Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 14)

PHILLIPS, Samuel (3 son of Philip Phillips of 71 St. James’s st. London, glass manufacturer, d. 1837). b. 28 Dec. 1814; recited before duke of Sussex who became his patron; declaimed Collins’s Ode to the passions at Haymarket theatre; played in Richard the third at Covent Garden theatre 23 June 1829; studied at univ. of Gottingen 1835–6; pensioner at Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 12 Sept. 1836, left on death of his father early in 1837; lamp manufacturer with his brother Ralph Phillips at 190 and 223 Regent st. London 1837, they became bankrupt 20 Nov. 1840; tutor to lord Francis Bruce 1843; wrote two leaders a week for the Morning Herald 1845–6; wrote literary reviews for the Times about 1845 to death; secretary to the Richmond association for support of the farmers who had been injured through fiscal changes 1845; proprietor and editor of John Bull weekly paper 1845–6; contributed to the Literary gazette 1851–4; LL.D. Gottingen 1852; literary director of the Crystal palace co. 1853 to death, and treasurer for a time; suggested formation of a society for promoting Assyrian archæological exploration Aug. 1853; author of Caleb Stukely, 3 vols. 1844 anon. (reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag.) published with his name 1862; The literature of the rail 1851; Essays from the Times 1851 anon.; A second series of essays from the Times 1854 anon.; both volumes were republished in 1871 as by Samuel Phillips, B.A. with his portrait; Guide to the Crystal palace and park 1854, 3 ed. 1854; We’re all low people there 1854; Memoir of the duke of Wellington 1856. d. of a rupture of a vessel on the lungs Brighton 14 Oct. 1854. bur. Sydenham church 21 Oct. left about £11,000. Bentley’s Miscellany xxxviii 129–36 (1855); Tait’s Mag. Jany. 1855 pp. 41–2; Literary Gazette (1854) 906–7; G.M. Dec. 1854 pp. 635–6.

PHILLIPS, Thomas (son of Thomas Phillips of the excise department). b. London 6 July 1760; apprenticed to an apothecary at Hay in Breconshire; pupil of John Hunter; M.R.C.S.; surgeon’s mate of the Danae frigate 1780, and then surgeon of the Hind; entered service of East India co. 1782; inspector of hospitals in colony of Botany Bay 1796–8; superintendent surgeon Bengal 1802–17; member of Calcutta medical board to 1817; presented upwards of 20,000 volumes to St. David’s college, Lampeter, established 6 scholarships at the college and left by his will £7,000 to found a Phillips’ professorship in natural science; founded the Welsh educational institution at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire 1847, endowed the library with £140 a year, gave 7,000 books and left it about £11,000. d. 5 Brunswick sq. London 13 June 1851. bur. in catacombs of St. Pancras church 20 June. G.M. June 1851 pp. 655–6.

Note.—He left £1,000 to Balliol coll. Oxf. and £1,000 to Jesus coll. to found scholarships for the pupils of the Institution at Llandovery.

PHILLIPS, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Phillips of Llanellan house, Monmouthshire). b. Llanelly, Breconshire 1801; solicitor in partnership with Thomas Prothero at Newport, Monmouthshire June 1824 to Jany. 1840; mayor of Newport 1838–9, read the riot act from the Westgate inn when John Frost entered the town at the head of 7,000 chartists 4 Nov. 1839, when he was wounded with slugs in the arm and hip; knighted free of expense at Windsor castle 9 Dec. 1839; voted freedom of city of London 26 Feb. 1840, admitted 7 April 1840; barrister I.T. 10 June 1842, bencher 5 May 1865 to death; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1865; the arbitrator in many law suits; built a church and schools at Court-y-hella, near Newport for the use of his colliers; member of the National society 1848; president of council of Society of arts; author of Wales, the language, social condition, moral character, and religious opinions of the people considered in their relation to education 1849; The life of James Davies, a village schoolmaster 1850, 2 ed. 1852. d. 77 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 26 May 1867. bur. Llanellan. J. Morgan’s Four biographical sketches (1892), Sir T. Phillips pp. 159–79; A.R. (1839) 314–6, and (1840) 203–19; Law Times xliii 48, 110 (1867); G.M. July 1867 p. 107.

PHILLIPS, Watts. b. Nov. 1825; the only pupil of George Cruikshank 1844; resided in Paris 1845–66, with occasional visits to London; drew the cartoons for Diogenes comic weekly paper Jany. 1853 to June 1854, and wrote in it under signature of The ragged philosopher; his book The wild tribes of London 1855 was dramatised by Wm. Travers and produced at City of London theatre; illustrated several works; wrote for the Daily news and London journal; author of the following plays, Joseph Chavigny, Adelphi theatre May 1857; The poor strollers, Adelphi 1858; The dead heart, Adelphi 10 Nov. 1859, revived by Henry Irving at Lyceum 1893; Paper wings, Adelphi 29 Feb. 1860, revived at Olympic 15 Feb. 1869; A story of the Forty five, Drury Lane 12 Nov. 1860; His last victory, St. James’s 21 June 1862; Camilla’s husband, Olympic 14 Dec. 1862, the last piece in which Robson appeared; Paul’s return, Princess’s 15 Feb. 1864; A woman in mauve, Haymarket 18 March 1865; Theodora, actress and empress, Surrey 9 April 1866; The Huguenot captain, Princess’s 2 July 1866; Lost in London, Adelphi 16 March 1867; Nobody’s child, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867; Maud’s peril, Adelphi 23 Oct. 1867; Land rats and water rats, Surrey 5 Sept. 1868; Not guilty, Queens 13 Feb. 1869; Fettered, Holborn 17 Feb. 1869; On the jury, Princess’s 16 Dec. 1871; Amos Clark, Queen’s 19 Oct. 1872; wrote in Town talk a novel entitled The honour of the family, published under title of Amos Clark or the poor dependent 1862; wrote many novels in the Family herald and other periodicals; author of An accommodation bill 1850; The hooded snake, a story of the secret police 1860; Ida Lee, or the child of the wreck by Fairfax Balfour 1864; Who will save her, 3 vols. 1874. d. 45 Redcliffe road, West Brompton, London 3 Dec. 1874. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Dec. Watt’s Phillips, artist and playwright. By E. Watts Phillips (1891) portrait; J. Coleman’s Truth about the Dead heart (1890); Dutton Cook’s Nights at the play (1883) 159–62; Illust. sporting news vi 161 (1867) portrait; I.L.N. lxv 534, 558, 585 (1874) portrait; Saturday Review lxxii 728 (1891); M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch (1895) 56, 589.

PHILLIPS, William Henry. b. 1808; civil engineer; inventor of Phillips’s fire annihilator patented 4 June 1844, 16 April 1849, and 5 Oct. 1865; discovered numerous important scientific problems; wrote On aërial locomotion by machinery without gaseous buoyancy, Report of Aëronautical soc. vi 53–4 (1871). d. 119 Linden Grove, Nunhead, Surrey 28 Nov. 1884.

PHILLIPS, William Lovell. b. Bristol 26 Dec. 1816; chorister Bristol cathedral 1822–31; pupil at Royal academy of music, London 1831–8, learning singing from Gaetano Crivelli and the violoncello and harmony from Charles Lucas; sub-professor of piano, harmony, and violoncello, professor 1831, associate honorary member; musical director at Olympic theatre, and at Princess’s; member of orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre, Philharmonic soc. and Sacred harmonic soc.; organist St. Catherine’s collegiate church, Regent’s park; author of New and complete instruction for the violoncello 1846; composer of The bridge England, song 1840; As you a nutting go, song 1844; The ivy green, a song 1844; Soft be thy slumbers, serenade 1846; I’m a little laughing gipsy 1857; The two rosebuds 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 70 compositions; under the name of Philip Lovell he wrote Songs of childhood 1843 and other songs; one of the best violoncello players of his day. d. 67 Oakley sq. Camden town, London 19 March 1860. W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 311; Era 25 March 1860 p. 10.

PHILLIPS, William Page (eld. son of Wm. Page Thomas Phillips of Melton Grange, Woodbridge, Suffolk, b. 1833). b. Brent-bridge house, Hendon, Middlesex 5 Aug. 1858; educ. Eton 1871–7; rowed No. 6 in the Eton eight 1876 and was second captain of the boats 1877; member of Kingston rowing club stroked their eight and four at Henley regatta 1877; ran 150 yards in 15 seconds at Lillie Bridge and 120 yards twice in 12 seconds at Stamford Bridge 22 May 1880; ran 440 yards in 49 seconds at Aston ground 16 July 1881, 120 yards in 11 seconds at Stamford bridge 25 March 1882, and 300 yards in 32 seconds at Stamford bridge 20 May 1882, these five performances were all bests on record; lieutenant West Suffolk militia 18 March 1882 to death. d. 26 March 1884. bur. Woodbridge 1 April. Sporting Mirror Oct. 1881 pp. 85–8 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 5 April 1884 p. 72, 19 April pp. 113, 120 portrait.

PHILLOTT, Charles George Rodney. b. 1782; entered navy 27 Jany. 1794; served on board the Amphion 32 guns in the Mediterranean 1802–10, shewing great gallantry in many attacks on the enemy; in command of the Primrose 18 guns, served in the Mediterranean, the North sea, and America 1810–18, retired 1 Oct. 1846; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. d. 39 Hans place, Chelsea 11 March 1863.

PHILLOTT, Francis (youngest son of James Phillott 1749–1815, rector of Stanton Priors, Somerset). b. Stanton Priors 29 Oct. 1821; educ. Winchester and St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1861; C. of Saltford, Cambs. 1845–52; domestic chaplain to earl of Normanton 1853–9; C. of Huntley, Gloucs. 1865–6; C. of Lolworth, Cambs. 1872–7. author of A litany hymn for the use of church schools 1862; The textual witness to the truth and divine authority of the Pentateuch 1863; Sacred memories, the Athanasian creed metrically pharaphrased 1870. d. 9 Pierpont place, Dawlish 4 Sept. 1878.

PHILLOTT, Henry Wright (3 son of Johnson Phillott of Whitcombe, Gloucs. b. 1816; educ. Charterhouse 1827–33, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1835–51; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; assistant master Charterhouse; R. of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire 1850–87; rural dean of Weobly 1854–87; prebendary of Hereford 1864; chancellor of choir of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; resident canon of Hereford 1887 to death; wrote the beautiful Carmen Carthusianum, which was set to music by Wm. Horsley; author with W. L. Bevan of Mediæval geography, an essay in illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi 1873; author of Selections from English prose writers 1849; Hereford 1888 in Diocesan histories. d. The precincts, Hereford 4 Dec. 1895. Guardian 11 Dec. 1895 p. 1908.

PHILLPOTTS, Arthur Thomas (son of succeeding). b. 23 May 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834, colonel 15 Dec. 1864, col. commandant 26 Nov. 1880 to death; commanded the R.A. at Aldershot 1 March 1865 to 6 June 1867 and 1 July 1871 to 18 April 1873; inspector general of artillery at head quarters 1 April 1877 to 31 Aug. 1880; M.G. 6 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 23 May 1882. d. Lawhitton rectory, near Launceston 2 Sept. 1890.

PHILLPOTTS, Henry (2 son of John Phillpotts, brick factor at Bridgwater, afterwards landlord of the Bell inn, Gloucester 1744–1814). b. Bridgwater 6 May 1778; educ. Gloucester college school; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 7 Nov. 1791; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1778, B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of Magdalen coll. 25 July 1795 to 27 Oct. 1804, hon. fellow 2 Feb. 1862 to death; prælector of moral philosophy 25 July 1800; one of the examiners for honours 1802 and 1803; select preacher before the univ. Nov. 1804; V. of Kilmarsdon, near Bath 1 Sept. 1804 to April 1806; R. of Stainton-le-Street, Durham 24 Dec. 1805; chaplain to bishop of Durham 1806–26; V. of Bishop Middleham, Durham 24 July 1805 to 1808; R. of Gateshead 10 May 1808, master of Gateshead hospital 12 May 1808; held ninth prebendal stall in Durham cathedral 24 July 1809, the second stall 30 Dec. 1815 to 20 Sept. 1820, and the sixth stall 22 Jany. 1831 to death; chaplain of St. Margaret, Durham 28 Sept. 1810; rector of Stanhope-on-the-Wear, Durham 20 Sept. 1820 to Jany. 1831, with an income of £4,000, built a parsonage at cost of £12,000; dean of Chester 13 May 1828; bishop of Exeter 22 Nov. 1830 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 2 Jany. 1831, installed 14 Jany.; visitor of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1831 to death; treasurer of Exeter cathedral 27 Jany. 1831; prebendary of Exeter 27 Feb. 1831; carried on successful lawsuits against rev. John Shore 1843, and rev. H. E. Head 1838; refused to institute rev. G. C. Gorham to living of Brampford Speke 1847, Gorham appealed to the privy council and was instituted 8 March 1850, this matter was discussed in 35 publications; spent about £25,000 in litigation; gave £10,000 to found a theological coll. at Exeter; supported Miss Sellon’s sisterhood at Devonport 1852; presented his library to the clergy of Cornwall, library opened Truro 1871; executed the resignation of his see 9 Sept. 1869, which did not take effect on account of his death; author of Letters to C. Butler on his Book of the Roman catholic church 1822; A letter to G. Canning on catholic emancipation 1827, 6 ed. 1827; A letter to an English layman on the coronation oath 1828; A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury 1850, this letter, in which he excommunicates the archbishop, refers chiefly to the Gorham case; A pastoral letter on the present state of the church 1851, 8 ed. 1851; Correspondence with T. B. Macaulay on statements in his History of England 1860; his name is attached to upwards of 75 publications to many of which replies were printed. d. at Bishopstowe palace, Torquay 18 Sept. 1869. bur. St. Mary’s, Torquay. R. N. Shutte’s Life of right rev. Henry Phillpotts, vol. 1 (1863) portrait; Annual register (1869) 162–4; Edinburgh Rev. Jany. 1852 pp. 59–94; Portraits of eminent conservatives 1834 portrait xx; Church of England photograph portrait gallery 1859 portrait xii; Illust. News of the world 1861, vol. viii, portrait xxvii; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans i 180–206 (1875); I.L.N. ii 191 (1843) portrait, lv 300, 302 (1869) portrait; St. Stephen’s by Mask (1839) 173–82; The Church goer, Bristol (1847) 242–52.

PHILLPOTTS, William John (eld. son of preceding). b. Bishop Middleham, Durham 27 Jany. 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Uny Lelant with Towednack, Cornwall 4 Nov. 1831 to Sept. 1832; V. of Grimley, Worcs. Sept. 1832 to 1845; prebendary of Exeter 21 Nov. 1840; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Jany. 1845 to death; V. of Gluvias with Budock, Cornwall 25 March 1845 to death; chancellor of diocese of Exeter Oct. 1860 to death; precentor of Exeter cathedral 1870; author of An answer to the infidels, a charge to the clergy 1864; Reply to canon Farrar’s Eternal hope 1878. d. St. Gluvias vicarage 10 July 1888.

PHILP, Elizabeth (elder dau. of the succeeding). b. Falmouth 17 Jany. 1825; studied singing under Manuel Garcia and Madame Marchesi, and composition under Dr. Ferdinand Hiller of Cologne; a teacher of singing in London; author of How to sing an English ballad 1869, 4 ed. 1870; composer of O, had I the voice of a bird 1855; I once had a sweet little doll 1867; Lillie’s good night 1870; At rest 1884; her name is attached to 150 pieces of music. d. 67 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 26 Nov. 1885. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1878–82) 487–91, 1313; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 735, 1808; F. Hays’ Women of the day (1885) 159.

PHILP, James (son of Robert Kemp Philp, unitarian minister 1769–1850). b. Falmouth 4 Oct. 1800; printer and publisher Falmouth to 1836, and at Bristol 1836–46; compiled A Panorama of Falmouth 1827, printed it himself and bound a copy with his own hands, which he presented to the duke of Clarence 1827; edited The christian child’s faithful friend 1829, which ran for some years; printed The selector or Cornish magazine, 4 vols. 1826–9, and The Falmouth packet 1829 etc. which he for sometime edited; celebrated his golden wedding 24 May 1874. d. 164 Tuffnell park road, London 23 April 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1878–82) 491, 1313.

PHILP, Robert Kemp (son of Henry Philp of Falmouth 1793–1836). b. Falmouth 14 June 1819; employed by a printer at Bristol 1835; a newsvendor at Bath; placed in the stocks for selling a Sunday newspaper; edited with Henry Vincent The national vindicator, a Bath weekly paper 1838–42; a Chartist lecturer 1839; member of executive committee of the Chartists 1841–3; a delegate to the conference called by Joseph Sturge at Birmingham 27 Dec. 1842; a member of the national convention which sat in London from 12 April 1842, drew up the monster petition signed by 3,300,000 persons in favour of the confirmation of the charter, which was presented 2 May 1842; contributed to The Sentinel from its commencement 7 Jany. 1843; publisher at Great New st. Fetter lane, London 1845; sub-editor of The People’s journal 1846–8; edited The Family friend, a monthly periodical, afterwards fortnightly and weekly 1850–5; The family tutor 1851–3, Home companion 1852–6, and The Family treasury 1853–4; Diogenes, a weekly comic paper 1853–4; author of Enquire within upon everything 1856 etc. of which more than a million copies were sold; Notices to correspondents 1856; The reason why 1856; wrote The successful candidate, a two-act comedy 1852; The mountain rill 1850, and four other songs by him were set to music; his name as author and editor is attached to upwards of 40 publications. d. 21 Claremont sq. Islington 30 Nov. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis (1874–82) 492–5 and 1313; The family treasury vol. 1 (1853) portrait.

PHILPOT, Benjamin. b. Laxfield, Suffolk 9 Jany. 1791; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; senior optime and B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Christ’s 1814; C. of Walpole, Suffolk 1815; archdeacon and vicar-general of Isle of Man 22 May 1832 to 1839; R. of Great Cressingham with Bodney, Norfolk 1839–59; V. of Lydney, Gloucs. 1859–71; R. of Dennington, Suffolk 1871–3; author of Ruth, six lectures 1854; Orpah and Ruth or nature and grace 1855; Nine lectures on the second advent of Christ 1866. d. Mona lodge, Oak hill, Surbiton 28 May 1889. bur. Lydney. Times 3 June 1889 p. 12.

PHILPOTT, Henry (younger son of Richard Philpott of Chichester). b. Chichester 17 Nov. 1807; educ. Chichester cathedral school and St. Catherine’s hall Cambridge, fellow 1829, assistant tutor, tutor, master 1845–60, hon. fellow 1887 to death; senior wrangler and 14th classic 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839, D.D. 1847; second Smith’s prizeman 1830; junior proctor 1834–5; Whitehall preacher 1837–9; examining chaplain to bishop of Ely 1844; canon of Norwich 1845–60; vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1846–7 and 1856–8; chaplain to prince Albert, chancellor of Cambridge 1848–60; bishop of Worcester 7 Jany. 1861, consecrated 25 March 1861, resigned Aug. 1890; vice-chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1877, chairman 1878; provincial chaplain of Canterbury; clerk of closet in ordinary to the queen 26 June 1865 to death; admitted to honorary freedom and livery of Salter’s company 13 Dec. 1876; prosecuted R. W. Enraght, vicar of Holy Trinity, Birmingham for ritualistic practices 1879; edited Documents relating to St. Catherine’s college 1861; author of ten triennial charges 1862–89. d. The Elms, Cambridge 10 Jany. 1892. bur. St. Mary’s church, Hartlebury, Worcs. 15 Jany. Church portrait journal iv 65 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. xxxviii 303, 322 (1861) portrait, and 16 Jany. 1892 p. 70 portrait; Graphic 6 Sept. 1890 p. 271 portrait; Times 11 Jany. 1892 p. 7.

PHIN, Kenneth Macleay (son of the minister of Wick). b. Wick 1816; educ. Edinb. univ., D.D. 1869; parish minister of Galashiel 1841–69; a strong supporter of the Established church, opposed Dr. Robert Lee’s alterations in the forms and services of the church; convenor of the army and navy chaplains’ committee 1863, and of the home mission committee 1869 to death; took up his residence in Edinb. 1871; assessor in the university court 1867; moderator in the general assembly of the church 1877; author of Scottish episcopacy the pioneer of popery 1856. d. 13 Chalmers st. Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1888. The Times 13 Jany. 1888 p. 6; Scotsman 13 Jany. 1888 pp. 4, 5.

PHINN, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Phinn, surgeon). b. Bath 1814; educ. Eton, captain of the school, and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 1836; B.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840, bencher 1854 to death; Q.C. with patent of precedence July 1854; recorder of Portsmouth July 1848 to Jany. 1852; recorder of Devonport Jany. 1852 to May 1855; a commissioner to investigate the St. Alban’s bribery case 1851; M.P. Bath 1852–5; contested Bath 2 May 1859; contested Devonport 12 July 1865; presented with a silver tea and coffee service by the working men at the guildhall, Bath 29 Nov. 1859; counsel to board of stamps and taxes in the exchequer Feb. 1852; counsel to admiralty and advocate of the fleet April or May 1854; second secretary to admiralty May 1855, resigned April 1857; reappointed counsel to admiralty Nov. 1863. d. 50 Pall Mall, London 31 Oct. 1866. Law Times xlii 157 (1866); I.L.N. 19 Feb. 1853 p. 152 portrait.

PHIPPEN, James. b. 1785 or 1786; author of An account of the planting of the Royal Victoria grove at Tunbridge Wells 1835; The road guide from London to Tunbridge Wells 1836; Colbran’s New guide to Tunbridge Wells 1840; Descriptive sketch of Rochester, Chatham and their vicinities 1862. d. 29 July 1862.

PHIPPS, Augustus Frederick (4 son of first earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. The Admiralty, London 18 Oct. 1809; educ. Harrow 1820–7 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1831; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1834–9; R. of Boxford 1839–53; R. of Euston with Fakenham Parva and Barnham 1851–82, all in Suffolk; rural dean of Blackburne 1862–83; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1875 to death. d. 27 Eaton square, London 27 Jany. 1896.

PHIPPS, Sir Charles Beaumont (2 son of 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 27 Dec. 1801; educ. Harrow 1813–18; ensign Scots fusilier guards 17 Aug. 1820, lieut. col. 26 May 1837, placed on h.p. 22 Jany. 1847; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; secretary to his brother, first marquess of Normanby, when governor of Jamaica 1832–4; steward of his brother’s household when lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9; secretary to master general of the ordnance; equerry to the queen 1 Aug. 1846; private secretary to prince consort 1 Jany. 1847, and treasurer; keeper of the queen’s privy purse 10 Oct. 1849; treasurer and cofferer to prince of Wales 10 Oct 1849; receiver-general of duchy of Cornwall 26 May 1862 to death; one of the council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863 to death; secretary to prince of Wales as steward of Scotland 8 Feb. 1864; C.B. 6 Sept. 1853, K.C.B. 19 Jany. 1858; m. 25 June 1835 Margaret Anne, 2 dau. of Henry Bathurst, archdeacon of York, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 23 March 1866, and d. 13 April 1874. d. Ambassador’s court, St. James’s palace 24 Feb. 1866. bur. in catacombs of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 2 March. Full account of the presentation of a service of plate to the hon. col. C. B. Phipps in the town hall Scarbro’ Nov. 12, 1841, containing col. Phipps’ speech Scarbro’ 1841; G.M. April 1866 pp. 587–8; I.L.N. xlii 399, 400 (1862) portrait.

PHIPPS, Charles Paul (youngest son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps 1771–1841). b. Leighton house, near Westbury, Wilts. 26 Sept. 1815; a merchant at Liverpool; M.P. Westbury 27 Feb. 1869 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Westbury 3 Feb. 1874; sheriff of Wiltshire 1875. d. Chalcott, near Westbury 8 June 1880.

PHIPPS, Edmund (brother of sir C. B. Phipps 1801–66). b. the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason 1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850; A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. d. 43 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 226–29 (1854); G.M. iii 687 (1857).

PHIPPS, Edward James (brother of Charles Paul Phipps 1815–80). b. 1806; educ. Exeter coll. Oxf.,B.A. 1828; R. of Devizes 1833–53; R. of Stansfield, Suffolk 1853 to death; author of Short and easy answers, or a Sunday school catechism of the history and doctrines of the Old Testament 1832; A catechism on the Holy Scriptures 1850, 2 ed. 1860; The real question as to altar lights 1865. d. Stansfield 22 May 1884. bur. Stansfield 27 May.

PHIPPS, George Henry. b. 27 March 1807; with R. Stephenson and co. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1828; with R. Stephenson chalked out the sketch of the Rocket on the floor; employed at the Eyre Arms tavern, London on the drawings of London and Birmingham railway, made the Roade and Kilsby section; assistant to I. K. Brunel 2 years; manager for Alexander, Gordon and Co. in construction of beacons and lighthouses; again connected with R. Stephenson in examining wells in Liverpool and on works in Egypt; engineer of Western railway of Switzerland 1852; remodelled bridge over the Wear, Sunderland 1872; delivered a series of lectures at Chatham military school on practical engineering; M.I.C.E. 14 April 1840, Telford medal and premium 1864. d. 39 Stockwell park road, Surrey 11 Dec. 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 330–3 (1889).

PHIPPS, Paul (3 son of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton house, Wiltshire). b. 18 Jany. 1789; cornet 1 dragoons 9 June 1804, major 19 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 27 Oct. 1829; served in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo; brevet lieut. col. 27 Oct. 1829; lieut. col. 3 dragoon guards 15 Sept. 1838, but sold out same day; K.H. 1836. d. Berrywood, Hampshire 22 Nov. 1858.

PHIPPS, Pickering (son of Edward Phipps, brewer, d. 1830). b. Bridge st. Northampton 14 March 1827; apprentice to a draper; senior partner in P. and R. Phipps, brewers, Northampton and Towcester, afterwards formed into a limited liability co.; member of Northampton town council 1834; mayor of Northampton 1858 and 1866; chairman of Northampton school board; M.P. Northampton 7 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Northampton 5 April 1880; M.P. Northamptonshire South 15 Feb. 1881 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested Northamptonshire, Midland division 2 Dec. 1885; purchased the Horton estate for £49,000 in 1887; president of the Farmers’ alliance. d. Collingtree Grange, Northamptonshire 14 Sept. 1890. bur. Collingtree 17 Sept. I.L.N. 27 Sept 1890 p. 390 portrait; Northampton Mercury 19 Sept. 1890 p. 6.

Note.—A church erected by his family at cost of £40,000 in Kingsley park, Northampton, was dedicated by the bishop of Peterborough as a memorial to him 21 Sept. 1893.

PHIPSON, Thomas Weatherley. b. 1807; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 10 June 1845, bencher 1862 to death; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862. d. Southampton 15 Jany. 1875. Solicitors’ Journal xix 239 (1875).

PHIPSON, Wilson Weatherley (3 son of Samuel Ryland Phipson of the Cedars, Putney). b. Ladywood, near Birmingham 31 Aug. 1838; educ. Brussels 1847, and at Ecole des Ponts et chaussées, Paris 1857; assisted Van Hecke of Brussels to warm and ventilate the hospitals Neckar and Beaujon, Paris; an engineer London 1859, warmed and ventilated baron Rothschild’s residence Piccadilly and his offices in St. Swithin’s lane, the Albert hall, the Natural history museum, Exeter hall, Criterion theatre, etc.; ventilated Birmingham town hall 1891; A.I.C.E. 12 Jany. 1869, M.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1878; engineer at 14 John st. Adelphi, resided at Long Clawson, Leicester. d. Putney 21 Oct. 1891. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cviii 406–8 (1892); W. W. Phipson, a memoir (1892).

PICCOPE, George John (1 son of John Piccope, P.C. of St. Paul’s, Manchester). b. Manchester 1818; educ. Manchester free gr. sch. 1831 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; Hulme exhibitioner 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Brindle near Chorley 1849–64; C. of Yarwell, Northants 1864 to death; he edited for the Chetham soc. Lancashire and Cheshire wills, 3 vols. 1857–61, and transcribed Lancashire and Cheshire wills, new series, vol. 3, 1884; for the Record Society with J. Piccope he edited An index to the wills and inventories at Chester, vol. 2, 1879. d. Yarwell 22 Feb. 1872. Admission register, Manchester school iii 239 (1874).

PICKARD, Arthur Frederick (3 son of J. H. W. Pickard of Southampton). b. 12 April 1841; lieut. R.A. 22 June 1858, major 16 Oct. 1878 to death; served in New Zealand during wars of 1860–1 and 1863–4, V.C. 22 Sept. 1864 for gallant conduct during assault on Rangiriri 20 Nov. 1863 in rendering assistance to the wounded while under fire; C.B. 15 March 1879; equerry to prince Arthur. d. Cannes 1 March 1880. bur. Cannes 4 March. R. W. O’Byrne’s The Victoria Cross (1880) 40, 71.

PICKARD, Benjamin Spencer (son of James Pickard, captain R.N.). b. 1821; sub-lieutenant R.N. 3 Nov. 1837, captain 12 Dec. 1863, retired 7 March 1875; retired R.A. 2 Aug. 1879, retired V.A. 1 July 1885; served during operations in river Plate 1845–6, and in Russian war 1854–5. d. 34 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 12 Aug. 1890.

PICKERING, Basil Montagu (only son of Wm. Pickering 1796–1854). b. 1835; a godson of Basil Montagu the author; employed by James Toovey the bookseller; publisher and dealer in rare books at 196 Piccadilly, London 1858 to death; published Swinburne’s Queen Mother and Rosamund 1860; Locker’s London lyrics 1862; J. H. Frere’s Works 1872; Cardinal Newman’s Miscellaneous writings 1875–7; and a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost collated by B. M. Pickering 1873; author of Lord Selborne’s letter to The Times on the Public worship regulation bill and an answer by A Layman 1874. d. 196 Piccadilly, London 8 Feb. 1878. Bookseller March 1878 p. 210; Athenæum i 221 (1878).

PICKERING, Edward Hayes (eld. son of Edward Rowland Pickering). b. 1809; educ. Eton 1817–26, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833; assistant master Eton Jany. 1830 to death; was ordained in 1830; played at Lord’s in Harrow v. Eton 30 July 1824, also in 1825 and 1826; an elegant batsman; played in Gentlemen v. Players 1844 etc. d. Eton 19 May 1852. bur. in the school chapel. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i 500 (1862), v p. xiii (1876); G.M. July 1852 pp. 97–8.

PICKERING, Edward Rowland. b. 1778; solicitor in London in partnership with George Andree 1800, practised alone 1801–11, in partnership with George Smith 1811–32, and with George Smith and Edward Tompson at 4 Stone buildings, Lincoln’s inn 1832 to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1845–6, president 1846–7. d. Clapham old town, Clapham 29 Nov. 1859.

PICKERING, George. b. Yorkshire 1794 or 1795; succeeded George Cuitt junior as a drawing-master in Chester; non-resident member of the Liverpool academy 1827, where he exhibited many water-colour pictures; drew the landscapes that are engraved by E. F. Finden in Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire 2 series 1829–31, and many of the landscapes engraved in Ormerod’s History of Cheshire 1819, and in Baines’s History of the county palatine of Lancaster 1824; an artist and teacher of drawing at Birkenhead; exhibited 4 landscapes at Suffolk st. London 1827–8. d. Grange Mount, Birkenhead 8 March 1857.

PICKERING, Percival Andree (2 son of Edward Rowland Pickering 1778–1859). b. London 1811; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A., 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833–41; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 1855 to death; went northern circuit; recorder of Pontefract March 1853 to March 1865; Q.C. July 1855; judge of Passage court at Liverpool 1867 to death; queen’s attorney and serjeant within county palatine of Lancaster 1868 to death; author of Remarks on a report of the house of commons on the publication of printed papers 1838; Remarks on treating and matters relating to the election of members of parliament 1849; An essay of friendship 1875; he also wrote in the Eton miscellany in 1827. d. suddenly while riding in a carriage at Dover 7 Aug. 1876. bur. in Kensal green cemetery. Law Times lxi 301 (1876); Solicitors’ Journal xx 807 (1876).

PICKERING, William. b. 1796; apprentice to John and Arthur Arch, booksellers, Cornhill 1810–18; assistant to Longmans Jany. to June 1818; assistant to John Cuthell 4 Middle Row, Holborn June 1818 to 1820; bookseller 29½ Lincoln’s inn fields 1820–3; commenced publishing his Diamond classics printed by Charles Corrall in 24 volumes 1821–31; brought out the Greek testament 1828 and Homer’s works 1830 in diamond Greek type; adopted the Aldine emblem with the motto Aldi discip Anglus about 1830, removed to 57 Chancery Lane 1823; brought out reprints of English poets; published Basil Montagu’s Bacon, Nicolas’s Walton and the Bridgewater Treatises; had books bound in red cloth in place of red paper boards which revolutionised bookbinding about 1825; publisher at 177 Piccadilly 1842 to death; published books for S. T. Coleridge, Alexander Dyce, Joseph Hunter, J. M. Kemble, and sir Harris Nicolas; issued reprints of the various versions of the Prayer book between 1549 and 1662 in 6 vols. 1844, which are remarkably fine specimens of typography; published Catalogue of biblical, classical, and historical manuscripts and of rare and curious books 1834; the Aldine edition of the English poets in 53 vols. 1835–53, and Christian classics 12 vols. 1849; became involved in debt. d. 5 Wellington place, Turnham Green, Middlesex 27 April 1854, left his family destitute. Cowtan’s Memories of the British museum (1872) 325–6; Willis’s Current notes (1855) 43; N. and Q. 2 Feb. 1895 p. 83.

PICKERING, William Henry. b. 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired full pay as M.G. d. Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863.

PICKERSGILL, Henry Hall (son of the succeeding). b. 1812; studied abroad some years; a painter in London, afterwards in the north of England; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1834–62; his picture The right of sanctuary is in the South Kensington museum. d. 20 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1861.

PICKERSGILL, Henry William. b. London 3 Dec. 1782; adopted by Mr. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who placed him in his own business 1799; pupil of George Arnald, A.R.A. 1802–5; a student in the R.A. 1805, A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1826, retired R.A. 1873, librarian 1856 to death; exhibited 384 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1806–72; many of his portraits and subject-pictures were engraved; painted portraits of nearly all the most celebrated people of his time; his portraits of Bentham, Godwin, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, George Stephenson, sir Thomas Talfourd, and Wordsworth are in the National portrait gallery. d. Barnes, Surrey 21 April 1875. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii 42–44 (1880); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii 47 (1862); I.L.N. lxvi 456, 547 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi, 436, 450 (1875) portrait.

PICKERSGILL, Jeannette Caroline. b. 1814; m. H. H. Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation society. d. 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first person cremated there 26 March 1885. Transactions of Cremation soc. (1885) 49; Times 27 March 1885 p. 10.

PICKFORD, Thomas. b. 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13; attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5 July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy 30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832; consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn] 2 vols. 1864. d. Paris 24 June 1865. Times 24 June 1865 p. 9, 26 June p. 6; Foreign office list, second ed. 1865 p. 168.

PICKNELL, George. b. Green farm, Chalvington, 13 miles from Brighton 29 Nov. 1813; a farmer at Chalvington; played in Sussex v. Nottingham 1835; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Sussex 19 June 1837; for 20 years a member of the Sussex eleven; a hard hitter, playing back, bowled fast and ripping, raising his hand to near his ear; in 2 matches in July 1850 carried out his bat in all four innings, in the last innings went in first and saw his whole side out; a match the United v. the Gentlemen of Sussex was played for his benefit 21 Aug. 1856. d. Chalvington 26 Feb. 1863. W. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 64; Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 406 (1862).

PICKNELL, Robert. b. Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Sussex 19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852. d. Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. bur. Chalvington. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 406 (1862).

PICTON, Sir James Allanson (son of Wm. Pickton, timber merchant). b. Highfield st. Liverpool 2 Dec. 1805; employed by Daniel Stewart architect and surveyor 1826, a partner 1830, succeeded him 1 Jany. 1835, retired 1866; executed some important buildings in and near Liverpool; a leading authority on land arbitration; a local preacher among the Wesleyans to 1848; member of Liverpool town council 1849 to death; member of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 Jany. 1849; obtained a public library for Liverpool 1852, the first chairman of the library and museum committee 1851 to death, the Picton reading room was started by the corporation 1879; a member of the Wavertree local board 1851, chairman of the board 1852; originated the YZ club at Liverpool 12 members only 1870; kept his golden wedding 28 April 1878; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; edited The Watchman’s Lantern, intended to throw light on the proceedings of the Wesleyan Methodist conference 17 Dec. 1834 to 18 Nov. 1835, twenty eight numbers; Selections from the Liverpool municipal archives and records, 2 vols. 1883–6; author of The architectural history of Liverpool 1858; Baronies of Forth and Bargey, Wexford, the antique dialect of the district 1866; Memorials of Liverpool, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1875; and of about 60 papers in the transactions of learned societies. d. Sandyknowe, Wavertree, near Liverpool 15 July 1889. bur. Toxteth park cemet., bust by McBride in Liverpool free library. Sir J. A. Picton by J. A. Picton, M.P. (1891) 2 portraits; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 137 (1889–91); Biograph Oct. 1880 pp. 380–5.

PIDDING, Henry James (son of Mr. Pidding of 1 Cornhill, London, stationer and lottery-office keeper). b. London 1797; painted humorous subjects from domestic life; exhibited 21 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I., and 177 at Suffolk street 1818–64; member of Society of British artists 1843; painted a large picture of The gaming rooms at Homburg 1860; some of his pictures were engraved, several of them by himself in mezzotint; etched a series of six illustrations to The rival demons, an anonymous poem 1836. d. Greenwich 13 June 1864.

PIDDINGTON, Henry (2 son of James Piddington of Uckfield). b. 1797; commanded a ship in the mercantile marine; curator of the museum of economic geology in Calcutta about 1830; sub-secretary of the Asiatic soc. of Bengal about 1830; president of marine court of inquiry at Calcutta about 1845; coroner of Calcutta about 1849 to death; author of The horn-book of storms for the Indian and China seas 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The sailor’s horn-book for the law of storms 1848, 6 ed. 1876, in which he proposed the word cyclone as a name for whirling storms which was accepted by meteorologists; Conversations about hurricanes for the use of plain sailors 1852. d. Calcutta 7 April 1858. Journal of Asiatic society of Bengal (1839) 559, (1859) 64.

PIDGEON, Henry Clarke. b. March 1807; an artist and teacher of drawing in London to 1847, and 1851 to death, also at Liverpool 1847–51; professor of school of drawing at the Liverpool institute a short time; member of Liverpool academy 1847, non-resident member 1850–65, secretary 1850; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., 15 at Suffolk st. 1838–53, and about 50 at Liverpool academy; founded with Joseph Mayer and Abraham Hume the Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1848, an honorary member 7 May 1851, joint secretary with Hume till Jany. 1851, contributed many lithographs and etchings to the society’s publications; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1846, member 1861; president of the Sketching club, d. 39 Fitroy road, Regent’s park, London 6 Aug. 1880. Journal of British archæol. assoc. xxxvi 355 (1880).

PIERCE OR PEIRCE, Earl Horton. b. New York 1823; appeared with Raymond’s circus at Philadelphia; joined Dan Emmet’s minstrel party at Franklin theatre, New York 1842; joined E. P. Christy’s minstrels; came to England in 1856; member of the Christy minstrels St. James’s hall, London, where he became well known by singing a song entitled Hoop de-dooden-do. d. suddenly in the Holloway road, London from effusion of serum on the brain 5 June 1859, inquest 7 June.

PIERCE, Evan. b. 1808; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1836; L.S.A. London 1836; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1844; mayor of Denbigh; coroner for county of Denbigh about 1831 to death; during the cholera in 1832 he was most active in his exertions; a column with a statue raised in his honor at Denbigh 23 Nov. 1876. d. Salusbury place, Denbigh 15 March 1895. Y Darlunydd, Carnarvon Dec. 1876 pp. 1–2 portrait and view of column; Lancet 9 Dec. 1876 p. 821.

PIERCE, James Hart, stage name of James Hart Glen. b. Leith, near Edinburgh 1856; a clerk; a gymnast, had a serious fall at South of England music hall, Portsmouth; partner with. Mike Mac as a gymnastic clown and pantomimist; music hall comedian; partner with George Monaghan to 1889; went to South Africa with Luscombe Searelle’s No. 6 company 1893; m. 1892 as his 2 wife Fanny Robina, widow of Frederick Stanislaus, musical composer. d. Walcot sq. Kennington, Surrey 5 Jany. 1894. bur. Tooting cemetery 10 Jany.

PIERCY, Benjamin (3 son of Robert Piercy, surveyor). b. Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire 16 March 1827; in his father’s office to 1847; chief assistant to Charles Mickleburgh, surveyor, Montgomery 1847–51; with Henry Robert made survey for Shrewsbury and Chester railway 1851; engineer of Red Valley railway bill 1852; engaged on the Cambrian system and on most of the railway schemes in Wales; made the railway bridge at Barmouth and the bridge near Portmadoc; engaged in surveying and making 300 miles of railways in Sardinia 1862–81, and a harbour at the Golfo de Aranci; a commendatore of the Crown of Italy 1881; acquired large estates in Sardinia and bred cattle, horses and sheep; a great friend of Garibaldi; made railway lines in Italy, France and India; purchased Marchwiel hall and estate near Wrexham 1881, where he had a cricket ground; M.I.C.E. 8 Jany. 1860; a candidate for Peterborough 1883. d. 15 Portman square, London 24 March 1888. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 333–9 (1889).

PIERREPONT, Henry Manvers (3 son of Charles Pierrepont, 1 earl Manvers 1737–1816). b. 18 March 1780; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1800, D.C.L. 1834; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sweden 20 April 1804 to 19 Jany. 1807; P.C. 20 May 1807; member of the Dandy club of which he was the last survivor. d. Thoresby park, Ollerton, Notts. 10 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii 184 (1852).

PIERSON, Henry Hugh (son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury). b. Oxford 14 April 1815; educ. Harrow 1829, and Trin. coll. Camb.; studied music in Germany from 1839; Reid professor of music in univ. of Edinb. 1 June 1844, but never officiated as professor; resided in Germany 1844 to death; wrote music under pseudonym of Edgar Mannsfeldt-Pierson; produced an opera The elves and the earth king at Brunn, and another opera Leila at Hamburg 1848; his oratorio Jerusalem, produced at the Norwich festival 1852, was performed by the Harmonic union at Exeter hall 18 May 1853 and at Wurzburg 1862; composed incidental music to the second part of Goethe’s Faust produced at Stadt-theater, Hamburg 1854, printed at Mayence 1856, for which Leopold I of Belgium gave him the gold medal for art and science; his unfinished oratorio Hezekiah was performed at Norwich festival 1869; his opera Contarini in five acts was produced at Hamburg April 1872; three of his orchestral overtures Macbeth 1860, Romeo and Juliet 1870, and As you like it, have been given at Crystal palace concerts; wrote All my heart’s thine own, song 1844; Salve eternum, a Roman dirge 1853; The office for holy communion 1870; Thirty hymn tunes 1870, Second series 1872; Ye mariners of England, a part song 1880; Hurrah for merry England 1885. d. Leipzig 28 Jany. 1873. bur. Sonning, Berkshire 6 Feb. Robin Legge’s History of the Norwich festivals, with portrait; H. H. Pearson’s Collected songs, Leipzig with portrait; Graphic vii 215, 220 (1873) portrait; Grove’s Dictionary of music ii 752 (1880).

PIERSON, Sir William Henry. b. Plymouth 1782; entered navy 27 May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he was wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland, on the occasion of his visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836; captain 28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. 1857. d. Langstone, near Havant 25 March 1858. G.M. May 1858 p. 553.

PIERSON, William Henry (eld. son of Charles Pierson of Cheltenham). b. Havre, France 23 Nov. 1839; educ. Cheltenham college 1853–6, head of the college; won the British Association’s gold medal 1856; gained the Pollock medal Dec. 1858, and six prizes at Addiscombe college 1858; a performer on the piano, cornet and concertina; a chess player; an actor, and a Sanscrit scholar; lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec, 1858, major 25 Nov. 1880 to death; designed and constructed the new palace of the British legation at Teheran; director of the Persian telegraph Oct. 1871 to Oct. 1873; secretary to the Indian defence committee July 1877; military secretary to lord Ripon, governor general of India, Sept. 1880; commanding engineer of the field force proceeding against the Mahsoud Waziri tribe March 1881. d. at Bunnoo 2 June 1881, marble tablet with medallion relief of his head in Cheltenham college chapel. H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe (1894) 185, 643–6, 726.

PIESSE, George William Septimus (7 child of Charles A. J. Piesse, chief clerk in war office). b. 30 May 1820; a practical optician; studied chemistry under professor Graham at University college, London; an analytical chemist; in the employment of J. and E. Atkinson, perfumers, and then with Francis Henry Breidenbach; in partnership with Wilhelm Lubin, as perfumers at 2 New Bond st. London with large cellars under the street 1855, flower farmers near Nice, lavender gardeners at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in the London docks where the perfumed spirits for exportation were made; introduced frangipani, kiss-me-quick, the trump card, and other mixed perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of ribbon of Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early associate of Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium a true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical, natural and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical wonders 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of obtaining the odours of plants 1865. d. Hughendon house, Grove park, Chiswick 23 Oct. 1882. G. L. M. Strauss’ England’s Workshops (1864) 170–8; Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p. 496 portrait; Journal of Chemical Soc. xliii 255 (1883).

PIGEON, Richard Hotham. b. 22 May 1789; educ. Dr. Willett’s academy Brixton; apprentice to Fynmore and Palmer, wholesale druggists 31 Throgmorton st. London 1805, became a partner 1812; a member of the Wholesale druggists’ club; treasurer of Pharmaceutical soc. from its commencement 1841 to 1850; treasurer of Christ’s hospital 1835 when he made great improvements in the administration, his portrait by J. P. Knight, R.A. presented to the hospital in 1845. d. London 10 June 1851. Pharmaceutical Journal xi 46–7 (1852); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 212.

PIGOT, David Richard (eld. son of David Pigot, M.D. of Kilworth, co. Cork, physician). b. 1796; educ. Fermoy and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1870; in the office of a conveyancer 1819–26; called to Irish bar 1826; K.C. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1839; solicitor general for Ireland 11 Feb. 1839, attorney general 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sept. 1841; M.P. Clonmel 1839–46; P.C. Ireland 1840; one of the visitors of Maynooth college 1845; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 1 Sept. 1846 to death; a violin player. d. 8 Merrion sq. Dublin 22 Dec. 1873. bur. Kilworth. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 383–5; Dublin univ. mag. Feb. 1874 pp. 176–9 portrait.

PIGOTT, Edward Frederick Smyth (3 son of John Hugh Smyth Pigott of Brockley hall, Somerset). b. Somerset 1824; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1850; lived for sometime in France; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; took an active part in The Leader, No. 1 March 30 1850, which as The Saturday analyst and leader came to an end 24 Nov. 1860, acted as G. H. Lewes’s deputy in dealing with theatrical and musical matters in The Leader and writing under pseudonym of Le Chat Huant from 19 July 1851; a member of the staff of the Daily News; examiner of plays in lord chamberlain’s department 25 Aug. 1874 to death; wrote for the Saturday review. d. 150 Oxford st. London 23 Feb. 1895, cremated at Woking 27 Feb. Vanity Fair 11 Jany. 1890 p. 33 portrait; Fortnightly Review Feb. 1896 p. 222.

PIGOT, Elizabeth Bridget (dau. of J. Pigot, M.D. of Derby). b. probably in Derbyshire 1783; lived at Southwell, Northampton nearly all her life, where she made the acquaintance of lord Byron about 1803; corresponded with him 1804–11; Byron addressed to her his poem beginning ‘Eliza what fools are the Mussulman sect’ 1806; much of her correspondence with Byron is printed in T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 32, 52–8, 731; a manuscript parody by her entitled ‘The wonderful history of Lord Byron and his dog Bosen’ was sold by a London bookseller to professor Kolbing of Breslau 1892. d. Easthorpe, Southwell 11 Dec. 1866. Poetical works of lord Byron (1859) 400; Russell’s Memoirs of T. Moore v 249 (1854).

PIGOTT, Francis (1 son of Paynton Pigott, who in 1835 took the name of Stainsby Conant 1780–1862). b. Trunkwell house, Berkshire 1809; educ. Eton, matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 7 March 1826; lieut. Hants yeomanry cavalry 31 Dec. 1838, resigned 5 July 1861; contested Winchester 29 June 1841; M.P. Reading 1847–60; lieut. governor of Isle of Man Oct. 1860 to death, entered Douglas 14 Feb. 1861. d. Heckfield Heath, near Winchester 21 Jany. 1863. Illustrated Times 23 Feb. 1861 p. 111, view of his reception at Douglas.

PIGOTT, George Granado Graham Foster (1 son of the rev. George G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). b. Abington Pigotts, Cambs. 16 May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge militia 1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of Sebastopol, served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865. d. Abington 14 May 1878. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix 237 (1879).

PIGOTT, Sir Gillery (4 son of Paynton Pigott, who d. Sept. 1862). b. Oxford 1813; barrister M.T. 3 May 1839, went Oxford circuit; counsel to Ireland revenue department May 1854; serjeant-at-law Feb. or March 1856; received a patent of precedence 1857; M.P. Reading Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1863; recorder of Hereford Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; baron of court of exchequer 2 Oct. 1863 to death; knighted by patent 1 Nov. 1863; author with B. B. Hunter Rodwell of Reports of cases in the court of common pleas, on appeal from the decisions of the revising barristers 1844–6. d. Sherfield Hill house, Basingstoke 28 April 1875. I.L.N. 31 Oct. 1863 p. 433 portrait and lxvi 451, 571 (1875); Graphic xi 483, 486, 492 (1875) portrait.

PIGOTT, Henry de Renzy (2 son of Henry Pigott of Eagle hill, co. Galway). b. 18 May 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844; ensign 83 foot 23 July 1845, major 19 Dec. 1862; major 19 foot 30 June 1863, lieut. col. 25 Aug. 1871; lieut. col. 70 foot 14 Aug. 1872, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Indian mutiny and in the Afghan war of 1878; brevet colonel 25 Aug. 1876; commanded the regimental district of Warrington 1 April 1881 to 8 Feb. 1882, when he retired with honorary rank of M.G. d. Elkhorn, Manitoba 14 Nov. 1889.

PIGOT, Sir Hugh. Entered navy 1 May 1788; captain 8 May 1804; took possession of the island of Mariegalante 2 March 1808; commanded the squadron off Guadaloupe 1809, employed on the American station; commander-in-chief on Cork station 16 May 1844 to 1 July 1847; admiral 4 July 1853; C.B. 26 Sept. 1841, K.C.B. 10 July 1847; K.C.H. 18 June 1832. d. 96 Ebury street, London 29 July 1857. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 905–6.

PIGOT, Hugh (2 son of Creswell Pigot of Drayton, Salop). b. 1820. educ. Brasn. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Hadleigh, Suffolk 1843–63; V. of Wisbeck St. Mary 1863–9; R. of Stretham, Cambs. 1869 to death; author of The blessed life, a course of sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Hadleigh, the town, the church, and the great men born in or connected with the parish 1860, 2 ed. 1874. d. Tunbridge Wells 22 Sept. 1884.

PIGOT, Richard. b. 1774; captain of a new independent company of foot 21 Dec. 1793; captain 58 foot 21 April 1795; captain 14 dragoons 13 Sept. 1798, major 4 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 21 light dragoons 1 May 1806 to 30 July 1820, when placed on h.p.; col. 4 dragoon guards 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. Chievely, near Newbury, Berks. 21 Nov. 1868.

PIGOTT, Richard (son of George Pigott, clerk to Peter Purcell, coach proprietor, Dublin). b. county Meath about 1828; clerk in office of The Ulsterman newspaper, Belfast, edited by Denis Holland, who transferred the paper to Dublin July 1858 and changed its name to The Irishman, manager of the paper and practically controlled it, in June 1865 the proprietor Patrick James Smith gave the paper to Pigott; started a weekly magazine entitled The Shamrock 1866, and another entitled The flag of Ireland; condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for publishing seditious matter 1867, and imprisoned for six months for contempt of court 1871; contested Limerick as a Fenian 20 Nov. 1868; sold his three publications to the Irish national newspaper and publishing company 1879; author of Personal recollections of an Irish national journalist 1882, 2 ed. 1883; sold to the Irish loyal and patriotic union in 1886 papers accusing Parnell of complicity in the murders of the Land league, The Times purchased these papers and published a series of articles on Parnellism and crime 1887, including a letter signed by Parnell condoning the Phœnix Park murders of 18 April 1887, a commission of three judges sat July 1888 onward to inquire into the allegations made by The Times against Parnell; Pigott was examined as a witness 21 and 22 Feb. 1889, confessed to Henry Labouchere, M.P. that he had forged the papers 23 Feb., fled from England same day, shot himself dead in the Hotel de los Embajadores, Madrid 12 March 1889. Report of trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott (1868); James O’Connor’s Recollections of R. Pigott (1889); J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections ii 198–9 (1892); Vanity Fair 9 March 1889 p. 177 portrait.

PIGOT, Sir Robert, 4 Baronet (2 son of general sir George Pigot, bart. 1766–1841). b. Patshull, co. Stafford 1801; succeeded 24 June 1841; M.P. Bridgnorth 1832 to 1837 and 1838 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Bridgnorth 8 July 1852 to March 1853 when unseated for bribery; contested Bridgnorth 26 July 1837; owner of racehorses, Conyngham won the 2,000 guineas 1847 and the Royal hunt cup. d. Hillside, Bracknell 1 June 1891.

PIKE, John Deodatus Gregory (eld. son of John Baxter Pike, schoolmaster 1745–1811). b. Edmonton 6 April 1784; educ. Wymondley college Herts. 1802–6; became a particular baptist Aug. 1804; classical assistant in the school of his uncles G. and R. Gregory at Lower Edmonton 1806–9; pastor of the baptist church Brook st. Derby 1810, a new chapel was opened for him 1815, enlarged 1819, and rebuilt on a new site 1842, pastor to his death; kept a boarding school at Derby about 1810–8; the first secretary of the General Baptist missionary society June 1816; trained young missionaries in his family; edited The general baptist repository and missionary observer Jany. 1822 to death; author of A catechism of scriptural instruction for young persons 1816; The consolations of gospel truth 1817, 2 ed. Derby 1818, vol. ii Derby 1820; Persuasives to early piety, 7 ed. 1865; Swedenborgianism depicted 1820; A guide for young disciples of the Holy Saviour 1823, 2 ed. 1880; Religion and eternal life 1834; Christian liberality in the distribution of property 1836. d. Derby 4 Sept. 1854. A memoir of J. D. G. Pike, edited by his sons (1855) portrait; Amos Sutton’s Mission to Orissa (1833) vii and 1–10; Repository and missionary observer (1854) 463–8; The works of J. G. Pike (1862–3), memoir pp. 11–24.

PIKE, Warburton (youngest son of Wm. Pike of Bucknowle, Church Knowle, Dorset). b. Bucknowle 1818; educ. Univ. coll. London; student of Middle Temple 7 June 1837; certificated special pleader 1840 to death; published Translations from Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo, and Vittoria Colonna 1879; A translation of Dante’s Divine comedy, Inferno 1881. d. the Grove, Highgate 29 Jany. 1882. bur. at Church Knowle.

PILCH, Fuller (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). b. Horningtoft, near Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played his first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club 24 July 1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30; played for England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he made the highest score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand bowling; resided at Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket Thomas Marsden the Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833 and again at Sheffield before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one of the Kent eleven with salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member of Clarke’s All England eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in England 1825–50; landlord of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent 1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept a shop for sale of cricket implements at Canterbury 1842 to death; landlord of Saracen’s head inn Canterbury 1860. d. Canterbury 1 May 1870. bur. St. Gregory’s churchyard. Baily’s Mag. xxvii 270–9 (1875); Denison’s Sketches of the players (1846) 64–9; Pycroft’s Cricket field, 3 ed. (1859) 135 portrait; Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i 434 (1862), v page xiii (1876); F. Gale’s Game of cricket (1887) 11–26; Illust. London life 16 July 1843 p. 236 portrait; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 24 portrait; R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 26 portrait; I.L.N. iii 45 (1843) portrait.

PILCH, William (brother of preceding). b. Horningtoft, Norfolk 4 Nov. 1794; a tailor and bat maker; first match at Lord’s, Marylebone v. Norfolk 24 July 1820; a slow bowler with a delivery between underhand and round; resided successively at Holt in Norfolk, London, and Norwich; went to King’s Lynn in 1860. d. Sheffield 4 Sept. 1866. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 434 (1862).

PILCHER, George (son of Jeremiah Pilcher of Winkfield, Berkshire). b. 30 April 1801; M.R.C.S. 2 April 1824, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1849 to death; surgeon in Dean st. Soho, London 1824; lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Webb st. school of medicine Snow’s Fields, Bermondsey; consulting surgeon to the Surrey dispensary many years; president of Medical society of London 1842, received the Fothergill gold medal; lecturer upon surgery at St. George’s hospital 6 July 1843; one of the best aural surgeons in England; author of Essay on the physiology of the excito-motory system 1835; A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the ear 1838, 2 ed. 1842; On some points in the physiology of the tympanum 1854. d. 2 Harley st. London 7 Nov. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Nov. G.M. Jany. 1856 p. 92; Medical times and gazette ii 510 (1855).

PILCHER, John Montresor. Second lieut. R.M. 15 Jany. 1801, lieut. col. 11 May 1841, col. commandant 3 Nov. 1851 to 9 June 1854, when placed on retired full pay; hon. M.G. 20 June 1855. d. at his residence near Worcester 18 Nov. 1873.

PILGRIM, Thomas. b. 1800; associated with Francis Petit Smith and the introduction of the screw propeller 1836 to death; engineer of the Archimedes, the first ship ever sent to sea propelled by the screw 1838. d. at his son’s residence Plumstead, Kent 6 Oct. 1871. The Times 11 Oct. 1871 p. 7.

PILKINGTON, Sir Andrew. b. about 1767; ensign Elford’s corps 7 March 1783, placed on h.p. 1783; lieut. independent company 24 Jany. 1791, placed on h.p.; lieut. 2 foot 19 Feb. 1793, captain 2 March 1795; lieut. 3 foot guards 11 Jany. 1800, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 48 foot 9 July 1803; commanded the light company on board Royal George in lord Howe’s action 1 June 1794; employed in the West Indies, present at capture of Trinidad 1795–7; served in suppression of the Irish rebellion 1798; served in the expeditions to the Helder 1799 and 1805; assistant A.G. at the horse guards 1807–8, and D.A.G. in Nova Scotia 1809–15; col. of 82 foot 10 May 1841 and of 20 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; purchased Catsfield place, Battle, Sussex, from James Eversfield. d. Catsfield place 23 Feb. 1853. Royal military calendar iv 261 (1820); G.M. xxxix 436 (1850).

PILKINGTON, Lionel Scott (only son of Redmond Wm. Pilkington, architect, London 1789–1844). b. Kensington, London 5 May 1831; educ. Rugby 1844; resided at Hatfield, Ash Hill, near Doncaster 1844 to death; served sir Joseph Henry Hawley as groom 1851, and was known as Jack Hawley for the rest of his life; clever in disguising himself; served as a sailor, as a butcher, and as a groom to several trainers; a Roman catholic, went to Rome and presented 2 horses to the Pope and received from him a cross; always dressed himself as a groom and refused to associate in any good society, although he owned much property. d. Hatfield 25 Dec. 1875. bur. in his hunting costume in his paddock in the midst of the graves of his horses and cattle, left his Hatfield property to his groom John Harris, and his London property to Wiggins, the son of an old servant. Life and eccentricities of Lionel Scott Pilkington alias Jack Hawley (1876) portrait; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii 126–8 (1882).

PILLANS, James (son of James Pillans, printer). b. Edinburgh April 1778; educ. Edinb. high school and univ., M.A. 30 Jany. 1801, LL.D. 22 April 1863; a private tutor at Eton college; rector of the high school Edinb. Jany. 1810 to Aug. 1820; introduced a monitorial system and attracted pupils from all parts of the world; professor of humanity and laws in univ. of Edinb. 17 Aug. 1820, resigned 11 April 1863; made tours to inspect the educational systems of France, Ireland, Prussia, and Switzerland; gave evidence before the committee of house of commons on education 1834; an early advocate for compulsory education; edited Eclogæ Ciceronianæ 1845; Excerpta ex Taciti annalibus 1848; The five latter books of the first decade of Livy 1849; author of Outlines of geography, principally ancient, Edinb. 1847; First steps in the physical and classical geography of the ancient world, Edinb. 1853, 13 ed. 1882; Elements of physical and classical geography 1854; Contributions to the cause of education 1856; Educational papers, Edinb. 1862. d. 41 Inverleith row, Edinburgh 27 March 1864. bur. in graveyard of St. Cuthbert’s church, Edinb. 1 April. Memoir of James Pillans By an old student (1869); Grant’s Story of the univ. of Edinb. ii 80, 84, 320–2 (1884); Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. v 303 (1866).

PILLING, Richard. b. Bedford 5 July 1855; played in a match Sussex v. Lancashire at Old Trafford 1877; wicket keeper for Lancashire 1877–89; played in Gentlemen v. Players at Lord’s 1879, and in Lancashire v. Surrey at Liverpool 1885; had a benefit under the Lancashire cricket club auspices which gave him £1,700, 1889; went to Australia with Shaw and Shrewsbury’s first combination 1881–82, when he had a sun stroke from which he never quite recovered, went to Australia with the fourth combination 1887–88; caught cold in a football match 1890; the Lancashire club sent him to Australia for his health 1890; with the exception of Blackham the best wicket keeper of his day. d. at his house in Manchester 28 March 1891. Wisden’s Cricketers’ almanack (1891) p. xxxiii portrait, (1892) p. xxxii; Times 30 March 1891 p. 7; Graphic 4 April 1891 p. 386 portrait.

PIM, Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan (only son of Edward Bedford Pim, lieut. R.N., d. 1830). b. Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826; entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald 1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in the western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21 April 1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6, and the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon 1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route across the Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now known as Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861; captain 16 April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5 July 1885; made three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his traffic transit scheme March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the Nicaraguan railway company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was dissolved July 1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went the western circuit; contested Totnes 12 July 1865; contested Gravesend 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Gravesend 1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of Anthropological institute 1871 to death, member of council 1871–4; author of An earnest appeal on behalf of the missing Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857; The gate of the Pacific 1863; An essay on feudal tenures 1871; War chronicle, with memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king William I 1873; The Eastern question, past, present and future 1877; Gems from Greenwich hospital 1881; author with Beethold Seeman of Dottings on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito 1869. d. Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial brass tablet and window at west end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii 448–54 (1887).

PIM, Jonathan (son of Thomas Pim, merchant, Dublin). b. 1806; partner in firm of Pim Brothers & Co. poplin manufacturers, cotton spinners, linen weavers, and flour millers 22 William st. Dublin; M.P. Dublin city 17 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Dublin 7 Feb. 1874; author of The condition and prospects of Ireland 1848; Ireland and the imperial parliament 1871. d. Greenbank, Monkstown, co. Dublin 6 July 1885.

PIM, Thomas (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market, Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of Royal yacht club. d. Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.

PINCHIN, Robert. b. 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa 1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death; partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H. L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L. Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. d. Port Elizabeth 9 May 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv 388 (1889).

PINCKARD, George Henry (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court Barton, Devon, d. 1839). b. Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court, Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. d. Combe court 23 July 1892. The Times 26 July 1892 p. 9.

PINCKNEY, Frederick George Augustus. Ensign 73 foot 8 April 1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858. d. off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.

PINCOFFS, Peter. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840, where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841; in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond. 1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari 1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec. 1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. d. Munich 17 July 1872. Medical times and gazette ii 165–6 (1872).

PINDER, Francis Ford (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa, Bath). b. 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857, went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. d. 129 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.

PINDER, George. b. 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. d. Clifton 14 Jany. 1881.

PINDER, John Hothersall (son of Francis Ford Pinder of Barbadoes). b. 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2 ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures 1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. d. West Malvern 16 April 1868. bur. in West Malvern churchyard. G.M. May 1868 p. 783.

PINE, Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell (eld. son of Benjamin Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). b. 1813; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831, barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer 1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849 to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855, governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher, West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31 May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16, and others. d. Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. The Times 2 March 1891 p. 7.

PINE, Richard. Employed on important missions to native kings and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia 1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866; registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870. d. 6 Feb. 1878.

PINHEY, Robert. b. 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army 15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1 May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board 1843–6. d. Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.

PINK, Charles Richard (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester). b. Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London 1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886; designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. d. Hyde, near Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church. Pink memorial (1889) portrait; Journal of proc. of royal instit. of British architects v 172, 314 (1889).

PINKERTON, Allan. b. Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other books. d. Chicago 1 July 1884. Appleton’s American biography v 25 (1888); Harper’s Mag. xlvii 720–7 (1873).

PINKETT, Francis Frederick (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of Barnstaple). b. about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany. 1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T. 19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement June 1880, administered government of the West African settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883; acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements 31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. Law Times 11 June 1887 p. 108.

PINKS, William John. b. Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29 Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde, bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries, the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals; a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i, no more published. d. at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. bur. Highgate cemet. 19 Nov., memorial stone erected by subscription. Memoirs of W. J. Pinks (1861); W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell, 2 ed. (1881) memoir pp. v–viii portrait.

PINNEY, Charles (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed surname of Pinney 1762). b. 29 April 1793; partner with E. Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received £3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833; mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol 1836. d. Camp house, Clifton 17 July 1867. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii 273–355 (1850); Trial of Charles Pinney (1833); Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887) 146–79, 188, 212; Nicholls and Taylor’s Bristol iii 325–38 (1882); P. C. Scarlett’s Memoir of James, first lord Abinger (1877) 350–402.

PINNOCK, William Henry (son of Wm. Pinnock, publisher and author 1782–1843). b. 1813; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1850, LL.D. 1855; admitted LL.D. at Oxford 1859; C. of Somersham, Hunts. 1846–70; English chaplain at Chantilly, France 1870–6; C. in charge of All Saints, Dalston, London 1876–7; V. of Pinner, Herts. 1879 to death; edited W. Pinnock’s History of England made easy, new ed. 1847; wrote a continuation of Pinnock’s Abridgment of Goldsmith’s History of England, 46 ed. 1858; edited Clerical papers on church and parishioners, 6 vols. 1852–63; author of The laws and usages of the church and clergy, the unbeneficed clerk, 2 ed. 1854; Rubrics for communicants explanatory of the holy communion office 1863; The law of the rubric and the transition period of the church of England 1866; The church key, belfry key and organ key 1870; The Bible and contemporary history: an epitome of the history of the world from the creation to the end of the old testament, edited by E. M. B., 2 vols. 1887. d. Pinner vicarage 30 Nov. 1885. The Times 5 Dec. 1885 p. 9.

PINSENT, Sir Robert John (son of Robert John Pinsent, a judge in Newfoundland). b. Newfoundland 1834; called to the bar of Newfoundland 1856; Q.C. 1865; member of legislative council 1859; acting attorney general 1869; solicitor general 1873; judge of the supreme court 1880 to death; knighted by patent 12 June 1890; D.C.L. from the archbishop of Canterbury Feb. 1881; author of Newfoundland, our oldest colony in Proceedings of Royal Colonial institution 1884–85, pp. 215–72, and of articles in magazines upon the French treaty question 1889. d. Bintry rectory, Norfolk 27 April 1893.

PINSON, Albert. Entered Madras army 1817; lieut. 21 Madras N.I. 29 Oct. 1818; captain 46 N.I. 3 June 1826, major 31 Dec. 1844 to 20 April 1853; lieut. col. 17 N.I. 20 April 1853 to 1854, of 2 N.I. 1854–6, of 32 N.I. 1856–7, of 39 N.I. 1857–8, and of 37 N.I. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861, when he retired with rank of M.G. d. 12 Nov. 1865.

PINSUTI, Ciro Ercole. b. Sinalunga, near Siena 9 May 1829; educ. in Rome, where he gave a concert when aged 11; Henry Drummond, M.P. brought him to London and placed him under the tuition of Cipriani Potter at Royal academy of music; pianist; studied at Bologna conservatoire 1845; returned to England 1848; professor at Royal academy of music, London 1856–85; wrote 3 operas Il merccante de Venezia 1873, Mattia Corvino 1877, and Margherita; composer of There is a reaper 1844; Excelsior, a romance 1850; Te Deum 1860; The sea hath its pearls, part song 1865; After the rain, two part song 1867; Tell me not in mournful numbers 1869; Dreams only dreams, song 1873; I fear no foe, a song 1876; Tell me where is fancy bred, a part song 1884; author of Hints to teachers on singing 1880; his name is attached to upwards of 500 pieces of music. d. of cerebral apoplexy while playing the piano at Florence 10 March 1888. The Times 15 March 1888 p. 6.

PINTI, Raffaelle. b. near Rome 1826; came to London when a young man; dealer in Italian works of art 46 Berners st. London 1860 to death; his knowledge of Italian pictures, sculptures, etc. and his connection with Italy enabled him to bring many important works of art to England; picture restorer. d. 28 Langham st. London 30 July 1881. Academy ii 128 (1881); Times 11 Aug. 1881 p. 10, col. 3.

PINWELL, George John. b. London 26 Dec. 1842; worked for the brothers Dalziel as a designer and drawer on wood 1863; illustrated the Sunday magazine, Good words, Once a week, and other periodicals; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1869, member 1870; exhibited at Dudley gallery 1865; an honorary member of Belgian society of painters in water-colours; his picture entitled Strolling players was engraved by Charles Cousen for the Art Journal 1873, and The elixir of love was etched by R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. 1885; he illustrated H. Lushington’s The happy home 1864; R. W. Buchanan’s Ballad stories of the affection 1866; and Jean Ingelow’s Poems 1867. d. Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Sept. 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 11 Sept. A catalogue of pictures by G. Mason and G. Pinwell exhibited at Birmingham March 1895, with an essay by H. Quilter 1895; Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii 396–9 (1891); Good words xxix 814 (1888); I.L.N. 18 Sept. 1875 p. 285 portrait; Graphic xii 328 (1875) portrait.

PIOZZI-SALUSBURY, Sir John Salusbury (2 son of Giambattista Piozzi of Brescia, Lombardy, merchant). b. Brescia 1793; assumed additional surname of Salusbury 4 Dec. 1813; sheriff of Flintshire 1816; knighted at Carlton house 21 April 1817, on presenting an address to the Prince Regent. d. Cheltenham 18 Dec. 1858. G.M. Feb. 1859 p. 208.

PIPER, Robert Sloper. b. 1790 or 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 10 Jany. 1809, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841, retired on full pay 2 Feb. 1848; served six campaigns in the Peninsula, France, and Flanders March 1810 to Jany. 1816; commanding engineer in the Kandian provinces during insurrection of 1817–18; general 1 Jany. 1868; he wrote A memorandum of the manner in which the repairs of the chain pier at Brighton have been executed, in Papers of Corps of Royal engineers ii 122–7 (1844). d. 7 New Steine, Brighton 26 Dec. 1873.

PIPER, Stephen Edward. b. Ipswich 1813; educ. Univ. coll. London; L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1853; joined the army medical staff 1836; served against Don Carlos in Spain, where he was shot in the chest 1836; settled at Darlington 1841; consulting surgeon Darlington hospital; president North of England British medical association. d. Orwell house, Darlington 24 Aug. 1894. The Lancet 8 Sept. 1894 p. 601.

PIPON, James Kennard. b. 1806 or 1807; ensign 94 foot 3 Aug. 1826, captain 6 March 1835; captain 85 foot 15 July 1836, placed on h.p. 31 March 1843; major on h.p. 8 April 1859; brevet colonel 20 June 1857; inspector general of militia 8 May 1863 to death; officiating judge advocate at the court martial on colonel Thomas Robert Crawley, held at Aldershot camp 17 Nov. to 23 Dec. 1863; author with John Francis Collier of Manual of military law for all ranks of the army, militia, and volunteer services 1860, 3 ed. 1863. d. Alne vicarage, Yorkshire 7 June 1868. Illust. times 28 Nov. 1863 p. 345 portrait.

PIRIE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse, Berwickshire). b. Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept. 1781; merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley, London 1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman of ward of Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841; created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a prince of Wales during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June 1841. d. Champion hill, Camberwell 26 Feb. 1851. G.M. xxxv 551 (1851); I.L.N. 8 March 1851 p. 200.

PIRIE, William Robinson (2 son of George Pirie, D.D. minister of Slains, Aberdeenshire). b. manse of Slains 26 July 1804; studied at Univ. and King’s college, Aberdeen 1817–21, and 1821–5, D.D. 1844; licensed to preach by presbytery of Ellon 1825; minister of parish of Dyce 1830; minister of Greyfriars church, Aberdeen 1846–7; professor of divinity in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen 30 Dec. 1843 to 1860; hon. professor of divinity and biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 15 Sept. 1860 to 1876, and principal Dec. 1876 to death; moderator of the general assembly 19 May 1864; the chief advocate for the abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland, which was abolished by act of parliament 1874; author of The independent jurisdiction of the church vindicated 1838; Some notice of the rev. Andrew Gray 1840; An inquiry into the constitution, power, and processes of the human mind 1858; The position, principles and duties of the church of Scotland 1864; Natural theology, an inquiry into the fundamental principles of religions, moral and political science 1867. d. Aberdeen 3 Nov. 1885. In memoriam, W. R. Pirie (1888); Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ iii, part ii, p. 501, 516, 898.

PIRRIE, William (son of George Pirrie, farmer). b. near Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1807; educ. Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen, and univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.A. Aberdeen 1825; M.D. Edinb. 1829, hon. LL.D. 1875; lecturer on anatomy and physiology in the joint medical schools of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1830–9; regius professor of surgery in Marischal college 1839–60; professor of surgery in univ. of Aberdeen 1860–82; the leading surgeon in north Scotland for 20 years; known by sobriquet of The Baron; author of The principles and practice of surgery 1852, 3 ed. 1873; On hay asthma and hay fever 1867; author with Wm. Keith of Acupressure an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage 1867. d. 253 Union st. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1882. Medical times and gazette ii 681 (1882).

PISTRUCCI, Benedetto (2 son of Federico Pistrucci, judge of the high criminal court of Rome). b. Rome 29 May 1784; a gem-engraver at Rome 1800; went to Paris Dec. 1814, and to London 1815; designed the St. George and the dragon on the reverse of the gold coinage 1817, which is still in use; an outside assistant at the mint 1816, acted as chief engraver from 22 Sept. 1817, chief medallist 1828; engraved part of the coinage at end of reign of George III, and all the coins of early part of George IV; engraved the coronation medal of George IV 1820–1, and of Victoria 1838; made the silver seal of the duchy of Lancaster in 15 days by a new process of his invention 1838; resided at the Mint 1817–49; made cameos and intaglios for which he obtained high prices; made busts of the duke of Wellington and of Pozzo di Borgo; was paid £3,500 for the famous Waterloo medallion 1850. d. Flora lodge, Englefield Green, near Windsor 16 Sept. 1855. A. Billing’s Science of gems (1875) 3, 224; F. P. Weber’s Medals by foreign artists (1894) 62–7; N. Carlisle’s Memoir of W. Wyon (1837) 43 etc.; G.M. Oct. 1856 pp. 653–6.

Note.—In the British museum with the shelf mark 10825 d. 28 is A collection of letters, etc. from newspapers and magazines on B. Pistrucci and W. Wyon as medallists.

PITCAIRN, David. b. 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian minister of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May 1830 to 29 Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867; resided at Torquay from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his parishioners 1840, 2 ed. 1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed. 1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s king, the second Psalm expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a memoir of E. H. M. Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862; The ages of the earth 1868. d. 4 Jany. 1870. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ, vol. 3 part 1 p. 382.

PITCAIRN, Sir James (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of Englishcombe, Somerset). b. Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776; F.R.C.S. 7 June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and in Egypt 1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in Ireland 1803, and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852, when he retired on half pay; knighted 1837. d. 3 Haddington road, Dublin 12 Jany. 1859.

PITCAIRN, Robert (2 son of Robert Pitcairn, writer to the signet and principal keeper of the register of deeds). b. Edinburgh 1793; a writer to the signet 21 Nov. 1815; assistant to the deputy clerk register in H.M.’s register house a long time, one of the four official searchers of records for incumbrances in the register house 1853 to death; employed in making an Abridgment of the register of the great seal of Scotland 1824, for the Record commission; edited for the Abbotsford club Historical memoirs of Mary, queen of Scots 1836; for the Bannatyne club Criminal trials in Scotland 1833, and 3 other works; for the Wodrow society The autobiography of J. Melvill 1842; he also edited Collections relating to the funeralls of Mary, queen of Scots 1822; Historical account of the principal families of Kennedy 1830. d. 9 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 16 July 1855. Record commission, the case of Robert Pitcairn (1835).

PITCAIRN, Thomas (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister 1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk of Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church at Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. d. Bonnyrig 21 Dec. 1854. Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 438–48 portrait; Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ i, part 1, p. 274.

PITMAN, Frederick. b. Trowbridge, Wilts. 1828; bookseller, phonetic shorthand writer and reporter at 1 Queen’s Head passage, Paternoster row, London 1847, and at 20 Paternoster row 1850 to death; edited The shorthand magazine 1866 to his death; The phonographic student 1867–76, ten volumes; The phonographic pulpit 1869–76, seven volumes, and The phonographic lecturer 1871 etc.; and was the author of Second book in phonetic reading for adults 1850; Pitman’s Reporters’ reading book 1867; Learning to report 1883; How to get speed in shorthand 1884; Pitman’s Shorthand library, Tom Brown’s school days 1884. d. Oak lawn, Avenue road, Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex 21 Nov. 1886.

PITMAN, John Rogers. b. 1782; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1815; P.C. of Berden and V. of Ugley, Essex 18 Feb. 1817, resigned 1846; preached at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels, London, also at Foundling and Magdalene hospitals; P.C. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1833–48; domestic chaplain to duchess of Kent 1848–61; author of Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis 1808, 2 ed. 1817; Practical lectures upon the ten first chapters of the gospel of St. John 1821, Supplement 1822; The school Shakespeare with notes 1822, 2 ed. 1851; Sophoclis Ajax, Greek and Latin, with notes 1830; A practical commentary on our Lord’s sermon on the mount 1852. d. 8 Green park buildings, Bath 27 Aug. 1861.

PITMAN, Joseph (brother of sir Isaac Pitman, b. 1815). b. 1818; engaged with Thomas Allen Reid in lecturing in Great Britain on Pitman’s system of shorthand many years; lived in retirement at Worthing 1885 to death. d. Worthing about 1 April 1895.

PITMAN, Mrs. Became proprietor of The Sporting review on her husband’s death in 1827, and conducted it with much skill until the four sporting serials, The Sporting review, The Sporting magazine, The New sporting magazine, and The Sportsman, were united in July 1846. d. Feb. 1858. Sporting Review xxxix 153 (1858).

PITMAN, Samuel (son of rev. Samuel Pitman of Oulton hall, Norfolk, d. 1854). b. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; captain West Somerset yeomanry cavalry; master of the Taunton harriers, hunting on alternate days with the Blackmoor vale foxhounds; hunted his own harriers in the Langport and Martock districts; master of South Berkshire fox hounds 1873, for 3 seasons he hunted both packs; at last his health gave way under the strain of hunting five and even six days a week; with sir T. Acland instrumental in reviving the Bath and west of England agricultural society 1850; resided Bishop’s Hull manor, Taunton. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 April 1886. The Times 19 April 1886 p. 5.

PITMAN, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Dix Pitman, solicitor, London). b. 1801; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of Brightwell, Oxfordshire 1826–8; V. of Eastbourne, Sussex 1828 to death; prebendary of Chichester 27 Aug. 1841 to death. d. Eastbourne 11 May 1890. I.L.N. 24 May 1890 p. 646 portrait.

PITTMAN, Josiah. b. 3 Sept. 1816; organist of Sydenham parish church 1831; organist of Tooting parish church 1833–5; organist at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1835–47; organist at Lincoln’s Inn 1852–64; accompanist at Her Majesty’s opera 1865–8 and at Covent Garden 1868 to death; a regular frequenter of the Albion tavern, Russell st. Covent garden, where he always sat in the same box; author of The people in church 1858; The people in the cathedral 1859; author with Colin Brown of Songs of Scotland 1873; edited Hymns and canticles 1858; Six easy preludes by J. S. Bach 1858; The musical antiquarian magazine 1863–5, fifteen numbers; The contralto album, 50 songs 1878; The prima donna’s album, 40 songs 1878; The tenor album, 50 songs 1878; The baritone album, 45 songs 1879; Songs from the operas, 2 vols. 1880; A series of studies for pianoforte, organ, or harmonium 1882; Album of 40 duets 1885; Diversions for students, 2 books 1889; he also edited a large number of single operas 1865–80; his name is attached to upwards of 100 works. d. 228 Piccadilly, London 23 April 1886. London Figaro 1 May 1886 p. 12.

PITT, Charles Dibdin (1 son of George Dibdin Pitt). b. 1819; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London as Ferdinand in the Tempest at Covent Garden 1843; acted in the provinces; with his wife played in the United States and Canada, first appearing at Park st. theatre, New York as Hamlet on 8 Nov. 1847, produced The Cavalier or England in 1640 on 10 Nov.; last appeared in New York 1851; appeared as Lear at City of London theatre 15 March 1852; in John Wilkins’ The Egyptian, March 1853; as Bottom in Midsummer night’s dream 5 June 1854; in the Spanish girl March 1857; lessee of theatre royal, Sheffield at his death; m. 1839 Ellen Coveney, actress. d. 87 Norfolk st. Sheffield 21 Feb. 1866. bur. Sheffield general cemetery 23 Feb. Tallis’ Drawing-room table book 1851, Part 20 portrait; M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 61–9; The Era 25 Feb. 1866 p. 11, 4 March p. 10; Illust. Sporting News 16 March 1866 pp. 129, 142; Ireland’s New York stage ii 486 (1867).

PITT, George Dean-. Lieut. Royal West India rangers as George Dean 5 Dec. 1805, captain 10 Aug. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814; took additional name of Pitt 1819; major 80 foot 19 Aug. 1819, lieut. col. 18 April 1822 to 24 March 1837; superintendent of recruiting department in London Jany. 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the troops in New Zealand Jany. 1847 to death, granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; K.H. 1836. d. New Zealand 8 Jany. or 21 Feb. 1851. G.M. Sept. 1851 p. 328.

Note.—The monthly army list July 1851 says he died 8 Jany., but according to Hart’s quarterly army list of July 1851 he died 21 Feb.

PITT, George Dean- (eld. son of preceding). b. 14 June 1823; ensign 48 foot 11 Oct. 1839; lieut. 80 foot 1844, captain 4 May 1849, placed on h.p. 30 Dec. 1864; A.D.C. to major general in New Zealand 1848–51; captain instructor at Hythe 1855–8; district inspector of musketry, Australia 1858–64; assistant military secretary, New Zealand 1864–70; D.A. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 1872–7; lieut. col. brigade depôt at Guildford 1877 to 1880; M.G. 7 June 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 30 Aug. 1882; C.B. 10 Aug. 1866; keeper of the Regalia in Tower of London 25 Aug. 1882 to death. d. Tower of London 4 April 1883.

PITT, George Dibdin. b. 1799; first appeared under R. W. Elliston at the Surrey theatre as Sir Archy M’Sarcasm 1827, and remained at the Surrey many years as a most successful actor; acting and stage manager at the Pavilion, Coburg and Surrey theatres, a severe malady obliged him to retire from the stage; wrote the following dramas The whistler or the fate of the lily of St. Leonard’s, Victoria theatre 18 Jany. 1833, Reprinted as The lily of St. Leonard’s; The last man or the miser of Eltham, Surrey theatre 20 June 1833; The Eddystone elf, Sadler’s Wells 1833; The prisoner of Rochelle, Surrey 23 Jany. 1834; Simon Lee, City of London theatre 1 April 1839; Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl, Victoria 31 May 1841; The beggar’s petition, City theatre 18 Oct. 1841; Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet street, Britannia 1842, founded on T. Prest’s story The string of pearls, which he wrote in the Penny Sunday Times 1841; The twins, Adelphi 1844; The Jersey girl, Surrey theatre; Marianne or the child of charity, Victoria theatre; Rookwood, Victoria 27 Oct. 1845; also The last nail; The lord mayor’s fool; The maid, the mill, and the ferry; The devil’s bridge; The bride of Aldgate; and The devil’s punch bowl; he wrote upwards of 700 pieces for the stage; author of The wreck of the heart or the story of Agnes Primrose 1842; The sea-fiend or the abbot of St. Mark’s 1846. d. Bethnal green, London 16 Feb. 1855. The Era 25 Feb. 1855 p. 10.

PITT-BYRNE, Julia Clara (2 dau. of Hans Busk 1772–1862). b. about 1820; m. 28 April 1842 William Pitt-Byrne, proprietor of Morning Post, d. 8 April 1861; contributed to Fraser’s Magazine, Once a week, and other periodicals; author of A glance behind the grilles of religious houses in France 1855; Flemish interiors 1856; Realities of Paris life 1859; Undercurrents overlooked 1860; Red, white, and blue 1862; Cosas de Espana 1866; The Beggynhoff 1869; Feudal castles of France 1869; Gheel the city of the simple 1869; Pictures of Hungarian life 1869; Curiosities of the search room 1880; Gossip of the century 1892. d. 16 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 29 March 1894. Men of the Time 1887 p. 188.

PITTIS, Sir Francis. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 1812; member of first Newport school board; mayor of Newport 1852, and for the eighth time 1887; presented with an address and a painting by George Cole 14 March 1880; chief promoter and subscriber to the Jubilee clock tower, Newport 1887; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; received the jubilee decoration 1887. d. Newport house, Newport 3 Nov. 1889. bur. St. Thomas’ churchyard 8 Nov. The Isle of Wight County press 9 Nov. 1889 p. 5.

PLACE, Francis (son of Simon Place, keeper of a sponging house in Vinegar yard, Drury lane, London). b. 3 Nov. 1771; apprenticed to a leather-breeches maker 1785–9; worked at his trade from 1789; joined the London Corresponding society 1794; opened a tailor’s shop with another man at 29 Charing Cross 1799; a tailor alone at 16 Charing Cross 1800 to 1833; resided at 21 Brompton sq. 1833 to 1852; member of committee of British and foreign school society to 1815; stayed some months with Jeremy Bentham and James Mill at Ford Abbey 1817; collected much of the materials for Joseph Hume’s parliamentary work 1812 etc.; issued from his shop James Mill’s Essays from the supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and many tracts by himself and others; agitated against the sinking fund 1816–23; got the laws against combinations of workmen repealed after ten years’ work 1824, and prevented their being reenacted 1825; made preparations for civil war during the crisis of May 1832, when he drew up a placard with the words ‘Go for gold and stop the Duke,’ which caused a run upon the bank of England; drafted for Wm. Lovett the Peoples’ charter 1838; wrote history of the Reform bill 1836–9, the manuscript of which is at the British Museum; author of Illustrations and proofs of the principles of population 1822; A letter to a minister of state respecting taxes on knowledge 1831, 3 ed. 1835; kept and indexed his political correspondence 1814 to death; 71 volumes of his manuscripts are in the British Museum. d. at his daughter’s house, Foxley terrace, Hammersmith 1 Jany. 1854. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 344–50 portrait; Fortnightly Review Dec. 1892 pp. 767–79; Fraser’s Mag. xiii 427 (1836) portrait.

PLACE, Louisa (dau. of Mr. Simeon). b. 16 Oct. 1797; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre as Harriet in Is he jealous 9 July 1816; played Julia in the Rivals at opening of the Haymarket theatre 4 July 1821; played at Covent Garden as Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer Nov. 1821; retired from the stage; played again at the Olympic and Adelphi theatres; acted in Born to good luck at Adelphi 22 July 1856; and in Morton’s French Lady’s maid 22 May 1858; m. (1) about 1816 William Chatterly, comedian, b. 21 March 1787, d. 20 April 1821; she m. secondly 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place, who d. before his wife; she d. 37 Brompton square, London 4 Nov. 1866. The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p. 81; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 161, 197–8, 331.

PLANCHÉ, James Robinson (son of Jacques Planché, watchmaker 1734–1816). b. Old Burlington st. Piccadilly, London 27 Feb. 1796; articled to a bookseller 1810; wrote Amoroso, king of Little Britain for Drury Lane 21 April 1818, and Rodolph the wolf Olympic Pavilion 21 Dec. 1818; The Vampire or the bride of the isles, English opera house 9 Aug. 1820, when the vampire trap was first used; wrote ten pieces for Adelphi theatre 1820–1; his opera Maid Marian was produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; present at coronation of Charles X in Paris 29 May 1825; wrote the libretto to Weber’s Oberon, Covent Garden 12 April 1826; managed the musical arrangements at Vauxhall gardens 1826–7; produced at Covent Garden Charles XIIth, a drama 11 Nov. 1828, and his version of Scribe and Auber’s opera Gustave Trois 13 Nov. 1833; managed the Adelphi theatre for S. J. Arnold 1830; author with Charles Dance of Olympic Revels, Olympic 3 Jany. 1831, and Riquet with the tuft Dec. 1836; managed the Olympic July to Dec. 1838; director of costume and reader of the plays at Covent Garden 1839; wrote plays for the Haymarket 1843–7; superintended the decorations at the Lyceum for Madame Vestris Oct. 1847, and wrote for her The pride of the market 18 Oct. 1847, The island of jewels 26 Dec. 1849, and other burlesques; his Mr. Buckstone’s Ascent of Mount Parnassus produced at Haymarket 28 March 1853, and Love and fortune, a comedy, Princess’s 24 Sept. 1859; My lord and my lady, Haymarket 12 July 1861 ran 50 nights; Orpheus in the Haymarket Dec. 1866 ran till Easter 1867; King Christmas masque at Gallery of illustration 26 Dec. 1871; F.S.A. 24 Dec. 1829, resigned 1852; a founder of British archæological association Dec. 1843; rouge croix pursuivant of arms 13 Feb. 1854, and Somerset herald 7 June 1866 to death; arranged col. Augustus Meyrick’s collection of armour for exhibition at Manchester 1857, and at South Kensington Dec. 1868; rearranged the armour at Tower of London 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 June 1871; author of The descent of the Danube from Ratisbon to Vienna 1828; The history of British costumes 1834, 3 ed. 1874; The pursuivant of arms or heraldry founded upon facts 1852, 3 ed. 1874; The conqueror and his companions, 2 vols. 1874; A cyclopædia of costumes, 2 vols. 1876–9; Extravaganzas, 5 vols. 1879, with portrait; wrote 72 original pieces, also 96 translations and adaptations. d. 10 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 30 May 1880. Planché’s Recollections and reflections, 2 vols. (1872); Biograph iii 225–38 (1880); Journal of British Archæol. Association xxxvi 261–5 (1880); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i 257–76 (1883); Illustrated Review, ii 353–55 (1870); Cartoon portraits (1873) 102–103; Illust. news of the world vii 273 (1861) portrait; The Critic xix 444 (1859) portrait; Theatre ii 95–99 (1880) portrait.

PLANK, William (son of James Plank). b. Wandsworth, Surrey 7 Nov. 1767; educ. under W. Franks at Clapham to 1781; apprenticed to his brother James Plank, a calico printer, London 28 May 1782; took up his freedom in the Salters’ Co. 20 Oct. 1789, the father of the Salters’ Co.; resided at Harrow from 1811; had a dinner party on 7 Nov. 1867, and d. Harrow 19 Nov. 1867, being 100 years and 12 days old. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man (1879) 252–5; G.M. iv 783, 833 (1867).

PLANT, James (son of Robert Fisher Plant, stationer, Leicester). b. Leicester 1818; a well known geologist; F.G.S.; an authority on questions respecting coal and water supply; a frequent attendant at meetings of the British association. d. Leicester 8 Nov. 1892.

PLANT, John (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester Oct. 1819; educ. at the national school and at the mechanics’ institution; articled to T. Paget, surgeon, Leicester; an assistant in his father’s business; hon. sec. of Leicester naturalists’ club 1844; curator of the Literary and philosophical society’s museum; discovered fossiliferous keuper sandstone near Leicester 1844; sec. and librarian of the library, Leicester 1846, where he arranged and catalogued 10,000 books; librarian and curator of the Museum and public library, Peel park, Salford Oct. 1849 to April 1892, it became one of the chief attractions in Manchester and the most popular holiday resort in Lancashire, the library containing 60,000 volumes; F.G.S. 1864; lieut. 56 Salford rifle volunteers 12 April 1873, captain 8 Jany. 1876 to April 1885; made a special study of the coal measure fishes near Manchester, and of the Cambrian fossils near Dolgelly; a selection of his fossils is in the British museum, including the olenus planti named after him; author of Guide to the general collections in the Salford museum 1860; Catalogue of the library of the Manchester geological society 1875; Descriptive catalogue of pictures in the Salford art gallery and museum 1883. d. Rhosnegir, near Holyhead 18 Jany. 1894, portrait placed on walls of Salford free library 1893. Geological magazine June 1892 pp. 286–8 portrait; The Times 10 Jany. 1894 p. 5; The Library vi 93 (1894).

PLANT, Nathaniel (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester 1832; curator of museum of Leicester philosophical and literary society 5 years; spent 16 years in Brazil mining and exploring 1851–67; F.G.S. 1867, F.R.G.S. d. London Aug. 1875.

PLANT, Thomas Livesley (son of George Halewood Plant, iron merchant). b. Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire 1819; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, near Durham; representative in Birmingham of W. H. Smith and Son, the advertising contractors 1849–81; kept systematic records of meteorology 1837 to death, furnished meteorological information to The Times and contributed to the local press; author of Meteorology: its study important for our good, Birmingham 1862. found dead in the train at New st. station, Birmingham 31 Aug. 1883. Athenæum 8 Sept. 1883 p. 310.

PLATT, James (son of Henry Platt of Dobcross, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, maker of woollen machinery, removed to Oldham 1821, d. 1842). b. 1823 or 1824; partner in Hibbert, Platt and Sons, Oldham 1845; member of Oldham town council; M.P. Oldham 31 March 1857 to death; accidentally shot by Josiah Radcliffe when shooting on the moors at Greenfield 27 Aug. 1857, d. Ashway Gap, near Oldham 27 Aug. 1857. Fortunes made in business iii 426–7 (1887).

PLATT, John T. (brother of James Platt, d. 1857). b. Dobcross 15 Sept. 1817; member of firm of Hibbert, Platt and Sons of Oldham 1837, Joseph Platt d. 1845, Mr. Hibbert d. 1846; firm employed 2,500 men, business converted into a limited liability company 1 Jany. 1868, chairman of the company to his death; sheriff of Carnarvon 1863; helped to obtain incorporation of Oldham 1849; mayor 1854, 1855, and a third time; gave large sums to the Oldham lyceum 1847–65; M.P. Oldham 13 July 1865 to death. d. Hotel Maurice, Paris 18 May 1872. bur. Oldham, statue unveiled at Oldham Sept. 1878. I.L.N. lx 537 (1872) portrait; Fortunes made in business iii 419–85 (1887) portrait.

Note.—The commercial prosperity of Oldham is mainly due to his influence as an engineer and a large employer of labour and to his untiring energy.

PLATT, Thomas (4 son of Samuel Platt, clerk of the papers of court of king’s bench). b. Blackfriars, London 14 Sept. 1800; educ. St. Paul’s school 1812–16; barrister L.I. 9 June 1826; author of A practical treatise on the law of covenants 1829; A treatise on the law of leases, 2 vols. 1847. d. Brockley lodge, Finchley, Middlesex 14 Dec. 1886.

PLATT, Sir Thomas Joshua (eld. son of Thomas Platt of Brunswick sq. London, solicitor). b. 1789; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher 1835–45; became a leader on the home circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834; baron of court of exchequer 27 Jany. 1845, retired 2 Nov. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 April 1845. d. 59 Portland place, London 10 Feb. 1862. bur. Highgate cemet. Ballantine’s Some experiences, 8 ed. (1883) 46–47; Foss’s Judges ix 244–5 (1864).

PLATT, Thomas Pell (son of Thomas Platt). b. London 1798; pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. 25 Nov. 1815, scholar 3 April 1818, minor fellow 2 Oct. 1820, major fellow 2 July 1823; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; librarian of the British and foreign bible society some years and a defender of the society in 1827 from an attack made on their publications in the Quarterly Review June 1827 pp. 1–28; an early member of Royal Asiatic society and acted as one of its oriental translation committee many years; F.S.A.; author of A catalogue of the Æthiopic biblical MSS. in the royal library of Paris and in the library of the British and foreign bible society 1823; edited Evangelia sancta in linguam Amharicam 1824; Evangelia sancta Æthiopice 1826; The Gospels in Syriac 1829; The Ethiopic Didascalia 1834; The books of the Old Testament in Amharic 1871; author of Facts respecting versions of scripture published by the Bible Society in reply to the Quarterly Review 1827, 3 ed. 1828; The literal interpretation of scripture enforced 1831. d. Dulwich hill, Surrey 31 Oct. 1852. T. H. Horne’s Introduction to critical study of the holy scriptures, 10 ed. iv 317–20, 733 (1856); G.M. Dec. 1852 p. 660.

PLAYER, John. b. Elberton, Gloucs. 1808; manager of Gwendraeth iron works 1838; introduced anthracite as a fuel for blast furnaces and steam boilers; a steamer called the Anthracite ran for some time on the Thames below London bridge 1839, which attracted much notice; built many blast furnaces; settled at Philadelphia 1868; invented ‘mineral wool’ from iron slag. d. Philadelphia 11 March 1870.

PLAYFAIR, George Ranken (son of George Playfair). Educ. at Edinburgh univ.; M.D. 1838; surgeon in navy of H.E.I.C.S. and saw service in the Phlegthan during the first China war 1840; assistant surgeon Bengal 3 Nov. 1844; civil surgeon at Jaharunpore, where he gained experience as a lithotomist; on the Agra circle, present at siege of Lucknow 1857; inspector general 29 March 1871; retired surgeon general Bengal 31 March 1872; wrote on Continued fever. d. Longridge road, South Kensington, London 4 Oct. 1881. Lancet 8 Oct. 1881 p. 651, 15 Oct. p. 689.

PLAYFAIR, Sir Hugh Lyon (3 son of James Playfair 1738–1819, principal of St. Andrew’s univ.) b. Meigle, East Perthshire 17 Nov. 1786; educ. Dundee gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ.; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 May 1805; adjutant and quartermaster of the horse artillery 15 Nov. 1809, at siege of fortress of Ralunga Nov. 1814, captain 5 Oct. 1815; granted freedom of city of St. Andrew’s 1820; superintendent of the great military road, telegraph towers and post office department between Calcutta and Benares 1820–7; major in command of the fourth battalion of artillery at Dum-Dum June 1827 to 4 July 1831, resigned the service 10 Feb. 1834; provost of St. Andrew’s 1842 to death; established a public library and revived the celebrated St. Andrew’s golf club 1834; his portrait by sir J. W. Gordon placed in the old town hall 1847; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; author of First catechism of the principles of religion 1853. d. St. Leonard’s, St. Andrew’s 21 Jany. 1861. D. Louden’s Biographical sketch of sir H. L. Playfair (1874); Memoirs of sir H. L. Playfair (1861) portrait; I.L.N. x 176 (1847) portrait, xxxviii 103 (1861).

PLAYFAIR, William Henry (son of James Playfair of London, architect). b. Russel sq. London July 1789; pupil of Wm. Starke of Glasgow, architect; architect in Edinburgh 1812 to death; laid out part of the new town 1815; rebuilt and enlarged the university buildings 1817–24; designed the Royal and Regent terraces 1829; designed the observatory 1814–18, advocates’ library 1819, royal institution 1822–36, college of surgeons 1830, St. Stephen’s church 1826–8, and the Free church college 1846–50; constructed Donaldson’s hospital in the Tudor style 1842–8; designed the monument to his uncle professor John Playfair 1820, and that to Dugald Stewart on the Calton hill 1830; designed the National gallery of Scotland in the classical style, first stone laid 30 Aug. 1850, and the unfinished national monument on the Calton Hill 1822–6; his classical buildings have gained for Edinburgh the sobriquet of the ‘Modern Athens’; built many country houses and mansions; author of Report concerning completion of the college of Edinburgh 1816; Report on laying out the new town between Edinburgh and Leith 1819. d. 17 Great Stuart street, Edinburgh 19 March 1857. Dictionary of architecture vi 134 (1881); Building News iii 359–60 (1857).

PLENDERLEATH, Charles. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49 foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney creek in America. d. Florence 1 Jany. 1854.

PLEON, Tom, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. b. 1862; appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane 1887–91. d. Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April 1892.

PLEWS, John Mackay. b. 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect 1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale. d. Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. A. Barnard’s Noted breweries iv 410–35 (1891); The Brewers’ Journal 15 June 1890 p. 385.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Edward (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869). b. 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24 Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July 1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3 April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July 1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov. 1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and other countries; director of the Great Western railway company and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters in The Times over the initials E. B. P. d. 44 Wilton crescent, London 16 Dec. 1889. Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp. 10, 11.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Philip (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828). b. Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth 1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65; sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. d. Clyffe hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872.

PLINT, Thomas. b. 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist; was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec. to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years; a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies 1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent 1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851. d. Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 471.

PLINT, Thomas Edward. b. 1823; stock and share broker Leeds, suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost £25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas, and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising £18,391. d. Leeds 11 July 1861. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 497; Art Journal Aug. 1861 p. 255, April 1862 p. 105.

PLOW, Anthony John (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94, rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863 to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs. Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he d. of his wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. Annual register (1868) 22–4.

PLOWDEN, Charles Joseph. b. 1804; head of firm of Plowden and Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. d. the Palazetto, Rome 28 Feb. 1884.

PLOWDEN, Florence. b. 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W. S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No Escape company to 1881; m. Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. d. 3 Royal terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890.

PLOWDEN, Trevor John Chichele. b. 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879; adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr. first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge; C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W. C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. d. Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887.

PLOWDEN, Walter Chichele (youngest son of Trevor Chichele Plowden of the Bengal civil service). b. 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England 1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for 1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he d. 13 March 1860. W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country (1868), memoir pp. vii–x; Foreign office list July 1860 p. 146.

PLOWDEN, William Henry Chichele (4 son of Richard Chichele Plowden, a director of the H.E.I. Co., d. Jany. 1830). b. 1790; educ. Westminster; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1805; president of British factory in China; superintendent of British trade there 1833; a director of East India company 1841–54; contested Nottingham 24 July 1837; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1847–52; contested Newport 9 July 1852; F.R.S. 15 April 1847. d. Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, Hants. 29 March 1880.

PLOWMAN, Joseph. b. Oxford 1811; reporter for the Oxford journal 1829–62; started the Oxford times 1862, which he transferred to a company 1867; university correspondent of the Morning post to death; opened the first reading room in Oxford; a singer and a speaker at public dinners. d. Oxford 9 Nov. 1867. Newspaper Press 2 Dec. 1867 p. 8.

PLUMPTRE, Charles John (eld. son of Edward Hallows Plumptre of London, solicitor 1785–1851). b. London 28 March 1818; educ. King’s college, London; barrister G.I. 5 June 1844; established with Edward Wm. Cox and others The Public reading society and gave the first penny readings for the people 1858–60; lectured on elocution, especially at the universities and theological colleges; lecturer on elocution at Oxford 1860–5; professor of elocution at King’s college, London 1866; lectured on elocution at Downing coll. Camb. 1878; professor of rhetoric in Hyde park college and at Crystal Palace school of literature and art; edited with George Harris The county courts chronicle, vols. xi and xii 1860–61; author of The principles and practice of elocution 1861, 5 ed. 18—; King’s college lectures on elocution 1870, 4 ed. 1883; The culture of voice and speech 1874; The right mode of respiration in regard to speech, song, and health 1886. d. 36 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 15 June 1887. C. J. Plumptre’s King’s college lectures on elocution (1882) portrait; Law Times 16 July 1887 p. 212; Victoria Mag. Oct. 1879 pp. 557–60 portrait.

PLUMPTRE, Edward Hayes (brother of preceding). b. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. King’s coll. London 1839–40; scholar of Univ. coll. Oxf. 1841–4; double first class 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1844–8; chaplain of King’s coll. London 1847, resigned May 1868, professor of pastoral theology 1853–63, professor of exegesis of Holy scriptures 1864–81; select preacher at Oxford 1851–3, 1864–6, and 1872–3; dean of Queen’s coll. Harley st. London 1855–75, principal of the college 1875–7, founded a scholarship in the college; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1851–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1863–81; R. of Pluckley, Kent 1869–73; V. of Bickley. Kent 1873–81; Boyle lecturer Oxford 1866–7; a member of the Old Testament revision committee 1869–74 and translator and editor of several portions of the Bible; Grinfield lecturer and examiner in school of theology at Oxford 1872–4; dean of Wells 6 Dec. 1881 to death; author of Lazarus and other poems 1864, 4 ed. 1884; Master and scholar 1866, poems; Biblical studies 1870, 3 ed. 1885; Theology and life 1884; The spirits in prison and other studies on life after death 1884; The divine commedia and canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, with biographical introduction, notes, and essays, 2 vols. 1886–7; Wells cathedral and its deans 1888; The life of Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells 1888; translated The tragedies of Sophocles 1865 and of Æschylus 1868; his name appears on upwards of 60 publications 1849–90. d. the deanery, Wells 1 Feb. 1891. bur. cathedral cemet. Church portrait journal iii 9 (1882) portrait; Good Words April 1891 pp. 233–37 portrait; I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1881 p. 536 portrait and 7 Sept. 1891 p. 167 portrait.

PLUMPTRE, Frederick Charles (3 son of Charles Plumptre of Long Newton, Durham). b. 17 Aug. 1796; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college 1817–36, tutor 1820, dean and bursar 1821, master Dec. 1836 to his death; vice-chancellor 1848–51; took an active part in university business, delegate of estates and privileges in the university. d. University college 21 Nov. 1870. bur. in college chapel 25 Nov. I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1870 p. 578; Times 22 Nov. 1870 p. 6, 26 Nov. p. 6.

PLUMRIDGE, Sir James Hanway (son of James Plumridge of London, architect). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 1787; entered navy 6 Sept. 1799; commander 7 June 1814; commanded the Sappho brig at St. Helena and on the Irish station 1818–21; captain 9 Oct. 1822; captain of the Magicienne frigate in the East Indies 1831–5; superintendent of the Falmouth packets 7 April 1837 to 1841; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1841–7; storekeeper of the ordnance 23 June 1842 to 1847; second in command on the East Indies station 1847–50; R.A. 7 Oct. 1852; commanded the flying squadron in the Baltic 7 March 1854 to Feb. 1855; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 19 Feb. 1855 to 4 Dec. 1857; member of order of St. John of Jerusalem 12 Dec. 1857; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; V.A. 28 Nov. 1857; admiral of the blue 27 April 1863. d. Hopton hall, near Lowestoft 29 Nov. 1863. G. B. Earp’s History of the Baltic campaign from documents furnished by sir C. Napier (1857) 45, 620.

PLUNKET, William Conyngham Plunket, 1 Baron (youngest son of Thomas Plunket, presbyterian minister, Enniskillen, d. Dublin; 1778). b. Enniskillen 1 July 1764; matric. in univ. of Dublin 1779; scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1781; B.A. 1784; LL.B 1787, LL.D. 1799; called to Irish bar Jany. 1787; K.C. 1797; M.P. Charlemont, co. Armagh, in Irish parliament 1798–1800; appeared for the prosecution on the trial of Robert Emmett for rebellion Sept. 1803; solicitor general for Ireland 5 Nov. 1803 to 1805; attorney general 23 Oct. 1805 to 15 May 1807, and 15 Jany. 1822 to 18 June 1827; M.P. Midhurst 26 Jany. to 29 April 1807; M.P. Trinity college, Dublin univ. 1812–27; succeeded Henry Grattan as champion of the Roman Catholic claims 1820; P.C. 10 May 1827 and 23 March 1831; chief justice of Irish court of common pleas 18 June 1827 to 23 Dec. 1830; created baron Plunket of Newton, co. Cork 1 May 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland 23 Dec. 1830 to Nov. 1834, and 30 April 1835 to 17 June 1841. d. Old Connaught, co. Wicklow 4 Jany. 1854. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. Dublin 7 Jany. D. Plunket’s Life of lord Plunket, 2 vols. (1867) portrait; W. H. Curran’s Sketches of the Irish bar i 127–53 (1855); O’Flanagan’s Lord chancellors of Ireland ii 403–621 (1870); R. L. Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish bar i 98, 119, ii 377 (1854); Dublin Univ. mag. xv 258–66 (1840) portrait; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 157–210; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 210–45; Law Review xix 225–48 (1854); Law mag. and review xix 44–9 (1865); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv 80 (1848) portrait; I.L.N. xxiv 38, 58 (1854) portrait; J. C. Hoey’s Speeches of lord Plunket (1856).

PLUNKET, Thomas Span Plunket, 2 Baron (eld. son of preceding). b. Dublin 1792; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, and at Trin. Dublin, M.A. 1822, B.D. and D.D. 1840; dean of Down 8 Oct. 1831; bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 1839 to death, consecrated at Ch. Ch. Dublin; P.C. Ireland 1846; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1851 to death; succeeded as 2 baron 5 Jany. 1854. d. Lommakeady lodge, co. Galway 19 Oct. 1866.

PLUNKET, John Span Plunket, 3 Baron (brother of preceding). b. 10 July 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1822; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 1 July 1837; leading counsel for the crown in Dublin and on the Munster circuit; assistant barrister for co. Meath; bencher of King’s Inns 1849; succeeded as 3 baron Plunket 19 Oct. 1866. d. St. Valarey, Bray, co. Dublin 16 April 1871. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery. Irish Law times v 200 (1871); I.L.N. lviii 427 (1871).

PLUNKETT, Charles Dawson (3 son of 11 baron Louth 1757–1823). b. 1813; ensign 1 foot 11 Oct. 1833, lieut. col. 26 June 1866, retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. 18 Nov. 1868; served in Crimean war 1855; knight of the legion of honour 1857. d. Killiney, co. Dublin 19 May 1886.

PLUNKETT, James. Called to Irish bar 1826, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. 47 Mountjoy square, Dublin 5 Aug. 1872.

PLUNKETT, John Hubert (younger twin son of George Plunkett of Roscommon). b. Mount Plunkett, co. Roscommon June 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1826, went Connaught circuit; solicitor general of New South Wales Oct. 1831 to 1836, attorney general 1836–56; member of legislative council 1831–56; chairman of National school board 1848–56; retired on a pension 1856; member for Argyle in legislative assembly 1856; member of legislative council 1857–8, and president Jany. 1857 to Feb. 1858; president of the board of education to Feb. 1858; minister without a portfolio of the Martin government Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865; author of The Australian magistrate, or a guide to the duties of a justice of the peace, Sydney 1840, 4 ed. 1866; The magistrate’s pocket book 1859; On the evidence of accomplices 1863. d. Burlington terrace, East Melbourne 9 May 1869. bur. Sydney 15 May. Heads of the people, Sydney, i 93 (1847) portrait; P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 374.

PLUNKETT, Patrick. Called to Irish bar 1824; bencher of King’s Inns 1851 to death; judge of court of bankrupts and insolvents 1 Nov. 1857 to death. d. Kingstown, Dublin 31 July 1859.

PLUNKETT, Randal Edward Sherborne (1 son of 16 baron Dunsany 1808–89). b. Sherborne, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1848; educ. Eton 1862–5, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1872; took honours 3 class Mods 1869 and second law and history 1871; captain Gloucestershire rifle volunteers 8 July 1874; M.P. West Gloucestershire 1874–80. d. Madeira 25 Dec. 1883.

PLUNKETT, Thomas Oliver Westenra (2 son of 12 baron Louth 1809–49). b. 1 April 1838; ensign 1 foot 5 Jany. 1855, captain 20 May 1864, sold out 27 July 1866; served at siege of Sebastopol from 29 Aug. 1855, and in campaign in China 1860; resident magistrate at Cork 1866, divisional magistrate in charge of Cork, Kerry and Limerick 1881–6; assisted sir Redvers Buller in reorganising the constabulary patrols and the methods of criminal investigation; magistrate and divisional commissioner in Cork, Limerick and part of Kerry, the Ponsonby and Kingston estates were in Kerry, had much to do with evictions of tenants and the affair at Mitchelstown 1887; quelled disturbances at Youghall, Midleton and Cork; struck on the head while opposing a Plan of campaign meeting on the Ponsonby estate. d. Cork 6 Dec. 1880. bur. Louth 9 Dec. Times 7 Dec. 1889 p. 10, 10 Dec. p. 7, 11 Dec. p. 5.

POCHIN, Henry Davis (eld. son of William Pochin of Wigston, Leicester). b. 1824; studied chemistry at Pharmaceutical society’s laboratory London; head of firm of H. D. Pochin and Co. Salford; mayor of Salford 1866–8; contested Stafford 11 July 1865; M.P. Stafford 10 Nov. 1868 to March 1869, when unseated on petition; contested Stafford 3 Feb. 1874; contested Monmouth 6 Feb. 1874; member of Stafford school board March 1871; his process of decomposing silicate of alumina produced aluminous cake used by paper makers; discovered a method of distilling resin with steam at a high temperature, used for making yellow and fancy soaps; purchased coal, iron and steel industries, which he converted into limited liability companies; held large shares in Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., John Brown and Co., the Armour-plate makers of Sheffield, the Tredegar iron and coal Co., Palmer’s Shipbuilding and iron Co., and the Staveley iron and coal Co.; with sir Edward Watkin redeemed Metropolitan railway Co. from insolvency; a director of Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway Co.; m. 1852 Agnes, dau. of George Gretton Heap, she wrote The right of women to exercise the elective franchise 1855, 2 ed. 1873. d. Bodnant hall, Conway, Denbighshire 28 Oct. 1895. Times 2 Nov. 1895 p. 6.

POCKLINGTON, Evelyn Henry Frederick (3 son of Roger Pocklington of Carlton house, Notts. 1775–1847). b. 18 Jany. 1811; ensign 52 foot 10 Feb. 1829, captain 24 May 1839, placed on h.p. 13 July 1847; assistant Q.M.G. at headquarters 21 Sept. 1860 to 1 Jany. 1865; member of council of military education 1 Jany. 1865 to 1870; director general 1874 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 28 Rutland gate, London 10 Aug. 1879.

POCOCK, Alfred. b. 1821 or 1822; vice-president of liberal registration Southwark, assisted in formation of Southwark liberal association 1877, treasurer 1877, president 1878–88; first president of West Southwark liberal and radical association; a member of the St. George the martyr vestry 1861 to death; member of Metropolitan board of works for St. George the martyr, Southwark 1875 to death; claimed to be the inventor of the fire plug system and helped to secure the adoption of portable fire stations. d. Chairsholme, Palace road, Streatham 13 May 1887.

POCOCK, Frederick Pearce (youngest son of rev. George Pocock). b. 1819; educ. King’s coll. London, associate 1837; at St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of All Saints, Mile end, London 1842–4; chaplain of city of London union 1844–60; C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Great Portland st. London 1865–72; C. of St. Paul’s, Haggerston 1874–7; C. of Bartholomew the Great, London 1877–81; edited Bishop Burnet’s Pastoral care 1839; Dr. T. Bisse’s The Beauty of holiness in the common prayer 1842; John Bowdler’s Theological essays 1844. d. The Limes, St. Mark’s road, North Kensington 6 April 1889.

POCOCK, Sir George Bartholomew (son of Thomas Pocock, of Langley, Berks.) b. 1779; standard bearer to Band of gentleman pensioners 5 Sept. 1820 to May 1836; knighted at Whitehall 27 July 1821. d. 1 York st. Portman sq. London 11 Aug 1868. I.L.N. liii 187 (1868).

POCOCK, Isaac John Innes (only son of Isaac Pocock, painter and dramatist, of Ray lodge, Maidenhead 1782–1835) b. 28 July 1819; educ. Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; J.P. for Berks.; printed privately Franklin and other poems 1872. d. Curtisfield, Maidenhead 28 May 1886.

POCOCK, Lewis (youngest son of Thomas Pocock). b. South London 17 Jany. 1808; chief founder of Art union of London 1837, one of the honorary secretaries 1837 to death; contributed a bibliographical chapter to an edition of the Pilgrim’s progress, edited by himself and George Godwin 1844; a director of the Argus life assurance office many years; patented a scheme for electric lighting 1852; collected Johnsoniana, which were sold before his death; treasurer of the Graphic soc. some time; author of A familiar explanation of the nature of assurances upon lives, with an extensive bibliographical catalogue of works on the subject 1842. d. 70 Gower st. London 17 Oct. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. Graphic 23 Dec. 1882 p. 693 portrait.

PODMORE, Richard. b. 1780; entered Madras army 1793; lieut. 10 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, lieut. col. 1816–20; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 1820; lieut. col. commandant 44 N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1869; general 20 June 1854. d. Osborne house, Cheltenham 24 July 1870.

POGGI, Dominic Joseph. b. Tuscany 1811; ordained deacon in Church of England 1833; priest 1834; D.D. univ. of Florence 1838; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852; principal of Seacombe house school, near Liverpool 1852–3; principal of New Brighton college, Cheshire 1853–64; head master of Audlem endowed gr. sch. Cheshire 1870 to death; author of The various branches of the Catholic church 1868; Roman catechism, accompanied by a Catholic reply 1868; Reflections on the religious state of Italy 1868; The Roman council judged by the English bishops 1870; On the abrogation of concordats 1872; The old Catholics and the Anglican bishops 1872. d. Audlem 15 Oct. 1880.

POGSON, Norman Robert (son of George Owen Pogson of Nottingham, hosiery manufacturer). b. Nottingham 23 March 1829; calculated the orbits of two comets 1847; an assistant at the South Villa observatory, London 1851–2; assistant at Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 1852, where he discovered four minor planets, Amphitrite 2 March 1854, Isis 23 May 1856, Ariadne 15 April 1857, and Hestra 16 Aug. 1857; awarded Lalande medal of French academy for the discovery of Isis; assisted sir George Airy in his experiments for determining the mean density of the earth at the Horton colliery, Shields 1854; director of John Lee’s observatory at Hartwell 1859–60; government astronomer at Madras Oct. 1860 to death; discovered Asia and 4 other minor planets 1861–8, and 8 variable stars 1862–77; prepared a catalogue of stars for which 51,101 observations were made 1862–87; observed the total eclipse of the sun on 18 Aug. 1868 at Masulipatam and was the first to observe the bright line spectrum of the cornea; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Report of the government astronomers on the total eclipse of the sun, Madras 1868; Result of observations of the fixed stars made at Madras observatory, 2 vols. 1887–8. d. Madras 23 June 1891. Monthly notices Royal Astronomical soc. lii 235–8 (1892); Nature 2 July 1891 pp. 205–6.

POGSON, Wredenhall Queiros. b. 9 Dec. 1816; ensign Bengal army 1836; ensign 43 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, major 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 6 March 1868, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 23 Aug. 1884, general 22 Oct. 1889; served in Spain in the Anglo-Spanish legion 1836; served in the first Afghan war 1840–2, the Sutlej campaign 1846, and the Bhootan expedition 1864–6. d. St. Margaret’s place, Brighton 9 Sept. 1891.

POITEVIN, Monsieur. Went up sitting on a pony attached to a balloon; his wife posing as Europa went up on the back of a bull Aug. 1852; went up from Cremorne gardens in a balloon with 21 persons 20 Sept. 1852, the balloon came down and was blown along the ground for two miles, much hurting many of the passengers; ascended on a horse near Paris 1852; nearly drowned in the sea near Malaga while descending from his balloon 1858. d. 1858. Annual Register 1852 pp. 128, 147.

POLACK, Joel Samuel. b. London 28 March 1807; emigrated to New Zealand 1831; a ship chandler in the Bay of Islands 1832, purchased about 1,100 acres of land; returned to London May 1837; gave evidence before select committee of house of lords on New Zealand 1838; a member of the Colonial society of London 1838; lived latterly at San Francisco; author of New Zealand, a narrative of travels and adventures, 2 vols. 1838; Manners and customs of the New Zealanders, 2 vols. 1840. d. San Francisco 17 April 1882.

POLAND, Alfred (2 son of succeeding). b. London Aug. 1822; educ. at Highgate gram. sch.; at Guy’s hospital; articled pupil of Aston Key, paying £500; M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1845, assist. surgeon 1849, surgeon 1861, a most expert operator; gained Fothergill prize of Med. soc. of London 1853 and Jacksonian prize 1857; surgeon ophthalmic hospital, Moorfields, London; in practice at 42 Finsbury circus, London; F.M. and C. Soc. 1850; with G. H. Barlow edited Guy’s hospital reports sometime; contributed to T. Holmes’ System of surgery 1860 the articles Tetanus i 299–322, Animal poisons i 618–49, Injuries of the chest ii 340–87, and Urinary calculi and lithotomy iv 424–77. d. 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 21 Aug. 1872. Medical times and gazette ii 338–9 (1872); Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc. vii 135–6 (1875); Lancet 31 Aug. 1872 p. 318.

POLAND, Sir William Henry (son of Peter Raymond Poland of Highgate, Middlesex). b. 7 March 1797; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831, and as such knighted at St. James’s palace 9 March 1831. d. 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 17 Jany. 1884.

POLDING, John Bede. b. Liverpool 18 Nov. 1794; educ. St. Gregory’s coll. Downside, near Bath, and at Acton Burnell 1805–10; joined the Benedictine order 16 July 1810, ordained a priest 4 March 1819; tutor at St. Gregory’s college, March 1819; declined bishopric of Madras 1833; bishop of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land 2 May 1834, being consecrated bishop of Hiero-Cæserea 29 June 1834; arrived in Sydney 13 Sept. 1835, inaugurated 20 Sept.; employed on a special mission to Malta, made a count of the holy Roman empire and a bishop-assistant to the papal throne 20 July 1842; archbishop of Sydney 20 July 1842 to death; visited Europe 1841, 1846–8, 1854–6, and 1865–6; consecrated Dr. Murphy, bishop of Adelaide, the first bishop consecrated in Australia 8 Sept. 1844. d. the Sacred heart presbytery, Darlinghurst, Sydney 16 March 1877, twenty thousand people attended his funeral. Australian portrait gallery (1885) 79–84 portrait.

POLE, Arthur Cunliffe Van Notten (5 son of Charles Van Notten Pole 1772–1864, resumed name of Van Notten by R.L. 19 July 1853). b. 3 July 1806; ensign 63 foot 7 Nov. 1826, lieut. colonel 2 Sept. 1844 to 23 Dec. 1853; inspecting field officer of recruiting districts 23 Dec. 1853 to 13 Dec. 1859; colonel 63 foot 27 March 1868 to death; L.G. 9 April 1868. d. 66 Oxford terrace, Edgware road, London 21 Aug. 1873.

POLE, Edward (4 son of sir Peter Pole, 2 baronet 1770–1850). b. 26 Aug. 1805; cornet 12 lancers 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 30 March 1847, placed on h.p. 5 March 1861; colonel 5 lancers 22 Nov. 1868 to 1 Jany. 1872; colonel 12 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; commanded the cavalry and artillery in general Somerset’s expedition over the Kei 1851, and the 12 lancers in Kaffir war 1851–3; served in the Crimea from 9 May 1855. d. Poyle park, Tongham, Surrey 3 Feb. 1879.

POLE, Edward Sacheverell Chandos (1 son of Sacheverell Pole 1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807). b. 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college; ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The Squire. d. Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx 167 (1864); G.M. March 1863 p. 387.

POLE, William (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). b. 6 July 1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll. Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams 1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist 1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist 1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London 1866 to death. d. 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884. W. P. Courtney’s English whist (1894) 224, 398.

POLE-CAREW, William Henry (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P., d. 1835). b. St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854; recorder of East Looe 1857–86. d. Villa Poralto, Cannes 20 Jany. 1888.

POLEHAMPTON, Henry Stedman (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector of Great Greenford, Middlesex). b. Great Greenford rectory 1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb. coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to 30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849; an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the siege 8 July 1857. d. Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. bur. in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch. Shrewsbury. A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton, 3 ed. (1859).

POLES, Stefan. b. Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria; took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau, Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S. Poles v. The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum, a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63 High Holborn 1875. d. Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov. 1875. Times 26 Nov. 1875 p. 7.

Note.—The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Russian spy, son to the chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was censor of the press there previous to the last uprising.

His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Russell st. in front of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet.

POLHILL-TURNER, Frederick Charles (son of Frederick Polhill 1798–1848, capt. king’s dragoon guards). b. Howbury hall, Bedford 14 March 1826; educ. Dr. Burney’s sch. Gosport; cornet 6 dragoon guards 2 Aug. 1844, captain 24 Nov. 1848, sold out 10 Feb. 1852; took additional name of Turner by R.L. Feb. 1853; sheriff of Beds. 1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first mounted volunteers 1860; M.P. Bedford 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Bedford 29 April 1859, 28 June 1859, 18 Nov. 1868, and 1 April 1880. d. Newcastle, co. Down 18 Aug. 1881.

POLLARD, John (son of John Pollard, d. 1810). b. Kingsand, Cornwall 27 July 1787; entered navy 1 Nov. 1797; signal midshipman on board the Victory at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, helped to arrange the signal England expects every man will do his duty; shot the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson; congratulated by sir Thomas Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14 Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast guard, Stranraer district 2 Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at Greenwich hospital 12 Jany. 1853 to death. d. Greenwich hospital 22 April 1868. G.M. May 1868 p. 786; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1878) 504.

POLLARD, Joshua. b. Leeds 1815; in a mercantile house; removed to Bradford where he was in business from 1837; the second person who signed the pledge in Leeds; representative of Leeds temperance soc. to conference of British temperance association at Preston 1836; president of Bradford temperance soc. some years; high chief ruler of Independent order of Rechabites; member of Bradford town council 1852–66, alderman to 1868; member of Bradford school board; removed to Nottingham 1877. d. Ossington villas Nottingham 9 Dec. 1886. bur. Scholemoor cemetery 13 Dec. Bradford Observer 11 Dec. 1886 p. 7.

POLLARD, William (9 child of James Pollard). b. Horsham, Sussex 10 June 1828; educ. Friends’ school, Croydon; a teacher at Ackworth school, Yorkshire 1853–66; employed by Francis Frith, photographer at Reigate 1866–72; secretary and lecturer to Manchester peace and arbitration society, living at Sale, Cheshire 1872–91; co-editor with W. E. Turner of the British Friend, monthly periodical 1891; a minister among the Friends from 1865; author of The Ackworth reading book 1865, 2 ed. 1872; The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history of that noble family 1868; Choice readings in English literature 1873; Old-fashioned quakerism: its origin, results, and future, four lectures 1887; contributed Primitive christianity revived and Congregational worship to the Old Banner series of Quaker tracts 1864–6; author with Francis Frith and W. E. Turner of A reasonable faith. By Three Friends 1884 and 1886. d. Manchester 26 Sept. 1893. bur. Friends’ burial ground, Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester. Annual Monitor (1894) 126–39.

POLLARD-URQUHART, William (eld. child of Wm. Dalton Pollard of Kintuck, Castle-Pollard, co. Westmeath 1789–1839). b. Kintuck 19 June 1815; educ. Harrow 1829 and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 18th wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838. M.A. 1843; student at Inner Temple; sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of Urquhart by R.L. 1846; M.P. Westmeath 1852–7 and 1859 to death; author of Agricultural distress and its remedies, Aberdeen 1850; Essays on subjects of political economy 1850; The substitution of direct for indirect taxation necessary to carry out the policy of free trade 1851; Life and times of Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, 2 vols. 1852; A short account of the Prussian land credit companies, Dublin 1853; Dialogues on taxation, local and imperial 1867. d. 19 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 1 June 1871.

POLLEN, Sir John Walter, 2 Baronet (son of sir John Pollen, 1 baronet, d. 1814). b. Redenham house, near Andover 6 April 1784; succeeded 17 Aug. 1814; M.P. Andover 1820–31 and 1835–41; contested Andover 29 June 1841; colonel of South Hants. militia 25 June 1827 to 1854. d. Grosvenor hotel, 30 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 2 May 1863. G.M. xiv 791 (1863).

POLLOCK, Alfred Atkinson (youngest son of sir David Pollock 1780–1847, chief justice of Bombay). b. 16 Feb. 1826; admitted at Westminster school 26 Jany. 1835; solicitor at 31 New Broad st. 1853–5; partner with Wm. Parke at 63 Lincoln’s inn fields 1855–64; practised alone 1864–72; partner with Arthur Pollock 1872 to death; composer of the songs O let the solid ground 1861; Remembrance 1861; O swallow, swallow, flying south 1880, the words by A. Tennyson; resided Heathfield, Hilford road, Hampstead. drowned while bathing at Totland bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1873, personalty sworn under £400,000, 10 Sept. 1873. Law Times 23 Aug. 1873 p. 317; Times 19 Sept. 1873 p. 5.

POLLOCK, Sir George, 1 Baronet (youngest son of David Pollock of Charing Cross, London, saddler to George III). b. London 4 June 1786; educ. R.M.A. Woolwich 1801–3; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Dec. 1803, brigade major 1815–20; assistant adjutant general of artillery 1820–4; colonel commandant 3 March 1835 to death; commanded Bengal artillery in Burmese war 1824; commander of the armies west of the Indus Jany. 1842. forced the Kyber pass 5 April 1842, relieved sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad 16 April, defeated the Afghans at Mamookail Aug., at Jugdulluk 8 Sept., and again on 13 Sept., entered Cabul 16 Sept., released the prisoners 21 Sept., brought his army back in safety to India; commanded the Danapur division 1842; the thanks of both houses of parliament were voted to him 1843; acting resident at Lucknow Dec. 1843 to 1844; military member of supreme council of India 20 Sept. 1844 to 1845; granted a pension of £1,000 by the H.E.I. Co. 1846; voted freedom of city of London 6 April 1846, admitted 17 Dec. 1847; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel of 1st Surrey rifles (Camberwell) 6 July 1861 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; a director of the East India company 12 April 1854 to April 1856; general 17 May 1859, field marshal 24 May 1870; constable of the Tower of London and lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets 14 Nov. 1871 to death; created baronet 26 March 1872. d. Walmer 6 Oct. 1872. bur. Westminster abbey 16 Oct., portrait by sir Francis Grant in the India office, and marble bust by Joseph Durham in National portrait gallery. C. R. Lowe’s Life of sir G. Pollock (1873) portrait; J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan (1843) 201 et seq.; A. Forbes’s The Afghan wars (1892) 30 &c. portrait; I.L.N. i 356 (1842) portrait, lix 441, 442 (1871) portrait; Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 349–52.

POLLOCK, James Samuel (son of Samuel Pollock, captain 43 foot). b. Strathallan, Isle of Man 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; C. of Bowdon, Cheshire 1861; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham 1861–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Hammersmith 1864–5; C. of St. Alban’s, Birmingham 1865–71, and P.C. of St. Alban’s 1871 to death; author of One hundred reasons against auricular confession 1867; Resting-places, a manual of christian doctrine 1870, 3 ed. 1877; Out of the body, a scriptural inquiry 1875; The measure of faith 1877; author with Thomas Benson Pollock of Gospel words 1876. d. St. Alban’s clergy house, Birmingham 22 Dec. 1895.

POLLOCK, Jessie (dau. of Mr. Fraser, actor). b. 1802; connected with the theatre royal, Marischal st. Aberdeen from 1817 to her death; m. (1) about 1830 Corbet Ryder, theatrical manager, Aberdeen, d. 1843; m. (2) about 1847 Mr. Pollock, actor, d. 1853; actress, lessee, and manager of the theatre, Aberdeen to 1862, on her final retirement from the stage presented with her portrait, as Lady Macbeth, painted by Innes 1874, the portrait is now in Her majesty’s opera house, Aberdeen; she was good in Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Emelia, Julia, Pauline, Lady Teazle, and Mrs. Simpson. d. Dalkeith 1 July 1875. bur. St. Peter’s cemetery, Aberdeen 5 July. J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house (1878) 26–8; Era 11 July 1875 p. 9; Aberdeen Journal 7 July 1875 p. 6.

POLLOCK, Sir Jonathan Frederick, 1 Baronet (brother of sir George Pollock 1786–1872). b. Piccadilly, London 23 Sept. 1783; educ. St. Paul’s school 1800, Perry exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1803, scholar 1804, fellow 1807, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1807, went northern circuit, became leader; K.C. 13 June 1827; bencher of I.T. 1827–44, reader 1836–7, treasurer 1837; commissary of univ. of Camb. 1824–35; F.R.S. 1816, F.G.S. 1818; attorney general for county palatine of Lancaster 1834–5; M.P. Huntingdon 2 May 1831 to April 1844; a comr. for inquiry into practice of courts of law 1831; attorney general 17 Dec. 1834 to 9 April 1835, and 6 Sept. 1841 to 15 April 1844; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 29 Dec. 1834; sergeant-at-law 15 April 1844; lord chief baron of court of court of exchequer 15 April 1844, retired 12 July 1866; P.C. 17 April 1844; created baronet 24 July 1866. d. at his seat Hatton, Middlesex 23 Aug. 1870. bur. Hanwell cemet. 29 Aug. Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet, 2 vols. (1887); E. Manson’s Builders of our law (1895) 76–81; Law mag. and law review xxx 200–16 (1871); Portraits of eminent conservatives (1 series 1836) portrait xxx; I.L.N. i 304 (1842) portrait, xlix 424 (1866) portrait, lvii 283 (1870); Law Journal v 479–81 (1870).

POLLOCK, Joseph (eld. son of Edward Pollock of co. Down, Ireland, barrister). b. co. Down, Ireland 1818; educ. Armagh college and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June 1842, went northern circuit; practised in Manchester; judge of Salford court of record to Nov. 1851; judge of county court of Liverpool Nov. 1851, retired on pension of £1,000, Oct. 1857. d. 2 Dorset st. Manchester sq. London 26 May 1858. Law Times 5 June 1858 p. 146.

POLLOCK, William (brother of the preceding). b. 22 Sept. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1868; V. of St. Thomas, Stockport to 1840; C. of Ch. Ch. Macclesfield 1841; V. of St. Helens, Lancs. 1841–6; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Liverpool 1846–56; V. of Bowden, near Altrincham 1856 to death; archdeacon of Chester and hon. canon of Chester cathedral 1867, resigned 1870; author of Foundations, being a series of essays on fundamental truths 1856; Fourteen reasons for responding and singing in church 1866; The temptation of our blessed Lord, and other poems 1873. d. Devonshire place, Claughton, Birkenhead 11 Oct. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 399 (1873).

POLLOCK, Sir William Frederick, 2 Baronet (son of sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1 baronet 1783–1870). b. 23 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 3 April 1815; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1825–33, and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1835; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838; revising barrister northern circuit 1840; master in court of exchequer Aug. 1846; queen’s remembrancer 18 Dec. 1874; resigned Sept. 1886; president of Equitable assurance society; member of Royal toxophilite soc. 15 July 1858, which he assisted financially and gave to it prizes for competition; succeeded as 2 baronet 23 Aug. 1870; author of The divine comedy, or the inferno, purgatory and paradise of Dante rendered into English 1854; Personal remembrances 1887; edited Reminiscences of W. C. Macready, 2 vols. 1876; m. 1844 Juliet, dau. of rev. Henry Creed, vicar of Corse, Gloucs., she was a well known toxophilite. d. 59 Montagu sq. London 24 Dec. 1888. Follett’s Archer’s register (1889) 67–9; Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet, 2 vols. (1887).

POLLOK, Arthur (son of Thomas Pollok). b. Faside 1781; with his brother John entered grocery business of Allan Pollok, Glasgow; they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804, the firm being Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed the branch at Grangemouth, then the branch houses at St. John and Miramichi 1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and acquired forests and saw mills; the largest ship owners in the United Kingdom; retired from business 1853; John Pollock b. Faside 1778, d. 1858; he d. Broom, Faside 1870. J. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 263–4 (1886) portrait.

POLLOK, Robert. b. Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in Ayrshire; entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united secession presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven, Fifeshire 1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death; author of Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8. d. 1879. Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 266–71 (1849).

POLTIMORE, George Warwick Bampfylde, 1 Baron Poltimore (only child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823). b. 23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823; created baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord in waiting to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841; colonel of North Devon militia. d. Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858.

POLWARTH, Henry Francis Hepburne-Scott, 7 Baron (eld. son of 5 baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname of Hepburne). b. Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire 1826–32; succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for Scotland June or July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June 1859, and July 1866 to his death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle volunteers 9 Nov. 1861 to death. d. Merton house, co. Berwick 16 Aug. 1867. G.M. iv 533 (1867).

POLWHELE, Thomas (5 son of rev. Richard Polwhele, author 1760–1838). b. Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal army 1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850 to 1851; lieut. col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7, and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4 May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March 1856 to 1857; general 13 Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816, in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah 1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan 1839–42, in the Sutlej campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R. G. Polwhele at Polwhele, near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. d. Tivoli lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885. J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan (1843) 141 et seq.; G. C. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 746.

POND, Charles Alexander Maclean (eld. son of B. C. Pond of 102 Brixton Hill, Surrey). b. 1864; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890; Prendergast Greek student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics at Auckland, New Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. d. Auckland 28 Oct. 1893.

POND, Christopher. b. England 1826; with Felix Spiers proprietors of the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia; connected with bringing the first English team of cricketers to Australia 23 Dec. 1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion restaurant and theatre 218–223 Piccadilly, London 1873, at cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened 21 March 1874; wine and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels and refreshment rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and Metropolitan railways, also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343 Strand, and of the Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne hill, Surrey. d. Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. bur. Norwood 5 Aug., will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty £215,000, bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand staircase of the Criterion Oct. 1886. Morning Advertiser 1 Aug. 1881 p. 4, 6 Aug. p. 2.

POND, Richard Radcliffe. b. 1824; advertising agent at 17 Upper Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at 1 Exeter Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers; connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. d. 1 Albert villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. G. L. M. Strauss, Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii 113–24 (1882).

PONIATOWSKI, Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann (son of Stanislas Poniatowski 1754–1833). b. Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a musician, tenor singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in Tuscany 1848; minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris 1848–70; naturalised in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to death; his opera Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872; among his compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song 1871; The flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico in tre atti 1872; The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen, song 1875; Mass in F for four voices and chorus 1876. d. at his residence, London 3 July 1873. bur. Chislehurst 8 July. Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii 1391 (1874).

PONSFORD, John. b. Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome; painted portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter of his day in Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 5 at Suffolk st. 1823–57. d. London 1870. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 106.

PONSONBY, John Ponsonby, 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). b. 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P. Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as 2 baron Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres 28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special mission to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8 June to 9 Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832 to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850; G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co. Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. d. Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. Lamington’s Days of the dandies (1890) 75–9; Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii 369–70 (1868); Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord Ponsonby at Brussels 1831.

PONSONBY, Emily Charlotte Mary (3 dau. of 4 earl of Bessborough 1781–1847). b. Margaret st. London 17 Feb. 1817; author of the following novels, most of them originally published anonymously, The discipline of life, 3 vols. 1848. 2 ed. 1848; Pride and irresolution, 3 vols. 1850, a new series of the former book; Clare abbey, or the trials of youth, 2 vols. 1851; Mary Gray and other tales and verses 1852; Edward Willoughby, a tale, 2 vols. 1854; The young lord, 2 vols. 1856; Sunday readings 1857; The two brothers, 3 vols. 1858; A mother’s trial 1859; Katherine and her sisters 1861, 2 ed. 1863; Mary Lyndsay, 3 vols. 1863; Violet Osborne, 3 vols. 1865; Sir Owen Fairfax, 3 vols. 1866; A story of two cousins 1868; Nora, 3 vols. 1870; Oliver Beaumont and lord Latimer, 3 vols. 1873. d. 3 Feb. 1877. D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland, part iii, p. 206 (1892).

PONSONBY, Frederick John (3 son of sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby 1783–1837). b. 21 March 1837; educ. Harrow 1850–5, and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; champion tennis player at Oxford; C. of St. Giles, Reading 1862–7; chaplain of Hampton court palace 1867–8; R. of Brington, Northants 1868–77; V. of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1877 to death; rural dean of St. Pancras 1877; a member of the English church union; took a great interest in devotional retreats. d. 3 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 3 Feb. 1894. Church portrait journal v 41 (1884) portrait; I.L.N. 10 Feb. 1894 p. 163 portrait; Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1894 p. 4 portrait.

PONSONBY, Sir Henry Frederick (eld. son of sir Frederic Cavendish Ponsonby, major general 1783–1837). b. Corfu 10 Dec. 1825; ensign 49 foot 27 Dec. 1842; lieut. grenadier guards 16 Feb. 1844, major 27 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 April 1870; A.D.C. to lords Clarendon and St. Germans, lord lieutenants of Ireland 1847–58; served in Crimean war 1855–6; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1880; equerry to prince Albert 1856–61; private secretary and extra equerry to the queen 8 April 1870 to May 1895, and keeper of the privy purse 8 Oct. 1878 to May 1895; C.B. 26 Aug. 1872, K.C.B. 12 March 1879, G.C.B. 21 June 1887; P.C. 20 April 1880; a hard worker and a faithful servant in the service of the queen. d. East Cowes, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1895. bur. Whippingham. St. James’s Budget 29 Nov. 1895 p. 5 portrait; Strand mag. Dec. 1892 p. 588, 5 portraits; Times 22 Nov. 1895 p. 7; Graphic 30 Nov. 1895 p. 672 portrait; I.L.N. 30 Nov. 1895 p. 671 portrait.

PONSONBY, Richard (3 son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). b. Dublin 1772; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 3 July 1817, installed 8 July; bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1828; translated to Derry patent dated 21 Sept. 1831, enthroned 2 Oct., the bishopric of Raphoe was united to Derry in pursuance of the Church temporalities act Sept. 1834; president of Church education society; author of A sermon 1834. d. the Palace, Derry 27 Oct. 1853. G.M. xl 630 (1853).

PONTON, Mungo (only son of John Ponton, farmer). b. Balgreen, near Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1802; admitted writer to the signet 8 Dec. 1825; a founder of National bank of Scotland 21 March 1825, secretary 1825–46; communicated to the Society of arts for Scotland 29 May 1839 a simple method of preparing paper for photographic drawing in which the use of any salt of silver is dispensed with, in this paper he announced the discovery that the action of sunlight renders bichromate of potassium insoluble, a discovery which forms the basis of nearly all the photo-mechanical processes now in use; F.R.S. Edinb. 1834; author of The sanctuary, its lessons and worship 1849; The material universe, its vastness and durability 1863; Earthquakes and volcanoes 1868, 2 ed. 1888; The beginning, its when and its how 1871; Glimpses of the future life 1873; Songs of the soul 1877; The freedom of the truth 1878. d. Clifton 3 Aug. 1880. H. B. Pritchard’s Year book of photography for 1882, portrait; Photographic News 20 Aug. 1880 pp. 402–3.

PONTON, Thomas (son of Thomas Ponton of Battersea, Surrey). b. 1781; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., created M.A. 28 March 1800; barrister L.I. 26 April 1804; a governor of Christ’s hospital; one of the founders of the Roxburghe club 1812, and edited for it La Morte d’ Arthur 1819. d. 4 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 13 April 1853. G.M. xli 92 (1854).

POOK, Edmund Walter (son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook of 2 London st. Greenwich, bookseller and stationer). b. 1850; a singer; tried at central criminal court 13 July 1871 for murder of Jane Maria Clousen, a servant to his father, who was found nearly dead in Kidbrook lane, near Eltham, Kent 26 April and d. in Guy’s hospital 30 April 1871, aged 17; he d. Salisbury st. London 23 April 1882. A.R. (1871) 229–34; Central criminal court session paper, minutes of evidence lxxiv 245–309 (1871); The Eltham tragedy reviewed by C. [i.e. Newton Crosland] 1871, 4 ed. 1871; A report of the speeches at the Blackheath meeting on the Pook v. Farrah libel case 1871.

POOLE, Annie. A singer at concerts in Bristol; appeared at theatre royal, Bristol as Jessy in the Crimson scarf Sept. 1876; played Patience in Sullivan’s Henry VIII at Manchester and Liverpool; was seen as Cinderella at Glasgow; played Madame Vere de Vere in Tantalus at Folly theatre 14 Oct. 1878; played Jelly in W. S. Gilbert’s Princess Toto at Opera Comique 15 Oct. 1881; was seen in many provincial pantomimes at Bristol, etc.; m. Russell Craufurd, actor. d. St. Saviour’s hospital, Osnaburgh st. Regent’s park, London 15 Jany. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Illust. sp. and dr. news xii 121, 151 (1879) portrait.

POOLE, Arthur William (son of Thomas Francis Poole). b. Shrewsbury 6 Aug. 1852; educ. Shrewsbury school and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, D.D. 1883; C. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1876; master of the high school at Masulipatam, Madras 1878–81; a missionary at Telugu in South India 1881–3; missionary bishop of Japan May 1883 to 1885, consecrated in the chapel, Lambeth palace 18 Oct. 1883; spent winter of 1884–5 in California. d. at his father’s residence, Fairfield, Shrewsbury 14 July 1885. Times 20 July 1885 p. 6.

POOLE, Edward Stanley (elder son of rev. Edward Richard Poole, barrister and book collector, and of Sophia Poole 1804–91). b. 1830; chief clerk of the science and art department, London 1857 to death; an Arabic scholar; wrote many articles for W. Smith’s Dictionary of the bible, 4 vols. 1868; contributed to 8th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; edited Edward Wm. Lane’s Thousand and one nights, new ed. 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1883, and his Account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1860, 2 ed. 1871. d. St. Nicholas road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 12 March 1867.

POOLE, Ellen. b. 1846; known on the music hall stage as Nellie Desmond; m. John Joshua Poole, and helped in the management of the South London music hall, London road, Surrey from 1872, carried it on alone from 1882; Harry Ulph, junior was a partner with her for a short time in 1882; aided by her eldest son Jules Joshua Poole later on (he d. Cape Town 21 Dec. 1895 aged 22), sold the hall to a company 1893, remaining the manager; she became bankrupt 12 June 1895; her daughters Violet and Evelyn are on the music hall stage. d. London 1 Nov. 1895. bur. Abney park cemetery.

POOLE, George Ayliffe. b. 1809; scholar of Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1838; C. of Twickenham 1831–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Edinburgh 1834–7; C. of St. Chad, Shrewsbury 1837–9; P.C. of St. James’s, Leeds 1839–43; V. of Welford, Northamptonshire 1843–76; R. of Winwick near Rugby June 1876 to death; rural dean of Haddon 1876; promoted the revival of Gothic architecture; contributed 35 papers to Architectural soc. of archdeaconry of Northampton 1846–77; author of The exile’s return, or a cat’s journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1837; The testimony of St. Cyprian against Rome 1838; The life and times of St. Cyprian, Oxford 1840; The appropriate character of church architecture, Leeds 1842, reissued as Churches, their structure, arrangement, and decoration 1845; A history of England from the invasion by the Romans to the accession of queen Victoria, 2 vols. 1844–5, 2 ed. 1855; A history of ecclesiastical architecture in England 1848; Peterborough 1881 in Diocesan histories; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works 1834–83. d. Winwick rectory 25 Sept. 1883. Northamptonshire Notes and queries i 15–17, 73 (1886); Academy xxiv 229 (1883).

POOLE, Henry. b. 1785; a Sunday school teacher under rev. J. J. Biddulph at Bristol; C. of Ossett, near Wakefield 1811; in part charge of Corsham, Wilts. 1814; P.C. of chapelries of Coleford and Bream in Newland parish Aug. 1818; rebuilt Coleford chapel and Bream chapel and erected a church at Park End; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Dean, Gloucs. 1822 to death; devoted himself to the welfare of the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean. d. Park End, near Lydney, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1857. H. G. Nicholl’s Personalities of the forest of Dean (1863) 152–60.

POOLE, Henry George (son of James Poole of 171 Regent st. London, tailor, d. 1847). b. Everett st. Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1814; entered his father’s business about 1830; tailor 32 Savile row, London 1847 to death; firm became H. Poole and co. 36–39 Savile row; tailor by appointment to most of the crowned heads of Europe; regularly made clothes for Napoleon iii; the best known tailoring establishment in the world; employed 7 coat cutters, 4 trousers and vest cutters, 2 trimmers, and 2 cutters of liveries; began making clothes for the Prince of Wales 1860, received a warrant of appointment from him 20 March 1863; resided at Dorset cottage, Fulham about 1860–70, and at Marine parade, Brighton about 1870 to death. d. 118 Marine parade, Brighton 4 May 1876. bur. Highgate cemetery 10 May, personalty sworn under £120,000, 15 June 1876, left a widow and a sister. His business went to his cousin Samuel Cundey, his niece Fanny Cutler and his executor Charles Bentley Bingley. The Tailor 11 May 1876 p. 304, 6 July p. 376.

POOLE, John. Ensign 22 foot 24 March 1814, major 18 Oct. 1839 to 30 Nov. 1846, when placed on retired full pay; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 6 West Mall. Clifton 1 July 1871.

POOLE, John. b. 1786; his best known dramas were, produced at Drury Lane, Hamlet travestie 17 June 1813; Who’s who, or the double imposture 15 Nov. 1815; Deaf as a post 15 Feb. 1823; My wife, what wife 2 April 1829; produced at Covent Garden A short reign and a merry one 19 Nov. 1819; The two pages of Frederick the Great 1 Dec. 1821; The Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825; The wife’s stratagem 13 March 1827; produced at the Haymarket Match making 25 Aug. 1821; Married and single 16 July 1824; Paul Pry 13 Sept. 1825; Twixt the cup and the lip 12 June 1826; Lodgings for single gentlemen 15 June 1829; resided in Paris many years; a brother of the Charterhouse, but resigned his appointment; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Feb. 1851; author of Crotchets in the air, or a balloon trip 1838; Christmas festivities 1845–8, four specimens; Comic miscellany 1845; Little Pedlington, 2 vols. 1839; Phineas Quiddy, or sheer industry, 3 vols. 1843. d. Highgate road, Kentish Town, London 5 Feb. 1872. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 Feb. J. Poole’s Sketches and recollections, 2 vols. (1835) portrait; J. Poole’s Christmas festivities (1845) portrait; S. C. Hall’s Book of memories, 2 ed. (1877) 160–2; Era 18 Feb. 1872 p. 9; New Monthly Mag. xxxi 271–81 (1831) portrait.

POOLE, John Joshua (son of a hatter). b. King st. Southwark, London 1826; member of orchestra of theatre royal, Birmingham; musical director and manager of Holden’s music hall, Birmingham; manager of Metropolitan music hall, Edgware road, London; with Henry Speedy proprietor of South London music hall 1872–9, sole proprietor 1879 to death; he much encouraged his pianist Walter Slaughter, who wrote his first ballet at the South London. d. Connaught house, St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 6 Oct. 1882. bur. Abney park cemet. 11 Oct. The Era 7 Oct. 1882 p. 5, 14 Oct. p. 5.

POOLE, Joseph. b. Portsmouth 1802; educ. in France; local Wesleyan preacher at Honiton; a bookseller at Poole, Dorset; second hand bookseller in London road, London about 1852; at 15, 16 and 39 Holywell st. Strand 1854 to death. d. Holywell st. 18 Dec. 1883.

POOLE, Matthew. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 5 Madras N.I. 20 June 1822, captain 27 May 1834, major 29 Sept. 1842, lieut. col. 22 March 1849 to death. d. Itchapore 10 July 1855.

POOLE, Paul Falconer (4 son of James Paul Poole, grocer). b. 43 College st. Bristol 28 Dec. 1807; baptised by names of Paul Fawkner 22 July 1810; historical painter; exhibited 65 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I., and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–79; awarded the Heywood gold medal of the royal Manchester institution 1845 for his picture Solomon Eagle exhorting the people to repentance during the plague, exhibited at the R.A. 1843; sent a cartoon The death of King Lear to Westminster Hall competition 1843, and gained a prize of £300 in same competition 1847 for Edward’s generosity to the people of Calais during the siege; A.R.A. 1846, R.A. 1861; member of Institute of painters in water colours 1878; 26 of his works were exhibited at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1884, with a portrait sketch by Frank Holl, R.A. d. Uplands, Green Hill, Hampstead 22 Sept. 1779. bur. Highgate cemet. Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 311–13 (1862); Art Journal (1879) 263, 278; I.L.N. xxxviii 175, 176 (1861) portrait; Graphic xx 376 (1879) portrait.

POOLE, Reginald Stuart (younger brother of Edward Stanley Poole 1830–67). b. London 27 Feb. 1832; lived with his mother at Cairo 1842–9; ascended the Nile twice to study the monuments; contributed a series of articles to the Literary gazette 1849, republished in 1851 under title of Horæ Ægyptiacæ or the chronology of ancient Egypt; an assistant in the department of antiquities in the British Museum 26 Feb. 1852, assistant keeper in department of coins and medals July 1866, keeper 29 Oct. 1870, retired 1893; edited and collated 35 volumes of catalogues, chiefly of coins and medals, four of which and part of a fifth he wrote himself; sent by trustees of British Museum to report on antiquities at Cyprus and Alexandria 1869; lectured on Greek, Egyptian and medallic art to students of the Royal academy 1883–5; Yates professor of Archæology at univ. coll. London 1889, resigned 1894; founded with Amelia Betham Edwards the Egypt exploration fund 1882, honorary secretary to his death; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1880; founded with Alphonso Legros the Society of English medallists 1884; author of The cities of Egypt 1882; and with Sophia Poole, Cairo, Sinai, sixty views 1860; Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, twenty views 1860. d. 2 Gladstone’s road. West Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1895. S. Lane-Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane (1877) 111–121; Times 9 Feb. 1895 p. 5.

POOLE, Sophia (youngest child of Theophilus Lane, prebendary of Hereford, d. 1814). b. Hereford 16 Jany. 1804; m. 1829 rev. Edward Richard Poole, book collector and bibliographer; lived with her brother Edward Wm. Lane at Cairo 1842–9; author of The Englishwoman in Egypt, published in Knight’s weekly volumes, 2 vols. 1844, and a second series forming vol. iii 1846; wrote with her younger son R. S. Poole the descriptive letterpress of Frith’s Photographic views of Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem 1860–1. d. at her son’s house, British Museum, London 6 May 1891. Academy xxxix 466 (1891).

POOLE, William Howell. b. 1856; a sailor 1873; appeared at the Standard theatre, London under John Douglass about 1874; at the Surrey as Johnny Lamb in New Babylon; acted in a series of Shakesperian dramas at Drury Lane; at the Adelphi and at the Princess’; played Gilbert Vaughan in Called Back at Prince’s 1884; went on tour with his own dramas and his own company; his dramas were The miracle, Surrey theatre 24 March 1883; My queen, Gaiety 20 March 1884; Adam Bede, Royal Holborn 2 June 1884; Wronged, Olympic 29 July 1885; Holding the mirror, Tyne theatre, Newcastle 26 Oct. 1885; Boys together, Prince of Wales’, Liverpool 28 March 1887; The game of life, Royal Court, Liverpool 15 Aug. 1887; A people’s hero, Vaudeville 12 June 1890; The wheel of fortune, Sadler’s Wells 12 Jany. 1891; Gertie, Royal Park theatre 26 March 1891; he also wrote the following novels On golden wings; New Babylon; The hidden million; A gilded shame, by Owl, 2 vols. 1881; Her wedding morn; m. Alice Raynor. d. 27 Jany. 1894. bur. Abney park cemetery 1 Feb.

POOLEY, Alfred. b. 1839 or 1840; organist of Liverpool cathedral about 1863–74; organist of St. Matthew’s, Sydney, Australia to death. d. Sydney 7 March 1896.

POOLEY, Henry. b. West Derby, near Liverpool 4 Jany. 1803; partner with his father Henry Pooley (who d. 1841) as H. Pooley and son at Albion foundry, Liverpool, 89 Fleet st. London, Wellington st. Gateshead, and Commercial st. Newport, Monmouth 1830, makers of scales, weighbridges, and weighing tables, took out numerous patents; their platform weighing machines are seen in railway stations throughout the world; retired 1872; gave a school to village of Seacombe 1876; A.I.C.E. 21 Jany. 1851. d. Home Cross, Liscard, Cheshire 1 Sept. 1878. G. L. M. Strauss’s England’s workshops (1864) 26–9; Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lv 331–33 (1879); Pooley’s Patent weighing apparatus (1859).

POOLEY, John Henry (only son of Henry Pooley of Kelvedon, Essex). b. 17 Oct. 1803; educ. Dedham and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2 senior optime, 3 in first class of classical tripos and B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, B.D. 1837; Norrisian prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 1826–35; C. of St. James’, Piccadilly, London 1832–3; R, of Scotter, near Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1833 to death; rural dean of Corringham 1839; hon. canon of Lincoln 1845 to death; author of The nature and use of parables 1828, Norrisian medal essay: The case of the rev. W. T. Humphreys, missionary at Myaveram 1843. d. Scotter rectory 29 April 1895.

POPE, Henry Montague Randall (eld. son of Peter M. Pope, physician, West Malling, Kent). b. 21 May 1849; educ. Merchant Taylor’s school 1859–67; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1867–72; B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; Craven scholar 1872; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1872–4; pupil of George Sweet the conveyancer; barrister L.I. 7 June 1873; equity draftsman and conveyancer; one of the originators and the first chairman of the Coffee tavern company limited 1877; published A treatise on the law and practice of lunacy 1877, 2 ed. 1890; The bills of sale act, with notes 1878. d. on board the Rodney at sea on his way to Australia 18 Nov. 1880. Law Times lxx 250 (1881).

POPE, Joseph John (son of Samuel Pope of London, merchant). b. 1836; L.S.A. 1857; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.M. 1857; senior house surgeon Liverpool south hospital; assist. surgeon in royal artillery 1 April 1861, retired as a surgeon 1 Dec. 1873; professor of hygiene Birkbeck institute; lecturer to National health association, lectured throughout England and Scotland; secretary to William Holland, the peoples’ caterer; contributed to sporting and social periodicals, wrote in The Sporting Times under the signature of Jope, and was the author of many of the best jokes in that paper; he wrote Clothing, simple lessons for home use 1877; Number one and how to take care of him, a series of popular talks 1883; Health, its friends and foes. d. 4 South crescent, Bedford sq. London 6 April 1885. Sporting Times 11 April 1885 p. 1; Medical Times i 499 (1885), 14 March 1891 p. 2.

POPE, Mrs. b. Settle, Yorkshire 1809; first appeared on stage at Hastings as Mrs. Haller in the Stranger; leading actress at Birmingham, Bristol and other places; went to America 1846, appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as Margaret Elmore 2 Nov. 1846; made a tour in southern and western states; acted Mrs. Haller at the Arch theatre, Philadelphia 14 Jany, 1847; the Lady Macbeth at Astor place opera house at time of Macready-Forrest riots in New York 7 May 1849; acted Romeo at Academy of music, New York 1852; reappeared at a benefit tendered her at Indianapolis, Indiana 25 May 1878; m. William Coleman Pope, he went mad and committed suicide 1 June 1868; she d. Indianapolis 16 March 1880.

POPE-HENNESSY, Sir John (3 son of John Hennessy of Ballyhennessy, co. Kerry). b. Cork 1834; educ. Queen’s coll. Cork; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1861; M.P. King s county 1859–65, being the first Roman catholic conservative member; governor of Labuan and consul general in Borneo 21 Nov. 1867, returned to England 2 Oct. 1871; acting governor of the Gold Coast 27 Feb. 1872 to 16 Feb. 1873; governor of the Bahamas 27 May 1873, came home on leave 22 June 1874 and never returned; governor of the Windward islands and Barbados 1875–6, was very popular with the negroes but unpopular with the planters, who passed a motion to address the queen for his recall 17 May 1876; governor of Hong Kong Nov. 1876, arrived there 23 April 1877, quarrelled with the commander-in-chief and was censured by the colonial office, retired from office 7 March 1882; presented with freedom of city of Cork 3 March 1877; chairman of the repression of crime section at the Social science congress at Nottingham Sept. 1882; governor of the Mauritius 26 Dec. 1882, very popular with the French creoles but unpopular with the English, was suspended by the royal commissioner sir Hercules Robinson 16 Dec. 1886, went to London Jany. 1887 where lord Knutsford the colonial secretary decided 12 July 1887 that sufficient cause had not been shown for his removal, returned to Mauritius 1887, retired on pension 16 Dec. 1889; bought Rostellan castle, near Cork 1890; M.P. North Kilkenny Dec. 1890 to death; author of Raleigh in Ireland 1883. d. Rostellan castle 7 Oct. 1891.

POPHAM, Brunswick (2 son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). b. 1805; entered navy 11 Dec. 1817, present in the battle of Navarino 1827; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on half pay 10 Sept. 1869. d. Cardean Meigle, Forfarshire 6 Feb. 1878.

POPHAM, Francis Leybourne- (2 son of lieut. general Edward William Popham of Littlecote, Wilts. 1764–1843). b. 14 Oct. 1809; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of All Souls’ 1831–43; barrister LL. 21 Nov. 1837; kept some mares at Littlecote, his horse Wild Dayrell won the Derby 1855. d. 1880. Baily’s Mag. viii 109–12 (1864) portrait.

POPHAM, William (eld. son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). b. April 1791; entered navy May 1805; captain 19 May 1819; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. Stourfield house, Christchurch 23 Aug. 1864.

POPOFF, Basil (son of Eugene Popoff, chaplain to Russian embassy, London). b. 1839; chaplain to Russian embassy in London 1875 to death; private chaplain to duchess of Edinburgh 2 March 1875 to death. d. 32 Welbeck st. London 19 March 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 23 March.

POPPLEWELL, George Otway. Entered navy 14 Feb 1832; captain 15 April 1862, retired 12 Oct. 1868; retired admiral 1 May 1888. d. Ramsgate 12 Sept. 1889. Times 16 Sept. 1889 p. 6.

PORRETT, Robert (son of Robert Porrett). b. London 22 Sept. 1783; assistant to his father, the ordnance storekeeper at the Tower of London 1795, chief of the department, retired on a pension 1850; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1840; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.A.S.; an original fellow of Chemical society 1841; contributed several papers on armour to Archæologia and Proceedings of Soc. of Antiquaries; awarded a medal by Society of Arts for discovery of prussous acid 1808, which he termed sulphuretted chyazic acid in 1814; discovered ferrocyanic acid, which he named ferruretted chyazic acid; discovered electric endosmosis 1816; author of 13 scientific papers. d. 49 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 25 Nov. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii p. iv (1870).

PORTAL, George Raymond (4 son of John Portal of Whitchurch, Hampshire). b. 28 Feb. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; C. of Wilton, 1850–2; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1852–7; R. of Albury, Surrey 1858–71; R. of Burghclere with Newtown, Hampshire 1871 to death; honorary canon of Winchester Jany. 1882 to death; author of On some of the prevalent objections to ritual observances, a sermon 1854; Personal faith the only source of peace, a sermon 1855; Short prayers, &c. for those who have little time to pray 1867; Hymns for the use of the parish of Albury 1864. d. Burghclere rectory 5 April 1889.

PORTAL, Sir Gerald Herbert (2 son of Melville Portal). b. Laverstoke, Hampshire 13 March 1858; educ. Eton 1871–9, played in the cricket eleven 1886, 1887, editor of the Eton chronicle; clerk in the foreign office 12 July 1879; sent to Rome 29 June 1880, third secretary of legation there 22 July 1881; sent to Cairo 24 June 1882, present at bombardment of Alexandria 11 July 1882, third secretary at Cairo 1 April 1884, second secretary 1 April 1885; went to Massowah to procure a reconciliation between the king of Abyssinia and the Italian government 17 Oct. 1887; acting consul general at Zanzibar 30 April to 14 Nov. 1889, agent at Zanzibar 10 March 1891; consul general for German East Africa 2 June 1891, and for the British sphere 11 Feb. 1892; sent to Uganda to report whether that part of Africa should be retained by the British or evacuated 10 Dec. 1892; arrived at the coast again 21 Oct. 1893 and reached London Nov. 1893; C.B. 3 Feb. 1888; K.C.M.G. 4 Aug. 1892; author of My mission to Abyssinia 1888, 2 ed. 1892; m. 1 Feb. 1890 Alice Josephine, 2 dau. of 7 earl of Abingdon, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 March 1894; he d. 5B Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1894. bur. mortuary chapel, Laverstoke, Hants. 30 Jany. Sir G. H. Portal’s The British mission to Uganda (1894), memoir pp. xxv–xlvi portrait; Pall Mall Budget 1 Feb. 1894 p. 5, two portraits, and 14 June 1894 p. 10 portrait; Times 26 Jany. 1894 p. 3.

PORTARLINGTON, Lionel Seymour William Dawson Damer, 4 Earl of (only son of colonel George Lionel Dawson Damer of Came, Dorset, d. 14 April 1856, younger son of first earl of Portarlington). b. 7 April 1832; educ. Eton 1847–9; ensign Scots fusilier guards 23 Nov. 1849. lieut. 14 July 1854, served in the Crimea, sold out 15 Jany. 1856; lieut. Dorset yeomanry cavalry 20 April 1858; M.P. Portarlington 1857–65 and 1868–80; succeeded his cousin as 4 earl of Portarlington 1 March 1889; resided Emo park, Portarlington. d. Portman lodge, Bournemouth 17 Dec. 1892. bur. Came 21 Dec. Times 19 Dec. 1892 p. 6; Graphic 24 Dec. 1892 p. 762 portrait; Daily Graphic 20 Dec. 1892 p. 9 portrait.

PORTER, Classon Emmett (half brother of John Scott Porter 1801–80). b. Artikelly, co. Derry 1814; educ. Manchester college, York 1828–34; minister of the first presbyterian church, Larne, co. Antrim 2 July 1834 to death; wrote many papers on Irish presbyterian church history and biography in the Northern Whig, Larne reporter, Christian Unitarian and Disciple; author of Irish presbyterian biographical sketches, Belfast 1893, reprinted from the Northern Whig. d. Ballygally castle, co. Antrim 27 May 1885. bur. in parish churchyard of Cairncastle, co. Antrim.

PORTER, Frank Thorpe (youngest son of Wm. Porter of Willmount, near Rathfarnham, co. Dublin 1757–1841). b. 19 Dec. 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; barrister in Ireland 1827; went the Leinster circuit 1827–40; magistrate at the head office of the Dublin police 1840–60; author of An act to consolidate the laws relating to the presentment of public monies by grand juries in Ireland 1840; Gleanings and reminiscences, 2 ed. 1875. d. 15 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 24 Nov. 1882. Irish law times 2 Dec. 1882 p. 589.

PORTER, Sir George Hornidge, 1 Baronet (only son of Wm. Henry Porter, surgeon 1790–1861). b. 15 Kildare st. Dublin 24 Nov. 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.B. 1848, M.D. 1865, M.S. 1873; at Meath hospital, Dublin, surgeon 1849; F. and L.R.C.S.I. 1844, member of council, president 1868–9; surgeon to Simpson’s hospital 1866; consulting surgeon to the Coombe hospital 1861, to St. Mark’s Ophthalmic hospital 1876, to National children’s hospital 1876, and to Stevens’ hospital 1881; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Ireland 6 Dec. 1869 to death; sheriff of Wexford 1887; knighted at Windsor castle 19 July 1883; one of the most skilful operators in Ireland; had a large and lucrative practice; purchased an estate in Wexford; hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1888; with E. Hamilton and H. Ormsby examined the bodies of lord Frederick Cavendish and T. H. Burke who were murdered in the Phœnix park 6 May 1882; created a baronet June 1889; regius professor of surgery univ. of Dublin 1891 to death; contributed many papers to Dublin Journal of medical science. d. 3 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 16 June 1895. L. H. Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital (1888) 209–11, 391 portrait; C. A. Cameron’s Royal college of surgeons, Ireland (1886) 44, 229, 394, 749; I.L.N. 22 June 1895 p. 766 portrait.

PORTER, George Richardson. b. London 29 June 1793; agent at Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 1813–5; merchant at 23 Finch lane, Cornhill 1815–7; wine merchant at 1 Old Broad st. 1817–31; superintendent of statistical department of board of trade 1832, head of the office 1834; senior member of railway department of board of trade 1840, joint secretary of board of trade 6 Aug. 1847 to death; a founder of the Statistical society 1834, treasurer 1841 to death; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838, member of council 1847–8; author of The progress of the nation in its social and economical relations, 3 vols. 1836–43, 3 ed. 1851; The nature and properties of the sugar cane, 2 ed. 1843; The tropical agriculturalist 1833; A manual of statistics in sir J. F. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry (1849) pp. 465–88. d. Tunbridge Wells 3 Sept. 1852, portrait in rooms of Statistical society, Adelphi terrace, London. G.M. Oct. 1852 pp. 427–9; I.L.N. 11 Sept. 1852 p. 202.

PORTER, Henry Edward. b. 1801; cornet 9 lancers 3 July 1817, major 4 Oct. 1831 to 1 Feb. 1833, when placed on h.p.; general 5 Sept. 1869. d. Hambury fort, Honiton 8 April 1871.

PORTER, John. b. 1771; surgeon R.N. 1798; M.D. St. Andrews; medical superintendent of the convict hulks, Portsmouth harbour 29 years; a founder of the Portsmouth and Portsea literary philosophical society. d. Portsea 3 March 1855. Medical directory 1856 p. 748.

PORTER, John Scott (eld. son of Wm. Porter 1774–1843, presbyterian minister of Newtownlimavady, co. Derry 1799–1843). b. Newtownlimavady 31 Dec. 1801; licensed by Bangor presbytery Oct. 1825; minister of Carter lane chapel, Doctors’ commons, London 2 March 1826; kept a school with David Davidson at Rosoman house, Islington; minister of the first presbyterian church of Belfast 2 Feb. 1832; professor of theology to the association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838; professor of Hebrew and cognate languages, Belfast 6 July 1851; led a secession from the Antrim presbytery and founded 21 Feb. 1862 the northern presbytery of Antrim with the purpose of emphasising a recognition of Christ and of divine revelation; formed the Ulster unitarian Christian association Dec. 1876; edited the Bible Christian, Belfast 1830–6; author of Authentic report of the discussion of the unitarian controversy, Belfast 1834, 3 ed. 1834; Twelve lectures in illustration of Christian Unitarianism, Belfast 1841, 2 ed. London 1853; Principles of textual criticism with their application to the old and new testaments, &c. 1848; Servetus and Calvin, three lectures 1854; Bible revision, three lectures 1857; The national system and the national board 1864 anon. and 32 other books. d. Lennox Vale, Belfast 5 July 1880. Memorial of rev. John Scott Porter (1880); Nightingale’s Lancashire nonconformity iv 225 (1892); Historical sketch of first presbyterian congregation, Larne (1889) 20 et seq.

PORTER, Joshua Henry (eld. son of Joshua Porter of Dublin). b. 24 May 1831; L.R.C.S.I. 1852; assist. surgeon 97 foot 24 March 1854; served in the Crimea, medal and clasp; in India during mutiny 1857–8, mutiny medal and clasp; with the British ambulance in Franco German war 1870; hon. associate of soc. of St. John of Jerusalem; assist. professor of military surgery at Netley hospital 1873–8; in charge of field hospitals in Bengal 1879, with Sir Samuel Brownes’ division in the Kyber pass; deputy surgeon general of the Allahabad division 1879; with general Roberts’ force in the march to Cabul; author of The surgeon’s pocket-book, an essay on the best treatment of the wounded in war 1875, 4 ed. 1891. d. in the Sherpur camp Afghanistan 9 Jany. 1880; memorial brass in Netley hospital chapel. Lancet i 111, 224 (1880); S. H. Shadbolts’ Afghan campaigns (1882) 161–5 portrait; Medical Times 17 Jany. 1880 p. 79.

PORTER, Josias Leslie (youngest son of Wm. Porter of Carrowan parish of Burt, co. Donegal, farmer). b. 4 Oct. 1823; matric. in univ. of Glasgow 1839, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, LL.D. 1864; D.D. Edinb. 1864; studied theology in univ. of Edinb. and the New college 1842–4; licensed to preach by presbytery of Derry 20 Nov. 1844; minister of presbyterian chapel High Bridge, Newcastle 25 Feb. 1846 to 1849; a missionary of the Irish presbyterian church to the Jews in Syria Dec. 1849 to 1859; professor of biblical criticism in the presbyterian college Belfast July 1860 to 1878, and secretary of the college faculty 1867–78; moderator of the general assembly 1875; assistant comr. of board of intermediate education for Ireland 1878–9; president of Queen’s college, Belfast and member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1879 to death; D. lit. royal univ. of Ireland 1881; author of Five years in Damascus, 2 vols. 1855; A handbook for travellers in Syria and Palestine 1858, 3 ed. 1875; The Pentateuch and the Gospels 1864; The giant cities of Bashan and Syria’s holy places 1865; The life and times of Henry Cooke, D.D. 1871, 4 ed. 1877; Pew and study bible 1875; Galilee and the Jordan 1885; Jerusalem, Bethany and Bethlehem 1887; m. 1849 Margaret Rainey youngest dau. of rev. Dr. Henry Cooke of Belfast, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 29 May 1889. d. Belfast 16 March 1889. bur. Malone cemetery near Belfast, portrait in examination hall of Queen’s college Belfast.

PORTER, Sarah (dau. of Abraham Ricardo). b. 1791; m. about 1820 George Richardson Porter who d. 3 Sept. 1852; author of Conversations on arithmetic 1885, new ed. entitled National arithmetic 1852; On infant schools for the upper and middle classes 1838; The expediency and the means of elevating the profession of the educator in public estimation 1839. d. West Hill, Wandsworth London 13 Sept. 1862. G.M. Oct. 1862 p. 509.

PORTER, Seymour Teulon. b. London; minister at Darwin, Lancs. 1836–48; minister of West George st. congregational church, Glasgow 1848–9, when he had a disagreement with Dr. Robert Wardlaw; minister of the independent church, West Bath st. Glasgow 1849–73; author of Lectures on the ecclesiastical system of the independents 1856; Christian prophecy, lectures on the Revelation 1858; The specific object of sunday schools 1858; The last sermons in a forty-one years ministry, Glasgow 1873. Our Scottish clergy (1849) 117–22.

PORTER, Whitworth (2 son of Henry Porter). b. Winslade house, near Exeter 25 Sept. 1827; educ. R.M. academy, Woolwich 1842–5; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 Dec. 1845, lieut. col. 14 Dec. 1868; served in the trenches at siege of Sebastopol Feb. to June 1855; employed at the war office under inspector-general of fortifications April 1859 to Sept. 1862; instructor in fortifications at Sandhurst 1862–8; executive officer at Malta March 1870, supervised construction of defences of new dockyard; designed and erected observatories at Catania and Syracuse; commander of royal engineers at Barbados 1874–6, and at Plymouth 16 Oct. 1877, retired on pension with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1881; chairman of metropolitan district of St. John’s ambulance association; knight commander of order of St. John of Jerusalem 8 July 1859; author of Life in the trenches before Sebastopol 1856; A history of the knights of Malta, 2 vols. 1858, 3 ed. 1884; History of the corps of royal engineers, 2 vols. 1889. d. Guildford 27 May 1892. bur. St. Michael’s church, York Town, Surrey. Royal engineers’ journal, No. 261, Aug. 1892.

PORTER, William (brother of John Scott Porter 1801–80). b. Artikelly, near Newtownlimavady 15 Sept. 1805; called to Irish bar 1831; attorney general at Cape of Good Hope Jany. 1839, retired on full salary 31 Aug. 1865; gave more than half his salary to endowment of univ. of Cape of Good Hope, elected the first chancellor 1873; declined the posts of chief justice and prime minister at Cape of Good Hope; C.M.G. 30 Nov. 1872; wrote twelve articles on preachers and preaching in the Bible Christian 1834–5. d. Lennox Vale, Belfast 13 July 1880. Memorial of rev. J. S. Porter and the hon. W. Porter (1880).

PORTER, William (4 son of Thomas Porter of London, d. 1848). b. Oct. 1816; educ. Paris; in office of Mr. Hamlet, London; a colonial broker and founder of the firm; retired 1870 and purchased Thingwall hall, Birkenhead; a founder of the Birkenhead park archery club 1858, hon. treasurer to 1870, club reconstituted as the Wirrel archers 1870, sec. and first champion 1871; for many years shot nearly every day, winter and summer; a member of the Mersey bowmen, of the Royal British bowmen, and of the Montgomeryshire archers; won prizes at the Grand National 1874, 1876, 1887, and 1888. d. Thingwall hall 5 Sept. 1892. F. T. Follett’s Archer’s register for 1892–3 (1893) 49–50.

PORTER, William Henry (brother of Frank Thorpe Porter 1801–82). b. 5 March 1791; scholar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, M.D. 1842; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1817, and professor of theory and practice of surgery to the college Oct. 1836 to death, president 1838; surgeon to Meath hospital and county Dublin infirmary 1820 to death; member of general medical council 13 July 1860 to death; author of Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea 1826. d. 21 Kildare st. Dublin 28 April 1861.

PORTLAND, William Henry Cavendish Scott Bentinck, 4 Duke of (1 son of 3 duke of Portland 1738–1809). b. London 24 June 1768; styled marquis of Titchfield 1768–1809; educ. Westminster 1783; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 25 Jany. 1785, D.C.L. 1793; M.P. Petersfield 29 Dec. 1790 to April 1791; M.P. Bucks 18 April 1791 to 30 Oct. 1809, when he succeeded his father as 4 duke; lord lieutenant of Middlesex 1794–1842; took name of Scott by R.L. 5 Sept. 1795; a junior lord of the treasury 31 March to 16 Sept. 1807; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 April to 16 July 1827; P.C. 30 April 1827; lord president of the council 17 Aug. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; a family trustee of the British Museum 1809–29; spent large sums in draining and improving the Welbeck estates, making plantations and transplanted large oak trees, would himself work in the trenches with his men; kept many mares and race horses, with Tiresias won the Derby 1819; proprietor of Newmarket heath, which he much improved; author of Advantages of Russia in the present contest with France 1807; Work on draining by Josiah Parkes, with observations by the duke of Portland 1847. d. Welbeck abbey, Notts. 27 March 1854. bur. Bolsover church, Derbyshire 4 April, personalty sworn under £900,000 July 1854. Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp. 387–95; W. Day’s Reminiscenses (1886) 132–8; Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 511–16; G.M. xli 523–4 (1854).

PORTLAND, William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck, 5 Duke of (2 son of 4 duke of Portland). b. London 17 Sept. 1800; styled lord John Bentinck 1809–24; ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 16 July 1818; cornet 10 hussars 26 Nov. 1818; capt. 7 hussars 24 Oct. 1821; capt. 2 life guards 25 Jany. 1823; styled marquess of Titchfield 1824–54; M.P. King’s Lynn 1824–6; lieut. and capt. grenadier guards 15 June 1830; succeeded his father as 5 duke of Portland 27 March 1854; constructed a mile and a half of underground tunnels at Welbeck to connect the various parts; erected a peach house 1,000 feet long; made a tan gallop a quarter of a mile long, covered with glass; erected a riding school 385 feet long; kept many mares and race horses; employed 1,500 workmen during many years at Welbeck and expended upwards of 4 millions. d. Harcourt house, 19 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1879. bur. Kensal green 12 Dec., personalty sworn under £1,500,000 March 1880. Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp. 387–95; London Figaro 15 Sept 1875 pp. 5–6 portrait, reprinted 13 Dec. 1879 pp. 10–11 portrait.

PORTLOCK, Joseph Ellison (only son of Nathaniel Portlock, captain in the navy, d. 12 Sept. 1816). b. Gosport, Hampshire 30 Sept. 1794; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; commander of R.E. of the Cork district 1849–51, and of the south-eastern district 1856–7; inspector of studies at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1851–6; colonel 1 April 1855, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Nov. 1857; employed in the trigonometrical branch of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1825–43, where he completed the great triangulation; a founder of the Geological society of Dublin 1831, president 1838, 1839, 1851, and 1852; a founder of the Zoological society 1826, president; president of geological section of British association at Belfast 1852; member of council of military education May 1857 to 1862; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 8 June 1837; author of Report on the geology of Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, Dublin 1843; A rudimentary treatise on geology 1849, 2 ed. 1852; Memoir of the life of major general T. Colby 1869. d. Blackrock, near Dublin 14 Feb. 1864. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiv 13–17 (1865); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi 40–5 (1865).

PORTMAN, Edward Berkeley Portman, 1 Viscount (son of Edward Berkeley Portman d. 19 Jany. 1823). b. Bryanston, Dorset 9 July 1799; educ. Eton 1814 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826; M.P. Dorset 1823–32; M.P. Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to March 1833; major 1 Somerset regt. of militia 13 March 1839; cr. baron Portman of Orchard Portman, Dorset 27 Jany. 1837, and viscount Portman of Bryanston, Dorset 28 March 1873; lord lieutenant of Somerset 22 May 1839 to June 1864; a comr. and councillor of duchy of Cornwall 19 Aug. 1840; a councillor of duchy of Lancaster 13 Feb. 1847; a councillor of duchy of Cornwall 27 Jany. 1863; lord warden of the stannaries and high steward of the duchy of Cornwall 20 Jany. 1865 to death; a breeder of Devon cattle and Alderney cows; president of royal agricultural society 1846, 1856, and 1862; author of Family Prayers 1859, 4 ed. 1868. d. Bryanston 19 Nov. 1888, will proved for £244,092. Journal of royal agricultural soc. (1889) p. vi; I.L.N. 12 July 1862 p. 57 portrait, 11 April 1863 p. 400 portrait.

Note.—The following works refer to lord Portman, Statement by marquis of Hastings of the case of lady Flora Hastings and correspondence with lord Portman 1839; A warning letter to the baroness Lehzen with observations on letter of lord Portman 1839; Lady Flora Hastings by J. F. Murray, with observations on the statements of ladies Portman and Tavistock 1839.

PORTMAN, Wyndham Berkeley (eld. son of capt. Wyndham B. Portman, R.N. 1804–83). b. 15 May 1831; attended all race meetings and had great knowledge of horse breeding; founder and proprietor of Horse and hound 30 Wellington st. Strand, London March 1884 to death. d. Alipose house, Worcester road, Sutton, Surrey 18 Sept. 1890. bur. Brookwood cemetery 20 Sept. Horse and hound 20 Sept. 1890 p. 573, 27 Sept. p. 585; Baily’s Mag. Oct. 1890 p. 281.

PORTON, William. b. on board the Saturn off Gibraltar 12 Aug. 1783; fought at Santa Cruz and Trafalgar; lived at Wolverhampton more than 60 years. d. Wolverhampton Oct. 1883, aged 100 years and 2 months.

PORTSMOUTH, John Charles Wallop 3 Earl of (son of 2 earl of Portsmouth 1742–97). b. Hurstbourne park near Andover 18 Dec. 1767; styled viscount Lymington 1767–97; succeeded his father as 3 earl of Portsmouth 16 May 1797; hereditary bailiff of Burley; all his property vested in trustees 1790; placed in care of a medical attendant, Mr. Coombe 1808–14; most cruelly treated by his second wife; declared to have been incapable of managing his affairs from 1 Jany. 1809 by a commission which sat 10–28 Feb. 1823. d. Hurstbourne park, 14 July 1853. A genuine report of the proceedings to enquire into the sanity of the earl of Portsmouth (1823); G.M. xl 307 (1852).

PORTSMOUTH, Newton Fellowes, 4 earl of (brother of the preceding). b. Hurstbourne park 26 June 1772; styled the hon. Newton Wallop 1772–94; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1792; took the name of Fellowes in lieu of Wallop by R.L. 9 Aug. 1794, on succeeding to Eggesford, north Devon, on death of his uncle Henry Arthur Fellowes; capt. independent company South Devon militia 6 Feb. 1795; M.P. Andover 1802–20; M.P. North Devon 1832–7; capt. 1 East Devon regt. of militia 26 July 1820; succeeded his brother as 4 earl of Portsmouth 14 July 1853. d. Eggesford, North Devon 9 Jany. 1854. G.M. xli 190 (1854).

PORTSMOUTH, Isaac Newton Wallop, 5 earl of (son of the preceding). b. Castle hill, North Devon 11 Jany. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838 and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 16 lancers 27 March 1846, sold out 16 April 1847; styled Isaac Newton Fellowes 1843–53; styled viscount Lymington 1853–4; succeeded his father as 5 earl of Portsmouth 9 Jany. 1854, and took name of Wallop in lieu of Fellowes; ran horses near Aldershot as Mr. Fellowes 1854; as lord Portsmouth won races with Aaconora 1855; his Buccaneer a favourite for the Derby 1859; a steward of the Jockey club 1859; master of his own fox hounds in the Anstey country, Dulverton 1847–50; master of the Vine hounds 1850–4; master of hounds at Eggesford 1854. d. Eggesford house 4 Oct. 1891, will proved at £58,166. Baily’s mag. Sept. 1861 pp. 219–22 portrait, Nov. 1891 pp. 353–4; Sporting Mirror April 1883 pp. 113–15 portrait.

POST, Jacob (son of John Post). b. Whitefriars, London 12 Sept. 1774; educ. Ackworth school 1782–7; resided in Islington many years; a founder of the North London and Islington auxiliary of the Bible society 1812; author of Some popular customs amongst Christians, questioned and compared with gospel precepts and examples 1839; On the history and mystery of the Sacraments 1846; Some reasons for continuing to refuse the payment of all ecclesiastical demands 1849; The Bible the book for all 1848, reprinted 1849 and 1856. d. Church st. Islington, London 1 April 1855. bur. Winchmore hill near London. J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889) 25; Annual Monitor 1856 p. 155; J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books ii 428–30 (1867).

POSTANS, Robert Baxter. b. 1787; in naval service of H.E.I.C. to 1840; saw Napoleon i lying in state at St. Helena and attended his funeral 1821, and was present at the reinterment in Les Invalides, Paris 1840; a great friend of Henry Mayhew and George Hodder; associated with the preliminaries of Punch and was an original contributor from 17 July 1841; his pen and ink etchings were unequalled, the constant work on these caused total blindness from 1884. d. Southsea 6 July 1892 aged 105. bur. Eastney cemetery. M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch (1895) 12, 17, 19, 283.

POSTE, Beale (2 son of Wm. Poste one of the four common pleaders of the city of London). b. Hayle place near Maidstone 1793; educ. Trin. hall Camb. LL.B. 1819; C. of High Halden, Kent; C. of Milstead, Kent; a member of British Archæological association 1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History of the college of All Saints, Maidstone 1847; The coins of Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853; Britannic researches or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853; Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brought within the limits of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an atlas of coins 1861. d. Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872).

POSTGATE, John (son of Thomas Postgate, builder). b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1820; in the service of a grocer where everything was adulterated; M.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.C.S. 1854; L.S.A. July 1845; a surgeon at Birmingham from 1854; examined before select Committee of house of commons on adulteration 1855, the members for Birmingham Wm. Scholefield and G. F. Muntz introduced nine bills dealing with adulteration, into the house of commons under his influence 1860–75; promoted the National association for promotion of social science 1857; professor of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology at Queen’s college, Birmingham 7 May 1860; author of Sanitary aspects of Birmingham 1852; A few words on adulteration 1857; Medical services and public payments 1862. d. London hospital, London 26 Sept. 1881. bur. new cemet. Birmingham, portrait by Vivian Crome in council chamber at Scarborough. Edgbastonia Feb. 1882 pp. 20–3 portrait.

POTOCKI, Count Mieceslas Francois Joseph. b. Russia 1794; excessively rich, having an income of 6,000,000 francs; came to England and was naturalized 6 Feb. 1875; left all his property to charities as he could not bear the idea of it going to his heir; before his death altered his will and left his money to his son Nicholas Potocki, who had never offended him, amount said to be £80,000 a year; his wife the countess Potocki, a musician, the friend and benefactor of F. F. Chopin the composer, sang at his death bed. d. 35 Avenue Friedland, Paris Nov. 1878. Times 7 Dec. 1878 p. 5; Willeby’s F. F. Chopin (1892) 281–2.

POTT, David. b. 9 Feb. 1812; ensign 47 Bengal N.I. 14 Sept. 1832, lieut. col. 1 May 1858 to 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Borthwickshiels, Hawick 2 Oct. 1881.

POTTER, Addison (eld. son of Addison Langhorn Potter of Heaton hall, d. 1853). b. 1820; a brewer and maltster with his father at Newcastle, head of the firm 1853; fire brick and cement manufacturer at Willington quay; chairman of Newcastle and Gateshead water co.; member of Newcastle town council 1852, alderman 1865, mayor 1873–4, 1874–5; the oldest surviving volunteer officer; captain Northumberland and Durham artillery 16 Aug. 1859, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1861 to death; C.B. 24 May 1881, invested at Windsor castle 1 July; a partner in the Stella coal co, as senior partner presented with his portrait 27 Aug. 1874, Mrs. Potter receiving a tiara of diamonds. d. Heaton hall, Newcastle 23 Feb. 1894. bur. Jesmond road cemetery 24 Feb. I.L.N. 3 March 1894 p. 254 portrait; Newcastle Weekly chronicle 24 Feb. 1894 p. 8 portrait, 3 March p. 6.

POTTER, Edmund (son of James Potter). b. Manchester 1802; calico printer at Dinting Vale, near Glossop, Derbyshire 1827, his business became one of the largest in the world; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1852–61; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; M.P. Carlisle 1861–74; resided 64 Queen’s gate, South Kensington, London; author of Calico print as an art manufacture 1852; Trade schools 1854; Practical opinions against partnership with limited liability, by a Manchester man 1855; The sugar duties 1864, 2 ed. 1864. d. Camfield place, Hatfield, Herts 26 Oct. 1883.

POTTER, Edmund Compton (son of preceding). b. Manchester 22 July 1830; partner in his father’s firm of E. Potter and Co. 1851; an art collector having one of the finest collections of cloisonné ware in the kingdom; among the pictures at his residence Rusholme hall, Lancashire was the Welsh funeral by David Cox; his collection of pictures, &c. was sold in London 22 March 1884 for £37,619. d. Brighton 6 May 1883.

POTTER, George. b. Kenilworth 1832; apprenticed to a carpenter at Coventry; came to London, employed in building firm of George Myers and son; elected a member of the Progressive society of carpenters 1854; became prominent in the lock-out in the building trades of London 1859; headed the deputation of workmen of London who welcomed Garibaldi 11 April 1864; presented by the combined trades of London and the provinces with an illuminated address and a purse of £300 in 1866; started and edited a paper entitled The Beehive 1861; member for Westminster of the London school board 27 Nov. 1873 to Nov. 1882, obtained the appointment of the educational endowment committee; contested Peterborough 3 Feb. 1874 and Preston 2 July 1886; as president of the London working men’s association opened the first trade-union congress held in St. Martin’s hall, Long Acre Aug. 1868; wrote articles on labour questions in the Contemporary Review and The Times; author of The labour question: an address to the capitalists and employers of the building trade, being a few reasons on behalf of a reduction of the hours of labour 1861. d. 21 Marney road, Wandsworth, Surrey 3 June 1893. Webb’s History of trade unionism (1894) 213, 230, 237, 256, 282; G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii 194 (1893).

POTTER, George William Killett (brother of Philip Cipriani H. Potter 1792–1871). b. 1798; admitted solicitor 1819; secondary of city of London 1831 to death, for which office he paid £5,000; clerk of the coach-makers co. to death; one of the undersheriffs of London. d. 70 Russell sq. London 12 May 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 527 (1871); Law Journal vi 334 (1871).

POTTER, Sir John (eld. son of sir Thomas Potter, first mayor of Manchester, d. 20 March 1845). b. Polefield, Prestwich, Lancs. 1815; educ. in univ. of Edinb.; head of firm of Potters and Norris, George st. Manchester, drapers and merchants 1845 to death; alderman of Manchester corporation 1845 to death, mayor 1848–51; knighted at Manchester 10 Oct. 1851; M.P. Manchester 30 March 1857 to death. d. Beech house, Pendleton, Manchester 25 Oct. 1858. Pusely’s Commercial companion, 2 ed. (1860) p. 143; G.M. v 634 (1858); I.L.N. xviii 484 (1851).

POTTER, Philip Cipriani Hambly. b. London 2 Oct. 1792; associate of Philharmonic society March 1813, a member Oct. 1813; first appeared at a Philharmonic concert 29 April 1816, when he played the pianoforte in a sextet of his own composition; studied in Vienna, Germany, and Italy 1817–21; principal professor of the pianoforte at royal academy of music March 1823 to 1859; director of the orchestral classes and conductor of the public concerts at R.A. of music 1827–59, principal of the academy 1832–59; introduced into England at the Philharmonic society’s concerts Beethoven’s concertos in C minor 1824 and in G 1825, wrote a symphony in A minor for the society, produced 1833; conductor of the Madrigal society 1855–70; treasurer of the society of British musicians 1858–65; edited 6 pieces by Beethoven 1854–60; H. Bertini’s Rudiments du pianiste 1850, and his Studies for the piano 1845; J. C. Kessler’s Twenty-four studies for the piano 1853; Chefs d’œuvres de Mozart 1837; composer of Sonata for the piano 1817; When evening draws her curtain round, a romance 1825; Studies for the piano in the major and minor keys 1827; Medora e Corrado, a cantata 1828; Trois grand trios pour le piano 1835; Etudes pour le piano forte 1840; Cipriani Potter’s celebrated octave lesson 1848; his name is attached to 40 pieces of music. d. 3 Craven Hill, Hyde park, London 26 Sept. 1871. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 2 Oct., a portrait by Bendixen and Seguin was published 1838. I.L.N. lix 339 (1871).

POTTER, Richard (son of Richard Potter, corn merchant and then brewer). b. Toad lane, Manchester 2 Jany. 1799; educ. Manchester gr. sch. 1811–5; engaged in mercantile life some years; studied optics under Dr. Dalton; read 8 papers at first three meetings of British association 1831–3; scholar of Queen’s coll. Camb. 1834, fellow Jany. 1839–43; sixth wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; L.R.C.P. 1841 but never practised; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Univ. coll. London Oct. 1841 to April 1843, and Oct. 1844 to July 1865, Emeritus professor July 1865 to death; professor of philosophy and astronomy King’s coll. Toronto June 1843 to Aug. 1844; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1846, 4 ed. 1859; An elementary treatise on optics, 2 parts 1847–51; Physical optics, or the nature and properties of light, 2 parts 1856–9; An elementary treatise on hydrostatics, 2 parts 1859–87; and of about 60 papers in scientific periodicals. d. Brookside, Cambridge 6 June 1886. Manchester School Register iii 82–4 (1874).

POTTER, Richard (only son of Richard Potter, M.P. Wigan, d. Penzance 13 July 1842). b. Manchester 1817; educ. Lond. univ. and Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his college; barrister M.T. 18 Jany. 1842; lost much of his income in French revolution 1848; member of Price and Co. Gloucester, with branches at Grimsby and Barrow in Furness 1850; constructed the wooden huts for the English and the French in the Crimea 1854; a director of Great western railway 1849–56, 1863, chairman Aug. 1863–5; consolidated the G.W.R. stocks and established a superannuation fund for the work people; a director of Grand trunk railway of Canada 1862, president 1869–76; Beatrice Potter, authoress, is his daughter. d. Box house, Minchinhampton, Gloucs. 1 Jany. 1892. Times 4 Jany. 1892 p. 10.

POTTER, Robert. Attorney in Dublin; defended Wm. Smith O’Brien 1849; law agent to Limerick corporation; M.P. Limerick 15 July 1852 to death. d. 1 Oct. 1854.

POTTER, Thomas Joseph (son of George Potter). b. Scarborough 9 June 1828; received into Church of Rome at Stockhead park, Beverley 24 Feb. 1847, and joined Stonyhurst college; entered All Hallow’s college, Dublin 24 Oct. 1854; ordained priest 28 June 1857; director of All Hallows’ college and professor of sacred eloquence 1857 to death; author of The two victories 1860; The rector’s daughter 1861; Legends, lyrics, and hymns 1862; Light and shade 1864; Percy Grange or the ocean of life 1864, 2 ed. 1884; A panegyric of St. Patrick 1864; The spoken word or the art of extempore preaching 1872. d. All Hallow’s college, Dublin 31 Aug. 1873.

POTTER, Thomas Rossell (son of John Potter, farmer). b. West Hallam, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1799; resided at Wymeswold, Leics. 1814 to death; kept a school at Wymeswold; hunted with the Quorn hounds; wrote many papers and poems in the Sporting Magazine under pseudonym of Old Grey 1827–40; editor of the Leicester Advertiser 1849–58, of the Ilkeston Pioneer 1856, of the Leicester Guardian 1858, and of the Loughborough Monitor 1865; discovered a British camp on Beacon hill, Leics.; F.R. Soc. of literature 1849; hon. life member of Leicester literary and philosophical soc. 1849; author of The history and antiquities of Charnwood Forest 1842; Walks round Loughborough 1837; Rambles round Loughborough 1868; Poems 1881. d. Wymeswold 19 April 1873. The Reliquary, July 1873 pp. 17–20; Antiquary 10 May 1873 p. 225.

POTTER, William (only son of William Potter, merchant). b. Liverpool 1838; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 30 April 1861, bencher 25 Nov. 1881 to death; went northern circuit; Q.C. 24 March 1880; master of the northern bar lodge of freemasons; contested Northamptonshire, northern division July 1892. d. 5 Papers buildings, Temple, London 5 Dec. 1893. bur. St. Margaret’s, Princes road, Liverpool.

POTTER, William Auboné (eld. son of Edward Potter, M.I.C.E.) b. Cramlington, Northumberland Oct. 1832; educ. King’s coll. London to 1850; apprentice to his father, a viewer at Cramlington collieries 1850–5; viewer to Day and Twibell, Monk Bretton 1855; engaged in connection with accidents at the Lundhill colliery March 1857, the Edmund’s main colliery Dec. 1862, and the Oaks colliery Dec. 1866; viewer of the Silkstone and Dodsworth collieries 1863; ensign 37 West Yorkshire rifle volunteer corps (Barnsley) 2 Nov. 1860; with Mr. Embleton founded the Midland institute of mining and mechanical engineers, secretary; viewer of the Cramlington collieries 1868 to death; government check viewer of Greenwich hospital estates; mayor of Tynemouth 1875; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1867. d. Tynemouth 20 June 1887. bur. Cramlington church. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xci 421–3 (1888).

POTTER, William Norwood. b. London 28 Aug. 1840; commenced playing chess at Simpson’s divan, London 1867; defeated Blackburne and De Vere in the handicap tournay, city of London chess club 1870, took second prize at tournay 1874–5; editor of City of London chess magazine 1874–5; drew a match with Mason 1879; editor of the Westminster papers 1874; chess editor of Land and Water to 1884; with Steinmetz and Zukertort editor of article on chess in Encyclopædia Britannica v 592–603 (1876); with Steinmetz conducted 2 games by correspondence against Vienna. d. Sutton, Surrey 13 March 1895. Westminster Papers 1 May 1876 p. 4 portrait; Chess Monthly April 1895 p. 225 portrait.

POTTINGER, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (5 son of Eldred Curwen Pottinger, d. Aug. 1814). b. Mount Pottinger, co. Down 25 Dec. 1789; cadet in the Bombay infantry 1804; explored the country between India and Persia 1809–10; served during the Mahratta war 1805; collector of Ahmadnagar; major 13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1825; resident in Cutch 1825; lieut. col. of 24 N.I. 17 March 1829 to 1839, of 14 N.I. 1839–40, and of 69 N.I. 1840 to 19 Aug. 1841; political agent in Sind 1836–40; created baronet 27 April 1840; envoy and plenipotentiary in China and superintendent of British trade May 1841; cooperated in the capture of Amoy, Chusan, Chinhai, and Ningpo 1841; signed the treaty of Nanking 29 Aug. 1842, by which Hongkong was ceded to England; governor and commander-in-chief of Hongkong 5 April 1843 to Feb. 1844; G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; P.C. 23 May 1844; voted freedom of city of London 13 Feb. 1845, admitted 17 July 1845; voted an annuity of £1,500 by house of commons June 1845; col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 4 June 1845 to death; governor of Cape of Good Hope 28 Sept. 1846 to Aug. 1847; governor of Madras 4 Aug. 1847 to 28 April 1854, took his seat 7 April 1848; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841, L.G. in India 11 Nov. 1851; author of Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde 1816. d. Valetta, Malta 18 March 1856. bur. Valetta, portrait painted by sir Francis Grant. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1846 pp. 426–42 portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii 178, 828 (1884); I.L.N. ii 24 (1843) portrait.

POTTINGER, John (2 son of Thomas Pottinger of Mount Pottinger). b. May 1815; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 9 June 1831; lieut. col. 13 May 1859, retired on full pay as M.G. 1 Sept. 1863; commissary general 27 Dec. 1861 to 1 Sept. 1863; as brigade major served in Persian campaign 1856–7, medal with clasp; commanded Ahmednugger field force during Indian mutiny 1857–8; sheriff of Leitrim 1867; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Mount Pottinger, Carrick-on-Shannon 12 April 1877.

POTTS, Alexander William. b. 1834; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the football and stroke of the boat; at St. John’s coll. Camb., second classic, second chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861, LL.D.; fellow of his college 1858; a master at the Charterhouse 1858; an assistant master Rugby 1862–8; the first head master of Fettes college, Edinburgh July 1868 to death, the college prospered under his management; author of Hints towards Latin prose composition 1869, 2 ed. 1870; Passages for translation into Latin prose 1879; with C. Darnell Aditus faciliores, a Latin construing book 1875; Aditus faciliores Græci 1878; and with W. A. Heard Camenarum Flosculos 1877, 3 ed. 1886. d. The lodge, Fettes college 15 Nov. 1889. bur. Dean cemetery 19 Nov. The Scotsman 18 Nov. 1889 p. 7, 20 Nov. p. 6; School sermons by A. W. Potts (1891), memoir pp. xi–xl portrait.

POTTS, George (2 son of William Potts of Kelso). b. London 1807; contested Barnstaple 30 March 1857; M.P. Barnstaple 30 April 1859 to death; resided 29 Upper Seymour st. London and Trafalgar house, Barnstaple. d. Haverstock hill, London 20 Sept. 1863.

POTTS, John (son of William Potts, printer, d. 1867). b. Banbury 2 Dec. 1830; proprietor and editor of the Banbury Guardian 1867 to death; ensign of the Banbury volunteers 24 Feb. 1860, lieut. 21 Oct. 1862; obtained medals at National rifle association at Wimbledon; president of Banbury bowling club; presented by provincial grand lodge of Oxfordshire with a charity jewel with 13 clasps 1884. d. Banbury 28 April 1892. bur. 2 May. Banbury guardian 5 May 1892 p. 8.

POTTS, Joseph Trumperant. b. 19 April 1815; managing proprietor of Saunders’ News-Letter, Dublin 1846 to death; owner of landed property in Galway, Roscommon, and the King’s and Queen’s counties. d. 20 Fitzwilliam square, Dublin 17 Oct. 1871. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 20 Oct. Newspaper Press 1 Nov. 1871 p. 238.

POTTS, Robert (son of Robert Potts). b. Lambeth 1805; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 1828; 25th wrangler 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; private tutor at Cambridge; hon. LL.D. William and Mary college, Virginia; author of Euclid’s Elements of geometry 1845, several editions, it had a great sale in America and the colonies; A view of the Evidences of Christianity and the Horæ Paulinæ of W. Paley 1850; Liber Cantabrigiensis, 2 parts 1855–63; Open scholarships in the university of Cambridge 1866, 2 ed. 1883; Aphorisms, maxims, &c. 1875; Elementary arithmetic with brief notices of its history 1876; Elementary algebra with brief notices of its history 1879–80. d. Park terrace, Cambridge 5 Aug. 1885.

POULDEN, George (eld. son of Alexander Poulden). b. Portsea, Hants. 1802; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; counsel to post office; revising barrister on western circuit; recorder of Portsmouth April 1866 to death. d. 9A Stanhope place, Hyde Park, London 12 June 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Law Times xlv 171 (1868).

POULETT, John Poulett, 5 Earl (1 son of 4 earl Poulett 1756–1819). b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1783; styled viscount Hinton 1788–1819; educ. Harrow, matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 12 June 1801; colonel 2 Somerset militia 20 Sept. 1804 to 23 Feb. 1819; colonel of 1 Somerset militia 23 Feb. 1819 to 1852. d. Hinton St. George, Crewkerne 20 June 1864, will proved under £120,000.

POULETT, George (brother of preceding). b. 10 May 1786; entered navy 2 Aug. 1797; captain 31 July 1806; naval aide-de-camp to William iv and Victoria Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; receiver general of the land and assessed taxes in Somerset 1840; V.A. 21 June 1850; fell dead from his horse while hunting near West Marden, Sussex 11 Feb. 1854. G.M. xli 420 (1854).

POULSON, George (2 son of John Poulson of Petersfield, Hants.). b. 1785; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 11 Feb. 1823; author of Beverlac, or the antiquities and history of the town of Beverley in the county of York, 2 vols. 1829; The history and antiquities of the seignory of Holderness in the east riding of the county of York, 2 vols. Hull 1840–1; edited Henry Wm. Ball’s Social history and antiquities of Barton-upon-Humber 1856. d. Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincoln 12 Jany. 1858. W. Boyne’s Yorkshire library (1869) 152–6, 165–6; G.M. April 1858 p. 449.

POULTNEY, Edward. b. 1821; founder of The Home in the East reformatory, Old Ford Bow 1852. d. 8 Dec. 1853.

POVEY, John (son of James Povey of Birmingham, vocalist, called the Warwickshire Incledon). b. Birmingham 1799; a bass singer; sang at Drury Lane 1817, at English opera house 1821; made his first appearance in New York as Hawthorn in Love in a village 7 May 1827; actor and business agent at Park theatre 1827–49; had a complimentary benefit at the Broadway theatre previously to his return to England 26 May 1849. d. Surrey st. Strand, London 2 May 1867. Ireland’s New York stage i 518, ii 529 (1867); Era 12 May 1867 p. 10.

POWELL, Baden (eld. son of Baden Powell, sheriff of Kent). b. Stamford Hill, Middlesex 22 Aug. 1796; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Midhurst, Kent 1820–1; V. of Plumstead 1821–7; F.R.S. 13 May 1824, F.G.S. 1837; Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford Feb. 1827 to death; wrote many papers in scientific periodicals, chiefly on optical questions; member of the Oxford university commission 1851; m. 10 March 1846 Henrietta Grace, eld. dau. of Wm. Henry Smyth, president of royal astronomical society, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 April 1870; author of History of natural philosophy 1834; The connexion of natural and divine truth 1838; Tradition unveiled 1839, Supplement 1840; Essays on the spirit of the inductive philosophy and the unity of worlds 1855, 2 ed. 1856; The study of natural theology 1856; Christianity without Judaism 1856, 2 ed. 1866; The order of nature 1859; contributed an essay On the study of the evidences of Christianity to Essays and Reviews 1860 pp. 94–144 five editions, to which there were 14 replies. d. 6 Stanhope st. Hyde park gardens, London 11 June 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. G.M. ix 204 (1860); I.L.N. xviii 419 where he is shown lecturing on the rotation of the earth, 468 (1851).

POWELL, Caleb (eld. son of Eyre Burton Powell, barrister, d. 1800). b. 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1813; called to the Irish bar 1817; M.P. Limerick county 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847; sheriff of Limerick 1858. d. Clonshavoy, near Limerick 24 Feb. 1881.

POWELL, Henry J. Equestrian actor; lessee of the Pavilion theatre, London 1867–8; lessee of Sadler’s Wells theatre; travelled the provinces with a dramatic and equestrian company 1873–8; fell into a stream of water and was suffocated, found dead on Wimbledon common, Surrey 4 May 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 May. Era 19 May 1878 p. 12.

POWELL, John Hardman (son of Wm. Powell of Birmingham, who d. 1861). b. Newhall st. Birmingham 2 March 1827; pupil of Augustus Welby Pugin 1843–52; artistic head of firm of J. Hardman and Co. Birmingham 1852; some of his principal works were the heraldic and other glass in the houses of parliament 1847–59, Westminster hall 1849, St. Stephen’s crypt 1860, Worcester cathedral 1859–75, St. Neot’s, Hants. 1859–80, Beverley minster 1856–94, St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham 1869, the Catholic church, Cambridge 1888, and St. John the Baptist, Norwich 1894; m. 1850 Anne, dau. of A. W. Pugin. d. 12 Lee road, Blackheath, Kent 2 March 1895. bur. in the Pugin chantry in St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate. Times 4 March 1895 p. 10; Tablet 9 March 1895.

POWELL, John Joseph (eld. son of Thomas Powell). b. Gloucester 3 Sept. 1816; barrister M.T. 16 April 1847, bencher 23 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1876; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1863; recorder of Wolverhampton 21 May 1864 to death; judge of county court, circuit No. 11, (West Riding of Yorkshire), and joint judge of Leeds in circuit No. 14, 9 April 1884 to Oct. 1885; judge of circuit No. 47, Greenwich, etc. Oct. 1885 to death; M.P. Gloucester 1862–5; contested Gloucester 3 Feb. 1874; contested Weymouth 17 Nov. 1868. d. suddenly while on a visit at Widmore lodge, Bickley 15 Sept. 1891. Law Times 19 Sept. 1891 p. 355.

POWELL, Joseph Martin (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b. Gloucester 2 June 1822; apprenticed to John Cowmeadow of Ross, bookseller; worked with Bradbury and Evans London to 1844; a compositor in America 1844–5; country traveller for S. and T. Sharwood of the Austin letter foundry 1845–52; executed commissions for Barrett and Co. bible publishers, London 1845, and other firms to death; founder and proprietor of Printers’ Register 1863, and editor to death; a type broker at 3 Bouverie st. 1868–74 and in St. Bride’s st. March 1874 to death. d. 14 Hillmarten road, Camden road, London 17 Sept. 1874. bur. Finchley cemetery 23 Sept. The Printers’ Register 6 Oct. 1874 pp. 182–4.

POWELL, Lewis. b. Trecastle, South Wales 1796; educ. St. George’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1818; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1818; in practice 13 John st. Berkeley sq. London from 1837, latterly in partnership with J. T. Smith; the Powell ward in St. George’s hospital is named after him; author of De rheumatismo, Edinburgh 1823. d. 13 John st. London 18 Feb. 1867. Medical Times 23 Feb. 1867 pp. 212, 213.

POWELL, Peter. b. about 1779; wrote many songs which he sang; wrote for John Parry Of the married state I sing 1845; his imitations of an oratorio and of a melodrama were extraordinary. d. Bayswater, London 20 May 1855.

POWELL, Richard Ashmore. b. 1816; cadet R.N. 24 Dec. 1831, captain 8 March 1855, retired 6 July 1871; V.A. 21 March 1878; served against the Riff pirates 1851; commanded the Vesuvius in Crimean war 1854, medal; knight commander of Charles iii for attempting to rescue a Spanish ship from Moorish pirates 1856; knight of legion of honour; C.B. 5 July 1855; commodore in the Pacific 1866–71; nautical assessor under Merchant shipping act 1876. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 24 Dec. 1892.

POWELL, Thomas. b. London 3 Sept. 1809; a playwright and literary man in London; went to U.S. of America 1849; the first editor of Frank Leslie’s Weekly 1855, and of Frank Leslie’s Ladies’ Magazine 1857; wrote several plays produced in New York and London; author of The living authors in Great Britain 1849; Living authors in America 1850; Pictures of the living authors of Great Britain 1851. d. Newark, New Jersey 13 Jany. 1887.

POWELL, Thomas Sidney. Ensign on half pay 13 May 1826; captain 6 foot 23 Jany. 1839; major 57 foot 26 Sept. 1848, placed on h.p. 9 Feb. 1855; lieut. colonel 53 foot 6 April 1855 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; killed in action at Burdee, near Allahabad 1 Nov. 1857.

POWELL, Walter. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 31 Jany. 1800, colonel commandant 1 May 1849, retired on full pay 3 Nov. 1851; M.G. 20 June 1855. d. Burlington st. Bath 5 June 1858.

POWELL, Walter (son of a merchant). b. Tottenham, Middlesex May 1822; taken to Tasmania 1823; a clerk at Launceston 1834; clerk to an auctioneer Melbourne 1845–8; went to England 1848, 1856, 1860; conducted a business in the hardware line Melbourne 1849 to death; purchased land on the discovery of the gold fields; connected with the Wesleyan church and many charities; partner with Henry Reed, Australian merchant 6 Broad st. buildings, London 1 Jany. 1861 to death. d. 79 Lancaster gate, London 21 Jany. 1868. bur. Marylebone cemet. Finchley. B. Gregory’s Thorough man of business, W. Powell (1871) portrait.

POWELL, Walter (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b. The Gaer, Newport, Monmouth 17 April 1842; educ. Rugby 1858; a colliery proprietor; M.P. Malmesbury 17 Nov. 1868 to death; resided Dunestay house, near Chippenham; while in the balloon Saladin alone, was carried out to sea from Bridport and not again heard of 10 Dec. 1881, a reward of £200 offered for his recovery. Times 13 Dec. 1881 pp. 6, 9; Graphic xxiv 633 (1881) portrait; I.L.N. lxxix 616 (1881) portrait.

POWELL, Walter Rice Howell (1 son of Walter Rice Howell of Haverfordwest). b. 4 April 1819; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 19 Oct. 1837; sheriff of Carmarthen 1849; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1880–5; M.P. western division of Carmarthenshire 1885 to death; master of fox hounds from 1839; purchased Osbaldeston’s Vanguard and Mayfly, a Welsh hound, the founders of his pack; owner of many steeplechase horses; established the United counties friendly benefit soc. and the Farmers’ benefit soc. at Llanboidy. d. Maesgwynne, near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 25 June 1889. Baily’s Mag. Aug. 1883 pp. 63–4 portrait; Times 27 June 1889 p. 11.

POWELL, William. b. 1814; a Welsh Calvinistic methodist; began to preach 1834, ordained 1837; minister at Pembroke, retired 1893; moderator of the general assembly; a well known preacher. d. Pembroke 12 Aug. 1894.

POWELL, William Edward (elder son of Thomas Powell of Nanteos, Cardiganshire, d. 1797). b. 16 Feb. 1788; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1804; M.P. Cardiganshire 1816–54, having never had a competitor for his seat; lord lieut. of Cardiganshire 26 Oct. 1816 to death; colonel of Cardiganshire militia 15 Dec. 1823 to death; resided Nanteos house, near Aberystwith. d. 7 Hyde park terrace, London 10 April 1854. G.M. xli 648 (1854).

POWELL, William Thomas Rowland (eld. son of the preceding). b. Swansea 4 Aug. 1815; educ. Westminster 1830; ensign 37 foot 1 June 1832, captain 6 April 1838, sold out 1 March 1839; M.P. co. Cardigan 7 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; lieut. col. royal Cardigan militia 25 March 1854, resigned 5 May 1865. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 May 1878.

POWER, Sir Alfred (6 son of John Power, M.D. of Lichfield). b. Market Bosworth 1 Feb. 1805; educ. Repton sch. 1818, and Clare hall, Camb., scholar 1822, Batty university scholar 1823, second in 1 class of classical tripos; fellow of Downing coll. 1826–36, hon. fellow 1885; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830, went midland circuit; factory commissioner 1833; assist. poor law commissioner in England 1834–43, in Ireland 1843; chief comr. of Irish poor laws 1849–73; V.P. of local government board of Ireland 1874, retired on pension of £1,333, 1 March 1879; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871, K.C.B. 27 March 1873; author of A political catechism 1853; Sanitary rhymes, personal precautions against cholera and all kinds of fever 1871. d. 35 Raglan road, Dublin 7 June 1888. New Monthly Mag. cxviii 391, 408 (1880) portrait; Law Journal lxxxvi 184 (1888); The Biograph March and April 1882 pp. 229–32; Times 12 June 1888 p. 5.

POWER, David. b. 1817; barrister L.I. and M.T. 1 May 1840; leading counsel of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Ipswich Nov. 1848, resigned June 1861; Q.C. April 1858, bencher of M.T. 1858 to death; author of The act for registration of voters 1843; The law of qualification and registration of parliamentary electors 1847; Power’s Illustrated hand-book for Gloucester 1848, 2 ed. 1862; with H. Rodwell and E. L. Dew Reports of the decisions of the house of commons in the trial of controverted elections 1853. d. Halstead Place, Kent 10 May 1862.

POWER, Ellen Maria (youngest dau. of Arthur Lingham of York house, Tulse hill, Brixton, Surrey, his wife Agnes d. 24 June 1894). b. London 10 April 1854; made her first appearance at Gordon’s music hall, Southampton 1863; under the name of Nelly Power a singer and dancer at the Canterbury, the Pavilion, and other music halls in London to 1870; gave exact imitations of George Leybourne; took the principal parts in pantomimes at the Surrey theatre under William Holland’s management; acted the Elf in Robinson Crusoe pantomime, Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1868; acted Don Roderigo in Don Carlos 16 April 1870, the earl of Essex in Elizabeth 17 Nov. 1870, prince Precious in the Orange tree and the humble bee 13 May 1871, the princess Badoura in Camaralzaman 22 Nov. 1871, Glaucus in The very last days of Pompeii 13 Feb. 1872, and Apollo in Romulus and Remus 23 Dec. 1872, all at the Vaudeville theatre; played again in pantomimes at the Surrey; Sinbad in the Old Man of the sea, Drury lane 26 Dec. 1882; again had great popularity at the music halls, very successful in caricaturing dandies, her songs Lah-di-dah and Tiddy-fol-lol had a great run; her last appearance was at the Trocadero 19 Jany. 1887; m. 17 June 1874 Roland Gideon Israel, eldest son of Bennett Barnett of Keppel st. Russell sq. London, from whom she obtained a divorce. d. 309 Essex road, Islington, London 20 Jany. 1887. bur. Abney park cemetery 26 Jany. The Era 22 Jany. 1887 p. 10, 29 Jany. p. 10; Saturday Programme 18 July 1874, with portrait, 5 Feb. 1876 pp. 8–9, two portraits.

POWER, Frank Le Poer (son of a bank manager in Dublin). Held a commission in the Austro-Hungarian army; an artist; a war correspondent on Bulgarian frontier in Russo-Turkish war 1877; leaving London 17 May 1883, went with Edmond O’Donovan to Khartoum, was in Khartoum 1 Aug. 1883 to 10 Sept. 1883 as his secretary and assistant; made sketches for the Pictorial World; joined Hicks Pasha’s army; acting consul of the foreign office at Khartoum 15 Dec. 1883; correspondent of The Times; author of Letters from Khartoum, written during the siege, 3 ed. 1885; known as The Ghazi; murdered by the Arabs at Wady Gamr, near Berber on the Nile about 27 Sept. 1884 while on his way to Dongola with lieut. col. J. D. H. Stewart, brass tablet in memory of Power and 6 other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Round about recollections i 26–33 (1892); I.L.N. 13 Dec. 1884 p. 576 portrait; Foreign office list 1885 p. 214; Times 6 Oct. 1884 p. 11 et seq.

POWER, James. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel 5 June 1835 to 23 Nov. 1841; colonel commandant R.A. 6 Dec. 1846 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Dover 17 Feb. 1851.

POWER, Sir James, 2 Baronet (only son of the succeeding). b. Johns Lane distillery, Dublin 6 Dec. 1800; educ. Rathfarnham college; called to the Irish bar at King’s inns 1849; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–47 and 1865–8; succeeded 25 June 1855; a comr. of charitable bequests in Ireland 1865 to death; sheriff for co. Wexford 1851, and for city of Dublin 1859. d. Edermine, Enniscorthy, co. Wexford 30 Sept. 1877. Irish law times xi 517 (1877).

POWER, Sir John, 1 Baronet. b. 1771; a distiller in Dublin; alderman of Dublin; created baronet 18 Oct. 1841; a supporter of D. O’Connell by his purse and influence; laid foundation stone of O’Connell monument in Glasnevin cemetery 1854. d. Roebuck house, county Dublin 25 June 1855. bur. in cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin. G.M. xliv 428 (1855).

POWER, John. b. 1820; articled to sir John Rennie, C.E. but gave up the engineering profession; published The Irish literary enquirer 1865–6, four numbers only; Bibliotheca Hibernica, Dublin 1865, a specimen sheet; List of Irish periodical publications 1866; A handy book about books 1870; resided in Panama some years; projected the Panama star and herald; resided at St. John’s Wood, London. d. St. Leonards-on-sea 13 May 1872. N. & Q. 4 s. ix 417 (1872).

POWER, John (son of William Power of Lichfield). b. Freley, Staffs. 31 July 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1828, Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1837; 8 wrangler and B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.D.; fellow and tutor of Pembroke, then master of the college Jany. 1870 to death; vice-chancellor of Camb. univ. 1870 and 1878. d. The master’s lodge, Pembroke coll. 18 Nov. 1880. bur. Cherryhinton church 24 Nov. The Guardian 24 Nov. 1880 p. 1620.

POWER, John (son of Matthias Power). b. parish of Affane, near Cappoquin, Waterford 1 May 1809; studied in St. John’s college, Waterford; ordained priest 16 June 1832; C. of St. Mary’s, Clonmel 8 June 1832; P.P. of Powerstown 2 July 1852; translated to parish of S.S. Peter and Paul, Clonmel 6 Sept. 1866; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 May 1873 to death, consecrated in Waterford cathedral 20 July 1873. d. Waterford 6 Dec. 1887. bur. in Waterford cathedral 9 Dec. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 77 (1876); The Waterford mail 8 Dec. 1887 p. 3, 12 Dec. p. 2.

POWER, Joseph (son of Mr. Power of Market Bosworth, Leics. surgeon). b. Market Bosworth 1798; pensioner at Clare coll. Camb. 21 March 1817, fellow 19 Dec. 1823 to 21 Feb. 1829, and 2 Jany. 1844, dean; fellow of Trin. hall 21 Feb. 1829 to 2 Jany. 1844, tutor and lecturer 1829–44; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; proctor of the univ. 1829; librarian of the university 1845, resigned 13 Feb. 1864; V. of Litlington, Cambs. 1856–66; R. of Birdbrook, Essex 1866 to death; contributed papers to the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical society 1825–57. d. Birdbrook rectory 7 June 1868.

POWER, Manley. Ensign 32 foot 30 Dec. 1819; lieut. 85 foot 4 Sept. 1823, placed on h.p. 30 June 1825; captain 85 foot 28 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 13 April 1852 to death; brevet colonel 20 June 1854. d. Bath 27 April 1857.

POWER, Marguerite A. (dau. of colonel Power and niece of Marguerite, countess of Blessington). b. about 1815; resided with her aunt at Gore house, Kensington to April 1849, when she went with her to Paris; edited The Keepsake 1851–7; contributed to the Irish metropolitan magazine, Forget-me-not, and Once a week; author of Evelyn Forester: a woman’s story 1856; The Foresters, 2 vols. 1858; The letters of a betrothed 1858, signed Honoria; Nelly Carew, 2 vols. 1859; Virginia’s hand, a poem 1860; Sweethearts and wives, 3 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1861; Arabian days and nights, or rays from the east 1863; edited Country quarters by the Countess of Blessington 1850, with a memoir. d. July 1867. Heath’s Book of beauty (1842) 135 portrait; Athenæum 13 July 1867 p. 54.

POWER, Mary (widow of Nicholas Power of Snowhill and aunt of the right hon. R. L. Sheil). Resided at Bath; went to London to see the Great exhibition of 1851. d. the Ursuline convent, Cork 10 March 1853 aged 116. The Constitution, Cork 17 March 1853 p. 3.

POWER, Pierse (cousin of John Power, bishop of Waterford, d. 1887). b. Powerstown, near Clonmel 1827; was for sometime in business; educ. Maynooth 1847; ordained a priest 1855; professor of logic and moral philosophy St. John’s coll. Waterford 1855, president to 1879; parish priest of Dungarvan 1879–86; coadjutor to bishop of Waterford 7 March 1886; bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 Dec. 1887 to death. d. John’s Hill, Waterford 22 May 1889. bur. in the precincts of the cathedral 24 May. The Times 23 May 1889 p. 5; Waterford chronicle 25 May 1889 p. 3.

POWER, Richard (son of Patrick W. Power of Pembroke lodge, Tramore, Waterford). b. Tramore 1851; educ. Carlow and Old Hall coll. Hertfordshire; M.P. Waterford Feb. 1874 to death, a whip to the Parnellite party; caught a cold while attending C. S. Parnell’s funeral from which he never recovered 11 Oct. 1891. d. The Grand hotel, London 29 Nov. 1891. bur. Tramore 2 Dec. Times 1 Dec. 1891 p. 9; I.L.N. 5 Dec. 1891 p. 726 portrait.

POWER, Sir William Greenshields (son of J. Power of Killydangan, co. Tipperary). b. Killydangan 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 31 May 1800, lieut. col. 12 June 1835, col. 4 May 1846 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 16 Dec. 1856 to death; served in Spain, Portugal, and France 1808–14, silver war medal with 9 clasps; general 4 Feb. 1857; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831; K.H. 1834; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Chine house, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 23 Jany. 1863.

POWIS, Edward James Herbert, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Powis 1785–1848). b. Pershore, Worcestershire 5 Nov. 1818; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., cr. LL.D. 4 July 1842; styled viscount Clive 1839–48; M.P. North Salop 1843–8; accidentally shot his father while pheasant shooting 17 Jany. 1848, when he succeeded to the peerage; cornet South Salop yeomanry 10 April 1840, lieut. col. 29 Feb. 1848; cr. D.C.L. Oxford 24 June 1857; high steward of univ. of Cambridge 26 Oct. 1863; lord lieutenant of Montgomeryshire 22 May 1877. d. 45 Berkeley sq. London 7 May 1891. bur. Welshpool, will proved at £196,988 gross. I.L.N. iv 65 (1844) portrait.

POWLETT, Barton Powlett Wallop William (1 son of William B. P. Wallop, major 15 dragoons 1781–1824). b. 6 Sept. 1808; a rider of race horses; well known in the hunting field; known as Barton Wallop, when he was supposed to be the heir to lord Portsmouth’s property; resided Northholme, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. d. Cheltenham 7 Dec. 1886. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 71 (1887).

POWLEY, Mary. b. 1812; author of Echoes of Old Cumberland, poems and translations 1875. d. Langwathby 23 Dec. 1882.

POWNALL, Assheton (3 son of James Pownall of Liverpool). b. 1823; educ. Harrow 1837, and at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; C. of Edgmond, Shropshire 1845–7; R. of South Kilworth, Leicestershire 1847 to death; rural dean of Gartree 1867; hon. canon of Peterborough 1875–85; archdeacon of Leicester 1884; proctor for the diocese of Peterborough 1871, 1874, and 1880; visited many places in the Midland counties for Soc. for propagation of gospel in foreign parts; F.S.A. 7 Dec. 1865, and made contributions to the Proceedings; member of Numismatic Soc. April 1860, and a contributor to the Chronicle from 1861. d. while on a visit at Dover 25 Nov. 1886, memorial window in Kilworth church. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xi 375 (1885–7); Numismatic Chronicle vii 1887, Proceedings 28–31.

POWNALL, John George Henry (eld. son of John Pownall, d. 1836). b. 2 Sept. 1792; a founder of Exeter hall, London 1831; a founder of the Record newspaper 1828; contested Finsbury 2 July 1834; contested Middlesex 31 July 1837; chairman of Middlesex bench of magistrates 1844 to 14 July 1870, when he was presented with a dessert service value 500 guineas; connected with numerous philanthropic and charitable societies; a knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem 8 June 1859. d. 63 Russell sq. London 8 April 1880, portrait in Clerkenwell sessions house. The Record 12 April 1880 p. 3; Law Times lxviii 442 (1880); Times 9 April 1880 p. 1.

Note.—He moved at the annual meeting of the Anti-slavery society at the Freemason’s hall, London on 15 May 1830 ‘That from and after Jany. 1 1830 every slave born within the king’s dominions shall be free.’ Sir J. Stephen’s Anti-slavery recollections (1854) 121.

POWNEY, John (youngest son of Pennyston Portlock Powney of Maidenhead, d. 1794). Entered navy 1800; commanded the Cameleon revenue cutter 1818–21, occasionally attended George iii in his aquatic excursions; captain on h.p. 7 March 1853; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; inspecting commander of coast guard at Aldborough 1831–4. d. St. Leonard’s, Exeter 27 Jany. 1855. G.M. xliii 644 (1855).

POWNEY, Richard. b. 1785; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 7 May 1805, lieut. col. 3 March 1835, colonel 12 July 1844 to death; principal commissary ordnance department 27 Nov. 1837 to 1843; L.G. 21 Sept. 1859. d. 23 Dec. 1864.

POWRIE, Thomas. b. Dundee 8 Feb. 1824; educ. Stirling’s school in Tay street; acted at the Yeaman Shore theatre 1844 as T. Power, and then in Prince’s theatre, Glasgow; first appeared theatre royal, Edinburgh as Hamlet 10 Oct. 1849; played at theatre royal, Castle st. Dundee as Hamlet Oct. 1849; acted Julian St. Pierre in The Wife, theatre royal, Edinb. 28 Jany. 1850, Rob Roy at the Adelphi 17 Jany. 1852, Clifford in the Hunchback 6 Nov. 1852, Romeo 15 Nov. 1852, Richelieu at the theatre royal 17 May 1854, and O’Grady in Arrah-Na-Pogue 8 March 1866; appeared as Rob Roy at Drury Lane, London 23 March 1867 one night only as he sprained his ankle; made his last appearances in the Dundee theatre royal as Rob Roy on 9 and 10 March 1868; played 6 nights at Drury lane March 1868; made his last appearance on any stage at Prince of Wales’, Glasgow April 1868; as Rob Roy he was thought to have no equal. d. 6 Union place, Edinburgh 27 Aug. 1868. bur. Western cemetery, Dundee 29 Aug. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 408, 509; Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 312–6; Illust. sporting news iv 521 (1865) portrait, vi 200 (1867) portrait.

POWYS, Horatio (3 son of 2 baron Lilford 1775–1825). b. 20 Nov. 1805; educ. Harrow 1813 and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. 1826, D.D. 1854; R. of Warrington, Lancs. 1831–54; rural dean of Cheshire 1831–54; established the training college at Chester, and the institution for the education of the daughters of the clergy at Warrington; bishop of Sodor and Man 5 July 1854 to death, consecrated in York cathedral 25 July 1854; author of A pastoral letter to the congregation at Warrington 1848. d. Bewsey house, Bournemouth 31 May 1877. bur. Warrington 5 June.

POWYS, Walter Norman. b. Tichmarsh rectory, Northamptonshire 28 July 1849; educ. Pembroke coll. Camb.; famous as a fast left-handed bowler; played against Oxford 1871, 1872, and 1874, taking 24 Oxford wickets for 153 runs; played for the Gentlemen against the players at Lords 1872. d. at his residence, Queen’s Walk, Nottingham 8 Jany. 1892.

POYNTER, Ambrose (2 son of Ambrose Lyon Poynter). b. London 16 May 1796; employed by John Nash the architect 1814–8; travelled in Italy, Sicily, and the Ionian islands 1819–21; an architect at 1 Poet’s Corner, Westminster 1821–47, and at 12 Park st. Westminster 1847, retired 1860; built the church of St. Paul in the Hills road, Cambridge 1847; an original member of Royal institute of British architects 1834, and secretary 1840, 1841 and 1844, his anonymous essay On the introduction of iron in the construction of buildings, gained the institute’s silver medal 1842; designed the hospital and chapel of St. Katherine in the Regent’s park, London 1827, Christ Church, Westminster 1841, and the French protestant church in Bloomsbury st. 1845–6; designed Pynes, Devon for sir Stafford Northcote, Hodsock near Worksop, Notts. for Mrs. Chambers, and Castle Melgwy, South Wales; architect to National provincial bank of England; official referee to board of works; the first inspector for the provinces appointed in connection with the school of design at Somerset House, one of the committee of management to supervise the district schools of design 1848, inspector of the schools 1850; an original member of the Arundel society 1848, the Graphic society, and the Archæological institute 1843; made drawings to illustrate F. Sandford’s Genealogical history of England 1865; contributed illustrations to Knight’s Shakespeare 1851 and Pictorial history of England 1840, and the articles on literature, science and art to the latter work; author of An essay on the history and antiquities of Windsor castle, this is printed in sir J. Wyatville’s Illustrations of Windsor castle 1841. d. Dover 20 Nov. 1886. Proc. of Royal institute of British architects (1887) 113, 137.

POYSER, Thomas. b. 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading medical practitioner at Wirksworth, Derbyshire 1821 to death; contributed a succession of papers on ‘The authors of articles in the Quarterly Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent. Mag., also contributed to Medico chirurgical review and the London journal of medicine. d. Wirksworth 11 June 1860. G.M. ix 319 (1860); Lancet i 634 (1860).

Note.—He gave Florence Nightingale her first hints in nursing and medicine, when as a girl she used to attend the sick poor near his home.

PRAED, Bulkeley Mackworth (7 child of William Mackworth Praed, banker, d. 1791). b. St. Lawrence, Exeter 21 Nov. 1771; entered navy 21 Sept. 1780; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; transferred to the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. of the White 9 Nov. 1846; purchased Acton castle, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall. d. Acton castle 6 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 634 (1852).

PRAED, Charles Tyringham (2 son of James Backwell Praed, M.P. 1779–1837). b. 18 Aug. 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 19 March 1851; partner in Praed and Co. bankers, Fleet st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1874–80; resided 95 Queen’s gate, London. d. Edgcombe hall, Wimbledon 19 Oct. 1895. Graphic xi 291, 292 (1875) portrait.

PRAED, William Mackworth (eld. son of William Mackworth Praed, serjeant-at-law 1756–1835). b. 24 May 1797; educ. Eton 1811–14; at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; recorder of Barnstaple, Bideford and South Molton June 1836 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 59 (South Devon) March 1847 to death; chairman of Devon quarter sessions. d. at the London inn, Exeter 25 Sept. 1857.

PRAEGER, Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm (son of Henry Aloysius Praeger, violinist and composer). b. Leipsic 22 Jany. 1815; a student of the violoncello and of the piano at Lubeck to 1831; a teacher at the Hague 1831, and in London from 1834; an overture by him was given by the New Philharmonic Soc. conducted by Hector Berlioz 1852; his pianoforte trio was played at the first concert of the London orchestra; naturalised in England 19 Oct. 1854; performed at important concerts in London, Paris, and Leipsic; English correspondent of Neue Zeitschrift für Musik; he translated E. Naumann’s The history of music 1862; author of Wagner as I knew him 1892; edited F. Beyer’s Elementary instruction book for the piano 1854, and H. Rosellen’s Instruction book for the piano 1854; among his pupils were Madame de Pachman, Herr Schönberger, and Albert Jeffery; lectured before the Society of Arts on The fusion of the romantic and classical schools of music; he was the composer of Morceau brilliant pour le pianoforte, a quatre mains 1848; Elfenmärchen, a fairy tale for the piano 1852; Le Buisson pour piano 1858; Airs sung by the Christy minstrels 1860, six numbers; Old English airs 1860, six numbers; Francesca di Rimini, meditation pour piano 1874; 48 Tonstück für das Pianoforte 1880; Manfred prelude symphonique 1881; Sonata in G for piano and violoncello 1883; Six mélodies pour violin et piano 1889; Three sonatinas for the pianoforte 1889; Two quartets for two violins, violoncello and piano 1891; his name is attached to upwards of 100 pieces 1842–91, published in London, Dover, Brighton, and Leipsic. d. 23 Brackenbury road, Hammersmith, London 2 Sept. 1891. Biograph iv 242 (1880); I.L.N. 12 Sept. 1891 p. 334 portrait; The Times 3 Sept. 1891 p. 7.

PRALL, Richard. b. 1832; passed as a solicitor 1854, of the firm of Nickinson, Prall, and Nickinson at Rochester, Brompton, Stroud, and Gillingham; town clerk of Rochester 1870 to death; official receiver in bankruptcy for Kent; clerk to Rochester school board and to the Medway conservancy board. d. Hillside, Frindsbury, Rochester 20 Oct. 1895.

PRATT, Anne (2 dau. of Robert Pratt of Strood, Kent, grocer). b. Strood 5 Dec. 1806; educ. Eastgate house school, Rochester; studied botany under Dr. Dods; formed an extensive herbarium and made sketches of the specimens, which formed illustrations for her books; author of The field, the garden, and the woodland. By a Lady 1838, 3 ed. 1847; Flowers and their associations 1840, 2 ed. 1846; The excellent woman as described in the Book of Proverbs 1846, anon.; Wild flowers, 2 vols. 1852, 2 ed. 1892; Our native songsters 1852; The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain, 5 vols. 1855, 3 ed. 1873; The ferns of Great Britain and their allies 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Haunts of the wild flowers 1863; edited By daylight, a translation of Ottilie Wildermuth’s Im tageslicht 1865; m. 4 Dec. 1866 John Pearless of East Grinstead, Sussex. d. Rylett road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 27 July 1893. Journal of botany (1894) 205–7; Women’s Penny paper 9 Nov. 1889 p. 25 portrait.

PRATT, Charles Compton. b. 1790; 2 lieut. R.M. 14 Oct. 1805, colonel 19 April 1854 to 20 June 1855, when he retired on full pay as major general. d. Vicars close, Wells, Somerset 16 June 1871.

PRATT, Frederick Thomas (3 son of John Pratt of Lambeth, Surrey). b. 1799; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb. 1820, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Oxf. 8 Dec. 1836; B.C.L. 1836, D.C.L. 1837; advocate at Doctor’s Commons 2 Nov. 1837, stewart 1840–2, librarian 1842–4, treasurer 1847–50; author of The law relating to ship lights and signals at sea 1858. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1868.

PRATT, Jermyn (3 son of Edward Roger Pratt of Ryston Hall 1756–1838). b. 6 Feb. 1798; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of Campsey Ashe, Suff. 1836 to death; author of Records of the college of Christ Church in Brecon 1847. d. 15 May 1867.

PRATT, John (son of Jonas Pratt, music seller and teacher of music). b. Cambridge 1772; chorister of King’s coll. Camb. 1780, organist to the college 1799; organist to univ. of Camb. 1800; organist to St. Peter’s coll. 1813; published A selection of ancient and modern psalm tunes for two trebles or tenors and a bass 1810, republished under title of Psalmodia Cantabrigiensis 1820; A collection of anthems in score selected from the works of Handel and others 1825; Plead thou my cause from twelfth mass of Mozart, and Praise the Lord O my soul, an anthem, Printed in Novello’s Collection of Anthems, vol. iv, No. 81 and vol. x, No. 208 (1876). d. Cambridge 9 March 1855.

PRATT, John Burnett. b. Cairnbanno, New Deer 1799; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.A., hon. LL.D. 1865; episcopal minister of Stuartfield 1821–5; minister of St. James’s church, Cruden 1825 to death; domestic chaplain to Earl of Errol; examining chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen; edited the Scottish episcopal communion service 1866; author of The old paths, where is the good way, 3 ed. Oxford 1840; Buchan, Aberdeen 1858, 3 ed. 1870; The Druids 1861; Letters on the Scandinavian churches, their doctrine, worship and polity 1865. d. St. James’s parsonage, Cruden 20 March 1869. J. P. Pratt’s Buchan, 3 ed. (1870), memoir pp. vii–ix portrait; Reg. and mag. of biog. May 1869 p. 398.

PRATT, John Henry (2 son of Josiah Pratt, secretary of the Church missionary society 1768–1844). Educ. Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1836; third wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; chaplain H.E.I.Co. 1838; domestic chaplain to bishop Wilson 1839; archdeacon of Calcutta 1850 to death; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; author of The mathematical principles of mechanical philosophy 1836, republished under title of A treatise on attractions, Laplace’s functions and the figure of the earth 1860, 4 ed. 1871; Scripture and science not at variance 1856, 7 ed. 1872; edited his father’s Eclective notes or notes of discussion on religious topics at the meetings of the Eclectic society, London during the years 1798–1814, 1865. d. Ghazeepore 28 Dec. 1871.

PRATT, John Henry (younger son of Josiah Pratt, vicar of St. Stephen’s, Coleman st. London). b. 1849; educ. Haileybury college, where he became head boy, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1872; won the Bell 1869 and Browne scholarship 1871, senior classic 1872; assistant master at Harrow 1872 to death; fellow of his college 1873 to death; member of the Alpine club, made many difficult ascents; edited The story of Achilles 1880; drowned while bathing in the lake of Como, near Tremezzo 31 Aug. 1878, the body never found.

PRATT, John Tidd (2 son of John Pratt of Kennington, Surrey, surgeon). b. London 13 Dec. 1797; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824; consulting barrister to comrs. for reduction of the national debt 1828 to death; counsel to certify the rules of savings’ banks and friendly societies 1834–46, and registrar of friendly societies 1846 to death; edited J. B. Bosanquet and C. Puller’s New reports of cases argued in the court of common pleas and other courts 1826; E. Bott’s Laws relating to the poor, 6 ed. 1827; W. Woodfall’s Law of landlord and tenant 1829; author of An abstract of the acts of parliament for the establishment of courts of request 1824; A digested index to the term reports, analytically arranged 1826; The law relating to friendly societies 1829; History of the savings’ banks in England and Wales 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The law relating to highways 1835, 13 ed. 1893; A collection of all the statutes in force respecting the relief of the poor, 2 vols. 1835–64, 2 ed. 1843; The law relating to watching and lighting parishes 1850, 5 ed. 1891. d. 29 Abingdon st. Westminster 9 Jany. 1870. I.L.N. lvi 107, 152 (1870) portrait; Law Times 15 Jany. 1870 p. 214, 12 Feb. p. 305.

PRATT, Joseph. b. Manchester; printer in Bridge st. Manchester; printed The Catholic Phœnix 1822; the Manchester Advertiser, No. 1, 2 July 1825, this paper was given away, its revenue being derived solely from advertisements; editor of The Scrap book, The Protestant witness, and other periodicals; author of pamphlets. d. Nov. 1859.

PRATT, Robert (son of rev. Robert Pratt, prebendary of Desertmore, Cork). b. 21 Jany. 1815; ensign 41 foot 16 June 1837; lieut. col. 9 Sept. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. 23 foot 27 March 1857, placed on h.p. 3 Sept. 1870; L.G. 12 Dec. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 May 1859. d. Madeira 27 Dec. 1886.

PRATT, Samuel Peace. b. 6 Nov. 1789; educ. at Enfield; lived at Bath 1823 to about 1839; F.L.S. 1829; F.G.S. 1829; F.R.S. 27 Jany. 1842, withdrew 1859. d. Mellone villa, Fulham road, London 22 Sept. 1863.

PRATT, Sir Thomas Simson (son of captain James Pratt). b. 1797; educ. St. Andrew’s univ.; ensign 26 foot 2 Feb. 1814, lieut. col. 28 Aug. 1841, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1843; commanded his regiment in the attacks on Canton 24 May to 1 June 1841; deputy adjutant general at Madras 5 Sept. 1843 to 23 Oct. 1855; commanded the forces in Australia 1856–61; conducted the war against the Maories in New Zealand 1860–1; commanded the forces in Victoria 8 Jany. 1860 to May 1862; colonel of 37 foot May 1862 to death; retired from active service Oct. 1877; general 26 May 1873; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 16 July 1861, invested with the ribbon and badge of the order by sir Henry Barkly at Melbourne 15 April 1862, the first ceremony of the kind in Australia. d. England 2 Feb. 1879. Times 6 Feb. 1879 p. 10.

PRATTEN, Catharina Josepha (daughter of M. Pelzer). b. Mulheim on the Rhine; appeared at the King’s theatre, London as a guitar player at eight years of age; taught the guitar in London; m. 24 Sept. 1854 Robert Sidney Pratten 1824–68; author of Instruction for the guitar, 3 ed. 1861, 10 ed. 1882; Four Italian songs for the guitar 1861; Repertoire for the concertina 1861; Repertoire for the guitar, vocal 1861–91, one hundred and twenty numbers; Repertoire for the guitar, instrumental 1861; Guitar tutor 1881; Learning the guitar simplified 1881; The scale and pieces for the gigelera, learning the gigelera simplified 1882; Twelve easy songs for the guitar 1888; Sketches for the mandoline with guitar or pianoforte accompanyment 1891; her name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces 1860–91. d. London 10 Oct. 1895.

PRATTEN, Robert Sidney (2 son of Mr. Pratten, flautist at Bristol theatre). b. Bristol 23 Jany. 1824; first appeared as a flautist at Clifton 25 March 1835; first flute at the T.R. Dublin; came to London 1846; studied composition in Germany, his piece for the flute entitled L’Espérance published at Leipzig 1847; returned to London 1848 and became the leading player; played first flute at Royal Italian opera 1846, English opera, Sacred harmonic, Philharmonic, and other concerts; composer of A complete series of studies for the patent diatonic flute 1848: Concert-Stück for the flute and orchestra and piano 1852; Christmas song 1853; Complete instruction for the concertina 1856; A complete series of scales and exercises for R. S. Pratten’s perfected flute 1857; Recreations for the flute, melodies for flute and piano 1858; Tutor for the flute with a selection of melodies 1856; Francesca romance for concertina and piano 1859; Boosey’s One hundred dances for the flute 1859; Give me the harp, a song 1862; The merry beggars, a song 1879; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1847–90; m. Catherina Josepha Pelzer; he d. Ramsgate 10 Feb. 1868. Grove’s Dictionary of music iii 27 (1883).

Note.—His brother Frederick Sydney Pratten, a contrabassist in the orchestra of the Royal Italian opera d. London 3 March 1873.

PREEDY, George William (son of Robert Preedy of Hampton, Worcestershire). b. 1817; entered the royal navy 12 Nov. 1828; served in West Indies 1828–34; commander 10 Feb. 1853; served in Duke of Wellington in the Baltic 1854–5, and commanded gun boats in bombardment of Sveaborg; captain 29 Sept. 1855; commanded the Agamemnon and was concerned in laying the first transatlantic cable 1857–8; C.B. civil 22 Sept. 1858, C.B. military 2 June 1869; received captain’s good service pension 1867; put on retired list 1 April 1870; vice-admiral 30 Jany. 1879. d. Park house, Budleigh Salterton 30 May 1894. The Times 6 June 1894 p. 10.

PRENDERGAST, Harris (eld. son of general sir Jeffrey Prendergast of Newcastle Prendergast, Tipperary 1769–1856). b. Madras 1805; educ. East Sheen, Harrow 1816, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, LL.B. 1829; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1829, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death; equity draftsman and conveyancer; edited Court Circular, started 1856; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; author of The law relating to officers in the army 1849, 2 ed. 1855; and with J. Stewart The practice of conveyancing 1846. d. Brighton 30 Sept. 1878. Law Times lxv 424 (1878).

PRENDERGAST, Sir Jeffrey (son of Thomas Prendergast of Dublin). b. Clonmel 1769; entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 18 Madras N.I. 17 June 1800, major 4 Aug. 1812; military auditor general Madras army 3 Oct. 1812; lieut. col. 7 Madras N.I. 7 Nov. 1818 to 1819; lieut. col. 8 N.I. 1819; lieut. col. 39 N.I. 3 Jany. 1825, and col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. d. Brighton 4 July 1856.

PRENDERGAST, John Patrick (eld. son of Francis Prendergast 1768–1846, registrar of Irish court of chancery). b. 37 Dawson st. Dublin 7 March 1808; educ. Reading school and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1830; agent of lord Clifden’s estates 1836; a comr. for selecting papers relating to Ireland, which papers with rev. C. W. Russell he edited as Calendar of state papers, Ireland 1603–25, 5 vols. Record publications 1872–80; replied in the Nation newspaper 1872–4 to Froude’s lectures in America on Irish history; opposed Parnell’s general policy from 1878; edited C. Haliday’s The Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin 1884; author of The history of the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland 1863, 2 ed. 1870; The Tory war in Ulster, Dublin 1868; Ireland from the restoration to the revolution 1887. d. 127 Strand road, Sandymount, Dublin 6 Feb. 1894. Times 8 Feb. 1894 p. 4.

PRENDERGAST, Michael (son of Michael Prendergast). b. Cloth Fair, London 10 Aug. 1795; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1806, Parkins’ exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1821; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1820, bencher 1850 to death, went Norfolk circuit; recorder of Bedford 1846–8; recorder of Norwich Dec. 1848 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; judge of city of London, sheriff’s court April 1856 to death; revising barrister to 1856. d. Highgate rise 20 March 1859. Law Times xxxiii 19, 45, 78 (1859).

PRENDERGAST, Thomas (son of sir Jeffrey Prendergast 1769–1856). b. 1806; a writer in service of H.E.I. Co. 23 June 1826; acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore 1831; acting assistant judge at Guntoor 1833; assistant judge of Tinnevelly 8 Aug. 1834 to 1838; collector and magistrate at Rajahmundry, retired on the annuity fund 1859; resided at Cheltenham 1859 to death; became totally blind about 1861; invented the mastery system of learning languages based upon the process pursued by children in learning to speak; author of The mastery of languages, or the art of speaking foreign tongues idiomatically 1864, 3 ed. 1872; Handbook to the mastery series 1868, 5 ed. 1882; The mastery series, French 1868, 12 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Spanish 1869, 4 ed. 1875; The mastery series, German 1868, 8 ed. 1874; The mastery series, Hebrew 1871, 3 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Latin 1872, 5 ed. 1884. d. Meldon cottage, The Park, Cheltenham 14 Nov. 1886.

PRENTICE, Archibald (son of Archibald Prentice of Covington Mains, in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, farmer). b. Covington Mains 17 Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, Glasgow 1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner in the business on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a weekly paper entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed, published, and edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824, bankrupt 1826, the Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester Times 17 Oct. 1828, of which he was sole manager to 1847, when he sold the paper; chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at York hotel, Manchester 24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the Manchester gas office 1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester temperance league 1857; edited The life of Alexander Reid, a Scottish covenanter 1822; author of A tour in the United States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-law league 1853. d. Park view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24 Dec. 1857. A. Prentice’s Historical sketches of Manchester (1851); Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1889 pp. 435–43; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 204–8.

PRENTICE, Samuel (4 son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh, Essex). b. 1819; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843, bencher 20 Nov. 1866, and treasurer 1881; Q.C. 24 July 1866; county court judge of circuit No. 40, Bow and Shoreditch 14 Jany. 1884, resigned July 1892; a commissioner for municipal election enquiries; common law examiner in the inns of court 1879; recorder of Maidstone March 1879, resigned June 1892; edited J. F. Archibald’s Practice of the court of queen’s bench, 9 ed. 1855 to 13 ed. 1879; J. W. Smith’s An elementary view of the proceedings in an action at law 1857, and the editions to 1873; H. Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence 1858; Sir W. O. Russell’s A treatise on crime, 5 ed. 1877; C. Abbott’s A treatise of the law relating to merchant shipping, 12 ed. 1881; J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways, 12 ed. 1881; author of Proceedings in an action in the queen’s bench, etc. 1877, 2 ed. 1880; Procedure and evidence relating to indictable offences 1882. d. Greystoke, Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1893.

PRENTICE, Thomas Ridley. b. Paslow hall Ongar, Essex 6 July 1842; associate of royal academy of music; started the Monthly popular concerts at Brixton 1869, and the Kensington twopenny concerts 1880; organist of Ch. Ch. Lee; principal of Beckenham and Wimbledon schools of music: professor of pianoforte at Guildhall school of music Sept. 1880 to death; composer of The day is done, four part song 1866; Christmas, four part song 1869; Hear our prayer 0 heavenly father, an anthem 1874; Absence, reverie for the piano 1876; Linda, cantata for treble voices 1878; Short voluntary for a time of sorrow, organ 1882; edited W. Mason’s Touch and technic; J. C. Fillmore’s A history of pianoforte-music 1885; author of The musician, a guide for pianoforte students 1883–7, 2 ed. 1885–7. d. Wedderburn house, Wedderburn road, Hampstead 15 July 1895.

PRENTIS, Edward. b. 1797; exhibited two pictures at the R.A. 1823, and 3 pictures at first exhibition of Society of British artists 1825, member of the society 1826; his pictures entitled The wife and The daughter 1836, and A day’s pleasure 1841 were engraved; executed for trustees of British museum a series of drawings of the ivory objects found at Nimroud, these were engraved on wood by J. Thompson and published in Layard’s Monuments of Nineveh 1849. d. 11 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 22 Dec. 1854. Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855 p. 221, June p. 656.

PRENTIS, Stephen. b. 1801; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1830; resided Dinan, France many years, where he privately printed some small books 1843–58; author of An apology for lord Byron, with miscellaneous poems 1836; The wreck of the Roscommon 1844, a poem; Winter flowers 1849; The debtor’s dodge, or the miller and the bailiff 1852; Opuscala 1853; Æsop on the Danube 1853, a translation; Jeux d’esprit on the Russian war 1854–5. d. Dinan 12 June 1862.

PRESCOTT, Arthur. Cornet 2 Bombay light cavalry 1 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1858 to 5 Sept. 1861; colonel 1 Bombay light cavalry 5 Sept. 1861 to 1865; major general. d. near London 23 May 1866.