Part 52

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

POTTER, GEORGE WILLIAM KILLETT (brother of Philip Cipriani H. Potter 1792–1871). _b._ 1798; admitted solicitor 1819; secondary of city of London 1831 to death, for which office he paid £5,000; clerk of the coach-makers co. to death; one of the undersheriffs of London. _d._ 70 Russell sq. London 12 May 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal xv_ 527 (1871); _Law Journal vi_ 334 (1871).

POTTER, SIR JOHN (eld. son of sir Thomas Potter, first mayor of Manchester, _d._ 20 March 1845). _b._ Polefield, Prestwich, Lancs. 1815; educ. in univ. of Edinb.; head of firm of Potters and Norris, George st. Manchester, drapers and merchants 1845 to death; alderman of Manchester corporation 1845 to death, mayor 1848–51; knighted at Manchester 10 Oct. 1851; M.P. Manchester 30 March 1857 to death. _d._ Beech house, Pendleton, Manchester 25 Oct. 1858. _Pusely’s Commercial companion_, _2 ed._ (1860) _p._ 143; _G.M. v_ 634 (1858); _I.L.N. xviii_ 484 (1851).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POTTS, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. _b._ 1834; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the football and stroke of the boat; at St. John’s coll. Camb., second classic, second chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861, LL.D.; fellow of his college 1858; a master at the Charterhouse 1858; an assistant master Rugby 1862–8; the first head master of Fettes college, Edinburgh July 1868 to death, the college prospered under his management; author of Hints towards Latin prose composition 1869, 2 ed. 1870; Passages for translation into Latin prose 1879; with C. Darnell Aditus faciliores, a Latin construing book 1875; Aditus faciliores Græci 1878; and with W. A. Heard Camenarum Flosculos 1877, 3 ed. 1886. _d._ The lodge, Fettes college 15 Nov. 1889. _bur._ Dean cemetery 19 Nov. _The Scotsman 18 Nov. 1889 p._ 7, _20 Nov. p._ 6; _School sermons by A. W. Potts_ (1891), _memoir pp. xi–xl portrait_.

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

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

POTTS, JOSEPH TRUMPERANT. _b._ 19 April 1815; managing proprietor of Saunders’ News-Letter, Dublin 1846 to death; owner of landed property in Galway, Roscommon, and the King’s and Queen’s counties. _d._ 20 Fitzwilliam square, Dublin 17 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 20 Oct. _Newspaper Press 1 Nov. 1871 p._ 238.

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

POULDEN, GEORGE (eld. son of Alexander Poulden). _b._ Portsea, Hants. 1802; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; counsel to post office; revising barrister on western circuit; recorder of Portsmouth April 1866 to death. _d._ 9A Stanhope place, Hyde Park, London 12 June 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery. _Law Times xlv_ 171 (1868).

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

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

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

POULTNEY, EDWARD. _b._ 1821; founder of The Home in the East reformatory, Old Ford Bow 1852. _d._ 8 Dec. 1853.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POWER, ELLEN MARIA (youngest dau. of Arthur Lingham of York house, Tulse hill, Brixton, Surrey, his wife Agnes _d._ 24 June 1894). _b._ London 10 April 1854; made her first appearance at Gordon’s music hall, Southampton 1863; under the name of Nelly Power a singer and dancer at the Canterbury, the Pavilion, and other music halls in London to 1870; gave exact imitations of George Leybourne; took the principal parts in pantomimes at the Surrey theatre under William Holland’s management; acted the Elf in Robinson Crusoe pantomime, Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1868; acted Don Roderigo in Don Carlos 16 April 1870, the earl of Essex in Elizabeth 17 Nov. 1870, prince Precious in the Orange tree and the humble bee 13 May 1871, the princess Badoura in Camaralzaman 22 Nov. 1871, Glaucus in The very last days of Pompeii 13 Feb. 1872, and Apollo in Romulus and Remus 23 Dec. 1872, all at the Vaudeville theatre; played again in pantomimes at the Surrey; Sinbad in the Old Man of the sea, Drury lane 26 Dec. 1882; again had great popularity at the music halls, very successful in caricaturing dandies, her songs Lah-di-dah and Tiddy-fol-lol had a great run; her last appearance was at the Trocadero 19 Jany. 1887; _m._ 17 June 1874 Roland Gideon Israel, eldest son of Bennett Barnett of Keppel st. Russell sq. London, from whom she obtained a divorce. _d._ 309 Essex road, Islington, London 20 Jany. 1887. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 26 Jany. _The Era 22 Jany. 1887 p._ 10, _29 Jany. p._ 10; _Saturday Programme 18 July 1874_, _with portrait_, _5 Feb. 1876 pp._ 8–9, _two portraits_.

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

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

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

POWER, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet. _b._ 1771; a distiller in Dublin; alderman of Dublin; created baronet 18 Oct. 1841; a supporter of D. O’Connell by his purse and influence; laid foundation stone of O’Connell monument in Glasnevin cemetery 1854. _d._ Roebuck house, county Dublin 25 June 1855. _bur._ in cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin. _G.M. xliv_ 428 (1855).

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

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

POWER, JOHN (son of Matthias Power). _b._ parish of Affane, near Cappoquin, Waterford 1 May 1809; studied in St. John’s college, Waterford; ordained priest 16 June 1832; C. of St. Mary’s, Clonmel 8 June 1832; P.P. of Powerstown 2 July 1852; translated to parish of S.S. Peter and Paul, Clonmel 6 Sept. 1866; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 May 1873 to death, consecrated in Waterford cathedral 20 July 1873. _d._ Waterford 6 Dec. 1887. _bur._ in Waterford cathedral 9 Dec. _W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_ 77 (1876); _The Waterford mail 8 Dec. 1887 p._ 3, _12 Dec. p._ 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POWLEY, MARY. _b._ 1812; author of Echoes of Old Cumberland, poems and translations 1875. _d._ Langwathby 23 Dec. 1882.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POYSER, THOMAS. _b._ 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading medical practitioner at Wirksworth, Derbyshire 1821 to death; contributed a succession of papers on ‘The authors of articles in the Quarterly Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent. Mag., also contributed to Medico chirurgical review and the London journal of medicine. _d._ Wirksworth 11 June 1860. _G.M. ix_ 319 (1860); _Lancet i_ 634 (1860).

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

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

PRAED, CHARLES TYRINGHAM (2 son of James Backwell Praed, M.P. 1779–1837). _b._ 18 Aug. 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 19 March 1851; partner in Praed and Co. bankers, Fleet st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1874–80; resided 95 Queen’s gate, London. _d._ Edgcombe hall, Wimbledon 19 Oct. 1895. _Graphic xi_ 291, 292 (1875) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

PRATT, CHARLES COMPTON. _b._ 1790; 2 lieut. R.M. 14 Oct. 1805, colonel 19 April 1854 to 20 June 1855, when he retired on full pay as major general. _d._ Vicars close, Wells, Somerset 16 June 1871.

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

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

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

PRATT, JOHN BURNETT. _b._ Cairnbanno, New Deer 1799; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.A., hon. LL.D. 1865; episcopal minister of Stuartfield 1821–5; minister of St. James’s church, Cruden 1825 to death; domestic chaplain to Earl of Errol; examining chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen; edited the Scottish episcopal communion service 1866; author of The old paths, where is the good way, 3 ed. Oxford 1840; Buchan, Aberdeen 1858, 3 ed. 1870; The Druids 1861; Letters on the Scandinavian churches, their doctrine, worship and polity 1865. _d._ St. James’s parsonage, Cruden 20 March 1869. _J. P. Pratt’s Buchan_, _3 ed._ (1870), _memoir pp. vii–ix portrait_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. May 1869 p._ 398.

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

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

PRATT, JOHN TIDD (2 son of John Pratt of Kennington, Surrey, surgeon). _b._ London 13 Dec. 1797; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824; consulting barrister to comrs. for reduction of the national debt 1828 to death; counsel to certify the rules of savings’ banks and friendly societies 1834–46, and registrar of friendly societies 1846 to death; edited J. B. Bosanquet and C. Puller’s New reports of cases argued in the court of common pleas and other courts 1826; E. Bott’s Laws relating to the poor, 6 ed. 1827; W. Woodfall’s Law of landlord and tenant 1829; author of An abstract of the acts of parliament for the establishment of courts of request 1824; A digested index to the term reports, analytically arranged 1826; The law relating to friendly societies 1829; History of the savings’ banks in England and Wales 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The law relating to highways 1835, 13 ed. 1893; A collection of all the statutes in force respecting the relief of the poor, 2 vols. 1835–64, 2 ed. 1843; The law relating to watching and lighting parishes 1850, 5 ed. 1891. _d._ 29 Abingdon st. Westminster 9 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 107, 152 (1870) _portrait_; _Law Times 15 Jany. 1870 p._ 214, _12 Feb. p._ 305.

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

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

PRATT, SAMUEL PEACE. _b._ 6 Nov. 1789; educ. at Enfield; lived at Bath 1823 to about 1839; F.L.S. 1829; F.G.S. 1829; F.R.S. 27 Jany. 1842, withdrew 1859. _d._ Mellone villa, Fulham road, London 22 Sept. 1863.

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

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

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

NOTE.--His brother Frederick Sydney Pratten, a contrabassist in the orchestra of the Royal Italian opera _d._ London 3 March 1873.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PRESCOTT, SIR HENRY (son of admiral Isaac Prescott 1737–1830). _b._ Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796; commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July 1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23 Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May 1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde park, London 18 Nov. 1874. _Prowse’s History of Newfoundland_ (1895) 448 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 252 (1874), _lxvi_ 23 (1875).

PRESCOTT, HENRY JAMES (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). _b._ 5 July 1802; banker London; director of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor 1849–50. _d._ Brighton 13 Aug. 1856.

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut. col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3 N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept. 1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col. of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. _d._ Genoa 2 Dec. 1876.

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). _b._ 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott, Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April 1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under £250,000, 3 June 1865. _Times 3 May 1865 p._ 5, _4 May p._ 11.

PRESS, EDWARD (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) _b._ Barnham Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56, and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death, _d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. _Norwich Mercury 18 May 1878 p._ 5.

PRESSLY, SIR CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pressly). _b._ Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex; sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849; deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to 1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 1 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880.

PREST, CHARLES. _b._ Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull 1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death; president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit 1864. _d._ Lee, Kent 25 Aug. 1875. _Illust. Times 23 Aug. 1862 p._ 269 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xli_ 204 (1862) _portrait_.

PREST, EDWARD (eld. son of John Prest). _b._ 1824; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; chaplain to Sherburn hospital 1851–7, and master 1857–61; hon. canon of Durham cath. Dec. 1860 to 1863; R. of St. Mary’s, Gateshead, and master of King James’ hospital 6 May 1862 to 1881; official of the dean and chapter of Durham 1880; resident canon and archdeacon of Durham 1863 to death; member of Gateshead sch. board 28 Nov. 1870, then vice-chairman; R. of Ryton-on-Tyne 1881 to death. _d._ Ryton rectory 26 Oct. 1882.

PREST, EDWARD HENRY. Educ. Durham sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., rowed stroke oar in the Cambridge boat against Oxford 1878, and bow oar 1879 and 1880; won the university pairs with H. R. Jones 1880; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1884; assistant master of Repton sch. 1880–7; head master of Barnard Castle sch. Durham 1887 to death. _d._ Barnard Castle 18 Oct. 1893.

PREST, THOMAS PECKETT. Author of a romance entitled The string of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May 26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey 1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844; The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846; The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins 1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the secret robbers of Bohemia 1852.

PRESTON, BENJAMIN (son of a hand loom weaver). _b._ Bradford 10 Aug. 1819; a wool sorter and comber; a publican at Bingley common May 1865; called the Burns of Bradford; author of The dialect poems of Benjamin Preston, Saltaire 1872 with a memoir and portrait; Dialect and other poems 1881. _S. Baring Gould’s Yorkshire oddities i_ 267–79 (1874).

PRESTON, CHARLES JAMES (4 son of Richard T. Preston of Liverpool). _b._ Rodney st. Liverpool 1818; educ. Downing coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1843; practised in Liverpool many years, also acting as deputy stipendiary magistrate; stipendiary magistrate for Birkenhead 18 May 1866, resigned 1893. _d._ 9 Southwick place, Hyde park, London 9 May 1896. _Law Times 16 May 1896 p._ 73.

PRESTON, SIR GEORGE (son of W. Preston, first comr. of court of appeals in Ireland). _b._ Gloucester st. Dublin 1800; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by the marquess Wellesley in Dublin 1833; captain 4 Lancashire militia 1855–9. _d._ 37 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin May 1870.

PRESTON, JAMES BLAIR. Assistant surgeon Madras army 1821, surgeon 27 Sept. 1833; inspector general of hospitals 14 Feb. 1854; surgeon general Madras 1 Jany. 1855, physician general 12 Feb. 1856 to death. _d._ near Southampton 28 June 1858.

PRESTON, SIR JOHN (son of Alexander Preston of Dunyrewn, Loughgall, Belfast). _b._ 12 Jany. 1817; educ. Loughgall school; linen and yarn merchant 20 Callender st. Belfast as J. Preston and Co.; president of Belfast chamber of commerce; mayor of Belfast 1877 and 1878; knighted 8 Jany. 1878. _d._ Dunmore, Belfast 4 Aug. 1890.

PRESTON, JOSEPH M. _b._ 22 Aug. 1864; a professional cricketer; played in the Yorkshire eleven for several seasons; a member of the Shrewsbury team which visited Australia 1887–8; a good batsman and a fast bowler. _d._ Bradford 26 Nov. 1890.

PRESTON, MATTHEW MORRIS. _b._ 1781 or 1782; fellow of Trin. coll. Camb. to 1826, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; kept a school at Aspenden hall, Herts. 1813–25, where lord Macaulay, Henry Maiden and other eminent men were his pupils; V. of Cheshunt, Herts. 14 April 1826 to death: author of The benefit of scriptural instruction, illustrated in the case of two beloved sons 1837; Sermons addressed chiefly to young persons 1837, 2 ed. 1860; Memoranda of Charles Simeon 1840; Parochial lectures on the book of Josiah 1840; Cheshunt collection of psalms and hymns 1850; Sermons 1859. _d._ 18 April 1858. _bur._ in Cheshunt churchyard, the five-light east window in the church was erected to his memory.

PRESTON, ROBERT BERTHON. _b._ Liverpool 25 June 1820; educ. Geneva; principal partner in firm of Fawcett, Preston & Co., mechanical engineers, Liverpool, made engines for many steamboats, sugar machinery, and rifled guns; M.I.C.E. 1855; member of Royal southern and Mersey yacht clubs; a patron of art; made a collection of modern and antique art; J. Gibson’s tinted Venus was executed expressly for him 1850–5. _d._ Gloucester 9 April 1860. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 157 (1861).

PRESTON, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ 1 Oct. 1808; ensign 87 foot 24 Sept. 1829, lieut. 22 Feb. 1833; lieut. 22 foot 1834–9; captain 45 foot 5 Jany. 1841, lieut. col. 1 May 1861, retired on full pay 31 July 1867; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1878; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel of the Queen’s Own (royal West Kent regiment) 28 Feb. 1888 to 5 Oct. 1890; colonel of the Royal Munster fusiliers 5 Oct. 1890 to death. _d._ 6 The Esplanade, Plymouth 6 April 1892.

PRESTWICH, SIR JOSEPH (son of Joseph Prestwich of London). _b._ Pensbury, Clapham, near London 12 March 1812; educ. in Paris and Univ. coll. London; wine merchant in city of London to 1872; F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1849, president 1870–2; F.R.S. 2 June 1853, royal medallist 1865, vice-president 1870–1; served on the royal coal commission 1866, and on the royal commission on water supply 1867; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. 1874; name placed in Ch. Ch. Oxf. matriculation register 3 Nov. 1874; M.A. by decree 11 Nov. 1874; professor of geology at Oxford 29 June 1874 to death; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’ company 4 April 1878; corresponding member of French academy of sciences 1885; honorary D.C.L. Oxford 1888; president of the Congrès géologique international, which held its fourth session in London Sept. 1888; knighted by patent 20 January 1896; author of The geology of the water-bearing strata around London 1851; The geology of Clapham and neighbourhood of London 1858; and of Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphical, 2 vols. Oxford 1886–8. _d._ Shoreham, Kent 23 June 1896. _Times 24 June 1896 p._ 7; _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870) _portrait xiv_; _I.L.N. 11 Jany. 1896 p._ 52 _portrait_.

PRETTEJOHN, RICHARD BUCKLEY. _b._ 10 March 1815; cornet 4 light dragoons 23 Feb. 1838; lieut. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. 14 light dragoons 3 April 1841, captain 17 Sept. 1850; served in the South Mahratta campaign 1844, the war in the Punjab 1848–9, the Persian war 1857, and the Indian mutiny 1857–8; major 18 hussars 5 July 1864, lieut. col. 14 June 1873, retired on full pay 1 April 1876; M.G. 20 March 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; colonel 13 hussars 1 July 1890 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Exmouth 4 Jany. 1891.

PRETTY, EDWARD. _b._ Hollingbourne, Kent 5 March 1792; drawing master Rugby school 1809–29; a miniature painter at Northampton 1829–58; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. London 1811–37; curator of the Charles’ museum, Chillington house, Maidstone 1858 to death; assist. sec. Kent, archæological soc.; F.S.A. 31 May 1859; member of British archæol. assoc. 1843; author of A guide to Northampton. _d._ Chillington house 4 Aug. 1865. _bur._ Maidstone cemetery, left his books and paintings to the Charles’ museum, and his coins to the rev. Beale Poste. _G.M. Oct. 1865 p._ 516; _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea vi_ 311–14 (1868); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxii_ 325–6 (1866).

PRETYMAN, GEORGE THOMAS (2 son of George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln and Winchester, who assumed in 1803 additional surname of Tomline 1750–1827). _b._ the deanery house, Dean’s court, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 5 April 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814; chancellor of cathedral church of Lincoln 15 April 1814 to death; R. of Wheathampstead with Harpenden, Herts. 1814 to death; prebend. of Lincoln 11 April 1814 to death; P.C. of Nettleton, Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1817 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 1 Sept. 1825 to death; his income from ecclesiastical sources seems to have been upwards of £6,250. _d._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 190 (1859).