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

PERSSE, BURTON ROBERT PARSONS (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode castle, Galway, _d._ 1859). _b._ 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway 1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. _d._ Moyode castle, Galway July 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xliv_ 295 (1885).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE.--He _m._ Katherine Harriet, dau. of Sigismund Edlman. She was _b._ Malvern July 1827, accompanied her husband in his travels and _d._ St. Gorran Haven 12 Jany. 1877.

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

PETIT, PETER JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1807; ensign 22 foot 19 May 1825; lieut. 50 foot 27 March 1828, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1848 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ Lichfield 13 Feb. 1852. _G.M. April 1852 p._ 407.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PETTIGREW, THOMAS JOSEPH (son of Wm. Pettigrew, surgeon in the navy, _d._ 1825). _b._ Fleet st. London 28 Oct 1791; studied at the Borough hospitals; member of Medical society of London 1808, secretary 1810, registrar 1813; M.R.C.S. 1812, F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of City philosophical society 1808, and of Philosophical society of London 1810; secretary of Royal humane society 1813–20; surgeon extraordinary to duke of Kent, then surgeon in ordinary, also surgeon to duchess of Kent; vaccinated the present queen, Victoria 1819; surgeon to duke of Sussex, compiled a catalogue of his library in Kensington palace in two vols. entitled Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827–39, the library was sold 1844–5; surgeon to Dispensary for treatment of diseases of children 1816–9; surgeon to Asylum for female orphans 1819; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital on its foundation 1832 to 1835; practised in Savile row 1835–54; Ph. Doc. Göttingen 7 Nov. 1826; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1827; treasurer of British archæological association 1843; author of Views of the base of the brain and cranium 1809; Memoirs of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. 3 vols. 1817; Observations on cholera 1831; A history of Egyptian mummies 1834; Medical portrait gallery, 4 vols. 1840; Memoirs of the life of lord Nelson, 2 vols. 1849. _d._ 16 Onslow crescent, South Kensington 23 Nov. 1865. _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv pp._ 1–40 (1840) _portrait_ 9; _Journal of British archæol. assoc._ (1866) 327–35; _Physic and physicians ii_ 386 (1839).

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

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

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

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

PETTITT, JOSEPH PAUL. _b._ Birmingham; landscape painter at Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph Gillott of Birmingham. _d._ Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9 Sept. 1882. _Architect xxvii_ 182 (1882).

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

PEVERELL, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Callow). _b._ London 17 July 1792; _m._ in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April 1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near Edmonton. _d._ Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. _bur._ Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. _Times 10 Jany. 1896 p._ 4.

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

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

PEYTON, SIR ALGERNON WILLIAM, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Peyton 1804–66). _b._ Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb. 1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3; succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach; sheriff of Oxon. 1871. _d._ Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25 March 1872. _Baily’s Mag. xvi_ 51 (1869) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHELPS, SAMUEL (2 son of Robert M. Phelps, outfitter, _d._ 1820). _b._ 1 St. Aubyn st. Plymouth Dock, now Devonport 13 Feb. 1804; educ. under Dr. Samuel Reece at Saltash; junior reader to the press in office of the Plymouth Herald for 3 months in 1820; reader to the Globe and Sun newspapers in London 1820; played as an amateur at the Rawston st. theatre and the Olympic 1825; acted on the York circuit at 18s. a week 1826; played in England, Ireland, and Scotland 1826–37; appeared at Haymarket, London 28 Aug. 1837 as Shylock; played at Covent Garden 1837–9; acted Othello and Iago at Haymarket Aug. 1839 to Jany. 1840; played at Drury Lane Jany. to March 1840 and 1841–3, the original Captain Channel in Jerrold’s Prisoners of war 8 Feb. 1842, Lord Lynterne in Marston’s Patrician’s daughter 10 Dec 1842, Lord Tresham in Browning’s Blot on the scutcheon 11 Feb. 1843, Lord Byerdale in Knowles’s Secretary 24 April 1843, and Dunstan in Smith’s Athelwold 18 May 1843; the first Almagro in Knowles’s The Rose of Arragon at Haymarket 4 June 1842; lessee with Mrs. Warner and Thomas Greenwood of Sadler’s Wells theatre 27 May 1844, Mrs. Warner retired from management in 1847, Greenwood in 1860, and Phelps 15 March 1862, produced all the plays of Shakespeare except Richard II, the three parts of Henry the Sixth, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida 1844–62; the original Henri IV in Sullivan’s King’s friend 21 May 1845, Walter Cochrane in White’s Feudal times 18 Feb. 1847, John Savile in White’s John Savile of Haysted 3 Nov. 1847, Calagnos in G. H. Boker’s tragedy Calagnos 10 May 1849; played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, the first time of performance for a century 22 Oct. 1849; the original Garcia in Tomlins’s Garcia or the noble error 12 Dec. 1849, Blackbourne in George Bennett’s Retribution 11 Feb. 1850, James VI in White’s James VI 6 March 1852; revived Pericles, not acted since the Restoration, 14 Oct. 1854; the original Bertuccio in Tom Taylor’s Fool’s Revenge 18 Oct. 1859, and Louis XI in Delavigne’s Louis XI 21 Sept. 1861; played in Berlin and Hamburg May 1859; at Princess’s theatre 1860; acted Richelieu at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1861; played at Drury Lane 1863–8 acting Manfred 14 Oct. 1863, Mephistopheles in Faust 20 Oct. 1866, the Doge in Byron’s Marino Faliero 2 Nov. 1867, and James I and Trapbois in Halliday’s King o’ Scots 26 Sept. 1868; acted at Astley’s amphitheatre March 1870; first appeared at Gaiety Dec. 1873 as Dr. Cantwell in the Hypocrite; acted Falstaff there Dec. 1874; acted at Aquarium theatre from 1877, making his last appearance as Wolsey in Henry VIII 1 March 1878; author of The Plays of William Shakespeare under the supervision of S. Phelps with illustrations by Nicholson, 2 vols. 1851–4, another ed. 2 vols. 1858, originally came out in parts; resided at 420 Camden road, Holloway, London to 1878. _d._ Anson’s farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex 6 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 13 Nov., portrait as Cardinal Wolsey at Garrick club. _Phelps and Robertson’s Life of S. Phelps_ (1886) _three portraits_; _J. Coleman’s Memoirs of S. Phelps_ (1886); _M. Williams’ Some London theatres_ (1883) 17–29; _The theatre i_ 325–29, 338–44 (1878); _Saturday Programme 27 Nov. 1875 pp._ 8–10 _portrait_; _W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii_ 1–49 (1888); _J. Coleman’s Players i_ 117–208 (1888); _G.M. Sept. 1872 pp._ 308–10; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages_, _2nd series_ (1859) _portrait_; _Theatrical times i_ 81 (1847) _portrait_; _Tallis’ Drawing room table book_, _part_ 7 _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1879) 258–65.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHILLIPPE, MONSIEUR, stage name of Phillippe Talon. _b._ Alais, near Nismes; a confectioner; in business in London, then in Aberdeen, disposed of his confectionery in a lottery at the Aberdeen theatre; travelled through England and Scotland as a conjuror under the name of Monsieur Phillippe; erected a temporary theatre in Glasgow 1840; while performing in Dublin learnt the gold fish trick and the ring puzzle from a Chinese juggler; played in Paris 1841 and in Vienna; at the St James’ theatre, London 1845, and at Strand theatre with his Soirées mysterieuses Oct. 1845; two of his most curious tricks were The hat of Fortunatus and The kitchen of Parafaragaramus; he always appeared in a fancy dress. _T. Frost’s Lives of the conjurors_ (1876) 271–6; _I.L.N. 4 Oct. 1845 p._ 221 _portrait_; _F. Volant’s Alexis Soyer_ (1859) 57–9.

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHILIPS, ROBERT NEEDHAM (brother of Mark Philips 1800–73). _b._ Manchester 20 June 1815; educ. Rugby 1829 etc. and at Manchester college; merchant and manufacturer Manchester; M.P. Bury 1857–9, 1865–85, when he was presented with a testimonial; sheriff of Lancashire 1856. _d._ Welcombe house, Stratford-on-Avon 28 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. xxxi_ 389 (1857) _portrait_, _22 March 1890 p._ 366 _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHILLIP, JOHN (son of a soldier). _b._ 13 Skene sq. Aberdeen 19 April 1817; apprenticed to Spark, a painter and glazier in Wallace Nook, Aberdeen 1832–6; studied painting in London 1836–40; subject and portrait painter; exhibited 55 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–67: A.R.A. Nov. 1857, R.A. Nov. 1859; painted for the queen The marriage of the princess royal with the crown prince of Germany 1858; studied and painted in Spain 1851–2, 1856–7, 1860; 200 of his pictures were in the London international exhibition of 1873. _d._ 1 South villas, Campden Hill, Kensington 27 Feb. 1867. _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 164–8; _Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 306–8 (1862); _I.L.N. xxxv_ 543, 560 (1859) _portrait_, _l_ 285 (1867) _portrait_; _T. O. Barlow’s Catalogue of the works of J. Phillip_ 1873; _J. Dafforne’s Pictures of J. Phillip_ 1877; _Leisure Hour xvi_ 629 _portrait_; _Illust. Times 9 March 1867 p._ 149 _portrait_.

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

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

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

PHILLIPPS, EDWARD THOMAS MARCH (brother of preceding). _b._ 1784; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., 6 wrangler 1804, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Hathern, Leics. 29 Sept. 1808 to death; minister of Dishley with Thorp Acre 1816–43; chancellor of diocese of Gloucester 1820 to death; author of Four sermons on the inward life of the believer 1853; The ordnances of spiritual worship 1863. _d._ Hathern rectory 12 July 1859. _Records of ministry of E. T. M. Phillipps_ (1862); _G.M. vii_ 189 (1859).

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

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

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

PHILLIPPS-DE LISLE, AMBROSE LISLE MARCH (eld. son of Charles March Phillipps 1779–1862). _b._ 17 March 1809; educ. King’s coll. Camb.; joined R.C. church while an undergraduate 1828; great advocate for the reunion of christendom; a friend of the hon. and rev. George Spencer (Father Ignatius) from 1829, and the means of his conversion 1830; sheriff of Leicestershire 1868; is depicted in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby, 3 vols. 1844, as Eustace Lyle of St. Geneviéve; took name of De Lisle; author of The catholic christian’s complete manual 1847; Manual of devotion for use of the brethren of the confraternity of the Living rosary 1843; Mahometanism in its relation to prophecy 1855. _d._ Garendon park, Leicestershire 5 March 1878. _Life of father Ignatius of St. Paul_ (1866) 186–95; _Times_, _8 March 1878 p._ 9.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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