act 1853; hon. sec. of the Free library, Cardiff, the first

in Wales 1861–74; member of the town council 1886; sec. of Cardiff building soc., the cashier made away with £10,000 of the money, Price gave up nearly the whole of his property to meet the deficiency; a member of the school board 5 years. _d._ 12 Windsor place, Cardiff 4 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Cardiff cemetery 7 Oct. _The Accountant 15 Oct. 1892 p._ 776; _South Wales Daily News 5 Oct. 1892 p._ 6 _portrait_, _8 Oct. p._ 6.

PRICE, PETER CHARLES (son of David Price of Margate, surgeon and M.D.) _b._ Margate 29 Dec. 1832; educ. Chatham house, Ramsgate; entered at royal college of chemistry, London 1849; studied medicine at King’s college 1850; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant to William Fergusson 1854; a consulting surgeon 7 Green st. Grosvenor sq. London from 1858; surgeon to Blenheim free dispensary, to the Great northern hospital, and to infirmary for Sick children at Margate; assistant surgeon at King’s college hospital 1860 to death; made a special study of excision of the knee joint; competed for the Jacksonian prize essay of the college of surgeons on A description of the diseased conditions of the knee which requires amputation of the limb, his essay refused by three ignorant surgeons; author of Contributions to the surgery of diseased joints 1859, No. 1 only; On scrofulous diseases of the external lymphatic glands 1861; The winter climate of Mentone, with hints to invalids 1862. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 13 Nov. 1864. _A description of the diseased condition of the knee joint which requires amputation_ (1865), _memoir pp. xiii–xix portrait_; _Medical times and gazette ii_ 608–10 (1864).

PRICE, RALPH. _b._ 8 Feb. 1780; master of Ironmongers’ co. 1834 and 1837. _d._ Sydenham 3 April 1860.

PRICE, SIR RICHARD GREEN-, 1 Baronet (son of George Green 1769–1819). _b._ Cannon bridge, Madely, Herefordshire 18 Oct. 1803; practised as solicitor 34 years; assumed the name of Price 28 Feb. 1861; treasurer of Radnorshire 1850–61; M.P. Radnor boroughs April 1863 to Feb. 1869; contested Radnorshire 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. co. Radnor 1880–5; created a baronet 23 March 1874; sheriff of Radnorshire 1876. _d._ Norton manor, Presteign, Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1887. _bur._ Norton 14 Aug.

PRICE, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Uvedale Price, 1 baronet 1747–1829). _b._ Foxley, co. Hereford 3 Aug. 1786; M.P. co. Hereford 1818–41; M.P. city of Hereford 1845 to Jany. 1857; succeeded his father 14 Sept. 1829. _d._ 11 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 5 Nov. 1857.

PRICE, WALTER. _b._ Ruddington, Notts. 9 Oct. 1834; played in the Notts’ cricket eleven 1869–70; member of the ground staff at Lords’ 1868–76; cricket coach at Rugby 1876; one of the regular umpires of the Marylebone cricket club latterly. _d._ 4 Sept. 1894.

PRICE, WILLIAM. _b._ near Rhydri, near Caerphilly, Glamorganshire 4 March 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and the London hospitals; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1821; in practice at Treforest and then at Llantrissant, near Cardiff; joined the Chartist agitation of Nov. 1839, after the defeat of John Frost escaped to France disguised as a woman; studied ancient Welsh literature so assiduously that his mind became weakened, imagined that he was the archdruid in direct descent from Treharne Brydydd, who flourished in 1300; on his head he wore a whole fox skin, the head ears and tail included, he had light green trousers, a scarlet vest with gold buttons, and a light green cloak deeply scolloped around the border; took Gwenllian Llewellyn to be his housekeeper and wife 1882, named his son Iesus Grist, the son dying he attempted to cremate the body at the High Green fields near Llantrissant, the police interfered and took him into custody, tried at Cardiff assizes where Mr. Justice Stephen ruled that he had not violated any law and he was discharged; spent much money in litigation; had two other children Iesus Grist and Penelopen Elizabeth. _d._ Ty Cletar, near Llantrissant 23 Jany. 1893, his body cremated at Cae’r Llan hill 31 Jany. in presence of many people, the ashes distributed over the ground, personal estate sworn under £100. _Western Mail, Cardiff 24 Jany. 1893 p._ 6 _portrait_, _25 Jany. p._ 6, _27 Jany. p._ 7, _1 Feb. p._ 6 _two views of cremation, likenesses of widow and 2 children_; _Graphic xxix_ 100 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 138 _portrait_; _Black and White 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 154 _portrait_; _Times 25 Jany. 1893 p._ 6, _1 Feb. p._ 10; _Law Reports, Queen’s bench division xii_ 247–56 (1884).

PRICE, WILLIAM EDWIN (only son of William Philip Price, railway commissioner). _b._ 10 Jany. 1841; educ. Eton 1850–6; matric. from univ. of London 1857, B.A. 1859; at royal military academy Woolwich; lieut. 36 regt., retired Feb. 1865; capt. Royal south Gloucester militia 27 Dec. 1867, major 21 June 1880 to death; M.P. Tewkesbury 1868–80; M.P. Tewkesbury April 1880 but election declared void. _d._ Tibberton, near Gloucester 10 Feb. 1886. _Times 11 Feb. 1886 p._ 12.

PRICE, WILLIAM PHILIP (son of William Price of Gloucester). _b._ 1817; a timber merchant of Gloucester and Grimsby, the firm being Price, Walker and Co. limited; sheriff of Gloucester 1848; M.P. city of Gloucester 1852–9; M.P. Gloucester 30 April 1859, unseated on petition; M.P. Gloucester 1865–73; deputy chairman of Midland railway 1864–70, chairman 1870, resigned May 1873; a railway commissioner 2 Aug. 1873 to death. _d._ Tibberton court, near Gloucester 31 March 1891.

PRICHARD, HENRY (son of George Prichard of Clapham, Surrey, solicitor). _b._ 1811; educ. Dr. Burney’s school, Greenwich; admitted solicitor 1834; secretary to Society for suppression of vice, London 1836–69; chief clerk to V.C. sir Richard Malins 1869 to death. _d._ 14 Stanley gardens, Kensington park, London 5 March 1873. _Law Times liv_ 409 (1873).

PRICHARD, ILTUDUS THOMAS (5 son of James Cowles Prichard, M.D. of Bristol). _b._ 16 Dec. 1826; educ. Rugby 1843; ensign 15 Bengal N.I. 16 April 1846, lieut. 15 Nov. 1848 to 1859; edited the Delhi gazette with great success; a pleader in the high court at Agra; barrister G.I. 9 June 1865; author of How to manage it, a novel, 3 vols. 1864; The mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the mutiny at Nusseerabad, with residence at Jodhpore 1860; The administration of India from 1859 to 1868, 2 vols. 1869; The chronicles of Budgepore, or sketches of life in Upper India, 2 vols. 1870; translated and supplemented J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871. _d._ Dera Doon, Himalayas 23 Dec. 1874.

PRICKETT, LANCELOT GEORGE (son of Thomas Prickett of Bridlington, Yorkshire). _b._ 15 Dec. 1856; educ. Engineering coll. at Cooper’s hill 1875, fellow 1878; assistant engineer in public works department, India 1879; his service lent to the Indian midland railway co. 1887; assistant sec. to government in the railway branch of public works department May 1892 to death; executive engineer Nov. 1892; a member of Calcutta light horse; hon. sec. to Simla Fine arts club; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1883. _d._ Calcutta 27 Feb. 1895. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxii_ 399–400 (1895).

PRIDEAUX, CHARLES GREVILE (son of Neast Grevile Prideaux, solicitor, Bristol). _b._ 19 Dec. 1810; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. and M.T. 2 May 1836; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 11 Jany. 1867 to death, and treasurer 1884; recorder of Helston June 1868 to Nov. 1876; recorder of Exeter 15 Nov. 1876 to Dec. 1879; recorder of Bristol Dec. 1879, with a salary of £500 a year, to death; author of A practical guide to the duties of church-wardens 1841, 16 ed. 1895; The act to amend the law for the registration of voters 1843, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Holland lodge, Portland terrace, Regent park, London 18 June 1892.

PRIDEAUX, FANNY ASH (2 dau. of Richard Ball, of Portland House, Kingsdown, Gloucestershire). _m._ at Clifton 14 April 1853 Frederick Prideaux; author of Claudia, a poem 1865; The nine days’ queen, a dramatic poem 1869; Philip Molesworth and other poems 1886; Basil the Iconoclast, a drama of modern Russia 1892. _d._ Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 2 Sept. 1894.

PRIDEAUX, FRANCES HELEN. _b._ 1858; educ. Queen’s coll. London; matriculated at univ. of London 1878, honor division; educ. at London sch. of medicine for women, demonstrator of anatomy there; gained exhibition and gold medal of anatomy at intermediate M.B. exam. of London univ. 1881; took honours in each subject in final M.B. exam. 1884; B.S. 1884; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1883; for sometime at the Royal free hospital; assist. physician to the New hospital for women, Marylebone road, London; house surgeon at the Paddington hospital for children Oct. 1885 to her death. _d._ of diphtheria 22 Woburn sq. London 29 Nov. 1885, a sum of money raised to found a Prideaux prize. _Lancet 5 Dec. 1885 p._ 1063, _19 Dec. p._ 1174.

PRIDEAUX, FREDERICK (5 son of Walter Prideaux of Plymouth, banker). _b._ 1 Portland sq. Plymouth 27 April 1817; educ. Plymouth gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1840; practised at Bristol 1840–64, and in London 1864–75; reader in real and personal property to the inns of court 1866–75; a conveyancer at Torquay 1875–80, at Totnes 1880–6, and at Taunton 1886 to death; originally a quaker, then a member of church of England, finally a Baptist; author of Judgments as they affect real property 1842, 4 ed. 1854; The handbook of precedents in conveyancing 1852, 2 ed. under title of Precedents in conveyancing with dissertations on its law and practice 1856, 16 ed. 2 vols. 1895. _d._ Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 21 Nov. 1891. _bur._ Trull church 26 Nov. _In memoriam, F. P. by Mrs. Prideaux_ (1891); _Taunton Courier 2 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.

PRIDEAUX, WALTER (brother of preceding). _b._ Bearscombe, near Kingsbridge, Devon 15 April 1806; educ. Plymouth gram. sch.; admitted a solicitor 1829, partner with John Lane, Foster lane, City of London 1835–51; a founder of the Assam tea co. 1840, secretary, director, deputy chairman, and chairman to 1888; clerk and solicitor of Goldsmiths’ co. 1851–82; a member of the Garrick club and intimate with Thackeray; author of Poems of chivalry, faery and the olden times 1840; resided Faircrouch, Wadhurst, Sussex, _d._ 30 March 1889. _bur._ Great Stanmore, Middlesex. _W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 375.

PRIDHAM, RICHARD. _b._ 1779; entered navy Aug. 1790; adjutant to the naval brigade at the reduction of Minorca Nov. 1798; wrecked in the Hussar and a prisoner in France 8 Feb. 1804 to May 1814; commander 15 June 1814; on the water guard service in Lincolnshire 1819–24; captain 22 July 1830; retired V.A. 4 Oct. 1862. _d._ West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 3 May 1864. _O’Byrne’s Naval biography 1849 p._ 929.

PRIDHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Plymouth 1795; one of the 4 original projectors of the Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald 1820, editor for sometime. _d._ Plymouth Oct. 1870.

PRIESTLEY, EDWARD RAMSDEN (eld. son of major Priestley, K.H.) _b._ 1819; ensign 45 foot 27 Nov. 1835; captain 25 foot 20 Oct. 1843; major 42 foot 17 July 1857, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1858 to death; served against the insurgent Boers 1842, and in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; brevet colonel 10 Aug. 1863. _d._ Stirling 25 March 1868.

PRIESTLEY, FREDERICK J. B. _b._ 1819; ensign 82 foot 2 March 1838; ensign 25 foot 11 May 1838, lieut. 8 April 1842; captain 74 foot 22 July 1854; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 2 March 1864; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. _d._ 22 Park st. Bath 17 Jany. 1894.

PRIESTLY, RICHARD. _b._ 1771; bookseller in High Holborn, London many years, his stock mainly consisting of classical works; was worth upwards of £30,000 in 1815; printed many editions of classical works, employing editors of great ability; he eventually failed in business and became bankrupt 3 Aug. 1827. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 4 Feb. 1852. _Willis’s Current notes Aug. 1854 p._ 68.

PRIESTMAN, JOHN (son of Joshua Priestman of Thornton, near Pickering, Yorkshire). _b._ Thornton 1805; educ. Ackworth, Yorkshire; joined his brother-in-law James Ellis in the Old corn mill, Bradford 1824, they founded the first ragged school in Bradford 1846; a founder of the Friends’ Provident institution 1832; represented Bradford at many of the conferences called by the anti-corn-law league; refused to pay church rates which were found to be illegal, and abolished in Bradford 1835; manufacturer of worsted goods 1838, removed to larger premises 1845; gave up corn-milling 1855; a total abstainer from 1834; supported Cobden in opposing the Crimean war 1854. _d._ Whetley Hill, Bradford 29 Oct. 1866. _H. Thompson’s Ackworth scholars_ (1879) _p. xix_; _Biographical catalogue of portraits at Devonshire house_ (1888) 527–32.

PRIM, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS (son of John N. Prim, solicitor, Kilkenny). _b._ Kilkenny 1821; connected with The Moderator, Kilkenny as editor, reporter and proof reader, and afterwards the proprietor to his death; hon. sec. of Royal historical and archæological association of Ireland, and a contributor to the Transactions; author of Memorials of the family of Langton of Kilkenny 1864, and with James Graves The history of the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. _d._ Dunbell on the Hudson river 2 Nov. 1875. _The Kilkenny Journal 29 Dec. 1875 p._ 3.

PRIMROSE, ARCHIBALD (elder son of 4 earl of Rosebery 1783–1868). _b._ Bixley hall, Norfolk 2 Oct. 1809; styled lord Dalmeny from 1814; M.P. Stirling district of burghs 1832–47; one of lords of admiralty 25 April 1835 to 8 Sept. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Linlithgow 1844. _d._ Dalmeny park, co. Linlithgow 23 Jany. 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 433 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 75 (1851).

PRIMROSE, JAMES MAURICE. _b._ 19 Feb. 1819; ensign 43 foot 6 Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 20 March 1857, placed on h.p. 12 Oct. 1863; served with 43 regt. in Kaffir war 1851–3, medal; in expedition to Orange river and present at the action of the Berea; lieut. col. of 43 regt. in march to Calpee 1858, was in the operations in Bundelcund and commanded 1 division of Candahar field force in Afghanistan 1879, and then the whole force in 1880; took part in battle of 1st Sept. 1880; commanded one of the seven columns under brigadier Wheeler against rebel chiefs; in the Indian mutiny, at surrender of Kirwee, the action of Sahew and the attack on Gopalpore 1858; D.A.G. Madras 1861–3; adjutant general Madras 1863–8; C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; lieut. general 4 March 1880; retired as general 1 April 1882. _d._ 9 Herbert st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1892.

PRINCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1848; with his brother James Prince trained horses at Astley house, Lewes for Capt. Bayley and others. _d._ Astley house, Lewes 21 July 1889. _bur._ Lewes cemetery 25 July. _The Sportsman 22 July 1889 p._ 2, _23 July p._ 2, _26 July p._ 2.

PRINCE, JAMES. Proprietor with his brother George Prince of a cigar divan at 14 Regent st. London; they started the Ottoman club 1855, from which sprang the Raleigh club; they were proprietors of Prince’s racquet and tennis club Hans place, Chelsea 1856–71, and of Prince’s cricket club at same address 1871–86; courts were made for tennis, badminton and other games, and a skating rink with artificial ice was constructed, became very select and exclusive, the prices of admission were raised and the grounds were closed 1886, the houses in the Pavilion road now cover the site. _d._ Frathay house, Albert road, Battersea park, London 2 April 1886.

PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY (son of a reed-maker for weavers). _b._ Wigan, Lancs. 21 June 1808; worked with his father at Wigan, at Manchester and at Hyde in Cheshire 1820–30; a factory operative at Hyde; a postman at 15/-a week at Southampton 1842; kept a small shop in Long Millgate, Manchester; a reed-maker; reed maker and heald knitter, Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne 1851; edited the Ancient shepherds’ quarterly magazine published at Ashton-under-Lyne 1845–51; author of Hours with the muses, Manchester 1840, 6 ed. 1857; Dreams and realities 1847; The poetic rosary 1850; Autumn leaves, Hyde 1856, 2 ed. 1866; Miscellaneous poems 1861; Poetical works of J. C. Prince, 2 vols. 1880. _d._ Hyde 5 May 1866. _R. W. Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 146, 172–92, 395 _portrait_; _Procter’s Literary reminiscenses_ (1860) 117–21 _portrait_; _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 208–12.

PRINCE-SMITH, JOHN. _b._ England; a teacher of English in Germany; naturalised there; an active politician; author of J. P. Smith’s Uber censur Königsberg 1843; J. P. Smith’s Uber den politischen Fortschnill Preussens, Zurich 1844; Ueber die quellen der Massenarmuth, Redecte, Leipzig 1861; Der staat und der volkshaushalt, eine skizze, Berlin 1874; translated C. H. Hagen’s System of political economy 1844. _d._ about 8 Feb. 1874.

PRING, DANIEL. _b._ Taunton 5 June 1789; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1811; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1822; an eminent surgeon and physician at Bath 1811–40; resided at Taunton from 1840; author of A view of the relations of the nervous system in health and in disease 1815; General indications which relate to the laws of the organic life 1819; An exposition of the principles of pathology 1823; Sketches of intellectual and moral relations 1829. _d._ of paralysis, Middle st. Taunton 3 June 1859. _Lancet 9 July 1859 p._ 51.

PRING, RATCLIFFE (2 son of Thomas B. Pring of Crediton, solicitor). _b._ Crediton 17 Oct. 1825; educ. Crediton gr. sch. and at Shrewsbury; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; went to Sydney 1853; crown prosecutor Brisbane 1857; member of legislative assembly Queensland from 1860; attorney general Dec. 1859 to Aug. 1865, July to Aug. 1866, Nov. 1869 to May 1870, and May 1879 to June 1880; Q.C. Queensland 1866; puisne judge of Queensland June 1880 to death; edited Statutes in force in the colony of Queensland 1862. _d._ Brisbane 22 March 1885.

PRINSEP, CHARLES CAMPBELL. _b._ 1824; educ. Warfield and Wimbledon; with a mercantile firm in Calcutta 1843–6; assistant traffic manager Great western railway 1846–9; a writer H.E.I.C.S. 16 Jany. 1853; junior clerk treasury department 1850, assistant secretary 1857; statistical reporter and keeper of the records 1879; compiler of the annual statistical abstract 1867–74 and 1880, and of the navigation statement for India 1869–70; author of The moral and material progress report of India 1866–67 and 1867–68; Records of services of the honourable East India company’s civil servants in the Madras presidency 1741–1858, 1885. _d._ 2 Frascati, Claremont road, Surbiton, Surrey about 23 April 1887. _Times 27 April 1887 p._ 9.

PRINSEP, CHARLES ROBERT (son of John Prinsep, merchant, afterwards M.P. Queenborough). _b._ 1789; pensioner of St. John’s coll. Camb. 23 May 1806; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, LL.D. 1824; barrister I.T. 20 June 1817; advocate general of Bengal; standing counsel to H.E.I.Co. Calcutta; author of An essay on money 1818; translated J. B. Say’s A treatise on Political economy, with notes, 2 vols. 1821; edited H. T. Prinsep’s A narrative of the transactions in British India under the marquess of Hastings 1820. _d._ Chiswick 8 June 1864.

PRINSEP, HENRY THOBY (4 son of John Prinsep, merchant, M.P. for Queenborough). _b._ Thoby priory, Essex 15 July 1793; educ. at Knox’s school at Tunbridge; entered Bengal civil service 1809; assistant to the magistrate at Murshidáhad, Bengal 1811; superintendent and remembrancer of legal affairs; Persian secretary to the government 16 Dec. 1820; member of council of India 1835 and 1840–3; retired from the service 1843; contested Kilmarnock burghs 29 May 1844, Dartmouth 3 July 1845, and Dover 30 July 1847; M.P. Hawick 5 March 1851, but election void as he could not prove his qualification May 1851; contested Hawick 28 May 1851; contested Colchester 10 July 1852 and Barnstaple 30 March 1857; a director of the East India company 31 July 1850 to 1858; one of the 7 directors of the council of India 21 Sept. 1858, retired 1874; author of A narrative of the political and military transactions of British India under the administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1820, 2 ed. enlarged, 2 vols. 1825; Origin of the Sikh power in the Punjab 1834; Tibet, Tartary and Mongolia, their social and political condition 1851; The code of criminal procedure in the criminal courts of British India 1868, 7 ed. 1884; translated Memoirs of the Puthan soldier of fortune, the Nuwab Amer-ood-Doulah Mohummud Ameer Khan 1832. _d._ at house of G. F. Watts, R.A., Freshwater, Isle of Wight 11 Feb. 1878. _Royal Asiatic Society report 1878 p._ 11.

PRIOR, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 13 April 1824; colonel Bengal infantry 17 Sept. 1871; general 20 Aug. 1878. _d._ 21 April 1881.

PRIOR, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1821, cornet 27 April 1822; lieut. 23 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 12 March 1846 to 1847; lieut. col. of 15 N.I. 1847–8, of 47 N.I. 1848–9; of 46 N.I. 1849–51, of 23 N.I. 1851–3, and of 37 N.I. 1853–7; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 14 March 1856 to 1859; col. of 19 N.I. 30 Dec. 1859 to 1863, and of 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 2 Dec. 1857. _d._ Cotteshall, Norfolk 10 Jany. 1870.

PRIOR, SIR JAMES (son of Matthew Prior of Lisburn, co. Antrim). _b._ Lisburn 1787; sailed from Plymouth as surgeon of the Nisus frigate 22 June 1810, served on coast of Africa, the East Indies and Brazil; flag surgeon; present at the surrender of Heligoland, and at the surrender of Napoleon 15 July 1815; staff surgeon to Chatham division of royal marines and to three of the royal yachts; assistant to director general of medical department of the navy; deputy inspector general of hospitals and fleets 1 Aug. 1843; M.R.I.A. 1830; F.S.A. 25 Nov. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 June 1858; member of British Archæol. assoc. 1845; author of Memoirs of the life and character of Edmund Burke 1824, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1854 (Bohn’s British classics 1854); Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vols. 1837; The county house and other poems 1846; Life of Edmond Malone 1860; edited The miscellaneous works of Goldsmith, 4 vols. 1837; resided 20 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London. _d._ Brighton 14 Nov. 1869. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvi_ 268 (1870); _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 304 (1869).

PRIOR, THOMAS ABIEL. _b._ 5 Nov. 1809; engraved the following plates from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Heidelberg castle and town 1846, Zurich 1852, Dido building Carthage 1863, Apollo and the Sybyl 1873, The sun rising in a mist 1874, and The fighting Temeraire 1886; engraved plates after Richard Wilson, James Ward, and John Linnell; engraved Crossing the bridge after sir Edwin Landseer; and for the Art Journal The Windmill after Ruysdael, The village fête after David Teniers, and four other pictures in the royal collection; exhibited two pictures at the R.A. 1864 and 1874; taught drawing at Calais. _d._ Calais 8 Nov. 1886.

PRITCHARD, ANDREW (eld. son of John Pritchard of Hackney). _b._ London 14 Dec. 1804; apprenticed to his cousin Cornelius Varley, patent agent; an optician at 18 Picket st., at 312 Strand, and at 162 Fleet st. London; brought up an Independent but became a Unitarian about 1840; a microscopist, fashioned a single lens out of a diamond 1826, also fashioned single lenses of sapphire and of ruby; F.R.S. Edinb. 1873; author of A practical treatise on optical instruments 1828; The microscopic cabinet 1832; The natural history of animalcules 1834, issued as A history of Infusoria, living and fossil 1842, 3 ed. 1861; A list of all patents for inventions in the arts, manufactures, etc. during the present century 1841. _d._ 87 St. Paul’s road, Highbury, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1882.

PRITCHARD, CHARLES (4 son of Wm. Pritchard, manufacturer). _b._ Alberbury, Shropshire 29 Feb. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school, Christ’s hospital, and St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow March 1832; fourth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; head master of a school at Stockwell 1833–4, and of Clapham gr. sch. 1834–62; ordained deacon 1834; delivered addresses at church congresses and preached before the British Association; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1867; select preacher at Cambridge 1869 and 1881, and at Oxford 1876 and 1877; had a small observatory at Clapham; F.R.A.S. 13 April 1849, member of council 1856–77 and 1883–7, president 1866, gold medallist Feb. 1886; Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford 10 Feb. 1870 to death, designed the new observatory in the Parks, Oxford, completed 1875; invented the wedge-photometer for determining the magnitude of stars; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1840, member of council 1885–7, royal medallist 1892; F.G.S. 1852; M.A. Oxford 1870, D.D. 1880; fellow of New coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; hon. fellow of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1886 to death; member of the Solar physics committee 1885; issued 4 numbers of Astronomical observations made at the university observatory, Oxford 1878–92; wrote many popular essays including a series in Good Words; author of A treatise on the theory of couples 1831; Occasional thoughts of an astronomer on nature and revelation 1889, and of 50 papers in transactions of learned societies 1873–93. _d._ 8 Keble terrace, Oxford 28 May 1893. _bur._ Holywell cemet. Oxford. _Proc. of Royal soc. liv pp. iii–xii_ (1894); _Daily Graphic 31 May 1893 p._ 4 _portrait_; _Observatory xvi_ 256 (1893) _portrait_; _Journal of British Astronom. Assoc. iii_ 434 (1893) _portrait_.

PRITCHARD, EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John White Pritchard, captain R.N.). _b._ Southsea, Hampshire 1825; studied surgery at King’s college, London 1843–6; M.R.C.S. 29 May 1846; assistant surgeon on board steam-sloop Hecate, 4 guns 1846–7; L.S.A. 1847; purchased degree of M.D. from univ. of Erlangen, Germany; practised at Hunmanby, Yorkshire 1851–4, at Filey, Yorkshire 1854–9, at Edinburgh 1859, and at Glasgow 1860 to death; suspected of murdering his servant Elizabeth McGirn, who was found burnt to death in her bedroom at 11 Berkeley terrace, Glasgow 5 May 1863; purchased the practice of Dr. Corbertt with his house in Clarence place, Sauchiehall st. Glasgow May 1864; his mother-in-law Jane Cowper Taylor _d._ 25 Feb. 1865, and his wife Mary Jane Pritchard _d._ 17 March 1865; tried for the murder of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Pritchard 3 to 7 July 1865, sentenced to death 7 July 1865, confessed his guilt, _hanged_ in front of Glasgow gaol 28 July 1865, the last public execution in Glasgow; author of A visit to Pitcairn Island 1847; Observations on Filey as a watering place 1853; Guide to Filey and its antiquities 1854; Coast lodgings for the poorer cities 1854. _Brown and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 397–448; _A.R._ (1865) 107, 221–7; _Illust. times 15 July 1865 p._ 24 _portrait_; _A complete report of the trial of Dr. E. W. Pritchard_ (1865).

PRITCHARD, GEORGE (son of a journeyman brassfounder). _b._ Birmingham 1 Aug. 1796; went to Tahiti as a missionary 27 July 1824; British consul for the Leeward, Navigator’s and Tonga islands April 1837; adviser of Pomare, queen of the Society Islands during her quarrel with French government 1836–43; went to England to advocate the queen’s case 1841, returned Feb. 1843, seized by the French authorities on the pretence he encouraged disaffection among the natives 5 March 1844, released on condition that he should leave the islands and never return; consul in the Navigator’s islands March 1844, resigned 14 Sept. 1857; author of The missionary’s reward or the success of the gospel in the South Pacific 1844; Queen Pomare and her country 1878. _d._ Hove, near Brighton May 1883. _Foreign office list_ (1885) 214; _I.L.N. v_ 68, 82, 84 (1844) 2 _portraits_.

PRITCHARD, HENRY. _b._ 1 Jany. 1810; ensign Madras army 8 Jany. 1826; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 23 Aug. 1826, major 23 Sept. 1857; lieut. col. Madras infantry 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 6 March 1868; general 20 Aug. 1878; placed on retired list 1 Jany. 1880; took part in the Goomsoor and Kolapore campaigns of 1835 and 1845. _d._ 14 Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 20 June 1893. _Graphic 8 July 1893 p._ 38 _portrait_.

PRITCHARD, HENRY BADEN (3 son of Andrew Pritchard 1804–82). _b._ Canonbury, London 30 Nov. 1841; educ. at Eisenach and Univ. college school, London; employed in the chemical department at royal arsenal, Woolwich 1861, conducted the photographic department there to his death; proprietor and editor of the Photographic News 1878–84; author of A peep in the Pyrenees 1867, anon.; Tramps in the Tyrol 1874; Beauty spots on the continent 1875; Dangerfield, 3 vols. 1878; Old Charlton, 3 vols. 1879; George Vanbrugh’s Mistake, 3 vols. 1880; The doctor’s daughter, 3 vols. 1883; The photographic studios of Europe 1882; A trip to Sahara with the camera 1884. _d._ 1 Kidbrook grove, Blackheath, Kent 11 May 1884. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 16 May. _The British journal of photography May 1884 p._ 325 _portrait_; _The year book of photography_ (1885) _p._ 26 _portrait_.

PRITCHARD, JOHN (2 son of John Pritchard, banker, Bridgnorth, _d._ 1837). _b._ 24 Sept. 1796; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; banker at Bridgnorth and Broseley; M.P. Bridgnorth 1853–68. _d._ Stanmore, Shropshire 19 Aug. 1891.

PRITCHARD, THOMAS SIRRELL (son of Thomas Pritchard, surgeon, Hereford). _b._ Nov. 1834; educ. Hereford coll. sch., King’s coll. sch., and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1858, went the Oxford circuit; recorder of Wenlock 10 March 1871 to death; common law editor of Law Journal reports 1879 to death; author of A handy-book for executors 1861; The jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in judicial matters 1875; edited R. Burn’s Justice of the peace, 13 ed. 1869; J. Stone’s Practice for justices, 8 ed. 1877. _d._ 44 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 8 Aug. 1879. _Law Journal lxvii p._ 307 (1879).

PRITCHARD-RAYNER, GEORGE (1 son of Henry Pritchard of Trescawen, Anglesea, _d._ 1881). _b._ 1843; cornet 5 dragoon guards 7 Nov. 1862, capt. 28 Oct. 1871, sold out 24 April 1872; sheriff of Anglesea 1879; contested Anglesey April 1880; won horse races in Ireland and England; a pigeon shooter; master of the Anglesey harriers 1876; a good all round man in all sports; _m._ 1871 Mary Brady, dau. of John B. Rayner, assumed name of Rayner. _d._ Aug. 1893. _Baily’s Mag. May 1882 pp._ 1–3 _portrait_, _Sept. 1893 p._ 206.

PRITCHETT, JAMES PIGOTT (4 son of Charles Pigott Pritchett 1743–1813, rector of St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire from 1781). _b._ St. Petrox 14 Oct. 1789; architect in London 1812, and at York 1813 to death in partnership with Mr. Watson; built the deanery, St. Peter’s school, the Saving’s bank, Lady Hawley’s hospital, and Lendal and Salem chapels at York; built the asylum at Wakefield, and the court-house and gaol at Beverley; surveyor and architect on the estates of three earls Fitzwilliam. _d._ York 23 May 1868. _Pedigree of Pritchett by G. M. G. Cullum and J. P. Pritchett_ (1892) _pp._ 5, 6.

PRITT, LONSDALE. _b._ 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844; minister of St. Mark, Auckland, New Zealand; incumbent of Reumera, Auckland 1870 to death; archdeacon of Waikato 1873 to death. _d._ St. Mark’s parsonage, Reumera 31 Oct. 1885.

PRITT, THOMAS EVAN. Manager of London and Yorkshire bank; manager of Leeds joint stock bank; founder of Yorkshire angling association, and of the Headingley golf club near Leeds; author of Yorkshire trout flies 1885, 2 ed. 1886; The book of the grayling 1888; resided Lyntonville, near Leeds. _d._ Torquay 11 Sept. 1895.

PROBERT, CHARLES KENTISH (4 son of Thomas Probert of Newport, Essex). _b._ Newport 1820; solicitor at Newport 1845 to death; partner with C. M. Wade of Walden 1850, they opened an office in St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 1867; member of Essex Archæological soc.; wrote in Notes and Queries, East Anglian Mag., Antiquarian Mag., and other journals; author of Arms and Epitaphs of Essex, etc., 11 vols. quarto of illuminated MSS. which he bequeathed to the British Museum library, they are catalogued as Additional MSS. No. 33,520–33,530. _d._ Saffron Walden, Essex 30 Nov. 1888. _bur._ Newport 4 Dec.

PROBERT, MARTHA. _b._ 1774; wife of Wm. Probert, one of the murderers of Wm. Weare at Gills lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, he turned king’s evidence but was hanged at Newgate for horse stealing 9 April 1825; she then called herself Heath; from that time to her death she lived at Cheltenham; _found drowned_ in the river Chelt, near Barrette’s mill Oct. or Nov. 1857.

PROBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Painscastle, Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1790; Wesleyan local preacher at Bolton, Leeds, Liverpool, and in Staffordshire; stationed at Alnwick, Northumberland where he became a unitarian 1815; minister of unitarian chapel at Walmsley, near Bolton, Lancs. 1821 to death; Walmsley chapel is generally called ‘Old Probert’s chapel’; wrote A history of Walmsley chapel in the Christian Reformer 1834; author of Calvanism and Arminianism 1815; The Godolin and the odes of the month, being translations from the Welsh 1820; The ancient laws of Cambria 1823; The elements of Hebrew and Chaldee grammar 1832; Hebrew and English concordance 1838; Hebrew and English lexicon grammar 1850; Laws of Hebrew poetry 1860. _d._ Dimple, Turton 1 April 1870. _bur._ in graveyard attached to Walmsley chapel.

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (eld. child of Bryan Waller Procter 1787–1874). _b._ 25 Bedford sq. London 30 Oct. 1825; contributed poems to the Book of beauty 1843; joined the Church of Rome about 1851; wrote poems in Household Words under name of Mary Berwick 1853–4; all her poems except two in Cornhill mag. and two in Good Words were first published in Household Words or All the year round; appointed by the council of National association for promotion of social science, member of a committee to consider fresh ways of providing employment for women 1859; edited a volume of miscellaneous verse and prose set up in type by women compositors and entitled Victoria Regia 1861; wrote eight hymns, the best known are I do not ask O Lord, that life may be, and I thank thee, O my God, who made 1858–62; Legends and lyrics, a book of verses, 2 vols. 1858–61, 10 ed. with an introduction by C. Dickens and a portrait 1866; A chaplet of verses 1862. d. 32 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 2 Feb. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_, _2 series_ (1893) 268–96 _portrait_; _Bessie R. Belloe’s In a walled garden_ (1895) 164–78; _C. Bruce’s Book of noble Englishwomen_ (1875) 445–52; _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 913; _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii_ 359–64 (1891); _Atlantic monthly Dec. 1865 pp._ 739–43 _by C. Dickens_; _Eclectic Mag. lxxxviii_ 759 (1877) _portrait_.

PROCTER, ANNE BENSON (dau. of Thomas Skepper, lawyer, York, by Miss Benson, a lady who afterwards married Basil Montagu). _b._ York 11 Sept. 1799; saw much of society in Basil Montagu’s house in Bedford square; _m._ 7 Oct. 1824 Bryan Waller Procter, who _d._ 1874, they lived for some years in Basil Montagu’s house; an acquaintance of Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Browning; very well known in London society, her Sunday receptions were crowded with visitors; befriended Mrs. Anna B. Jameson in 1854; edited Letters addressed to Mrs. Basil Montagu and B. W. Procter 1881. _d._ 19 Albert hall mansions, Kensington Gore, London 5 March 1888. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_ 249–51 (1891); _Academy 17 March 1888 pp._ 187–8; _Times 7 March 1888 p._ 9, _8 March p._ 8.

PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (son of Nicholas Procter, _d._ 1816). _b._ Leeds 21 Nov. 1787; educ. at Finchley and Harrow under the name of William Bryan Procter 1801 etc. in company with sir R. Peel and Byron; articled to Nathaniel Atherton of Calne, Wiltshire, a solicitor; in a conveyancer’s office in London; resided in London from 1807; solicitor in partnership with Wm. Henry Slaney 1817–23; contributed about 200 poems to the Literary Gazette under name of Barry Cornwall from 1815; a friend of Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb; his tragedy of Mirandola produced at Covent Garden theatre 9 Jany 1821, ran 16 nights; barrister G.I. 4 May 1831, had many pupils in conveyancing; a metropolitan comr. in lunacy 12 Sept. 1832, retired on pension Feb. 1861, honorary comr. Feb. 1861 to death; edited The works of Ben Jonson, with memoir 1838; The works of Shakespeare, with memoir and essay on his genius 1840; edited with John Forster Selections from the poetical works of R. Browning 1873; author under pseudonym of Barry Cornwall of Dramatic scenes and other poems 1819, 2 ed. 1820; Marcian Colonna, a tale 1820; A Sicilian story 1820, 3 ed. 1821; Poetical works, 3 vols. 1822; The flood of Thessaly 1823; Effigies poeticæ or the portraits of the British poets 1824; English songs 1832, 3 ed. 1851; The life of Edmund Kean 1835; Charles Lamb, a memoir 1866. _d._ 32 Weymouth st. London 4 Oct. 1874. _bur._ Finchley cemetery. _Bryan Waller Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_), _an autobiographical fragment_ (1877) _preface signed C. P.[atmore]_; _T. H. Wade’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 489–94 (1883); _Wm. Howitt’s Homes and Haunts ii_ 447–51 (1847); _The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) _ii_ 539–62; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (_4 ed._ 1876) 475–87; _A. H. Miles’ Poets i_ 351–62 (1891); _I.L.N. lxv_ 353 (1874) _portrait_; _Graphic x_ 367 (1874) _portrait_.

NOTE. He is referred to by Lord Byron in Don Juan, canto xi, verse lix,

“Then there’s my gentle Euphues, who they say, Sets up for being a sort of moral me, He’ll find it rather difficult some day To turn out both, or either, it may be.”

His only son Montagu Mitchell Procter, lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 31 Aug. 1878, retired with honorary rank of M.G. 24 Feb. 1885, _d._ Dinan, France 6 Oct. 1885.

PROCTER, RICHARD WRIGHT. _b._ Paradise Vale, Salford, Lancs. 19 Dec. 1816; a barber in Long-Millgate, Manchester to his death; established a circulating library in his house 1840; sent verses to the Manchester and Salford Advertiser under name of Sylvan; author of Gems of thought and flowers of fancy 1855; The barber’s shop 1856, 2 ed. 1883; Literary reminiscenses and gleanings 1860; Our turf, our stage, and our ring 1862; Manchester in holiday dress 1866; Memorials of Manchester streets 1874; Memorials of bygone Manchester 1880. _d._ 133 Long-Millgate, Manchester 11 Sept. 1881. _R. W. Procter’s Barber’s shop_, _2 ed._ (1883) _memoir and portrait_; _Palatine note-book i_ 165–7 (1881) _portrait_.

PROCTOR, HARRY (the stage name of Rowline Philp, cousin of Elizabeth Philp). An actor at the Adelphi theatre, London 1878; played colonel Muldoon in Boucicault’s The O’Dowd 21 Oct. 1880, Joe Gallon in Pettitt’s Taken from life 31 Dec. 1881, and Johnie Downs in Buchanan’s Storm-beaten 14 March 1883; had considerable literary ability and his imitative powers were remarkable. _d._ 55 Crowndale road, Oakley square, London 19 Nov. 1887.

PROCTOR, HENRY ADOLPHUS. _b._ 1784; cornet 2 life guards 14 Jany. 1801; captain 82 foot 16 May 1805, major 30 April 1812 to 26 Nov. 1818, when placed on h.p.; C.B. 19 July 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; colonel of 97 foot 29 Nov. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Aberhafesp hall, Montgomeryshire 13 May 1859.

PROCTOR, RICHARD ANTHONY (youngest child of Wm. Proctor, solicitor, _d._ 1850). _b._ Chelsea 23 March 1837; entered Univ. coll. London 1855, and St. John’s coll. Camb. 1856, scholar 1856–60, captain of his college boating club; 23rd wrangler 1860, B.A. 1860; read for the bar; taught mathematics in a private military school at Woolwich; hon. secretary of Royal astronomical society to 1873; lectured in U.S. of America 1873, and in Australasia 1879–80; founded Knowledge, an illustrated magazine of science, No. 1 Nov. 4 1881, converted into a monthly 1885; charted 324,198 stars from Argelander’s Survey of the northern heavens, on an equal surface projection; author of Saturn and his system 1865; The handbook of the stars 1866; Half-hours with a telescope 1868, 20 ed. 1889; Essays on astronomy 1872; The sun 1871, 3 ed. 1876; The moon 1873, 3 ed. 1876; Transits of Venus 1874, 4 ed. 1882; The universe of stars 1878; The great Pyramid 1883; Other suns than ours 1887; Old and new astronomy 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works; his widow Sallie Duffield Proctor granted civil list pension of £100, 11 Feb. 1889. _d._ Willard Parker hospital, New York 12 Sept. 1888. _Eclectic Mag. lxxxii_ 371 (1874) _portrait_; _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlix_ 164–8 (1889); _Knowledge Oct. 1888 pp._ 265–6 _portrait_; _Illust. Review Aug. 1873 pp._ 189–92 _portrait_.

PROCTOR, SIR WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Proctor, 2 baronet, 1756–1827). _b._ Langley park near Acle, Norfolk 14 Oct. 1781; entered navy 4 Sept. 1794; served in the expedition to Egypt; was at bombardment of Havre 1804; served in East Indies 1808; captain R.N. 5 Sept. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841, V.A. 2 Sept. 1850; admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Langley park, Norfolk 14 March 1861. _O’Byrne Naval Biog. Dict. 1849 p._ 985.

PROCTOR-BEAUCHAMP, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM BROGRAVE, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir W. B. Proctor, 3 baronet 1781–1861). _b._ Broome place, Norfolk 2 July 1815; cornet royal horse guards 16 Oct. 1835, lieut. 1 June 1838, sold out 22 Sept. 1843; major Suffolk artillery militia 18 April 1854 to 9 Nov. 1855; succeeded 14 March 1861; lieut. col. 2nd battalion of Norfolk rifle volunteers 25 March 1861 to June 1872; sheriff of Norfolk 1869; he transposed his names Beauchamp Proctor by R.L. 9 July 1862. _d._ Langley park, near Acle, Norfolk 7 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_ 379 (1874).

PRODGERS, CAROLINE GIACOMETTI (dau. of Mr. Prodgers). _b._ 1830; readmitted to British nationality 18 Aug. 1875; the cabmen’s terror, she had an exact and minute knowledge of London and frequently had herself conveyed to within a few feet of the distance covered by a shilling fare; she was continually summoned by the cabmen, but was generally found to be correct, as to the distances; corresponded with the public analysts; was wealthy and lived in good style; she was burnt in effigy as a Guy on the 5th November about the year 1876; the divorced wife of Giovani Battista Giacometti, a captain of the Austrian navy who was naturalised in England 15 June 1876. _d._ 54 Queen’s road, Marylebone, London 29 April 1890.

PROPERT, JOHN (only son of Thomas Propert Bluenpistill, Cardigan). _b._ 19 July 1793; a pupil of John Abernethy 30 Oct. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1814; a surgeon in London, where he had a large practice; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1857; founder of the Royal Medical benevolent college at Epsom for medical men and their widows, including a school for sons of surgeons 1855, chapel opened 1857. _d._ 6 New Cavendish st. London 8 Sept. 1867. _Medical circular i_ 9 (1852) _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs of medical men i_ 39–42 (1865) _portrait_; _Medical Times ii_ 334–5 (1867); _Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vi_ 62 (1871); _In memoriam, J. P. by the rev. R. Thornton_ (1867).

PROSSER, GEORGE WALTER. _b._ 1795; ensign 2 foot 6 Oct. 1812, lieut. 16 Sept. 1813; captain 7 dragoon guards 8 Aug. 1822, placed on h.p. with rank of major 10 June 1826; major and superintendent of studies at royal military college 13 May 1842, lieut. governor 9 Jany. 1854 to 17 April 1857; colonel 20 June 1854. _d._ Windsor 12 April 1859.

PROSSER, JAMES. _b._ 1789 or 1790; educ. St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Thame, Oxfordshire and chaplain of Thame union 1841–71; author of A key to the Hebrew scriptures 1838, 3 ed. 1854; Examples of the philosophical accuracy of the Hebrew text when literally translated without points; The book of Genesis without points; J. Parkhurst’s Hebrew and Chaldee grammar without points 1840; Family prayers 1851. _d._ The Elms, Thame 15 July 1877.

PROSSER, RICHARD. _b._ Birmingham 3 April 1800; employed by Penn and Williams of Birmingham, brassfounders; civil engineer; took out patents for a bullion nail of iron 1831, for casting nails 1835, for nail and screw making machinery 1839, for boiler stoves 1839, for rollers in calico printing, for welded tubes 1840, for a new principle of making iron tubes 1845, for anti-welded tubes 1850, on which he spent £20,000, these tubes are still in use; produced buttons, tiles, tesseræ and articles of pottery from clay in a powdered state 1840; with Job Cutler had a patent for engraved grooved rollers 1843; suggested the Indices of Patents which were compiled by Bennet Woodcraft 1857–89; gave evidence before the Small arms committee 1854. _d._ King’s Norton, Worcestershire 21 May 1854. _R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham inventors_ (1881) 5, 245; _Regina v. Prosser 1847 to set aside patents and works of Caledonian tube company_.

PROSSER, SOPHIE AMELIA (daughter of Charles Dibdin 1768–1833). _b._ London 17 May 1807; _m._ 1 Jany. 1830 William Prosser, vicar of Ashby Folville, Leicester, who _d._ 28 June 1884 aged 85; wrote in Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home for about 20 years to her death; author of Original fables and sketches 1864; The Awdries and their friends 1868, 2 ed. 1889; Cicely Brown’s trials 1871, 3 ed. 1885; The cheery chime of Garth 1874, 2 ed. 1888; The day after tomorrow 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Amos Fayle 1878; Frog alley and what came out of it 1879; Ludovic or the boy’s victory 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Lined with gold 1884; Michael Airdree’s freehold 1888; Uncle Christie the strange lodger 1889; The face in the shutter 1890; The Crinkles of Crinklewood hall 1892; her name as Mrs. Prosser is attached to upwards of 30 books, almost all of them published by the Religious Tract Society. _d._ St. Luke’s vicarage, the residence of her son, Wolverhampton road, Bilston 14 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Bilston cemetery 17 Feb. _The Bilston Herald 18 Feb. 1882 p._ 4.

PROTHERO, GEORGE (4 son of Thomas Prothero of St. Woolos and Malpas court, Newport, Monmouth 1780–1853). _b._ 1819; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1866; V. of Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire 1847–53; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1853–7, and rector 1857 to death; hon. chaplain in ordinary to the queen 6 July 1865, and chief chaplain in ordinary 22 June 1869; canon of Westminster 1869, and sub-dean 1883 to death; rural dean of East Medina, Isle of Wight 1872; proctor for dean and chapter of Westminster in convocation 1880 and 1886; enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the royal family for many years; author of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, a sermon 1881; The armour of light and other sermons preached before the queen 1888. _d._ Whippingham rectory 16 Nov. 1894. _Graphic 24 Nov. 1894 p._ 598 _portrait_.

PROTHERO, GEORGIANA MARY (only dau. of Matthew Marsh, chancellor of Salisbury, _d._ 1846). With her father visited at Holland house and saw Samuel Rogers, the poet Bowles, Coxe and others; appeared at a commemoration ball at Oxford and was the beauty of the day; was an admirable Latin scholar and a student in natural history and botany; _m._ 2 Feb. 1837 rev. Thomas Prothero, who _d._ in 1870, when she took up her residence at Malpas court, Newport and managed the estate. _d._ Malpas court 11 Oct. 1895.

PROTHERO, THOMAS (brother of George Prothero 1819–94). _b._ 14 Aug. 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1823 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of Malpas 1843–6; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1846–53; chaplain to prince Albert at Osborne 26 Dec. 1848 to 1853; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 16 Nov. 1853 to death; author of A sermon preached at the parish church of Whippingham 1847. _d._ Malpas court 11 June 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 667 (1870); _Times 14 June 1870 p._ 5, _col._ 3.

PROUDMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1833; a choir trainer; an advocate of the Tonic Sol-fa system; had great alertness in conducting large bodies of children; conducted concerts of the Ragged school, the Reformatory union and Dr. Barnado’s homes at Exeter hall; took a choir to the Paris exhibition 1867; taught many thousands of pupils in schools and public classes; composer of Part songs and choruses 1870, three parts; and with A. I. Stapleton Voice training exercises 1878, 2 ed. 1883; author of Musical lectures and sketches 1869; Musical jottings, useful and humorous 1872, with a portrait; and with W. A. Essery The London chants 1870. _d._ 48 Jenner road, Stoke Newington, London 21 April 1891. _J. Proudman’s Musical jottings_ (1872) _portrait_; _Musical Times 1 May 1891 p._ 284.

PROUT, JOHN (son of Wm. Prout, farmer). _b._ South Petherwin, near Launceston 1 Oct. 1810; emigrated to Canada and farmed land at Pickering, Ontario 1832–42; partner with his uncle Thomas Prout as a patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand, London 1842, carried on the business alone 1859 to death; bought Blount’s farm, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 1861, which he cultivated till June 1894 with success; he demonstrated that successive crops of cereals could be raised on heavy clay-land, if drained and deeply ploughed and dressed with properly prepared chemical manures; author of Profitable clay farming under a just system of tenant right 1881, translated into French and German. _d._ at his daughter’s house, Wimbish vicarage, Saffron Walden, Essex 7 Dec. 1894. _The Cable Aug. 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_.

PROUT, JOHN SKINNER (nephew of Samuel Prout). _b._ Plymouth 1806; resided in Bristol about 1830–4, in Sydney, N.S.W. and in Tasmania 1840–50; and in London 1850 to death; member of Institute of painters in water-colours; author of Antiquities of Chester 1838; The castles and abbeys of Monmouthshire 1838; Australia by E. C. Booth, illustrated by S. Prout 1873; some of his Bristol drawings were republished with letterpress descriptions under title of Picturesque antiquities of Bristol 1893; there are several of his drawings at South Kensington Museum. _d._ 4 Leighton crescent, Kentish town, London 29 Aug. 1876. _J. L. Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 406, _ii_ 87 (1891); _I.L.N. lxix_ 218, 253, 255 (1876) _portrait_.

PROUT, SAMUEL. _b._ Plymouth 17 Sept. 1783; educ. Plymouth gram. school; a water-colour painter in London from 1802; contributed 23 drawings to John Britton’s Beauties of England and Wales 1803–13; sold his water-colour drawings to Mr. Palser, Westminster bridge road 1804; member of Associated artists in water-colours 1810, exhibited 30 works in their gallery 1810–12; etched designs for Rudiments of landscape with progressive studies 1813 anon., and other educational books published by R. Ackerman of 101 Strand, who also published many detached etchings by Prout; member of the Oil and water colour society 1819; went abroad in 1820 and succeeding years and made drawings of churches, streets, etc.; painter in water-colours in ordinary to the queen 1829; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1803–27; in a loan collection at the Fine arts society gallery 148 New Bond st. 119 of his drawings were exhibited 1879–80; published S. Prout’s New drawing book 1819; Facsimiles of S. Prout’s Views in the North of England 1821; Sketches made in France and Germany 1833; Interiors and exteriors 1834; Hints on light and shade, composition, &c. 1838, republished 1848; Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy 1839; Prout’s Microcosm 1841; Sketches at home and abroad 1844; the sketches he left were disposed of in a 4 days’ sale at Sotheby and Wilkinson’s, producing £1788 11s. 6d., May 19–22, 1852. _d._ 5 De Crespigny terrace, Denmark hill, Camberwell 10 Feb. 1852. _bur._ Norwood cemet., monument St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth. _J. Ruskin’s Notes on S. Prout and W. Hunt_ (1879); _J. L. Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 340, _ii_ 50, 459 (1891); _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106–17; _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_ 487–93 (1866); _Art Journal March 1849 pp._ 76–7 _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 419–20 (1852).

PROUT, THOMAS. _b._ 1785; patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand 1816 to death; a member of the Ballot Society to death; a most influential elector of city of Westminster 1832 to death. _d._ East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey 25 July 1859, memorial tablet erected in St. Clement Danes church by sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.B. about 1867. _Diprose’s St. Clements i_ 63, 146 (1868).

PROVAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Stonehaven 1799; entered Aberdeen univ. 1811, M.A. 1815; had a literary engagement on the Continent; parliamentary reporter on Morning chronicle, London; edited the Macclesfield Courier 1835 to death. _d._ Macclesfield 11 Dec. 1867. _Macclesfield Courier 21 Dec. 1867 p._ 5.

PROVIS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Provis, a carpenter at Warminster). Educ. Winchester school; called himself Dr. Smith and became a public lecturer; sentenced to death for stealing a gelding, but sentence commuted to 18 months’ imprisonment 1811; called himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth and said he was _b._ Bath 2 Sept. 1797, claimed to be the son and heir of sir Hugh Smyth, bart., who _d._ 28 Jany. 1824, by his first and secret marriage in 1796 with Jane, daughter of count John Samuel Vandenbergh; brought an action of ejectment to recover Ashton court, near Bristol and certain estates valued at £30,000 a year at Gloucester summer Assizes 8 to 10 Aug. 1853, his story entirely broke down on his cross examination; tried for forgery and perjury at Gloucester 6 to 7 April 1854, condemned to 20 years’ transportation; the case cost the Smyth family £6,000; confined in Millbank penitentiary 1854. _d._ Dartmoor prison infirmary 27 May 1855. _Annual Register xcv_ 308–30 (1853), _xcvii_ 94 (1855); _Law magazine l_ 294–317 (1851), _li_ 371; _Celebrated claimants_ (1873) 209–19; _W. O. Woodall’s celebrated trials_ (1873) 115–46; _Impudent impostors_ (1876) 209–18; _E. Austin’s Anecdotage_ (1872) 129–41; _Sir B. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families ii_ 300–27 (1869); _G.M. Feb. 1872 pp._ 334–41; _The victim of fatality, the life of the plaintiff in the trial Smyth versus Smyth_ (1854) _portrait_.

PROVIS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of Henry Provis, engineer). _b._ Wimpole, Cambs. 5 May 1792; pupil of his father to 1814; assistant to T. Telford 1814–34; resident engineer of the suspension bridge over the Menai strait 1819–26, laid the first stone 10 Aug. 1819; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1819; author of An historical account of the suspension bridge over the Menai strait 1828. _d._ The Grange, near Ellesmere, Salop 29 Sept. 1870. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Oct. _Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 225–30 (1871).

PROWETT, CHARLES GIPPS (eld. son of Charles Prowett, rector of Stapleford, Herts.) _b._ Topcroft, Norfolk 1818; educ. Richmond and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his college 1841 to death; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; editor of “John Bull” newspaper to 1865; contributor to Gentleman’s and Fraser’s magazines and Quarterly review; author of Trifolium Caianum in adventum reginæ 1843; Translations and original pieces 1881. _d._ Northumberland st. Strand 28 June 1874. _bur._ Stapleford, near Hertford. _Law Times lvii_ 237 (1874).

PROWSE, WILLIAM JEFFERY (son of Isaac Prowse, _d._ 1844). _b._ Torquay 6 May 1836; adopted by his uncle John Sparke Prowse, notary, Greenwich; educ. under Nicholas Wanostrocht at Greenwich; contributed to Chambers’ Journal, the Ladies’ Companion, and the National Mag. 1851 etc.; wrote in the Aylesbury News 1855; engaged on the Daily Telegraph, his first article being on the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1861, his last on the death of Tom Lockyer, cricketer 1870; contributed to Fun the Old Man’s sporting articles, etc. under signature of Nicholas; he wrote The key of the Study pp. 199–237 in A Bunch of keys, ed. by T. Hood 1865, and Like to like, a story told by the water-rate pp. 63–94 in Rates and taxes, ed. by T. Hood 1866; he also contributed with G. L. M. Strauss to England’s Workshops 1864. _d._ Nice or Cimies 17 April 1870. _bur._ Cimies. _Nicholas’ Notes and Sporting prophecies by W. J. Prowse_, _ed. by Tom Hood_ (1870) _memoir pp._ 3–12 _portrait_; _Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 57–64 (1882); _W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 377; _Newspaper Press iv_ 130 (1870).

PRYDE, JAMES. _b._ 1802; teacher of mathematics and lecturer on mathematics in the School of arts, Edinburgh; in Chambers’s Educational Course he wrote Exercises and problems in Algebra 1855; Treatise on practical mathematics 1855; Algebra, theoretical and practical 1860; Euclid’s Elements of plane geometry 1860; Navigation 1867; and Mathematical tables, logarithms 1878, 2 ed. 1885; he was also author of Tables for calculating interest 1857; A treatise on mathematics 1868; resided 17 Newton st. Glasgow. _d._ of heart disease in Sauchiehall st. Glasgow 10 Feb. 1879.

PRYER, HARRY. _b._ 1850; a merchant; fellow of Entomological soc. of London; went to Japan 1870; a recognised authority on Japanese natural history, helped to establish and maintain the museum at Tokio; made researches on the parasites of silk worms; C.M.Z.S.; author of Rhopalocera Nihonica, the butterflies of Japan, Yokohama, 1886. _d._ Yokohama, Japan 17 Feb. 1888.

PRYME, GEORGE (only child of Christopher Pryme of Hull, merchant 1739–84). _b._ Cottingham, Yorkshire 4 Aug. 1781; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1799, scholar 25 April 1800, fellow 2 Oct. 1805 to Aug. 1813; sixth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; called Prize Pryme on account of the number of the prizes which he gained; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806, leader of the Norfolk circuit; returned to Cambridge Oct. 1808, resided at Barnwell abbey, Cambridge from 1813; lecturer in the university on political economy March 1816, professor 27 May 1828, resigned 29 Oct. 1863; contested borough of Cambridge 1820 and 1826; M.P. Cambridge 13 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, was frequently in the chair in committees of the house on bills introduced by private members; bought an estate at Wistow, Hunts. 1847; a founder of the Reform club 1836; author of Poematia numismatibus annis dignata A.D. 1801–1802, Cambridge 1802; Syllabus of a course of Lectures on political economy 1816, 4 ed. 1859; Memoir of the life of D. Sykes, Wakefield 1834; Jephthah and other poems 1838. _d._ Wistow 2 Dec. 1868. _Autobiographic recollections of G. Pryme_, _edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alicia Bayne_ (1870); _R. W. Corlass’ Sketches of Hull authors_ (1879) 83–90; _Register and Mag. of biography Jany. 1869 pp._ 48–50.

PRYOR, ALFRED REGINALD (eld. son of Alfred Pryor). _b._ Hatfield, Herts. 24 April 1839; educ. Tunbridge sch. and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862; joined the R.C. church 1858; wrote many papers on botany in the Journal of botany 1873–81; left his herbarium, books, manuscript flora and £100 to the Hertfordshire Natural history society; author of A flora of Hertfordshire, edited by B. D. Jackson 1887. _d._ Baldock, Herts. 18 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Baldock 24 Feb. _A. R. Pryor’s Flora_ (1887) _memoir pp. v, xliv–xlvi_; _Journal of botany_ (1881) 276–8.

PRYCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; an accountant at Bristol; city librarian April 1856 to death; F.S.A. 30 April 1857; author of Notes on the ecclesiastical and monumental architecture and sculpture of the middle ages in Bristol 1850; Memorials of the Canynges family and their times 1854; Westbury college, Redcliffe church and Chatterton about 1856; Fact _versus_ fiction, a descent among writers on Bristol history and biography 1858; A popular history of Bristol 1861. _d._ Bristol 15 March 1868, portrait in reference room of Bristol free library.

PRYSE, EDWARD LEWIS (2 son of Pryse Pryse, M.P. of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire). _b._ 1817; cornet 6 dragoon guards 17 March 1837, captain 2 Aug. 1844; captain 3 foot 12 June 1846, sold out 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. Cardigan 1857–68; president of Cardigan liberal association; lord lieut. of co. Cardigan 27 Aug. 1857; hon. col. royal Cardigan militia 11 July 1877 to death; master of Peithyll fox hounds. _d._ Peithyll, Aberystwith 29 May 1888.

PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1810; known as Gweirydd ap Rhys; took an active part in the Eisteddfods; author of An English and Welsh pronouncing dictionary, in which the pronunciation is given in Welsh letters, Dinbych 1857; Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r Cymry, two parts, Llundain 1873–6, and other works in the Welsh language 1841–78. _d._ Bethesda, Bangor Sept. 1889. _Times 3 Oct. 1889 p._ 9.

PUCKLE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Smith). _bapt._ Eastwick, Herts. 13 Sept. 1767; a nursemaid; _m._ Timothy Puckle of Stapleford 23 April 1793. _d._ High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 9 Dec. 1872, said to be aged 106. _Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 280–5.

PUCKLE, JOHN (only son of John Puckle of Pentonville, London). _b._ 1812; Somerset scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1832–5; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover 1842 to death; rural dean of Dover 1846 to death; surrogate of diocese of Canterbury 1846 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury 1869 to death; proctor diocese of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of Ecclesiastical sketches of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury 1849; Parochial sermons, 4 vols. 1847–61; Church and fortress of Dover castle, illustrated from his own drawings 1864; John’s governor visits dame Europa’s school 1870, which circulated 40,000 copies. _d._ Dover 26 Feb. 1894.

PUDNEY, JAMES. _b._ Lambeth 13 May 1830; beat Dawkins ½ mile at the Old Cope 12 Nov. 1850; beat T. Cook 10 miles at Barking 2 May 1853; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 and belt at Halifax 13 March 1854; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 at Wandsworth 17 Nov. 1856; beat C. Cooke 10 miles £50 at Hackney 12 Sept. 1859; won the 10 mile cup and £6 at Hackney 10 June 1861; winner of upwards of 70 races and handicaps; champion of England. _Illust. sporting news 24 May 1862 p._ 81 _portrait_.

PUGH, DAVID (son of Charles Pugh, _d._ 21 Dec. 1796). _b._ Perry hill, Kent 14 Aug. 1789; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 29 April 1809; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry about 1840; recorder of Welshpool many years; M.P. Montgomery burghs 10 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition March 1833; M.P. again 29 July 1847 to death. _d._ Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire 20 April 1861.

PUGH, DAVID (eld. son of colonel David Heron Pugh of Manoravon, Llandilo). _b._ 23 March 1806; educ. Rugby and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; chairman of quarter sessions for Carmarthenshire 1843–52; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1857–68; contested Carmarthenshire 26 Nov. 1868; M.P. Eastern division of the county 1885 to death; sheriff of Carmarthen 1874; owner of nearly 10,000 acres of land. _d._ London 12 July 1890.

PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE (only child of Augustus Charles Pugin, architect 1762–1832). _b._ 34 Store st. Bedford sq. London 1 March 1812; educ. Christ’s hospital; designed the furniture for Windsor castle June 1827; executed the scenery for the ballet of Kenilworth at Drury Lane 1831; architect at Salisbury 1833–41, at Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1841, then at Ramsgate to his death, where he built for himself a house with a church adjoining on the West Cliff; joined the Church of Rome 1834; designed for the earl of Shrewsbury the addition to Alton Towers, the church at Cheadle, and the chapel and other buildings at St. John’s hospital, Alton; prepared for Charles Barry all the detail drawings for the new houses of parliament 1836–40; designed the cathedrals of Southwark, Killarney, and Enniscorthy, and many churches, chiefly Roman Catholic; author of Gothic furniture in the style of the fifteenth century 1835; Contrasts, Salisbury 1836, 2 ed. 1841; Designs for gold and silver smiths 1836; Designs for brass and iron work 1836; The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture 1841; An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England 1843; Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume 1844, 3 ed. 1868; Some remarks on articles in the Rambler 1850; A treatise on chancel screens 1851; Church and state, or christian liberty 1875, 4 ed. 1875; a patient in a private asylum 1852, removed to Bedlam; Jane Pugin, his wife, granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Sept. 1852. _d._ St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate 14 Sept. 1852. _Ferrey’s Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin_ (1861) _portrait_; _J. C. Colquhoun’s Scattered leaves of biography_ (1864) 317–60; _Metropolitan and provincial Catholic almanac_ (1853) 5–10 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_ 281, 282 (1852) _portrait_.

PUGIN, EDWARD WELBY (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 11 March 1834; managed his father’s practice from 1851; exhibited 16 designs at the R.A. 1854–79; partner with Mr. Ashlin; partner with James Murray of Coventry, they designed Queenstown cathedral; he designed the church of the Immaculate Conception at Dadizeele, Belgium 1859, for which Pius IX gave him the order of St. Sylvester; designed St. Michael’s priory, Belmont, Herefordshire, the church of S.S. Peter and Paul, Cork, the Augustinian church at Dublin, the college of St. Cuthbert and the schools of St. Aloysius, Ushaw, and many churches; in five years made £40,000; designed the Granville hotel at Ramsgate in which he held a share and lost much money; claimed unjustly that his father was the architect of the houses of parliament 1867; edited some of his father’s works; author of Who was the art architect of the houses of parliament 1867, there were several pamphlets on this subject. _d._ 111 Victoria st. Westminster 4 June 1875. _bur._ St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate 10 June, marble bust in the gardens on the cliff at Ramsgate. _Builder 12 June 1875 pp._ 522–3; _Building News 11 June 1875 p._ 670; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 571 (1875) _portrait_.

PULESTON, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Richard Puleston, 1 baronet 1765–1840). _b._ Emral, Flintshire 20 June 1789; succeeded 19 May 1840; colonel of Flint militia 24 Feb. 1846 to 14 May 1855. _d._ 19 Dec. 1860.

PULLAN, RICHARD POPPLEWELL (son of Samuel Popplewell Pullan, solicitor). _b._ Knaresborough, Yorkshire 27 March 1825; educ. Christ’s hospital; went to Sebastopol during the siege Oct. 1854, and made sketches and models of the district; exhibited in London a model of the country and fortifications about Sebastopol; appointed by the foreign office architect to the expedition sent to survey the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor in April 1857; employed by the Society of Dilettanti on further investigations of a like kind; competed for Truro and Lille cathedrals, the war and foreign offices, and natural history museum; designed churches at Pontresina and Baveno; completed all the unfinished works of Wm. Burges 1881; author of The altar, its baldachin and reredos 1873; Eastern cities and Italian towns 1879; Elementary lectures on Christian architecture 1879; Studies in architectural style 1883; Studies in cathedral design 1888; author with sir C. T. Newton of A history of discoveries of Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidæ 1862; with C. F. M. Texier of Byzantine architecture 1864; he edited The architectural designs of W. Burges 1883; The house of W. Burges 1886. _d._ Brighton 30 April 1888. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq._, _n.s. xii_ 391 (1888); _Athenæum i_ 575 (1888).

PULLEINE, JAMES (2 son of Henry Percy Pulleine of Crake hall, Bedale, Yorkshire 1770–1833). _b._ 31 Oct. 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832, went northern circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for north riding of Yorkshire 16 years; a director of North Eastern railway company, chairman; sheriff of Yorkshire 1870; F.G.S. _d._ Clifton castle, Bedale, Yorkshire 23 March 1879. _Law Times lxvi_ 471 (1879).

PULLEN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1807; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., sixth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1830–47, tutor 1842–6; V. of St. Benedict’s, Cambridge 1847–71; professor of astronomy in Gresham college, London 1834–75; author of A lecture on astronomy, read at Gresham college 1843. _d._ 7 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 20 Jany. 1877.

PULLEN, THOMAS FRANCIS. _b._ Plymouth 1851; midshipman R.N. 27 July 1866; commander of the Sparrowhawk in a survey of Jamaica 1875–80; employed on the Red sea and Delagoa bay surveys 1881–2, and on the second transit of Venus; senior British comr. to determine boundary line between British and French possessions near Assinie, West coast of Africa 1883; re-established the protectorate of the king of Aowin on the border of Ashantee 1884; in charge of survey of New Guinea; commander of the Stork in surveying east coast of Africa 1888. _d._ Bonny, Upper Guinea 3 Nov. 1889. _I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 p._ 651 _portrait_; _Times 7 Dec. 1889 p._ 10.

PULLEN, WILLIAM JOHN SAMUEL (son of W. Pullen, lieutenant R.N.) _b._ 1813; entered navy as a cadet 15 June 1828; assistant surveyor under South Australian company 1836; marine surveyor of the colony; returned to the navy as a midshipman 1844; commander 25 Jany. 1850; commanded the North star in the Franklin search expedition Feb. 1852 to Oct. 1854; commanded the Falcon in the Baltic fleet 1855; captain 10 May 1856; captain of the Cyclops on the East Indian station Sept. 1857, bombarded Jeddah 1858; captain of the Terror at Bermuda 1863–5; captain of the Revenge coastguard ship at Pembroke 1867–9; placed on retired list 1 April 1870; R.A. 11 June 1874; V.A. 1 Feb. 1879; granted Greenwich hospital pension 19 Feb. 1886. _d._ 15 Jany. 1887.

PULLER, CHARLES GILES- (son of Christopher William Puller, M.P. Herts. 1807–64). _b._ 22 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 6 Oct. 1834; educ. at Eton 1847–50, and Trin. coll. Camb., 14 wrangler 1857, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; fellow of Trin. coll. 1859–74; R. of Standon, Herts. March 1862, resigned March 1868; renounced his orders in Ch. of England 18 Sept. 1874; travelled in Brazil; member of Royal Toxophilite soc. 1873–8; a first class amateur chess player; succeeded to the family estate on death of his brother; one of the first members of Herts. county council; had a library of 7,000 volumes; F.S.A. _d._ Youngsbury, near Ware 3 May 1892. _F. T. Follett’s Archer’s Register_ (1892) 44–5.

PULLIN, CHARLES KING. _b._ 3 Nov. 1838; umpire for the Gloucestershire county cricket club many years; one of the best umpires of his day; umpired in the match England _v._ Australia at the Oval 14–16 Aug. 1892. _d._ Redland, Bristol 2 April 1893.

PULLING, ALEXANDER (4 son of George Christopher Pulling, captain in the navy 1765–1819). _b._ the Court house, St. Arvan’s Monmouthshire 1 Dec. 1813; entered Merchant Taylor’s school April 1829; barrister I.T. 9 June 1843; became a leader on the South Wales circuit; gave evidence before royal commission on state of corporation of London Nov. 1853; senior comr. under Metropolitan management act of 1855; a promoter and original member of Incorporated council of law reporting 1865; revising barrister for Glamorgan 1857; serjeant-at-law 9 Feb. 1864; author of A practical treatise on the laws, customs, and regulations of the city and port of London 1842, 2 ed. 1849; A practical compendium of the law and usage of mercantile accounts 1846; Observations on the disputes in the corporation of the city of London on internal reform 1847; A summary of the law of attorneys and solicitors 1849, 3 ed. 1862; The law of joint stock companies account 1850; The order of the coif 1884. _d._ 68 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Jany. 1895. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 19 Jany. _Law Times 26 Jany. 1895 p._ 313.

PULLING, FREDERICK SANDERS (1 son of Frederick William Pulling, vicar of Pinhoe, Devon). _b._ Modbury, Devon 1854; educ. Bradfield and Ex. coll. Oxf., Guernsey scholar 12 Dec. 1871; B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878; professor of history Yorkshire coll. Leeds 1877; edited Oxford study guides 1880, three parts; The Constitutional magazine 1887; author of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1880; Life and speeches of the marquis of Salisbury, 2 vols. 1885; and with S. J. M. Low The dictionary of English history 1884, 2 ed. 1889. _d._ the vicarage, Pinhoe 6 July 1893.

PULLING, JAMES. _b._ 6 Dec. 1814; educ. Corpus Christi coll. Camb., fellow 1838–50, master 1850–79; 11 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1855; D.C.L. Oxford univ. 7 June 1853; C. of Grantchester, Cambridge 1842–4; V. of Belchamp St. Paul’s, Essex 1863 to death. _d._ Cambridge 26 Feb. 1879. _bur._ in the chapel of his college 4 March.

PULLING, WILLIAM. Educ. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; R. of Blackmanston, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; R. of Dymchurch, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; author of Select sermons, with appropriate prayers translated from the original Danish of N. E. Balle 1819; Sonnets in the Italian style with an essay on sonnet writing 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Biographical sketch of M. de Lamartine, with a translation of Meditations and Religious harmonies 1849. _d._ 1860.

PULMAN, GEORGE PHILIP RIGNEY (son of Philip Pulman 1791–1871). _b._ Axminster, Devon 21 Feb. 1819; printer and bookseller at Crewkerne 1848; edited the Yeovil Times some years; founded at Crewkerne Pulman’s Weekly news and advertiser 10 March 1857, owner and editor of it to June 1878, when he sold it with his bookselling business; obtained a bronze medal for his artificial fishing flies at Great Exhibition 1851; published The western agriculturist about 1843, and the United counties miscellany 1849 to July 1851; author of The book of the Axe 1841, 4 ed. 1875; The vade mecum of fly fishing for trout 1841, 3 ed. 1851; Rustic sketches, being poems on angling in the dialect of East Devon, Taunton 1842, 3 ed. 1871; Local nomenclature, a lecture on the names of places, chiefly in the West of England 1857; author with prince L. L. Bonaparte of The song of Solomon in the East Devonshire dialect 1860. _d._ The Hermitage, Uplyme, South Devon 3 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Axminster cemet. 7 Feb. _John Trotandot’s [i.e. G. P. R. Pulman’s] Rambles, warnings, and recollections_ (1870) _with portrait of G. P. R. Pulman_; _Academy 14 Feb. 1880 p._ 120.

PULMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1783; portcullis pursuivant 30 May 1822; yeoman usher of the black rod 1830 to death; Richmond herald 23 July 1838 to 1846; Norroy king of arms 18 April 1846 to 1848; Clarenceux king of arms 14 June 1848 to death. _d._ East hill, Wandsworth 29 Oct. 1859. _G.M. Dec. 1859 p._ 655.

PULMAN, JOHN (eld. son of Thomas Pulman of Lampford Brett, Somerset). _b._ 1803; barrister M.T. 17 Jany. 1845; looked upon as a pillar of the church; author of A letter of remonstrance addressed to J. C. Barrow, by a Protestant Father 1859; The extradition treaty, the church of the poor and church rates 1861; The Anti-state church association unmasked 1864; An exposure of the fallacies in Mr. Spurgeon’s sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864, 2 ed. 1864; A letter to the archbishops and bishops on the civil and ecclesiastical courts 1867; A letter to the queen on the coronation oath 1869; The subordinate clergy and the bishops, which of them should bear rule 1870. _d._ 11 April 1888.

PULSFORD, ROBERT (youngest son of Wm. Pulsford of Wimpole st. London). _b._ 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hereford 5 Oct. 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 6 Upper Belgrave st. London 12 June 1888.

PULVERMACHER, ISAAC LEWIS OR LOUIS (son of Meyer Pulvermacher, _d._ Breslau, Prussia 1854). _b._ Kempen, Prussia 1815; apprenticed to a jeweller; a jeweller in Vienna and Prague; commenced studying and working in electricity in Prague; invented a series of batteries in the form of a chain and bands made from flexible zinc and copper wire, which give out a continuous current of galvanism 1844, this is an improvement of the voltaic pile, and is a producer of galvanism that can be worn on the body; settled in Berlin 1846 and in Paris 1850; came to London and opened a place of business at 118 Leadenhall st. 1849, removed to 194 Regent st. 1861, where he sold his galvanic bands and electric belts; established depôts in Stockholm and New York; naturalised in England 29 Jany. 1868; author of Practical guide for the electro-medical treatment of diseases by Pulvermacher’s hydro-electric chains 1856. _d._ Windmill hill house, West Hampstead, London 12 Sept. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead cemetery 14 Sept. _London Figaro 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 6 _portrait_.

PUMPHREY, THOMAS (son of Stanley Pumphrey). _b._ Worcester 10 June 1802; educ. Ackworth school 1812–15; a glover in his father’s business at Worcester 1817; a minister among the Friends 1822 to death; superintendent of Ackworth school 1834–62, during which time great improvements were made in the school buildings, presented with £1400 and a collection of books; author of A brief view of the Society of Friends on prayer 1828. _d._ Ackworth 31 July 1862. _bur._ 5 Aug. _Annual Monitor_ (1863) 123–46; _Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends_ (1888) 532–6, 798–802; _J. Ford’s Memoir of T. Pumphrey_ (1864) _portrait_.

PUNCHARD, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1835; of the firm of Punchard, M’Taggart, Lowther and Co., engineers and contractors for public works, 151 Cannon st. London; among the works he was interested in constructing were the Bedford and Northampton railway, the Great Marlow railway, and the West Lancashire railway; railways in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Malta, Tasmania, South Australia, Uruguay, and Brazil; with his partners he likewise made tramways in Buenos Ayres and the harbour of La Guaira in Venezuela; in conjunction with Thomas Brassey he made the Callao dock, Peru. _d._ 25 Dec. 1891. _Times 1 Jany. 1892 p._ 4.

PUNSHON, WILLIAM MORLEY (only child of John Punshon, mercer, _d._ 1840). _b._ Doncaster 29 May 1824; educ. Doncaster gr. sch. to 1835; clerk to Mr. Morley, timber merchant, Hull 1837–40; joined the Methodist society in Hull Nov. 1838; minister at Whitehaven 1845, ordained 1849; minister at Newcastle 1849–52, at Sheffield 1852–5, at Leeds 1855–8; minister of Hinde st. circuit London 1858–61, of Islington circuit 1861–64; minister at Bristol 1864–7; presided over the annual conferences in Canada 1868; created LL.D. by Victoria univ. of Cobourg June 1872; superintendent of Kensington circuit, London 1873–5; one of the general secretaries of Wesleyan Methodist missionary society 1875 to death; elected president of Wesleyan conference 29 July 1874; author of Tabor on the class meeting, a plea and an appeal 1849; John Bunyan, lectures 1857; Pulpit orations 1861; Sabbath chimes, meditations in verse 1867; The prodigal son, four discourses 1868; Sermons 1882. _d._ Tranby, Brixton Hill, London 14 April 1881. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 19 April. _F. W. Macdonald’s Life of W. M. Punshon_ (1887) _portrait_; _T. MacCullagh’s Memorial sermon_ (1881); _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii_ 138–41 (1890) _portrait_; _Leisure hours_. _By A Journalist_ (1878) 79–80; _C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1874) 261–9; _Drawing room portrait gallery_, _third series_ (1860) _portrait xv_; _Graphic x_ 150, 153 (1874) _portrait_.

PURCELL, EDWARD (youngest son of Tobias Purcell of Limogue castle, Queen’s county). Entered navy 9 June 1804; captain 25 Aug. 1828; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. _d._ Bath 3 Dec. 1869.

PURCELL, JOHN BAPTIST. _b._ Mallow, co. Cork 26 Feb. 1800; educ. Ashbury coll. Baltimore 1818, and Mount St. Mary, Emmettsburg 1820; ordained in Notre Dame, Paris 1826; professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s coll. 1827, and president 1828; bishop of Cincinnati, consecrated 13 Oct. 1833; archbishop 1850 with 4 suffragan bishops attached to his see; received the Pallium from the Pope’s hands in Rome 1851; his later days were troubled with great financial difficulties 1879 to death; author of A debate on the Roman Catholic religion between A. Campbell and the rev. J. B. Purcell 1837; The Vickers and Purcell controversy 1868; Marriage and family duties in general 1881. _d._ in Brown county, Ohio 4 July 1883. _Appleton’s American biography v_ 136 (1888).

PURCELL, THEOBALD ANDREW. Called to the Irish bar 1840, junior counsel 1865; county court judge and chairman of quarter sessions of county of Limerick and Queen’s county 16 Oct. 1874; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of Kings Inns 1886; author of A summary of the criminal law of Ireland 1848; A summary of the principles of pleading and evidence 1849; A suburb of Yedo 1889. _d._ 71 Harcourt st. Dublin 6 March 1894.

PURCHAS, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Jardine Purchas, captain in the navy). _b._ Cambridge 14 July 1823; educ. Rugby and Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; C. of Elsworth, Cambs. 1851–3; C. of Orwell, Cambs. 1856–9; C. of St. Paul’s, West st. Brighton 1861–6; P.C. of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1866 to death; charged before sir Robert Phillimore in the Arches court by colonel Charles James Elphinstone with infringing the law of the established church by using a cope and other ritualistic practices, judgment given against him on eight points with costs 3 Feb. 1870, Elphinstone appealed to the queen in council for a fuller condemnation of Purchas, but dying 30 March 1870, Henry Hebbert of Brighton was permitted to take his place 4 June 1870; the privy council decided against Purchas on practically all the points raised 16 May 1871 and suspended him from the discharge of his clerical office for 12 months 7 Feb. 1872, but he continued his services as usual to his death; upward of 17 works were printed on the Purchas case 1871–7; edited the Directorium Anglicanum 1858; author of The miser’s daughter, or the lover’s curse 1839, a comedy; Ode upon the death of the Marquis Camden 1841; The birth of the prince of Wales, a poem 1842; Poems and ballads 1846; The book of feasts 1853; The priest’s dream: an allegory 1856; The death of Ezekiel’s wife, three sermons 1866. _d._ 7 Montpellier villas, Brighton 18 Oct. 1872. _bur._ in the parochial cemet. 23 Oct. _Annual Register_ (1871) 187–210.

PURDAY, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1799; professor of music at 4 Hunter st. Brunswick sq, 1848–51; music publisher at 24 Madox st. Regent st. 1854, at 15 Mill st. Hanover sq. to 1864, and at 24 Great Marlborough st. to 1870; author of A catechism of music 1854; One hundred and one popular psalm and hymn tunes 1860; edited Abyssinian captives, recent intelligence from H. A. Stern 1866; composer of The denounced, a ballad 1830; Jehovah Jireh, sacred song 1847; Elementary exercises on the art of singing 1851; One hundred rounds for two-six voices 1852; A few directions for chaunting 1855; Admiral Blake, a song 1859; For the homes of our fathers, recitative and aria 1880; edited The sacred musical offering 1830; Songs for the young 1851; One hundred tunes for infants and juvenile schools 1855; A church and home tune book 1857; Fifty three popular rounds 1858; Routledge’s Church and home metrical psalter 1860; The royal naval song book 1867; Sinclair & Co.’s Fifty songs for young people 1867; The songs of Wales 1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music 1828–85. _d._ 27 Portland place, Notting Hill, London 23 April 1885.

PURDEY, JAMES. Founded the gunmaking business at 4 Princes st. Leicester sq. London 1818, at 314½ Oxford st. 1827–60, removed to South Audly street 1882; had Pigeon shooting grounds at Willesden 1856; made the first express rifles 1857; invented the expanding bullet; made the patent double bolt for breechloaders 1864; patented the rebounding hammerless gun 1881; a maker of weapons of the finest quality. _Shooting, field and covert_ (_Badmington library_) 1886 _pp._ 52, 381; _Sporting Mirror March 1882 pp._ 73–4; _Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 172.

PURDY, ELIZABETH (eld. child of Frederick and Elizabeth Purdy). Studied under John Forster, signor Ciabatta and Madame Giacinta Puzzi; first appeared at the Hanover sq. rooms, London 3 May 1871; studied singing at Milan 1876; appeared as Siebel in Faust at Dublin 1877 and at Her Majesty’s, London 19 Nov. 1877 under the name of Lisa Perdi; played Maddalena in Rigoletto; had a mezzo soprano voice with command of contralto and soprano notes. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Kensington, London 29 April 1881. _Musical World 21 May 1881 p._ 323; _Illust. Sp. and Dr. News 22 Dec. 1877 pp._ 327, 347 _portrait_.

PURDY, FREDERICK. _b._ 1812; principal of the Statistical department of poor law board; fellow of Statistical soc. 1837 to death; a member of the council, and one of honorary secretaries; author of Summary digest, return to parliament of owners of land, England and Wales 1876; wrote Suggestions on the printing of parliamentary statistics, in Journal R. Statistical soc. xxxiv 21–56 (1871), and ten other papers. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Kensington, London 12 Oct. 1888.

PURDY, WELLINGTON. _b._ Killucan, co. Westmeath 24 May 1815; employed under Mr. Vignoles on Manchester and Sheffield railway 1838–40, and under Joseph Locke 1840–5; resident engineer Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford railway 1846–56; in India reporting on Eastern Bengal railway 1856–7, made the railway 1858 etc.; partner with W. B. Lewis as engineers, London 1864; reported on the Dublin tramways 1871; retired from business 1880. _d._ 14 Feb. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii_ 408–13 (1889).

PURKESS, GEORGE (son of George Purkess of 59 Dean st. Soho, London, publisher, _d._ 1862). _b._ Wardour st. Soho, London 1840; publisher and bookseller at 16 St Alban’s place, Edgware road, London 1858–63; proprietor of The Family Doctor and people’s medical adviser, a weekly publication, No. 1 March 7, 1885 to death; proprietor of The Illustrated Police news at 83 Fleet st. 1863–5, at 275 Strand 1865–8, at 286 Strand 1868–90, and at 34 Catherine st. Strand 1890 to death; one of the founders of the old Unity club. _d._ 25 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 10 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Highgate new cemetery 15 Dec. _The Referee 18 Dec. 1892 p._ 7; _Illust. Police News 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 2.

PURKISS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1842; educ. City of London school; obtained the first queen’s prize given at South Kensington; matric. at univ. of London 1860, where he took three mathematical scholarships, an M.A. degree, and the gold medal as the best mathematician of his year; scholar Trin. coll. Camb., senior wrangler, first Smith prizeman and B.A. 1864; vice-principal of College of naval architecture South Kensington 1864, principal 1865 to death; editor of The Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin messenger of mathematics to death; _drowned_ while bathing in the river Cam 17 Sept. 1865. _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._ 10, _21 Sept. p._ 4, _22 Sept. p._ 8; _Cambridge Chronicle 23 Sept. 1865 pp._ 4, 7.

PURLAND, THEODOSIUS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1805; surgeon dentist Wilson st. Finsbury, London 1830, lived at 7 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. 1850 to death; M.A.; Ph.D.; his library, including his own Recollections of Vauxhall 1814–59, was sold at Hodgson’s, Chancery lane 16 March 1882; his Alsatian eccentricities, cuttings and pictures relating to murders etc. 1700–1782, 2 vols. 1847, 4to is in the British Museum 1243 k. _d._ 7 Mortimer st. London 16 Aug. 1881. _N. and Q. 6 s. v_ 168, 293, 317, _vi_ 154 (1882).

NOTE.--In his rooms he had some curious mechanical toys, which served to distract the minds of his youthful patients while he drew their teeth.

PURNELL, THOMAS (son of Robert Purnell). _b._ Tenby 1834; matric. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1852; assistant secretary and librarian of Archæological institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1862–6; contributed a series of dramatic criticisms under the signature Q to the Athenæum 1870–1; founded a club known as the Decemviri; invented the nickname tea-cup and saucer comedy for the Robertsonian school of plays; edited James Hind’s Historia quatuor regum Angliæ for the Roxburghe club 1868; and The correspondence and works of C. Lamb, 4 vols. 1870; author of Literature and its professors 1867; Dramatists of the present day. By Q 1871; To London and elsewhere 1881; The Lady Drusilla, a psychological romance 1887; Dust and diamonds, essays 1888. _d._ Lloyd sq. Pentonville, London 17 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_; _Athenæum 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 860.

PURNELL, WILLIAM PASTON (2 son of Purnell Bransby Cooper of Stancombe park, Gloucs. 1791–1866, assumed name of Purnell). _b._ 12 June 1821; ensign 90 foot 24 March 1838, lieut. col. 9 Oct. 1855 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in the Crimea and in India; ensign of yeomen of the guard 2 Feb. 1866 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Cookham, Berks. 14 May 1869.

PURSER, JOHN. Farmer of Willington, Beds.; a breeder of dogs; a member of the Cardington club; his bitch Pansey and his dog Pilot won numerous stakes and cups at Cardington and Newmarket 1847–9; William Purser, the brother, was a farmer and racer. _Sporting Review Dec. 1850 pp._ 435–7 _portrait_.

PURSER, RICHARD (a natural son of Mr. Loveridge, a builder). Claimed to have been _b._ Redmarley d’Abitot, Worcs. 14 July 1756; a cowman at Hempstead; a day labourer at Cheltenham; the Queen gave him £5 a year from 1863 on the erroneous statements made to her; _m._ 12 Sept. 1808 Ann Rollings. _d._ Cheltenham 12 Oct. 1868, claiming to be 112 but probably about 80. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 4, 139, 224–35; _G. H. Townsend’s Handbook_ (1869) 127.

PURTON, WALTER ONIONS. _b._ 1833; educ. St. Catherine’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; C. of Petworth, Sussex 1859–65; C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1865–6; R. of Coombe, Sussex 1866–70; R. of Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex 1870–88; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1888 to death; chaplain to 7 earl of Shaftesbury; a prominent evangelical who exercised influence in the religious press; held successively three editorships; editor of The Churchman 1879; author of The Communicant 1881. _d._ Poynings rectory 14 Sept. 1892. _Times 21 Sept. 1892 p._ 4; _Guardian 21 Sept. 1892 p._ 1391.

PURVES, DAVID LAING. _b._ 1838; had a Doctor’s degree; leader writer on the Scotsman, then on Daily Telegraph; edited The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene 1870; The English circumnavigators, voyages round the world 1874; wrote The life of Jonathan Swift in The works of J. Swift 1869. _d._ 214 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1873.

PURVES, JOHN (1 son of William Purves of Edinburgh). _b._ 1840; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., exhibitioner 1860–5, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, fellow 1866; classical lecturer Wadham coll. 1864–6; lecturer Balliol 1875, junior dean 1868, junior bursar 1872; Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1862, Craven scholar 1864, and Kennicott scholar 1865; edited Selections from the dialogues of Plato 1883, 2 ed. 1891; The Iliad, translated into English prose 1891; assisted Dr. Jowett in his works on Plato and Thucydides. _d._ Oxford 10 Jany. 1890. _Times 31 Jany. 1890 p._ 6.

PURVIS, CHARLES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1777; cornet 1 dragoons 3 June 1796; major 7 May 1812 to 11 June 1818, when placed on h.p. _d._ Royal crescent, Brighton 6 Nov. 1859.

PURVIS, JOHN BRETT (eld. son of John Child Purvis, admiral R N. 1747–1825). _b._ 12 Aug. 1787; entered navy 5 Jany. 1799; captain 16 Sept. 1809; in command of the Ganymede 23 guns Oct. 1801 on the coast of Spain; commander of the Magicienne in the East Indies 1815–9; in command of the Alfred 50 guns on the South American coast 1841–5; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 4 July 1853. _d._ Bury lodge near Gosport 1 Oct. 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 941–2.

PURVIS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Purvis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tailor). _b._ Auchindinny near Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1784; a drummer in the West York militia 1794; apprenticed to John Chapman, carpenter at Newcastle 1800–1807; drummer at Newcastle theatre, then call boy there under Stephen Kemble, and afterwards carpenter; worked as a carpenter about six years from 1807; a clown and an actor, became the clown and jester of the North; proprietor of an itinerant theatre about 1819, travelled the country from Durham to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in Scotland to his death; paid J. P. Robson £20 for writing his autobiography 1850. _d._ Hartlepool 16 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in St. Hilda’s churchyard, Hartlepool. _The life of Billy Purvis, Newcastle-on-Tyne_ (1875) _portrait_; _Life and adventures of Billy Purvis_, _by J. P. Robson_ (1850); _Illustrated sp. and dr. news ii_ 283 (1874).

PUSELEY, DANIEL (son of Henry Puseley, maltster). _b._ Bideford, Devon 9 Feb. 1814; a commercial traveller; hosier and silk merchant Gutter lane, city of London 1844–54, when he went to Australia for his health; author of Harry Mustifer, or a few years of the road, miscellaneous poems 1847 anon; The Saturday early closing movement. By A Warehouseman 1854; The rise and progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. By An Englishman 1857, 5 ed. 1858; The commercial companion, a record of eminent commercial houses and men of the day 1858, 3 ed. 1860; Five dramas 1860; New plays. By an old author 1876; author under pseudonym of Frank Foster of Number one, or the way of the world, a colonial directory including Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand 1862, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1865; A journey of life in long and short stages 1866; An old acquaintance 1866. _d._ 21 Rochester road, Camden Town, London 18 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Frank Foster’s The age we live in_ (1863) _portrait_; _Academy 28 Jany. 1882 p._ 63.

PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE (2 son of Philip Bouverie 1745–1828, who assumed the name of Pusey 3 April 1784). _b._ Pusey house, near Great Farringdon, Berkshire 22 Aug. 1800; educ. Mitcham, Surrey 1807–12, and at Eton 1812–9; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1819; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1836; fellow of Oriel coll. 2 April 1823; studied at Göttingen, Berlin, and Bonn 1825–7; regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford 9 Nov. 1828 to death; founded with his brother Philip Pusey and Dr. Ellerton the three Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships 1832; the prime mover with John Keble and John Henry Newman in the Oxford movement which was called Puseyism or Newmania 1833; contributed to Tracts for the times 1833–41 and wrote seven tracts; founded The Oxford library of fathers of the holy catholic church, anterior to the division of east and west 1836, of which 48 volumes were published 1838–85; preached on the Holy Eucharist at Ch. Ch. 14 May 1843, condemned for heresy by the vice-chancellor and suspended for two years from his office as a preacher before the university 2 June 1843; founded at cost of £6,000 St. Saviour’s church, Leeds, foundation stone laid 14 Sept. 1842, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845; established an Anglican sisterhood in London 26 March 1845, and in Devonport 1849; revived the practice of private confession and encouraged the spread of ritualism 1846; member of the new hebdomadal council at Oxford Oct. 1854; published 3 appeals in An Eirenicon in a Letter to J. Keble 1865, and two Letters to J. H. Newman 1869 and 1870 on A possibility of reunion with the Church of Rome, a book which gave rise to 18 replies; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on circumstances connected with the crisis in the church of England 1842, to which 7 replies were made; The holy eucharist a comfort to the penitent 1843 to which 8 replies were published; Do all to the Lord Jesus, a sermon 1849, 5 ed. 1855; The church of England leaves her children free to open their griefs 1850; The presence of Christ in the holy eucharist 1853; Daniel the prophet, nine lectures 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Eleven addresses during a retreat of the Companions of the Love of Jesus, Plymouth 1868; Lenten sermons to young men 1874; Hints for a first confession 1884, 2 ed. 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 110 works, and his works and the literature connected with them consist of upwards of 220 published volumes; his library was purchased for the Pusey House, an institution at Oxford, founded in his memory to carry on his work 1884. _d._ in the Convalescent hospital, Ascot priory, Berkshire 16 Sept. 1882. _bur._ in the cathedral at Oxford 21 Sept., portrait by George Richmond, R.A. at Ch. Ch. Oxford. _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey_, 3 _vols._ (1893–4) _two portraits_; _J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua_ (1873) 60 _et seq._; _T. Mozley’s Reminiscences of Oriel ii_ 146–9 (1882); _The church goer i_ 221–30 (1847); _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i_ 199–212 (1844); _Fortnightly Review March 1883 pp._ 335–48; _Jackson’s Oxford Journal 23 Sept. 1882 p._ 5; _I.L.N. ii_ 410 (1843) _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 328 (1882) _portrait_.

PUSEY, PHILIP (brother of preceding). _b._ Pusey, Berkshire 25 June 1799; educ. at Eton 1812; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22 Oct. 1817; M.P. Rye 1 March 1830, but unseated on petition 17 May 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to 23 April 1831; M.P. Cashel 16 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Berkshire 21 Dec. 1832; M.P. Berkshire 1835–52; F.R.S. 27 May 1830; chairman of select committee on compensation to tenants for unexhausted improvements 1848; one of chief founders of Royal agricultural society of England 1840, president 1840–1 and 1853–4, edited the Journal of the society; a practical agriculturalist and breeder of sheep at Pusey, Berkshire; McCormick’s reaping machine was first introduced into this country at Pusey Aug. 1851; one of the best whips in England, drove a four-in-hand over the Alps; chairman of Agricultural implement department of Great Exhibition 1851, wrote a report on the implement section; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of An historical view of the sinking fund 1828; The new constitution 1831; The improvement of farming 1851. _d._ at his brother’s house, Ch. Ch. Oxford 9 July 1855. _Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii_ 527, _iii_ 168, 403, 413–5 (1893–4); _Farmers’ mag. 2 series_, _x_ 1–3 (1844) _portrait_; _J. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_ 116 (1833), _portrait of his wife Lady Emily Pusey, who d. 16 Nov. 1854_.

PUSEY, PHILIP EDWARD (only son of rev. E. B. Pusey 1800–82). _b._ Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 June 1830; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; edited Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli in xii Prophetas 1868; Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli, archiepiscopi Alexandrini in D. Joannis Evangelium 1872; Sancti Cyrilli, Epistolæ tres Œcumenicæ 1875; The three epistles of St. Cyril 1872; Sancti Cyrilli de Recta fide, de Incarnatione Unigeniti 1877; In a Library of the Fathers, vol i, he translated Commentary on the gospel of St. John 1874–85. _d._ Christ Church, Oxford 15 Jany. 1880.

PUTTICK, JAMES FELL. _b._ about 1821; member of firm of Puttick and Simpson, auctioneers, who moved from Piccadilly to 47 Leicester sq. London Jany. or Feb. 1859; member of firm of Debenham, Storr & Co.; secretary to the Sacred Harmonic society in succession to Thomas Brewer Nov. 1870 to death. _d._ Canonbury, London 19 June 1873. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 24 June. _Musical Times 1 July 1873 p._ 138.

PUZZI, GIACINTA (dau. of signor Toso). _b._ Italy 1808; educ. at the conservatoire of Milan; came to England 1826; _m._ 1827 Giovanni Puzzi; made her first appearance on any stage at the King’s theatre, London as Agia in Rossini’s Pietro l’Eremita March 1827; sang the parts of Zoraide in Rossini’s Ricciardo e Zoraide, Pippo in Gazza Ladra, Queen Mary in Coccia’s Maria Stuarda, and the title role in Mercadante’s Diodone; sang at the private concerts of the nobility; quitted the stage and became a teacher of music and singing 1828; a great authority on singers and music. _d._ Harley st. London 18 Aug. 1889. _Musical Times 1 Sept. 1889 p._ 547; _Saturday Rev. 24 Aug. 1889 pp._ 211–2.

PUZZI, GIOVANNI. Came to England with two lady vocalists 1818; solo horn player at the King’s theatre, London, under Pietro Spagnoletti; attended all the nobility’s private concerts; agent for John Ebers in making engagements for the King’s theatre 1826, imported signora Giacinta Toso, who became his wife in 1827; the earl of Lonsdale left him a legacy; his phrasing of cantabile on the horn was perfect; director of the Lyceum when opened by sir John Mitchell, with Julius Benedict as conductor 1836; composer of Doglianze amorse, or sighs of love, a canzonetta, London 1815; La scusa, a canzonetta 1815; Io non avea ch’ un core 1825; he arranged G. F. Haendel’s Tu fai la superbetta 1826; Tutto ho perduto al fin, a recitative 1864. _d._ London March 1876. _Athenæum 11 March 1876 p._ 371; _Musical Times 1 April 1876 p._ 427.

PYCROFT, GEORGE. _b._ Corsham, Somerset 1819; M.R.C.S. Eng. and F.S.A. 1842; a surgeon at Kenton, Exeter from 1844–90; one of the starters of the volunteer movement 1852; hon. surgeon major of the 1 Devon artillery volunteers 7 Dec. 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877, surgeon major 1887; a promoter of the art department of the Bath and West of England soc.; a popular lecturer; a founder of the Devonshire Association 1862; F.G.S.; author of Art in Devonshire, with the biographies of artists, Exeter 1883; Short biographies of Devonshire artists 1885; Memoir of Samuel Cousins 1887; resided 2 Camborne terrace, Richmond, Surrey from 1890. _d._ Willesley, Torquay 23 March 1894. _bur._ Mamhead 27 March. _Report and Trans. Devonshire association_ (1894) 49–50.

PYCROFT, JAMES (2 son of Thomas Pycroft of Pickwick, Wiltshire, barrister). _b._ Geyers House, Wiltshire 1813; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; played at Lord’s 23 and 24 June 1836 in the third cricket match Oxford v. Cambridge; student of Lincoln’s inn 1836; ordained deacon 1840; second master of collegiate school at Leicester 1840; C. of Clardstock, Dorset 1845; P.C. of St. Mary Magdalen, Barnstaple 1845–56; resided at Bathwick, Bath; member of the Lansdown cricket club; edited Valpy’s Virgil improved 1846; W. Enfield’s The Speaker 1851; author of Principles of scientific batting 1835; A course of English reading adapted to every taste and capacity 1844, 4 ed. 1861; The collegian’s guide, or recollections of college days. By the Rev. ****, ******, M.A.,---- college, Oxford 1845, 2 ed. 1858; The cricket field, or the history and the science of cricket 1851, 9 ed. 1887; Twenty years in the church: an autobiography 1859, and a second part entitled Elkerton rectory 1860; Agony point: or the groans of gentility, 2 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1862; Dragon’s teeth, a novel, 2 vols. 1863; Oxford memoirs: a retrospect after fifty years, 2 vols. 1886. _d._ Dudley mansion, Lansdowne place, Brighton 10 March 1895. _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1860), _part xlvii_, _portrait_; _Wisden’s Cricketers’ almanack_ (1892) _pp. xlix, l_; _Times 13 March 1895 p._ 10.

PYCROFT, SIR THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1807; educ. Bath gr. sch.; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 13 May 1826, exhibitioner there 1826–8; hon. M.A. 1829; writer Madras civil service 1828; sub-secretary to board of revenue 1843–4, secretary 1845–50; secretary to the government in revenue department 1850, chief secretary 1855–62; member of council of the governor of Madras 1862, retired on annuity 25 Oct. 1867; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; was the first of the competition wallahs, being the first man appointed to the Indian civil service on the result of a competitive examination. _d._ Folkestone 29 Jany. 1892.

PYE, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pye of Birmingham, author of works on provincial coins and tokens). _b._ 1777; pupil of James Heath, the engraver; a good line engraver, chiefly of small book illustrations; illustrated Mrs. Inchbald’s British theatre, 25 vols. 1806–9; Walker’s Effigies poetica 1822, and Physiognomical portraits 1824; engraved a view of Brereton Hall after P. de Wint 1818, a portrait of Robert Owen after M. Heming 1823, and a Holy family after Michael Angelo 1825. _d._ Leamington 14 Dec. 1864.

PYE, JOHN (2 son of Charles Pye). _b._ Birmingham 7 Nov. 1782; paid assistant to James Heath, the engraver, in London 1801; engraved many plates after Turner, which placed him at the head of his profession; engraved all the head pieces in the Royal repository or picturesque pocket diary 1817–39, Le Souvian or pocket tablet 1822–43, and Peacock’s polite repository 1813–58; exhibited 4 engravings at Suffolk st. gallery 1824–9; published a series of 29 engravings from pictures in the National Gallery, three of these were by himself 1830–40; retired 1858; chief founder of the Artists’ annuity fund, which received a royal charter 1827; a corresponding member of the Académie des beaux arts 1862; formed a fine collection of impression of Turner’s Liber studiorum, which is in the print-room of the British Museum; author of Patronage of British art, a sketch 1845; A glance at the rise and constitution of the royal academy of arts, London 1851; Notes respecting the Liber studiorum of J. M. W. Turner 1879. _d._ 17 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 6 Feb. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 185, 186 (1874) _portrait_.

PYKE, HUGH. _b._ about 1774; law stationer at 87 Chancery lane, London and proprietor of the Law and Clerical agency establishment 1811–57. _d._ in a London workhouse 31 July 1858.

NOTE.--His only son Henry Hugh Pyke _b._ 1809, barrister G.I. 24 Jany. 1838, was disbarred and expelled by the benchers 11 Dec. 1844, this decision was affirmed by 11 of the judges 9 June 1845.

PYM, EDWARD LAWES. _b._ 23 March 1824; 2 lieut. R.M. 21 Aug. 1843, lieut. col. 24 Jany. 1873, col. commandant 25 Dec. 1877; M.G. 4 June 1879, general 22 June 1887; placed on retired list 23 March 1889; served in China 1858–60, at capture of Canton 5 Jany. 1858, and subsequently commanded the English constabulary in Canton. _d._ 44 Nevern sq. Earl’s Court, London 6 April 1892. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 9 April.

NOTE.--He was tried at Hampshire assizes 6 March 1846 for being accessory to the murder of James Alexander Seaton, late of the 11th Hussars, who fought a duel with lieut. H. C. M. Hawkey of the R.M. on the shore near Gosport 21 May 1845 and _died_ on 2 June. Pym was found not guilty.

PYM, HORATIO NOBLE. Solicitor at 6 Victoria st. Westminster 1867; member of firm of Tathams, Curling and Pym 3 Frederick’s place, Old Jewry, London 1870 to death; had an extensive practice as a confidential solicitor; possessed a fine library at Brasted, near Sevenoaks; among his friends were Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, W. B. Richmond, R.A., James Payn, Andrew Lang and Corney Grain; a very perfect raconteur; edited Memories of old friends, being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox of Pengerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871, 1882; Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1889; author of Odd and ends at Foxwold 1887; A tour round my bookshelves 1891. _d._ of Russian influenza at Brasted 5 May 1896. _Times 11 May 1896 p._ 8.

PYM, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1787; in Samuel Jerrold’s company at Sheerness 1812; bag bearer to the registrars of the court of chancery, with charge of the daily cause lists 1815–54; built a private theatre at the rear of his residence in Wilson st. Gray’s inn lane for the use of students for the stage, where he himself with J. Reeve, Strickland, Marston, Selby, Bedford and others often acted; acted Caleb Quotem in The Review 1846; gave up the theatre 1847, but it was used to 1853; the house was also known as the Gough st. amateur theatre, now Havelock hall and used as a London city mission station 1896. _d._ 33 Holford sq. Pentonville, London 16 Sept. 1866. _N. and Q. 8 s_, _vi_ 427, 476 (1894).

PYM, SIR SAMUEL (son of Joseph Pym of Pinley, Warwickshire). _b._ 1778; entered navy June 1788; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the Atlas, 74 guns, 29 June 1804 to 13 Oct. 1808; served at battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806; sent to the Mauritius as senior officer of a small squadron July 1810, seized the Isle de la Passe 13 Aug., capitulated and became a prisoner of war 27 Aug., obtained his release Dec. 1810 when the island was captured by sir Albemarle Bertie, he was tried by court martial but acquitted; commanded the Nieman on the West Indian station 1812–5; commanded the Kent in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; admiral superintendent at Devonport 16 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; commanded the experimental squadron in the Channel Sept. and Oct. 1845; V.A. 12 Feb. 1847; admiral 17 Dec. 1852; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1839. _d._ Royal hotel, Southampton 2 Oct. 1855. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1849) 943.

PYM, SIR WILLIAM (elder brother of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 1772; educ. univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of the army 1792; present at the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadeloupe 1794; served with the army in Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar 1796, medical attendant of the duke of Kent, governor of Gibraltar, present during the outbreaks of yellow fever there in 1804 and 1810; in charge at St. Pierre in Martinique during an outbreak of yellow fever 1794–6, when nearly 16,000 troops died; shipwrecked in the Athénienne on the Skerri shoals between Sicily and Africa 20 Oct. 1806, when 349 persons perished out of a crew of 476; deputy inspector general of army hospitals 20 Dec. 1810; superintendent of quarantine at Malta 1811–12; placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general 25 Sept. 1816; superintendent general of quarantine 1826–55; controlled quarantine arrangements during yellow fever at Gibraltar 1828; K.C.H. 1830; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 21 July 1830; a chairman of central board of health during cholera in England 1832; fellow of Medical and chirurgical soc. 1816; author of Observations upon Bulam fever 1815, 2 ed. 1848. _d._ 38 Upper Harley st. London 18 March 1861. _Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. iv_ 71–6 (1864).

PYNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1790; alto singer and musician. _d._ 87 Cambridge gardens west, Notting hill, London 15 March 1877.

PYNE, HENRY (eld. son of John Pyne of Somerton, Somerset). _b._ Martock, Somerset 1809; educ. Sherborne and Christ’s hospital; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1841; assistant comr. in tithe office 1841–81; edited A treatise proving that the pope never had any right to supremacy in England 1850; France and England in the fifteenth century 1870; author of Tithe commutation, table of the corn rent in lieu of tithes 1837, 2 ed. continued by G. Taylor 1876. _d._ Hillgrove house, Stroud, Somerset 9 Feb. 1885.

PYNE, JAMES BAKER. _b._ Bristol 5 Dec. 1800; a landscape painter at Bristol to 1835, and in London 1835 to death; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 194 at Suffolk st. 1828–70; member of Society of British artists 1842, vice-president some years; there are pictures by him both in oil and water-colour at South Kensington museum; published Views in the vicinity of Kingston, Jamaica 1839; Windsor and its surrounding scenery 1840; The English lake district 1853; Lake scenery of England 1859; resided at 203 Camden road, London. _d._ 29 July 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemet., bust at gallery of Society of British artists. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii_ 55–7 (1880); _I.L.N. lvii_ 193 (1870) _portrait_.

PYNE, JAMES KENDRICK. _b._ 1785; tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane many years; a member of the choir of the Foundling hospital more than 40 years, and the musical instructor of the children. _d._ Francis st. Regent’s sq. London 23 Sept. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

PYNE, SUSANNAH (dau. of George Pyne 1790–1877). Appeared with great success as a singer with her sister Louisa Fanny Pyne (afterwards wife of Frank Bodda) in 1842; sang in U.S. of America 1854–7; sang Adalgisa in Norma at Lyceum theatre, London 3 Oct. 1857; _m._ about 1870 Frank H. Standing, baritone singer known as Frank Celli. _d._ 18 Fitzroy st. London 5 Jany. 1886.

PYNN, SIR HENRY. Served as lieutenant with South Devon militia in Ireland during rebellion of 1798; ensign 82 foot 1799, captain 30 May 1805, brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; attached to the Portuguese troops 15 Nov. 1809; commanded the 18 Portuguese regiment at Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees and Orthes; K.T.S. 17 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted by prince regent at Carlton house 23 Feb. 1815; brigadier general in Portuguese army, then major general; lieut. governor of town and fortress of Valencia 17 Dec. 1815. _d._ 102A Pall Mall, London 25 April 1855. _G.M. xliv_ 95 (1855).

PYPER, WILLIAM. _b._ Rathen, Aberdeenshire 1797; educ. Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parochial schoolmaster at Laurence Kirk 1815–7, afterwards at Maybole; a teacher in Glasgow gr. sch. 1820; head master of Edinburgh high school 1822–44; professor of humanity at St. Andrew’s univ. 22 Oct. 1844 to death; LL.D. Aberdeen; founded a bursary at St. Andrew’s by a bequest of £500; author of Gradus ad Parnassum 1843, still used in schools; Horace with quantities 1843; revised A. Adam’s The principles of Latin and English grammar 1846. _d._ St. Andrew’s 7 Jany. 1861. _M. F. Connolly’s Eminent men of Fife_ (1866) 371.

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QUAGLIENI, ANTONIO. _b._ Italy; served with the Brothers Giulium, circus proprietors in Italy; had an equestrian company in France; came to England with his talented equestrian family in 1856; a circus director in Cardiff 1862; naturalised in England 20 Feb. 1866; returned to Brescia, Italy with a fortune 1870; his wife Amalia Gasperini Quaglieni _d._ 22 Dec. 1882 aged 63; they had 10 children all in the profession, their son Luigi Quaglieni was manager of a circus when aged only seventeen. _d._ Brescia July 1892.

QUAIN, SIR JOHN RICHARD (youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, co. Cork). _b._ Ratheahy 1816; educ. Göttingen and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1843; LL.B. London 1839, univ. law scholar; examiner in law to univ. of London several years, and member of the senate June 1860; practised as a special pleader 1841–51; barrister M.T. 30 May 1851, bencher Nov. 1866 to Jany. 1872; went northern circuit; Q.C. 23 July 1866; attorney general for county palatine of Durham 2 Sept. 1868 to Dec. 1871; judge of court of queen’s bench 5 Jany. 1872 to death; serjeant-at-law 9 Jany. 1872; knighted at Windsor castle 22 April 1872; his law library was presented to Univ. college, London by his brother Richard Quain 1876; author with Henry Holroyd of The new system of common law procedure 1852. _d._ 22A Cavendish sq. London 12 Sept. 1876. _bur._ Marylebone cemet. Finchley 18 Sept., marble bust of him placed in hall of Middle Temple Jany. 1888. _A generation of judges._ _By their reporter_ (1886) 30–8; _Law Times 23 Sept. 1876 p._ 357.

QUAIN, JONES (half-brother of preceding). _b._ in the south of Ireland Nov. 1796; educ. Adair’s school Fermoy, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1833; anatomical teacher at Tyrrell’s school of medicine in Aldersgate st. London 1825; professor of general anatomy and physiology at Univ. coll. London 1831, resigned 1835; fellow of univ. of London 1836–58; translated and edited Louis Martinet’s Manual of pathology 1826, 4 ed. 1835; author of Elements of descriptive and practical anatomy for the use of students 1828, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1890; and with Erasmus Wilson of A series of anatomical plates in lithography with references and physiological comments, 2 vols. folio 1836–42. _d._ London 31 Jany. 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Lancet 4 Feb. 1865 p._ 136; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 49–50 (1867).

QUAIN, RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Fermoy July 1800; studied medicine in London and Paris; assistant to Richard Bennett, demonstrator of anatomy at London univ. 1828, senior demonstrator of anatomy there 1830, and professor of descriptive anatomy 1832–50; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843, member of council 1854, president of the college 1868, Hunterian orator 1869; assistant surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1834, surgeon and special professor of clinical surgery 1848–66, consulting surgeon and emeritus professor of clinical surgery 1866; represented royal college of surgeons in general council of education 14 July 1870 to 14 June 1876; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 25 Nov. 1862 to death; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; edited with W. Sharpey, Jones Quain’s Elements of anatomy, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1848; author of The anatomy of the arteries of the human body with lithographic drawings 1844; The diseases of the rectum 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Clinical lectures 1884. _d._ 32 Cavendish sq. London 15 Sept. 1887. _bur._ Finchley, portrait by George Richmond, R.A. in secretary’s office at royal college of surgeons and bust by Thomas Woolner in council room there. _British medical journal ii_ 694 (1887); _Lancet ii_ 687 (1887).

QUARTLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Bath 5 July 1808; studied wood engraving in Wales and Paris from 1824; went to New York 1852, helped to illustrate Picturesque America 1872, and Picturesque Europe 1875; painted Niagara falls, Buttermilk falls, and Catskill falls. _d._ New York 5 April 1874. _Appleton’s American Biog. v_ 147 (1888).

NOTE.--His son Arthur Quartley, _b._ Paris 24 May 1839, a well known artist, _d._ New York 19 May 1886.

QUARTLY, FRANCIS (3 son of James Quartly, cattle breeder 1720–93). _bapt._ 26 Oct. 1764; a famous breeder of North Devon cattle 1794–1836, when he sold the herd and retired; visited by Arthur Young 1796; presented by Bath and West of England soc. with a silver teapot for ploughing 60 acres of land with the double furrow plough in a new district 1801; received from his friends his full length portrait (standing by the side of the cow Cherry) 1850. _d._ Great Champson estate, Molland-Botreaux, North Devon 23 July 1856. _Journal Royal Agricultural soc. of England_ (1850) 680–1; _Jas. Sinclair’s Devon breed of cattle_ (1893) 42–61, 386–8.

QUAYLE, MARK HILDESLEY (only child of Mark Hildesley Quayle, clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1770–1804). _b._ 4 July 1804; educ. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; called to Manx bar 1825; clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1847 to death. _d._ Castletown, Isle of Man 19 March 1879. _Law Times lxvi_ 456 (1879).

QUEENSBERRY, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM DOUGLAS, 7 Marquess of (only son of 6 marquess of Queensberry 1779–1856). _b._ Edinburgh 18 April 1818; educ. Eton; styled viscount Drumlanrig 1837–56; cornet 2 life guards 27 July 1838, sold out 19 Jany. 1844; M.P. Dumfriesshire 1847–56; comptroller of H.M.’s household 4 Jany. 1853 to July 1856; P.C. 7 Feb. 1853; colonel of Dumfriesshire militia; lord lieut. of Dumfriesshire 28 Aug. 1856 to death; succeeded as 7 marquess 19 Dec. 1856; a huntsman, shooter, pugilist, horse racer, deer stalker, and fisher; a frequent otter hunter; a good swimmer, crossed the Thames below Greenwich; kept hounds at Kinmount; backed horses extensively but was very unfortunate, bet £10,000 to £500 on Saunterer for the Goodwood cup July 1858 which he lost; _shot himself_ accidentally at Kinmount, co. Dumfries 6 Aug. 1858. _Sporting Times 13 June 1885 p._ 2; _Sporting Review xl_ 158–59 (1858); _G.M. v_ 309 (1858); _Times 10 Aug. 1858 p._ 10, _16 Aug. p._ 10.

QUEKETT, JOHN THOMAS (youngest son of Wm. Quekett 1767–1842, master of Langport gr. sch. 1790–1842). _b._ Langport, Somerset 11 Aug. 1815; educ. at King’s coll. London and London hospital; L.S.A. 1840; assistant conservator of Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons Nov. 1843, conservator 1856 to death, demonstrator of minute anatomy 1844, professor of histology 1852 to death, his collections of 2,500 microscopic preparations were purchased by the college; secretary of the Microscopical society 1841–60, president 1860; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; the Quekett Microscopical club was established 1865; author of A practical treatise on the use of the microscope 1848, 3 ed. 1855; Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series in the museum of the royal college of surgeons, 2 vols. 1850–5; Lectures on histology, 2 vols. 1852–4; Catalogue of plants and invertebrates 1860; author with John Morris of Catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants in the museum of the royal college of surgeons 1859. _d._ Pangbourne, Berkshire 20 Aug. 1861. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xii_ 25–7 (1863); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iv_ 79 (1864); _I.L.N. 31 Aug. 1861 p._ 227 _portrait_.

QUEKETT, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Langport 3 Oct. 1802; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1831; C. of South Cadbury, Somerset 1825; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1830–41; incumbent of Ch. Ch. Watney st. London 1841–54; founded with Sidney Herbert the Female emigration society 1849; R. of Warrington, Lancs. June 1854 to death; his work in London is described by Charles Dickens in an article entitled What a London curate can do if he tries, in Household Words 16 Nov. 1850 pp. 172–6; he is also depicted as Dr. Lyman in Battledon rectory. _d._ Warrington rectory 30 March 1888. _Wm. Quekett’s My sayings and doings_ (1888) 2 _portraits_.

QUENTIN, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS (eld. son of George Quentin of Göttingen). _b._ 1760; served in the Gards du Corps, Hanover 1786–93; cornet in 10 Hussars 25 Feb. 1793; lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1808 to 18 March 1824; aide-de-camp to Prince Regent and George 4 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; tried by a court martial at Whitehall 17–31 Oct. 1814 for neglect of duty and allowing relaxed discipline in his regiment and was reprimanded; equerry to the crown stables 1825 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 8 Dec. 1821. _d._ 11 Great Cumberland st. London 7 Dec. 1851. _The trial of colonel Quentin_ (1814); _G.M. xxxvii_ 190 (1852); _Royal military calendar_, _3 ed. iv_ 226–31 (1820).

QUICK, HENRY. _b._ Zennor, Cornwall 4 Dec. 1792; related in verse all the local calamities and crimes from 1830 to his death; printed most of his poems as broadsides; author of A new copy of verses, an account of the accident at Pendeen cove 1830; A new copy of verses on the scarcity and famine in Ireland 1847; A new copy of verses on the church erecting at Pendeen 1850; The Brison shipwreck 1851. _d._ Mill Hill Down, Zennor 9 Oct. 1857. _bur._ Zennor 12 Oct. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 541, 1320 (1878–82); _G. B. Millett’s Penzance, past and present_ (1880) 36 _portrait_; _Life and progress of Henry Quick_ (1836).

QUICK, ROBERT HEBERT (eld. son of James Carthew Quick, merchant). _b._ London 20 Sept. 1831; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; worked as an unpaid curate with rev. J. Llewellyn Davies, first at St. Mark’s, Whitechapel 1855, and afterwards in Marylebone; a master in Lancaster gr. sch. 1858, then at Guildford gr. sch., Hurstpierpoint, and Cranley; assistant master at Harrow Jany. 1870 to Dec. 1874; head of a preparatory school Orme square, London, and then at Guildford 1874–81; appointed by univ. of Camb. 1881 to give the first course of lectures on the history of education under the newly formed syndicate for training of teachers; V. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1883–7; author of Essays on educational reformers 1868, 2 ed. 1890; Essentials of German 1882; edited J. Locke’s Thoughts concerning education 1880; reprinted R. Mulcaster’s Positions 1888; his article on Frœbel in the 9th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1879) was published separately; resided Earlswood cottage, Redhill, Surrey. _d._ at the residence of John Robert Seeley at Cambridge 9 March 1891. _Journal of education April 1891 pp._ 188, 221–7, 257, 297; _Education April 1891 portrait_.

QUILLINAN, EDWARD (son of Edward Quillinan of Ireland, a wine merchant at Oporto). _b._ Oporto 12 Aug. 1791; educ. Sedgley park school, Staffs. 1800; a clerk to his father at Oporto 1805–7; cornet 2 dragoon guards 14 July 1808, present at Walcheren; lieut. 23 light dragoons 14 July 1810; lieut. 3 dragoon guards 24 June 1813, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut. 3 dragoon guards again 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 31 May 1821; served in Spain 1812; wrote a satirical poem The ball room votaries 1810; his connection with The whim, a magazine, Canterbury 1810–11 involved him in two duels; author of Dunluce castle, a poem 1814; The sacrifice of Isabel 1816; The conspirators, 3 vols. 1841; translated 5 books of Camoens’s Lusiad, published by John Adamson 1853. _d._ Loughrigg Holme, Ambleside 8 July 1851. _bur._ Grassmere churchyard 12 July. _E. Quillinan’s Poems_, _edited by Wm. Johnston_ (1853); _W. Knight’s Life of Wm. Wordsworth_, _iii_ 114, 380, 521 (1889); _Irish monthly_, _xv_ 285–8 (1887).

NOTE.--He _m._ 11 May 1841 Dorothy, 2 dau. of William Wordsworth, she was _b._ Dove cottage, Grassmere 16 Aug. 1804, _d._ Rydal Mount 9 July 1847, she wrote Journal of a few months’ residence in Portugal and glimpses of the south of Spain 1847, new ed. 1895.

QUILLINAN, JEMIMA K. (1 dau. of the preceding). _b._ near Dublin 1819; much beloved by William Wordsworth; a friend of all the Lake circle; attended by 3 of Wordsworth’s descendants and Dr. Arnold’s youngest daughter, she _d._ Loughrigg Holme 28 Jany. 1891. _bur._ Grassmere churchyard, her portrait by F. Stone hung in Wordsworth’s drawing room. _I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p._ 235 _portrait_.

NOTE.--Her sister Rotha Quillinan _b._ Spring cottage, near Ambleside 1822 _d._ Loughrigg Holme 1876.

QUILTER, WILLIAM (4 son of Samuel Sacker Quilter of Walton, Suffolk). _b._ 1808; articled to P. H. Abbott, accountant, 14 Walbrook, London 1825, succeeded to the business with John Ball 1832, senior partner 50 years; the firm soon gained a leading position as accountants, prepared important reports for parliament on the railway accounts in the disasters of 1848–9; joint auditor with Messrs. Coleman and Turquand appointed by board of trade to audit accounts of public companies under Limited liability act Dec. 1856; raised the status of the profession; first president of Institution of accountants 1870; made a collection of water colour drawings, a portion of which he sold in 1875. _d._ 28 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 12 Nov. 1888. _Times 14 Nov. 1888 p._ 4, _16 Nov. p._ 10.

QUIN, FREDERIC HERVEY FOSTER. _b._ London 12 Feb. 1799; educ. Edinb. univ. 1817, M.D. 1 Aug. 1820; began practice at Naples July 1821, where he was a friend of Louisa, wife of Vittorio Alfieri and widow of Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender; physician to prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in England 1826–9; practised in Paris chiefly as a homœopath May 1829 to Sept. 1831; practised at 19 King st. St. James’s, London July 1832, and at 13 Stratford place 1833–63; introduced the homœopathic system into England 1832; blackballed at the Athenæum club Feb. 1838; medical attendant to duchess of Cambridge from 26 June 1845; established the St. James’s homœopathic dispensary 1843; founded the British homœopathic society 1844; chief founder of London homœopathic hospital 1850, professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school of the hospital 18 Oct. 1859; translated Hahnemann’s Materia medica pura, vol. i 1839, the complete edition was burnt at the printers before publication; he knew the princess Pauline Bonaparte, Talleyrand, Napoleon iii, and Disraeli; he was almost the last of the wits of London and no dinner was complete without his presence; in his manners and dress an imitator of count Dorsay; author of Du traitement homœopathic du choléra avec notes et appendice, Paris 1832; Pharmacopœia homœopathica 1834; edited The British homœopathic pharmacopœia, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ the Garden mansions, Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster 24 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 Nov. _E. Hamilton’s Memoir of F. H. F. Quin_ (1879) _portrait_; _Madden’s Literary life of the countess of Blessington_ (1855) _i_ 191, _ii_ 26, 27, 111–4, 448–54, _iii_ 201; _Lord Ronald Gower’s My reminiscences ii_ 251–4 (1883).

QUIN, MICHAEL. _b._ 1791; entered navy 2 Nov. 1804; commanded the boats of the Weasel in capturing St. Cataldo, Italy 21 Dec. 1812; with the boats of the Naiad destroyed a 16 gun brig near Bona 23 May 1824; captain 10 Jany. 1837; pensioned 27 March 1864; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._ Albion road, Holloway. London 5 Dec. 1870. _O’Byrne’s Biog. Dict._ (1849) _p._ 944.

QUIN, THOMAS ST. JOHN. Minister of a chapel at Bordeaux, Easter 1821, British chaplain there 31 Oct. 1827 to April 1860 when he retired on a pension. _d._ Bordeaux 15 Feb. 1861.

QUINLAN, JOHN. _b._ Cloyne, co. Cork 19 Oct. 1826; emigrated to U.S. of America 1844; educ. Mount St. Mary’s seminary, Emmettsburg; ordained 1853; assistant pastor St. Patrick’s ch. Cincinnati; president of Mount St. Mary’s coll. and professor of philosophy and theology; R.C. bishop of Mobile, Alabama 1859 to death; consecrated by archbishop Anthony Blanc of New Orleans on 4 Dec. _d._ New Orleans 9 March 1883. _bur._ in Mobile cath. 13 March. _Appleton’s American Biog. v_ 153 (1888).

QUINN, JAMES. _b._ Athy, co. Kildare 1820; educ. in Ireland and at the Jesuit’s college, Rome; ordained priest 1843; appointed the first R.C. bishop of Brisbane, Queensland June 1859, arrived in the colony 1861. _d._ Brisbane 30 Aug. 1880.

QUINN, MATTHEW (brother of preceding). _b._ co. Kildare 29 May 1821; studied at the Propaganda and Irish colleges, Rome 1837–47; ordained priest at St. John’s, Lateran, Rome May 1845; transferred to Ireland where he took great interest in promotion of Irish emigration to Queensland; consecrated first bishop of Bathurst, N.S.W. by cardinal Cullen in Dublin Nov. 1865. _d._ 16 Jany. 1884.

QUINN, PETER. _b._ 1814; agent for estates in Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Monaghan, Longford and Tipperary; an authority on land questions; was examined before several land commissions; vice-chairman of Newry board of guardians; M.P. Newry 1859–65. _d._ Drumbanagher Armagh 5 Oct. 1894.

QUINTIN, LOUIS CHARLES (son of Monsieur Quintin, chirurgeon-major in the French royal service). _b._ Brest, Brittany 24 July 1790; entered French navy 1800; served in the Diomeda in action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, wounded and captured after 656 out of the crew of 700 had been killed; a prisoner in England 1806–14; returned to France May 1814, imprisoned there, came back to England, formed one of the cortége of Louis xviii through the streets of London; taught French in Hereford, Monmouth and Shropshire; vice-consul of France at Gloucester 1852 to death; chief founder with E. Lawson of the Philosophical institution at Hereford; author of A general table of the regular and irregular French verbs, with an easy table of their terminations, Hereford 1820. _d._ Gloucester 20 March 1856. _bur._ Hampstead near Gloucester.

QUINTON, JAMES WALLACE (son of a wine merchant in Enniskillen). _b._ 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1853; served in the Bengal civil service in the North-West Provinces and Oudh 1856–75; judicial comr. in Burma 1875–7; magistrate and collector of the Allahabad district April 1877, and officiating civil and sessions judge April 1878; comr. in the Jhansi and Lucknow divisions; an additional member of governor-general’s council 1883, 1884, 1886, and 1889; comr. of the Agra division 1884, and member of the board of revenue 1885; member of public service commission 1886; C.S.I. 1887; chief comr. of Assam 22 Oct. 1889 to death; sent to Manipur to arrest the commander of the rebels March 1891; _murdered_ by the rebels in the fort at Manipur 22 March 1891; pensions of £300 and £100 a year granted to his widow and mother. _Mrs. Grinwood’s My three years in Manipur_ (1891); _Graphic 18 April 1891 p._ 428 _portrait_; _London Figaro 18 April 1891 p._ 8 _portrait_.

QUINTON, MARK, the stage name of Mark Keogh. _b._ 1859; commenced acting 1869; appeared at a morning performance at Adelphi theatre, London 1882; supported Ada Cavendish in leading characters, she produced and appeared with success in his drama In his power, Royal Alexandra theatre, Liverpool 20 Sept. 1884; supported Miss Adelaide Moore as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Comedy theatre, London 17 June 1890; appeared at Drury Lane as the rev. Mr. Eden in It is never too late to mend 11 April 1891, and as Compton Kerr in Formosa 26 May 1891; with Henry Hamilton he wrote Handfast, produced at the Prince of Wales’ 13 Dec. 1887, revived Shaftesbury theatre 16 May 1891, and Lord Anerley St. James’s 7 Nov. 1891. _d._ Hampstead 8 Oct. 1891. _bur._ R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 13 Oct.

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