunday school catechism of the
history and doctrines of the Old Testament 1832; A catechism
on the Holy Scriptures 1850, 2 ed. 1860; The real question
as to altar lights 1865. _d._ Stansfield 22 May 1884. _bur._
Stansfield 27 May.
PHIPPS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ 27 March 1807; with R. Stephenson and
co. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1828; with R. Stephenson chalked out the
sketch of the Rocket on the floor; employed at the Eyre Arms
tavern, London on the drawings of London and Birmingham railway,
made the Roade and Kilsby section; assistant to I. K. Brunel 2
years; manager for Alexander, Gordon and Co. in construction of
beacons and lighthouses; again connected with R. Stephenson in
examining wells in Liverpool and on works in Egypt; engineer of
Western railway of Switzerland 1852; remodelled bridge over the
Wear, Sunderland 1872; delivered a series of lectures at Chatham
military school on practical engineering; M.I.C.E. 14 April
1840, Telford medal and premium 1864. _d._ 39 Stockwell park
road, Surrey 11 Dec. 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xcvi_ 330–3 (1889).
PHIPPS, PAUL (3 son of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton house,
Wiltshire). _b._ 18 Jany. 1789; cornet 1 dragoons 9 June 1804,
major 19 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 27 Oct. 1829; served in the
Peninsular war and at Waterloo; brevet lieut. col. 27 Oct. 1829;
lieut. col. 3 dragoon guards 15 Sept. 1838, but sold out same
day; K.H. 1836. _d._ Berrywood, Hampshire 22 Nov. 1858.
PHIPPS, PICKERING (son of Edward Phipps, brewer, _d._ 1830).
_b._ Bridge st. Northampton 14 March 1827; apprentice to a
draper; senior partner in P. and R. Phipps, brewers, Northampton
and Towcester, afterwards formed into a limited liability co.;
member of Northampton town council 1834; mayor of Northampton
1858 and 1866; chairman of Northampton school board; M.P.
Northampton 7 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Northampton
5 April 1880; M.P. Northamptonshire South 15 Feb. 1881 to 18
Nov. 1885; contested Northamptonshire, Midland division 2
Dec. 1885; purchased the Horton estate for £49,000 in 1887;
president of the Farmers’ alliance. _d._ Collingtree Grange,
Northamptonshire 14 Sept. 1890. _bur._ Collingtree 17 Sept.
_I.L.N. 27 Sept 1890 p._ 390 _portrait_; _Northampton Mercury 19
Sept. 1890 p._ 6.
NOTE.--A church erected by his family at cost of £40,000 in Kingsley
park, Northampton, was dedicated by the bishop of Peterborough as a
memorial to him 21 Sept. 1893.
PHIPSON, THOMAS WEATHERLEY. _b._ 1807; practised as special
pleader; barrister L.I. 10 June 1845, bencher 1862 to death;
went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862. _d._ Southampton 15 Jany.
1875. _Solicitors’ Journal xix_ 239 (1875).
PHIPSON, WILSON WEATHERLEY (3 son of Samuel Ryland Phipson
of the Cedars, Putney). _b._ Ladywood, near Birmingham 31
Aug. 1838; educ. Brussels 1847, and at Ecole des Ponts et
chaussées, Paris 1857; assisted Van Hecke of Brussels to warm
and ventilate the hospitals Neckar and Beaujon, Paris; an
engineer London 1859, warmed and ventilated baron Rothschild’s
residence Piccadilly and his offices in St. Swithin’s lane, the
Albert hall, the Natural history museum, Exeter hall, Criterion
theatre, etc.; ventilated Birmingham town hall 1891; A.I.C.E.
12 Jany. 1869, M.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1878; engineer at 14 John st.
Adelphi, resided at Long Clawson, Leicester. _d._ Putney 21 Oct.
1891. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cviii_ 406–8 (1892); _W.
W. Phipson, a memoir_ (1892).
PICCOPE, GEORGE JOHN (1 son of John Piccope, P.C. of St. Paul’s,
Manchester). _b._ Manchester 1818; educ. Manchester free gr.
sch. 1831 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; Hulme exhibitioner 1841;
B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Brindle near Chorley 1849–64; C. of
Yarwell, Northants 1864 to death; he edited for the Chetham soc.
Lancashire and Cheshire wills, 3 vols. 1857–61, and transcribed
Lancashire and Cheshire wills, new series, vol. 3, 1884; for the
Record Society with J. Piccope he edited An index to the wills
and inventories at Chester, vol. 2, 1879. _d._ Yarwell 22 Feb.
1872. _Admission register_, _Manchester school iii_ 239 (1874).
PICKARD, ARTHUR FREDERICK (3 son of J. H. W. Pickard of
Southampton). _b._ 12 April 1841; lieut. R.A. 22 June 1858,
major 16 Oct. 1878 to death; served in New Zealand during wars
of 1860–1 and 1863–4, V.C. 22 Sept. 1864 for gallant conduct
during assault on Rangiriri 20 Nov. 1863 in rendering assistance
to the wounded while under fire; C.B. 15 March 1879; equerry to
prince Arthur. _d._ Cannes 1 March 1880. _bur._ Cannes 4 March.
_R. W. O’Byrne’s The Victoria Cross_ (1880) 40, 71.
PICKARD, BENJAMIN SPENCER (son of James Pickard, captain R.N.).
_b._ 1821; sub-lieutenant R.N. 3 Nov. 1837, captain 12 Dec.
1863, retired 7 March 1875; retired R.A. 2 Aug. 1879, retired
V.A. 1 July 1885; served during operations in river Plate
1845–6, and in Russian war 1854–5. _d._ 34 Blessington road,
Lee, Kent 12 Aug. 1890.
PICKERING, BASIL MONTAGU (only son of Wm. Pickering 1796–1854).
_b._ 1835; a godson of Basil Montagu the author; employed by
James Toovey the bookseller; publisher and dealer in rare books
at 196 Piccadilly, London 1858 to death; published Swinburne’s
Queen Mother and Rosamund 1860; Locker’s London lyrics 1862; J.
H. Frere’s Works 1872; Cardinal Newman’s Miscellaneous writings
1875–7; and a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Milton’s
Paradise Lost collated by B. M. Pickering 1873; author of Lord
Selborne’s letter to The Times on the Public worship regulation
bill and an answer by A Layman 1874. _d._ 196 Piccadilly, London
8 Feb. 1878. _Bookseller March 1878 p._ 210; _Athenæum i_ 221
(1878).
PICKERING, EDWARD HAYES (eld. son of Edward Rowland Pickering).
_b._ 1809; educ. Eton 1817–26, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830,
M.A. 1833, fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833; assistant master
Eton Jany. 1830 to death; was ordained in 1830; played at Lord’s
in Harrow _v._ Eton 30 July 1824, also in 1825 and 1826; an
elegant batsman; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players 1844 etc. _d._
Eton 19 May 1852. _bur._ in the school chapel. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores i_ 500 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _G.M. July
1852 pp._ 97–8.
PICKERING, EDWARD ROWLAND. _b._ 1778; solicitor in London in
partnership with George Andree 1800, practised alone 1801–11,
in partnership with George Smith 1811–32, and with George Smith
and Edward Tompson at 4 Stone buildings, Lincoln’s inn 1832 to
death; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June
1845 to death, vice-president 1845–6, president 1846–7. _d._
Clapham old town, Clapham 29 Nov. 1859.
PICKERING, GEORGE. _b._ Yorkshire 1794 or 1795; succeeded George
Cuitt junior as a drawing-master in Chester; non-resident
member of the Liverpool academy 1827, where he exhibited many
water-colour pictures; drew the landscapes that are engraved
by E. F. Finden in Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire 2 series
1829–31, and many of the landscapes engraved in Ormerod’s
History of Cheshire 1819, and in Baines’s History of the county
palatine of Lancaster 1824; an artist and teacher of drawing at
Birkenhead; exhibited 4 landscapes at Suffolk st. London 1827–8.
_d._ Grange Mount, Birkenhead 8 March 1857.
PICKERING, PERCIVAL ANDREE (2 son of Edward Rowland Pickering
1778–1859). _b._ London 1811; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A., 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833–41;
barrister I.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 1855 to death; went northern
circuit; recorder of Pontefract March 1853 to March 1865;
Q.C. July 1855; judge of Passage court at Liverpool 1867 to
death; queen’s attorney and serjeant within county palatine of
Lancaster 1868 to death; author of Remarks on a report of the
house of commons on the publication of printed papers 1838;
Remarks on treating and matters relating to the election of
members of parliament 1849; An essay of friendship 1875; he also
wrote in the Eton miscellany in 1827. _d._ suddenly while riding
in a carriage at Dover 7 Aug. 1876. _bur._ in Kensal green
cemetery. _Law Times lxi_ 301 (1876); _Solicitors’ Journal xx_
807 (1876).
PICKERING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; apprentice to John and Arthur
Arch, booksellers, Cornhill 1810–18; assistant to Longmans
Jany. to June 1818; assistant to John Cuthell 4 Middle Row,
Holborn June 1818 to 1820; bookseller 29½ Lincoln’s inn fields
1820–3; commenced publishing his Diamond classics printed by
Charles Corrall in 24 volumes 1821–31; brought out the Greek
testament 1828 and Homer’s works 1830 in diamond Greek type;
adopted the Aldine emblem with the motto Aldi discip Anglus
about 1830, removed to 57 Chancery Lane 1823; brought out
reprints of English poets; published Basil Montagu’s Bacon,
Nicolas’s Walton and the Bridgewater Treatises; had books bound
in red cloth in place of red paper boards which revolutionised
bookbinding about 1825; publisher at 177 Piccadilly 1842 to
death; published books for S. T. Coleridge, Alexander Dyce,
Joseph Hunter, J. M. Kemble, and sir Harris Nicolas; issued
reprints of the various versions of the Prayer book between 1549
and 1662 in 6 vols. 1844, which are remarkably fine specimens
of typography; published Catalogue of biblical, classical, and
historical manuscripts and of rare and curious books 1834; the
Aldine edition of the English poets in 53 vols. 1835–53, and
Christian classics 12 vols. 1849; became involved in debt. _d._
5 Wellington place, Turnham Green, Middlesex 27 April 1854,
left his family destitute. _Cowtan’s_ _Memories of the British
museum_ (1872) 325–6; _Willis’s Current notes_ (1855) 43; _N.
and Q. 2 Feb. 1895 p._ 83.
PICKERING, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816,
colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired
full pay as M.G. _d._ Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863.
PICKERSGILL, _Henry Hall_ (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1812;
studied abroad some years; a painter in London, afterwards in
the north of England; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 8 at
B.I. 1834–62; his picture The right of sanctuary is in the South
Kensington museum. _d._ 20 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London
7 Jany. 1861.
PICKERSGILL, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Dec. 1782; adopted
by Mr. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who placed
him in his own business 1799; pupil of George Arnald, A.R.A.
1802–5; a student in the R.A. 1805, A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1826,
retired R.A. 1873, librarian 1856 to death; exhibited 384
pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1806–72; many of his portraits
and subject-pictures were engraved; painted portraits of nearly
all the most celebrated people of his time; his portraits of
Bentham, Godwin, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, George Stephenson,
sir Thomas Talfourd, and Wordsworth are in the National portrait
gallery. _d._ Barnes, Surrey 21 April 1875. _J. Sherer’s Gallery
of British artists ii_ 42–44 (1880); _Sandby’s History of Royal
Academy ii_ 47 (1862); _I.L.N. lxvi_ 456, 547 (1875) _portrait_;
_Graphic xi_, 436, 450 (1875) _portrait_.
PICKERSGILL, JEANNETTE CAROLINE. _b._ 1814; _m._ H. H.
Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in
literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation
society. _d._ 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20
March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first
person cremated there 26 March 1885. _Transactions of Cremation
soc._ (1885) 49; _Times 27 March 1885 p._ 10.
PICKFORD, THOMAS. _b._ 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13;
attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the
Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5
July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy
30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832;
consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a
Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath
in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn]
2 vols. 1864. _d._ Paris 24 June 1865. _Times 24 June 1865 p._
9, _26 June p._ 6; _Foreign office list_, _second ed. 1865 p._
168.
PICKNELL, GEORGE. _b._ Green farm, Chalvington, 13 miles from
Brighton 29 Nov. 1813; a farmer at Chalvington; played in Sussex
_v._ Nottingham 1835; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._
Sussex 19 June 1837; for 20 years a member of the Sussex eleven;
a hard hitter, playing back, bowled fast and ripping, raising
his hand to near his ear; in 2 matches in July 1850 carried
out his bat in all four innings, in the last innings went in
first and saw his whole side out; a match the United _v._ the
Gentlemen of Sussex was played for his benefit 21 Aug. 1856.
_d._ Chalvington 26 Feb. 1863. _W. Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 64;
_Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862).
PICKNELL, ROBERT. _b._ Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the
Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Sussex
19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb
hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852.
_d._ Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Chalvington. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862).
PICTON, SIR JAMES ALLANSON (son of Wm. Pickton, timber
merchant). _b._ Highfield st. Liverpool 2 Dec. 1805; employed
by Daniel Stewart architect and surveyor 1826, a partner
1830, succeeded him 1 Jany. 1835, retired 1866; executed some
important buildings in and near Liverpool; a leading authority
on land arbitration; a local preacher among the Wesleyans to
1848; member of Liverpool town council 1849 to death; member of
Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 Jany. 1849; obtained
a public library for Liverpool 1852, the first chairman of
the library and museum committee 1851 to death, the Picton
reading room was started by the corporation 1879; a member of
the Wavertree local board 1851, chairman of the board 1852;
originated the YZ club at Liverpool 12 members only 1870;
kept his golden wedding 28 April 1878; knighted at Osborne 18
Aug. 1881; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; edited The Watchman’s Lantern,
intended to throw light on the proceedings of the Wesleyan
Methodist conference 17 Dec. 1834 to 18 Nov. 1835, twenty eight
numbers; Selections from the Liverpool municipal archives and
records, 2 vols. 1883–6; author of The architectural history
of Liverpool 1858; Baronies of Forth and Bargey, Wexford, the
antique dialect of the district 1866; Memorials of Liverpool,
2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1875; and of about 60 papers in the
transactions of learned societies. _d._ Sandyknowe, Wavertree,
near Liverpool 15 July 1889. _bur._ Toxteth park cemet., bust
by McBride in Liverpool free library. _Sir J. A. Picton by J.
A. Picton, M.P._ (1891) 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq.
xiii_ 137 (1889–91); _Biograph Oct. 1880 pp._ 380–5.
PIDDING, HENRY JAMES (son of Mr. Pidding of 1 Cornhill, London,
stationer and lottery-office keeper). _b._ London 1797; painted
humorous subjects from domestic life; exhibited 21 pictures at
R.A., 42 at B.I., and 177 at Suffolk street 1818–64; member of
Society of British artists 1843; painted a large picture of
The gaming rooms at Homburg 1860; some of his pictures were
engraved, several of them by himself in mezzotint; etched a
series of six illustrations to The rival demons, an anonymous
poem 1836. _d._ Greenwich 13 June 1864.
PIDDINGTON, HENRY (2 son of James Piddington of Uckfield). _b._
1797; commanded a ship in the mercantile marine; curator of the
museum of economic geology in Calcutta about 1830; sub-secretary
of the Asiatic soc. of Bengal about 1830; president of marine
court of inquiry at Calcutta about 1845; coroner of Calcutta
about 1849 to death; author of The horn-book of storms for the
Indian and China seas 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The sailor’s horn-book
for the law of storms 1848, 6 ed. 1876, in which he proposed the
word cyclone as a name for whirling storms which was accepted
by meteorologists; Conversations about hurricanes for the use
of plain sailors 1852. _d._ Calcutta 7 April 1858. _Journal of
Asiatic society of Bengal_ (1839) 559, (1859) 64.
PIDGEON, HENRY CLARKE. _b._ March 1807; an artist and teacher
of drawing in London to 1847, and 1851 to death, also at
Liverpool 1847–51; professor of school of drawing at the
Liverpool institute a short time; member of Liverpool academy
1847, non-resident member 1850–65, secretary 1850; exhibited
4 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., 15 at Suffolk st. 1838–53, and
about 50 at Liverpool academy; founded with Joseph Mayer and
Abraham Hume the Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire
1848, an honorary member 7 May 1851, joint secretary with Hume
till Jany. 1851, contributed many lithographs and etchings to
the society’s publications; associate of Institute of painters
in water-colours 1846, member 1861; president of the Sketching
club, _d._ 39 Fitroy road, Regent’s park, London 6 Aug. 1880.
_Journal of British archæol. assoc. xxxvi_ 355 (1880).
PIERCE OR PEIRCE, EARL HORTON. _b._ New York 1823; appeared with
Raymond’s circus at Philadelphia; joined Dan Emmet’s minstrel
party at Franklin theatre, New York 1842; joined E. P. Christy’s
minstrels; came to England in 1856; member of the Christy
minstrels St. James’s hall, London, where he became well known
by singing a song entitled Hoop de-dooden-do. _d._ suddenly in
the Holloway road, London from effusion of serum on the brain 5
June 1859, inquest 7 June.
PIERCE, EVAN. _b._ 1808; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1836; L.S.A. London
1836; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews
1844; mayor of Denbigh; coroner for county of Denbigh about 1831
to death; during the cholera in 1832 he was most active in his
exertions; a column with a statue raised in his honor at Denbigh
23 Nov. 1876. _d._ Salusbury place, Denbigh 15 March 1895. _Y
Darlunydd, Carnarvon Dec. 1876 pp._ 1–2 _portrait and view of
column_; _Lancet 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 821.
PIERCE, JAMES HART, stage name of James Hart Glen. _b._ Leith,
near Edinburgh 1856; a clerk; a gymnast, had a serious fall at
South of England music hall, Portsmouth; partner with. Mike
Mac as a gymnastic clown and pantomimist; music hall comedian;
partner with George Monaghan to 1889; went to South Africa with
Luscombe Searelle’s No. 6 company 1893; _m._ 1892 as his 2 wife
Fanny Robina, widow of Frederick Stanislaus, musical composer.
_d._ Walcot sq. Kennington, Surrey 5 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Tooting
cemetery 10 Jany.
PIERCY, BENJAMIN (3 son of Robert Piercy, surveyor). _b._
Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire 16 March 1827; in his father’s
office to 1847; chief assistant to Charles Mickleburgh,
surveyor, Montgomery 1847–51; with Henry Robert made survey for
Shrewsbury and Chester railway 1851; engineer of Red Valley
railway bill 1852; engaged on the Cambrian system and on most
of the railway schemes in Wales; made the railway bridge at
Barmouth and the bridge near Portmadoc; engaged in surveying and
making 300 miles of railways in Sardinia 1862–81, and a harbour
at the Golfo de Aranci; a commendatore of the Crown of Italy
1881; acquired large estates in Sardinia and bred cattle, horses
and sheep; a great friend of Garibaldi; made railway lines in
Italy, France and India; purchased Marchwiel hall and estate
near Wrexham 1881, where he had a cricket ground; M.I.C.E. 8
Jany. 1860; a candidate for Peterborough 1883. _d._ 15 Portman
square, London 24 March 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xcvi_ 333–9 (1889).
PIERREPONT, HENRY MANVERS (3 son of Charles Pierrepont, 1
earl Manvers 1737–1816). _b._ 18 March 1780; educ. Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1800, D.C.L. 1834; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Sweden 20 April 1804 to 19 Jany. 1807; P.C.
20 May 1807; member of the Dandy club of which he was the last
survivor. _d._ Thoresby park, Ollerton, Notts. 10 Nov. 1851.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 184 (1852).
PIERSON, HENRY HUGH (son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of
Salisbury). _b._ Oxford 14 April 1815; educ. Harrow 1829, and
Trin. coll. Camb.; studied music in Germany from 1839; Reid
professor of music in univ. of Edinb. 1 June 1844, but never
officiated as professor; resided in Germany 1844 to death; wrote
music under pseudonym of Edgar Mannsfeldt-Pierson; produced
an opera The elves and the earth king at Brunn, and another
opera Leila at Hamburg 1848; his oratorio Jerusalem, produced
at the Norwich festival 1852, was performed by the Harmonic
union at Exeter hall 18 May 1853 and at Wurzburg 1862; composed
incidental music to the second part of Goethe’s Faust produced
at Stadt-theater, Hamburg 1854, printed at Mayence 1856, for
which Leopold I of Belgium gave him the gold medal for art
and science; his unfinished oratorio Hezekiah was performed
at Norwich festival 1869; his opera Contarini in five acts
was produced at Hamburg April 1872; three of his orchestral
overtures Macbeth 1860, Romeo and Juliet 1870, and As you like
it, have been given at Crystal palace concerts; wrote All my
heart’s thine own, song 1844; Salve eternum, a Roman dirge 1853;
The office for holy communion 1870; Thirty hymn tunes 1870,
Second series 1872; Ye mariners of England, a part song 1880;
Hurrah for merry England 1885. _d._ Leipzig 28 Jany. 1873.
bur. Sonning, Berkshire 6 Feb. _Robin Legge’s History of the
Norwich festivals_, _with portrait_; _H. H. Pearson’s Collected
songs_, _Leipzig with portrait_; _Graphic vii_ 215, 220 (1873)
_portrait_; _Grove’s Dictionary of music ii_ 752 (1880).
PIERSON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1782; entered navy
27 May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he
was wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by
marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland, on the occasion of
his visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836;
captain 28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. 1857. _d._
Langstone, near Havant 25 March 1858. _G.M. May 1858 p._ 553.
PIERSON, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Charles Pierson of
Cheltenham). _b._ Havre, France 23 Nov. 1839; educ. Cheltenham
college 1853–6, head of the college; won the British
Association’s gold medal 1856; gained the Pollock medal Dec.
1858, and six prizes at Addiscombe college 1858; a performer on
the piano, cornet and concertina; a chess player; an actor, and
a Sanscrit scholar; lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec, 1858, major
25 Nov. 1880 to death; designed and constructed the new palace
of the British legation at Teheran; director of the Persian
telegraph Oct. 1871 to Oct. 1873; secretary to the Indian
defence committee July 1877; military secretary to lord Ripon,
governor general of India, Sept. 1880; commanding engineer of
the field force proceeding against the Mahsoud Waziri tribe
March 1881. _d._ at Bunnoo 2 June 1881, marble tablet with
medallion relief of his head in Cheltenham college chapel. _H.
M. Vibart’s Addiscombe_ (1894) 185, 643–6, 726.
PIESSE, GEORGE WILLIAM SEPTIMUS (7 child of Charles A. J.
Piesse, chief clerk in war office). _b._ 30 May 1820; a
practical optician; studied chemistry under professor Graham
at University college, London; an analytical chemist; in the
employment of J. and E. Atkinson, perfumers, and then with
Francis Henry Breidenbach; in partnership with Wilhelm Lubin,
as perfumers at 2 New Bond st. London with large cellars under
the street 1855, flower farmers near Nice, lavender gardeners
at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in the London docks where
the perfumed spirits for exportation were made; introduced
frangipani, kiss-me-quick, the trump card, and other mixed
perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of ribbon of
Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early associate of
Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful
column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium
a true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of
obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical,
natural and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical
wonders 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of
obtaining the odours of plants 1865. _d._ Hughendon house,
Grove park, Chiswick 23 Oct. 1882. _G. L. M. Strauss’ England’s
Workshops_ (1864) 170–8; _Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p._
496 _portrait_; _Journal of Chemical Soc. xliii_ 255 (1883).
PIGEON, RICHARD HOTHAM. _b._ 22 May 1789; educ. Dr. Willett’s
academy Brixton; apprentice to Fynmore and Palmer, wholesale
druggists 31 Throgmorton st. London 1805, became a partner
1812; a member of the Wholesale druggists’ club; treasurer
of Pharmaceutical soc. from its commencement 1841 to 1850;
treasurer of Christ’s hospital 1835 when he made great
improvements in the administration, his portrait by J. P.
Knight, R.A. presented to the hospital in 1845. _d._ London 10
June 1851. _Pharmaceutical Journal xi_ 46–7 (1852); _J. Bell and
T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 212.
PIGOT, DAVID RICHARD (eld. son of David Pigot, M.D. of Kilworth,
co. Cork, physician). _b._ 1796; educ. Fermoy and Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1870; in the office
of a conveyancer 1819–26; called to Irish bar 1826; K.C. 1835;
bencher of King’s Inns 1839; solicitor general for Ireland 11
Feb. 1839, attorney general 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sept. 1841; M.P.
Clonmel 1839–46; P.C. Ireland 1840; one of the visitors of
Maynooth college 1845; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 1
Sept. 1846 to death; a violin player. _d._ 8 Merrion sq. Dublin
22 Dec. 1873. _bur._ Kilworth. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_
(1879) 383–5; _Dublin univ. mag. Feb. 1874 pp._ 176–9 _portrait_.
PIGOTT, EDWARD FREDERICK SMYTH (3 son of John Hugh Smyth Pigott
of Brockley hall, Somerset). _b._ Somerset 1824; educ. Eton and
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1850; lived for sometime
in France; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; took an active part in
The Leader, No. 1 March 30 1850, which as The Saturday analyst
and leader came to an end 24 Nov. 1860, acted as G. H. Lewes’s
deputy in dealing with theatrical and musical matters in The
Leader and writing under pseudonym of Le Chat Huant from 19 July
1851; a member of the staff of the Daily News; examiner of plays
in lord chamberlain’s department 25 Aug. 1874 to death; wrote
for the Saturday review. _d._ 150 Oxford st. London 23 Feb.
1895, cremated at Woking 27 Feb. _Vanity Fair 11 Jany. 1890 p._
33 _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review Feb. 1896 p._ 222.
PIGOT, ELIZABETH BRIDGET (dau. of J. Pigot, M.D. of Derby). _b._
probably in Derbyshire 1783; lived at Southwell, Northampton
nearly all her life, where she made the acquaintance of lord
Byron about 1803; corresponded with him 1804–11; Byron addressed
to her his poem beginning ‘Eliza what fools are the Mussulman
sect’ 1806; much of her correspondence with Byron is printed in
T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 32, 52–8, 731; a manuscript
parody by her entitled ‘The wonderful history of Lord Byron and
his dog Bosen’ was sold by a London bookseller to professor
Kolbing of Breslau 1892. _d._ Easthorpe, Southwell 11 Dec. 1866.
_Poetical works of lord Byron_ (1859) 400; _Russell’s Memoirs of
T. Moore v_ 249 (1854).
PIGOTT, FRANCIS (1 son of Paynton Pigott, who in 1835 took
the name of Stainsby Conant 1780–1862). _b._ Trunkwell house,
Berkshire 1809; educ. Eton, matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf.
7 March 1826; lieut. Hants yeomanry cavalry 31 Dec. 1838,
resigned 5 July 1861; contested Winchester 29 June 1841; M.P.
Reading 1847–60; lieut. governor of Isle of Man Oct. 1860 to
death, entered Douglas 14 Feb. 1861. _d._ Heckfield Heath, near
Winchester 21 Jany. 1863. _Illustrated Times 23 Feb. 1861 p._
111, _view of his reception at Douglas_.
PIGOTT, GEORGE GRANADO GRAHAM FOSTER (1 son of the rev. George
G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). _b._ Abington Pigotts,
Cambs. 16 May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge
militia 1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of
Sebastopol, served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made
meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865.
_d._ Abington 14 May 1878. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix_ 237
(1879).
PIGOTT, SIR GILLERY (4 son of Paynton Pigott, who _d._ Sept.
1862). _b._ Oxford 1813; barrister M.T. 3 May 1839, went
Oxford circuit; counsel to Ireland revenue department May
1854; serjeant-at-law Feb. or March 1856; received a patent of
precedence 1857; M.P. Reading Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1863; recorder
of Hereford Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; baron of court of exchequer
2 Oct. 1863 to death; knighted by patent 1 Nov. 1863; author
with B. B. Hunter Rodwell of Reports of cases in the court of
common pleas, on appeal from the decisions of the revising
barristers 1844–6. _d._ Sherfield Hill house, Basingstoke 28
April 1875. _I.L.N. 31 Oct. 1863 p._ 433 _portrait and lxvi_
451, 571 (1875); _Graphic xi_ 483, 486, 492 (1875) _portrait_.
PIGOTT, HENRY DE RENZY (2 son of Henry Pigott of Eagle hill, co.
Galway). _b._ 18 May 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844;
ensign 83 foot 23 July 1845, major 19 Dec. 1862; major 19 foot
30 June 1863, lieut. col. 25 Aug. 1871; lieut. col. 70 foot 14
Aug. 1872, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Indian
mutiny and in the Afghan war of 1878; brevet colonel 25 Aug.
1876; commanded the regimental district of Warrington 1 April
1881 to 8 Feb. 1882, when he retired with honorary rank of M.G.
_d._ Elkhorn, Manitoba 14 Nov. 1889.
PIGOT, SIR HUGH. Entered navy 1 May 1788; captain 8 May 1804;
took possession of the island of Mariegalante 2 March 1808;
commanded the squadron off Guadaloupe 1809, employed on the
American station; commander-in-chief on Cork station 16 May 1844
to 1 July 1847; admiral 4 July 1853; C.B. 26 Sept. 1841, K.C.B.
10 July 1847; K.C.H. 18 June 1832. _d._ 96 Ebury street, London
29 July 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 905–6.
PIGOT, HUGH (2 son of Creswell Pigot of Drayton, Salop). _b._
1820. educ. Brasn. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of
Hadleigh, Suffolk 1843–63; V. of Wisbeck St. Mary 1863–9; R.
of Stretham, Cambs. 1869 to death; author of The blessed life,
a course of sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Hadleigh, the town, the
church, and the great men born in or connected with the parish
1860, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 22 Sept. 1884.
PIGOT, RICHARD. _b._ 1774; captain of a new independent company
of foot 21 Dec. 1793; captain 58 foot 21 April 1795; captain 14
dragoons 13 Sept. 1798, major 4 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 21 light
dragoons 1 May 1806 to 30 July 1820, when placed on h.p.; col. 4
dragoon guards 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. _d._
Chievely, near Newbury, Berks. 21 Nov. 1868.
PIGOTT, RICHARD (son of George Pigott, clerk to Peter Purcell,
coach proprietor, Dublin). _b._ county Meath about 1828; clerk
in office of The Ulsterman newspaper, Belfast, edited by Denis
Holland, who transferred the paper to Dublin July 1858 and
changed its name to The Irishman, manager of the paper and
practically controlled it, in June 1865 the proprietor Patrick
James Smith gave the paper to Pigott; started a weekly magazine
entitled The Shamrock 1866, and another entitled The flag of
Ireland; condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for publishing
seditious matter 1867, and imprisoned for six months for
contempt of court 1871; contested Limerick as a Fenian 20
Nov. 1868; sold his three publications to the Irish national
newspaper and publishing company 1879; author of Personal
recollections of an Irish national journalist 1882, 2 ed. 1883;
sold to the Irish loyal and patriotic union in 1886 papers
accusing Parnell of complicity in the murders of the Land
league, The Times purchased these papers and published a series
of articles on Parnellism and crime 1887, including a letter
signed by Parnell condoning the Phœnix Park murders of 18 April
1887, a commission of three judges sat July 1888 onward to
inquire into the allegations made by The Times against Parnell;
Pigott was examined as a witness 21 and 22 Feb. 1889, confessed
to Henry Labouchere, M.P. that he had forged the papers 23 Feb.,
fled from England same day, _shot himself dead_ in the Hotel de
los Embajadores, Madrid 12 March 1889. _Report of trial of A. M.
Sullivan and R. Pigott_ (1868); _James O’Connor’s Recollections
of R. Pigott_ (1889); _J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections
ii_ 198–9 (1892); _Vanity Fair 9 March 1889 p._ 177 _portrait_.
PIGOT, SIR ROBERT, 4 Baronet (2 son of general sir George Pigot,
bart. 1766–1841). _b._ Patshull, co. Stafford 1801; succeeded 24
June 1841; M.P. Bridgnorth 1832 to 1837 and 1838 to 1 July 1852;
M.P. Bridgnorth 8 July 1852 to March 1853 when unseated for
bribery; contested Bridgnorth 26 July 1837; owner of racehorses,
Conyngham won the 2,000 guineas 1847 and the Royal hunt cup.
_d._ Hillside, Bracknell 1 June 1891.
PIKE, JOHN DEODATUS GREGORY (eld. son of John Baxter Pike,
schoolmaster 1745–1811). _b._ Edmonton 6 April 1784; educ.
Wymondley college Herts. 1802–6; became a particular baptist
Aug. 1804; classical assistant in the school of his uncles G.
and R. Gregory at Lower Edmonton 1806–9; pastor of the baptist
church Brook st. Derby 1810, a new chapel was opened for him
1815, enlarged 1819, and rebuilt on a new site 1842, pastor to
his death; kept a boarding school at Derby about 1810–8; the
first secretary of the General Baptist missionary society June
1816; trained young missionaries in his family; edited The
general baptist repository and missionary observer Jany. 1822
to death; author of A catechism of scriptural instruction for
young persons 1816; The consolations of gospel truth 1817, 2
ed. Derby 1818, vol. ii Derby 1820; Persuasives to early piety,
7 ed. 1865; Swedenborgianism depicted 1820; A guide for young
disciples of the Holy Saviour 1823, 2 ed. 1880; Religion and
eternal life 1834; Christian liberality in the distribution of
property 1836. _d._ Derby 4 Sept. 1854. _A memoir of J. D. G.
Pike_, _edited by his sons_ (1855) _portrait_; _Amos Sutton’s
Mission to Orissa_ (1833) _vii and_ 1–10; _Repository and
missionary observer_ (1854) 463–8; _The works of J. G. Pike_
(1862–3), _memoir pp._ 11–24.
PIKE, WARBURTON (youngest son of Wm. Pike of Bucknowle, Church
Knowle, Dorset). _b._ Bucknowle 1818; educ. Univ. coll.
London; student of Middle Temple 7 June 1837; certificated
special pleader 1840 to death; published Translations from
Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo, and Vittoria Colonna 1879; A
translation of Dante’s Divine comedy, Inferno 1881. _d._ the
Grove, Highgate 29 Jany. 1882. _bur._ at Church Knowle.
PILCH, FULLER (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). _b._ Horningtoft,
near Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played
his first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club
24 July 1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30;
played for England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he
made the highest score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand
bowling; resided at Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket
Thomas Marsden the Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833
and again at Sheffield before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one
of the Kent eleven with salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member
of Clarke’s All England eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in
England 1825–50; landlord of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent
1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept a shop for sale of cricket
implements at Canterbury 1842 to death; landlord of Saracen’s
head inn Canterbury 1860. _d._ Canterbury 1 May 1870. _bur._
St. Gregory’s churchyard. _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_ 270–9 (1875);
_Denison’s Sketches of the players_ (1846) 64–9; _Pycroft’s
Cricket field_, _3 ed._ (1859) 135 _portrait_; _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores i_ 434 (1862), _v page xiii_ (1876); _F. Gale’s
Game of cricket_ (1887) 11–26; _Illust. London life 16 July
1843 p._ 236 _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 24
_portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 26 _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iii_ 45 (1843) _portrait_.
PILCH, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Horningtoft,
Norfolk 4 Nov. 1794; a tailor and bat maker; first match at
Lord’s, Marylebone v. Norfolk 24 July 1820; a slow bowler with
a delivery between underhand and round; resided successively at
Holt in Norfolk, London, and Norwich; went to King’s Lynn in
1860. _d._ Sheffield 4 Sept. 1866. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores
i_ 434 (1862).
PILCHER, GEORGE (son of Jeremiah Pilcher of Winkfield,
Berkshire). _b._ 30 April 1801; M.R.C.S. 2 April 1824, hon.
F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1849 to death; surgeon in
Dean st. Soho, London 1824; lecturer on anatomy, physiology,
and surgery at the Webb st. school of medicine Snow’s Fields,
Bermondsey; consulting surgeon to the Surrey dispensary many
years; president of Medical society of London 1842, received the
Fothergill gold medal; lecturer upon surgery at St. George’s
hospital 6 July 1843; one of the best aural surgeons in England;
author of Essay on the physiology of the excito-motory system
1835; A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the
ear 1838, 2 ed. 1842; On some points in the physiology of the
tympanum 1854. _d._ 2 Harley st. London 7 Nov. 1855. _bur._
Kensal Green cemet. 14 Nov. _G.M. Jany. 1856 p._ 92; _Medical
times and gazette ii_ 510 (1855).
PILCHER, JOHN MONTRESOR. Second lieut. R.M. 15 Jany. 1801,
lieut. col. 11 May 1841, col. commandant 3 Nov. 1851 to 9 June
1854, when placed on retired full pay; hon. M.G. 20 June 1855.
_d._ at his residence near Worcester 18 Nov. 1873.
PILGRIM, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; associated with Francis Petit
Smith and the introduction of the screw propeller 1836 to
death; engineer of the Archimedes, the first ship ever sent to
sea propelled by the screw 1838. _d._ at his son’s residence
Plumstead, Kent 6 Oct. 1871. _The Times 11 Oct. 1871 p._ 7.
PILKINGTON, SIR ANDREW. _b._ about 1767; ensign Elford’s corps
7 March 1783, placed on h.p. 1783; lieut. independent company
24 Jany. 1791, placed on h.p.; lieut. 2 foot 19 Feb. 1793,
captain 2 March 1795; lieut. 3 foot guards 11 Jany. 1800, placed
on h.p. 1802; captain 48 foot 9 July 1803; commanded the light
company on board Royal George in lord Howe’s action 1 June 1794;
employed in the West Indies, present at capture of Trinidad
1795–7; served in suppression of the Irish rebellion 1798;
served in the expeditions to the Helder 1799 and 1805; assistant
A.G. at the horse guards 1807–8, and D.A.G. in Nova Scotia
1809–15; col. of 82 foot 10 May 1841 and of 20 foot 25 Nov. 1850
to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 23 Nov.
1841; purchased Catsfield place, Battle, Sussex, from James
Eversfield. _d._ Catsfield place 23 Feb. 1853. _Royal military
calendar iv_ 261 (1820); _G.M. xxxix_ 436 (1850).
PILKINGTON, LIONEL SCOTT (only son of Redmond Wm. Pilkington,
architect, London 1789–1844). _b._ Kensington, London 5 May
1831; educ. Rugby 1844; resided at Hatfield, Ash Hill, near
Doncaster 1844 to death; served sir Joseph Henry Hawley as groom
1851, and was known as Jack Hawley for the rest of his life;
clever in disguising himself; served as a sailor, as a butcher,
and as a groom to several trainers; a Roman catholic, went
to Rome and presented 2 horses to the Pope and received from
him a cross; always dressed himself as a groom and refused to
associate in any good society, although he owned much property.
_d._ Hatfield 25 Dec. 1875. _bur._ in his hunting costume in his
paddock in the midst of the graves of his horses and cattle,
left his Hatfield property to his groom John Harris, and his
London property to Wiggins, the son of an old servant. _Life and
eccentricities of Lionel Scott Pilkington alias Jack Hawley_
(1876) _portrait_; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_ 126–8 (1882).
PILLANS, JAMES (son of James Pillans, printer). _b._ Edinburgh
April 1778; educ. Edinb. high school and univ., M.A. 30 Jany.
1801, LL.D. 22 April 1863; a private tutor at Eton college;
rector of the high school Edinb. Jany. 1810 to Aug. 1820;
introduced a monitorial system and attracted pupils from all
parts of the world; professor of humanity and laws in univ.
of Edinb. 17 Aug. 1820, resigned 11 April 1863; made tours to
inspect the educational systems of France, Ireland, Prussia,
and Switzerland; gave evidence before the committee of house
of commons on education 1834; an early advocate for compulsory
education; edited Eclogæ Ciceronianæ 1845; Excerpta ex Taciti
annalibus 1848; The five latter books of the first decade of
Livy 1849; author of Outlines of geography, principally ancient,
Edinb. 1847; First steps in the physical and classical geography
of the ancient world, Edinb. 1853, 13 ed. 1882; Elements of
physical and classical geography 1854; Contributions to the
cause of education 1856; Educational papers, Edinb. 1862. _d._
41 Inverleith row, Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _bur._ in graveyard
of St. Cuthbert’s church, Edinb. 1 April. _Memoir of James
Pillans By an old student_ (1869); _Grant’s Story of the univ.
of Edinb. ii_ 80, 84, 320–2 (1884); _Proc. of Royal soc. of
Edinb. v_ 303 (1866).
PILLING, RICHARD. _b._ Bedford 5 July 1855; played in a match
Sussex _v._ Lancashire at Old Trafford 1877; wicket keeper for
Lancashire 1877–89; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players at Lord’s
1879, and in Lancashire _v._ Surrey at Liverpool 1885; had a
benefit under the Lancashire cricket club auspices which gave
him £1,700, 1889; went to Australia with Shaw and Shrewsbury’s
first combination 1881–82, when he had a sun stroke from which
he never quite recovered, went to Australia with the fourth
combination 1887–88; caught cold in a football match 1890; the
Lancashire club sent him to Australia for his health 1890;
with the exception of Blackham the best wicket keeper of his
day. _d._ at his house in Manchester 28 March 1891. _Wisden’s
Cricketers’ almanack_ (1891) _p. xxxiii portrait_, (1892) _p.
xxxii_; _Times 30 March 1891 p._ 7; _Graphic 4 April 1891 p._
386 _portrait_.
PIM, BEDFORD CLAPPERTON TREVELYAN (only son of Edward Bedford
Pim, lieut. R.N., _d._ 1830). _b._ Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826;
entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald
1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in
the western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21
April 1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6,
and the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon
1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route across
the Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now
known as Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861;
captain 16 April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5
July 1885; made three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his
traffic transit scheme March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the
Nicaraguan railway company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was
dissolved July 1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister
G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went the western circuit; contested Totnes
12 July 1865; contested Gravesend 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Gravesend
1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of
Anthropological institute 1871 to death, member of council
1871–4; author of An earnest appeal on behalf of the missing
Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857; The gate of the Pacific
1863; An essay on feudal tenures 1871; War chronicle, with
memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king William I 1873;
The Eastern question, past, present and future 1877; Gems from
Greenwich hospital 1881; author with Beethold Seeman of Dottings
on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito 1869. _d._
Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial brass tablet and window at west
end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii_ 448–54 (1887).
PIM, JONATHAN (son of Thomas Pim, merchant, Dublin). _b._ 1806;
partner in firm of Pim Brothers & Co. poplin manufacturers,
cotton spinners, linen weavers, and flour millers 22 William
st. Dublin; M.P. Dublin city 17 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874;
contested Dublin 7 Feb. 1874; author of The condition and
prospects of Ireland 1848; Ireland and the imperial parliament
1871. _d._ Greenbank, Monkstown, co. Dublin 6 July 1885.
PIM, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim
Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and
of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market,
Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of
Royal yacht club. _d._ Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.
PINCHIN, ROBERT. _b._ 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph
Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa
1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death;
partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H.
L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by
private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L.
Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ Port
Elizabeth 9 May 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv_ 388
(1889).
PINCKARD, GEORGE HENRY (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court
Barton, Devon, _d._ 1839). _b._ Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary
and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance
co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court,
Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous
as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at
Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church
restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. _d._ Combe court 23
July 1892. _The Times 26 July 1892 p._ 9.
PINCKNEY, FREDERICK GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 73 foot 8 April
1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858.
_d._ off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.
PINCOFFS, PETER. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840,
where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841;
in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond.
1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female
penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari
1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord
Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec.
1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction
of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences
of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. _d._ Munich 17
July 1872. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 165–6 (1872).
PINDER, FRANCIS FORD (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa,
Bath). _b._ 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857,
went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of
inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the
principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth
ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. _d._ 129 Mount st.
Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.
PINDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut.
col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. _d._ Clifton 14 Jany.
1881.
PINDER, JOHN HOTHERSALL (son of Francis Ford Pinder of
Barbadoes). _b._ 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington
college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological
college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to
death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to
death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2
ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures
1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the
ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. _d._
West Malvern 16 April 1868. _bur._ in West Malvern churchyard.
_G.M. May 1868 p._ 783.
PINE, SIR BENJAMIN CHILLEY CAMPBELL (eld. son of Benjamin
Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). _b._ 1813; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831,
barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer
1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting
governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war
in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849
to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855,
governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at
Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher,
West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor
of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the
Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31
May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G.
29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the
Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16,
and others. _d._ Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. _The Times 2
March 1891 p._ 7.
PINE, RICHARD. Employed on important missions to native kings
and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk
of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia
1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866;
registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870.
_d._ 6 Feb. 1878.
PINHEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26
Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army
15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending
surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1
May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board
1843–6. _d._ Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.
PINK, CHARLES RICHARD (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester).
_b._ Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled
to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London
1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the
Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an
associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886;
designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly
in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural
association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on
heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. _d._ Hyde, near
Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church.
_Pink memorial_ (1889) _portrait_; _Journal of proc. of royal
instit. of British architects v_ 172, 314 (1889).
PINKERTON, ALLAN. _b._ Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped
to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established
Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the
escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service
division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its
first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps
of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had
branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire
and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of
the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other
books. _d._ Chicago 1 July 1884. _Appleton’s American biography
v_ 25 (1888); _Harper’s Mag. xlvii_ 720–7 (1873).
PINKETT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of
Barnstaple). _b._ about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany.
1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the
Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T.
19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of
Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement
June 1880, administered government of the West African
settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883;
acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative
councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements
31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical
index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. _d._ Freetown,
Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. _Law Times 11 June 1887 p._ 108.
PINKS, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29
Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde,
bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in
London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries,
the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals;
a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now
the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a
History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition
appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country
trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of
Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country
trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i,
no more published. _d._ at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville
sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 19 Nov.,
memorial stone erected by subscription. _Memoirs of W. J. Pinks_
(1861); _W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell_, _2 ed._
(1881) _memoir pp. v–viii portrait_.
PINNEY, CHARLES (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed
surname of Pinney 1762). _b._ 29 April 1793; partner with E.
Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received
£3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833;
mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the
mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion
house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military
fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the
captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol
Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried
in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the
riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol
1836. _d._ Camp house, Clifton 17 July 1867. _W. C. Townsend’s
Modern state trials ii_ 273–355 (1850); _Trial of Charles
Pinney_ (1833); _Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 146–79,
188, 212; _Nicholls and Taylor’s Bristol iii_ 325–38 (1882);
_P. C. Scarlett’s Memoir of James, first lord Abinger_ (1877)
350–402.
PINNOCK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Pinnock, publisher and author
1782–1843). _b._ 1813; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1850, LL.D.
1855; admitted LL.D. at Oxford 1859; C. of Somersham, Hunts.
1846–70; English chaplain at Chantilly, France 1870–6; C. in
charge of All Saints, Dalston, London 1876–7; V. of Pinner,
Herts. 1879 to death; edited W. Pinnock’s History of England
made easy, new ed. 1847; wrote a continuation of Pinnock’s
Abridgment of Goldsmith’s History of England, 46 ed. 1858;
edited Clerical papers on church and parishioners, 6 vols.
1852–63; author of The laws and usages of the church and clergy,
the unbeneficed clerk, 2 ed. 1854; Rubrics for communicants
explanatory of the holy communion office 1863; The law of the
rubric and the transition period of the church of England 1866;
The church key, belfry key and organ key 1870; The Bible and
contemporary history: an epitome of the history of the world
from the creation to the end of the old testament, edited by E.
M. B., 2 vols. 1887. _d._ Pinner vicarage 30 Nov. 1885. _The
Times 5 Dec. 1885 p._ 9.
PINSENT, SIR ROBERT JOHN (son of Robert John Pinsent, a judge
in Newfoundland). _b._ Newfoundland 1834; called to the bar of
Newfoundland 1856; Q.C. 1865; member of legislative council
1859; acting attorney general 1869; solicitor general 1873;
judge of the supreme court 1880 to death; knighted by patent 12
June 1890; D.C.L. from the archbishop of Canterbury Feb. 1881;
author of Newfoundland, our oldest colony in Proceedings of
Royal Colonial institution 1884–85, pp. 215–72, and of articles
in magazines upon the French treaty question 1889. _d._ Bintry
rectory, Norfolk 27 April 1893.
PINSON, ALBERT. Entered Madras army 1817; lieut. 21 Madras N.I.
29 Oct. 1818; captain 46 N.I. 3 June 1826, major 31 Dec. 1844
to 20 April 1853; lieut. col. 17 N.I. 20 April 1853 to 1854, of
2 N.I. 1854–6, of 32 N.I. 1856–7, of 39 N.I. 1857–8, and of 37
N.I. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861, when he retired with rank of M.G.
_d._ 12 Nov. 1865.
PINSUTI, CIRO ERCOLE. _b._ Sinalunga, near Siena 9 May 1829;
educ. in Rome, where he gave a concert when aged 11; Henry
Drummond, M.P. brought him to London and placed him under the
tuition of Cipriani Potter at Royal academy of music; pianist;
studied at Bologna conservatoire 1845; returned to England 1848;
professor at Royal academy of music, London 1856–85; wrote 3
operas Il merccante de Venezia 1873, Mattia Corvino 1877, and
Margherita; composer of There is a reaper 1844; Excelsior,
a romance 1850; Te Deum 1860; The sea hath its pearls, part
song 1865; After the rain, two part song 1867; Tell me not in
mournful numbers 1869; Dreams only dreams, song 1873; I fear
no foe, a song 1876; Tell me where is fancy bred, a part song
1884; author of Hints to teachers on singing 1880; his name is
attached to upwards of 500 pieces of music. _d._ of cerebral
apoplexy while playing the piano at Florence 10 March 1888. _The
Times 15 March 1888 p._ 6.
PINTI, RAFFAELLE. _b._ near Rome 1826; came to London when a
young man; dealer in Italian works of art 46 Berners st. London
1860 to death; his knowledge of Italian pictures, sculptures,
etc. and his connection with Italy enabled him to bring many
important works of art to England; picture restorer. _d._ 28
Langham st. London 30 July 1881. _Academy ii_ 128 (1881); _Times
11 Aug. 1881 p._ 10, _col._ 3.
PINWELL, GEORGE JOHN. _b._ London 26 Dec. 1842; worked for
the brothers Dalziel as a designer and drawer on wood 1863;
illustrated the Sunday magazine, Good words, Once a week,
and other periodicals; associate of Society of painters in
water-colours 1869, member 1870; exhibited at Dudley gallery
1865; an honorary member of Belgian society of painters in
water-colours; his picture entitled Strolling players was
engraved by Charles Cousen for the Art Journal 1873, and The
elixir of love was etched by R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. 1885;
he illustrated H. Lushington’s The happy home 1864; R. W.
Buchanan’s Ballad stories of the affection 1866; and Jean
Ingelow’s Poems 1867. _d._ Adelaide road, Haverstock hill,
London 8 Sept. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 11 Sept. _A
catalogue of pictures by G. Mason and G. Pinwell exhibited at
Birmingham March 1895_, _with an essay by H. Quilter_ 1895;
_Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii_ 396–9
(1891); _Good words xxix_ 814 (1888); _I.L.N. 18 Sept. 1875 p._
285 _portrait_; _Graphic xii_ 328 (1875) _portrait_.
PIOZZI-SALUSBURY, SIR JOHN SALUSBURY (2 son of Giambattista
Piozzi of Brescia, Lombardy, merchant). _b._ Brescia 1793;
assumed additional surname of Salusbury 4 Dec. 1813; sheriff of
Flintshire 1816; knighted at Carlton house 21 April 1817, on
presenting an address to the Prince Regent. _d._ Cheltenham 18
Dec. 1858. _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.
PIPER, ROBERT SLOPER. _b._ 1790 or 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 10 Jany.
1809, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841, retired on full pay 2 Feb. 1848;
served six campaigns in the Peninsula, France, and Flanders
March 1810 to Jany. 1816; commanding engineer in the Kandian
provinces during insurrection of 1817–18; general 1 Jany. 1868;
he wrote A memorandum of the manner in which the repairs of the
chain pier at Brighton have been executed, in _Papers of Corps
of Royal engineers ii_ 122–7 (1844). _d._ 7 New Steine, Brighton
26 Dec. 1873.
PIPER, STEPHEN EDWARD. _b._ Ipswich 1813; educ. Univ. coll.
London; L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1853; joined the
army medical staff 1836; served against Don Carlos in Spain,
where he was shot in the chest 1836; settled at Darlington
1841; consulting surgeon Darlington hospital; president North
of England British medical association. _d._ Orwell house,
Darlington 24 Aug. 1894. _The Lancet 8 Sept. 1894 p._ 601.
PIPON, JAMES KENNARD. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 94 foot 3 Aug.
1826, captain 6 March 1835; captain 85 foot 15 July 1836, placed
on h.p. 31 March 1843; major on h.p. 8 April 1859; brevet
colonel 20 June 1857; inspector general of militia 8 May 1863
to death; officiating judge advocate at the court martial on
colonel Thomas Robert Crawley, held at Aldershot camp 17 Nov.
to 23 Dec. 1863; author with John Francis Collier of Manual of
military law for all ranks of the army, militia, and volunteer
services 1860, 3 ed. 1863. _d._ Alne vicarage, Yorkshire 7 June
1868. _Illust. times 28 Nov. 1863 p._ 345 _portrait_.
PIRIE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse,
Berwickshire). _b._ Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept.
1781; merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley,
London 1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman
of ward of Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841;
created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a
prince of Wales during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s
hospital, London 1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June
1841. _d._ Champion hill, Camberwell 26 Feb. 1851. _G.M. xxxv_
551 (1851); _I.L.N. 8 March 1851 p._ 200.
PIRIE, WILLIAM ROBINSON (2 son of George Pirie, D.D. minister
of Slains, Aberdeenshire). _b._ manse of Slains 26 July 1804;
studied at Univ. and King’s college, Aberdeen 1817–21, and
1821–5, D.D. 1844; licensed to preach by presbytery of Ellon
1825; minister of parish of Dyce 1830; minister of Greyfriars
church, Aberdeen 1846–7; professor of divinity in Marischal
college and univ. of Aberdeen 30 Dec. 1843 to 1860; hon.
professor of divinity and biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 15
Sept. 1860 to 1876, and principal Dec. 1876 to death; moderator
of the general assembly 19 May 1864; the chief advocate for the
abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland, which was
abolished by act of parliament 1874; author of The independent
jurisdiction of the church vindicated 1838; Some notice of the
rev. Andrew Gray 1840; An inquiry into the constitution, power,
and processes of the human mind 1858; The position, principles
and duties of the church of Scotland 1864; Natural theology, an
inquiry into the fundamental principles of religions, moral and
political science 1867. _d._ Aberdeen 3 Nov. 1885. _In memoriam,
W. R. Pirie_ (1888); _Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ iii_, _part ii_,
_p._ 501, 516, 898.
PIRRIE, WILLIAM (son of George Pirrie, farmer). _b._ near
Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1807; educ. Marischal coll. and univ.
Aberdeen, and univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.A. Aberdeen 1825;
M.D. Edinb. 1829, hon. LL.D. 1875; lecturer on anatomy and
physiology in the joint medical schools of King’s and Marischal
colleges, Aberdeen 1830–9; regius professor of surgery in
Marischal college 1839–60; professor of surgery in univ. of
Aberdeen 1860–82; the leading surgeon in north Scotland for 20
years; known by sobriquet of The Baron; author of The principles
and practice of surgery 1852, 3 ed. 1873; On hay asthma and hay
fever 1867; author with Wm. Keith of Acupressure an excellent
method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage 1867. _d._ 253 Union st.
Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1882. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 681 (1882).
PISTRUCCI, BENEDETTO (2 son of Federico Pistrucci, judge of
the high criminal court of Rome). _b._ Rome 29 May 1784; a
gem-engraver at Rome 1800; went to Paris Dec. 1814, and to
London 1815; designed the St. George and the dragon on the
reverse of the gold coinage 1817, which is still in use; an
outside assistant at the mint 1816, acted as chief engraver
from 22 Sept. 1817, chief medallist 1828; engraved part of
the coinage at end of reign of George III, and all the coins
of early part of George IV; engraved the coronation medal of
George IV 1820–1, and of Victoria 1838; made the silver seal
of the duchy of Lancaster in 15 days by a new process of his
invention 1838; resided at the Mint 1817–49; made cameos and
intaglios for which he obtained high prices; made busts of the
duke of Wellington and of Pozzo di Borgo; was paid £3,500 for
the famous Waterloo medallion 1850. _d._ Flora lodge, Englefield
Green, near Windsor 16 Sept. 1855. _A. Billing’s Science of
gems_ (1875) 3, 224; _F. P. Weber’s Medals by foreign artists_
(1894) 62–7; _N. Carlisle’s Memoir of W. Wyon_ (1837) 43 _etc._;
_G.M. Oct. 1856 pp._ 653–6.
NOTE.--In the British museum with the shelf mark 10825 d. 28 is A
collection of letters, etc. from newspapers and magazines on B.
Pistrucci and W. Wyon as medallists.
PITCAIRN, DAVID. _b._ 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian
minister of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May
1830 to 29 Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867;
resided at Torquay from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his
parishioners 1840, 2 ed. 1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial
of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed. 1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s
king, the second Psalm expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a
memoir of E. H. M. Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862;
The ages of the earth 1868. _d._ 4 Jany. 1870. _Scott’s Fasti
Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 3 _part_ 1 _p._ 382.
PITCAIRN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of
Englishcombe, Somerset). _b._ Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776;
F.R.C.S. 7 June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and
in Egypt 1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in
Ireland 1803, and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852,
when he retired on half pay; knighted 1837. _d._ 3 Haddington
road, Dublin 12 Jany. 1859.
PITCAIRN, ROBERT (2 son of Robert Pitcairn, writer to the signet
and principal keeper of the register of deeds). _b._ Edinburgh
1793; a writer to the signet 21 Nov. 1815; assistant to the
deputy clerk register in H.M.’s register house a long time,
one of the four official searchers of records for incumbrances
in the register house 1853 to death; employed in making an
Abridgment of the register of the great seal of Scotland
1824, for the Record commission; edited for the Abbotsford
club Historical memoirs of Mary, queen of Scots 1836; for the
Bannatyne club Criminal trials in Scotland 1833, and 3 other
works; for the Wodrow society The autobiography of J. Melvill
1842; he also edited Collections relating to the funeralls of
Mary, queen of Scots 1822; Historical account of the principal
families of Kennedy 1830. _d._ 9 Northumberland st. Edinburgh
16 July 1855. _Record commission, the case of Robert Pitcairn_
(1835).
PITCAIRN, THOMAS (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). _b._
Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant
presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister
1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk
of Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church
at Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general
assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. _d._ Bonnyrig 21 Dec.
1854. _Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 438–48 _portrait_;
_Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ i_, _part_ 1, _p._ 274.
PITMAN, FREDERICK. _b._ Trowbridge, Wilts. 1828; bookseller,
phonetic shorthand writer and reporter at 1 Queen’s Head
passage, Paternoster row, London 1847, and at 20 Paternoster row
1850 to death; edited The shorthand magazine 1866 to his death;
The phonographic student 1867–76, ten volumes; The phonographic
pulpit 1869–76, seven volumes, and The phonographic lecturer
1871 etc.; and was the author of Second book in phonetic reading
for adults 1850; Pitman’s Reporters’ reading book 1867; Learning
to report 1883; How to get speed in shorthand 1884; Pitman’s
Shorthand library, Tom Brown’s school days 1884. _d._ Oak lawn,
Avenue road, Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex 21 Nov. 1886.
PITMAN, JOHN ROGERS. _b._ 1782; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A.
1804, M.A. 1815; P.C. of Berden and V. of Ugley, Essex 18 Feb.
1817, resigned 1846; preached at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels,
London, also at Foundling and Magdalene hospitals; P.C. of St.
Barnabas, Kensington 1833–48; domestic chaplain to duchess of
Kent 1848–61; author of Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis 1808,
2 ed. 1817; Practical lectures upon the ten first chapters
of the gospel of St. John 1821, Supplement 1822; The school
Shakespeare with notes 1822, 2 ed. 1851; Sophoclis Ajax, Greek
and Latin, with notes 1830; A practical commentary on our Lord’s
sermon on the mount 1852. _d._ 8 Green park buildings, Bath 27
Aug. 1861.
PITMAN, JOSEPH (brother of sir Isaac Pitman, _b._ 1815). _b._
1818; engaged with Thomas Allen Reid in lecturing in Great
Britain on Pitman’s system of shorthand many years; lived in
retirement at Worthing 1885 to death. _d._ Worthing about 1
April 1895.
PITMAN, MRS. Became proprietor of The Sporting review on her
husband’s death in 1827, and conducted it with much skill until
the four sporting serials, The Sporting review, The Sporting
magazine, The New sporting magazine, and The Sportsman, were
united in July 1846. _d._ Feb. 1858. _Sporting Review xxxix_ 153
(1858).
PITMAN, SAMUEL (son of rev. Samuel Pitman of Oulton hall,
Norfolk, _d._ 1854). _b._ 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.;
captain West Somerset yeomanry cavalry; master of the Taunton
harriers, hunting on alternate days with the Blackmoor vale
foxhounds; hunted his own harriers in the Langport and Martock
districts; master of South Berkshire fox hounds 1873, for 3
seasons he hunted both packs; at last his health gave way under
the strain of hunting five and even six days a week; with sir
T. Acland instrumental in reviving the Bath and west of England
agricultural society 1850; resided Bishop’s Hull manor, Taunton.
_d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 April 1886. _The Times 19 April 1886 p._
5.
PITMAN, THOMAS (2 son of Thomas Dix Pitman, solicitor, London).
_b._ 1801; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of
Brightwell, Oxfordshire 1826–8; V. of Eastbourne, Sussex 1828
to death; prebendary of Chichester 27 Aug. 1841 to death. _d._
Eastbourne 11 May 1890. _I.L.N. 24 May 1890 p._ 646 _portrait_.
PITTMAN, JOSIAH. _b._ 3 Sept. 1816; organist of Sydenham parish
church 1831; organist of Tooting parish church 1833–5; organist
at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1835–47; organist at Lincoln’s Inn
1852–64; accompanist at Her Majesty’s opera 1865–8 and at Covent
Garden 1868 to death; a regular frequenter of the Albion tavern,
Russell st. Covent garden, where he always sat in the same box;
author of The people in church 1858; The people in the cathedral
1859; author with Colin Brown of Songs of Scotland 1873; edited
Hymns and canticles 1858; Six easy preludes by J. S. Bach 1858;
The musical antiquarian magazine 1863–5, fifteen numbers; The
contralto album, 50 songs 1878; The prima donna’s album, 40
songs 1878; The tenor album, 50 songs 1878; The baritone album,
45 songs 1879; Songs from the operas, 2 vols. 1880; A series
of studies for pianoforte, organ, or harmonium 1882; Album of
40 duets 1885; Diversions for students, 2 books 1889; he also
edited a large number of single operas 1865–80; his name is
attached to upwards of 100 works. _d._ 228 Piccadilly, London 23
April 1886. _London Figaro 1 May 1886 p._ 12.
PITT, CHARLES DIBDIN (1 son of George Dibdin Pitt). _b._ 1819;
acted in the provinces; first appeared in London as Ferdinand in
the Tempest at Covent Garden 1843; acted in the provinces; with
his wife played in the United States and Canada, first appearing
at Park st. theatre, New York as Hamlet on 8 Nov. 1847, produced
The Cavalier or England in 1640 on 10 Nov.; last appeared in New
York 1851; appeared as Lear at City of London theatre 15 March
1852; in John Wilkins’ The Egyptian, March 1853; as Bottom in
Midsummer night’s dream 5 June 1854; in the Spanish girl March
1857; lessee of theatre royal, Sheffield at his death; _m._
1839 Ellen Coveney, actress. _d._ 87 Norfolk st. Sheffield 21
Feb. 1866. _bur._ Sheffield general cemetery 23 Feb. _Tallis’
Drawing-room table book_ 1851, _Part_ 20 _portrait_; _M.
Williams’ Some London theatres_ (1883) 61–9; _The Era 25 Feb.
1866 p._ 11, _4 March p._ 10; _Illust. Sporting News 16 March
1866 pp._ 129, 142; _Ireland’s New York stage ii_ 486 (1867).
PITT, GEORGE DEAN-. Lieut. Royal West India rangers as George
Dean 5 Dec. 1805, captain 10 Aug. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814;
took additional name of Pitt 1819; major 80 foot 19 Aug. 1819,
lieut. col. 18 April 1822 to 24 March 1837; superintendent of
recruiting department in London Jany. 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G.
9 Nov. 1846; commanded the troops in New Zealand Jany. 1847 to
death, granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; K.H.
1836. _d._ New Zealand 8 Jany. or 21 Feb. 1851. _G.M. Sept. 1851
p._ 328.
NOTE.--The monthly army list July 1851 says he died 8 Jany., but
according to Hart’s quarterly army list of July 1851 he died 21 Feb.
PITT, GEORGE DEAN- (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 14 June 1823;
ensign 48 foot 11 Oct. 1839; lieut. 80 foot 1844, captain 4
May 1849, placed on h.p. 30 Dec. 1864; A.D.C. to major general
in New Zealand 1848–51; captain instructor at Hythe 1855–8;
district inspector of musketry, Australia 1858–64; assistant
military secretary, New Zealand 1864–70; D.A. and Q.M.G. Cape of
Good Hope 1872–7; lieut. col. brigade depôt at Guildford 1877 to
1880; M.G. 7 June 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
L.G. 30 Aug. 1882; C.B. 10 Aug. 1866; keeper of the Regalia in
Tower of London 25 Aug. 1882 to death. _d._ Tower of London 4
April 1883.
PITT, GEORGE DIBDIN. _b._ 1799; first appeared under R. W.
Elliston at the Surrey theatre as Sir Archy M’Sarcasm 1827, and
remained at the Surrey many years as a most successful actor;
acting and stage manager at the Pavilion, Coburg and Surrey
theatres, a severe malady obliged him to retire from the stage;
wrote the following dramas The whistler or the fate of the lily
of St. Leonard’s, Victoria theatre 18 Jany. 1833, Reprinted as
The lily of St. Leonard’s; The last man or the miser of Eltham,
Surrey theatre 20 June 1833; The Eddystone elf, Sadler’s Wells
1833; The prisoner of Rochelle, Surrey 23 Jany. 1834; Simon
Lee, City of London theatre 1 April 1839; Susan Hopley or the
vicissitudes of a servant girl, Victoria 31 May 1841; The
beggar’s petition, City theatre 18 Oct. 1841; Sweeney Todd, the
barber of Fleet street, Britannia 1842, founded on T. Prest’s
story The string of pearls, which he wrote in the Penny Sunday
Times 1841; The twins, Adelphi 1844; The Jersey girl, Surrey
theatre; Marianne or the child of charity, Victoria theatre;
Rookwood, Victoria 27 Oct. 1845; also The last nail; The lord
mayor’s fool; The maid, the mill, and the ferry; The devil’s
bridge; The bride of Aldgate; and The devil’s punch bowl; he
wrote upwards of 700 pieces for the stage; author of The wreck
of the heart or the story of Agnes Primrose 1842; The sea-fiend
or the abbot of St. Mark’s 1846. _d._ Bethnal green, London 16
Feb. 1855. _The Era 25 Feb. 1855 p._ 10.
PITT-BYRNE, JULIA CLARA (2 dau. of Hans Busk 1772–1862). _b._
about 1820; _m._ 28 April 1842 William Pitt-Byrne, proprietor
of Morning Post, _d._ 8 April 1861; contributed to Fraser’s
Magazine, Once a week, and other periodicals; author of A glance
behind the grilles of religious houses in France 1855; Flemish
interiors 1856; Realities of Paris life 1859; Undercurrents
overlooked 1860; Red, white, and blue 1862; Cosas de Espana
1866; The Beggynhoff 1869; Feudal castles of France 1869; Gheel
the city of the simple 1869; Pictures of Hungarian life 1869;
Curiosities of the search room 1880; Gossip of the century 1892.
_d._ 16 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 29 March 1894. _Men of
the Time 1887 p._ 188.
PITTIS, SIR FRANCIS. _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 1812; member of
first Newport school board; mayor of Newport 1852, and for the
eighth time 1887; presented with an address and a painting by
George Cole 14 March 1880; chief promoter and subscriber to the
Jubilee clock tower, Newport 1887; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug.
1887; received the jubilee decoration 1887. _d._ Newport house,
Newport 3 Nov. 1889. _bur._ St. Thomas’ churchyard 8 Nov. _The
Isle of Wight County press 9 Nov. 1889 p._ 5.
PLACE, FRANCIS (son of Simon Place, keeper of a sponging
house in Vinegar yard, Drury lane, London). _b._ 3 Nov. 1771;
apprenticed to a leather-breeches maker 1785–9; worked at his
trade from 1789; joined the London Corresponding society 1794;
opened a tailor’s shop with another man at 29 Charing Cross
1799; a tailor alone at 16 Charing Cross 1800 to 1833; resided
at 21 Brompton sq. 1833 to 1852; member of committee of British
and foreign school society to 1815; stayed some months with
Jeremy Bentham and James Mill at Ford Abbey 1817; collected
much of the materials for Joseph Hume’s parliamentary work
1812 etc.; issued from his shop James Mill’s Essays from the
supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and many tracts by
himself and others; agitated against the sinking fund 1816–23;
got the laws against combinations of workmen repealed after ten
years’ work 1824, and prevented their being reenacted 1825;
made preparations for civil war during the crisis of May 1832,
when he drew up a placard with the words ‘Go for gold and stop
the Duke,’ which caused a run upon the bank of England; drafted
for Wm. Lovett the Peoples’ charter 1838; wrote history of the
Reform bill 1836–9, the manuscript of which is at the British
Museum; author of Illustrations and proofs of the principles
of population 1822; A letter to a minister of state respecting
taxes on knowledge 1831, 3 ed. 1835; kept and indexed his
political correspondence 1814 to death; 71 volumes of his
manuscripts are in the British Museum. _d._ at his daughter’s
house, Foxley terrace, Hammersmith 1 Jany. 1854. _W. Bates’s
Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 344–50 _portrait_; _Fortnightly
Review Dec. 1892 pp._ 767–79; _Fraser’s Mag. xiii_ 427 (1836)
_portrait_.
PLACE, LOUISA (dau. of Mr. Simeon). _b._ 16 Oct. 1797; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre as Harriet in Is he jealous
9 July 1816; played Julia in the Rivals at opening of the
Haymarket theatre 4 July 1821; played at Covent Garden as Miss
Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer Nov. 1821; retired from the
stage; played again at the Olympic and Adelphi theatres; acted
in Born to good luck at Adelphi 22 July 1856; and in Morton’s
French Lady’s maid 22 May 1858; _m._ (1) about 1816 William
Chatterly, comedian, _b._ 21 March 1787, _d._ 20 April 1821; she
_m._ secondly 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place, who _d._ before his wife;
she _d._ 37 Brompton square, London 4 Nov. 1866. _The Era 18
Nov. 1866 p._ 81; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 161, 197–8,
331.
PLANCHÉ, JAMES ROBINSON (son of Jacques Planché, watchmaker
1734–1816). _b._ Old Burlington st. Piccadilly, London 27 Feb.
1796; articled to a bookseller 1810; wrote Amoroso, king of
Little Britain for Drury Lane 21 April 1818, and Rodolph the
wolf Olympic Pavilion 21 Dec. 1818; The Vampire or the bride of
the isles, English opera house 9 Aug. 1820, when the vampire
trap was first used; wrote ten pieces for Adelphi theatre
1820–1; his opera Maid Marian was produced at Covent Garden 3
Dec. 1822; present at coronation of Charles X in Paris 29 May
1825; wrote the libretto to Weber’s Oberon, Covent Garden 12
April 1826; managed the musical arrangements at Vauxhall gardens
1826–7; produced at Covent Garden Charles XIIth, a drama 11 Nov.
1828, and his version of Scribe and Auber’s opera Gustave Trois
13 Nov. 1833; managed the Adelphi theatre for S. J. Arnold 1830;
author with Charles Dance of Olympic Revels, Olympic 3 Jany.
1831, and Riquet with the tuft Dec. 1836; managed the Olympic
July to Dec. 1838; director of costume and reader of the plays
at Covent Garden 1839; wrote plays for the Haymarket 1843–7;
superintended the decorations at the Lyceum for Madame Vestris
Oct. 1847, and wrote for her The pride of the market 18 Oct.
1847, The island of jewels 26 Dec. 1849, and other burlesques;
his Mr. Buckstone’s Ascent of Mount Parnassus produced at
Haymarket 28 March 1853, and Love and fortune, a comedy,
Princess’s 24 Sept. 1859; My lord and my lady, Haymarket 12 July
1861 ran 50 nights; Orpheus in the Haymarket Dec. 1866 ran till
Easter 1867; King Christmas masque at Gallery of illustration
26 Dec. 1871; F.S.A. 24 Dec. 1829, resigned 1852; a founder
of British archæological association Dec. 1843; rouge croix
pursuivant of arms 13 Feb. 1854, and Somerset herald 7 June 1866
to death; arranged col. Augustus Meyrick’s collection of armour
for exhibition at Manchester 1857, and at South Kensington Dec.
1868; rearranged the armour at Tower of London 1869; granted
civil list pension of £100, 21 June 1871; author of The descent
of the Danube from Ratisbon to Vienna 1828; The history of
British costumes 1834, 3 ed. 1874; The pursuivant of arms or
heraldry founded upon facts 1852, 3 ed. 1874; The conqueror
and his companions, 2 vols. 1874; A cyclopædia of costumes,
2 vols. 1876–9; Extravaganzas, 5 vols. 1879, with portrait;
wrote 72 original pieces, also 96 translations and adaptations.
_d._ 10 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 30 May 1880. _Planché’s
Recollections and reflections_, 2 _vols._ (1872); _Biograph iii_
225–38 (1880); _Journal of British Archæol. Association xxxvi_
261–5 (1880); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_ 257–76 (1883);
_Illustrated Review_, _ii_ 353–55 (1870); _Cartoon portraits_
(1873) 102–103; _Illust. news of the world vii_ 273 (1861)
_portrait_; _The Critic xix_ 444 (1859) _portrait_; _Theatre ii_
95–99 (1880) _portrait_.
PLANK, WILLIAM (son of James Plank). _b._ Wandsworth, Surrey 7
Nov. 1767; educ. under W. Franks at Clapham to 1781; apprenticed
to his brother James Plank, a calico printer, London 28 May
1782; took up his freedom in the Salters’ Co. 20 Oct. 1789, the
father of the Salters’ Co.; resided at Harrow from 1811; had
a dinner party on 7 Nov. 1867, and _d._ Harrow 19 Nov. 1867,
being 100 years and 12 days old. _W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man_
(1879) 252–5; _G.M. iv_ 783, 833 (1867).
PLANT, JAMES (son of Robert Fisher Plant, stationer, Leicester).
_b._ Leicester 1818; a well known geologist; F.G.S.; an
authority on questions respecting coal and water supply; a
frequent attendant at meetings of the British association. _d._
Leicester 8 Nov. 1892.
PLANT, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester Oct.
1819; educ. at the national school and at the mechanics’
institution; articled to T. Paget, surgeon, Leicester; an
assistant in his father’s business; hon. sec. of Leicester
naturalists’ club 1844; curator of the Literary and
philosophical society’s museum; discovered fossiliferous keuper
sandstone near Leicester 1844; sec. and librarian of the
library, Leicester 1846, where he arranged and catalogued 10,000
books; librarian and curator of the Museum and public library,
Peel park, Salford Oct. 1849 to April 1892, it became one of the
chief attractions in Manchester and the most popular holiday
resort in Lancashire, the library containing 60,000 volumes;
F.G.S. 1864; lieut. 56 Salford rifle volunteers 12 April 1873,
captain 8 Jany. 1876 to April 1885; made a special study of the
coal measure fishes near Manchester, and of the Cambrian fossils
near Dolgelly; a selection of his fossils is in the British
museum, including the olenus planti named after him; author of
Guide to the general collections in the Salford museum 1860;
Catalogue of the library of the Manchester geological society
1875; Descriptive catalogue of pictures in the Salford art
gallery and museum 1883. _d._ Rhosnegir, near Holyhead 18 Jany.
1894, portrait placed on walls of Salford free library 1893.
_Geological magazine June 1892 pp._ 286–8 _portrait_; _The Times
10 Jany. 1894 p._ 5; _The Library vi_ 93 (1894).
PLANT, NATHANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester
1832; curator of museum of Leicester philosophical and literary
society 5 years; spent 16 years in Brazil mining and exploring
1851–67; F.G.S. 1867, F.R.G.S. _d._ London Aug. 1875.
PLANT, THOMAS LIVESLEY (son of George Halewood Plant, iron
merchant). _b._ Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire 1819; educ. St.
Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, near Durham; representative in
Birmingham of W. H. Smith and Son, the advertising contractors
1849–81; kept systematic records of meteorology 1837 to
death, furnished meteorological information to The Times and
contributed to the local press; author of Meteorology: its study
important for our good, Birmingham 1862. _found dead_ in the
train at New st. station, Birmingham 31 Aug. 1883. _Athenæum 8
Sept. 1883 p._ 310.
PLATT, JAMES (son of Henry Platt of Dobcross, Saddleworth,
Yorkshire, maker of woollen machinery, removed to Oldham 1821,
_d._ 1842). _b._ 1823 or 1824; partner in Hibbert, Platt and
Sons, Oldham 1845; member of Oldham town council; M.P. Oldham 31
March 1857 to death; accidentally shot by Josiah Radcliffe when
shooting on the moors at Greenfield 27 Aug. 1857, _d._ Ashway
Gap, near Oldham 27 Aug. 1857. _Fortunes made in business iii_
426–7 (1887).
PLATT, JOHN T. (brother of James Platt, _d._ 1857). _b._
Dobcross 15 Sept. 1817; member of firm of Hibbert, Platt and
Sons of Oldham 1837, Joseph Platt _d._ 1845, Mr. Hibbert _d._
1846; firm employed 2,500 men, business converted into a limited
liability company 1 Jany. 1868, chairman of the company to his
death; sheriff of Carnarvon 1863; helped to obtain incorporation
of Oldham 1849; mayor 1854, 1855, and a third time; gave large
sums to the Oldham lyceum 1847–65; M.P. Oldham 13 July 1865 to
death. _d._ Hotel Maurice, Paris 18 May 1872. _bur._ Oldham,
statue unveiled at Oldham Sept. 1878. _I.L.N. lx_ 537 (1872)
_portrait_; _Fortunes made in business iii_ 419–85 (1887)
_portrait_.
NOTE.--The commercial prosperity of Oldham is mainly due to his
influence as an engineer and a large employer of labour and to his
untiring energy.
PLATT, THOMAS (4 son of Samuel Platt, clerk of the papers of
court of king’s bench). _b._ Blackfriars, London 14 Sept. 1800;
educ. St. Paul’s school 1812–16; barrister L.I. 9 June 1826;
author of A practical treatise on the law of covenants 1829;
A treatise on the law of leases, 2 vols. 1847. _d._ Brockley
lodge, Finchley, Middlesex 14 Dec. 1886.
PLATT, SIR THOMAS JOSHUA (eld. son of Thomas Platt of Brunswick
sq. London, solicitor). _b._ 1789; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher
1835–45; became a leader on the home circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834;
baron of court of exchequer 27 Jany. 1845, retired 2 Nov. 1856;
knighted at St. James’s palace 23 April 1845. _d._ 59 Portland
place, London 10 Feb. 1862. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Ballantine’s
Some experiences_, _8 ed._ (1883) 46–47; _Foss’s Judges ix_
244–5 (1864).
PLATT, THOMAS PELL (son of Thomas Platt). _b._ London 1798;
pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. 25 Nov. 1815, scholar 3 April
1818, minor fellow 2 Oct. 1820, major fellow 2 July 1823; B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823; librarian of the British and foreign bible
society some years and a defender of the society in 1827 from
an attack made on their publications in the Quarterly Review
June 1827 pp. 1–28; an early member of Royal Asiatic society and
acted as one of its oriental translation committee many years;
F.S.A.; author of A catalogue of the Æthiopic biblical MSS. in
the royal library of Paris and in the library of the British and
foreign bible society 1823; edited Evangelia sancta in linguam
Amharicam 1824; Evangelia sancta Æthiopice 1826; The Gospels in
Syriac 1829; The Ethiopic Didascalia 1834; The books of the Old
Testament in Amharic 1871; author of Facts respecting versions
of scripture published by the Bible Society in reply to the
Quarterly Review 1827, 3 ed. 1828; The literal interpretation
of scripture enforced 1831. _d._ Dulwich hill, Surrey 31 Oct.
1852. _T. H. Horne’s Introduction to critical study of the holy
scriptures_, _10 ed. iv_ 317–20, 733 (1856); _G.M. Dec. 1852 p._
660.
PLAYER, JOHN. _b._ Elberton, Gloucs. 1808; manager of Gwendraeth
iron works 1838; introduced anthracite as a fuel for blast
furnaces and steam boilers; a steamer called the Anthracite ran
for some time on the Thames below London bridge 1839, which
attracted much notice; built many blast furnaces; settled at
Philadelphia 1868; invented ‘mineral wool’ from iron slag. _d._
Philadelphia 11 March 1870.
PLAYFAIR, GEORGE RANKEN (son of George Playfair). Educ. at
Edinburgh univ.; M.D. 1838; surgeon in navy of H.E.I.C.S.
and saw service in the Phlegthan during the first China war
1840; assistant surgeon Bengal 3 Nov. 1844; civil surgeon at
Jaharunpore, where he gained experience as a lithotomist; on
the Agra circle, present at siege of Lucknow 1857; inspector
general 29 March 1871; retired surgeon general Bengal 31 March
1872; wrote on Continued fever. _d._ Longridge road, South
Kensington, London 4 Oct. 1881. _Lancet 8 Oct. 1881 p._ 651, _15
Oct. p._ 689.
PLAYFAIR, SIR HUGH LYON (3 son of James Playfair 1738–1819,
principal of St. Andrew’s univ.) _b._ Meigle, East Perthshire
17 Nov. 1786; educ. Dundee gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ.;
lieut. Bengal artillery 14 May 1805; adjutant and quartermaster
of the horse artillery 15 Nov. 1809, at siege of fortress of
Ralunga Nov. 1814, captain 5 Oct. 1815; granted freedom of city
of St. Andrew’s 1820; superintendent of the great military road,
telegraph towers and post office department between Calcutta
and Benares 1820–7; major in command of the fourth battalion
of artillery at Dum-Dum June 1827 to 4 July 1831, resigned the
service 10 Feb. 1834; provost of St. Andrew’s 1842 to death;
established a public library and revived the celebrated St.
Andrew’s golf club 1834; his portrait by sir J. W. Gordon placed
in the old town hall 1847; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1856; knighted
at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; author of First catechism
of the principles of religion 1853. _d._ St. Leonard’s, St.
Andrew’s 21 Jany. 1861. _D. Louden’s Biographical sketch of sir
H. L. Playfair_ (1874); _Memoirs of sir H. L. Playfair_ (1861)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. x_ 176 (1847) _portrait_, _xxxviii_ 103
(1861).
PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM HENRY (son of James Playfair of London,
architect). _b._ Russel sq. London July 1789; pupil of Wm.
Starke of Glasgow, architect; architect in Edinburgh 1812 to
death; laid out part of the new town 1815; rebuilt and enlarged
the university buildings 1817–24; designed the Royal and Regent
terraces 1829; designed the observatory 1814–18, advocates’
library 1819, royal institution 1822–36, college of surgeons
1830, St. Stephen’s church 1826–8, and the Free church college
1846–50; constructed Donaldson’s hospital in the Tudor style
1842–8; designed the monument to his uncle professor John
Playfair 1820, and that to Dugald Stewart on the Calton hill
1830; designed the National gallery of Scotland in the classical
style, first stone laid 30 Aug. 1850, and the unfinished
national monument on the Calton Hill 1822–6; his classical
buildings have gained for Edinburgh the sobriquet of the ‘Modern
Athens’; built many country houses and mansions; author of
Report concerning completion of the college of Edinburgh 1816;
Report on laying out the new town between Edinburgh and Leith
1819. _d._ 17 Great Stuart street, Edinburgh 19 March 1857.
_Dictionary of architecture vi_ 134 (1881); _Building News iii_
359–60 (1857).
PLENDERLEATH, CHARLES. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49
foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when
placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present
at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney
creek in America. _d._ Florence 1 Jany. 1854.
PLEON, TOM, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. _b._ 1862;
appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown
and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York
in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as
Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic
Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music
halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being
known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian
comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic
dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the
sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane
1887–91. _d._ Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April
1892.
PLEWS, JOHN MACKAY. _b._ 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray
brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new
brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect
1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was
a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten
varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale.
_d._ Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. _A. Barnard’s
Noted breweries iv_ 410–35 (1891); _The Brewers’ Journal 15 June
1890 p._ 385.
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, EDWARD (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869).
_b._ 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840;
barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24
Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July
1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3
April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July
1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons
April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March
to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of
navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board
Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on
education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov.
1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member
of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the
corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and
other countries; director of the Great Western railway company
and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters
in The Times over the initials E. B. P. _d._ 44 Wilton crescent,
London 16 Dec. 1889. _Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp._ 10, 11.
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, PHILIP (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828).
_b._ Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth
1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65;
sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman
for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. _d._ Clyffe
hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872.
PLINT, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist;
was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec.
to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years;
a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech
delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies
1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent
1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851.
_d._ Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. _R. V. Taylor’s
Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 471.
PLINT, THOMAS EDWARD. _b._ 1823; stock and share broker Leeds,
suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost
£25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas,
and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his
pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising
£18,391. _d._ Leeds 11 July 1861. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 497; _Art Journal Aug. 1861 p._ 255, _April
1862 p._ 105.
PLOW, ANTHONY JOHN (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94,
rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863
to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles
Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the
servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs.
Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he _d._ of his
wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. _Annual register_
(1868) 22–4.
PLOWDEN, CHARLES JOSEPH. _b._ 1804; head of firm of Plowden and
Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count
by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. _d._ the Palazetto, Rome 28
Feb. 1884.
PLOWDEN, FLORENCE. _b._ 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the
Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles
Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W.
S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at
Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the
Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during
Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No
Escape company to 1881; _m._ Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter
and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. _d._ 3 Royal
terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890.
PLOWDEN, TREVOR JOHN CHICHELE. _b._ 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal
N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879;
adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr.
first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and
political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge;
C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a
singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the
Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W.
C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The
Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. _d._ Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887.
PLOWDEN, WALTER CHICHELE (youngest son of Trevor Chichele
Plowden of the Bengal civil service). _b._ 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in
office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in
Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White
Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England
1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in
the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel
chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka
river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for
1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he
_d._ 13 March 1860. _W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and
the Galla country_ (1868), _memoir pp. vii–x_; _Foreign office
list July 1860 p._ 146.
PLOWDEN, WILLIAM HENRY CHICHELE (4 son of Richard Chichele
Plowden, a director of the H.E.I. Co., _d._ Jany. 1830). _b._
1790; educ. Westminster; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1805; president
of British factory in China; superintendent of British trade
there 1833; a director of East India company 1841–54; contested
Nottingham 24 July 1837; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1847–52;
contested Newport 9 July 1852; F.R.S. 15 April 1847. _d._
Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, Hants. 29 March 1880.
PLOWMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Oxford 1811; reporter for the Oxford
journal 1829–62; started the Oxford times 1862, which he
transferred to a company 1867; university correspondent of the
Morning post to death; opened the first reading room in Oxford;
a singer and a speaker at public dinners. _d._ Oxford 9 Nov.
1867. _Newspaper Press 2 Dec. 1867 p._ 8.
PLUMPTRE, CHARLES JOHN (eld. son of Edward Hallows Plumptre of
London, solicitor 1785–1851). _b._ London 28 March 1818; educ.
King’s college, London; barrister G.I. 5 June 1844; established
with Edward Wm. Cox and others The Public reading society and
gave the first penny readings for the people 1858–60; lectured
on elocution, especially at the universities and theological
colleges; lecturer on elocution at Oxford 1860–5; professor of
elocution at King’s college, London 1866; lectured on elocution
at Downing coll. Camb. 1878; professor of rhetoric in Hyde park
college and at Crystal Palace school of literature and art;
edited with George Harris The county courts chronicle, vols.
xi and xii 1860–61; author of The principles and practice of
elocution 1861, 5 ed. 18--; King’s college lectures on elocution
1870, 4 ed. 1883; The culture of voice and speech 1874; The
right mode of respiration in regard to speech, song, and health
1886. _d._ 36 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 15 June
1887. _C. J. Plumptre’s King’s college lectures on elocution_
(1882) _portrait_; _Law Times 16 July 1887 p._ 212; _Victoria
Mag. Oct. 1879 pp._ 557–60 _portrait_.
PLUMPTRE, EDWARD HAYES (brother of preceding). _b._ 6 Aug. 1821;
educ. King’s coll. London 1839–40; scholar of Univ. coll. Oxf.
1841–4; double first class 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; fellow of
Brasenose coll. 1844–8; chaplain of King’s coll. London 1847,
resigned May 1868, professor of pastoral theology 1853–63,
professor of exegesis of Holy scriptures 1864–81; select
preacher at Oxford 1851–3, 1864–6, and 1872–3; dean of Queen’s
coll. Harley st. London 1855–75, principal of the college
1875–7, founded a scholarship in the college; assistant preacher
at Lincoln’s Inn 1851–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1863–81; R.
of Pluckley, Kent 1869–73; V. of Bickley. Kent 1873–81; Boyle
lecturer Oxford 1866–7; a member of the Old Testament revision
committee 1869–74 and translator and editor of several portions
of the Bible; Grinfield lecturer and examiner in school of
theology at Oxford 1872–4; dean of Wells 6 Dec. 1881 to death;
author of Lazarus and other poems 1864, 4 ed. 1884; Master and
scholar 1866, poems; Biblical studies 1870, 3 ed. 1885; Theology
and life 1884; The spirits in prison and other studies on life
after death 1884; The divine commedia and canzoniere of Dante
Alighieri, with biographical introduction, notes, and essays,
2 vols. 1886–7; Wells cathedral and its deans 1888; The life
of Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells 1888; translated The
tragedies of Sophocles 1865 and of Æschylus 1868; his name
appears on upwards of 60 publications 1849–90. _d._ the deanery,
Wells 1 Feb. 1891. _bur._ cathedral cemet. _Church portrait
journal iii_ 9 (1882) _portrait_; _Good Words April 1891 pp._
233–37 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1881 p._ 536 _portrait and 7
Sept. 1891 p._ 167 _portrait_.
PLUMPTRE, FREDERICK CHARLES (3 son of Charles Plumptre of Long
Newton, Durham). _b._ 17 Aug. 1796; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A.
1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college
1817–36, tutor 1820, dean and bursar 1821, master Dec. 1836
to his death; vice-chancellor 1848–51; took an active part in
university business, delegate of estates and privileges in the
university. _d._ University college 21 Nov. 1870. _bur._ in
college chapel 25 Nov. _I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1870 p._ 578; _Times 22
Nov. 1870 p._ 6, _26 Nov. p._ 6.
PLUMRIDGE, SIR JAMES HANWAY (son of James Plumridge of London,
architect). _b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 1787; entered
navy 6 Sept. 1799; commander 7 June 1814; commanded the Sappho
brig at St. Helena and on the Irish station 1818–21; captain 9
Oct. 1822; captain of the Magicienne frigate in the East Indies
1831–5; superintendent of the Falmouth packets 7 April 1837
to 1841; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1841–7; storekeeper of the
ordnance 23 June 1842 to 1847; second in command on the East
Indies station 1847–50; R.A. 7 Oct. 1852; commanded the flying
squadron in the Baltic 7 March 1854 to Feb. 1855; superintendent
of Devonport dockyard 19 Feb. 1855 to 4 Dec. 1857; member of
order of St. John of Jerusalem 12 Dec. 1857; K.C.B. 5 July
1855; V.A. 28 Nov. 1857; admiral of the blue 27 April 1863.
_d._ Hopton hall, near Lowestoft 29 Nov. 1863. _G. B. Earp’s
History of the Baltic campaign from documents furnished by sir
C. Napier_ (1857) 45, 620.
PLUNKET, WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKET, 1 Baron (youngest son of
Thomas Plunket, presbyterian minister, Enniskillen, _d._ Dublin;
1778). _b._ Enniskillen 1 July 1764; matric. in univ. of Dublin
1779; scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1781; B.A. 1784; LL.B 1787,
LL.D. 1799; called to Irish bar Jany. 1787; K.C. 1797; M.P.
Charlemont, co. Armagh, in Irish parliament 1798–1800; appeared
for the prosecution on the trial of Robert Emmett for rebellion
Sept. 1803; solicitor general for Ireland 5 Nov. 1803 to 1805;
attorney general 23 Oct. 1805 to 15 May 1807, and 15 Jany. 1822
to 18 June 1827; M.P. Midhurst 26 Jany. to 29 April 1807; M.P.
Trinity college, Dublin univ. 1812–27; succeeded Henry Grattan
as champion of the Roman Catholic claims 1820; P.C. 10 May
1827 and 23 March 1831; chief justice of Irish court of common
pleas 18 June 1827 to 23 Dec. 1830; created baron Plunket of
Newton, co. Cork 1 May 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland 23 Dec.
1830 to Nov. 1834, and 30 April 1835 to 17 June 1841. _d._ Old
Connaught, co. Wicklow 4 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet.
Dublin 7 Jany. _D. Plunket’s Life of lord Plunket_, 2 _vols._
(1867) _portrait_; _W. H. Curran’s Sketches of the Irish bar i_
127–53 (1855); _O’Flanagan’s Lord chancellors of Ireland ii_
403–621 (1870); _R. L. Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish bar i_
98, 119, _ii_ 377 (1854); _Dublin Univ. mag. xv_ 258–66 (1840)
_portrait_; _J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons_
(1870) 157–210; _O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of
Ireland_ (1879) 210–45; _Law Review xix_ 225–48 (1854); _Law
mag. and review xix_ 44–9 (1865); _W. C. Taylor’s National
portrait gallery iv_ 80 (1848) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxiv_ 38,
58 (1854) _portrait_; _J. C. Hoey’s Speeches of lord Plunket_
(1856).
PLUNKET, THOMAS SPAN PLUNKET, 2 Baron (eld. son of preceding).
_b._ Dublin 1792; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1814,
and at Trin. Dublin, M.A. 1822, B.D. and D.D. 1840; dean of
Down 8 Oct. 1831; bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 1839 to
death, consecrated at Ch. Ch. Dublin; P.C. Ireland 1846; an
ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1851 to death; succeeded as 2
baron 5 Jany. 1854. _d._ Lommakeady lodge, co. Galway 19 Oct.
1866.
PLUNKET, JOHN SPAN PLUNKET, 3 Baron (brother of preceding). _b._
10 July 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1822;
called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 1 July 1837; leading counsel
for the crown in Dublin and on the Munster circuit; assistant
barrister for co. Meath; bencher of King’s Inns 1849; succeeded
as 3 baron Plunket 19 Oct. 1866. _d._ St. Valarey, Bray, co.
Dublin 16 April 1871. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery. _Irish Law
times v_ 200 (1871); _I.L.N. lviii_ 427 (1871).
PLUNKETT, CHARLES DAWSON (3 son of 11 baron Louth 1757–1823).
_b._ 1813; ensign 1 foot 11 Oct. 1833, lieut. col. 26 June 1866,
retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. 18 Nov. 1868; served
in Crimean war 1855; knight of the legion of honour 1857. _d._
Killiney, co. Dublin 19 May 1886.
PLUNKETT, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1826, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849.
_d._ 47 Mountjoy square, Dublin 5 Aug. 1872.
PLUNKETT, JOHN HUBERT (younger twin son of George Plunkett of
Roscommon). _b._ Mount Plunkett, co. Roscommon June 1802; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1826, went
Connaught circuit; solicitor general of New South Wales Oct.
1831 to 1836, attorney general 1836–56; member of legislative
council 1831–56; chairman of National school board 1848–56;
retired on a pension 1856; member for Argyle in legislative
assembly 1856; member of legislative council 1857–8, and
president Jany. 1857 to Feb. 1858; president of the board
of education to Feb. 1858; minister without a portfolio of
the Martin government Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865; author of The
Australian magistrate, or a guide to the duties of a justice
of the peace, Sydney 1840, 4 ed. 1866; The magistrate’s pocket