Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 12)

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.

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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.