Part 45

PATMORE, HENRY (3 son of Coventry Patmore the poet, _b._ 1823). _b._ Finchley 8 May 1860; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 1870–7; matric. at univ. of London 1877; lost sight of one eye 1878; went a voyage to the Cape 1881; articled to Henry Watson Parker, solicitor, London 1882; author of Poems by Henry Patmore (1884) memoir pp. i–vi. _d._ Hastings 24 Feb. 1883.

PATMORE, PETER GEORGE (son of Peter Patmore, dealer in plate and jewellery). _b._ Ludgate hill, London 1786; friend of Charles Lamb and Wm. Hazlitt from 1824; edited the New monthly magazine 1841–53; contributed to the Liberal, the Westminster and the Retrospective reviews, Blackwood and the London magazines; author of Letters on England, by Count Victoire de Soligny [a pseudonym], 2 vols. 1823; Mirror of the month 1826, anon; British galleries of art 1824, anon; Imitations of celebrated authors, or imaginary rejected articles 1826, anon, 4 ed. 1844; Sir Thomas Lawrence’s cabinet of gems 1837; Chatsworth or the romance of a week, 3 vols. 1844, anon; Finden’s Gallery of beauty, or the court of queen Victoria 1844; Marriage in Mayfair, a comedy 1854; My friends and acquaintances, recollections of deceased celebrities of the nineteenth century, 3 vols. 1855. _d._ near Hampstead 25 Dec. 1855.

NOTE.--W. Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris 1823 was based on letters written by P. G. Patmore, and some of Charles Lamb’s epistles are addressed to him. _P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii_ 34–9 (1886).

PATON, ADAM (son of Hugh Paton, publisher). _b._ Edinburgh 1836; an inventor of lithographic machines; was engaged in working at a multi-colour machine at time of his death. _d._ Belston road, Leeds 7 Jany. 1893.

PATON, ANDREW ARCHIBALD (son of Andrew Paton, saddler). _b._ 75 Broughton st. Edinburgh 19 March 1811; travelled in Eastern Europe, Syria, and Egypt; private secretary to colonel George Hodges in Egypt 1839–40; acting consul-general in Servia Oct. 1843; vice-consul at Missolonghi in Greece 5 April 1858, and at Lubeck 19 Aug. 1859; consul at Ragusa and at Bocca di Cattaro 12 May 1862 to death; F.R.G.S. 11 Feb. 1857; author of The modern Syrians. By An Oriental student 1844; Servia, or a residence in Belgrade 1845, 2 ed. 1855; Highlands and islands of the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1849; The Mamelukes: a romance of life in Grand Cairo, 3 vols. 1851, republished as Melusina, a new Arabian nights entertainment 1861; Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1861. _d._ 5 April 1874.

PATON, JOHN STAFFORD (son of John Forbes Paton, captain Bengal engineers). _b._ 3 March 1821; lieut. 14 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840, captain 8 Feb. 1851; served in the Sikh war 1845–6, and the Punjaub campaign 1848–9; A.Q.M.G. at Lahore 12 Sept. 1851, deputy Q.M.G. 15 Sept. 1858, Q.M.G. in Bengal 10 April 1863 to 1868; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; was mentioned in despatches and orders 30 times; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 86 Oxford terrace, London 28 Nov. 1889.

PATON, Mary Ann (eld. dau. of George Paton, writing-master at the Edinburgh high school). _b._ Edinburgh Oct. 1802; appeared at public concerts as a singer and as a performer on the harp and pianoforte 1811; sang at concerts in London 1811–14; played Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro at the Haymarket 3 Aug. 1822; sang at Covent Garden as Mandane in Artaxerxes, Rosetta in Love in a village, Adriana in The comedy of errors, and Clara in The Duenna 21 Dec. 1825; sang Agatha in Der Freischutz 14 Oct. 1824, and created part of Reiza in Weber’s opera Oberon 12 April 1826; the leading English soprano singer many years; sang in La Cenerentola and other Italian operas at the King’s theatre 1831, and Alice in Robert le Diable at Drury Lane 1832; sang in America 1834–6; retired to a convent for a year, but reappeared at Princess’s theatre and at concerts, finally retired 1844; became a Roman catholic 1843; lived abroad 1854–63; _m._ (1) 7 May 1824 lord Wm. Pitt Lennox (1799–1881), she obtained a divorce in the Scotch court of session in 1831; _m._ (2) 1831 Joseph Woods, tenor singer; she _d._ Bulcliffe hall, near Chapelthorpe, Wakefield 21 July 1864. _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii_ 45–67 (1863); _The London stage_, _vol. iv portrait_; _Georgian era iv_ 309 (1834); _W. Ball’s London Spring Annual for 1834_, _pp._ 34–35 _portrait_; _Musical Gem for 1832_, _p._ 46 _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography v_ 19 (1826) _portrait_.

PATON, WALLER HUGH (son of Joseph Neil Paton, damask designer). _b._ Wooers-Alley, Dunfermline 27 July 1828; pupil of John Houston, R.S.A.; an associate of the R.S.A. 1857, member 1865, contributed pictures to its exhibitions 1851 to death; prepared with his brother, sir Noel Paton, illustrations for Aytoun’s Lays of the Scottish cavaliers 1863; exhibited 16 landscapes at Royal academy, London 1860–80; F.S.A. Scotland 1869; member of royal Scottish society of water-colour painters 1878; his diploma picture Lamlash Bay is in the national gallery, Edinburgh; illustrated Poems and songs of R. Burns 1868; and The poetical works of E. A. Poe 1869. _d._ 14 George sq. Edinburgh 8 March 1895.

PATON, WALTER. _b._ 1793; an eminent penman; author of Penmanship 1825; Paton’s Flowers of penmanship 1840. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 11 Sept. 1855.

PATRICK, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 4 June 1803; a musical composer; made collections of books, paintings, and minerals; Associate British Archæol. assoc. from 1847; composer of Forget me not, a ballad 1829. _d._ 20 Feb. 1859. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvi_ 168 (1860).

PATTEN, GEORGE (son of Wm. Patten, miniature-painter, _d._ 1843). _b._ 29 June 1801; student at the R.A. 1816; painted miniatures 1819–30, and portraits and historical pictures 1830 to death; A.R.A. 1837; portrait painter in ordinary to the prince consort; painted the only portrait of Paganini, the violinist, exhibited at the R.A. 1833; exhibited his own portrait at the R.A. 1858; painted mythological, fancy, and scriptural subjects; exhibited 131 pictures at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1819–64. _d._ Hill house, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex 11 March 1865. _bur._ St. James’s churchyard, Friern, Barnet. _Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 211 (1862).

PATTERSON, ALEXANDER SIMPSON (son of Robert Paterson of Crofthouse, Alnwick). Licensed by presbytery of Dunbar 5 Dec. 1822; minister at Whitehaven 3 May 1837; elected by Glasgow church building soc. 11 March 1839, served to 28 June 1843; called to the Free church, St. Andrews 1847; minister of Hutchesonton free church, Hospital st. Glasgow to death; edited The Imperial illustrated bible 1858; The self-explanatory family bible 1859; Illustrated family bible 1876; author of A brief commentary on the First epistle to the Thessalonians 1846; A commentary on the Hebrews 1856; Commentaries on the First epistle to the Thessalonians, the Epistle of James, and the First epistle of John 1857; Poets and preachers of the nineteenth century 1862; The Redeemer and the redemption, discourses 1865; Sketches in verse of a continental tour 1866. _d._ 1885. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 238–44; _H. Scott’s Fasti ii_, _part_ 1 _p._ 48.

PATTERSON, SIR JAMES BROWN (youngest son of James Patterson, district road inspector). _b._ Alnwick, Northumberland 18 Nov. 1833; went to Forest Creek goldfields, Victoria 1852; member for Castlemaine of legislative assembly of Victoria 1871 to death; comr. of public works and vice-president of the board of land and works 23 Aug. to 20 Oct. 1875 and 28 May 1877 to March 1880; postmaster general July 1878 to March 1880 and Sept. to Nov. 1890; minister of railways Aug. 1880 to July 1881; minister of customs Feb. 1889 to Sept. 1890; minister of public works June to Sept. 1890; K.C.M.G. 26 May 1894. _d._ Melbourne 30 Oct. 1895. _I.L.N. 9 Feb. 1895 p._ 574 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 12 July 1893 p._ 4 _portrait_.

PATTERSON, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Patterson, merchant). _b._ Belfast 18 April 1802; apprenticed to his father’s business 1818; one of the 8 founders of the Natural history society of Belfast 1821, president many years; an early member of British association, one of the secretaries of the natural history section 1839–44; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; one of the Belfast harbour comrs. 1858–70; author of Letters on the insects mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays 1838; Introduction to zoology 1848; First steps to zoology 1849; Patterson’s Zoological diagrams 1859. _d._ 6 College sq. North, Belfast 14 Feb. 1872.

PATTERSON, ROBERT. _b._ Cappagh, co. Tyrone 12 Jany. 1792; taken to Delaware county, Pennsylvania 1798; served in the war of 1812 as first lieut. of infantry; major general of volunteers in the Mexican war; commanded the Pennsylvania militia; M.G. of volunteers in the civil war 15 April to 27 July 1861; one of the largest mill-owners in the United States; president of board of trustees of Lafayette college; author of A narrative of the campaign in the valley of the Shenandoah 1865. _d._ Philadelphia 7 Aug. 1881. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 673 (1888) _portrait_.

PATTERSON, ROBERT HOGARTH. _b._ Edinburgh Dec. 1821; press-corrector in John Ballantyne’s printing office; edited the Edinburgh Advertiser 1852–8; editor in London of The Press 1858, afterwards proprietor; edited The Globe newspaper 1865–9; member of board of referees appointed by parliament to investigate and report upon the best means of purification of coal-gas in London 1869 to death; edited in Glasgow the Glasgow News 1872–4; F.S.S., member of council; author of The new revolution, or the Napoleonic policy in Europe 1860; Essays in history and art 1862; The economy of capital, or gold and trade 1865; The science of finance 1868; Robespierre, a lyrical drama 1877; The new golden age and the influence of the precious metals upon the world, 2 vols. 1882. _d._ 22 Wingate road, Hammersmith, Middlesex 13 Dec. 1886. _Athenæum ii_ 863 (1886).

PATTERSON, WILLIAM THOMAS LAIRD (son of James Patterson of 57 Wimpole st. London). _b._ 17 Oct. 1820; ensign 91 foot 22 Feb. 1839, lieut-col. 12 Nov. 1860, placed on h.p. 16 Jany. 1869; brigadier major in Greece 2 June 1855 to 24 Dec. 1855; assistant adjutant general Cork district 1 July 1870 to 30 June 1875; lieut.-col. 88 foot 23 Oct. 1875, placed on h.p. 18 Dec. 1875; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ 2 April 1889.

PATTESON, SIR JOHN (2 son of rev. Henry Patteson of Drinkstone, Suffolk). _b._ Coney Weston, Suffolk 11 Feb. 1790; educ. at Eton 1802–8; scholar of King’s coll. Camb. 1809, fellow 1812, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; the first Davies univ. scholar 1810; student at Middle Temple 1813, barrister 6 July 1821; began practice as a special pleader 1821; one of the legal comrs. on the reform of the Welsh judicature 1829; judge of court of king’s bench 12 Nov. 1830, resigned 10 Feb. 1852, when presented with a testimonial by the Metropolitan common law clerks 30 June; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852, member of the judicial committee; a comr. to examine into the state of the city of London July 1853; arbitrator in disputes between the crown and duchy of Cornwall, between the post office and the Great Western railway, and between the university and town of Cambridge; edited Sir E. Saunders’ The reports of cases in the king’s bench, 5 ed. 1824, another ed. 1845. _d._ Feniton court, Honiton, Devon 28 June 1861. _bur._ Feniton churchyard 5 July, memorial window placed in Feniton church Jany. 1865. _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_ (1895) 95–9 _portrait_; _Creasy’s Eminent Etonians_ (1876) 589–90; _I.L.N. xxii_ 45 (1852), _view of testimonial_; _Law Magazine xlvii_ 90–104 (1852); _Law magazine and law review xiii_ 197–224 (1862); _Foss’s Judges ix_ 235 (1864).

NOTE.--No other instance has ever occurred of a barrister of only nine years’ practice being raised to the bench.

PATTESON, JOHN COLERIDGE (elder son of preceding). _b._ 1827; educ. Ottery, St. Mary gr. sch. 1835–8, and Eton 1838–45, captain of the cricket eleven; a commoner of Balliol coll. Oxford 1845–8; B.A. 1848, M.A. 1853, D.D. 1861; fellow of Merton 1852 to death; C. of Alphington, South Devon Sept. 1853 to March 1855; landed at Auckland, New Zealand May 1855; took boys from the Melanesian islands and taught them in New Zealand 1856–61; missionary bishop in Melanesia 1861 to death; learnt to speak 23 languages, translated into the Mata language the gospels of St. Luke and St. John and other parts of scripture; _killed_ by the natives on the island of Nukapu, Melanesia 20 Sept. 1871. _bur._ at sea 21 Sept., memorial cross erected at Nukapu 1884. _C. M. Yonge’s Life of J. C. Patteson_, 2 _vols._ (1878), _two portraits_; _F. Awdry’s Story of a fellow soldier_ (1875); _Creasy’s Eminent Etonians_ (1876) 624–8; _I.L.N. lix_ 559, 561 (1871) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 383, 384 (1874) _portrait_.

PATTI, CARLOTTA (dau. of Salvator Patti, singer, _d._ 21 Aug. 1869). _b._ Florence 30 Oct. 1835; first appeared as a concert singer at Academy of music, New York 1861; toured in North America with Max Strakosch’s concert party 1862; came to London 22 March 1863; sang at Covent Garden theatre and Crystal palace 16 April and 9 May 1863; sang in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1863–9; sang the Queen of the night in Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte and other parts with Strakosch’s company in New York 1869; sang in Rossini’s Barber of Seville and in Don Pasquale at Buenos Ayres 1870; sang with Mario in the United States 1872, and at the London Philharmonic, and other concerts from 1872; had a soprano voice extending from C below the clef to G sharp in alt.; retired 1879; _m._ 3 Sept. 1879 Ernest de Munck, solo violoncellist to the grand duke of Saxe Weimar; she _d._ from cancer at her house, Rue Pierre-Charron, Paris 27 June 1889. _London sketch book Nov. 1874 pp._ 1–2 _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world xi_ 221 (1862) _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iv_ 441 (1865) _portrait_, _v_ 529 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. times 13 June 1863 p._ 405 _portrait_.

PATTINSON, HUGH LEE (son of Thomas Pattinson of Alston, Cumberland, retail trader _d._ 19 May 1812). _b._ Alston 25 Dec. 1796; assay master to the lords of the manor at Alston 1825, discovered method of separating the silver from lead ore Jany. 1829, which he patented 1833; manager of Wentworth Beaumont’s lead works 1831–4; established with John Lee and George Burnett chemical works at Felling 1834, and at Washington, 1843, both in Durham; his process for desilverisation of lead has led to the invention of the German verb Pattinsoniren and French substantive Pattinsonage; discovered a simple method for obtaining white lead, by a process which gave rise to formation of the new compound oxychloride of lead, patented 1841, a new process also patented 1841 for manufacturing magnesia alba; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S.; F.C.S.; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; author of 8 papers on lead mining and electrical phenomena; originally a quaker but was baptised into the church of England 23 Dec. 1815 when he took the additional name of Lee. _d._ Scot’s House, near Gateshead 11 Nov. 1858. _Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv_ 273–320 (1873) _portrait_; _Percy’s Metallurgy lead_ (1875) 121–44.

PATTISON, DOROTHY WYNDLOW (youngest dau. of Mark James Pattison 1788–1865, rector of Haukswell, near Richmond, Yorkshire). _b._ Haukswell 16 Jany. 1832; village schoolmistress in parish of Little Woolston, near Blatchley, Bucks. 1861–4; member of the sisterhood of the Good Samaritan at Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire 1864, and adopted the name of Sister Dora; nurse at a small cottage hospital at Walsall 1865, was in charge of the new hospital built 1867, resigned Feb. 1877; trained lady nurses at Walsall; left the community of the Good Samaritan 1874; was in charge of the municipal epidemic hospital in Walsall Feb. 1877 to 21 June 1878, where the cases were chiefly smallpox. _d._ Walsall 24 Dec. 1878, memorial window in the parish church and statue unveiled at Walsall 11 Oct. 1886. _M. Lonsdale’s Sister Dora_ (1880) _portrait_; _Ridsdale’s Sister Dora_ (1880); _Sister Dora and her statue_, _Walsall_ (1886) _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review May 1880 pp._ 656–71.

PATTISON, GEORGE HANDASYDE (eld. son of Wm. Pattison of Wooler, Northumberland). _b._ Wooler 1806; educ. high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate in Edinburgh 1834; sheriff of counties of Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk 1868 to death. _d._ 9 Albyn place, Edinburgh 5 April 1885.

PATTISON, GRANVILLE SHARP (youngest son of John Pattison of Kelvin Grove, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1792; member of faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow 1813; lectured privately on anatomy in Philadelphia 1818; professor of anatomy, physiology, and surgery in the univ. of Maryland in Baltimore 1820–5; returned to England July 1827; professor of anatomy at London univ. 1827, removed from his professorship 23 July 1831; surgeon to the univ. dispensary to 1831; professor of anatomy in the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia 1831–40; professor of anatomy in univ. of New York 1840 to death; edited the American recorder 1820, and the Register and library of medical and chirurgical science, Washington 1833–6; co-editor of the American medical library and intelligencer, Philadelphia 1836; translated J. N. Masse’s Anatomical atlas, New York 1881; author of Experimental observations on the operation of lithotomy, Philadelphia 1820; A lecture on the question, has the parotid gland ever been extirpated 1833. _d._ New York 12 Nov. 1851. _Pattison’s Statement of his connexion with university of London_ (1831); _New York journal of medicine viii_ 143 (1852).

PATTISON, MARK (brother of Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison 1832–78). _b._ Hornby, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1813; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1851; lived in Newman’s house in St. Aldate’s 1838–9; fellow of Lincoln coll. 8 Nov. 1839 to 1860, Greek lecturer 1841, tutor 1843–55, bursar 1843, sub-rector 1846, rector Feb. 1861 to death; Denyer theological prizeman 1841 and 1842; examiner in school of literæ humaniores 1848, 1853, and 1870; assistant comr. to report upon continental education 1859; pro vice-chancellor 1861; curator of Bodleian library May 1869; curator of Taylor institution at Oxford 4 March 1873; contributed Tendencies of religious thought in England 1688–1750 to Essays and reviews 1860, which went to 5 editions; wrote the articles Religion and philosophy in the literary chronicle of the Westminster Review to end of 1855; wrote for the Saturday Review 1855–77; edited for the Clarendon press Pope’s Essay on man 1869, 2 ed. 1872, and Pope’s Satires and epistles 1872, 2 ed. 1874; wrote seven biographical notices in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; collected about 14,000 volumes, the largest private library, at Oxford, which was sold at Sotheby’s July and Aug. 1885; is drawn by Rhoda Broughton in her novel Belinda 1883 as professor Forth; author of The life of Isaac Casaubon 1875, 2 ed. 1892; Sermons 1885; Essays, 2 vols. 1889. _d._ Harrogate 30 July 1884. _bur._ in Harlow Hill churchyard, near Harrogate. _Memoirs by Mark Pattison, edited by Mrs. Pattison_ (1885); _L. A. Tollemache’s Stones of stumbling_ (1893) 119–203; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1885 pp._ 31–49; _Journal of education_ (1885) 149, 253–65, 427–8; _Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1884 pp._ 401–8; _Academy 9 Aug. 1884 pp._ 92–4; _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 181 (1884) _portrait_.

PATTISON, SAMUEL ROWLES (son of S. R. Pattison 1785–1865). _b._ Stroud, Gloucs. 27 October 1809; a solicitor 1831; at Launceston, Cornwall 1836–53; F.G.S.; solicitor London 1853; head of firm of Pattison, Wigg, Gurney, and King, solicitors 11 Queen Victoria st. London 1875; author of Chapters on fossil botany 1849; Some account of the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Launceston 1852; Notes on Launceston castle 1852; The religious topography of England 1882; The earth and the world, or geology for bible students 1858; On the history of evangelical christianity 1875; The rise and progress of religious life in England 1864; resident at 17 Edwardes square, Kensington 1896.

PATTLE, THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1812; cornet 16 light dragoons 13 June 1834, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to 11 Feb. 1859; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 11 Feb. 1859 to 12 July 1868, when placed on h.p.; served in China as brigadier in command of cavalry in the campaign of 1860; col. 2 dragoon guards 27 Oct. 1881 to death; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 5 Camden crescent, Dover 21 Dec. 1881.

PATTLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1783; cadet 1798; cornet in Bengal 19 March 1801, capt. 8 Jany. 1816, major 26 June 1826; lieut.-col. 4 Bengal light cavalry 27 April 1833; lieut. col. of 10 light cavalry 1837–8, of 8 light cavalry 1838–40, of 1 light cavalry 1840–1, and of 9 light cavalry 1841–3; commanded the cavalry throughout sir Charles Napier’s campaign in Scinde 1843; aide-de-camp to the queen 4 July 1843 to 20 June 1854; col. 1 Bengal light cavalry 5 Jan. 1844 to 1848; col. 11 light cavalry 1848–49; col. 4 light cavalry 1849–58; col. 3 European light cavalry 1858–62; col. 19 hussars 30 Sept. 1862 to death; general 9 Oct. 1863; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ Dawlish, Devon 9 Feb. 1865.

PATTON, ARTHUR (son of a clergyman). _b._ 1854; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1876; called to the Irish bar 1884; an energetic speaker against the home rule movement in England and Scotland from 1886; a musician; edited Blue, white and red, a Christmas annual, Rathmines, Dublin 1872. _d._ Cirencester 20 Oct. 1892. _Times 21 Oct. 1892 p._ 7.

PATTON, GEORGE, Lord Glenalmond (3 son of James Patton, sheriff-clerk of Perthshire). _b._ the Cairnies, Perth 1803; educ. univ. of Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. Camb. 1826; admitted advocate 1828; solicitor general for Scotland 3 May 1859; M.P. Bridgwater Aug. 1865 to May 1866; contested Bridgwater 7 June 1866; lord advocate 12 July 1866; lord justice clerk and lord president of second division, with title of lord Glenalmond 27 Feb. 1867 to death; P.C. 4 Nov. 1867; planted extensive forests of coniferous trees on his Glenalmond estate 1831 etc.; cut his throat and threw himself into the river Almond at Glenalmond 20 Sept. 1869, body found near bridge of Buchanty 24 Sept. _bur._ Monzie churchyard. _T. Hunter’s Woods, forests, and estates of Perthshire_ (1883) 356–64; _Law mag. and law review xxix_ 267–71 (1870); _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 195 (1869); _Law Journal iv_ 520, 534 (1869).

PATTON, HUGH (son of colonel Patton, governor of St. Helena). Entered navy Oct. 1804; commanded the Alban 12 guns on Plymouth station 1815–18; captain 12 Aug. 1819; retired 1 Oct. 1846; R.A. 19 Jany. 1852, V.A. 10 Sept. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. _d._ Cockspur st. London 18 March 1864.

PATTON, JOHN. _b._ 24 March 1800; ensign 33 foot 18 Sept. 1817; lieut. 46 foot 1821; captain 12 foot 16 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 18 Aug. 1843; inspecting field officer of recruits 8 Feb. 1850 to 19 Feb. 1859; col. of 47 foot 8 Dec. 1867 and of 12 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; general 10 Oct. 1874. _d._ Vicar’s Hill, Lymington, Hampshire 27 Feb. 1888.

PATTON, ROBERT (son of Charles Patton, captain R.N.) _b._ 1791; entered navy 1 Feb. 1804; served at battle of Trafalgar 1805; captain 30 April 1827; retired R.A. 7 Aug. 1854; retired admiral 16 Sept. 1864. _d._ Fareham, Hampshire 30 Aug. 1883. _Graphic xix_ 217 (1879) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 285 (1883) _portrait_.

PATTON-BETHUNE, ANNE FLORENCE LOUISA MARY (2 dau. of Walter Douglas Phillips Patton-Bethune of Clayton priory, Sussex, _b._ 1821, col. 74 highlanders). _b._ Stoke house, Stoke St. Mary, near Taunton 17 March 1866; a good horsewoman, well known in the Sussex hunting fields; author of 2 novels Debonnair Dick 1892; Bachelors to the rescue 1894, 2 ed. 1894; while lieut. Constantine Palæologus of 29 Punjaub infantry was driving her in a tandem in Hyde park on 12 April 1894 the horses bolted and she was thrown out, she was taken to St. George’s hospital and _d._ of a fracture of the skull 13 April.

PATULLO, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin about 1806; a grocer in Dundee; emigrated to New York about 1830; a liquor seller in New York especially of Scotch whiskey, became known as ‘The whiskey punch king’; left a fortune of half a million dollars. _d._ New York Sept. 1868. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 317–8.

PATULLO, JAMES BRODIE. Ensign 30 foot 24 April 1840, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; present at Alma and Inkermann. _killed_ in the storming of Sebastopol 8 Sept. 1855.

PATY, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (son of William Paty of Bristol). _b._ 1788; ensign 32 foot 28 April 1804, captain 28 April 1808, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; served in Copenhagen 1807, and in the Peninsula 1811–14; major 96 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on h.p. 9 June 1825; lieut. col. 94 foot 11 June 1826 to 31 Dec. 1841, when placed on h.p.; granted distinguished service reward 1 April 1848; col. 70 foot 8 May 1854 to death; general 14 March 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.H. 1832. _d._ 24 Regent st. London 8 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 523 (1868).

PAUL, HAMILTON. _b._ Parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 10 April 1773; educ. Glasgow univ.; partner in a printing establishment at Ayr; edited the Ayr Advertiser 3 years; licensed to preach by the presbytery 16 July 1800, assistant at Coylton 1800; minister of Broughton, Kilbucho, and Glenholm, Peebleshire 1813 to death; author of Paul’s first and second epistles to the dearly beloved the female disciples or female students of natural philosophy in Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1800; Vaccination, or beauty preserved 1805; edited The works of Robert Burns 1819. _d._ Broughton 28 Feb. 1854. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland i_ 498–500 (1876).

PAUL, ISABELLA, stage name of Isabella Hill (dau. of George Thomas Hill, leather merchant). _b._ Dartford, Kent 1833; educ. France and Italy; had a contralto voice ranging from A in the bass clef to A in alt.; first appeared in London as Isabella Featherstone at Strand theatre, playing captain Macheath in the Beggar’s opera March 1853; Lucy Lockit in Beggar’s opera Strand 5 May 1853; Juana in Mark Lemon’s Paula Lazarro Drury Lane 9 Jany. 1854; appeared at Wallack’s theatre, New York 10 Sept. 1855; acted Sir Launcelot de Lake in the Lancashire witches Lyceum 3 July 1858; _m._ 13 July 1854 at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London G. Henry Howard Paul, actor and dramatist, _b._ Philadelphia, U.S. of America 16 Nov. 1835 (son of Stephen Carmick Paul); they gave entertainments in London and the provinces from 1860, in which she imitated Sims Reeves, Henry Russell and other vocalists; gave an entertainment, Ripples on the Lake, Strand 2 Sept. 1867; she played Lady Macbeth and Hecate in Macbeth at Drury Lane Feb. 1869, and Mistigris in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; sang in comic opera in Paris; played the title role in Offenbach’s Grand Duchess at the Olympic 20 June 1868, and in Paris in a French version; played Little Gil Blas in Farnie’s extravaganza Little Gil Blas at Princess’s 24 Dec. 1870; toured the provinces with a company of her own in an entertainment 1873; played Lady Sangazure in W. S. Gilbert’s The Sorcerer at Opera Comique 17 Nov. 1877; taken ill while performing in The crisis at Sheffield 30 May 1879. _d._ 17 The Avenue, Bedford park, Turnham Green, London 6 June 1879. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 11 June. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 414; _The Period 14 Jany. 1871 p._ 15 _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news vi_ 561 (1867) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news ii_ 489, 491 (1875) _portrait_, _xi_ 302, 305 (1879) _portrait_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 107, 721; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 678 (1888); _The Era 1 June 1879 p._ 9, _15 June p._ 12. PAUL, JOHN. Presbyterian minister, Maybole; minister of St. Cuthbert’s or West Kirk, Edinb. 17 April 1827 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 27 April 1847; moderator of the general assembly 20 May 1847; author of The miraculous propagation of the gospel 1834. _d._ 4 Nov. 1883.

PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 1 Baronet (elder son of John Paul, M.D. of Salisbury, _d._ 15 June 1815). _b._ 25 Dec. 1775; educ. Westminster 1787, king’s scholar 1788; exhibited 20 landscapes at the R.A. 1802–37; partner in Snow, Strahan, Paul and co., bankers, which became Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, 218 Strand, London; baronet by patent dated 3 Sept. 1821; created D.C.L. Oxf. 13 June 1834; author of Journal of a party of pleasure in Paris 1802, 2 ed. 1814; The former times, an address by A Norfolk Independent whig 1820; Rouge et noir, Versailles, and other poems 1821 anon.; The man of ton, a satire 1828 anon.; Joseph, a poem 1840; Ruth, a poem, 1841; The country doctor’s horse, a tale 1847. _d._ Hill house, Stroud 16 Jany. 1852.

PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 218 Strand, London 27 Oct. 1802; educ. Westminster 1811 and Eton 1817; partner in Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, bankers and navy agents of 217 Strand, London 1828, which suspended payment 11 June 1855; Strahan, Paul and Bates, the partners in the firm, signed and handed in to the court of bankruptcy a list of securities amounting to £113,625 belonging to their clients but which had been fraudulently sold or deposited by them; they were indicted at the Old Bailey 26 Oct. 1855 for converting to their own use Danish bonds value £5,000 belonging to John Griffith, canon of Rochester, they were found guilty and sentenced to transportation for 14 years 27 Oct.; the debts proved against the firm amounted to three quarters of a million, the business was taken over by the London and Westminster bank; released from Woking prison 23 Oct. 1859; lived at Lower Lancing, Shoreham, Sussex 1861–7; a wine merchant at Wheathampstead near St. Albans 1867 to death; illustrated his father’s book The country doctor’s horse 1847; author of Harmonies of scripture and short lessons for young christians 1846; Bible illustrations, or the harmony of the old and new testament 1855; A.B.C. of fox-hunting, consisting of twenty six coloured illustrations by the late sir John Dean Paul, bart. 1871. _d._ St. Albans 7 Sept. 1868. _D. M. Evans’s Facts, failures and frauds_ (1859) 106–53; _Price’s Handbook of London bankers_ (1876) 128–30; _P. Fitzgerald’s Chronicles of Bow st. ii_ 244–51 (1888); _Diprose’s St. Clement’s i_ 108, 249, 315 (1868).

NOTE.--His grandnephew Wentworth Francis Dean Paul (2 son of Sir Edward John Dean Paul, 4 baronet), _b._ 26 Nov. 1870; one of the best four-in-hand whips in England or America, took first prize for driving a team at the Chicago world’s fair 1893; much dejected owing to his debts; _poisoned himself_ with prussic acid at Bath hotel, Piccadilly, London 20 Dec. 1893.

PAUL, MATTHEW COMBE. _b._ 1791; entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 23 Feb. 1807, captain 9 Nov. 1818; major 9 N.I. 11 April 1828 to 19 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 9 N.I. 31 March 1835 to 2 Feb. 1845; col. of 29 N.I. 2 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 17 May 1859. _d._ 43 Harewood sq. London 7 Jany. 1865.

PAUL, ROBERT (son of Wm. Paul, pastor of the West Kirk, Edinb. 1754–1802). _b._ Edinburgh 15 May 1788; educ. Edinb. univ.; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinb. 1807, secretary 1823, manager to 1853, then a director to death; joined the Free church disruption 1843, an elder under Dr. R. S. Candlish at St. George’s ch. Edinb. 1843; assisted in promoting the theological college and library, the Soc. for training the children of ministers and missionaries, and the Orphan hospital; author of The finest of wheat, extracts from the writings of the older divines 1849; Memoir of rev. James Martin. _d._ Kirkland lodge, near Edinb. 16 July 1866. _R. Bell’s Memoir of R. Paul_ (1872) _portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 429–34.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PAULING, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Rochester 10 March 1821; district engineer of Wellington railway, Cape Town 1859, resident engineer 1864; chief resident engineer of the western railways 1881; engineer in chief to Cape government railways 1885–91, having control of 2,000 miles of lines; M.I.C.E. 4 May 1880. _d._ Cape Town 8 Sept. 1892. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxii_ 359 (1893).

PAULL, JAMES. _b._ 1781; D.D. of St. Andrews 1844; minister of College chapel of ease, Aberdeen 1804–12; minister of Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire 1813; convenor of Supplementary orphan fund; moderator of general assembly 1846; one of her majesty’s chaplains in ordinary in Scotland 29 May 1852 to death. _d._ Tullynessle 21 Oct. 1858. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 2, _p._ 571 (1871).

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

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

PAUMIER, MUNGO NOBLE. _b._ 1813; tragedian; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre 17 May 1836 as Hamlet; acted in many of the principal theatres in Great Britain; lessee of Whitehaven theatre 1867–71. _d._ Castle view, Egremont, Whitehaven, of cancer of the tongue 31 Jany. 1876. _bur._ Egremont cemet. 3 Feb. _The Era 6 Feb. 1876 p._ 5; _Cumberland Pacquet 8 Feb. 1876 p._ 3.

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

PAUNCEFORT, GEORGIANA (dau. of Mr. Edwards). _b._ 1825; came from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat 15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864; Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4 Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22 Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept. 1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876, Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878, Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880, Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept. 1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June 1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham 26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; _m._ (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at Boston and Philadelphia; _m._ (2) Mr. Cooke. _d._ 4 Shawfield st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. _Era 28 Dec. 1895_; _T. A. Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) 281.

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

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

PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near Woburn, Bedfordshire). _b._ Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821, constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40; travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height; succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of 1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854 to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières, France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president; F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844; edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley, Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. _d._ Rockhills, Sydenham 8 June 1865. _bur._ Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. _Journal of horticulture viii_ 446 (1865) _portrait_; _G.M. ii_ 247–9 (1865); _Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p._ 491: _Practical Mag. vi_ 161 (1876) _portrait_; _Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth iv_ 161 (1879) _view of his house_; _The Crystal palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior_ (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 343, 344 (1851) _portrait_, _xlvi_ 601 (1865) _portrait_; _Times 9 June 1865 p._ 9, _16 June p._ 9.

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

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

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

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

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

PAYNE, CHARLES. _b._ 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5; whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65; huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. _d._ 30 Dec. 1893. _bur._ Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. _Sporting Review xliv_ 14 (1860); _Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp._ 135–6.

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

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

PAYNE, GEORGE (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall, Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). _b._ 3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about £300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine 1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. _d._ 10 Queen st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 6 Sept. _Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt_ (1888) 4, 99, 117–48 _portrait_; _Rice’s British turf ii_ 296–388 (1879) _portrait_; _Famous racing men_. _By Thormanby_ (1882) 113–20 _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. i_ 183–6 (1860) _portrait_, _xli_ 148–53 (1883); _Westminster Papers x_ 139 (1878) _portrait_; _Racing in Badminton library_ (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; _Illust. sp. and dr. news iv_ 475, 496 (1876) _portrait_; _Sporting Times 8 May 1875 pp._ 305, 308 _portrait_.

PAYNE, HENRY EDWARD (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). _b._ 1831; first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–; played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871; clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. _d._ Norfolk house 322 Camden road, London 27 Sept. 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858 16 6. _Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p._ 832, 2 _portraits_; _Illust. sporting news v_ 808 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news xx_ 432 (1884) _portrait_; _St. James’s Budget 4 Oct. 1895 p._ 33 _portrait_; _Era 28 Sept._, _5 Oct._, _24 Nov. 1895_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 214, 403, 721.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEACE, CHARLES (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). _b._ Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4 years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme, received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct. 1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany. 1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25 Feb. 1879. _The life of C. Peace_ (_London_ 1878) _portrait_; _M. Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 257–63; _Times 26 Feb. 1879 p._ 10, _cols._ 1–3; _Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb._, _1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March_, _5 April 1879 portraits_; _Graphic xix_ 121 (1879) _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Secrets of the prison house i_ 30, _ii_ 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEACOCK, JOHN MACLEAY (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine, Perthshire). _b._ Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker; employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. _d._ Glasgow 4 May 1877. _Selections of verse_, _edited by W. Lewin_ (1880) _portrait_.

PEACOCK, MARK BEAUCHAMP. _b._ 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London 1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to death. _d._ Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.

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