Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 13)

PAUL, Robert Bateman (eld. son of Richard Paul, rector of Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall, d. 7 Dec. 1805). b. St. Columb-Major, Cornwall 21 March 1798; educ. Truro gr. sch. and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1817 to 11 Jany. 1827, bursar and tutor 1825; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; public examiner in classics 1826–7; C. of Probus, Cornwall to Jany. 1824; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1825–9; V. of Llantwit-Major with Llyswarney, Glamorganshire 1829–35; V. of St. John, Kentish Town, London 1845–8; V. of St. Augustine, Bristol 1848–51; went to New Zealand 1851; archdeacon of Waimea or Nelson 1855–60; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1864–72; prebendary of Lincoln 1867 to death; confrater of Browne’s hospital, Stamford 1868 to death; author of An analysis of Aristotle’s ethics 1829, 2 ed. 1837; An analysis of Aristotle’s rhetoric 1830; Journal of a tour to Moscow 1836; History of Germany 1847; Some account of the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand 1854; Letters from Canterbury 1857; New Zealand as it was and as it is 1861; The autobiography of a Cornish rector. By the late James Hamley Tregenna [pseudonym] 2 vols. 1872; published many editions of the plays of Sophocles and translations of German handbooks on subjects of geography and antiquities. d. Barnhill Stamford 6 June 1877. bur. Little Casterton churchyard 9 June. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 431–3, iii 1303 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 662, 1394–5.

PAUL, Thomas Henry. b. 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; ensign 5 Bengal N.I. 6 Oct. 1801, captain 16 Dec. 1814; major 20 N.I. 22 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 30 July 1828, col. 9 July 1840 to death; general 22 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Melcombe place, Dorset sq. London 11 June 1866.

PAUL, William. b. 1810; connected with journalism from 1834; proprietor of The Chronicle of Convocation 1859 till it was remodelled by lower house of convocation; edited the Railway Times to 1881. d. at his house, West Kensington, London 12 April 1884. Railway Times 19 April 1884 p. 496.

PAUL, William (son of rev. William Paul, professor of natural philosophy, Aberdeen). b. Manse of Marycutter 27 Sept 1804; M.A. Aberdeen 1822, D.D. 1853; assistant minister of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeen 1826, minister 1834 to death; author of Analysis of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1852; The scriptural account of creation vindicated by the teaching of science 1870; Past and present of Aberdeenshire 1881. d. Banchory-Devenish manse, end of April 1884. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 2, p. 494 (1871).

PAULET, Frederick (5 son of 13 Marquess of Winchester 1765–1843). b. 12 May 1810; ensign Coldstream guards 11 June 1826, lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 13 Dec. 1860; M.G. 13 Dec. 1860; col. 32 foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death; comptroller of the household and equerry to the duchess of Cambridge 1867 to death; L.G. 12 Feb. 1870; officer of the legion of honour 1856; C.B. 29 Dec. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 1 March 1860. d. D2 the Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1871.

PAULET, George (brother of preceding). b. Rupert house, Southampton 12 Aug. 1803; educ. royal naval college; embarked 18 Dec. 1819; captain 18 Nov. 1833, R.A. 21 July 1856, V.A. 3 April 1863, admiral 20 March 1867; the king of the Sandwich islands having offered indignities to British subjects, the islands were ceded to Paulet in Feb. 1843, but restored 31 July 1843; commanded Bellerophon 7 Nov. 1850 to 1855; aide-de-camp to the queen 22 Sept. 1854 to 21 July 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Nov. 1879.

PAULET, Sir Henry Charles, 1 Baronet (1 son of vice-admiral lord Henry Paulet 1767–1832). b. 1 Aug. 1814; cornet 2 dragoon guards 13 Nov. 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1839, sold out 4 Aug. 1843; cr. a baronet 18 March 1836; a verderer of the New Forest; chairman of New Forest hunt club; often acted as a judge of horses at agricultural shows; resided 5 St. James’ place, London. d. Little Testwood, Southampton 11 Dec. 1886. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 72 (1887).

PAULET, William (brother of George Paulet 1803–79). b. Amport house, Andover, Hants 7 July 1804; educ. Eton; ensign 85 foot 1 Feb. 1821; major 68 foot 18 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 21 April 1843, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1847; assistant adjutant-general of the cavalry division in the Crimea 8 March to 18 Nov. 1854; served at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commandant at Scutari 19 Nov. 1854 to 18 Jany. 1855; was in command on the Bosphorus at Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 19 Jany. 1855 to 9 Sept. 1855; commanded the light division in the Crimea; commanded the first brigade at Aldershot 1856–60, and the south-western district 1860–5; adjutant general of the forces 1 July 1865 to 30 Sept. 1870; colonel of 87 foot 27 July 1863, and of 68 foot 9 April 1864 to death; general 7 Oct. 1874, field-marshal 10 July 1886; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 18 St. James’ sq. London 9 May 1893. Times 10 May 1893 p. 5; Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p. 8 portrait.

PAULI, Georg Reinhold. b. Berlin 25 May 1823; private sec. to C. C. J. baron de Bunsen, Prussian ambassador in England 1852–5; professor of history at Rostock 1857, at Tubingen 1859, at Marburg 1867, and Gottingen 1869 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 15 April 1874, hon. LL.D. Edinb. 22 April 1874; edited J. Gower’s Confessio amantis 1857; The libell of English policye 1878; author of The life of king Alfred, a translation revised by the author 1852; Der Hansische Stahlhof in London, Bremen 1856; Der Gang der internationalen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und England, Gotha 1859; Bilder aus Alt-England 1860; Pictures of Old England, translated by E. C. Otté 1861; Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester 1876. d. Bremen 3 June 1882. Allgemeine Deutsche biographie xxv 268–73 (1887); F. Frensdorff’s R. Pauli, Gottingen (1882); The Academy 17 June 1882 p. 433.

PAULING, Henry John. b. Rochester 10 March 1821; district engineer of Wellington railway, Cape Town 1859, resident engineer 1864; chief resident engineer of the western railways 1881; engineer in chief to Cape government railways 1885–91, having control of 2,000 miles of lines; M.I.C.E. 4 May 1880. d. Cape Town 8 Sept. 1892. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxii 359 (1893).

PAULL, James. b. 1781; D.D. of St. Andrews 1844; minister of College chapel of ease, Aberdeen 1804–12; minister of Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire 1813; convenor of Supplementary orphan fund; moderator of general assembly 1846; one of her majesty’s chaplains in ordinary in Scotland 29 May 1852 to death. d. Tullynessle 21 Oct. 1858. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 2, p. 571 (1871).

PAULSON, Henry. b. Nottingham 4 May 1819; a ballast-heaver at Nottingham; beat Tom Paddock for £25 a side at Sedgebrook near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851; beaten by Paddock for £50 a side at Cross End near Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, there was a disgraceful riot, both men were apprehended and sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment in Derby gaol with hard labour, March 1852; beaten by Paddock for £100 a side at Mildenhall, Suffolk 14 Feb. 1854, in 102 rounds lasting 152 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers £50 a side at Appledore, Kent 29 Jany. 1856, in 109 rounds lasting 3 hours and 8 minutes; beat Harry Tyson £50 a side at Kentish Marshes 14 May 1859. d. at his daughter’s house, Newmarket yard, Sneinton Market, Nottingham 11 Dec. 1890. bur. 15 Dec. F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 277–83, 371–9 (1881); Illust. sporting news iii 261 (1861) portrait; Sportsman 12 Dec. 1890 p. 4.

PAULTON, Abraham Walter (son of Walter Paulton of Bolton, Lancs.) b. Bolton 1812; educ. Stonyhurst college; apprenticed to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton; lectured for the anti-corn-law league 1838–9; editor at Manchester of the Anti-corn-law circular April 1839, the title was changed to Anti-bread-tax circular in April 1841; edited in London the League newspaper Sept. 1843 to 1846; purchased with Henry Rawson the Manchester Times which he edited 1848–54; great friend of John Bright and Richard Cobden. d. Boughton hall, Guildford, Surrey 6 June 1876. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Prentice’s Anti-corn-law league i 64 et seq. (1853).

PAUMIER, Mungo Noble. b. 1813; tragedian; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre 17 May 1836 as Hamlet; acted in many of the principal theatres in Great Britain; lessee of Whitehaven theatre 1867–71. d. Castle view, Egremont, Whitehaven, of cancer of the tongue 31 Jany. 1876. bur. Egremont cemet. 3 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1876 p. 5; Cumberland Pacquet 8 Feb. 1876 p. 3.

PAUNCEFOTE, Bernard (only son of Bernard Pauncefote of Cuddalore, Madras presidency). b. Cuddalore 28 June 1848; educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1870; played his first cricket match at Lords in the match Marlborough v. Rugby 3 and 4 July 1865; scored 211 runs not out in a match Brasenose v. Corpus at Oxford 3 June 1868; in the Oxford univ. eleven 1868–70, captain 1869–70; played in the match Gentlemen v. Players 1869; student at Inner Temple 9 May 1870; a merchant at Colombo in Ceylon 1875. d. Blackheath, Kent 24 Sept. 1882.

PAUNCEFORT, Georgiana (dau. of Mr. Edwards). b. 1825; came from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat 15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864; Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4 Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22 Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept. 1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876, Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878, Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880, Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept. 1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June 1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham 26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; m. (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at Boston and Philadelphia; m. (2) Mr. Cooke. d. 4 Shawfield st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. Era 28 Dec. 1895; T. A. Brown’s American Stage (1870) 281.

PAVER, William. b. 1802; registrar of births and deaths at 4 Rougier st. York 1867; author of Original genealogical abstracts of the wills of individuals of noble and ancient families resident in the county of York, Sheffield 1830; Pedigrees of families of the city of York, from a manuscript entitled “The heraldic visitations of Yorkshire consolidated,” York 1842; his collections relating to Yorkshire were bought by the British Museum 1874; his transcripts of marriage licenses commencing in 1567 were printed by rev. C. B. Norcliffe in Yorkshire archæological and topographical journal, vii 289 et seq. (1882). d. Rishworth st. Wakefield 1 June 1871.

PAXTON, James. b. London 11 Jany. 1786; M.R.C.S. 16 March 1810; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; served in army medical service; practised at Long Buckley, Northamptonshire 1816–21, at Oxford 1821–43, and at Rugby 1843–58; assistant surgeon to Oxfordshire militia; edited Paley’s Natural theology, with plates and notes, 2 vols. Oxford 1826; An introduction to the study of human anatomy, 2 vols. 1831–4, new ed. 1841 republished in America; The medical friend, or advice for the preservation of health, Oxford 1843; The works of W. Paley, 5 vols. 1845; Living streams, or illustrations of the natural history and diseases of the blood 1855. d. Ledwell, in parish of Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordshire 12 March 1860. E. Marshall’s Account of Sandford (1866) 40.

PAXTON, Sir Joseph (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near Woburn, Bedfordshire). b. Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821, constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40; travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height; succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of 1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854 to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières, France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president; F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844; edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley, Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. d. Rockhills, Sydenham 8 June 1865. bur. Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. Journal of horticulture viii 446 (1865) portrait; G.M. ii 247–9 (1865); Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p. 491: Practical Mag. vi 161 (1876) portrait; Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth iv 161 (1879) view of his house; The Crystal palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior (1851); I.L.N. xviii 343, 344 (1851) portrait, xlvi 601 (1865) portrait; Times 9 June 1865 p. 9, 16 June p. 9.

Note.—He devised a plan for girdling London with an arcade resembling the transept of the old Crystal palace, in which were to be lines of railway on the atmospheric principle, bordered by dwellings and shops. This plan he laid in detail before a committee of the house of commons in 1855.

PAYN, Sir William (son of William Payn of Kidwells, Maidenhead, clerk to the Thames comrs.) b. 3 Feb. 1823; ensign 53 foot 27 May 1842, lieut. col. 13 July 1858; lieut. col. 72 foot 14 Aug. 1860 to 2 Dec. 1876; served in the Sutlej and other campaigns in India 1845–52; staff officer at Smyrna March 1855 to May 1856; in the Indian mutiny 1857–8, present at Cawnpore and Lucknow; brigadier general in Bengal 14 June 1872 to 9 March 1877; C.B. 14 May 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; commanded Mysore division of Madras army 1879–84; general 12 Aug. 1888, placed on retired list 20 Feb. 1889; col. of Bedfordshire regt. 26 Jany. 1892 to death. d. Lynwood, Ashtead, Epsom 14 June 1893. Daily Graphic 21 June 1893 p. 14 portrait.

PAYN, William Henry (son of Anthony Payn of Dover). b. Dover 1802; educ. Henri Quatre college, Paris; solicitor at Dover 1827–79; proclaimed accession of queen Victoria at Dover 1837; coroner for Dover 1860–82; member of town council, mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Dover 16 April 1855, presented with diamond snuff box and gold medal by the emperor when he embarked for Calais 21 April 1855. d. Kearsney, near Dover 14 Sept. 1887. Law Times 29 Oct. 1887 p. 450.

PAYNE, Arthur Gay (son of John Robert Payne, d. 6 Nov. 1877). b. Camberwell, Surrey 7 Feb. 1840; educ. Univ. college school, London and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1866, coxswain of his college boat; a gourmet; a friend of J. G. Chambers (athlete 1843–83); advised and aided Matthew Webb the swimmer; sporting editor of the Standard 1871–83; assistant editor of Land and water to 1883; contributed to Bell’s Life in London and the Girls’ own paper; edited M. Webb’s Art of swimming [1875], and W. Cook’s Billiards 1884; edited Cassell’s Dictionary of cookery 1875–6, and wrote The principles of cookery, prefixed; author of Common sense cooking [1877]; Choice dishes at small cost 1882; Cassell’s Shilling cookery 1888; Cassell’s Popular cookery 1889; Cassell’s Vegetarian cookery 1891; edited The billiard news 1875–8; in Cassell’s Popular recreation 1873 he wrote on Conjuring, cricketing, etc. d. Bay View terrace, Penzance 1 April 1894.

PAYNE, Charles. Entered Bombay army 1803; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 12 Aug. 1805, captain 31 Oct. 1822; major 16 N.I. 29 Dec. 1828 to 16 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 16 Sept. 1833–9, of 13 N.I. 1839–44, of 13 N.I. 1844–5, and of 22 N.I. 1845–7; brigadier at Baroda 20 Sept. 1844 to March 1846; col. of 15 N.I. 9 June 1847 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. 24 April 1858.

PAYNE, Charles. b. 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5; whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65; huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. d. 30 Dec. 1893. bur. Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. Sporting Review xliv 14 (1860); Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp. 135–6.

PAYNE, Frederick (younger son of W. H. S. Payne 1804–78). b. Jany. 1841; first appeared in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; played harlequin at Covent Garden theatre about 1863–73; played harlequin also in the opening of E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; his mind became affected while playing in pantomine The yellow dwarf at Alexandra palace Jany. or Feb. 1877. d. 3 Alexandra road, Finsbury park, London 27 Feb. 1880. bur. Highgate cemet. 2 March. Era 29 Feb. 1880 p. 6.

PAYNE, Gallway Byng. Second lieut. R.M. 17 May 1831, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1858, col. 22 May 1862; col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864 to 12 June 1865, when he retired on full pay as major general. d. Torquay 19 May 1870.

PAYNE, George (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall, Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). b. 3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about £300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine 1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. d. 10 Queen st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 6 Sept. Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt (1888) 4, 99, 117–48 portrait; Rice’s British turf ii 296–388 (1879) portrait; Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 113–20 portrait; Baily’s Mag. i 183–6 (1860) portrait, xli 148–53 (1883); Westminster Papers x 139 (1878) portrait; Racing in Badminton library (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; Illust. sp. and dr. news iv 475, 496 (1876) portrait; Sporting Times 8 May 1875 pp. 305, 308 portrait.

PAYNE, Henry Edward (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). b. 1831; first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–; played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871; clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. d. Norfolk house 322 Camden road, London 27 Sept. 1895. bur. Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858 16 6. Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p. 832, 2 portraits; Illust. sporting news v 808 (1866) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xx 432 (1884) portrait; St. James’s Budget 4 Oct. 1895 p. 33 portrait; Era 28 Sept., 5 Oct., 24 Nov. 1895; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 214, 403, 721.

PAYNE, John. Officer in charge of H.M. Indian mails 31 years; his grandfather René Payne was the founder of the banking house of Smith, Payne and Smiths’, London 1759. d. Dove’s Nest, Margate 17 Dec. 1893.

PAYNE, John Howard (son of William Payne, schoolmaster). b. New York 9 June 1791; in a counting house 1805; first appeared at Park theatre, New York as Young Norval 24 Feb. 1809; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval 4 June 1813; played in principal cities of Great Britain; edited The opera glass, for peeping into the microcosm of the fine arts and more especially of the drama, London, 26 numbers 2 Oct. 1826 to 24 March 1827; resided in London and Paris, where he wrote dramas, chiefly adaptations from the French; his tragedy of Brutus was produced at Drury Lane 3 Dec. 1818 with Edmund Kean as Brutus; The accusation at Drury Lane 1 Feb. 1816; his dramas, Ali Pacha 19 Oct. 1822; The two galley slaves 6 Nov. 1822, and Charles the Second 3 May 1824, all at Covent Garden; his name is attached to upwards of 50 dramas; his song of Home sweet home, sung by Miss Tree in his Clari or the Maid of Milan, produced at Covent Garden 2 May 1823, made him famous all over the world, more than 100,000 copies were sold in twelve months; a friend and correspondent of Coleridge and Charles Lamb; returned to U.S. of America 1832; had a benefit at the Park theatre, New York 29 Nov. 1832 producing 4,200 dollars; American consul at Tunis 1841–4, and May 1851 to death. d. Tunis 10 April 1852, memorial monument in St. George’s cemet. Tunis, his body was reinterred in Oak Hill cemet. Washington June 1883, where is monument, colossal bust in Prospect park, Brooklyn. C. H. Brairard’s John Howard Payne (1885); Memoirs of J. H. Payne, the American Roscius (1815) portrait; Appleton’s American biog. iv 68 (1888) portrait; The Theatre vi 211–6 (1885).

PAYNE, Joseph (son of Wm. Payne of St. Alphage, London). b. 13 Nov. 1797; matric. from St. Edmund’s hall, Oxf. 6 May 1818; barrister L.I. 14 June 1825; migrated to Middle Temple; deputy assistant judge of court of sessions for Middlesex May 1859 to death; author of Lines written to commemorate the opening of London bridge 1831; An Easter Monday ode 1837; with F. A. Carrington Reports of cases at nisi prius 1825; and with J. B. Moore Reports of cases in the common pleas and exchequer chambers 1828. d. Westhill, Highgate 29 March 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery, where is marble memorial 16 feet high erected by friends of ragged schools and temperance societies. Illust. Times 19 Nov. 1870 p. 333, view of memorial in Highgate cemetery; Lectures edited by J. F. Payne (1883) portrait; Christian cabinet illustrated almanac for 1860 pp. 37–8.

PAYNE, Joseph. b. Bury St. Edmunds 2 March 1808; assistant master in a school in New Kent road, London 1828, a believer in Joseph Jacotot’s style of teaching; with Mr. Fletcher kept the Denmark Hill grammar school 1828–45; kept the Mansion house school at Leatherhead with great success 1845–63; member of council of Social science association 1871; chairman of council of Philological society 1873–4; chairman of the central committee of the Women’s education union 1871–5; professor of education at the College of preceptors, London Dec. 1872 to death; author of A compendious exposition of professor Jacotot’s celebrated system of education 1830; C. F. Lhomond’s Universal instruction, Epitome historiæ sacræ, a Latin reading book on Jacotot’s system 1831; Select poetry for children 1839, 18 ed. 1874; Studies in English poetry 1845, 8 ed. 1881; Studies in English prose 1868, 2 ed. 1881; A visit to German schools 1876; The works of Joseph Payne, edited by his son Dr. J. F. Payne, 2 vols. 1883–92, two portraits. d. 4 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 30 April 1876, portrait in common room of college of preceptors. Educational Times 1 June 1876.

PAYNE, Louisa. First appeared theatre royal Birmingham; under Mrs. Nye Chart at Brighton theatre many years, where she was a favourite; acted in The world Drury Lane 31 July 1880, and played Maligna in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Mother Goose at Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1880; played Ursula in Much ado about nothing 11 Oct. 1882, and Bessy in Faust 19 Dec. 1885, at Lyceum. d. from cancer at Elm Bank, Malvern 11 April 1887.

PAYNE, William (2 son of Wm. Payne of London). b. 1799; coroner of London and Southwark 1829 to death, revived the ancient practice of holding an inquest touching fires 22 Aug. 1845; chief clerk at the Guildhall, London 1833, resigned Oct. 1843; student G.I. 13 June 1832; barrister G.I. 22 Nov. 1843; high steward of Southwark and judge of borough court of record 1850 to death; serjeant-at-law 11 May 1858. d. 26 Brunswick sq. London 25 Feb. 1872. I.L.N. lx 207 (1872).

PAYNE, William Henry Schofield. b. City of London 1804; played small parts at T.R. Birmingham; studied pantomime and clowning under Grimaldi and Bologna at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1823; played small parts at Pavilion theatre 1825–31; played Medow Mawr the Welsh ogre in Charles Farley’s pantomime Hop o’ my thumb and his brothers at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1831, and Tasnar in Puss in boots 26 Dec. 1832; played harlequin to Grimaldi’s clown at Sadler’s Wells 1827, and dandy lover to young Joe Grimaldi’s clown; danced in grand ballet with Cerito, Grisi, and the Elsslers, and played in state before George IV, Wm. IV, Victoria, and Napoleon III; played Guy, earl of Warwick, in the pantomime at Covent Garden Dec. 1841; danced in a ballet at Vauxhall gardens 31 March 1847; played at T.R. Manchester 1848–54; in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; at Covent Garden about 1860–73; in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874. d. Calstock house, Dover 18 Dec. 1878. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii 204–5 (1881); Spectator 28 Dec. 1878 pp. 1633–4; Era 22 Dec. 1878 p. 12; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 57, 444, 721; The Sun 27 Dec. 1893 p. 1.

PAYNE, William John (eld. son of William Payne, serjeant-at-law 1799–1872). b. 1822; barrister L.I. 7 June 1844; counsel of the Southwark court of record 1852–72; steward of Southwark and judge of the Southwark court of record 1872 to death; coroner for duchy of Lancaster Jany. 1857 to death; recorder of Buckingham 10 Feb. 1866 to death; deputy coroner for the city of London and borough of Southwark Aug. 1843, coroner July 1872 to death. d. Fonthill, Reigate at midnight 14 April 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 19 April. Law Times 26 April 1884 p. 465.

PAYNE-SMITH, Robert (1 son of Robert Smith, land agent, d. 1827). b. Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 7 Nov. 1819; educ. Campden gr. sch. and Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1837; Boden Sanskrit scholar 1840, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1843; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843, B. and D.D. 1865; fellow of Pemb. coll. 1843–50; a well known Syriac scholar; C. of Crendon, Oxf. and C. of Thame Bucks.; classical master at Edinburgh academy 1847–53; incumbent of Trinity chapel, Edinb. 1848–53; head master of Kensington proprietary school 1853–7; sub-librarian at Bodleian library, Oxford 1857–65; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and R. of Ewelme 1865 to Jany. 1870; delivered the Bampton lectures on Prophecy a preparation for Christ 1869, 2 ed. 1871; helped to found Wycliffe hall 1877, chairman of council 1877 to death; canon of Christ Church 1865–71; dean of Canterbury Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Old Testament revision committee 1870–85; the intermediate church schools at Canterbury have been rechristened the Payne-Smith schools; edited Commentarii in Lucæ evangelium quæ supersunt Syriace 1858; Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars sexta codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendacos, complectens 1864; An Old Testament commentary for scripture readers in Genesis 1882, new ed. 1885; translated The third part of the Ecclesiastical history of John, bishop of Ephesus 1860; author of The authenticity and messianic interpretation of the prophecies of Isaiah vindicated 1862; Thesaurus Syriacus 1868–91; An exposition of the historical portion of Daniel 1886. d. the deanery, Canterbury 31 March 1895. bur. St. Martin’s churchyard 3 April, memorial in cathedral. Church portrait journal, v i (1884) portrait; Times 1 April and 3 April 1895.

PAYNTER, Howel (1 son of David Renwa Paynter). b. 1812; ensign 56 foot 21 Nov. 1828; lieut. 24 foot 5 April 1833, lieut. col. 14 Jany. 1849 to 8 Aug. 1851; wounded at Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Bath 13 Nov. 1851.

PAYNTER, James Aylmer Dorset (2 son of David Renwa Paynter of Dale castle, Pembroke). b. 21 Oct. 1814; entered navy 1 Jany. 1826; captain 17 April 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; mayor of Bath 1874–6; author of Notes on night quarters and boat service 1848. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 17 Dec. 1876.

PAYNTER, Joshua (son of Joshua W. Paynter). L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1837; assistant surgeon 60 foot 7 June 1839; surgeon 73 foot 11 Feb. 1848; surgeon 13 light dragoons 16 Aug. 1850 to 9 Feb. 1855, placed on h.p. 31 July 1857; deputy inspector general of hospitals 31 Dec. 1858; inspector general at Malta 4 Sept. 1867, retired 19 Oct. 1872; C.B. 20 May 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846 and Crimean war 1854–5. d. The Croft, Tenby 19 June 1883.

PAYNTER, Thomas (2 son of James Paynter of Boskenna, Cornwall 1748–1800). b. Boskenna 24 July 1794; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., senior optime Feb. 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; revising barrister Suffolk and Norfolk 1833; recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1838–41; police magistrate Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–5, at Hammersmith and Wandsworth 1845 to Dec. 1855, and at Westminster Dec. 1855 to death; author of The practice at elections, instructions for sheriffs and other returning officers 1837, 4 ed. 1852. d. 53 Thurloe square, London 20 April 1863.

PEABODY, George (2 son and 3 child of Thomas Peabody). b. Danvers, Massachusetts 18 Feb. 1795; managed his uncle’s business at Georgetown, Columbia 1812–4; opened with Elisha Riggs dry goods’ warehouse at Georgetown 1814, moved to Baltimore 1815, opened branches in New York and Philadelphia 1822; resided in London 1837 to death; retired from his American business 1843; a merchant and banker in London 1843 to death; negotiated in London a loan of £1,600,000 for the state of Maryland 1835; gave £2,000 for the Kane expedition in search of Franklin 1852; founded the Peabody institute at Baltimore 1857, gave it £200,000; gave Harvard university £60,000, 1866; gave £700,000 for negro education in the south 1866–9; presented £150,000 to the city of London in 1862 for the poor, gave altogether half a million to London from which the Peabody dwellings have been built, the first block was opened in Spitalfields 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 26 June 1867; bronze statue of him by W. W. Story, on east side of royal exchange unveiled by prince of Wales 28 July 1869; voted freedom of city of London 22 May 1862, admitted 10 July 1862; declined a baronetcy and the grand cross of the Bath. d. at the house of sir C. M. Lampson 80 Eaton sq. London 4 Nov. 1869, body lay for a month in Westminster abbey, taken to America and bur. at Danvers 8 Feb. 1870; personalty sworn under £400,000, 25 Nov. 1869. I.L.N. lv 498, 517–18, 519–20, 645, 648, 655, 661, 664–5 (1869), lvi 277–8 (1870); L. S. Mockett’s Men of our day (1868) 540–5; James Dafforne’s The Pictorial table book (1873) 121–22; H. N. F. Bourne’s Famous London merchants (1869) 285–300 portrait; Illust. Times 5 April 1862 p. 217, whole page portrait; Leisure hour xi 776 portrait, xv 471 portrait; S. T. Wallis’s Discourse on character of G. Peabody (1870); Appleton’s American biography iv 688–9 (1888) portrait.

PEACE, Charles (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). b. Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4 years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme, received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct. 1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany. 1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25 Feb. 1879. The life of C. Peace (London 1878) portrait; M. Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 257–63; Times 26 Feb. 1879 p. 10, cols. 1–3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb., 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March, 5 April 1879 portraits; Graphic xix 121 (1879) portrait; A. Griffiths’ Secrets of the prison house i 30, ii 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).

Note.—Nicholas Cock a policeman was shot by a burglar at Whalley Range, Manchester on 1 Aug. 1876, and William Habron, chiefly on the evidence of the police, was convicted of the offence and sent to penal servitude. Peace afterwards confessed that he had committed the murder and Habron was released 18 March 1879. Did Peace commit the Whalley Range murder (Manchester 1879).

His folding ladder by which he could ascend to a first floor window is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland yard, Thames Embankment.

PEACE, John (son of Peter Peace). bapt. St. Peter’s ch. Bristol 8 Dec. 1785; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb. for some terms; an acquaintance of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; keeper of the city library Bristol for 40 years: edited Sir T. Browne’s Religio medici, with resemblant passages from Cowper’s Task 1844; author of An apology for cathedral service, anon. 1839; A descant on the penny postage, signed XAP 1841; A descant upon railroads, signed XAP 1842. d. Swiss cottage, Durdham downs, Clifton 28 March 1861. Axiomata Pacis by J. Peace (1862) anon., memoir pp. v–xxi; G.M. x 577 (1861).

PEACE, Maskell William. b. 1834; solicitor Wigan 1855 to death; town clerk of Wigan 1866–85; sec. to Mining association of Great Britain; sec. of the Wigan coal and iron co.; sec. of the Lancashire association; great supporter of Wigan mining industry; author of South Lancashire and Cheshire coal association, report on private bills 1885; The coal mines regulation act 1888. d. Lynwood, Southport 9 Nov. 1892.

PEACH, Charles William (son of Charles Wm. Peach, yeoman). b. Wansford, Northamptonshire 30 Sept. 1800; a coastguardman at Weybourne, Norfolk Jany. 1824, at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to 1845; employed in the customs at Fowey, 1845–9, at Peterhead 1849–53, at Wick 1853, retired on a pension 1861; discovered many new species of sponges, cælenterates and molluscs; discovered fish remains in the Devonian rocks of the south west, and fossils which determined the age of the quartzites of Gorran Haven, and of the Durness limestone of Sutherlandshire; received Neill medal from royal society of Edinburgh 1875; author of 71 papers. d. Haddington place, Leith walk, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1886. Nature 11 March 1886 pp. 446–7; Academy xxix 171 (1886).

PEACH, William. b. 1796; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; Hulsean prizeman 1818; fellow of St. John’s 20 March 1820 to 1823; P.C. of Brampton, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1826 to death; rural dean of Brampton 1836; author of The probable influence of revelation on the writings of heathen philosophers, Hulsean essay 1819; Themis, a satire 1853; Cwm Dhu or the Black Dingle, and other poems 1853. d. Brampton 31 Jany. 1867.

PEACOCK, Sir Barnes (3 son of Lewis Peacock of 38 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitor and messenger to the great seal, d. 1839). b. 1810; practised as special pleader 1831–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836, bencher 10 May 1850 to death, reader 1864; one of the counsel for Daniel O’Connell in his appeal to the house of lords Aug. 1844; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; legal member of supreme council of the viceroy of India at Calcutta 2 April 1852 to April 1859; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 1859–70; vice-president of legislative council of India June 1859; knighted by patent 26 May 1859; P.C. 6 July 1870; a paid member of judicial committee of privy council 10 June 1872 to death. d. 40 Cornwall gardens, Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1890. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 250–7; I.L.N. 20 Dec. 1890 p. 771 portrait; Pictorial world 18 Dec. 1890 p. 772 portrait; Saturday Review lxx 675 (1890); Times 4 Dec. 1890 pp. 8 and 14.

PEACOCK, Dimitri Rudolf (son of Charles Peacock, estate manager). b. village of Shakmanovka, district of Kozlov in the government of Tambov, Russia 26 Sept. 1842; educ. at a school in England and univ. of Moscow; British vice-consul at Batoum 25 Oct. 1881, consul 27 Jany. 1890, consul general at Odessa 14 Oct. 1891 to death; author of Original vocabularies of five west Caucasian languages, Georgian, Mingrelian, Lazian, Svanetian, and Apkhazian in the Journal of Royal Asiatic society for 1877, pp. 145–56; wrote a book on the Caucasus, which has not been published. d. Odessa 23 May 1892. Times 17 June 1892 p. 8.

PEACOCK, Elizabeth, who was a Miss Stone. b. 1772; m. John William Peacock, cooper; successor to Johanna Southcott 1814; issued a proclamation to the believers in the divine mission of Johanna Southcott to attend their parish churches 3 June 1864; issued one number of The Morning Star Dec. 1864. d. 49 Westmoreland road, St. Peter’s, Walworth, Surrey 10 March 1875, aged 103.

PEACOCK, Frederick Barnes (eld. son of sir Barnes Peacock 1810–90). b. 1836; educ. Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1 Feb. 1857, registrar of the high court May 1864; student I.T. 16 April 1866, barrister 9 June 1880; officiating secretary to board of revenue Bengal Nov. 1871; a magistrate and collector July 1873; comr. of the Dacca division April 1878 to 1881, and of the Presidency division May 1881 to 1883; chief secretary to government of Bengal for the judicial, political and appointments departments March 1883 to 1890; an acting member of board of revenue 1884, member 1887–90, when he retired on annuity; C.S.I. 21 May 1890. d. on board the Britannia off Sicily 14 April 1894. Times 25 April 1894 p. 10.

PEACOCK, George (youngest son of Thomas Peacock 1756–1851, perpetual curate of Denton, near Darlington 50 years). b. Thornton hall, Denton 9 April 1791; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 21 Feb. 1809, scholar 12 April 1812, fellow 1814–39; second wrangler and second Smith’s prizeman 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, D.D. 1839; lecturer in mathematics at Trin. coll. 1815, joint tutor 1823–35, sole tutor 1835–9; moderator 1816–7, 1818–9 and 1820–1, and introducer of the symbols of differentiation into the papers set in the senate house 1816–7; one of the syndics for building the new observatory 1817, and for building the Fitzwilliam museum 1835; F.R S. 29 Jany. 1818, member of council 30 Nov. 1836, vice-president; F.R.A.S. 1820, F.G.S.; Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge Jany. 1837 to death; dean of Ely 7 May 1839 to death, installed 22 May, raised a large sum of money for restoration of the cathedral; prolocutor of the lower house of convocation 1841–7 and 1852–7; R. of Wentworth, near Ely 1847 to death; member of commission of enquiry into statutes of Cambridge university 1850, and of commission for making new statutes for the univ. and colleges 1855; author of A collection of examples of applications of the differential and integral calculus 1820; A treatise on algebra 1830; Syllabus of a course of lectures upon trigonometry and the application of algebra to geometry 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A treatise on algebra, 2 vols. 1842–5; Life of Thomas Young, M.D. 1855; edited vols. 1 and 2 of Young’s works 1855. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 8 Nov. 1858. bur. Ely cemetery. Proc. of Royal soc. ix 536–43 (1858); G.M. April 1859 pp. 426–8.

PEACOCK, George (son of Richard George Peacock, a master in the navy). b. Starcross, near Exeter 1805; entered navy 1828; master of the Medea steamer in the Mediterranean 21 Sept. 1835; made a survey of the isthmus of Corinth, marking line of a possible canal, presented with a gold snuff-box by king Otho 1836, and received order of the Redeemer of Greece 1882; resigned the navy 1840; superintended the building of the steamers of the Pacific steam navigation company, commanded the first steamer which he took through the Strait of Magellan, acted as the company’s marine superintendent 1841–6; started a company under style of Peacock and Buchan for manufacture of an anti-fouling composition for the bottoms of iron ships 1848; dockmaster at Southampton 1848–58; a shipowner at Starcross from 1858; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the Sahara for the discovery of nitrates 1860; took out a patent for chain cables 1873; edited Handbook of Abyssinia 1867; author of A treatise on ships’ cables, with the history of chains, their use and abuse 1873; The resources of Peru 1874, 4 ed. 1874; On the supply of nitrate of soda and guano from Peru 1878. d. at house of his son-in-law Henry Cookson, 16 Holly road, Fairfield, Liverpool 6 June 1883. bur. Starcross.

PEACOCK, John Macleay (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine, Perthshire). b. Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker; employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. d. Glasgow 4 May 1877. Selections of verse, edited by W. Lewin (1880) portrait.

PEACOCK, Mark Beauchamp. b. 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London 1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to death. d. Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.

PEACOCK, Richard (7 son of Ralph Peacock, superintendent of mines, d. 1843). b. Swaledale, North Riding of Yorkshire 9 April 1820; apprentice to Fenton, Murray, and Jackson, locomotive makers, Leeds 1834–8; locomotive superintendent Leeds and Selby railway 1838–40; worked under sir David Gooch on Great Western railway 1840–1; locomotive superintendent Manchester and Sheffield railway 1841–54, and builder of the Gorton locomotive depôt, Manchester; partner with Charles Beyer as locomotive and machine tool makers at Gorton 1854, with works covering 14 acres; experimented on the blast pipe and locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; a founder of the Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.P. Gorton 1885 to death. d. Gorton hall, Manchester 3 March 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii 404–7 (1889); W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 271–4 (1890) portrait; Figaro 9 March 1889 p. 9 portrait.

PEACOCK, Thomas Bevill (son of Thomas Peacock, merchant). b. York 21 Dec. 1812; apprentice to J. Fothergill, surgeon, Darlington 1828–33; studied at Univ. college, London, and at St. George’s hospital 1833–5; M.R.C.S. 1835; L.S.A. 1835; went two voyages to Ceylon 1835–6; house surgeon to the hospital at Chester 1838–42; M.D. Edinb. 1842; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1850, Croonian lecturer 1865; founded a dispensary in Liverpool st. London, which became the City of London hospital for diseases of the chest, physician to the hospital 1848; assistant physician to St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1849, physician 1862, retired 1877; dean of the medical school, delivered lectures on medicine to the nurses; a founder of the Pathological society of London 1846, secretary 1850, vice-president 1852–6, president 1865–6; member Med. and Chir. soc. 1845, sec. 1855–6, referee 1857–65, vice-president 1867; author of On the influenza or epidemic catarrh fever of 1847–8, 1848; On malformations of the human heart 1858, 2 ed. 1866; On French millstone makers’ phthisis 1862; On the prognosis in cases of valvular diseases of the heart 1877; and of many papers in medical periodicals; gave his preparations of cardiac diseases and malformations to Hunterian museum. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 31 May 1882. bur. Friends’ ground at Tottenham. St. Thomas’s hospital reports xi 179–85 (1882); Medico-Chirurgical transactions (1883) 20–3.

PEACOCK, Thomas Love (only child of Samuel Peacock of St. Paul’s church yard, London, glass merchant, d. 1788). b. Weymouth, Dorset 18 Oct. 1785; secretary to sir H. R. Popham on board the fleet before Flushing 1808–9; made the acquaintance of Shelley at Nant Gwillt, North Wales 1812, Shelley’s executor 1822; clerk in East India house 1819, assistant examiner of correspondence 1822, chief examiner 1836, retired on a pension March 1856; author of The monks of St. Mark 1804; Palmyra 1806; The genius of the Thames 1810, 3 ed. 1817; The philosophy of melancholy 1812; Sir Proteus. By P. M. O’Donovan, Esq. 1814; Headlong hall 1816, anon.; Melincourt 1817, 2 ed. 1856; Rhododaphne, or the Thessalian spell 1818; Nightmare abbey 1818; Maid Marian 1822, dramatised by Planche as an opera and produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; The misfortunes of Elphin 1829; Crotchet Castle 1831, new ed. 1887; Paper money lyrics and other poems 1837; Gryll Grange 1861; and two translations, Gl’ingannati, The deceived, a comedy performed at Siena 1851, and Ælia Laelia Crispis 1862. d. Lower Halliford, near Shepperton, Middlesex 23 Jany. 1866. bur. new cemet. Shepperton. Macmillan’s Mag. liii 414–27 (1886); Temple bar lxxx 35–52 (1887); G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 111–50; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 417–26 (1883); St. James’s mag. Sept. 1875 pp. 332, 600–10; H. Cole’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 3 vols. (1875), memoir in i, xxv–lii portrait; R. Garnett’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 10 vols. (1891) memoir in x 7–43.

Note.—He married 20 March 1820 Jane Gryffydh, known as the Caernarvonshire nymph and ‘the Beauty of Caernarvonshire,’ she is celebrated by Shelley as the Snowdonian Antelope, and d. 1852. W. M. Rossetti’s Poetical works of P. B. Shelley ii 322 (1878), in Letter to Maria Gisborne line 240.

PEACOCKE, George John. b. 3 April 1825; ensign 16 foot 8 July 1842, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1859, placed on h.p. 2 July 1870; A.A.G. North Britain 15 July 1871 to 31 Jany. 1876; lieut. col. brigade depôt 12 April 1876, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. 23 Lowndes sq. London 15 Dec. 1895.

PEAKE, Thomas Ladd (son of sir Henry Peake, surveyor of the navy). b. 1785; entered navy 1798; served in Walcheren expedition 1809; as first lieut. in the Victorious took part in action with the Rivoli 21 Feb. 1812; special magistrate at Cape of Good Hope 4 years; inspecting commander of coastguard 31 Aug. 1820 to 1825; captain 1 March 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846, rear-admiral 7 Oct. 1852, vice-admiral 28 Nov. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. d. Cumberland st. London 19 Jany. 1865.

PEARCE, Elizabeth. A popular serio-comic singer and dancer at the principal London and provincial music halls many years; created the famous songs Betsy Gay, Buy a broom, and When the family are from home; retired some years before her death; m. Richard Arnold Burnett, map mounter; she d. 146 York road, Waterloo road, London 24 Dec. 1890.

PEARCE, Paulin Huggett (son of Edward Pearce of Ramsgate, d. 25 Sept. 1851, aged 81, by Susannah his wife, who d. 19 May 1869, aged 92). b. Ramsgate 1809; a well known swimmer; saved many lives and had medals from Royal humane soc. 1818 etc.; instrumental in saving lives of crew of the Colonist at Barbadoes 1826; gave swimming exhibitions off Ramsgate pier; author of The funeral of lord Nelson 1850; The duke of Wellington’s grand funeral ode 1854; King Edward IV, a play 1868; King Richard I, a play 1868; Lord Nelson’s battles 1868; A treatise and poem on swimming 1868; P. H. Pearce’s Tragedy of the battle of Waterloo 1869; The infallible art of swimming 1869; The warrior’s swimming book 1869; Alexander the Great, a play 1872; Godwin island, a play 1872; King Darius of Persia, a play 1872; King Petri and the Black prince, a tragedy 1874; Tippo Sahib, the sultan of Mysore, a poem 1876. d. 10 Harbour st, Ramsgate 23 Nov. 1888. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard.

Note.—His brother Frederick Pearce was residing at Ramsgate 1894. His brother Charles Pearce made a fortune as a boot maker at No. 10 Harbour st. Ramsgate, was organist of St. Peter’s church 1846–91, d. 29 May 1891, aged 66.

PEARCE, Thomas (youngest son of Francis Pearce, rector of Hatford, Berks.) b. 1820; educ. Lincoln coll. Oxf, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1848; C. of Golden hill, Staffs. 1845–7; C. of Highcliffe, Hants. 1847–9; C. of Waterperry, Oxon. 1850–2; C. of Sparsholt, Berks. 1852–3; V. of Morden, Wilts. 1853 to death; author of The dog, with directions for his treatment and notices of the best dogs of the day, by Idstone 1872; The Idstone papers, by Idstone of the Field 1872, 2 ed. 1874; he wrote a considerable portion of The dogs of the British islands edited by Stonehenge [John Henry Walsh] 1867. d. Kempstone, Westcliffe, Bournemouth 24 Sept. 1885.

PEARCE, Walter. b. 1854; educ. St. Mary’s hospital, Univ. coll. London, and Rotunda hospital, Dublin; studied at school of mines; B.Sc. univ of London 1874, M.R.C.S. 1881, M.B. and B.S. 1885, M.D. 1886; L.R.C.P. 1886. M.R.C.P. 1886; took diploma in Sanitary science 1887; took diploma in Mental medicine of Medico-Psychological assoc. 1886; medical superintendent, then assist. surgeon St. Mary’s hospital, London; acting surgeon of the 20th Middlesex volunteers (Artists’ corps) 23 Aug. 1884; resided 63 Montagu square, London. shot himself in medical staff room St. Mary’s hospital 15 May 1890. Lancet 24 May 1890 p. 1156.

PEARCE, William. b. 1789; quartermaster 4 West India foot 26 Dec. 1805; lieut. 44 foot 21 Sept. 1810; captain 60 foot 15 Aug. 1813, major 25 Dec. 1825; placed on h.p. as lieut. col. 29 Aug. 1826; K.H. 1835. d. Ffowdgrech, Brecknockshire 5 Feb. 1871.

PEARCE, Sir William, 1 Baronet (son of Joseph George Pearce of Brompton, near Chatham). b. Brompton 8 Jany. 1833; apprenticed in Chatham dockyard; superintended the building of the Achilles, the first ironclad built in a royal yard 1861; surveyor of Lloyd’s registry for the Clyde district 1863; general manager of the works of Robert Napier and son 1864; shipbuilder with Ure and Jameson, under style of John Elder and Co. 1869, his partners retired in 1878; the business was turned into a limited company under name of the Fairfield shipbuilding and engineering company of which he was chairman 1885; built all the steamers for the North German Lloyd’s and for the New Zealand shipping company; built 11 stern-wheel vessels for service on the Nile in 28 days 1884; chairman of the Guion steamship company and of the Scottish oriental steamship company; M.P. Govan division of Lanarkshire Dec. 1885 to death; created baronet 25 July 1887. d. 119 Piccadilly, London 18 Dec. 1888. bur. Gillingham, Kent 22 Dec., personal estate declared at £1,069,669. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry ii 409 (1884) portrait; D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding (1884) 30.

PEARCEY, Mary Eleanor, taken name of Mary Eleanor Wheeler (dau. of James Whitford Wheeler, a marine, d. 17 Aug. 1882). b. Ightham, Kent 26 March 1866; worked as a furrier in Cannon st. Stepney; lived with Charles Pearcey about Nov. 1885 to Nov. 1888, and took his name; invited Phœbe Hogg to visit her at 2 Priory st. Kentish town 24 Oct. 1890, and then quarrelled with her and fractured her head and cut her throat, conveyed the body in a perambulator to Crossfield road, Eton avenue, South Hampstead, where it was found on 25 Oct. as well as the dead body of her young child; executed Newgate 22 Dec. 1890. Central criminal court minutes of evidence cxiii 44–72 (1891); Times 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Oct. 1890, 1, 3, 18 Nov., 6, 18, 20, 23, 24 Dec.; Western Morning News 14 Nov. 1890 p. 3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Dec. 1890, many portraits.

PEARD, John Whitehead (2 son of vice-admiral Shuldham Peard 1761–1832). b. Fowey, Cornwall, July 1811; educ. King’s school, Ottery St. Mary, and Exeter college, Oxford, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, stroke of his college boat; student Inner Temple 16 Nov. 1832, barrister 17 Nov. 1837; captain in Duke of Cornwall’s Rangers 4 June 1853, displaced 24 Dec. 1861; joined the forces of Garibaldi and organized and commanded a company of revolving-rifle soldiers 1860, distinguished himself at battle of Melazzo in Sicily 20 July 1860, raised to rank of colonel; commanded the English legion in the advance to Naples, received cross of the order of Valour from Victor Emmanuel; generally known as Garibaldi’s Englishman; was visited by Garibaldi at his seat Penquite on the Fowey river 25–7 April 1864; sheriff of Cornwall 1869. d. Trenython, Par, Cornwall 21 Nov. 1880. bur. Fowey cemet. 24 Nov. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 439, iii 1456 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 690, 1018; Sir C. Forbe’s Campaign of Garibaldi (1861) 94–9, 143, 200, 217–31; Trollope’s What I remember ii 222–1 (1887–9); Pycroft’s Oxford memories i 48–9, ii 71 (1886); Sir F. H. Doyle’s Reminiscences (1886) 222–3; I.L.N. 11 Aug. 1860 p. 135 portrait; Illust. times 9 Feb. 1861 p. 83 portrait.

Note.—His name was never inserted in the Law List, this is a very remarkable case.

PEARL, Cora, assumed name of Emma Elizabeth Crouch (one of the 16 children of Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, b. 31 July 1808, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen, who went to America in 1845). b. Caroline place, East Stonehouse, Devon 23 Feb. 1842; educ. at Boulogne to 1855; seduced by an admirer in London and thenceforth led a life of dissipation under the name of Cora Pearl 1856; went to France with the returning Persigny embassy March 1858; had a series of liaisons with persons connected with the imperial court; large sums of money, diamonds and jewellery passed through her hands; maintained an establishment in the Rue de Chaillot, which was known as Les Petits Tuileries; kept the finest horses and carriages of any one in Paris, crowds assembled daily to see her in the Bois de Boulogne and ladies imitated her dress and manners; appeared for 12 nights at Les Bouffes Parisiens as Cupid in Offenbach’s opera Orphée aux Enfers 1869; refused admission at the Grosvenor hotel, London 1870; converted her Paris residence into an ambulance during the war and spent 25,000 francs on the wounded 1870; a son of Pierre Louis Duval, founder of the Duval restaurants, spent seventeen million francs on her 1870–1, after which she deserted him and he attempted suicide; expelled by the police at various times from France, Baden, Monte Carlo, Nice, Vichy and Rome; blackmailed her acquaintances, to keep their names out of her printed memoirs; often called La lune rousse in allusion to her round face and red hair; her figure in marble was modelled by M. Gallois in 1880. d. of cancer in squalid poverty in a small room in the Rue de Bassano, Paris 8 July 1886. Memoirs de Cora Pearl, Paris (1886); The memoirs of Cora Pearl, London (1886); Folly’s Queens, New York (1882) 23–7; Truth 15 July 1886 pp. 105–6; London Figaro 24 July 1886 p. 6 portrait; Daily News 10 July 1886 p. 5.

PEARS, Steuart Adolphus (7 son of rev. James Pears, head-master of Bath gram. sch.) b. Pirbright, Surrey 20 Nov. 1815; scholar of C. C. coll. Oxf. 1832–6, fellow 1836, dean 1844–6; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846; tutor to lord Goderich 1838–42; sent abroad by the Parker society to search the libraries of Zurich and other places for correspondence relating to the English reformation 1843; fellow and tutor of univ. of Durham 1846–7; assistant master at Harrow 1847–54; head-master of Repton school July 1854, resigned March 1874, raised the school from a local grammar school of fifty boys to a first-grade public school of nearly 300; R. of Childrey, Berkshire 1874 to death; translated from the Latin The correspondence of sir Philip Sidney and H. Languet 1845; author of Sermons 1851; Three lectures on education 1859; Short sermons on the elements of christian truth 1861; Sundays at school, sermons in Repton school chapel 1870; Sermons 1877. d. Childrey rectory 15 Dec. 1875.

PEARS, Sir Thomas Townsend (brother of preceding). b. 9 May 1809; lieut. Madras engineers 17 June 1825; commandant of the Madras sappers and miners 1836; chief engineer with the field force in Karnul 1839; commanding engineer with the army in China under sir Hugh Gough 1841–2, was present at nearly every action; consulting engineer for railways to government of Madras 1851–7; lieut.-col. 20 June 1854, col. 16 Feb. 1856; chief engineer in the public works’ department for Mysore 1857, retired on a pension with honorary rank of M.G. 8 Feb. 1861; military secretary at the India office, London 1861; organised the arrangements for the Abyssinian expedition, retired 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 June 1871. d. Eton lodge, Upper Richmond road, Putney 7 Oct. 1892. bur. Mortlake cemet. H. M. Vibart’s Madras engineers ii 133 et seq. (1883); J. Ouchterlony’s Chinese war (1844) 47 et seq.; Daily Graphic 12 Oct. 1892 p. 8 portrait.

PEARSALL, Robert Lucas (son of Richard Pearsall). b. Clifton 14 March 1795; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821, went the western circuit 4 years; contributed to Blackwood’s and other magazines; wrote a cantata Saul and the witch of Endor 1808; studied music at Mayence 1825–9, and at Carlsruhe, Munich and Vienna 1830–6; a member of Bristol madrigal society 1837; sold Willsbridge house, Gloucs. 1837; purchased castle of Wartensee on the lake of Constance 1837, resided there to his death; received into the R.C. church and became known as R. L. de Pearsall; composed many settings of psalms, madrigals, a requiem, etc.; composer of Great God of love, an eight part madrigal 1840; The hardy Norseman’s house of yore 1840; O, who will o’er the downs so free 1853; The bishop of Mentz, a four part song 1863; 24 Choral songs 1864; Sir Patrick Spens, a ballad dialogue in ten parts 1880; The sacred compositions of R. L. de Pearsall 1880; Lay a garland, a madrigal 1883; his name is attached to upwards of 80 musical compositions 1840–83; published translations in English verse of Faust and Wilhelm Tell. d. Wartensee castle 5 Aug. 1856. G.M. Oct. 1856 pp. 511–2; Musical Times 1882 p. 376; Grove’s Dict. of music ii 678 (1880).

PEARSALL, Thomas J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). b. at the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London 10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution, London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution, Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association 1853. d. London May 1883. Catalogue of Scientific papers iv 794 (1870).

PEARSE, George. b. 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals, Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861; hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. d. Cheltenham 28 March 1885. Times 2 April 1885 p. 7.

PEARSE, George. b. Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852; solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon 1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made highest aggregate score. d. Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894.

PEARSE, John. b. 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval architecture, Plymouth 1835. d. 1864. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. (1849) 882.

PEARSE, Richard Bulkeley (son of B. Pearse of Munkham, Woodford). b. 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in 1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war 1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. d. 9 Hyde park st. London 19 Nov. 1895. Times 22 Nov. 1895 p. 10.

PEARSE, Thomas. b. 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death, 68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address, the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning 1848. d. Westoning 14 June 1891.

PEARSON, Alfred. b. 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. d. Oldham 29 Dec. 1868. bur. Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. The Era 3 Jany. 1869 p. 14.

PEARSON, Charles (son of Thomas Pearson, merchant). b. London 1794; educ. Eastbourne, Sussex; admitted solicitor 1816; solicitor to the Irish society 1839 to death; city solicitor 1839 to death; solicitor to city comrs. of sewers July 1859 to death; M.P. Lambeth 31 July 1847 to July 1850; the original promoter of Metropolitan underground railway 1859; author of The subject of an address, a brief history of the corporation of London as an asylum of English freedom in past ages 1844; Are the citizens of London to have better gas 1849; An address on the Fleet valley improvements 1852; City improvements 1853; A letter in favour of the Metropolitan railway and city station 1859. d. Oxford lodge, West hill, Wandsworth 14 Sept. 1862. Law Times xxxvii 577, 590 (1862).

PEARSON, Charles Buchanan (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson 1767–1856). b. Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832 to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct. 1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853; contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862; Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations 1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. d. 2 Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.

PEARSON, Charles Henry (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson 1787–1865). b. 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept. 1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863; lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’ Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education 18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861; History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols. 1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873; National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H. Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; m. 6 Dec. 1872 Edith Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he d. at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 June. Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894 p. 4 portrait.

PEARSON, Sir Edwin (son of John Pearson, F.R.S. of Yorkshire). b. 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 13 Feb. 1836, resigned April 1842; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 May 1836; vice-president of the French Institut d’Afrique. d. Rozel, Sunnyside, Wimbledon 18 April 1883.

PEARSON, Emma Maria (1 dau. of capt. Charles Pearson, R.N. of Great Yarmouth). Sent out as a volunteer by the Red Cross soc. under the auspices of the Order of St. John to nurse the sick at Sedan, at Paris, and at Orleans 1870; nursed the wounded in Servia 1877; had medals and decorations from Germany, France, and Servia; wrote for the St. James’ Mag. and other periodicals; author of From Rome to Mentana 1868; One love in a life, 3 vols. 1874; His little cousin, a tale, 3 vols. 1875; with Louisa Elizabeth Maclaughlin she wrote Our adventures during the war 1870; Under the red cross 1872; Service in Servia under the red cross 1877. d. Florence 3 June 1893, aged 65. Times 12 June 1893 p. 6.

PEARSON, Hugh (4 son of succeeding). b. 25 June 1817; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1841; V. of Sonning, Berkshire 1841 to death, restored the church; rural dean of Henley-on-Thames 1864–74, and of Sonning 1874–6; chaplain to bishop of Manchester 1870; canon of St. George’s, Windsor 26 Feb. 1876; deputy clerk of the closet to the queen 2 Aug. 1881 to death; great friend of dean A. P. Stanley 1836–81, frequently went abroad with him; declined the deanery of Westminster 1881. d. Sonning vicarage 13 April 1882. bur. Sonning church 18 April. Times 19 April 1882 p. 12.

PEARSON, Hugh Nicholas (only son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington, Hants.). b. Lymington 1777; educ. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803, B. and D.D. 1821; proctor 1813; gained the prize of £500 offered by Claudius Buchanan for the best essay on Missions in Asia 1807, printed under title of A dissertation on the propagation of christianity in Asia, Oxford 1808; V. of St. Helen’s, Abingdon 1822–3; R. of Chiddingfold, Surrey 1826–31; R. of Guildford, St. Nicholas, Surrey 18 June 1832 to 1837, laid first stone of the new church 7 June 1836, finished Aug. 1837; dean of Salisbury 9 April 1823, resigned June 1846; domestic chaplain to George IV at Brighton 4 Feb. 1823 to 1830; author of Memoirs of the life and writings of the rev. Claudius Buchanan, 2 vols. Oxford 1827; Memoirs of the life of the rev. Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a sketch of the history of Christianity in India, 2 vols, 1834, 3 ed. 1839. d. Sonning, Berkshire 17 Nov. 1856. W. H. Jones’s Fasti Sarisburiensis (1879) 325; Brayley’s Surrey i 355–60 (1850).

PEARSON, Sir John (son of rev. John Norman Pearson of Bower hall, Essex 1787–1865). b. 5 Aug. 1819; educ. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June 1844, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1884–5; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; judge in chancery division of high court of justice 24 Oct. 1882 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Nov. 1882; member of councils of legal education and law reporting; author of The duty of laymen in the church of England 1856. d. 75 Onslow sq. South Kensington, London 13 May 1886. bur. Brompton cemetery. Law quarterly review ii 373–8 (1886); Law Times 22 May 1886 p. 69.

PEARSON, John Armitage. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1856; surgeon of Woolton dispensary, Liverpool 25 years; surgeon of Devonshire hospital and Bath charity, Buxton to death; author of Reports of cases treated at the Buxton bath charity and Devonshire hospital 1861. d. St. Anne’s hotel, Buxton 6 June 1863. bur. St. John’s church 11 June.

PEARSON, John Henry (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). b. Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers, Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East, London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st. Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s, Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. d. Southport 1 July 1887. bur. Southport cemet. Era 10 July 1887.

PEARSON, John Norman (son of John Pearson, surgeon 1758–1826). b. 7 Dec. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., Hulsean prizeman 1807; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; chaplain to marquess of Wellesley; the first principal of the Church Missionary society’s college at Islington 1826–39; V. of Holy Trinity church Tunbridge Wells 1839–53; author of A critical essay on the ninth book of Warburton’s Divine legation of Moses, Cambridge 1808; Christ crucified: or some passages of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, devotionally and practically considered 1826; The candle of the Lord uncovered, or the bible rescued from papal thraldom by the Reformation 1835; The days in paradise 1854. d. Bower hall, near Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 4 Oct. 1865. G.M. ii 792 (1865).

PEARSON, Josiah Brown (son of Benjamin Pearson). b. Chesterfield 1841; educ. Chesterfield gram. sch.; scholar St. John’s coll. Camb.; a first in the moral science tripos 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, LL.M. 1871, LL.D. 1874, D.D. 1880; fellow of St. John’s 1864–80, lecturer 1864–71; C. of St. Michael, Camb. 1865–7; C. of St. Andrew the great, Camb. 1867–9; V. of Horningsea, Cambs. 1871–4; Whitehall preacher 1872–4; Hulsean lecturer and Ramsden preacher 1872; V. of Newark 1874–80; commissioner to bishop of Melbourne 1876–80; bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales 1880, consecrated in St. Paul’s cathedral 1 May 1880, resigned Nov. 1890; V. of Leck Kirkby, Lonsdale 1893 to death; author of The divine personality, the Burney prize essay 1865; Creed or no creed, three sermons 1871; Disciples in doubt, five sermons 1879. d. Leck vicarage 10 March 1895.

PEARSON, Julius Alexander. b. 1839; educ. King’s coll. London; LL.D.; admitted solicitor 1862; practised at 46 Hyde park sq. London 1864; junior partner in Cope, Rose, and Pearson 26 Great George st. Westminster 1867 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., and Notes and Queries, chiefly upon heraldic matters; F.S.A. 7 June 1866. d. Surbiton, Surrey 29 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 511 (1871).

PEARSON, Richard Lyons Otway (son of Henry Shepherd Pearson). b. 1831; educ. Eton and at Sandhurst; ensign 95 foot 10 Dec. 1847; captain 7 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. grenadier guards 20 July 1855, captain 27 Dec. 1864, sold out 2 Jany. 1869; aide-de-camp to sir George Brown during Crimean war 1854–5, present at Alma, Inkerman, the expedition to Kertch, and the siege of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; assistant commissioner of metropolitan police 1 July 1881 to death; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. 57 Warwick sq. London 30 May 1890.

PEARSON, Thomas Hooke (son of John Pearson, advocate-general of India). b. June 1806; educ. Eton; cornet 11 light dragoons 14 March 1825; served at siege of Bhurtpore Nov. 1825; captain 59 foot 23 Aug. 1831; captain 16 lancers 9 Dec. 1831, major 23 April 1847, placed on h.p. 7 April 1848; served at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843 and in the first Sikh war; commanded his regiment during latter part of battle of Aliwal (and saved the battle by a spirited cavalry charge) 28 Jany. 1846, and at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; on retired list as L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel 12 lancers 4 Feb. 1879 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869; won the One thousand guineas, Great Yorkshire stakes, St. Leger and Doncaster cup with Achievement 1867, her foals did not live and she died in 1872. d. The Hasells, Sandy, Beds. 29 April 1892. Times 3 May 1892 p. 10.

PEARSON, William (son of capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N.) b. Hilton, Kilmany, Fifeshire 20 Sept. 1818; a squatter in Gippsland, Australia 1841, owning Lindenow and Kilmany park stations; member for North Gippsland to legislative assembly 1868 and 1871; member for the Eastern province in legislative council; largest shareholder in Long tunnel gold mine, Walhalla; a breeder of race horses from 1842; a winner of several hundred races; great supporter of the turf in Victoria; an exceedingly wealthy man. d. Melbourne Sept. 1893.

PEARSON-GEE, Arthur Beilby (elder son of Wm. Pearson, Q.C., b. 1824). b. 2 Nov. 1855; educ. Rugby and Trin. hall, Camb., B.A. 1877; barrister I.T. 25 June 1879; went north eastern circuit; member of joint legal board of examiners 1881 to death; assumed additional surname of Gee by R.L. 15 Jany. 1885; edited J. P. Benjamin’s Treatise on the law of sale of personal property, 3 ed. 1883, and 4 ed. 1888; author with H. F. Boyd of Factors acts 1823 to 1877, 1884, and alone of The new factors acts annotated 1890. d. 19 Portland place, London 9 Jany. 1896. Times 11 Jany. 1896 p. 6.

PEASE, Edward (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27 Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death. d. Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. Annual Monitor (1859) 123–64; S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R. Stephenson (1874) 123–32, 385 portrait; I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858 p. 121; Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 487–95.

PEASE, Edward (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). b. 24 June 1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’ institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly; chief promoter of British and foreign training college for female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. d. Lucerne 13 June 1880. bur. Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25 Sept. 1880. First Report of E. Pease public library (1887).

PEASE, Henry (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. 4 May 1807; helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in 1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England, the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war 10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society 1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871; the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. d. while attending the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May 1881. bur. at Darlington, personalty sworn at £360,489, 13 Aug. 1881. Fortunes made in business i 331–78 (1884); I.L.N. xxiv 201 (1854) portrait; J. Sturge’s Some account of a deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia (1854); London Society (1881) 431–46.

PEASE, John (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. Darlington 1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S. of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825; a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great Ayton, Yorks. 1841. d. Darlington 29 July 1868. Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends (1888) 495–500.

PEASE, Joseph (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member, objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.; assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books; had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy 1841. d. Southend, Darlington 8 Feb. 1872, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington unveiled 1875. J. H. Bell’s British folks and British India (1891) 39, 42, 131; Joseph Pease, a memoir (1872); Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 503–7; I.L.N. lx 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) portrait; Leisure Hour xxi 375 portrait; J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway system (1875); Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp. 321, 328, view of statue.

PEASE, Joseph Walker (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866). b. Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1 East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull 7 Feb. 1874. d. Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.

PEAT, David. b. Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy 2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29 July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard 1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug. 1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. end of Dec. 1880.

PEBODY, Charles (son of Charles Pebody). b. Watford or Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882; wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post. d. Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. bur. Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p. 5, 4 Nov. p. 4.

PECHELL, Sir George Richard Brooke, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). b. London 30 June 1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820; commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822; gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton 13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852, and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820. d. 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.

PECHELL, Horace Robert (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone, London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). b. 12 May 1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.

PECHEY, William Crisp. b. Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838; educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868 to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji islands 1871. d. at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st. Walthamstow 22 June 1871. Medical times and gazette ii 236 (1871).

PECK, Charles. b. Beverley 1801; a jockey; horse trainer at Highfield, near Malton in succession to William Perren for 6 years; had some breeding mares of his own; a trainer at Grove house, Malton from 1842 for sir R. Bulkeley, lord Glasgow, Stanhope Hanke, Mr. Wentworth, major Yarburgh, and Mr. Pedley; for Mr. Wilkins trained Old Dan Tucker and Napoleon, which won the Great Yorkshire stakes 185- and 1859; trained Mr. Graham’s horses 1863. d. Malton 16 Jany. 1867. bur. Malton 21 Jany. Sporting Review Feb. 1867 pp. 85–6.

PECK, Lillian or Lydia Elizabeth (2 dau. of Wm. Priest Peck of Chelmsford, Wesleyan minister). b. 1850; under the pseudonym of Ruth Elliott she wrote Margery’s Christmas box 1875; Little Ray and her friends 1877; James Daryll 1877; Undeceived, Roman or Anglican, a story of English ritualism 1877; John Lyon 1879; My first class 1881; A voice from the sea 1881; Talks with the bairns 1882; Auriel 1883; Fought and won 1885; Archie and Nellie 1885; Twixt promise and vow 1886. d. New London road, Chelmsford 25 Oct. 1878.

PECKHAM-MICKLETHWAIT, Sir Sotheron Branthwayt, 1 Baronet (younger son of Nathaniel Micklethwait of Beeston, Norfolk 1760–86). b. 30 May 1786; cornet 3 dragoon guards 15 Jany. 1803, captain 5 Jany. 1807, sold out 15 Sept. 1808; assumed surname of Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet 27 July 1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty and the duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of Sussex 1848. d. Iridge place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.

PECKOVER, Algernon (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech, Cambridge, d. 1833). b. 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. d. 10 Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.

PEDDER, James. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went to U.S. of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture of sugar in Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an agricultural journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844 to death; author of a book of conversations entitled Frank, which ran to several editions; The yellow shoestrings, or obedience to parents 1814, 17 editions; Report made to the beet sugar society of Philadelphia on the culture in France of the beet root 1836; The farmer’s land measure, New York 1854. d. Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.

PEDDER, John. b. 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and tutor, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham Dec. 1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of North Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. d. 13 Somerset place, Walcot, Bath 12 July 1890.

PEDDER, Sir John Lewes (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle Temple, barrister). b. 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1822; barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van Diemen’s Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a dispute with sir William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s Land in 1848; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8 Bedford square, Brighton. d. 24 March 1859.

PEDDIE, John. Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept. 1813; captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827; lieut. col. 31 foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April 1832; lieut. col. 90 foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840; K.H. 1832. d. 1873.

PEDDIE, John Crofton. b. 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814, major 5 Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March 1849, sold out 27 Dec. 1850. d. Douglas, Isle of Man during a service in St. Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.

PEDDIE, John Dick (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years; architect 1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn st. Edinb., the Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank, Glasgow; A.R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of council; M.P. Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock burghs 1885; a leader in the disestablishment movement 1880. d. 33 Buckingham terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. Scotsman 13 March 1891 p. 5.

PEDDIE, William (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister 1758–1845). b. 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ. of Edinb. and Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to preach May 1827; colleague to his father at the Bristo street secession chapel, Edinb. Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel 11 Oct. 1845 to death; moderator of the United Presbyterian synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania 1843; edited the United Presbyterian magazine several years; edited Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a memoir 1846. d. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1893. United Presbyterian Magazine April 1893.

PEDLEY, Charles. b. Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. Independent college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street 1848; pastor of Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1857; pastor at Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to death; author of The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest times to the end of 1860, 1863. d. Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872. H. J. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 304.

PEDLEY, Mr. b. Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses which he trained at Danebury; m. a daughter of John Gully and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner; won the Derby with Cossack 1847. d. about 1872. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 76–8.

PEEBLES, Alexander Marshall. b. 1837; an architect at Highbury hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London; member of common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook 1882–5; F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London 1887 to death, built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and vegetable market. d. 23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood, London 21 May 1891. bur. Kensal green 25 May. I.L.N. 6 June 1891 p. 735 portrait; City Press 23 May 1891 p. 2.

PEEBLES, Allan Laing (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot). b. Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut. Devonshire regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death; adjutant of the first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894; inspector of small arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in charge of Maxim battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and other eastern languages; made improvements in the maxim gun; with the Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river Panjkora, Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.

PEEBLES, James. b. 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1858. d. 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.

PEEBLES, Philip Cadell. b. 23 April 1842; head of the firm of A. M. Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire, paper manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for illustrated journals; made improvements in dry printing; member of hon. artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name of Mr. Renfrew from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two years’ old plate at Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great Lancashire handicap in 1888. d. 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park, London 26 Nov. 1895. bur. Kensal green 30 Nov. I.L.N. 7 Dec. 1895 p. 694 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895 p. 467 portrait.

PEED, Thomas Thorpe. b. 1825; educ. Royal academy of music under Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis to D. F. M. Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a singing class at the academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic institution; conducted a lecture on the music of the Beggars’ opera; lessee of the Alexandra theatre, Camden Town, opened 31 May 1873 with his own operetta Marguerite and Robert Reece’s 3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s debt; produced The magic pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball, music by himself 29 Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto by R. Reece, music by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon quadrilles 1843; Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not gold, a song 1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a song 1880. d. Margate 9 Nov. 1888. I.L.N. xxxv 243 (1859) portrait.

PEEK, James (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). b. 8 June 1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London, the firm being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the firm of Peek, Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead, St. Saviours, London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir Henry Peek, 1 baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. d. Watcombe, Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 13–17 (1865).

PEEL, Arthur (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham, Lincs.) b. 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of islands of Antigua and Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. d. 15 Oct. 1873.

PEEL, John. b. Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with Miss White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole expense a pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide reputation by a song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the old Cumberland tune of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to music by Metcalfe; Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John Peel and At the grave of John Peel. d. Ruthwaite, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1854. bur. Caldbeck churchyard. S. Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 106; West Cumberland Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886.

PEEL, John (5 son of Thomas Peel of Peelfold, Lancashire, calico printer). b. 4 Feb. 1804; educ. Manchester gram. sch.; a merchant; M.P. Tamworth 1863–8, and 28 March 1871 to death; contested Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868. d. Middleton hall, Tamworth 2 April 1872, personalty under £300,000, 27 July 1872.

PEEL, John (4 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart., d. 1830). b. 22 Aug. 1798; educ. Rugby 1812–7, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, B.D. and D.D. 1845; V. of Stone, Worcs. 1828 to death; canon residentiary of Canterbury cathedral 1829–45; dean of Worcester 9 Dec. 1845 to death. d. Waresley house, Worcester 18 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 211, 403 (1875).

PEEL, John (4 son of succeeding). b. 11 April 1829; ensign 34 foot 22 June 1847, captain 25 Nov. 1853; served in Crimean war, severely wounded; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 23 Oct. 1857; assistant military secretary at Malta 1864–7; A.A.G. S.W. district 1867–72; A.A. and Q.M.G. home district 1 May 1876 to 10 July 1880; M.G. 11 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 11 July 1885. d. at his residence near Herne Bay 17 Nov. 1892.

PEEL, Jonathan (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ. Rugby 1811–5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71 foot 18 Feb. 1819 to 13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7 Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825; major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June 1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June 1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug. 1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P. Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–68; surveyor general of the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for war 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March 1867; began racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with Archibald 1832, ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando and Ionian 1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851; kept race horses again 1869 to death. d. Marble hall, Twickenham 13 Feb. 1879. bur. Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 120–4; Rice’s British Turf ii 323–7 (1879); Baily’s Mag. iii 273–8 (1861) portrait; New sporting mag. xv 371 (1838) portrait; Sporting Times 13 Feb. 1875 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 201, 202 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 224 (1879) portrait.

PEEL, Jonathan (eld. son of Robert Peel of Accrington house, Lancs., d. 16 April 1839). b. 1 May 1806; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 3 May 1833; contested Cheltenham 24 July 1837 and Clitheroe Lancs. 23 Aug. 1853; resided at Knowlmere manor, near Clitheroe, where he kept a large flock of Lonk sheep, his ram Mountain King won 40 first prizes and died 12 Nov. 1864; bred short horn cattle 1851 to death, lost all his first herd by murrain 1856. d. Knowlmere manor 6 March 1885. H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 358–65.

PEEL, Sir Lawrence (3 son of Joseph Peel of Bowes farm, Middlesex, d. 1821). b. 10 Aug. 1799; educ. Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 7 May 1824, bencher 8 May 1856 to death, treasurer 3 Dec. 1866; advocate general at Calcutta 1840–2; chief justice of supreme court at Calcutta 11 Feb. 1842, retired Nov. 1855; knighted by patent 18 May 1842; vice-president of legislative council at Calcutta 1854–5; gave away in charity his official income of £8,000, was voted a statue at Calcutta Nov. 1855; P.C. and paid member of the judicial committee 4 April 1856; a director of the East India company 1857; D.C.L. Oxford 1858; president of Guy’s hospital Jany. 1864; author of Horæ Nauseæ 1841, and of A sketch of the life and character of Sir R. Peel 1860. d. Garden Reach, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 22 July 1884.

PEEL, Laurence (brother of Jonathan Peel 1799–1879). b. 28 June 1801; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1819; one of the secretaries of the India board; M.P. Cockermouth 1827–30. d. 32 Sussex sq. Brighton 10 Dec. 1888.

PEEL, Sir Robert, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. London 4 May 1822; educ. Harrow 1835–41; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 May 1841; attaché to British legation at Madrid 18 June 1844; secretary of legation in Switzerland 2 May 1846, chargé d’affaires there Nov. 1846, resigned on his father’s death 2 July 1850; M.P. Tamworth 20 July 1850 to 24 March 1880; shipwrecked off the coast of Genoa in the steamboat Ercolano 24 April 1854; captain in Staffordshire yeomanry 1854–9; a junior lord of the admiralty March 1855 to May 1857; secretary to lord Granville’s special mission to Russia at coronation of Alexander II. July 1856; chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland 26 July 1861, resigned Nov. 1865; P.C. 25 July 1861; G.C.B. 5 Jany. 1866; contested Gravesend 1 July 1880; M.P. Huntingdon 21 March 1884, the borough was disfranchised 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. Blackburn 24 Nov. 1885 to 26 June 1886; contested the Inverness burghs 9 July 1886 and Brighton 25 Oct. 1889; raced on the turf under name of Mr. F. Robinson from about 1856, bred horses at Bonehill, near Tamworth; sold his father’s collection of 77 pictures and 18 drawings, including Ruben’s Chapeau de Poil, to the National gallery for £75,000, March 1871; found dead in his bedroom at 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 9 May 1895. bur. Drayton-Bassett parish church 16 May. St. Stephen’s Review 9 May 1891 pp. 13–4 portrait; Sporting Times 1 May 1875 pp. 297, 300 portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1851 p. 254 portrait, and 18 May 1895 p. 606 portrait.

PEEL, Sir William (3 son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. 2 Nov. 1824; midshipman R.N. 7 April 1838; commander 27 June 1846; commanded the Daring on the North American and West Indies’ station 1847–8; captain 10 Jany. 1849; captain of the Diamond frigate in the Mediterranean Oct. 1853; served with the naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5, threw a live shell over the parapet of his battery 18 Oct. 1854; led the ladder party at the assault on the Redan 18 June 1855; one of the first recipients of the Victoria cross 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858; captain of the Shannon, 50 guns, 13 Sept. 1856; formed a naval brigade at Calcutta July 1857, and served at all the chief operations during Sepoy mutiny; severely wounded in the thigh in the second relief of Lucknow 9 March 1858; A.D.C. to the queen 21 Jany. 1858 to death; author of A ride through the Nubian desert 1852. d. Cawnpore 27 April 1858, statues in Eden gardens at Calcutta and in painted hall, Greenwich, and portrait by John Lucas in painted hall at Greenwich. I.L.N. xxxviii 68 (1861) view of statue at Greenwich; E. H. Verney’s The Shannon brigade in India, account of Peel’s naval brigade in the Indian campaign (1862) portrait.

PEEL, William Yates (2 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart. 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, Bury 3 Aug. 1789; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M. A. 1815; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1816; M.P. Bossiny 1817–8; M.P. Tamworth 1818–30; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1830; M.P. univ. of Cambridge 1831–5; M.P. Tamworth again 1835–47; comr. of board of control 2 June 1826 to 4 June 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 April 1828 to 5 Aug. 1830; a lord of the treasury 31 July 1830 to 24 Nov. 1830, and 31 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 20 Dec. 1834. d. Bagington hall, Warwickshire 1 June 1858. G.M. Aug. 1858 p. 191.

PEELE, Edward. b. 1838; educ. for musical profession; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland and L.M. 1872; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1873; on staff of hospital for diseases of the throat, Dublin; physician to hospital for incurables; demonstrator of anatomy royal coll. of surgeons’ medical school; visiting physician to Coombe lying-in hospital. d. of typhus fever 41 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1881. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 21 Feb. Medical times and gazette i 416 (1881).

PEENE, William Gurden. b. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1833; in practice at Maidstone, Kent. d. Maidstone 20 June 1853, left £1,700 for purchase of books for the library of University college, London.

PEER, John. Drove the Southampton Telegraph team, being the crack whip of his day, dressed in a surtout olive coat, white waistcoat, buckskin breeches and top boots; always stood in a leaning position when driving; patronised by the marquis of Worcester, afterwards duke of Beaufort; started a coach from London to Southampton and lost his money. d. in poverty Fetter lane, London at an advanced age. Sporting Review lii 113 (1864); Driving, by the duke of Beaufort (1889) 245.

PEERS, Charles (only son of Robert Peers of Chislehampton lodge, Wallingford, Oxon.) b. 1774; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1804; gained Seatonian prize for Christ’s lamentation over Jerusalem 1805; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1802; recorder of Henley-upon-Thames; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 14 June 1820; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1821; F.S.A.; author of The siege of Jerusalem, a poem 1823. d. Chislehampton lodge, Oxfordshire 6 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 551 (1853).

PEET, John. Educ. Univ. college, London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1841; M.D. Aberdeen 1866; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1858, F.R.C.P. 1860; assistant surgeon Bombay army 2 May 1842, surgeon 23 June 1858; professor of anatomy and of surgery Grant Medical coll. Bombay Oct. 1845; acting principal of the college 1854–6, principal 1858, retired 1865; surgeon Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital 1858–65; member of Medical and physical soc. of Bombay, sec. 1849–53, president 1863 and 1864, contributed many papers to the Transactions; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1864, translated into 3 vernacular languages; resided at Shanklin from 1865. d. Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 18 Jany. 1874. Medical times and gazette 7 Feb. 1874 p. 168.

PEET, Thomas. b. Wigan 24 March 1788; educ. Wigan gram. sch.; capt. Wigan local militia; local sec. of British archæological assoc. at Manchester 1851; a calico printer at Manchester; director of Union bank of Manchester; received present of plate from Salford market committee for his researches which enabled them to establish their right to the ancient market Feb. 1844. d. Manchester 14 Jany. 1862. Journal of British Archæol. assoc. xix 155 (1863).

PEILE, Thomas Williamson (eld. son of John Peile of Whitehaven). b. 10 Nov. 1806; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, Davies’ scholar 1824; 18 wrangler 1828; B.A 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1 Oct. 1829 to 1831; head master of Liverpool collegiate school 1829; P.C. of St Catherine’s, Liverpool 1831; tutor in univ. of Durham 1834; P.C. of Croxdale, near Durham 1836; head master of Repton school 1841–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1857–60; V. of St. Paul, South Hampstead Oct. 1860, resigned 1873; edited the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1839, and The Cheophoræ 1840; author of Annotations on the apostolical epistles, 4 vols. 1847–52; Sermons, doctrinal and didactic 1866; Three sermons on the holy communion 1871; his name is attached to upward of 35 works. d. 37 St. John’s Wood park, London 29 Nov. 1882. bur. Buckhurst Hill churchyard 2 Dec., portrait in hall of Repton school. The Guardian 6 Dec. 1882 p. 1716.

PEILL, John Newton. b. Liverpool 14 Dec. 1808; educ. royal institution, Liverpool and Queen’s coll. Camb., 7th wrangler and B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1832–53, bursar 1843–50, dean 1850–1 and tutor 1850–3; R. of St. Botolph’s, Camb. 1843–53; R. of Newton Toney, Wilts. 1853 to death; rural dean of Amesbury; diocesan inspector of schools; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1869; with his own astronomical instruments made observations at Newton Toney. d. Newton Toney 12 June 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Society xl 204 (1880).

PEITHMAN, Edward (son of major Peithman, who fell at Jena). b. Osnabruck, Hanover 1804; educ. Bonn, Halle and Berlin; L.L.D.; came to England June 1824; lectured on education in Oxford and Cambridge; tutor to sons of baron Cloncurry at Lyons, near Dublin 1835, dismissed for refusing to take part against a girl seduced by one of his pupils; confined in Kilmainham gaol as a lunatic to prevent his giving evidence in the law courts 1835, transferred to Dublin house of industry, then to Swift’s hospital; lectured before university of Dublin and the Royal society; tutor to earl Fortescue’s sons at Dublin castle to 1840; called twice at Buckingham palace to obtain situation of librarian to prince Albert 1840, confined in Bethlehem hospital 1840–54; made calls at Buckingham palace 1854, confined in Hanwell asylum; went to Prussia where his case was commented on by count Arnim in the Upper chamber; awarded £100 a year, paid by the British embassy at Berlin. Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 38–47.

PELHAM, Dudley Anderson Worsley (younger son of Charles, 1 earl of Yarborough 1781–1846). b. Stratford place, London 20 April 1812; entered R.N. 4 Aug. 1825, captain 26 Oct. 1840; M.P. Boston 2 Aug. 1849 to death. d. Motcombe st. Belgrave sq. London 13 April 1851. G.M. xxxv 664 (1851).

PELHAM, Frederick Thomas (2 son of Thomas, 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 2 Aug. 1808; entered navy 27 June 1823; served on the coast of Spain 1835; commanded the Tweed, 20 guns, on Lisbon station 1837–8; captain 3 July 1840; commanded Odin steam frigate in Mediterranean 1847; R.A. 6 March 1858; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.S.F. of Spain; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to June 1861. d. Brighton 21 June 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.

PELHAM, John Thomas (3 son of 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 21 June 1811; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. and D.D. 1857; C. of Eastergate, Sussex 1834–7; R. of Bergh Apton, Norfolk 1837–52; honorary canon of Norwich cathedral 1847–57; chaplain to the queen 18 June 1847 to 1857; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hampstead 1852–5; R. of St. Marylebone, London 27 Dec. 1854 to 1857; bishop of Norwich 30 April 1857, resigned early in 1893, consecrated in Marylebone church 11 June 1857; founded a diocesan church association for building churches and in 1879 a diocesan conference; published Hymns for public worship 1855, and printed 7 charges and sermons. d. Sunnyhill, Thorpe, Norwich 1 May 1894. bur. Berghampton 5 May. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 45 portrait; Black and White 12 May 1894 p. 571 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 365 (1865) portrait; Daily Graphic 1 Feb. 1893 p. 14 portrait.

Note.—His fourth, son Herbert Pelham, b. 1855; educ. Haileybury and Magd. coll. Oxf.; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877 and 1878; B.A. 1878; C. of St. Philip’s, Heigham, Norfolk 1878 to death; d. at Les Avants, Switzerland 30 May 1881 from injuries received in a fall while mountain climbing. Times 1 June 1881 p. 12.

PELHAM, Richard Ward. b. 1816; was often known as R. W. Pell; the first to introduce negro entertainments in America and England, the four original Virginia minstrels were R. W. Pelham, F. M. Brower, D. D. Emmett, and W. Whitlock; took farewell benefit at Park theatre, New York 19 April 1843, arrived in England 21 May 1843; gave 5 concerts at Bold st. hall, Liverpool, 6 concerts at the Athenæum, Manchester, and 6 nights at Queen’s theatre, Manchester, the first theatre a band of minstrels ever appeared in; made first appearance at Adelphi theatre, London 19 June 1843, under John Henry Anderson, at expense of £100 a week; the oldest manager of negro minstrels in the world. d. 2 Harford st. Liverpool 8 Oct. 1876. bur. Anfield cemetery 11 Oct. G. W. Moore’s Bones (1870) pp. 3–4, Dedicated to R. W. Pelham.

PELHAM-CLINTON, Robert Renebald (6 son of 4 duke of Newcastle 1785–1851). b. Clumber 15 Oct. 1820; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 11 Dec. 1839; M.P. North Notts. 17 July 1852 to 6 July 1865; first lieut. Sherwood rangers 1853. d. Earlswood, Reigate 25 July 1867.

PELL, Gilbert Ward. b. New York 1825; the original “Bones” of the negro entertainments; opened St. James’s theatre, London under title of the “Ethiopian serenaders” 10 Feb. 1846, Pell was bones, Harrington concertina, White violin, Stanwood banjo and Germain tambourine, Juba a real black and a splendid dancer in boots was also in the company. d. 21 Dec. 1872. bur. St. Helen’s cemetery, Lancs. 24 Dec.

PELL, Morris Birkbeck. b. U.S. of America about 1826; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B. A. 1849, senior wrangler and Smith’s junior prizeman 1849; fellow of his college March 1850 to March 1852; the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in univ. of Sydney N.S.W. Jany. or Feb. 1852, retired on a pension 1877; fellow of the senate of the univ. 1878; barrister of supreme court of N.S.W. 1863; member of the water and sewerage and the Hunter river floods preventions commissions; actuary of the Australian mutual provident society; author of Geometrical illustrations of the differential calculus 1850. d. Sydney 7 May 1879.

PELL, Oliver Claude (youngest son of sir Albert Pell, judge of court of review, d. 1832), b. Pinner hill, Middlesex 3 Sept. 1826; educ. Rugby 1839–44; first match at Lord’s Marylebone v. Rugby 16 June 1842, a fine back player combined with hard forward hitting to leg, could throw a ball a great distance; in the university and All England cricket elevens; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1851; took an active part in the public affairs of Isle of Ely, chairman of bench of magistrates, chairman of Isle of Ely county council 1888 to death; won many rifle shooting prizes at Wimbledon, a member of the English eight which defeated Scotland 1868; lord of the manor and lay rector of Wilburton; author of A new view of the geldable unit of assessment of domesday, printed in P. E. Dove’s Domesday studies (1888) vol. i, pp. 227–385. d. Wilburton manor, Ely 18 Oct. 1891. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 81 (1863).

PELL, Sir Watkin Owen (son of Samuel Pell of Sywell hall, Northamptonshire). b. 1788; entered navy April 1799; lost his left leg in the capture of the French frigate Pallas 6 Feb. 1800; commander 29 March 1810; commanded the Thunder bomb at the defence of Cadiz 1810–12; captured the Neptune privateer 9 Oct. 1813; captain 1 Nov. 1813; captain of the Menai frigate on the coast of North America 1814–7; senior officer on the Jamaica station May 1833 to March 1837; knighted by queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; K.C.H. 1837; captain of the Howe 1840; superintendent of Deptford victualling yard Aug. 1841, then at Sheerness dockyard; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 17 Dec. 1841 to 18 Feb. 1845; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 18 Feb. 1845; R.A. 5 Sept. 1848, V.A. 28 Dec. 1855, admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Greenwich hospital 29 Dec. 1869. I.L.N. lvi 82 (1870).

PELLATT, Apsley (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the glass lenses known as deck lights, d. 21 Jany. 1826). b. 80 High Holborn, London 27 Nov. 1791; in business with his father at the Falcon glass works, Holland st. Southwark; took out a patent for crystallo-ceramic or glass incrustation 1819; took out a patent for improvements in the manufacture of pressed glass articles 1831, and another with his brother Frederick for improvements in the composition of glass 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb. 1838, member of council 1840; member of court of common council of city of London 7 years; M.P. Southwark 1852–7; contested Southwark 31 March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for facilitating dissenter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his bill to define the law as to crossed cheques was passed and became the act 19 and 20 Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided at Staines 1843 to death; one of jurors at exhibition of 1862, and wrote the report on glass manufactures; author of Memoir on the origin, progress and improvement of glass manufactures 1821; Brief memoir of the Jews in relation to their civil and municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities of glass making 1849. d. of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law Mr. Field, Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii 511 (1863); H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 67–9 (1865); Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 166; I.L.N. xxii 237 (1853) portrait.

Note.—In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for which Venice was so celebrated.

PELLEGRINI, Carlo (son of a land owner). b. Capua, Italy March 1839; dissipated his fortune in Naples where he led the fashion; fought as a volunteer under Garibaldi at the Volturno and at Capua 1861; came to London Nov. 1864; drew caricatures of statesmen and other public characters, these appeared in Vanity Fair weekly from 30 Jany. 1869 to his death, the first few caricatures were signed Singe, but all the rest Ape; executed a statuette in red plaster of Robert Lowe standing on a matchbox 1871; painted portraits in oils of sir Edwin Watkin, sir Algernon Borthwick and other friends; exhibited at the R.A. 1878, and several times at the Grosvenor gallery; gave his name to a cigarette. d. 53 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 22 Jany. 1889. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemet. Kensal Green. Vanity Fair 26 Jany. 1889 pp. 55, 67, also 27 April 1889 p. 309 portrait; Pall Mall Budget 2 March 1893 p. 313 portrait; London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 11 portrait.

PELLEW, Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds (2 son of 1 viscount Exmouth 1757–1833). b. 13 Dec. 1789; entered navy March 1799, commander 12 Oct. 1807; captain of the Phæton, 38 guns, 14 Oct. 1808 to Aug. 1812; served at reduction of the Mauritius 1810 and of Java 1811; captain of the Révolutionnaire, 46 guns, Aug. 1818, placed on h.p. June 1822; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836; naval A.D.C. to the queen 4 July 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief on the East India and China stations 6 Dec. 1852, was recalled 19 Jany. 1854 in consequence of a mutiny on board the Winchester caused by his refusing the men leave at Hongkong Sept. 1853; V.A. 22 April 1853, admiral 13 Feb. 1858. d. Marseilles 28 July 1861.

PELLEW, George (brother of preceding). b. Flushing, Cornwall 3 April 1793; educ. Eton 1808–11, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. Nov. 1828; V. of Nazeing, Essex 16 Feb. 1819; V. of Sutton Galtres, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1820; seventh canon in Canterbury cathedral 14 Nov. 1822 to 1828; R. of St. George-the-Martyr, Canterbury 27 Dec. 1826 to 1828; prebendary of York 1824–52; R. of St. Dionis Backchurch London 1828–52; dean of Norwich 27 Nov. 1828 to death; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1852 to death; author of A letter to sir Robert Peel on the means of rendering cathedral churches most conducive to the efficiency of the established church 1837; The life and correspondence of H. Addington, first viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols. 1847; Sermons on many of the leading doctrines and duties taught by the church of England, 2 vols. 1848. d. Great Chart rectory 13 Oct. 1866. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 441, iii 1307 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 697; Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 46.

PELLY, Sir Henry Carstairs, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir John Henry Pelly, 2 baronet 1809–64). b. Balls park, near Hertford 23 April 1844; succeeded 20 Dec. 1864; cornet 2 light dragoons 2 Sept. 1862, lieut. 26 May 1865; captain 2 life guards 19 Oct. 1872, retired 25 June 1873; major 15 Middlesex volunteers 12 May 1875 to death; M.P. Hunts. 13 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 4 June 1877.

PELLY, Henry Joseph (3 son of John Hinde Pelly of Bombay civil service 1786–1852). b. 9 Jany. 1818; ensign 16 Bombay N.I. 11 July 1835; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 13 Oct. 1836, major 1 Oct. 1859; served in Scinde 1840–7; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 March 1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; thrown from his carriage while driving through Hereford 9 Dec. d. Wye bank, Tower road, Hereford 10 Dec. 1891. Hereford Journal 12 Dec. 1891 p. 8.

PELLY, Sir John Henry 1 Baronet (eld. son of Henry Hinde Pelly of Upton house, near Bow, Essex, captain H.E.I. co. 1744–1818). b. 31 March 1777; a director of Hudson’s Bay company 1806, deputy governor 1812–23, governor 1823 to death; sent exploring parties under Dease and Simpson for discovery of the north west passage and the coast line of North America, Cape Pelly marks on the map the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson strait; elder brother of the Trinity house 1823, deputy master 1834–52; a director of the Bank of England 1839 to death, deputy governor 1839–41, governor 1841–2; created baronet 12 Aug. 1840; F.R.S. 2 April 1835. d. Upton house, Essex 13 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 527–8 (1852); I.L.N. xxi 130, 187 (1852).

PELLY, Sir Lewis (brother of Henry Joseph Pelly 1818–91). b. Hyde house, Minchinhampton, Stroud 14 Nov. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838–40; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1841; assistant to the resident at the court of Baroda 1851–2; A.D.C. to general John Jacob in the Persian war 1857; secretary of legation at Teheran 1859, chargé d’affaires there 1860; sent on a special mission through Afghanistan and Baluchistan 1860; political agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861; political resident on the Persian gulf Nov. 1862 to Nov. 1872; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 12 Dec. 1866; went with Bartle Frere on an anti-slavery mission to the east coast of Africa and Arabia 1872–3; chief comr. to the states of Rajputana 1873–5; special comr. to investigate the disordered condition of Baroda 30 Nov. 1874, he arrested the gaekwar of Baroda Jany. 1875 who was tried by a commission and deposed; sent to Pesháwar as envoy-extraordinary for Afghan affairs Dec. 1876, recalled March 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1882; general 31 March 1892; M.P. North Hackney 25 Nov. 1885 to death; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of The views and opinions of brigadier-general John Jacob, C.B. 1858; Journal of a journey from Persia to India 1866; The miracle play of Hasan and Husain: collected from oral tradition, 2 vols. 1879. d. Falmouth 22 April 1892. Graphic xviii 508 (1878) portrait; I.L.N. 30 April 1892 p. 543 portrait; Pictorial World 30 April 1892 p. 3 portrait.

PELLY, Saville Marriott (brother of preceding). b. 28 March 1819; educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1859; assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841; served in Sind 1843, and with the Sind irregular horse in sir C. Napier’s campaign 1844–5; with the army of observation at Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8; served in Rajpootana during the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior medical officer was present at attack on Nimbhaira, the action of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch and the pursuit of Tantia Topee, Indian medal and clasp for Central India; principal medical officer of Indian medical department in Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector general of hospitals Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867, retired as inspector general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. d. Woodstock house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895.

PEMBERTON, Christopher Peach (elder son of Christopher Robert Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). b. May 1838; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The Times during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps under the crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat. By Leo, 2 vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton; killed by a chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny and Fond de Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. bur. in churchyard of Newton, Cambs. 3 Dec. I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p. 336 portrait, 10 Jany. 1874 p. 44, view of monument; Times 10 Sept 1870 p. 6, 11 Oct p. 6, 2 Dec. p. 7, 5 Dec. p. 11.

PEMBERTON, Edward Leigh (2 son of Robert Pemberton, barrister of Bispham hall, Lancs. and brother of 1 baron Kingsdown 1793–1867). b. 18 Feb. 1795; admitted solicitor 1816; practised in London 1816–69; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1856–7, president 1857–8. d. Torry hill, near Sittingbourne, Kent 12 March 1877. Solicitors’ Journal 24 March 1877 p. 399.

PEMBERTON, Edward Loines. b. U.S. of America 1844; educ. in England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps 1859; author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to detect them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5; author of The philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp collector’s handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps at Southampton to decease. d. Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. The Philatelic Record i 2 (1879–80) with portrait.

PEMBERTON, George (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll. Oxf. 1743–1831). b. 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March 1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold out 22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. d. Bainbridge, Holme, Durham 6 April 1851.

PEMBERTON, George Richard. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain 56 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut. col. of 67 N.I. 1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel 19 March 1849 to death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. d. York house, Chertsey 28 April 1866.

PEMBERTON, Henry Leigh (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton 1795–1877). b. 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of Pemberton, Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London; solicitor to the Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec. 1871; official solicitor to chancery division of the supreme court 1875, and to supreme court of judicature 1876 to death; solicitor to honourable society of Lincoln’s Inn to death. d. 20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 29 March 1895. Law Journal 6 April 1895 p. 238.

PEMBERTON, John. L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. d. Droitwich 4 May 1854.

PEMBERTON, Mordaunt (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St. Kitts, West Indies). b. 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ. Brighton college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868, practised in Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of Nevis July 1870; deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward islands 1880, and acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1886. d. Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec. 1887. Law Times 31 Dec. 1887 p. 162.

PEMBERTON, Sholto Thomas (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis, West Indies). b. Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis 1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua 1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death; acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of British Honduras and of the Bahamas. d. Queen’s house, Nevis 29 June 1889. Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p. 359.

PEMBROKE, George Robert Charles Herbert, 13 Earl of (1 son of Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). b. 5 Carlton gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40 (Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll. Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers 2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover 1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. d. Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort, Germany 3 May 1895. bur. at Wilton. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii 142–65 (1854); Baily’s Mag. xxvi 249 (1875) portrait; I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p. 570 portrait; The new budget 9 May 1895 p. 3 portrait; Times 4 May 1895 p. 11.

PENDARVES, Edward William Wynne (2 son of John Stackhouse of Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). b. 6 April 1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796, sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815. d. Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.

PENDER, Daniel. b. 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant, and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb. 1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. d. 20 Oxford gardens, London 12 March 1891.

PENDLEBURY, Sir Ralph (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport, bleacher). b. Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of chartist disturbances of 1839. d. Mersey bank house, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester 1861.

PENDLETON, Frederick Henry Snow. b. 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ. of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s, Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May 1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31 Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882 to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. d. St. Sampson’s rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. Times 19 Sept. 1888 p. 4.

PENFOLD, Charles. b. 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc. 1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863; A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads, printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful knowledge 1840). d. Twickenham 23 May 1864.

PENGELLY, William (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting vessel 1788–1861). b. Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany. 1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay 1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; president of geological section of British Association meeting 1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian periodicals. d. Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. bur. Torquay cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to Torquay natural history society. Quarterly journal of Geol. soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii; Geol. Mag. (1894) 192, 238–9; Natural science May 1894; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.

PENGILLY, Richard. b. Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7; minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed. 1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. d. Newcastle 22 March 1865. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men (1884) 224–5.

PENLEAZE, John Story. b. 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17 Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants. d. Hereford 12 April 1855.

PENLEY, Aaron Edwin. b. 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70; member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856, reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861; master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The English school of painting in water colours, in theory and practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869; A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. d. 5 Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe (1894) 210–2 portrait.

Note.—His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and teacher of painting, he became paralysed and d. 1866.

PENLEY, Belville (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor, Drury Lane, d. Paris April 1832). b. 1809; manager of Drury Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle; with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley, an actress at the Bath theatre, d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 1879 aged 82; he d. 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. B. S. Penley’s Bath stage (1892) 118.

PENN, Alfred. b. Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from 1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. d. 18 Oct. 1889.

PENN, John (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). b. Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins 1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed; fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878; patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers 1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business 1875. d. The Cedars, Lee, Kent 23 Sept. 1878. bur. St. Margaret’s ch. Lee 29 Sept., personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 26 Oct. 1878. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix 298–308 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiii 325–6 (1878) portrait.

PENN, John (son of farrier major Penn). b. in 14 regt. of dragoons; in the service of lady John Bethell; private in 3 light dragoons to 1853; served in Afghanistan campaign 1842, Cabul medal; in Sutlej campaign, wounded at Modkee 18 Dec. 1845, lay on the field all night, despite his wounds present at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; with the army at Lahore, in action of Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849, at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; volunteered into 17 lancers June 1854, at the Alma and at Balaklava 1854, medal, in gallant style cut down a Russian officer; in battle of Inkerman, received a clasp, invalided home July 1855. E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i 552–3 (1857) portrait.

PENN, Lewis William. b. 1829; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1847; lieut. col. 1 April 1872 to death; brevet colonel 23 Jany. 1875; aide-de-camp to the queen 23 Jany. 1875 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Kirkee, near Poona 14 Dec. 1877.

PENN, Richard (younger son of Richard Penn 1736–1811, M.P. Lancaster 1796–1802). b. 1784; served in the colonial office under lord Hobart, viscount Castlereagh, and earls Camden and Bathurst; arranged a cipher for use in despatches which is illustrated in his pamphlet On a new mode of secret writing 1829; F.R.S. 18 Nov. 1824; author of Maxims and hints for an angler and miseries of fishing, illustrated by sir Francis Chantry, to which is added Maxims and hints for a chess player, with portrait caricatures of Penn and Chantry 1833, enlarged ed. 1839, and another ed. containing Maxims and hints on shooting 1855. d. Richmond, Surrey 21 April 1863, portrait by E. W. Eddis engraved by M. Ganci 1884.

PENNA, Catherine (dau. of the succeeding). Pupil of sir George Smart; concert vocalist, a soprano. d. 25 Victoria road, Kilburn, London 15 June 1894.

PENNA, Catherine Louisa (niece and goddaughter of Catherine Stephens, countess of Essex, who d. 1882). Soprano of the duet singers called the “Misses Smith” who toured chiefly in Scotland and Ireland; m. Frederic Penna, who was living in 1879; mother of William Penna, known as W. W. Whitlock. d. 44 Westbourne park road, Bayswater, London 27 Dec. 1879.

PENNEFATHER, Catherine (eld. dau. of James Wm. King, rear-admiral, d. 1848, 7 child of second earl of Kingston). b. about 1825; m. 16 Sept 1847 rev. Wm. Pennefather 1816–73; greatly aided her husband in his evangelical work at Mellifont, Walton and Barnet; carried on religious work at the conference hall, Mildmay park, Islington 1873 to death; author of Follow thou me, discipleship 1881; Follow thou me, service 1881; Songs of the pilgrim land 1886; That nothing be lost 1892; author with others of The homeward journey 1888, a selection of poems. d. 68 Mildmay park, Islington, London 12 Jany. 1893. Christian portrait gallery (1889) 287; The Record 13 Jany. 1893 p. 39; Times 17 Jany. 1893 p. 10.

PENNEFATHER, Edward (1 son of Edward Pennefather 1774–1847, lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland). b. 1809; called to the Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1863 to death. d. 6 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Feb. 1895. Law Times 2 March 1895 p. 432.

PENNEFATHER, John (2 son of Richard Pennefather 1773–1859). b. 1814 or 1815; entered Harrow school Feb. 1830, in the cricket eleven 1832–3; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 25 May 1833 B.A. 1837; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 17 June 1836 from Westminster to Putney; a student of Inner Temple 1835; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1838; crown prosecutor at Tipperary assizes to death; chairman of Killarney junction railway to death. d. 7 April 1855.

PENNEFATHER, Sir John Lysaght (3 son of rev. John Pennefather of New Park, co. Tipperary). b. 1800; cornet 7 dragoon guards 14 Jany. 1818, lieut. 1823–5; captain 22 foot 8 April 1826, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. col. 28 foot 2 Dec. 1847, placed on h.p. 21 July 1848; commanded the infantry brigade at battle of Meanee, India 17 Feb. 1843 when he was shot through the body; A.D.C. to the queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; assistant Q.M.G. in the Cork district 1849–54; commanded the first brigade of second division in the army sent to Russia 1854; at the battle of the Alma; commanded the second division at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 when with less than 3,000 men he defeated 35,000 Russians who lost nearly 12,000 men; commanded the second division again Nov. 1854 to July 1855; colonel of 46 foot 19 Nov. 1854 to 13 Feb. 1860; commanded the troops at Malta 1855–60, in the northern district 1860, and at Aldershot 1860–5; col. of 22 foot 13 Feb. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1860, general 9 May 1868; governor of Chelsea hospital 27 Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 4 July 1843, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 May 1867; grand officer of Legion of Honour; commander of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare; bailiff ad honores of order of St. John of Jerusalem 16 Feb 1858. d. Chelsea hospital 9 May 1872. bur. Brompton cemet. 15 May. G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 97–100.

PENNEFATHER, Richard (eld. son of major Wm. Pennefather of 13 light dragoon, M.P. Cashel). b. Knockeven, Tipperary 1773; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, and King’s inns, Dublin; called to Irish bar 1795; practised in court of chancery and on the Munster circuit; king’s counsel; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1821, resigned Feb. 1859. d. at his residence, near Clonmel 7 Aug. 1859. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 288–92; Dublin univ. mag. liv 532–5 (1859).

PENNEFATHER, William (youngest son of preceding). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin Feb. 1832 to 1840, B.A. 1840; C. of Ballymacugh, Kilmore 1841–4; V. of Mellifont, near Drogheda 1844–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Walton, near Aylesbury 1848–52; V. of Ch. Ch. Barnet, Herts. 1852–64; held conferences on missionary enterprise at Barnet and then at Mildmay 1855 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Mildmay park, Islington 1864 to death; known as a mission preacher all over England; author of The church of the first-born 1865; The bridegroom king 1875; Hymns, original and selected 1875, of these he wrote 25; Original hymns and thoughts in verse 1875, a collection of 71 pieces. d. Melford lodge, Muswell hill, Middlesex 30 April 1873. bur. Ridge, near Barnet, next to his friend Capt. Trotter 6 May. R. Braithwaite’s Life of W. Pennefather (1878) portrait; Julian’s Dict. of hymnology (1892) 888–9; Woman’s work ii 161–70 (1873).

PENNELL, Edmund Burke. b. 1840; clerk in office of sec. of state for the colonies April 1859, third class clerk April 1863; private sec. to W. E. Forster, under sec. to 6 July 1866, to sir C. Adderley to 1 Oct. 1866, and to lord Blachford from 1 Oct. 1866; assist. clerk 20 May 1867, first class clerk 30 Sept. 1872; sent to Paris on a special mission 1874; principal clerk 1 May 1879; British comr. on Anglo-French commission on Newfoundland fisheries, in Paris 1884–5, in Newfoundland 1884–5, again in Paris 1886; C.M.G. 1 Feb. 1886. d. at his brother’s residence, The cottage, East Moulsey, Surrey 16 March 1895. bur. West Moulsey.

PENNELL, Follett Walrond (6 son of Wm. Pennell, consul at Rio de Janeiro). b. 4 Feb. 1804; entered navy Feb. 1818; captain 14 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 2 May 1855; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Ravenside, near Carlisle 30 July 1876.

PENNETHORNE, Sir James (son of Thomas Pennethorne of Worcester). b. Worcester 4 June 1801; pupil of John Nash and Augustus Pugin 1820–4; studied in France and Italy 1824–6; elected a member of the academy of St. Luke; principal assistant of John Nash 1826; directed the West Strand improvement 1829, and the King Wm. st. opening 1831; employed by the comrs. of the woods and forests to prepare plans for improvements in London 1832; four streets New Oxford st. opened 1847, Endell st. 1846, Cranbourne st. 1843, and Commercial st. 1870, were made by him at a cost of one million pounds, also Garrick st. 1864, Southwark st. 1864, and Old st. 1855; built Crockford’s bazaar in St. James’s st. 1832, and Christ church in Albany st. 1836; his design for rebuilding the Royal exchange was one of the five selected in the competition 1838; joint surveyor of houses in London in the land revenue department June 1840; sole surveyor and architect of the office of woods 1843–70; a comr. to inquire into construction of work-houses in Ireland 1843; designed and laid out Victoria park at cost of £115,000, 1842 etc., and Battersea park 1846–58; cleared away the houses from the walls of Windsor Castle 1851–3; architect of the Museum of economic geology in Jermyn st. opened in 1851; removed the colonnade of the Quadrant, Regent st. and designed the balcony 1848; completed the west wing of Somerset House 1852–6, for which he received a gold medal from the R.I.B.A. 18 May 1857; built the ball-room at Buckingham palace, completed 1856, the duchy of Cornwall office, and district post office 1852, the Record office 1856–70, the stables at Marlborough house 1863, the Patent office library, opened 1855, and the new stationery office 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, royal gold medallist 1865; designed the University of London in Burlington Gardens 1866–8; knighted at Windsor castle 29 June 1870. d. Worcester park house, Wimbledon, Surrey 1 Sept. 1871. bur. Highgate cemet. Transactions of the R.I.B.A. (1871–2) 53–69; The Builder (1866) 877–98.

PENNETHORNE, John (brother of preceding). b. Worcester 4 Jany. 1808; pupil of John Nash in London; studied in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt 1830–5; made an elaborate study of the Parthenon at Athens 1832, 1834 and 1837; author of The elements and arithmetical principles of the Greek architects and artists, recovered by study of the remaining works of architecture designed and erected in the age of Pericles 1844; and with J. Robinson The geometry and optics of ancient architecture, illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome 1878; contributed to the Transactions of the R.I.B.A. a paper on The connection between ancient art and the ancient geometry as illustrated by works of the age of Pericles Feb. 1879 pp. 105–36. d. Hamstead, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 20 Jany. 1888. Dictionary of architecture, vol. vi p. 18 (1881).

PENNEY, John. Cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 25 April 1824, lieut. col. 7 Dec. 1850 to 1852, and 24 April 1854 to death; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1852 to 24 April 1854; changed his name from Penny to Penney 1845. d. of heat apoplexy in the retreat from Nasírábád 28 May 1857.

PENNEY, William, lord Kinloch (eld. son of Wm. Penney, merchant). b. Glasgow 1801; educ. Glasgow univ. where he took honours; advocate 1824, had a large practice; judge of court of session 7 May 1858, took courtesy title of lord Kinloch; judge of the first division court Oct. 1868 to death; author of The circle of Christian doctrine 1861, 3 ed. 1865; Time’s treasure or devout thoughts for every day of the year, expressed in verse 1863, 5 ed. 1865; Studies for Sunday evening 1866; Faith’s jewels presented in verse 1869; Thoughts of Christ for every day in the year 1871; Readings in holy writ 1871; Hymns to Christ 1872. d. Hartrigge house, near Jedburgh 31 Oct. 1872. Journal of jurisprudence xvi, 650, 664 (1872); Law mag. and law review i 1075–7 (1872); I.L.N. lxi 452 (1872) portrait.

PENNINGTON, James (son of Wm. Pennington, bookseller). b. Kendal, Westmoreland 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in business in London; appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company 1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British colonies 1848. d. 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23 March 1862. A. R. Pennington’s Recollections of persons and events (1895) 109–11.

PENNY, Charles (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). b. 1810; educ. Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B. and D.D. 1850; C. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1832–4; C. of Sutton Courtney, Berks. 1834–6; C. of Dorchester 1836–7; C. of West Ilsley, Berks. 1837–8; head master of Crewkerne gr. sch. 1838 to death; R. of Chaffcombe, Somerset 1848 to death; author of A sermon preached before the university of Oxford 1851. d. Greenham house, Beaminster, Dorset 15 Dec. 1875.

PENNY, Frederick (3 son of Charles Penny, wholesale stationer, Cheapside, London). b. London 10 April 1816; studied under Henry Hennel, chemical operator to the soc. of apothecaries 1830–6; professor of chemistry Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1839 to death, where he had a large number of pupils; retained by the crown in criminal cases; doctor of philosophy of Giessen univ.; F.R.S. Edinb.; wrote On the conversion of chlorates and nitrates into chlorides and of chlorides into nitrates, Philos. Trans. 1839 pp. 13–33; author of On the composition and phosphorescence of plate-sulphate of potash 1855; with J. Adams On the detection of aconite, in reference to trial of E. W. Pritchard 1865; with W. Wallace Notes on chloride of arsenic 1852. d. 44 Windsor terrace, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1869. Glasgow Medical Journal ii 258–70 (1870); Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii 25 (1872).

PENNY, John (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). b. 16 Feb. 1803; educ. King’s school, Sherborne; proprietor and editor of the Sherborne Journal by purchase from Chiswick and co. 1 May 1828, retired 1858; head stamp distributor for Dorset, residing at Dorchester, about 1833, and at Leeds shortly afterwards, retired on a superannuation; author of Dorsetshire emancipated from Tory dominion 1832; Practical retrenchment the object of reform 1833; Stephen, king of England, or the Danish usurpation 1851, a drama produced at the Leeds theatre; resided Chetnole, Dorset. d. 27 Pulteney st. Bath 7 Feb. 1885. bur. in the catacombs at Exeter 12 Feb. Mayo’s Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis (1885) 33, 79; Sherborne Journal 12 Feb. 1885 p. 8, 16 Feb. p. 3.

PENNY, Nicholas (son of Robert Penny of Weymouth). b. Nov. 1790; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1830, lieut. 19 Dec. 1812; captain 69 Bengal N.I. 1829, lieut. col. 29 July 1848 to 1849; served at the siege of Bhurtpore 1825; brigade-major on the Muttra and Agra frontier 1826–8; assistant adjutant general of a division 9 July 1832; commanded the Nusseree battalion 2 June 1841 to 7 Oct. 1848; commanded the second infantry brigade in the first Sikh war 1846; lieut. col. of 2 European fusiliers 1849–51, of 40 Bengal N.I. 1851–2, of 61 Bengal N.I. 1852 to 16 Jany. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 5 June 1849 to 20 June 1854; commanded the Jullunder field force 2 Feb. 1852, the Sirhind division 28 Aug. 1852, the Lind-Sangor district 22 Feb. 1853, and the Sialkot district 19 Jany. 1854; commanded the Cawnpore division May 1855; commanded the Meerut division 30 June 1857 to death, and the Delhi field force 30 Sept. 1857 to death; killed by the rebels at Kakràtá, near Bareilly 30 April 1858. Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny iv 73–6, 349–351 (1889).

PENNY, William Carpenter (eld. son of William Ponsford Penny, bookseller, Frome, d. 1856). b. Frome 2 May 1822; in his father’s business, Bath st. Frome; clerk to Whittaker and co. London; with his brother James Penny succeeded to the business in Frome 1856; established and edited the Frome Times 1859, ultimately purchased by Frome newspaper co. and became The Somerset Standard; published W. J. E. Bennett’s The old church porch 1854–62; a witness in the case of Sheppard v. Bennett. d. Church-slope, Frome 15 May 1887. bur. the parish cemetery 18 May. Bookseller June 1887 p. 546; The Somerset and Wilts. journal 21 May 1887 p. 5.

PENNYCUICK, James Farrell (eld. son of John Pennycuick, brigadier-general, killed near Chillianwalla 13 Jany. 1849). b. 10 Aug. 1829; educ. royal military academy 1844–7; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 May 1847, colonel 1 May 1880, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 4 Jany. 1886; served in the Crimean war, the Indian mutiny 1857–8, and the expedition to China 1860; M.G. 8 Nov. 1880, L.G. 1 July 1885; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Bedford 6 July 1888. bur. Bedford cemet. 10 July.

PENON, Jules Francois Charles. b. France 1814; instructor in French at royal naval college, Greenwich 1874 to death; naturalised in England 17 Feb. 1876. d. 2 Dovercourt villas, Lee, Kent 13 May 1881.

PENRHYN, Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1 Baron (3 son of colonel the hon. John Douglas 1786–1818, and brother of 17 earl of Morton 1789–1858). b. 20 June 1800; ensign grenadier guards 31 Aug. 1815, lieut. 13 May 1824, captain 18 April 1834, placed on h.p. 25 April 1834; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; captain Scots fusilier guards 10 Dec. 1847, sold out same day; one of a crew of 6 officers of the guards who for a bet of 600 guineas undertook to row in a wherry from Oxford to Westminster bridge within 16 hours 24 April 1824, the distance, 118 miles, was rowed in 15¾ hours; proprietor of the Penrhyn slate quarries, Wales; m. 6 Aug. 1833 Juliana, co-heiress of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant and took by R.L. name of Pennant 12 Jany. 1841, was given precedence as the son of an earl, by royal warrant 26 Aug. 1835; M.P. Carnarvonshire 1841–66; cr. baron Penrhyn of Llandegai, co. Carnarvon 3 Aug. 1866; lord lieutenant of Carnarvonshire 14 Sept. 1866; hon. col. Carnarvon militia 30 Aug. 1852 to death. d. Penrhyn castle, Llandegai 31 March 1886. Annual Register (1824) 59–60; Practical Mag. ii 161 (1873) portrait.

PENROSE, Charles Thomas (2 son of John Penrose 1778–1859, vicar of Bracebridge, Lincoln). b. Bracebridge 15 July 1816; educ. Rugby 1828–36; Bell scholar Trin. coll. Camb. 1836, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; rowed in the first and second races against the Leander eight oared boat 1837 and 1838; rowed No. 5 in the Cambridge boat against Oxford from Westminster to Putney 3 April 1839; head master of Grosvenor college, Bath 1843–5; head master of Sherborne gr. sch. 1845–55; C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. 1856; P.C. of North Hykeham 1859 to death; edited Select private orations of Demosthenes with notes 1843, 2 ed. 1853; author of Eight village sermons, Lincoln 1857. d. North Hykeham 5 May 1868. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 453 (1878).

PENROSE, John (eld. son of John Penrose 1754–1829, rector of Fledborough, Notts.). b. Cardinham, near Bodmin 15 Dec. 1778; educ. Tiverton school 1794–5; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 3 July 1795; migrated to C.C. coll. 26 Nov. 1795; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; Bampton lecturer 1808; V. of Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs. Dec. 1802 to death; V. of Poundstock, Cornwall 1803–9; V. of Bracebridge, Lincs. 1809–38; P.C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. Nov. 1837 to death; author of An attempt to prove the truth of christianity, Bampton lecture 1808; An inquiry into the nature and discipline of human motives 1820; Of the use of miracles in proving the truth of a revelation 1824; Familiar introduction to the Christian religion. By a Senior 1831; Explanatory lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew 1832; On the moral principle of the atonement 1843, 2 ed. 1846; Lives of vice-admiral sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose and captain James Trevenen. By their nephew 1850; Fifty-four sermons for Sunday reading in families 1851, 2 ed. 1859; m. 1814 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Edmund Cartwright, rector of Goadby-Marwood, Leics., she was b. 3 Aug. 1780, wrote many school histories under pseudonym of Mrs. Markham, and d. Lincoln 24 Jany. 1837; he d. Langton 9 Aug. 1859. J. Penrose’s Life of rev. J. Penrose of Fledborough (1880); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 454–8 (1874–8); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 712, 1084.

PENSON, James (son of a dockyard artizan). b. Devonport 1814; a teacher of drawing; studied in Sass’ academy, Bloomsbury, London; a water colour painter; exhibited at Royal academy, London 1850. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 104.

PENTLAND, Joseph Barclay. b. Ireland 1797; educ. Armagh and univ. of Paris; secretary to British consulate in Peru 1827; consul-general in republic of Bolivia 1 Aug. 1836 until 1839; surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes 1826–7, and was the first to measure height of the mountains; travelled in the southern province of ancient Peru 1838; spent his winters in Rome from 1845, acted as guide to the prince of Wales twice; edited for John Murray A handbook of Rome and its environs, 9 ed. 1860, 10 ed. 1871, and 11 ed. 1872; A handbook for travellers in Southern Italy, 6 ed. 1868; and A handbook for travellers in Northern Italy, 11 ed. 1869. d. 3 Motcomb st., London 12 July 1873. bur. Brompton cemet. Athenæum 6 Sept. 1873 p. 309.

PEPLOE, Annie (2 dau. of John Molyneux of Gavel Hill, Salop, captain R.N.) b. Ludlow 21 Feb. 1805; m. 3 Jany. 1828 John Birch Webb, vicar of Weobly, Herefordshire, who took name of Peploe 1866, he was b. Court lodge, Kent 9 Sept. 1801 and d. Garnstone, Herefordshire 26 Jany. 1869; author of Naomi, or the last days of Jerusalem 1841, 20 ed. 1895; A tale of the Vaudois 1842, 2 ed. 1854; Julamerk, a tale of the Nestorians, 3 vols. 1849, 3 ed. 1854; The martyrs of Carthage, 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed. 1857; Alypius of Tagaste 1865, 2 ed. 1891; Benaiah, a tale of the captivity 1865; Oliver Wyndham 1867; Pomponia, or the gospel in Cæsar’s household 1867; I know, or the verities of the Bible 1879; her name is attached to upwards of 25 works 1841–79. d. 25 Onslow gardens, London, the residence of her son rev. Hanmer Wm. Webb Peploe 13 Jany. 1880. Reg. and mag. of biog. March 1869 p. 253.

PEPLOE, Daniel Peploe (eld. son of preceding). b. 15 Feb. 1829; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; cornet 4 royal Irish dragoon guards 14 May 1852, captain 11 Dec. 1857, sold out 3 July 1860; assumed name of Peploe 16 July 1866; M.P. Herefordshire 1874–80; contested Herefordshire 6 April 1880. d. 4 Nov. 1887.

PEPOLI, Count Carlo. b. 1800; joined in attempts to overthrow the Papal government and was head of provisional government in Bologna 1831; lived in England 1831–59; naturalised in England 18 Feb. 1847; held an appointment in Glasgow univ.; brought with him from Italy a collection of pictures by the old masters which was sold in London 1850; rector of Bologna univ. 1859; Rosa M. Kettle in her novel My home in the shires 1876 introduced him under the name of The Marchese di Petralva; author of I puritani e cavalieri, a serious opera in 3 acts 1835; Malek-Adel, a drama 1837; On the language and literature of Italy, an inaugural lecture in University college London 1838; he also published various works in Bologna, Ginevra, Milan, and Pinerolo 1827–81. d. Palazzo Pepoli, giá Albergati, Bologna 6 Dec. 1881. Colburn’s New monthly mag. Dec. 1882 pp. 29–35; Art Journal ii 127 (1850).

PEPYS, Henry (younger brother of 1 earl of Cottenham 1781–1851). b. Wimpole st. London 18 April 1783; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1840; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1804; R. of Aspeden, Herts. 1818–27; R. of Moreton, Essex 1822–40; prebendary of Wells 3 Feb. 1826 to 1840; R. of Westmill, Herts. 1827–40; bishop of Sodor and Man 27 Jany. 1840, consecrated at Whitehall 1 March, installed at St. Mary’s Castleton 8 May; bishop of Worcester 4 May 1841 to death; author of The remains of the lord viscount Royston, with a memoir of his life 1838; Six charges and two single sermons. d. Hartlebury castle, Stourport, Worcs. 13 Nov. 1860. G.M. Dec. 1860 p. 674.

PEPYS, Philip Henry (eld. son of the preceding). b. 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 8 June 1849; sec. of presentations to lord chancellor 1846–51, and 1852–62, principal sec. 1862–4; chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1855 to death; one of the registrars of court of bankruptcy London about 1 June 1864 to death; author of Constance Tyrell, or the half-sister, 3 vols. 1852. d. Brighton 6 Feb. 1886. Law Times 6 March 1886 p. 330.

PEPYS, William Hasledine or Haseldine (son of W. H. Pepys of 24 The Poultry, London, cutler). b. London 23 March 1775; a founder of Askesian society March 1796, which led to foundation of British mineralogical and geological societies, and the London institution of which he was an original manager and honorary secretary 1821–4; treasurer of Geological society 1811, then vice-president; succeeded his father as a cutler and carried on the business to his death; worked with Desvignes on soda-water apparatus 1798; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1808; president of the Royal Institution 1816; F.L.S. 1821; invented the mercury gasometer and water gasholder, both still in use; one of the first to use mercury contacts for electrical apparatus and tubes coated with indiarubber for conveying gases; invented an eudiometer which he calibrated by a method still used for the purpose 1807; author of many papers in Tilloch’s Philosophical magazine, the Philosophical transactions of the Royal society, and the Journal of science and the arts. d. 11 Earls terrace, Kensington road, London 17 Aug. 1856. Life of Wm. Allen, 3 vols. (1846–7) passim; F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs ii 101 (1872).

PERCEVAL, Alexander (2 son of rev. Philip Perceval of Temple house, Ballymote, co. Sligo). b. Temple house 10 Feb. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. colonel of Sligo militia 12 April 1809 to 16 June 1855; M.P. co. Sligo 17 May 1831 to Sept. 1841; created D.C.L. Oxford 13 June 1834; treasurer of the ordnance Dec. 1834 to April 1835; treasurer of the Orange association of Ireland, dissolved 1835; sergeant-at-arms of the house of lords Sept. 1841 to death; one of the 6 comrs. for executing the office of treasurer of the exchequer of Great Britain 6 to 16 Sept. 1841. d. 28 Chester st. London 9 Dec. 1858. Portraits of eminent conservatives, 2nd series (1846) portrait xi; G.M. Feb. 1859 p. 208.

PERCEVAL, Arthur Philip (youngest son of 2 baron Arden 1756–1840). b. at the Admiralty, London 22 Nov. 1799; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, B.C.L. 1824; fellow of All Soul’s coll. 1821–5; R. of East Horsley, Surrey 18 June 1824 to 1846; chaplain to the sovereign 7 March 1826 to death; author of The Roman schism illustrated from the records of the Catholic church 1836; The origin of church rates 1837; Sermons preached chiefly at the chapel royal, St. James’s 1839; An apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession 1839, 2 ed. 1841; A vindication of the principles of the authors of the Tracts for the times 1841, of which he wrote Nos. 23, 35, 36, and perhaps 17; A collection of papers connected with the theological movement of 1833, 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Results of an ecclesiastical tour in Holland and Northern Germany 1846; Plain lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 1846; Origines Hibernicæ. By A. P. P. Dublin 1849; his name is attached to upwards of 40 works. d. Little Bookham, Surrey 11 June 1853 after taking laudanum, verdict temporary insanity. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i 247, 264, ii 178 (1893–4); E. Sheppard’s St. James’s Palace ii 341–2 (1894); G.M. Aug. 1853 p. 208.

PERCEVAL, Charles Spencer (only son of succeeding). b. 11 Feb. 1829; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1853, LL.D. 1858; fellow of his college 1855–67; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; principal secretary to lords chancellors Chelmsford and Cairns 1866–8; secretary to comrs. in lunacy May 1872 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1860, director 1847–72, treasurer 1874 to death, catalogued the collection of impressions and matrices of seals belonging to the society; edited Catalogue of a collection of works on pageantry bequeathed to the Society of antiquaries by F. W. Fairholt 1869; and with W. S. Walford Three rolls of arms of the thirteenth century 1864. d. 64 Eccleston sq. London 29 Jany. 1889. bur. Norwood cemet. 2 Feb. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 383–4 (1889); Law Times 2 March 1889 p. 340.

PERCEVAL, Dudley Montague (4 son of Spencer Perceval 1762–1812, prime minister). b. 22 Oct. 1800; educ. Harrow Oct. 1811 to Dec. 1815, and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1822; student of Lincoln’s Inn 1823; clerk of the council at Cape of Good Hope 1825–8; first clerk and deputy teller of the exchequer in London 1828–34, when the tellerships were abolished; contested Finsbury 26 July 1837 and univ. of Oxford 20 Jany. 1852; wrote a series of letters signed Philalethes in the Standard on the Irish church temporalties bill; author of Quietus optabilissimus, or the nature and necessity of real securities for the United church with a settlement of the catholic question 1829; Remarks on the character ascribed by colonel Napier, in the History of the war in the Peninsula, to the rt. hon. S. Perceval 1835, 2 ed. 1835. d. 16 Wilton st. London 2 Sept. 1856. G.M. Nov. 1856 pp. 649–52.

PERCEVAL, Frederica. Attended the Mildmay conference Islington, London 1874; the chief means of establishing a protestant preacher at Spa, Belgium. d. Bruges, Belgium July 1875. Women’s Work iv 299–301 (1875).

PERCEVAL, Spencer (brother of D. M. Perceval 1800–56). b. 57 Lincoln’s inn fields, London 11 Sept. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1816; received a grant from parliament on the assassination of his father 1812; one of the four tellers of the exchequer by patent 15 Feb. 1813, office abolished 10 Oct. 1834; M.P. Ennis 1818–20; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1827–31; M.P. Tiverton 1831–2; attended Henry Drummond’s meetings at Albury park 1826–30; called to be an apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic apostolic church 18 Dec. 1833, representing the tribe of Manasseh and taking Italy as his sphere; a compiler of The Testimony which he delivered to William IV and all the privy councillors 1836; with H. Drummond delivered a testimony to the Pope July 1838; the rev. Hugh M’Neile addressed him in “Letters to a Friend who has felt it his duty to secede from the church of England” 1834; resided 31 Portman sq. London. d. of apoplexy, Weymouth 16 Sept. 1859. Spencer Walpole’s Life of S. Perceval i 26, ii 303 (1874); E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i 41, 98, 139, 178, 180, 191, 285–6 (1878); Weymouth Journal 23 Sept. 1859 p. 2.

PERCEVAL, Spencer. b. 1817; ensign Coldstream guards 13 Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 2 July 1861 to 9 Nov. 1862; M.G. 9 Nov. 1862; L.G. 25 Oct. 1871. d. 6 Down st. Piccadilly, London 5 July 1877.

PERCIVAL, Charles. b. England; lived in France 1789 to death; rode at Sablonville for comte d’Artois, afterwards Charles X, in the first race ever publicly run in France. d. Chantilly, near Paris Feb. 1865.

PERCY, Charles Greatheed Bertie (youngest son of Algernon, 2 earl Beverley 1750–1830). b. Portman sq. London 4 March 1794; educ. Eton 1805–9, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; M.P. Newport, Cornwall 1826–30; m. 20 March 1822 Anne Caroline, heiress of Bertie Bertie Greatheed, with whom he acquired the historic mansion Guy’s cliff, near Leamington, and assumed by R.L. the surname of Greatheed Bertie 1 April 1826; obtained precedence of a duke’s youngest son 16 March 1865. d. Alnwick castle, at the residence of his nephew the duke of Northumberland 11 Oct. 1870. I.L.N. 22 Oct. 1870 p. 435.

PERCY, Sir Henry Hugh Manvers (3 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). b. Burwood house, Cobham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1817; educ. Eton 1832–5; ensign grenadier guards 1 July 1836, major 19 June 1860 to 3 Oct. 1862; served during Canadian insurrection 1838, and the Crimean war 1854–5; wounded at battles of Alma and Inkerman; brigadier general in command of the British-Italian legion in the Crimea 31 Aug. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Feb. 1865; V.C. 5 May 1857 for bravery at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; sent to New Brunswick in command of first battalion of Grenadier guards Dec. 1861; col. of 89 foot 28 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. North Northumberland 19 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; K.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of Explanation of the manœuvres of a brigade of infantry 1852; Caution for company and battalion drill 1855; found dead in his bed at 40 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1877. bur. in Northumberland vault, Westminster abbey 7 Dec. O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross (1880) 31, 79.

PERCY, Hugh (brother of C. G. B. Percy 1794–1870). b. London 29 Jany. 1784, twin with Josceline Percy; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825; migrated to St. John’s coll. Camb.; D.D. Oxf. 1834; R. of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent 1809; chancellor of Exeter 30 Jany. 1810 and prebendary 16 April 1810 to 1816; chancellor of Salisbury cathedral 21 Dec. 1811 to death; prebendary of Canterbury 16 May 1816 to 1825; prebendary of St. Paul’s 12 July 1816 to death; archdeacon of Canterbury 26 April 1822, dean 20 June 1825; bishop of Rochester 21 June 1827, consecrated at Lambeth palace 15 July 1827; bishop of Carlisle 17 Sept. 1827 to death; established a Clergy aid society 1838 and a diocesan education society 1855; restored Rose castle the episcopal residence and spent £40,000 of his own money on the gardens and grounds. d. Rose castle, Carlisle 5 Feb. 1856. bur. Dalston churchyard. R. S. Ferguson’s Diocesan history of Carlisle (1889) 2, 242; G.M. April 1856 p. 421.

PERCY, John (3 son of Henry Percy, solicitor). b. Nottingham 23 March 1817; studied medicine in Paris and Edinb.; M.D. Edinb. 1838; physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1839; F.R.S. 22 April 1847, member of council 1857–9; F.G.S. 1851; lecturer on metallurgy at Metropolitan school of science in London 1851, which became the Royal school of mines where he was professor to Dec. 1879; invented the silver process and discovered aluminium bronze; lecturer on metallurgy to artillery officers at Woolwich about 1864 to death; superintendent of ventilation of houses of parliament 6 Feb. 1865; member of commission on application of iron for defensive purposes 1861, and on Gibraltar shields 1867; member of royal commissions on coal 1871 and on spontaneous combustion of coal in ships 1875; awarded Bessemer medal of the Iron and steel institute 1876, president 1885–6; wrote many letters to The Times signed Y; author of An experimental enquiry concerning the presence of alcohol in the ventricles of the brain after poisoning by that liquid 1839; On the importance of scientific knowledge to the practical metallurgist 1852; On the metallurgical treatment and assaying of gold ores 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Metallurgy, the art of extracting metals from their ores and adapting them to the purposes of manufacture, 4 vols. 1861–70, 2 ed. 1875; The manufacture of Russian sheet iron 1871; awarded Albert medal of Society of arts 18 June 1889. d. 1 Gloucester crescent, Hyde park, London 19 June 1889, his metallurgical specimens went to South Kensington museum, his other collections were sold. Temple Bar July 1890 pp. 354–74; Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi pp. xxxv–xl (1890); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix 343–6 (1890); Nature 27 June 1889 p. 206; Spon’s Industrial arts i 320 (1879).

PERCY, Josceline (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). b. London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept. 1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus 1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845; V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851 to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. d. at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts. 19 Oct. 1856.

PERCY, Josceline William (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). b. Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston 1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in inscriptions and documents 1847. d. Pembroke lodge, Sonning hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881.

PERCY, Sidney Richard (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape painter). b. about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’ d. Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. Athenæum i 592 (1886).

PERCY, William Henry (younger brother of Josceline Percy 1784–1856). b. 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801; commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany. 1849. d. at the residence of his brother the earl of Beverley 8 Portman sq. London 5 Oct. 1855.

PEREIRA, Jonathan (son of an underwriter at Lloyd’s). b. Shoreditch, London 22 May 1804; educ. Aldersgate st. general dispensary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 6 March 1823; M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1845; apothecary to the dispensary 1823–32, lecturer on chemistry 1826–8, lecturer on materia medica 1828–41; F.L.S. 1828; professor of materia medica in new medical school in Aldersgate st. 1832; lecturer on chemistry at the London hospital 1833–51, assistant physician 1841–51, physician 1851 to death; F.R.S. 3 May 1838, member of council 1843; examiner in materia medica to univ. of London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845, curator of the museum to death; M.D. Erlangen 1840; professor of materia medica to Pharmaceutical society 1843–52; author of A translation of the pharmacopæia of 1824, 1824; A selection of prescriptions for students 1824, 18 ed. 1890; Manual for medical students 1826; General table of atomic numbers 1827; The elements of materia medica, 2 parts 1839–40, 6 ed. 1874; A treatise on food and diet 1843; Lectures on polarised light 1843, 2 ed. 1854. d. 47 Finsbury sq. London 21 Jany. 1853. bur. Kensal Green cemet., bust by McDowall executed for London hospital. Pharmaceutical Journal March 1853 p. 409 portrait; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 237–9 (1855); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 224; G.M. xxxix 320–2 (1853); I.L.N. xxii 77, 78 (1853) portrait.

PEREIRA, Menassah Lopez. b. 1776; entered Madras army 1796; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, major 6 April 1810 to 19 July 1817; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 19 July 1817 to 1820, and of 18 N.I. 1820–4; lieut. col. commandant 34 N.I. 1 May 1824 to 5 June 1829; col. of 16 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 29 June 1842, of 30 N.I. 29 June 1842 to 11 May 1848, and of 28 N.I. 11 May 1848 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Brighton 20 April 1853.

PERFECT, Robert (only son of Wm. Perfect, M.D. of Wincanton, Somerset). b. 1799; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; founded East Somerset registration soc. 1841; M.P. Lewes 1847–52. d. Woolstone house, Castle Cary, Somerset 29 July 1875.

PERIGAL, Arthur (son of Arthur Perigal, historical painter 1784–1847). b. London Aug. 1816; a drawing-master in Edinburgh then a landscape painter; travelled in Switzerland, Italy, and Norway; A.R.S.A. 1841, R.S.A. 1868, treasurer 8 March 1880 to death; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1861–76; his picture ‘Moorland, near Kinlochee, Rossshire,’ is in National gallery of Scotland. d. 7 Oxford terrace, Edinburgh 5 June 1884. bur. in the Dean cemetery.

PERKINS, Angier March (2 son of Jacob Perkins, civil engineer). b. Newbury Port, Massachusetts 1799; came to England 1827; assisted his father to perfect his method of engraving bank-notes and of using steam under very high pressure; introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water circulating through small closed pipes, carried on a large business with his son in Harpur st. and then at 43 Regent’s sq. Gray’s inn road, London; took out a patent for the manufacture of iron by the use of superheated steam 1843; took out a patent for heating bakers’ ovens 1851, and another for railway axles and boxes 1851; A.I.C.E. May 1840; author with G. W. Fitch of A manual of geographical names 1852. d. 22 April 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii 417–9 (1882).

PERKINS, Frederick. b. 1780; F.L.S. 13 March 1816; F.G.S.; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark, London; collected books 1820–60, they were sold by Sotheby’s in a 7 days sale for £8,500, July 1889; his Shakespeare collection, 47 vols. fetched £2,400. d. Chipstead place, Kent 10 Oct. 1860. Quaritch’s Contributions to a Dictionary of English book collectors, Part v, Feb. 1894.

PERKINS, Henry. b. 1778; partner in firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark, London; began collecting books at his residence Springfield, near Tooting, Surrey 1823; left his library to his relative, Algernon Perkins of Hanworth park, Middlesex, who d. 15 Nov. 1872 and whose personalty was sworn under £250,000, 4 Jany. 1873; the books were sold by Gadsden, Ellis and co. at Hanworth park 3–6 June 1873, the 865 lots produced £26,000, being an average of more than £30 each, ten of the volumes sold for £10,500, the Mazarin bible 2 vols. printed on vellum sold for £3,400, Biblia sacra Latina 2 vols. 1462 sold for £780, and the manuscript of John Lydgate’s Siege of Troy sold for £1,370. d. Dover 15 April 1855. A dictionary of English book collectors, part ii, September 1892; Athenæum 1 March 1873 pp. 279–80, 14 June 1873 pp. 762–3; Chambers’s Journal l 709 (1873).

PERKINS, Julius E. b. Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S. of America 1845; studied in Paris and in Italy; called himself Giulio Perkins; came out as a singer in Italy 1868; a bass singer; joined Mapleson opera co. 1874; acted Baldassare in La Favorita, Drury Lane 11 April 1874, and Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic flute 4 July 1874; m. 1874 Marie Roze, soprano vocalist, she m. (2) 1877 Henry Mapleson. d. after a few days’ illness Queen’s hotel, Manchester 25 Feb. 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 28 Feb.

PERKINS, Loftus (son of Angier March Perkins 1799–1881). b. 21 Coram st. London 8 May 1834; employed by his father to 1853 and 1854–62; an engineer in New York 1853–4; an engineer in Hamburg and Berlin 1862–6, designing and executing installations for warming buildings; partner with his father as engineers in Francis st. now Seaford st., Gray’s inn road, London 1866–81; took out many patents from 1859; experimented on the use of very high pressure steam as a motive power and on the production of artificial cold; invented the Arktos, a cold chamber suitable for preserving food; M.I.M.E. 1861, M.I.C.E. 1881. d. 148 Abbey road, Kilburn, London 27 April 1891. bur. Kensal green cemetery 1 May. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cv 311–4 (1891); The Engineer 1 May 1891 p. 349.

PERKINS, Shirley Farmer Steele (son of Samuel Steele Perkins of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.) b. 17 April 1768; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1784; barrister L.I. 16 June 1792, went Midland circuit; comr. of bankrupts for Birmingham 1794 to March 1847. d. Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham 15 Jany. 1852. G.M. June 1852 p. 621.

PERKS, George, stage name of George William Reed. b. 1831; equestrian performer; father of the Perks family equestrian performers, performing at Agricultural hall, Christmas 1863–4. d. Ernest villa, Hornsey park road, Hornsey 10 June 1893. bur. New Southgate cemetery 17 June. Illust. Sporting News 2 Jany. 1864 p. 378, 20 Feb. 1864 p. 441, portrait of Mr. Perks and Son.

PERKS, George Thomas. b. Madeley, Salop 29 Aug. 1819; educ. Theological instit. Hoxton; Wesleyan methodist minister at Edinburgh 1843–5, at Manchester 1850–6, at Bristol 1859–62, in London 1862; visited Africa in connection with the missionaries; sec. to the committee of privileges; sec. of Didsbury and Richmond theological institutions; general sec. of Wesleyan foreign mission 1867 to death; sec. of the conference 1872, and president 30 July 1873; author of Sermons on standard questions 1882; while preaching taken ill in the pulpit 27 May and d. at residence of H. Wigfield, St. Leonard’s house, Rotherham 29 May 1877. I.L.N. 16 Aug. 1873 p. 149 portrait; Times 30 May 1877 p. 6; Minutes of the conference 1877 pp. 37–9.

PERRIER, Sir Anthony George (son of George Perrier, merchant). b. Cork 1792; served in the commissariat department in Peninsular war; British consul at Brest 7 Oct. 1824 to death; knighted by patent 22 Nov. 1843; delegate to European sanitary conference assembled at Paris 1851–2, and 25 Feb. 1859 to 25 April 1860; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. d. Brest 8 July 1867. bur. in the cemetery.

PERRIN, Louis (son of Jean Baptiste Perrin, teacher of French in Dublin). b. Waterford 15 Feb. 1782; educ. diocesan school Armagh and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1799, B.A. 1801; called to Irish bar Jany. 1806; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1832; M.P. Dublin 6 May 1831, unseated Aug. 1831; M.P. Monaghan 24 Dec. 1832 to 1834; M.P. Cashel 14 Jany. 1835 to Aug. 1835; third sergeant-at-law 7 Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1835, first sergeant-at-law Feb. to April 1835; attorney general 29 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1835; judge of court of king’s bench 31 Aug. 1835, retired on a pension Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1835. d. Knockdromin, near Rush, co. Dublin 7 Dec. 1864. bur. Rush 10 Dec. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 307–15; G.M. Jany. 1865 pp. 123–4.

PERRING, James Ernest. b. London 1822; led the soprano chorus at Her Majesty’s theatre about 1835; studied under sir Julius Benedict; an intimate friend of Sims Reeves; went to U.S. of America with Maria Piccolomini in 1858; a singer in oratorios; composer of The fairy ring, comic ballad, London 1840; I’d be a gipsy, ballad 1847; I’ll keep thee in remembrance 1854; Life’s rosy morning, sacred song 1864; Beware, cavatina, New York 1864; The home of my youth, duet 1870; The wishing gate 1867; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1840–74. d. New York, U.S. of America 12 Jany, 1889.

PERRING, John Shae. b. Boston, Lincs. 24 Jany. 1813; employed as an engineer in London 1833; assistant engineer to Galloway Bey, manager of public works for the viceroy of Egypt March 1836, became a member of the board of public works; helped to make a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh Jany. to Aug. 1837; explored and surveyed the pyramids at Abou Roash 1838–9; and made a trigonometrical survey of the 53 miles of country near the pyramids; engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway docks and harbour 1 March 1841 to 1844; resident engineer of the East Lancashire railway 1846–59; engineer of the Ribblesdale railway, constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn; one of the engineers of the Manchester city railway; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1853; M.I.M.E. 1856; author of On the engineering of the ancient Egyptians 6 numbers 1835; The pyramids of Gizeh from actual survey and admeasurement 1839; d. 104 King st. Manchester 16 Jany. 1869. R. W. H. H. Vyse’s Operations at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with a survey by J. S. Perring of the pyramids of Abou Roash 3 vols. (1840–3) portrait; C. C. J. Bunsen’s Egypt’s place in universal history ii 28–9, 635–45 (1854); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 455–6 (1870); Proc. of instit. of mining engineering (1878) 15.

PERRING, Robert. b. 1787; edited The Carlisle Patriot from 1815, and again from 1848 to 1868; editor and proprietor of The Intelligencer at Leeds; sub-editor of the Morning Herald; he encouraged Robert Anderson “The Cumberland bard” who in his Poetical Works 2 vols. 1820 acknowledges the help given him vol. i p. xxxiv. d. Carlisle 4 Oct. 1869, bur. Embleton 7 Oct. Newspaper Press iii 249 (1869).

PERROT, Jules Joseph. b. 1800; pupil of Auguste Vestris; dancer and ballet master at Grand opera Paris 1828; the teacher of Carlotta Grisi, whom he married and from whom he was afterwards separated, she was b. Visinida 1821; one of the most famous dancers of his day, well known at the King’s theatre London; the inventor of the successful ballets Zingari at the Renaissance 1841 La fille du Bandit 1857. d. Sept. 1892.

PERRY, Alfred John. b. 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1853; C. of Plaistow Essex 1853–6; C. of Stanningfield, Suffolk 1856–8; C. of Lackford, Suffolk 1860–2; chaplain to hospital Bury St. Edmunds 1862–9; C. of St. Augustine, Wisbech 1869 to death; 3rd classical master of Royal Naval sch. New Cross; author of The old year and the new 1864; A few plain words on the real presence 1865. d. St. Augustine’s vicarage 10 July 1876.

PERRY, Charles (youngest son of John Perry of Moor hall, Essex, proprietor of Blackwell dockyard, d. 1810). b. Hackney 17 Feb. 1807; educ. Harrow Feb. 1819 to June 1823, played in the eleven against Eton; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and seventh classic 1828; aided in establishing the first eight oared boat on the Cam 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1847; fellow of Trinity 1837–41, tutor 1837–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Barnwell, Cambridge 1842–7; bishop of Melbourne 25 June 1847 to May 1876, consecrated in Westminster abbey 29 June 1847; reached Melbourne 23 Jany. 1848; resided at Jolimont 1848–53 and in the palace of Bishop’s court 1853–74; obtained passing of the Church assembly act 1854; left Victoria 26 Feb. 1874, resigned May 1876; select preacher at Cambridge 1863–4; attended and addressed all the church congresses 1874–88; prelate of the order of St. Michael and St. George 1878 to death; canon of Llandaff 1878–89; author of Five sermons preached before the university of Cambridge 1856; Foundation truths, four sermons 1864; The Galatian lapse, six lectures 1885. d. 32 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 Dec. 1891. bur. Harlow, Essex, portrait by Weigall at Ridley hall, Cambridge, and a memorial in St. Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne. G. Goodman’s Church in Victoria during the episcopate of bishop Perry (1892) portrait; I.L.N. 12 Dec. 1861 p. 758 portrait.

PERRY, Charles Thomas. b. Salisbury; a turf commissioner with a large business in connection with city of London 40 years; in Blink Bonny, Beadsman and Musjid’s years his settlings were very heavy; ruined by the failure of Overend, Gurney and co. 1866; trained and ran some horses under name of E. Hall; chairman of Victoria club, Wellington st. Strand many years. d. 23 Sept. 1890.

PERRY, Frederick C. With his son sang and conducted at the King’s head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night; a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house; I’d a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick French 1867; The charming young girl. In the arcade one evening, music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette’s my name, music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876.

Note.—He also wrote Daddy’s Knock, a parody on The Postman’s knock, We’ve taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from the Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King’s head music hall.

PERRY, George. b. Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C. Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845; his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast, a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores. d. 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 11 March. T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism (1872) 197–289.

PERRY, Henry James. b. 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr. in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death; author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833. d. New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. Law Journal iv 330 (1869).

PERRY, James. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25 Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841 to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20 Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. d. 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17 March 1863.

PERRY, John George. b. 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843; surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings; a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some observations at Burgos. d. 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park gardens, London, Jany. 1870. Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p. 107; Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p. 102.

PERRY, Richard Davis. b. 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; shot himself at Phœnix coffee house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892.

PERRY, Stephen Joseph (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq. London, steel-pen manufacturer). b. London 26 Aug. 1833; educ. Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London 1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866; made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882; took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register, Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. d. on board her majesty’s ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. bur. Georgetown, Demerara. Father Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed. (1890) portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv (1890); The Month lxviii 305–23, 474–88 (1890); Nature xli 279–80, 301 (1890); Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota) ix 197 (1890) portrait; Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p. 55, 25 Jany. pp. 128, 137; I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p. 67 portrait.

PERRY, Sir Thomas Erskine (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821, proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). b. Wandlebank house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827 to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832, student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10 April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July 1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug. 1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41, 4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848. d. 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. Biograph iii 129–37 (1880); New monthly mag. cxvii 382–91 (1880) portrait; Law Times lxxiii 34 (1882).

PERRY, Thomas Walter. b. 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to 1856. d. St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton 22 Dec. 1868.

PERRY, Thomas Walter. b. 1815; educ. Chichester college 1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London 1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael, Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments before the judicial committee in Ridsdale v. Clifton 1878; Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton v. Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863; Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert v. Purchas 1877. d. Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.

PERRY, Sir William (eld. son of James Perry). b. 1801; educ. Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1 April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided at Venice 1860 to death. d. Venice 24 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lv 236, 547 (1874).

PERRY, William. b. Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec. 1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38 rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67 rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in 152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846; presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847; beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall 29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again 1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in 102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857 when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. d. Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 157–205 portrait, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); John Hannan’s British boxing (1850) 26–9; Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p. 9.

PERSIANI, Fanny (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and teacher of music, d. 1859). b. Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; m. at Florence 1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12 Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina 1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18 notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847; sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda, Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death. d. Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. Grove’s Dict. of music ii 693–4 (1880); C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera (1845) 17 portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii 257–73 (1863); I.L.N. ii 438 (1843) portrait; H. S. Edwards’s The prima donna ii 191–6 (1888).

PERSIANI, or Persiano Giuseppe. b. Recanati in the Papal States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent Garden on lease in 1847. d. Paris 14 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 151 (1869); Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii 3 (1864), ii 325 (1880); H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii 196–204 (1888).

PERSIGNY, Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de (son of M. Fialin, killed at Salamanca 1812). b. St. Germain-Lespinasse, Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis, London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848; minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860 to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16 June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in England 1871. d. Nice 12 Jany. 1872. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques (1857) pp. 1–60 portrait, No. 20; Weekly Reporter xi 146 (1863).

PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). b. Plymouth 1841; clown and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre, London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. d. of cancer of the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. bur. Edgbaston old church, Birmingham 5 Feb. Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p. 689 portrait.

PERSSE, Burton Robert Parsons (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode castle, Galway, d. 1859). b. 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway 1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. d. Moyode castle, Galway July 1885. Baily’s Mag. xliv 295 (1885).

PESTER, Henry. b. 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28 Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept. 1864. d. 8 Great Quebec st. London 23 Oct. 1870.

PETER, William (eld. son of Henry Peter, d. 1821). b. Harlyn, St. Merryn, Cornwall 22 March 1788; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 28 May 1813; M.P. Bodmin 11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; British consul in Pennsylvania and New Jersey 13 March 1841 to death; author or editor of Thoughts on the present crisis in a letter from a constituent to his representative 1815; Speeches of sir Samuel Romilly in the house of commons, 2 vols. 1820; Sacred songs being an attempted paraphrase of some portions of the psalms by W. Peter 1828, new ed. with other poems by a Layman 1834; Poems by Ralph Ferrars (i.e. Wm. Peter) new ed. 1833; William Tell from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1839, 2 ed. Lucerne 1867; Mary Stuart from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1841; Maid of Orleans, Cambridge 1843; Agamemnon of Æschylus, Philadelphia 1852; Specimens of the poets of Greece and Rome by various translators, Philadelphia 1847. d. Philadelphia 6 Feb. 1853. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard, where is monument.

PETERKIN, Alexander (elder son of Alexander Peterkin of Edinburgh, lawyer and author of many works 1780–1846). b. 1814; editor of the Berwick Advertiser; shorthand reporter and sub-editor of the Edinburgh Advertiser; on the staff of The Times, retired about 1853; author of The study of art 1870, a poem. d. 1889.

PETERMANN, August Heinrich. b. Bleichrode near Nordhausen, Saxony 18 April 1822; a pupil of Dr. Heinrich Berghaus at the Potsdam cartographic institution 1839; came to Edinburgh 1845 to assist Dr. Keith Johnstone in an English edition of Berghaus’ Atlas of physical geography 1847; came to London 1847; physical geographer royal; returned to Germany 1854; professor of geography Gotha university, and in charge of Perthes’ Geographic institution at Gotha to his death; all the German expeditions to Africa and to the Poles he planned, described and mapped; contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the English Cyclopædia, and the Athenæum; author of The search for Franklin, a suggestion 1852; An account of the expedition to Central Africa by Richardson, Barth, Over and Vogel 1854; and other works published at Gotha and Vratislaviæ; committed suicide at Gotha 25 Sept. 1878. The Times 28 Sept. 1878 p. 5; The Athenæum 5 Oct. 1878 p. 437.

PETERS, Mary (dau. of Richard Bowly). b. Cirencester, Gloucs. 17 April 1813; m. John McWilliam Peters, rector of Quennington, Gloucs. and afterwards vicar of Langford, Oxfordshire, d. 1834; contributed hymns to the Plymouth Brethrens’ Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs 1842; author of Hymns intended to help the communion of saints 1847, selections from this book were printed in various hymnals 1855–72; Universal history, or the world’s history from the creation to the accession of queen Victoria, London, S. Bagster and Sons, 7 vols. 1862, anon., this work is also known as Bagster’s Universal history. d. Clifton 29 July 1856. Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 891–2.

PETERS, William Cumming. b. Woodbury, near Exmouth, Devon 10 March 1805; opened a music store in Louisville, Kentucky 1829; established branch houses in Cincinnati 1839 and in Baltimore 1849; a leader of concerts and choirs; revised and enlarged J. F. Burrowes’ Pianoforte primer 1849; wrote Mass in G for soprano and bass voices 1863, and other music published in Baltimore, New York and Cincinnati 1841–71; compiled The Catholic harmonist 1850; The eclectic piano instructor 1855; and The Catholic harp 1862. d. Cincinnati 20 April 1866.

PETERSDORFF, Charles Erdman (3 son of Christian Frederick Petersdorff of 14 Gough sq. Fleet st. London, furrier). b. London 4 Nov. 1800; student of Inner Temple 24 Sept. 1818; barrister I.T. 25 Jany. 1833; one of the counsel to the admiralty; serjeant-at-law 20 May 1858; judge of county courts, circuit 57, North Devon and Somerset 1 Jany. 1865, resigned Dec. 1885; author of A general index to the precedents in civil and criminal pleadings 1822; A practical treatise on the law of bail 1824; A practical abridgment of cases in the king’s bench, common pleas, exchequer and nisi prius from the restoration, 15 vols. 1825–30; A practical abridgment of the common law, 5 vols. 1841–4, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1861–4, supplement 1870, 2 ed. 1871; The principles and practice of the law of bankruptcy 1861, 2 ed. 1862; Law students and practitioners’ commonplace book of law and equity. By A Barrister 1871; A practical compendium of the law of master and servant 1876; killed by falling into the area of his house 23 Harley st. London 29 July 1886. Law Journal 7 Aug. 1886 p. 467.

PETHERAM, John. b. Oldmixon, near Weston-super-mare 1809; spent some years in U.S. of America in the wholesale drug trade; secondhand bookseller at 71 Chancery lane, London Sept. 1841, then at 94 High Holborn 1847 to death; compiled and issued 207 catalogues; issued between 1843 and 1847 Puritan discipline tracts, being reprints of 6 tracts on the Martin Mar-Prelate controversy of 1589–92, their titles are An epitome, An epistle, Pappe with a hatchet, Hay any worke for cooper, An almond for a parrot, and Bishop Cooper’s admonition; edited A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfort 1575, 1846, and a Bibliographical miscellany, 5 parts 1859; author of An historical sketch of the progress and present state of Anglo-Saxon literature in England 1840; Reasons for establishing an Authors’ publication society 1863. d. 94 High Holborn 18 Dec. 1858. Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate controversy (1845); Publishers’ Circular 31 Dec. 1858 p. 639; Bookseller Feb. 1859 p. 727.

PETHERICK, John (son of John Petherick, d. 1861). b. Penydarran iron works, Merthyr Tydvil 9 May 1813; resident in Wales 1813–27 and 1832–4; educ. Brieg, Silesia 1827–32; engaged in mining in Waterford and Wexford 1834–8; manager of German mining co.’s mines, Dittenburg 1838–43; mining engineer to viceroy of Egypt 1845–9; resident at Kordofan in the ivory and gum trade 1849–59; consul for the Soudan 1850–63; envoy from Royal geographical soc. to succour captains Speke and Grant 1861–2, capt. Speke quarrelled with Petherick and he was deprived of his consulship, his mercantile affairs fell into disorder and he had to live on a pension given him by the Egyptian government; author of Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa, with explorations from Khartoum, sketches of sixteen years’ travels 1861; with J. P. Clemes Report on the silver mines of Almada and Kurnapa in Mexico 1868; with Mrs. K. H. Petherick Travels in Central Africa, 2 vols. 1869. d. 54 Lancaster road, Westbourne park, London 15 July 1882. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. iv 700 (1882).

Note.—He m. Katherine Harriet, dau. of Sigismund Edlman. She was b. Malvern July 1827, accompanied her husband in his travels and d. St. Gorran Haven 12 Jany. 1877.

PETIT, John Louis (eld. son of John Hayes Petit, P.C. of Shareshall, Staffs., d. 1822). b. Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. 31 May 1801; educ. Eton, where he contributed to the Etonian, and at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; M.A. Oxford 1850; ordained deacon 1824; spent his time chiefly in visiting and sketching old churches in England and abroad from 1839; C. of Bradfield, near Manningtree, Essex 1840–8; a founder of the British archæological institute at Cambridge 1844, and a contributor to the Journal; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1850; an oil painter and etcher on copper; author and illustrator of Remarks on church architecture, 2 vols. 1841; Remarks on architectural character 1846; The abbey church of Tewkesbury 1848; Architectural studies in France 1854, 2 ed. 1890; his poem The lesser and the greater light was printed by his sister 1869; resided Uplands Shiffnal, Salop 1848–64, and at Lichfield 1867 to decease. d. Lichfield 1 Dec. 1868. bur. Greenhill church, Lichfield. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxv 318–20 (1869); Reg. and mag. of biog. i 220–2, 525 (1869); Architect 2 Jany. 1869 p. 10.

PETIT, Peter John (brother of the preceding). b. 1807; ensign 22 foot 19 May 1825; lieut. 50 foot 27 March 1828, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1848 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Lichfield 13 Feb. 1852. G.M. April 1852 p. 407.

PETO, Sir Samuel Morton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Wm. Peto of Cookham, Berkshire 1768–1849). b. Whitmoor house, Woking, Surrey, 4 Aug. 1809; apprenticed to his uncle Henry Peto, builder, who d. 1830 leaving his business to his nephews, Thomas Grissell and S. M. Peto, they dissolved partnership 2 March 1846, having constructed the Hungerford market 1832–3, Lyceum theatre 1834, St. James’s theatre 1835, Reform club 1836, Conservative club 1840, Great Western railway works between Hanwell and Langley 1840, the Nelson column 1843, and a large part of the South Eastern railway 1844; partner with Edward Ladd Betts 1846–72, they constructed the loop line of the Great Northern railway from Peterborough to Doncaster, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway 1852, the Oxford and Birmingham railway, the Victoria docks, London 1852–5, and the Norwegian Grand Trunk railway; constructed with Thomas Brassey and E. L. Betts railway lines in Australia 1858–63, the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, the Jutland and Schleswig lines 1852, and the London, Tilbury and Southend railway 1852; paid for the building of Bloomsbury baptist chapel; purchased the Diorama in Regent’s park 1855 and converted it into a baptist chapel; M.P. Norwich 1847–54, M.P. Finsbury 1859–65, and M.P. Bristol 1865–8; obtained passing of Peto’s act 13 and 14 Vict. cap. 28, 1850, which simplified titles by which religious bodies hold property; A.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1839; deputy chairman of metropolitan comrs. of sewers 1 Sept. 1851; constructed a railway line, 39 miles long, between Balaklava and the entrenchments 1854–5; created baronet 14 Feb. 1855; presented with a service of plate for making East Suffolk railway 18 July 1860; Peto and Betts suspended payment 11 May 1866 with liabilities of four millions and assets estimated at five millions; author of Divine support in death 1842; Observations on the report of the defence commissioners 1862; Taxation, its levy and expenditure, past and future 1863; The resources and prospects of America, ascertained during a visit to the states 1866. d. Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells 13 Nov. 1889. bur. Pembury. Sir Morton Peto, a memorial sketch (1893) 2 portraits; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix 400–3 (1890); I.L.N. xviii 105–6 (1851) portrait, xxx 24–6 (1857) three views of his residence, Somerleyton, Suffolk, xxxvii 147 (1860) view of service of plate; Eclectic mag. lxvi 381 (1878) portrait.

PETRE, William Joseph Petre, 13 Baron (eld. son of 12 baron Petre 1817–84). b. Leamington 26 Feb. 1847; in holy orders of the church of Rome; domestic prelate at court of the Vatican to death; succeeded to the peerage 4 July 1884; author of Remarks on the condition of catholic liberal education 1877; At Antiock again, a sermon 1886. d. 21 Hyde Park gardens, Paddington, London 8 May 1893. bur. in private burial ground at Thorndon park. Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p. 9 portrait.

PETRE, Henry William (younger son of 11 baron Petre 1793–1850). b. Thorndon hall, near Brentwood, Essex 23 Jany. 1820; an original colonist of New Zealand, where he introduced well bred horses; postmaster general 1853; member of legislative council 1854; master, with a committee, of the Isle of Wight fox hounds; master of the Roothing stag hounds, Essex; author of An account of the settlement of the New Zealand company 1841, 5 ed. 1842; Half a century of British colonization 1889. d. the Manor house, Writtle, Chelmsford 3 Dec. 1889. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 63–4 (1874) portrait.

PETRIE, George (only child of James Petrie, portrait painter). b. Dublin 1 Jany. 1790; studied in the Dublin society’s art school 1802; painted landscapes of Irish scenery 1808 etc.; contributed 96 illustrations to Thomas Kitson’s Cromwell’s Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. 1820; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A. London 1818; A.R.H.A. 1828, librarian 1830, president resigned 1859; wrote many antiquarian articles in the Dublin examiner 1816, and in the Dublin Penny journal 1832–3; edited the Irish Penny journal 1840–41; M.R.I.A. 1828, where he read 27 papers, member of council 1829, gold medallist 3 times; attached to the ordnance survey of Ireland 1833–46; LL.D. Dublin 1847; granted civil list pension of £100, 13 Oct. 1849 and another pension of £100, 2 Jany. 1851; president of the Old Irish music soc. 1851; author of On the history of Tara hill 1839; A letter to sir W. R. Hamilton on charges made against the author by sir W. Betham 1840; The ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland 1845; he illustrated G. N. Wright’s Ireland 1831; G. N. Wright’s An historical guide to Dublin 1821; G. N. Wright’s A guide to the county of Wicklow 1822, and Picturesque sketches of the landscapes and coast scenery of Ireland 1835. d. 7 Charlemont place, Dublin 17 Jany. 1866. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, near Dublin. W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1868); Graves’s Eloge on the late George Petrie (1866); W. Allingham’s Varieties in pose iii 161–73 (1893); I.L.N. xlviii 201, 202 (1866) portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xiv 638 portrait.

PETRIE, John Gordon. b. 1822; second lieut. Bombay artillery 11 June 1841, colonel 26 April 1866, retired 31 Dec. 1878; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, hon. L.G. 31 Dec. 1878; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868; served in the Scinde campaign 1843, and the Indian mutiny 1857; commanded artillery in Abyssinia campaign from 1 Jany. 1868. d. 9 Cranbury terrace, Southampton 31 Dec. 1890.

PETRIE, Martin (2 son of commissary-general Wm. Petrie, d. 1842). b. the Manor house, King’s Langley, Herts. 1 June 1823; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 14 April 1846, captain 5 May 1854; captain 14 foot 26 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; captain 14 foot again 9 Jany. 1857, major 13 July 1867; assistant in topographical department of the war office 14 Jany. 1859 to 30 June 1864; major 97 foot 18 Dec. 1867, placed on h.p. 31 Aug. 1872; examiner in military education at the staff college 1864–82, and at the royal military college to 1882; author of The strength, composition, and organisation of the armies of Europe 1860; Organisation, composition and strength of the army of Great Britain 1863, 5 ed. 1867; Equipment of infantry 1865; Hospital equipment 1866. d. Hanover lodge, 14 Hanover terrace, Kensington park, London 19 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green cemetery.

PETRIE, Samuel. b. 1797; deputy assistant commissary general 25 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 13 June 1828; C.B. 22 Nov. 1858. d. 113 Ebury st. Belgravia, London 2 March 1871.

PETTER, George William. b. Barnstaple 1824; printer 3 Crane court, Fleet st. London 1848, removed to Playhouse yard 1852 where Thomas Dixon Galpin joined him, then to La Belle Sauvage yard, Ludgate hill 1857; purchased John Cassell’s publications 1858 and took him in as a partner; started Cassell’s Illustrated family bible 1860 and The popular natural history 1859; J. Cassell d. 1865; started The Echo, the first halfpenny daily paper in London 8 Dec. 1868, sold it to baron Grant 1868; firm converted into a Limited co. 1883 when he retired from active work; author of Some objections to the repeal of the paper duty considered, in reply to Mr. H. G. Bonn’s pamphlet upon the question 1860. d. Leeholme, Bournemouth 16 Sept. 1888, his personal estate was valued at £520,560. Bookseller 9 Oct. 1888 p. 1021–22.

PETTIE, John (son of Alexander Pettie, tradesman). b. East Linton, Haddingtonshire 17 March 1839; studied at the Trustees’ academy Edinburgh June 1856; first exhibited at Scottish academy 1859 and at the R.A. London 1860; exhibited 58 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1860–80; shared a studio with W. Q. Orchardson in Pimlico, London 1862 and later at 37 Fitzroy sq. to 1865; A.R.A. 8 May 1866, R.A. Oct. 1873; resided at 21 St. John’s Wood road 1869–81 and at 2 Fitzjohn’s avenue 1881 to death; he illustrated J. De Liefde’s The postman’s bag 1862, 2 ed. 1867; Wordsworth’s Poems for the young 1863, 2 ed. 1866; C. Camden’s The boys of Axleford 1869; W. D. S. Moncrieff’s The abdication 1881; L. G. Seguin’s Rural England 1881; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington house in winter of 1894. d. Hastings 21 Feb. 1893. bur. Paddington cemet. 27 Feb. I.L.N. xlviii 637, 638 (1866) portrait; Graphic lx 442, 456 (1874) portrait, and 25 Feb. 1893 p. 199 portrait; Art Journal xxi 265.

PETTIFER, Mary Ann (dau. of Henry Pettifer of 224 Holborn, London, cheese monger). b. Holborn July 1822; appeared at Olympic theatre as Cupid in burlesque of The Paphian bower 26 Dec. 1832; at Adelphi in Frankenstein; in the burletta The Frolics of the fairies, Victoria 1833; first walking lady at Strand theatre 1837; at Drury Lane in A night in the Bastille 4 Dec. 1839, and in Mary Stuart 22 Jany. 1840; played at the Garrick theatre, Leman st. Whitechapel as Virginius in Rogers’ burlesque Virginius the Rum-Un 1840; by her performance of William in Black-eyed Susan she established herself as a first class East-end favourite; m. 1841 John Bond Ratcliffe, lessee of Victoria theatre from 2 Sept. 1840, who d. about 1848; she acted at Victoria theatre in The Yew tree ruins 11 Jany. 1841; played again at the Garrick until it was burnt down 3 Nov. 1846; acted at the Effingham and the Pavilion; first appeared at the Britannia 21 Nov. 1853; latterly she played old women; was a very handsome woman with a Grecian cast of features. d. 290 Cambridge road, Hackney 25 Dec. 1892. The Era 11 Feb. 1893 p. 7.

PETTIGREW, Samuel Thomas (youngest son of succeeding). b. 1824 or 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Norton-Mandeville, Essex 1848–9; fellow of St. Augustine’s college, Canterbury 1853–5, hon. fellow 1873 to death; chaplain Madras ecclesiastical establishment 1855–78; C. in charge of Pudleston, near Leominster 1878–80; V. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1880 to death; author of Daily office for my schools 1867; Episodes in the life of an Indian chaplain 1882. d. Leominster 19 May 1889.

PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (son of Wm. Pettigrew, surgeon in the navy, d. 1825). b. Fleet st. London 28 Oct 1791; studied at the Borough hospitals; member of Medical society of London 1808, secretary 1810, registrar 1813; M.R.C.S. 1812, F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of City philosophical society 1808, and of Philosophical society of London 1810; secretary of Royal humane society 1813–20; surgeon extraordinary to duke of Kent, then surgeon in ordinary, also surgeon to duchess of Kent; vaccinated the present queen, Victoria 1819; surgeon to duke of Sussex, compiled a catalogue of his library in Kensington palace in two vols. entitled Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827–39, the library was sold 1844–5; surgeon to Dispensary for treatment of diseases of children 1816–9; surgeon to Asylum for female orphans 1819; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital on its foundation 1832 to 1835; practised in Savile row 1835–54; Ph. Doc. Göttingen 7 Nov. 1826; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1827; treasurer of British archæological association 1843; author of Views of the base of the brain and cranium 1809; Memoirs of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. 3 vols. 1817; Observations on cholera 1831; A history of Egyptian mummies 1834; Medical portrait gallery, 4 vols. 1840; Memoirs of the life of lord Nelson, 2 vols. 1849. d. 16 Onslow crescent, South Kensington 23 Nov. 1865. T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv pp. 1–40 (1840) portrait 9; Journal of British archæol. assoc. (1866) 327–35; Physic and physicians ii 386 (1839).

PETTINGALL, Edward. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 1 Feb. 1807; captain 39 N.I. 21 Oct. 1821, major 25 July 1839, lieut. col. 18 March 1845 to 1846; commandant 5 irregular cavalry 1 Nov. 1832 to 18 March 1845; lieut. col. of 26 N.I. 1846–50, of 38 N.I. 1850–1, of 60 N.I. 1851–2, of 55 N.I. 1852–4, and of 12 N.I. 1854; col. of 12 N.I. 25 Feb. 1855 to death; M.G. 4 Nov. 1856. d. 134 Regent st. London 17 Nov. 1860.

PETTITT, George. Educ. Church missionary college, Islington; ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832; missionary to Church missionary society in South India and Ceylon 1833–55; chaplain to general hospital at Birmingham 1855–6; V. of St. Jude’s, Birmingham 1856 to death; author of A history of the church missionary society’s mission in Tinnevally, South India 1850; Sermons on the creed, in the Tamil language. d. 1873.

PETTITT, Henry Alfred (son of Edwin Pettitt, civil engineer, author under name of Herbert Glyn of The cotton lord, 2 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1864, and Uncle Crotty’s relations, 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1866). b. Smethwick, near Birmingham 7 April 1848; appeared at Sadler’s Wells in The Rose of Blarney, a pantomime; clerk in office of Pickford & co. carriers London 1860–2; junior English master in North London collegiate school, High st. Camden Town about 1869, then secretary; wrote for Boy’s miscellany and other periodicals; treasurer, secretary, and author with J. H. Clynds, lessee of Gloucester theatre; wrote with Paul Merritt, British born, Grecian theatre 17 Oct. 1872; treasurer of Grecian theatre; his drama Golden fruit, produced at East London theatre 14 July 1873, for which he received £5; wrote with George Conquest for Grecian theatre Dead to the world 12 July 1875, Sentenced to death 14 Oct. 1875, Snatched from the grave 13 March 1876, Queen’s evidence 5 June 1876, Neck or nothing 3 Aug. 1876, Sole survivor 5 Oct. 1876, Schifter, the one-eyed pilot 2 April 1877, During her majesty’s pleasure 21 May 1877, and five other pieces; his pantomime Harlequin king Frolic, produced at Grecian theatre 24 Dec. 1880, played to April 1881 the longest run on record; wrote with Paul Merritt and Augustus Harris The World, Drury Lane 31 July 1880; visited America 1880–1; wrote a version of Le voyage en Suisse for the Hanlon-Lee troupe; his Taken from life produced at Adelphi 31 Dec. 1881; Love and money by Pettitt and Charles Reade produced there 18 Nov. 1882, In the ranks by Pettitt and G. R. Sims 6 Oct. 1883, and Harbour lights by the same 23 Oct. 1885; Human nature by Pettitt and A. Harris produced at Drury Lane 12 Sept. 1885, they also wrote A run of luck 28 Aug. 1886 (which brought in £25,000 in 12 weeks), and A million of money 6 Sept. 1890; wrote with Sydney Grundy for the Adelphi The bells of Haslemere 28 July 1887, and The Union Jack 19 July 1888; wrote with G. R. Sims The silver falls, Adelphi 22 Dec. 1888, and London, day by day, Adelphi 14 Sept. 1889, also Faust up to date, Gaiety 30 Oct. 1888, and Carmen up to date, Gaiety 4 Oct. 1890; wrote with sir A. Harris The prodigal daughter, Drury Lane 17 Sept. 1892, and A life of pleasure 21 Sept. 1893, transferred to Princess’s Dec. 1893; wrote A sailor’s knot Drury Lane 5 Sept. 1891; A woman’s revenge Adelphi 1 July 1893. d. of typhoid fever 352 Goldhawk road, Hammersmith 24 Dec. 1893. bur. Brompton cemetery 29 Dec., personalty declared at £48,477. The little journal i 103–9 (1884); Theatre xiii 15 (1889) portrait; W. Archer’s Theatrical world (1893) 187; Entr’acte annual (1893) 34 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 30 Dec. 1892 p. 562 portrait; The Era 30 Dec. 1893 p. 11.

Note.—At one time 22 companies were on tour in England and 6 in America playing his pieces. In Australia 6 of his plays were before the public and his name was on the bills of two London theatres. Six dramas in which he had collaborated were on in London the same evening.

PETTITT, Joseph Paul. b. Birmingham; landscape painter at Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph Gillott of Birmingham. d. Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9 Sept. 1882. Architect xxvii 182 (1882).

PETTIT, Walter. b. London 14 March 1835; studied at royal academy of music; violoncellist in the orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre 1851, remained there many years; succeeded Charles Lucas as principal violoncello in Philharmonic orchestra 1861; took place of Guillaume Paque in Her Majesty’s private band 1876. d. London 11 Dec. 1882. Grove’s Dictionary of music ii 696 (1880).

PEVERELL, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Callow). b. London 17 July 1792; m. in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April 1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near Edmonton. d. Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. bur. Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. Times 10 Jany. 1896 p. 4.

PEW, James. b. Leith, Scotland 1793; clerk in the stores department Tower of London 1807; auditor to the vestry of Camberwell 1827, overseer of the poor 1829, vicar’s warden 1839–63, hon. sec. of the cholera committee 1839; a governor of Dulwich college; member for Camberwell of Metropolitan board of works 1858–69; chairman of Camberwell vestry, his portrait was placed in Camberwell vestry hall April 1860. d. Asiago, in the Italian Tyrol Sept. 1876. bur. Padua. W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell (1877) 186–8 portrait.

PEW, John. Choirmaster to the Carl Rosa opera company 1873, brought the choir to a high state of efficiency, assistant conductor to the opera co.; conducted English opera in London and the provinces. d. Feb. 1890.

PEYTON, Sir Algernon William, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Peyton 1804–66). b. Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb. 1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3; succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach; sheriff of Oxon. 1871. d. Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25 March 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvi 51 (1869) portrait.

PEYTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Dashwood Peyton, d. 1789). b. Narborough hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk 1 July 1779; succeeded May 1789; M.P. Cambridgeshire 5 May to 26 June 1802; a member of the Four-in-hand club; always took part in the procession of mail coaches on 1 May, the last procession was in 1838; a member of the Bedford driving club, drove a yellow coach and grey horses; introduced the metal cap at the bottom of the whip stick and the thumb ferule at the top of the leather hand piece; the first amateur whip in England with the exception of another Cambridgeshire baronet. d. Swift’s house, near Bicester 24 Feb. 1854. bur. in the family vault at Doddington 3 March. G.M. xli 421 (1854); Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1869 p. 52; Driving by the Duke of Beaufort (Badminton library 1889) 189, 190, 236, 244, 274, 281, 282.

Note.—Thackeray in alluding to him and his driving in the park, calls him The ancient charioteer who must soon depart.

PEYTON, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet (son of sir H. Peyton, d. 1854). b. Grafton st. London 30 June 1804; educ. Harrow 1816; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 29 April 1822; cornet 1 life guards 1 Nov. 1824; lieut. on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; capt. Oxfordshire yeomanry; an accomplished whip; member of Four-in-hand club; M.P. Woodstock 1837–8; succeeded 24 Feb. 1854. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1866. G.M. i 585 (1866).

PEYTON, Sir Thomas, 5 Baronet (2 son of rev. Algernon Peyton 1786–1868, a driver of coaches, rector of Doddington). b. 1817; educ. Eton 1832–5, and at Cambridge to 1838; drove coaches at Cambridge; ensign 14 Madras N.I. 26 June 1839, major 28 Oct. 1864 to 1 Oct. 1867; assistant quarter master general of Pegu division 6 Dec. 1864 to 1868, and of Hyderabad subsidiary force 1868–71; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Dec. 1864; deputy Q.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871, retired as M.G. 3 Oct. 1872; succeeded his cousin sir Algernon Peyton 25 March 1872; a member of the Four-in-hand and Coaching clubs; a partner in the Windsor coach driving it five times a week; drove the Dorking coach two days a week. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1888. Baily’s Mag. xli 125–7 (1883) portrait; The Field 25 Feb. 1888 p. 275.

PFEIFFER, Emily Jane (dau. of R. Davis of Oxfordshire, an officer in the army). b. 26 Nov. 1827; travelled in Asia and America; m. 1853 Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer, merchant in city of London, who d. Jany. 1889; author of The holly branch, an album 1843; Valioneria 1857; Margaret or the motherless 1861; Gerard’s monument 1873, 2 ed. 1878; Poems 1876; Glan Alarch 1877; Quarterman’s grave 1879; Sonnets and songs 1880, 2 ed. 1886; Under the aspens 1882; The rhyme of the lady of the rock 1884; Flying leaves from east and west 1885; Woman and work 1888; Flowers of the night 1889; a writer in the Contemporary review and other periodicals; established an orphanage; designed the endowment of a school of dramatic art; left money to trustees for the promotion of women’s higher education, £2,000 from this fund was allotted towards erecting at Cardiff the Aberdare hall for women-students of the university of South Wales, opened 1895. d. Mayfield, West hill, Putney 23 Jany. 1890. A. H. Miles’s Poets and poetry of the century vii 555–72 (1891), where the birth and death are incorrect; Academy i 80–81 (1890).

PHAYRE, Sir Arthur Purves (son of Richard Phayre). b. Shrewsbury 7 May 1812; educ. Shrewsbury school; cadet Bengal army 13 Aug. 1828; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 10 Jany. 1855 to 1859; captain and comr. of Arakan 1849–52; comr. of Pegu in Lower Burma 1852–62; sent on a special mission to the king of Ava at Burma 1855; chief comr. of British Burma 1862–7; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 22 Jany. 1859; governor of Mauritius 14 Nov. 1874 to Dec. 1878; C.B. 31 March 1863; G.C.M.C. 24 Jany. 1878; author of Coins of Arakan, of Pegu, and of Burma 1882; History of Burma 1883. d. Bray, near Dublin 14 Dec. 1885. bur. Enniskerry, memorial statue in Rangoon and portrait by sir Thomas Jones in coffee-room of East India united service club, St. James’ sq. London. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. vii 103–12 (1886); H. Yule’s Narrative of the mission to the court of Ava, Calcutta (1856); A. Fytche’s Burma i 184, ii 220–3, 247 etc. (1878).

PHELAN, Michael. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 1816; an apprentice to a silversmith and jeweller in U.S. of America; became an accomplished billiard player; exhibited his playing in Ireland 1851; opened billiard rooms Broadway, New York 1852; went to San Francisco; returned to New York and became a billiard table manufacturer with Hugh W. Collender; also kept billiard rooms and took part in matches; author of The game of billiards 1850, 2 ed. New York 1857; The illustrated handbook of billiards, the American game 1863. d. New York city 21 Oct. 1871.

PHELAN, Patrick. b. near Kilkenny 1 Feb. 1795; educ. Montreal coll. Canada; a R.C. priest 26 Sept. 1825; a member of the Sulpicians 21 Nov. 1825 to 14 Sept. 1842; bishop of Carrha in partibus infidelium and co-adjutor to Dr. Gaulin, bishop of Kingston Feb. 1843, succeeded him as bishop 8 May 1857, was bishop of Kingston only 28 days, as he caught cold at Dr Gaulin’s funeral and d. Kingston 6 June 1857. Battersby’s Catholic Directory, Dublin (1858) 259.

PHELPS, Edmund (2 son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). b. Albany st. Regent’s park 17 March 1838; acted in the provinces; acted Ulrick in Werner, Sadler’s Wells 21 Sept. 1860. Leonardo Gonzago in The Wife 10 Dec. 1860, Faulconbridge in King John 16 Feb. 1861; at the Princess’ the Prince in King Henry IV 23 May 1861; at Sadler’s Wells St. Lo in Lovell’s Love’s Sacrifice 5 Nov. 1863, Sir Gerard Fane in Marston’s Pure gold 9 Nov. 1863; at Drury Lane Pisanio in Cymbeline 17 Oct. 1864, Eugene in Falconer’s Love’s ordeal 3 April 1865; Faust in Bayle Bernard’s version 20 Oct. 1866, and hon. Tom Shuffleton in Colman’s John Bull 31 Jany. 1867; m. 30 March 1863 Sarah Eliza, only dau. of John Hudspeth, she first appeared at the Lyceum in 1859. d. Edinburgh 1 April 1870. bur. Dean cemet. Edinb. 5 April. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 257–8.

PHELPS, John. b. 1805; an apprentice to a waterman at Fulham 1819; won the second prize in the race for Doggett’s coat and badge 1 Aug. 1827; a well known sculler who won several contests; a waterman at Fulham; one of the four champion scullers 1846; judge of the University boat race many years, lost the judging after the dead heat of 1877; his son H. J. M. Phelps won Doggett’s coat and badge 1860. d. Fulham 6 Dec. 1890. bur. All Saints, Fulham 11 Dec. Illust. sp. and dr. news 4 April 1874 pp. 137, 138 portrait, and 20 Dec. 1890 p. 463 portrait.

PHELPS, Joseph (brother of Wm. Phelps, known as Brighton Bill, who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight at Melbourne Heath, Cambs. 13 March 1838). b. 1823; beat Joseph Barnash, £25 a side, 45 rounds in 59 minutes near Horley 7 Oct. 1845; beat Sam Martin, £50 a side, 68 rounds in 3 hours at Hope Point 22 Sept. 1846, beat him again, £100 a side, 49 rounds in 97 minutes, at Purfleet 26 May 1847; beaten by Alec Keene, £100 a side, 119 rounds in 165 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sept. 1847; a clipper of poodle dogs at 66 Ship st. Brighton about 1876–84. d. Dorset gardens, Brighton 15 Oct. 1889. Sporting Life 16 Oct. 1889 p. 7.

PHELPS, Robert (brother of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). b. 1808; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1843, D.D. 1843; fellow and Taylor lecturer of Sidney Sussex coll. 1833–43, master and bursar 1843 to death; vice-chancellor 1844 and 1847, refused any information to the university commissioners 1872; R. of Willingham, near Newmarket March 1848 to death; author of An elementary treatise on optics, to elucidate the construction of telescopes 1835. d. the Master’s lodge, Sidney Sussex college 11 Jany. 1890. The Times 13 Jany. 1890 p. 7.

PHELPS, Samuel (2 son of Robert M. Phelps, outfitter, d. 1820). b. 1 St. Aubyn st. Plymouth Dock, now Devonport 13 Feb. 1804; educ. under Dr. Samuel Reece at Saltash; junior reader to the press in office of the Plymouth Herald for 3 months in 1820; reader to the Globe and Sun newspapers in London 1820; played as an amateur at the Rawston st. theatre and the Olympic 1825; acted on the York circuit at 18s. a week 1826; played in England, Ireland, and Scotland 1826–37; appeared at Haymarket, London 28 Aug. 1837 as Shylock; played at Covent Garden 1837–9; acted Othello and Iago at Haymarket Aug. 1839 to Jany. 1840; played at Drury Lane Jany. to March 1840 and 1841–3, the original Captain Channel in Jerrold’s Prisoners of war 8 Feb. 1842, Lord Lynterne in Marston’s Patrician’s daughter 10 Dec 1842, Lord Tresham in Browning’s Blot on the scutcheon 11 Feb. 1843, Lord Byerdale in Knowles’s Secretary 24 April 1843, and Dunstan in Smith’s Athelwold 18 May 1843; the first Almagro in Knowles’s The Rose of Arragon at Haymarket 4 June 1842; lessee with Mrs. Warner and Thomas Greenwood of Sadler’s Wells theatre 27 May 1844, Mrs. Warner retired from management in 1847, Greenwood in 1860, and Phelps 15 March 1862, produced all the plays of Shakespeare except Richard II, the three parts of Henry the Sixth, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida 1844–62; the original Henri IV in Sullivan’s King’s friend 21 May 1845, Walter Cochrane in White’s Feudal times 18 Feb. 1847, John Savile in White’s John Savile of Haysted 3 Nov. 1847, Calagnos in G. H. Boker’s tragedy Calagnos 10 May 1849; played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, the first time of performance for a century 22 Oct. 1849; the original Garcia in Tomlins’s Garcia or the noble error 12 Dec. 1849, Blackbourne in George Bennett’s Retribution 11 Feb. 1850, James VI in White’s James VI 6 March 1852; revived Pericles, not acted since the Restoration, 14 Oct. 1854; the original Bertuccio in Tom Taylor’s Fool’s Revenge 18 Oct. 1859, and Louis XI in Delavigne’s Louis XI 21 Sept. 1861; played in Berlin and Hamburg May 1859; at Princess’s theatre 1860; acted Richelieu at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1861; played at Drury Lane 1863–8 acting Manfred 14 Oct. 1863, Mephistopheles in Faust 20 Oct. 1866, the Doge in Byron’s Marino Faliero 2 Nov. 1867, and James I and Trapbois in Halliday’s King o’ Scots 26 Sept. 1868; acted at Astley’s amphitheatre March 1870; first appeared at Gaiety Dec. 1873 as Dr. Cantwell in the Hypocrite; acted Falstaff there Dec. 1874; acted at Aquarium theatre from 1877, making his last appearance as Wolsey in Henry VIII 1 March 1878; author of The Plays of William Shakespeare under the supervision of S. Phelps with illustrations by Nicholson, 2 vols. 1851–4, another ed. 2 vols. 1858, originally came out in parts; resided at 420 Camden road, Holloway, London to 1878. d. Anson’s farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex 6 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 13 Nov., portrait as Cardinal Wolsey at Garrick club. Phelps and Robertson’s Life of S. Phelps (1886) three portraits; J. Coleman’s Memoirs of S. Phelps (1886); M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 17–29; The theatre i 325–29, 338–44 (1878); Saturday Programme 27 Nov. 1875 pp. 8–10 portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 1–49 (1888); J. Coleman’s Players i 117–208 (1888); G.M. Sept. 1872 pp. 308–10; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 2nd series (1859) portrait; Theatrical times i 81 (1847) portrait; Tallis’ Drawing room table book, part 7 portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 258–65.

PHELPS, William (son of rev. John Phelps of Flax Bourton, Somerset). b. 1776; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 18 Nov. 1793, migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1797; V. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1811–51; V. of Meare, Somerset 1824–51; R. of Oxcombe, Lincs. 1851 to death; author of Calendarium botanicum, or a botanical calendar of all the British plants 1810; The history and antiquities of Somersetshire, 2 vols. 1836–9; Observations on the great marshes and turbaries of Somerset 1836; A mirror of the duchy of Nassau, or a guide to the Brunnens 1842; An historical guide to Frankfort-on-Maine 1844. d. Oxcombe 17 Aug. 1856.

PHELPS, William Robert (eld. son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78, actor). b. 1828; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; parliamentary reporter for The Times; connected with a Manchester paper; chief justice of supreme court of island of St. Helena 1 June 1863 to death. d. St. Helena 16 Nov. 1869, monument in Highgate cemetery.

PHELPS, William Whitmarsh (eld. child of John Phelps of Wilton, near Salisbury, master of the free school, d. 21 Nov. 1823 aged 57). b. Wilton 1 Oct. 1797; educ. Hyde abbey sch. Winchester 1810; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815 to 1822; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fellow of his college 10 Oct. 1822 to 1824; C. of Hindon, Wilts. 1822–6; assistant master Harrow April 1826 to 30 July 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading 1 March 1840; C. of Sonning 1 July 1841; C. of Sulhampstead 22 May 1842; Incumbent of Trinity church, Reading 1845–64; examining chaplain to bishop of Carlisle 10 Aug. 1860; archdeacon of Carlisle 1863 to death, collated 26 Feb. 1863; V. of Appleby 18 Jany. 1865 to death; author of Sermons and studies in scripture subjects 1876. d. Appleby vicarage 22 June 1867. bur. in Appleby churchyard 27 June. The life of W. W. Phelps by rev. Charles Hale, 2 vols. (1871–73) 2 portraits.

PHILIP, John (son of a schoolmaster). b. Kirkcaldy, Fife 14 April 1775; studied at Hoxton theological college three years; minister of the First Scottish congregational chapel in Great George st. Aberdeen 1804–18; conducted an inquiry into the state of the South African missions of the London missionary society 1819–22; superintendent of the society’s South African stations 1822; pastor of the new Union chapel at Cape Town, opened Dec. 1822; tried for libelling Wm. Mackay, landrost of Somerset, verdict for Mackay 16 July 1830; left for England 28 Feb. 1836, made several lecturing tours in Great Britain to rouse public opinion against the Cape government; unofficial adviser to governor sir G. T. Napier at Cape Town in all questions relating to the treatment of the natives Feb. 1838 to 1843; undertook tours in 1839 and 1842 to promote the establishment of a belt of native states to the north and east of the colony; known as The Wilberforce of the Hottentots; the most prominent politician in Cape Colony for 30 years; author of Memoir of Mrs. Matilda Smith 1824; Researches in South Africa, the religious condition of the native tribes, 2 vols. 1828. d. Hankey, Cape of Good Hope 27 Aug. 1851. Robert Philip’s The Elijah of South Africa, or the character of the late John Philip (1851); Ralph Wardlaw’s What is death, a sermon (1852); G. M. Theal’s History of South Africa iii 477 (1891), iv 605 (1893).

PHILIP, John Birnie (son of Wm. Philip). b. London 23 Nov. 1824; pupil of John Rogers Herbert, R.A.; exhibited 22 sculptures at R.A. 1858–75; executed the reredos of Ely cathedral 1857, the reredos of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 1863, eight statues of kings and queens for the royal gallery in houses of parliament, and the statues on the front of the Royal academy, Burlington house; executed the friezes on the podium on the north and west sides of the Albert memoria, representing 87 sculptors and architects 1864–72, he also modelled for the canopy of the memorial four bronze statues of geometry, geology, physiology, and philosophy, and the eight angels clustered at the base of the cross on the summit; executed the capitals of the columns on Blackfriars bridge 1869, and the statue of colonel Edward Akroyd, M.P., erected at Halifax; m. 1854 Frances Black, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1875; he d. Merton villa, 280a King’s road, Chelsea 2 March 1875. bur. Brompton cemet. J. Dafforne’s Albert memorial (1877) 40–1, 63–6, 69–70, three plates; I.L.N. lxvi 257, 258 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 296 (1875) portrait.

PHILIP, Michel Maxwell (eld. son of Michel Maxwell Philip of South Napanina, Trinidad). b. Cooper Grange estate, South Napanina 12 Oct. 1829; educ. St. Mary’s catholic college, Blairs, Scotland; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1854; acting inspector of schools, Trinidad 1856 and 1865; solicitor general, Trinidad March 1871 to death, acting attorney general 1873–4; author of Emmanuel Appadocca, a tale of the boucaneers. 2 vols. 1854. d. Loyola, Maraval, Trinidad 29 June 1888.

PHILIP, Robert. b. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1791; educ. Hoxton academy 1811–5; Independent minister at Liverpool 1815; minister of Maberley chapel, Ball’s end road, London 1 Jany. 1826, resigned 1855; advocated the claims of London missionary society; D.D. Dartmouth college, U.S. of America 1852; author of Christian experience, or a guide to the perplexed 1828, 10 ed. 1847; The life and times of the rev. George Whitfield 1837; The life, times, and characteristics of John Bunyan 1839; with G. Offor The works of John Bunyan 1853, 2 ed. 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 35 publications. d. 15 Gwlden terrace, Richmond road, Dalston, London 1 May 1858. J. M. Clintock and J. Strong’s Cyclopædia of biblical literature viii 91 (1879); Congregational year book (1859) 213–4.

PHILIPPART, John. b. London about 1784; private secretary to 1 baron Sheffield, president of the board of agriculture 1809–11; a clerk in the war office 1811; knight of St. John of Jerusalem 11 Nov. 1830, chevalier of justice 1831, bailiff ad honores 6 July 1847, chancellor of the order 1831 to death; knight of the Swedish orders of Gustavus Vasa and of the Polar star of Sweden 1832; helped to found the Fulham and Hammersmith general dispensary, now the West London hospital, 1856, honorary treasurer 1856–61; M.R.I.A.; owned and edited a journal called The military panorama, 4 vols. Oct. 1812 to Sept. 1814; author of Northern campaigns from 1812 to June 4, 1813, 2 vols. 1813; Memoirs of the prince royal of Sweden 1813; Memoirs of general Moreau 1814; The royal military calendar containing the services of every general officer in the British army, 3 vols. 1815–6, 3 ed. 5 vols. 1820; The East India military calendar 1823; General index to the first and second series of Hansard’s parliamentary debates 1834; Memoirs of prince Edward, duke of Kent and Strathearn 1819. d. College house, Church lane, Hammersmith 8 May 1875, will dated 3 May 1873, proved under £10,000, 19 July 1875, all left to his daughter Mrs. Bennett. I.L.N. 31 July 1875 p. 119.

PHILLIPPE, Monsieur, stage name of Phillippe Talon. b. Alais, near Nismes; a confectioner; in business in London, then in Aberdeen, disposed of his confectionery in a lottery at the Aberdeen theatre; travelled through England and Scotland as a conjuror under the name of Monsieur Phillippe; erected a temporary theatre in Glasgow 1840; while performing in Dublin learnt the gold fish trick and the ring puzzle from a Chinese juggler; played in Paris 1841 and in Vienna; at the St James’ theatre, London 1845, and at Strand theatre with his Soirées mysterieuses Oct. 1845; two of his most curious tricks were The hat of Fortunatus and The kitchen of Parafaragaramus; he always appeared in a fancy dress. T. Frost’s Lives of the conjurors (1876) 271–6; I.L.N. 4 Oct. 1845 p. 221 portrait; F. Volant’s Alexis Soyer (1859) 57–9.

PHILIPPS, Henry (3 son of Wm. Hollingworth Philipps, captain Notts. militia 1757–1839). b. 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; ordained 1842; author of Remarks on a bill respecting an alteration in the constitution of deans and chapters 1840; Litany and prayers for family worship 1856; composer of The Psalm of Life, words by Longfellow; Late, late, so late, song, words by Tennyson 1882; resided at 10 Pitville lawn, Cheltenham many years. d. The Mansion, Bisley 13 Dec. 1892.

PHILIPPS, Richard Nathaniel (eld. son of Nathaniel Philipps of Moor Lodge, near Sheffield, unitarian minister). b. 1807; educ. Sheffield and Christ’s coll. Camb., captain of the college boat; LL.B. 1849, LL.D. 1872; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, went northern circuit; presented with a testimonial at Stafford 17 Jany. 1853; president of Thames subscription club 1859; special pleader at central criminal court; recorder of Pontefract Aug. 1871 to death; chairman of committee of court of common council of city of London to 1865, and chairman of library committee Feb. 1872 to 1873; F.S.A. 1 March 1855; chairman of quarter sessions for west riding of Yorkshire. d. Broom hall, Sheffield 5 Sept. 1877. I.L.N. xxii 93 (1853) view of testimonial, xxxiv 475 (1859) view of testimonial, xlvii 148 (1865) view of testimonial, lxii 494 (1873) view of loving cup presented to him.

PHILIPS, Sir George Richard, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Philips 1766–1847). b. 23 Dec. 1789, educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1812. M.A. 1816; M.P. Steyning 1820–32; M.P. Kidderminster 1835–7; M.P. Poole 1837–52; sheriff of Warws. 1859. d. Weston house, Shipton-on-Stour 22 Feb. 1883.

PHILIPS, John Alexander. b. 1790; a midshipman at battle of Trafalgar; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Aug. 1806; lieut. col. R.M.A. 4 Sept. 1851, adjutant 1828–34; colonel of Woolwich division 28 March 1863 to death; L.G. 29 May 1863. d. York Tower, near Sandhurst 27 Nov. 1865.

PHILIPS, Mark (eld. son of Robert Philips of The Park, Prestwich, Manchester 1760–1844). b. The Park, near Manchester 4 Nov. 1800; educ. Manchester college York, and Glasgow universities; chairman of the New Quay company, Manchester 1825; M.P. Manchester 1832–47; sheriff of Warws. 1851. d. Welcombe, Snitherfield, near Stratford-on-Avon 23 Dec. 1873. W. E. A. Axon’s Annals of Manchester (1886) 339; I.L.N. lxiv 23 (1874).

PHILIPS, Nathaniel George. Ensign 47 foot 19 May 1846, captain 24 Nov. 1854, sold out 6 Nov. 1857; served in the Crimea, wounded at Alma, medal with clasp; raised in St. George’s lodge, Liverpool 1855; W.M. of lodge 311 Irish constitution at Templemore, Tipperary; prince mason of Ireland; received 33 degree in English masonry in London 1864, grand treasurer 1868, secretary, lieut. grand commander, and sovereign grand commander at No. 33 Golden sq. London, assisted greatly in the formation of the library; member of corps of gentlemen at arms 9 July 1858, sub-officer 6 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1874; groom of the privy chamber Feb. 1874 to 1886. d. 1886. J. G’s Masonic portraits (1876) 122–7.

PHILIPS, Robert Needham (brother of Mark Philips 1800–73). b. Manchester 20 June 1815; educ. Rugby 1829 etc. and at Manchester college; merchant and manufacturer Manchester; M.P. Bury 1857–9, 1865–85, when he was presented with a testimonial; sheriff of Lancashire 1856. d. Welcombe house, Stratford-on-Avon 28 Feb. 1890. I.L.N. xxxi 389 (1857) portrait, 22 March 1890 p. 366 portrait.

PHILLIMORE, Greville (5 son of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). b. London 5 Feb. 1821; educ. Westminster 1831, Charterhouse 1832–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf, canoneer student 1838, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1844; C. of Henley-on-Thames 1846–7, 1850–1; C. of Shiplake 1847; C. of Wargrave and Fawley 1848–9; V. of Downe-Ampney near Cricklade 1851–67; R. of Henley 1867–83; R. of Ewelme, Oxfordshire July 1883 to death; joint editor with H. W. Beadon and J. R. Woodford of The parish hymn book 1863, 2 ed. 1875, to which he contributed 11 original hymns; author of Parochial sermons 1856, 2 ed. 1885; Uncle Z [a story of Triberg in the Black forest] 1881; Only a black box, or a passage in the life of a curate 1883; preached at Ewelme on Sunday and d. the same night 20 Jany. 1884. bur. Shiplake churchyard 25 Jany. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 893; C. M. Phillimore’s In memoriam of G. Phillimore (1884) memoir pp. iii–vi.

PHILLIMORE, Henry Bourchier (younger son of captain sir John Phillimore, R.N. 1781–1840). b. 25 Oct. 1833; entered R.N. 5 May 1846; captain 14 July 1864; commanded the Curacao 23 guns in Australia 1863; transferred to the steamer Avon in which he twice attacked the Maori position at Rangariri 1863, New Zealand medal; C.B. 13 March 1867; R.A. 8 April 1880, V.A. 24 May 1887, retired 25 Oct. 1888, retired admiral 5 April 1892; alderman of Huntingdonshire county council 1889 to death. d. Stoneleigh, Lansdown road, Bath 3 July 1893. Times 8 July 1893 p. 10.

PHILLIMORE, John George (brother of Greville Phillimore 1821–84). b. 62 Gower st. London 5 Jany. 1808; educ. Westminster 1817–1824, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; clerk in the board of control for India 1827–32; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832, bencher Nov. 1851 to death; revising barrister 1837; reader on civil law and jurisprudence at Middle Temple Jany. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; reader in constitutional law and history to the Inns of Court June 1852; M.P. Leominster 1852–7; author of Letter to the lord chancellor on the reform of the law 1846; Thoughts on law reform 1847; Introduction to the study and history of the Roman law 1848; The history and principles of the law of evidence 1850; An inaugural lecture on jurisprudence and a lecture on canon law 1851; Principles and maxims of jurisprudence 1856; Private law among the Romans 1863; History of England during the reign of George the third, 1 vol. 1863, no more published. d. Shiplake house, near Reading 27 April 1865. Law Times xl 327 (1865).

PHILLIMORE, Joseph (eld. son of Joseph Phillimore 1750–1831, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.). b. 14 Sept. 1775; educ. Westminster 1789–93, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; member of College of advocates 21 Nov. 1804; regius professor of civil law at Oxford 31 Oct. 1809 to death; chancellor of diocese of Oxford 1809 to death; judge of court of admiralty of the Cinque ports 1809 to death; president of consistory courts of Oxford, Worcester, and Bristol about 1816; M.P. St. Mawes, Cornwall 1817–26; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1826–30; one of the original members of a short-lived third party formed in 1818; member of board of control for India 8 Feb. 1822 to Jany. 1828; principal comr. for final adjudication of French claims under treaties of 1815 and 1818, 23 Jany. 1833; presided over registration commission appointed 13 Sept. 1836 and drafted the report; king’s advocate in the court of admiralty 25 Oct. 1834, queen’s advocate 1837 to death; chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1834 to death; commissary of deanery of St. Paul’s 1834 to death; chancellor of diocese of Bristol 1842 to death; judge of consistory court of Gloucester 1846; hon. LL.D. Camb. 1834; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; edited Reports of cases argued in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors’ commons and in the high court of delegates, 3 vols. 1818–27; Reports of cases argued in the arches and prerogative court of Canterbury 2 vols. 1832–3. d. Shiplake house, near Reading 24 Jany. 1855. Law Review xxii 69–71 (1855).

PHILLIMORE, Sir Robert Joseph, 1 Baronet (brother of John George Phillimore 1808–65). b. Whitehall, London 5 Nov. 1810; educ. Westminster 1824–8, king’s scholar 1824; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1828, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834, B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1838; great friend of W. E. Gladstone, proposed him as candidate for representation of Oxford 1847; clerk in the office of board of control 1832–5; advocate at Doctors’ commons 2 Nov. 1839, steward 1847–50, librarian 1850–1 and 1853–4, treasurer 1851–3; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841, bencher 1 Feb. 1858 to death, treasurer 1870; commissary of the deans and chapters of St. Paul’s and Westminster to 1867; official of the archdeaconries of Middlesex and London 1840–62; chancellor of the dioceses of Chichester 1844–67, of Salisbury 1845–67, and of Oxford 1855–67; judge of the Cinque ports Feb. 1855 to 1875; admiralty advocate Feb. 1855; Q.C. Jany. 1858; queen’s advocate general 28 Aug. 1862 to 1867; knighted by patent 17 Sept. 1862; contested Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847, 28 April 1852 and 8 July 1852, and Coventry 27 March 1857; M.P. Tavistock 1853–7; dean of court of arches 1 Aug. 1867 to 20 Oct. 1875; judge of high court of admiralty 23 Aug. 1867, resigned 21 March 1883; P.C. 3 Aug. 1867; temporary judge-advocate-general 17 May 1871 to Aug. 1872; master of the faculties 6 Feb. 1873 to 1875; Swiney prizeman of society of arts Jany. 1874; created baronet 21 Dec. 1881; president of Association for reform and codification of law of nations 1879; member of royal commissions on neutrality 1868, on naturalisation 1868, on ritual 1867, the building of courts of justice 1859, and on the judicature and ecclesiastical courts 1867; edited Memoirs and correspondence of George, lord Littleton, 2 vols. 1845; author of The law of domicil 1847; Commentaries upon international law, 4 vols. 1854–61, 3 ed. 1878–89; Judgment delivered by sir R. Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson 1868; The ecclesiastical law of the church of England, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1895. d. The Coppice, near Henley-on-Thames 4 Feb. 1885. bur. Shiplake churchyard. E. Manson’s Builders of our law (1895) 163–8 portrait; A generation of judges (1886) 204–10; F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 527–9; I.L.N. lxxxvi 178 (1885) portrait.

PHILLIMORE, William (brother of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). b. 6 Feb. 1777; educ. Westminster; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1799; equity draftsman; a comr. of lunatics 1815 to 1842, a visitor of lunatics 1842 to death; chairman of the St. Alban’s quarter sessions. d. Deacon’s Hill, Herts. 28 Nov. 1860.

PHILLIP, John (son of a soldier). b. 13 Skene sq. Aberdeen 19 April 1817; apprenticed to Spark, a painter and glazier in Wallace Nook, Aberdeen 1832–6; studied painting in London 1836–40; subject and portrait painter; exhibited 55 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–67: A.R.A. Nov. 1857, R.A. Nov. 1859; painted for the queen The marriage of the princess royal with the crown prince of Germany 1858; studied and painted in Spain 1851–2, 1856–7, 1860; 200 of his pictures were in the London international exhibition of 1873. d. 1 South villas, Campden Hill, Kensington 27 Feb. 1867. W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 164–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 306–8 (1862); I.L.N. xxxv 543, 560 (1859) portrait, l 285 (1867) portrait; T. O. Barlow’s Catalogue of the works of J. Phillip 1873; J. Dafforne’s Pictures of J. Phillip 1877; Leisure Hour xvi 629 portrait; Illust. Times 9 March 1867 p. 149 portrait.

PHILLIPI, Monsieur, stage name of Harry Graham. A clown in Ginnett’s circus; came out at Ramsgate under management of Charles W. Montague as M. Phillipi the wizard about March 1859; performed at the chief towns on the south coast; appeared with success at the Cabinet theatre, King’s Cross, where he also played Richard the Third. d. a few days afterwards. bur. in Tower Hamlets cemetery about 1860. C. W. Montague’s Recollections of an equestrian manager (1881) 8–11.

PHILLIPPS, Adelaide. b. Stratford-on-Avon 26 Oct. 1833; taken to U.S. of America 1841; appeared on the stage at Tremont theatre, Boston Jany. 1842; sang at the Boston museum 1843–51; pupil of Manuel Garcia in London March 1852; made her début at Brescia as Arsace in Semiramide 1853; sang in Milan and other cities; sang in Italian opera in Philadelphia and New York; appeared in Paris as Azucena in Il Trovatore 1860; the Adelaide Phillipps opera company was organized 1876: sang with the Ideal opera company 1879–81; last appeared on the stage in Cincinnati 1881; her stage name in Europe was signorina Fillippi; her voice was a contralto with a compass of 2½ octaves; her best parts were Rosina, Leonora and Azucena. d. suddenly Carlsbad, Austria 3 Oct. 1882. A. C. Waterston’s Adelaide Phillipps, a record, Boston (1883); Appleton’s American biography iv 758 (1888) portrait.

PHILLIPPS, Charles March (eld. son of Thomas March of More Critchill, Dorset, who took additional name of Phillipps in 1796, d. March 1817). b. 28 May 1779; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; M.P. Leicestershire 1818–20 and 1831–2; M.P. North Leicestershire 1832–7; sheriff of Leics. 1825. d. Cheltenham 24 April 1862. G.M. June 1862 p. 788.

PHILLIPPS, Edward Thomas March (brother of preceding). b. 1784; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., 6 wrangler 1804, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Hathern, Leics. 29 Sept. 1808 to death; minister of Dishley with Thorp Acre 1816–43; chancellor of diocese of Gloucester 1820 to death; author of Four sermons on the inward life of the believer 1853; The ordnances of spiritual worship 1863. d. Hathern rectory 12 July 1859. Records of ministry of E. T. M. Phillipps (1862); G.M. vii 189 (1859).

PHILLIPPS, Samuel March (brother of preceding). b. Uttoxeter 14 July 1780; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., eighth wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; barrister I.T. 19 June 1806; an exchequer bill loan comr.; permanent under secretary for home affairs 16 July 1827 to May 1848; P.C. 27 June 1848; author of A treatise on the law of evidence 1814, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1868; edited State trials, or a collection of the most interesting trials prior to the revolution of 1688, 2 vols. 1826. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1862.

PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas, 1 baronet (son of Thomas Phillipps 1742–1818, of Middle hill, Broadway, Worcestershire). b. 32 Cannon st. Manchester 2 July 1792; educ. Rugby 1807 etc. and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; collected rare manuscripts especially those on vellum, resided in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland 1820–5; bought three quarters of the Meerman collection of manuscripts at The Hague 1824, the collection of professor Van Ess of Darmstadt 1824, and many of the Muschenbrock collection of Dutch charters, &c. 1827; bought more than 16,000 manuscripts from Thorpe the bookseller 1836: purchased the earl of Guilford’s collection of Italian manuscripts in upwards of 1,300 volumes; purchased more than 400 lots at the Heber sale 1836; bought about 60,000 manuscripts altogether; bought a series of incunabula in about a thousand volumes 1824; collected 100,000 volumes of printed books, also coins and pictures; established about 1822 a private printing press in a tower known as Broadway tower, on the Middle Hill estate, removed his printing press and library to Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 1862; F.R.S. 29 June 1819; F.S.A. 1 April 1819; F.G.S. 1830; created baronet 27 July 1821; sheriff of Worcs. 1825; contested Grimsby 9 Feb 1826; privately printed at Salisbury in 1819 Collections for Wiltshire, and at Evesham in 1820 Account of the family of sir Thomas Molyneux; Institutiones clericorum in comitatu Wiltoniæ 1297–1810, 2 vols. 1822–5: Monumental inscriptions in the county of Wilton 1822. d. Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 6 Feb 1872. bur. the old church, Broadway, Worcs., portrait by Thomas Phillips, R.A. at Thirlestane house. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s manual iii 1856–8 (1864), and Appendix pp. 225–37; Book Lore iv 141–3 (1886); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. v 310–11 (1870–73); Trubner’s Record vii 112 (1872); I.L.N. lx 163 (1872), lxi 22 (1872).

Note.—First portion of library, 8,346 lots producing £2,200. 15, was sold by Sotheby 3–10 Aug. 1886.

PHILLIPPS-DE LISLE, Ambrose Lisle March (eld. son of Charles March Phillipps 1779–1862). b. 17 March 1809; educ. King’s coll. Camb.; joined R.C. church while an undergraduate 1828; great advocate for the reunion of christendom; a friend of the hon. and rev. George Spencer (Father Ignatius) from 1829, and the means of his conversion 1830; sheriff of Leicestershire 1868; is depicted in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby, 3 vols. 1844, as Eustace Lyle of St. Geneviéve; took name of De Lisle; author of The catholic christian’s complete manual 1847; Manual of devotion for use of the brethren of the confraternity of the Living rosary 1843; Mahometanism in its relation to prophecy 1855. d. Garendon park, Leicestershire 5 March 1878. Life of father Ignatius of St. Paul (1866) 186–95; Times, 8 March 1878 p. 9.

PHILLIPS, Alfred. b. 1802; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., 28 wrangler and B.A. 1824, M.A. 1837, B.D. and D.D. 1841; V. of Kilmersdon, Somerset 1833–41; head master of Crewkerne gram. sch.; principal of King William’s coll. Isle of Man, principal of Cheltenham coll. 1841–5; V. of Bushbury, Staffs. 1864–7. d. Stalbridge rectory, Blandford, residence of rev. G. E. Phillips 10 June 1880.

PHILLIPS, Alfred. b. 1844; surveyor to rural sanitary authority of Dorchester 1877–80; surveyor to Festiniog 1880 to death, where he brought in a supply of water from a lake in the mountains five miles distant; A.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1874. d. Festiniog 8 Feb. 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvii 422 (1889).

PHILLIPS, Benjamin. b. about 1805; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; surgeon to the Westminster hospital; resided Brent Bridge house, Hendon; author of Epidemic, contagion and infection, with their remedies 1832; A series of experiments shewing that arteries may be obliterated without ligature, compression or the knife 1832; A treatise on the urethra 1832; Scrofula, its nature and treatment 1846. d. Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 11 June 1861.

PHILLIPS, Sir Benjamin Samuel (son of Samuel Phillips). b. London 4 Jany. 1811; warehousemen and importers of fancy goods as Faudel, Phillips and Sons 36 to 40 Newgate street 1830–86; common councilman 1847, being the first Jew elected in London; alderman of city of London for ward of Farringdon within 24 June 1857 to April 1888, sheriff 1859–60, lord mayor 1865–6; caused collections to be made for relief of cholera patients in England 1866, and for relief of the famine in India 1866; entertained king and queen of the Belgians at the mansion house 6 July 1866, visited Brussels where he was received by the king who made him a commander of the order of Leopold Oct. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; president of Society of Hebrew literature 16 Dec. 1873. d. 17 Grosvenor street, London 9 Oct. 1889. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 129–38; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 390 (1885) portrait; Illust. Times 11 Nov. 1865 p. 292 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 456 (1865) portrait.

PHILLIPS, Sir Benjamin Travell (2 son of Stephen Howell Phillips of 12 Norfolk st. Strand, London, solicitor). b. in parish of St. Clement Danes, Strand, London 13 Oct. 1804; educ. Merchant Taylor’s school 1813 etc.; cornet 7 Bengal light cavalry 16 Jany. 1821, major 28 Sept. 1841 to 6 Sept. 1851; lieut. col. 4 Bengal light cavalry 1852 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut. col. 3 Bengal light cavalry 28 Nov. 1854 to 3 May 1856; raised the Bengal cavalry depôt at Cawnpore 1842; in Sikh campaign of 1848–9, medal; M.G. 25 March 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 23 July 1857 to Dec. 1861. d. Paris 10 May 1880.

PHILLIPS, Charles (son of Charles Phillips, a councillor of Sligo, d. 1800). b. Sligo 1786; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1806; student at the Middle Temple 1807; called to Irish bar 1812, went Connaught circuit; one of the chief agitators for Roman Catholic emancipation, presented with a national testimonial 1813; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1821; became leader of the Old Bailey bar; called Counsellor O’Garnish, his conduct of the defence of Courvoisier 1840 generally condemned; comr. of Liverpool bankruptcy court 21 Oct. 1842; comr. of insolvent debtors’ court of London 25 June 1846 to death; author of A letter to the editor of the Edinburgh Review 1810; The consolations of Erin: a eulogy 1810; The loves of Celestine and St. Aubert, 2 vols. 1811; The emerald isle, a poem 1812, 2 ed. 1812; A garland for the grave of R. B. Sheridan 1816; The speeches of Charles Phillips 1817; Recollections of Curran and some of his contemporaries 1818, 5 ed. 1857; The queen’s case stated 1820, 20 ed. 1820; Napoleon the third by A man of the world 1854; Vacation thoughts on capital punishment 1856, 2 ed. 1857. d. 39 Gordon sq. London 1 Feb. 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. left £40,000. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i 185–216 (1841); The Pantheon of the age iii 134 (1825) portrait; Burke’s Connaught circuit (1885) 188–202; O’Rorke’s History of Sligo ii 511–21 (1890); European Mag. lxx 387–90 (1816) portrait: Public characters iii 134–5 (1824) portrait; Belgravia xxi 216–28 (1873).

PHILLIPS, Charles Palmer (son of Wm. Edward Phillips, governor of Prince of Wales’s island). b. 1822; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1846; chief sec. to lord chancellor Chelmsford Feb. 1859; a revising barrister for city of London 1864; sec. to lunacy comrs. Dec. 1865 to April 1872; comr. in lunacy April 1872 to death; author of The law concerning lunatic idiots 1858; The law of copyright 1863. d. Elstree 27 Sept. 1895.

PHILLIPS, David (son of a ship builder). b. Aberarth, Cardiganshire 19 Jany. 1831; articled to T. R. Guppy, civil engineer 1846; in the steam factory at Portsmouth dockyard 1853–5; assistant engineer in service of P. and O.S.N. Co. at Bombay 1855, reclaimed the foreshore and built a dockyard 1861, superintending engineer 1865, chief engineer Hong Kong 1868–71; on commission on corrosion of boilers in the navy 1874; on the Thunderer boiler explosion committee 1876; experimented on boiler explosions etc. 1876 to death; M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1868. d. Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire 31 May 1894. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii 450–2 (1894).

PHILLIPS, Elizabeth (dau. of Thomas Rouse, lessee of Grecian theatre, London, or of lieutenant James Rous of Fulham, Middlesex). b. 1810; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 27 at Suffolk st. 1832–78; assisted her husband in his panoramas of The Ganges and of The Queen’s visit to Ireland; among her better known pictures are The Dutch collection, Grandfather’s cup and The Erasmus chapel in Westminster abbey; m. 1837 Philip Phillips, the artist, he d. 29 May 1864; resided at Stockwell, South London. d. 28 Jany. 1887. Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii 230–4 (1876); A. Graves’ Dictionary of artists (1895) 218.

PHILLIPS, George (3 son of Francis Phillips of Dunwich, Suffolk, farmer). b. Otley, Suffolk 11 Jany. 1804; master in Woodbridge gr. sch.; master in Worcester gr. sch. to 1824; entered Magdalen hall Oxf. 19 June 1824; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb. 25 Oct. 1825; eighth wrangler 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839, D.D. 1859, scholar of his college 1827, fellow 1830–46, tutor to 1846, president Sept. 1857 to death; R. of Sandon, Essex 1846–57, restored the church; vice-chancellor of Camb. 1861–2; founded and endowed a scholarship at Queen’s coll. of the annual value of £40 in 1887; placed a clock called the Phillips clock in the tower of Otley parish church 1887; author of A brief treatise on the use of a case of instruments 1823, 2 ed. 1830; A compendium of algebra 1824; The elements of euclid 1826; Summation of series by definite integrals 1832; A commentary on the Psalms, 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1872; Short sermons on old Messianic texts, Cambridge 1863; Mar Yâkúb’s Scholia on the Old Testament 1864; Mar Yâkúb’s Letter on Syriac orthography 1869; A Syriac grammar 1866; The doctrine of Addac the apostle 1876. d. president’s lodge, Queen’s college, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892. bur. Mullingar, co. Westmeath. Cambridge Review 11 Feb. 1892 p. 192; I.L.N. 13 Feb. 1892 p. 197 portrait.

PHILLIPS, George Lort (1 son of John Lort Phillips, d. 1839). b. 4 July 1811; educ. Harrow 1825 etc. and Trin. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1843; M.P. Pembrokeshire 19 Jany. 1861 to death. d. of injuries received while hunting Lawrenny park, near Pembroke 30 Oct. 1866.

PHILLIPS, George Robert. b. 19 Dec. 1820; cornet 5 Madras cavalry 9 Oct. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 18 June 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. d. Hampstead 24 Jany. 1891.

PHILLIPS, George Searle. b. Peterborough Jany. 1816; educ. Trin coll. Camb.; on staff of the New York World and the Herald in New York 1836, returned to England 1837; settled at Sturton, Lincolnshire 1838, a lecturer, removed to Tuxford, Notts. 1842, and to Leeds 1844; second master in school of Mechanics’ institute Leeds 1844; edited the Leeds Times 1845; secretary of the People’s college at Huddersfield 1846; lecturer to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes and literary societies 1854; on the staff of the Chicago Tribune; literary editor of the New York Sun some years; confined in the Trenton lunatic asylum 1873, and in the Morristown asylum New Jersey 1876 to death; author under the pseudonym January Searle of The life, character, and genius of Ebenezer Elliott the corn-law rhymer 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Chapters in the history of a life 1850; Leaves from Sherwood forest 1850; The country sketch book of pastoral scenes 1851; Memoirs of William Wordsworth 1852; Emerson, his life and writings 1855; edited The history of Pel Verjuice by C. R. Pemberton 1853; author of A guide to Peterborough cathedral 1843, 4 ed. 1853; The gypsies of the Danes’ dyke 1864; The American republic foreshadowed in scripture 1864; Chicago and her churches 1868; edited with F. R. Lees The truth seeker in literature 1846–8. d. Morristown asylum New Jersey 14 Jany. 1889. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) 128; Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia (1890) 644.

PHILLIPS, Giles Firman. b. 1780; painted landscapes in water-colours, especially views on the Thames; a member of the new water-colour society; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I., and 50 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–58; author of Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting 1838, 3 ed. 1840; A practical treatise on drawing and painting in water-colours 1839. d. 31 March 1867.

PHILLIPS, Henry (son of Richard Phillips, barrister then an actor, m. 1800 Miss Barnett, a singer). b. Bristol 13 Aug. 1801; sang soprano parts at the Haymarket and Drury Lane, known as the singing Roscius 1810–17; a bass in Bishop’s Law of Java at Covent Garden 11 May 1822, also in Arne’s Artaxerxes 1823; his voice became baritone; sang the part of Caspar on the first night of Der Freischutz at Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; took part in provincial musical festivals; principal bass at the concerts of ancient music 1825; entered the choir of Bavarian chapel 1825; sang as Hofer in The Tell of the Tyrol at Drury Lane 1830; in Milner’s Gustave the third at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1833; at the Lyceum in Loder’s Nourjahad 21 July 1834, and in Barnett’s Mountain sylph 25 Aug. 1834; gave table entertainments 1843–63; visited U.S. of America 1844, produced Adventures in America, a vocal entertainment 1845; sang at Philharmonic concert 15 March 1847; a scena was composed for him by Mendelssohn to words from Ossian ‘On Lena’s gloomy heath’; retired at a farewell concert 25 Feb. 1863; a teacher of singing in Birmingham and then in London; composed music to many songs, most popular being The best of all good company 1840, and Shall I wastynge in despaire; The emigrant ship 1845; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces; author of The true enjoyment of angling with music to the songs 1843; Hints on declamation 1848. d. 192 Dalston lane, Dalston, London 8 Nov. 1876. bur. Woking cemet. H. Phillips’s Musical recollections, 2 vols. (1864) portrait; Actors by daylight ii 137 (1838) portrait; The Oddfellow i 53 (1839) portrait; I.L.N. ii 239 (1843) portrait; Era 19 Nov. 1876 p. 5.

PHILLIPS, Henry Richard. Horse dealer at 44 Cross st. Finsbury, London 1835–42, and at 9 Albert gate, Knightsbridge 1849 to death; a very large buyer of horses; held the contract for supplying horses for the cavalry of the British army; Napoleon III was one of his best customers and called a favourite horse Phillips in his honour. d. London 10 Sept. 1886.

PHILLIPS, Henry Wyndham (younger son of Thomas Phillips, portrait painter 1770–1845). b. 1820; pupil of his father; painted a few scriptural subjects 1845–9; painted portraits of Charles Kean as Louis XI for the Garrick club, Dr. Wm. Prout for the royal college of physicians, Robert Stephenson for the Institution of civil engineers and of Nassau Wm. Senior; secretary of Artists’ general benevolent institution 13 years; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–68; his picture The Magdalen has been engraved by George Zobel and his Dreamy thoughts by W. J. Edwards. d. Hollow Combe, Sydenham, Kent 8 Dec. 1868. Athenæum ii 802 (1868); Art Journal (1869) 29.

PHILLIPS, James (son of rev. Richard Phillips). b. Nevendon, Essex 22 April 1792; went to U.S. of America 1818; taught in Harlem, New York; professor of mathematics in univ. of North Carolina 1826 to death; prepared treatises on algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and kindred subjects. d. Chapel Hill, North Carolina 16 March 1867.

PHILLIPS, John (son of John Phillips 1769–1808, an officer of excise). b. Marden, Wiltshire 25 Dec. 1800; employed by his uncle Wm. Smith the geologist in London; arranged the fossils in the museum at York 1824, keeper of the museum 1824–40, hon. curator 1840–4; F.G.S. 1828, Wollaston medallist 1845, president 1859–60; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; secretary of York philosophical society to 1840; assistant secretary of the British Association 1832–59; professor of geology at King’s college London 1834–44, and at Trin. coll. Dublin 1844–5; employed on the geological survey 1840–4; matric. from Magdalen coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1853, M.A. 1853, D.C.L. 13 June 1866; hon. fellow of his college May 1868 to death; deputy at Oxford for Wm. Buckland the professor of geology 1853–6, reader in geology 1856, professor 1857; keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford 1854–70; curator of the new museums at Oxford 1857; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857 and Cambridge 1866; president of British Assoc. 1865; admitted to freedom of the Turner’s company April 1874; author of Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire, 2 vols. 1829–36; A guide to geology 1834; Geological map of the British isles 1842; Memoirs of William Smith, 2 vols. 1844; Life on the earth, its origin and succession 1860; Vesuvius 1869; Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames 1871, and of more than a hundred papers in scientific periodicals. d. from the result of a fall on the staircase All Soul’s college Oxford 24 April 1874. bur. the cemetery, York 30 April, bust in museum at Oxford, and portrait at Geological soc. London. Geological Mag. (1870) 301 portrait, and (1874) 240; A. Geikie’s Life of sir R. I. Murchison i 130, ii 106, 374 (1875); Athenæum 2 May 1874 pp. 597–8;. I.L.N. xlvii 288 (1865) portrait, lxiv 457, 458 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 490, 505 (1874) portrait; Nature ix 510 (1874).

PHILLIPS, John Arthur (son of John Phillips, mineral agent 1793–1851). b. Polgooth, near St. Austell, Cornwall 18 Feb. 1822; studied at the Ecole des mines, Paris from Dec. 1844, a graduate 1846; employed in a French colliery 1846–8; mining engineer and consulting metallurgist in London 1848–68; professor of metallurgy at college for civil engineers Putney 1848–50; went to California 1853, 1865 and 1866; manager of works of Widnes Metal company at Liverpool 1868–77; F.G.S. 1872, vice-president to death; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1870; M.C.S. 1847; F.R.S. 2 June 1881; author of A manual of metallurgy 1852, 3 ed. 1859; Gold mining and assaying 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Records of mining and metallurgy 1857; Elements of metallurgy 1874, 3 ed. 1891; with W. H. Dorman edited W. Truran’s The iron manufacture of Great Britain, 2 ed. 1862; and of many papers in scientific periodicals 1842–86. d. 18 Fopstone road, Kensington, London 4 Jany. 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bill Cornub. i 481–2 (1874), iii 1312 (1882); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 481–4 (1887); Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. iii–iv (1888); Academy xxxi 29 (1887); Nature xxxv 248 (1887).

PHILLIPS, John Jones. b. Wales 1843; educ. Mill hill school, and at Guy’s hospital 1860; matric. at Univ. of London 1860, M.B. 1864, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. 1864; L.R.C.P. 1864, M.R.C.P. 1868; assistant obstetric physician at Guy’s 1869; physician to hospital for sick children and to Royal maternity charity 1869; sec. to the Hunterian and then to the Obstetrical soc. 1871 to death; practised at 26 Finsbury sq. London; joint editor of Guy’s hospital reports for some time. d. 26 Finsbury sq. London 22 Jany. 1874. Obstetrical Journal Feb. 1874 pp. 774–6; Lancet 31 Jany. 1874 p. 182.

PHILLIPS, John Roland (only son of David Phillips of Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire). b. Cilgerran 18 June 1844; in a solicitor’s office at Cardigan; won the prize at Cardigan eisteddfod Aug. 1866 for the best essay on the History of Cilgerran, printed 1867; the first secretary of the Cymrodorion society when revived in 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1870; deputy associate on South Wales circuit 1877–80; stipendiary magistrate of West Ham, near London 22 June 1881 to death, being the first under the act giving local boards power to appoint magistrates; author of A list of the sheriffs of Cardiganshire 1868; Memoirs of the civil war in Wales and the marches, 2 vols. 1874; An attempt at a concise history of Glamorgan 1879; collated and restored monuments of Howard family for duke of Norfolk; collected records for sir W. Harcourt’s commission on city of London 1884. d. The Limes, South Hampstead 3 June 1887. Bygones in Wales (1887) 323; Law Journal 11 June 1887 p. 345.

PHILLIPS, John Samuel (son of Samuel Phillips, an officer in the Middle Temple). b. in the Middle Temple, London 23 March 1799; educ. St. Paul’s school 1808–14; law stationer in partnership with James Taverner Reed of Bishop’s court, Lincoln’s inn; freeman of the city 1820; a liveryman of the Cooks’ co.; member of Metropolitan board of works for the Strand district 1857 to death; member of the court of the Cambridge asylum for soldiers’ widows to death; a founder of the Law writers’ institution and president 1846 to death. d. 54 Euston sq. London 4 Jany. 1879. bur. Highgate cemet. 11 Jany. Metropolitan 11 Jany. 1879 pp. 26, 29.

PHILLIPS, Philip. b. 1802 or 1803; pupil of Clarkson Stanfield; painted dioramas for Surrey theatre 1833–40; exhibited 17 landscapes at R.A., 24 at B. I., and 42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–65; purchased Duke’s Arms tavern, Upper Lambeth Marsh, Surrey, where he built the Bower saloon, opened for musical performances June 1839, from which he retired 1841; principal scenic artist to Lyceum, Haymarket, and Adelphi theatres; went with the queen to Ireland 1–12 Aug. 1849, exhibited a moving diorama of this tour at Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 18 March 1850 to Aug. 1850; painted for Albert Smith part of the scenery for his entertainment China 1859. d. Gloucester house, Larkhall lane, Clapham 29 May 1864. Era 5 June 1864 p. 10; Sunday Times 24 March 1850 p. 3.

PHILLIPS, Richard (son of James Phillips of George yard, Lombard st. London, printer and bookseller). b. London 1778; educ. as a chemist and druggist under Wm. Allen of Plough court; a founder of the Askesian soc. 1796, and of Geological soc. 1807; lecturer on chemistry at London hospital 1817; professor of chemistry at royal military college, Sandhurst 1818; lecturer on chemistry at Grainger’s school of medicine, Southwark 1818; F.R.S. 14 March 1822; chemist and curator of Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1839 to death; F.C.S. 1841, president 1849–50; discovered the true nature of uranite 1823; edited with E. W. Brayley The annals of philosophy 1821–6; one of the editors of The philosophical magazine 1827–50; author of An analysis of the Bath water 1806; An experimental examination of the last edition of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1811; Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1816; wrote all the chemical articles in the Penny cyclopædia, and about 70 papers in scientific journals. d. 2 Champion place, Grove lane, Camberwell, London 11 May 1851. bur. Norwood cemetery 16 May. J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 206; I.L.N. 14 June 1851 pp. 547, 548 portrait.

PHILLIPS, Richard Empson (son of a livery stable keeper). b. Great Ormond st. Queen sq. London 2 April 1820; in a wine merchant’s offices 1835; played Edmund Esdale in the Charcoal burner, Pantheon theatre, Catherine st. May 1840; acted with Henderson’s company at Ludlow 1840, and in other provincial towns to 1842; appeared as a negro singer and dancer at theatre royal, Ipswich Jany. 1843; stage manager Manchester theatre July 1843, played Henry Bertram to Miss Cushman’s Meg Merrilies; manager of theatres at Sheffield and Chester; acted Iago at Aberdeen with great success; actor and stage manager Grecian theatre, London 3 May 1847, where he acted to Sept. 1858 when he received a testimonial; aided J. W. Anson in establishing Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 1855; manager for E. T. Smith of Her Majesty’s theatre Dec. 1860. Theatrical times 4 Sept. 1847 pp. 273–4 portrait; The Players 5 Jany. 1861 p. 207–8 portrait.

PHILLIPS, Robert Newton. b. 24 June 1815; ensign 53 foot 27 May 1836, captain 12 Jany. 1844; capt. 43 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 29 July 1853; lieut. col. 94 foot 21 April 1854; lieut. col. provisional battalion, Chatham 26 Sept. 1854, placed on h.p. 6 Feb. 1863; col. 65 foot 13 July 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; served in Caffre war 1851–3, medal. d. Pipe Grange, Lichfield 21 Dec. 1888.