Chapter 51
Part 51
POLE, ARTHUR CUNLIFFE VAN NOTTEN (5 son of Charles Van Notten Pole 1772–1864, resumed name of Van Notten by R.L. 19 July 1853). _b._ 3 July 1806; ensign 63 foot 7 Nov. 1826, lieut. colonel 2 Sept. 1844 to 23 Dec. 1853; inspecting field officer of recruiting districts 23 Dec. 1853 to 13 Dec. 1859; colonel 63 foot 27 March 1868 to death; L.G. 9 April 1868. _d._ 66 Oxford terrace, Edgware road, London 21 Aug. 1873.
POLE, EDWARD (4 son of sir Peter Pole, 2 baronet 1770–1850). _b._ 26 Aug. 1805; cornet 12 lancers 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 30 March 1847, placed on h.p. 5 March 1861; colonel 5 lancers 22 Nov. 1868 to 1 Jany. 1872; colonel 12 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; commanded the cavalry and artillery in general Somerset’s expedition over the Kei 1851, and the 12 lancers in Kaffir war 1851–3; served in the Crimea from 9 May 1855. _d._ Poyle park, Tongham, Surrey 3 Feb. 1879.
POLE, EDWARD SACHEVERELL CHANDOS (1 son of Sacheverell Pole 1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807). _b._ 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college; ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The Squire. _d._ Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx_ 167 (1864); _G.M. March 1863 p._ 387.
POLE, WILLIAM (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). _b._ 6 July 1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll. Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams 1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist 1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist 1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London 1866 to death. _d._ 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884. _W. P. Courtney’s English whist_ (1894) 224, 398.
POLE-CAREW, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P., _d._ 1835). _b._ St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854; recorder of East Looe 1857–86. _d._ Villa Poralto, Cannes 20 Jany. 1888.
POLEHAMPTON, HENRY STEDMAN (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector of Great Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ Great Greenford rectory 1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb. coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to 30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849; an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the siege 8 July 1857. _d._ Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. _bur._ in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch. Shrewsbury. _A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton_, _3 ed._ (1859).
POLES, STEFAN. _b._ Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria; took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau, Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S. Poles _v._ The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum, a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63 High Holborn 1875. _d._ Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov. 1875. _Times 26 Nov. 1875 p._ 7.
NOTE.--The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Russian spy, son to the chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was censor of the press there previous to the last uprising.
His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Russell st. in front of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet.
POLHILL-TURNER, FREDERICK CHARLES (son of Frederick Polhill 1798–1848, capt. king’s dragoon guards). _b._ Howbury hall, Bedford 14 March 1826; educ. Dr. Burney’s sch. Gosport; cornet 6 dragoon guards 2 Aug. 1844, captain 24 Nov. 1848, sold out 10 Feb. 1852; took additional name of Turner by R.L. Feb. 1853; sheriff of Beds. 1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first mounted volunteers 1860; M.P. Bedford 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Bedford 29 April 1859, 28 June 1859, 18 Nov. 1868, and 1 April 1880. _d._ Newcastle, co. Down 18 Aug. 1881.
POLLARD, JOHN (son of John Pollard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Kingsand, Cornwall 27 July 1787; entered navy 1 Nov. 1797; signal midshipman on board the Victory at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, helped to arrange the signal England expects every man will do his duty; shot the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson; congratulated by sir Thomas Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14 Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast guard, Stranraer district 2 Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at Greenwich hospital 12 Jany. 1853 to death. _d._ Greenwich hospital 22 April 1868. _G.M. May 1868 p._ 786; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1878) 504.
POLLARD, JOSHUA. _b._ Leeds 1815; in a mercantile house; removed to Bradford where he was in business from 1837; the second person who signed the pledge in Leeds; representative of Leeds temperance soc. to conference of British temperance association at Preston 1836; president of Bradford temperance soc. some years; high chief ruler of Independent order of Rechabites; member of Bradford town council 1852–66, alderman to 1868; member of Bradford school board; removed to Nottingham 1877. _d._ Ossington villas Nottingham 9 Dec. 1886. _bur._ Scholemoor cemetery 13 Dec. _Bradford Observer 11 Dec. 1886 p._ 7.
POLLARD, WILLIAM (9 child of James Pollard). _b._ Horsham, Sussex 10 June 1828; educ. Friends’ school, Croydon; a teacher at Ackworth school, Yorkshire 1853–66; employed by Francis Frith, photographer at Reigate 1866–72; secretary and lecturer to Manchester peace and arbitration society, living at Sale, Cheshire 1872–91; co-editor with W. E. Turner of the British Friend, monthly periodical 1891; a minister among the Friends from 1865; author of The Ackworth reading book 1865, 2 ed. 1872; The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history of that noble family 1868; Choice readings in English literature 1873; Old-fashioned quakerism: its origin, results, and future, four lectures 1887; contributed Primitive christianity revived and Congregational worship to the Old Banner series of Quaker tracts 1864–6; author with Francis Frith and W. E. Turner of A reasonable faith. By Three Friends 1884 and 1886. _d._ Manchester 26 Sept. 1893. _bur._ Friends’ burial ground, Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester. _Annual Monitor_ (1894) 126–39.
POLLARD-URQUHART, WILLIAM (eld. child of Wm. Dalton Pollard of Kintuck, Castle-Pollard, co. Westmeath 1789–1839). _b._ Kintuck 19 June 1815; educ. Harrow 1829 and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 18th wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838. M.A. 1843; student at Inner Temple; sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of Urquhart by R.L. 1846; M.P. Westmeath 1852–7 and 1859 to death; author of Agricultural distress and its remedies, Aberdeen 1850; Essays on subjects of political economy 1850; The substitution of direct for indirect taxation necessary to carry out the policy of free trade 1851; Life and times of Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, 2 vols. 1852; A short account of the Prussian land credit companies, Dublin 1853; Dialogues on taxation, local and imperial 1867. _d._ 19 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 1 June 1871.
POLLEN, SIR JOHN WALTER, 2 Baronet (son of sir John Pollen, 1 baronet, _d._ 1814). _b._ Redenham house, near Andover 6 April 1784; succeeded 17 Aug. 1814; M.P. Andover 1820–31 and 1835–41; contested Andover 29 June 1841; colonel of South Hants. militia 25 June 1827 to 1854. _d._ Grosvenor hotel, 30 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 2 May 1863. _G.M. xiv_ 791 (1863).
POLLOCK, ALFRED ATKINSON (youngest son of sir David Pollock 1780–1847, chief justice of Bombay). _b._ 16 Feb. 1826; admitted at Westminster school 26 Jany. 1835; solicitor at 31 New Broad st. 1853–5; partner with Wm. Parke at 63 Lincoln’s inn fields 1855–64; practised alone 1864–72; partner with Arthur Pollock 1872 to death; composer of the songs O let the solid ground 1861; Remembrance 1861; O swallow, swallow, flying south 1880, the words by A. Tennyson; resided Heathfield, Hilford road, Hampstead. _drowned_ while bathing at Totland bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1873, personalty sworn under £400,000, 10 Sept. 1873. _Law Times 23 Aug. 1873 p._ 317; _Times 19 Sept. 1873 p._ 5.
POLLOCK, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (youngest son of David Pollock of Charing Cross, London, saddler to George III). _b._ London 4 June 1786; educ. R.M.A. Woolwich 1801–3; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Dec. 1803, brigade major 1815–20; assistant adjutant general of artillery 1820–4; colonel commandant 3 March 1835 to death; commanded Bengal artillery in Burmese war 1824; commander of the armies west of the Indus Jany. 1842. forced the Kyber pass 5 April 1842, relieved sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad 16 April, defeated the Afghans at Mamookail Aug., at Jugdulluk 8 Sept., and again on 13 Sept., entered Cabul 16 Sept., released the prisoners 21 Sept., brought his army back in safety to India; commanded the Danapur division 1842; the thanks of both houses of parliament were voted to him 1843; acting resident at Lucknow Dec. 1843 to 1844; military member of supreme council of India 20 Sept. 1844 to 1845; granted a pension of £1,000 by the H.E.I. Co. 1846; voted freedom of city of London 6 April 1846, admitted 17 Dec. 1847; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel of 1st Surrey rifles (Camberwell) 6 July 1861 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; a director of the East India company 12 April 1854 to April 1856; general 17 May 1859, field marshal 24 May 1870; constable of the Tower of London and lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets 14 Nov. 1871 to death; created baronet 26 March 1872. _d._ Walmer 6 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Westminster abbey 16 Oct., portrait by sir Francis Grant in the India office, and marble bust by Joseph Durham in National portrait gallery. _C. R. Lowe’s Life of sir G. Pollock_ (1873) _portrait_; _J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan_ (1843) 201 _et seq._; _A. Forbes’s The Afghan wars_ (1892) 30 _&c. portrait_; _I.L.N. i_ 356 (1842) _portrait_, _lix_ 441, 442 (1871) _portrait_; _Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 349–52.
POLLOCK, JAMES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Pollock, captain 43 foot). _b._ Strathallan, Isle of Man 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; C. of Bowdon, Cheshire 1861; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham 1861–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Hammersmith 1864–5; C. of St. Alban’s, Birmingham 1865–71, and P.C. of St. Alban’s 1871 to death; author of One hundred reasons against auricular confession 1867; Resting-places, a manual of christian doctrine 1870, 3 ed. 1877; Out of the body, a scriptural inquiry 1875; The measure of faith 1877; author with Thomas Benson Pollock of Gospel words 1876. _d._ St. Alban’s clergy house, Birmingham 22 Dec. 1895.
POLLOCK, JESSIE (dau. of Mr. Fraser, actor). _b._ 1802; connected with the theatre royal, Marischal st. Aberdeen from 1817 to her death; _m._ (1) about 1830 Corbet Ryder, theatrical manager, Aberdeen, _d._ 1843; _m._ (2) about 1847 Mr. Pollock, actor, _d._ 1853; actress, lessee, and manager of the theatre, Aberdeen to 1862, on her final retirement from the stage presented with her portrait, as Lady Macbeth, painted by Innes 1874, the portrait is now in Her majesty’s opera house, Aberdeen; she was good in Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Emelia, Julia, Pauline, Lady Teazle, and Mrs. Simpson. _d._ Dalkeith 1 July 1875. _bur._ St. Peter’s cemetery, Aberdeen 5 July. _J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house_ (1878) 26–8; _Era 11 July 1875 p._ 9; _Aberdeen Journal 7 July 1875 p._ 6.
POLLOCK, SIR JONATHAN FREDERICK, 1 Baronet (brother of sir George Pollock 1786–1872). _b._ Piccadilly, London 23 Sept. 1783; educ. St. Paul’s school 1800, Perry exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1803, scholar 1804, fellow 1807, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1807, went northern circuit, became leader; K.C. 13 June 1827; bencher of I.T. 1827–44, reader 1836–7, treasurer 1837; commissary of univ. of Camb. 1824–35; F.R.S. 1816, F.G.S. 1818; attorney general for county palatine of Lancaster 1834–5; M.P. Huntingdon 2 May 1831 to April 1844; a comr. for inquiry into practice of courts of law 1831; attorney general 17 Dec. 1834 to 9 April 1835, and 6 Sept. 1841 to 15 April 1844; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 29 Dec. 1834; sergeant-at-law 15 April 1844; lord chief baron of court of court of exchequer 15 April 1844, retired 12 July 1866; P.C. 17 April 1844; created baronet 24 July 1866. _d._ at his seat Hatton, Middlesex 23 Aug. 1870. _bur._ Hanwell cemet. 29 Aug. _Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet_, 2 _vols._ (1887); _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_ (1895) 76–81; _Law mag. and law review xxx_ 200–16 (1871); _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (_1 series 1836_) _portrait xxx_; _I.L.N. i_ 304 (1842) _portrait_, _xlix_ 424 (1866) _portrait_, _lvii_ 283 (1870); _Law Journal v_ 479–81 (1870).
POLLOCK, JOSEPH (eld. son of Edward Pollock of co. Down, Ireland, barrister). _b._ co. Down, Ireland 1818; educ. Armagh college and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June 1842, went northern circuit; practised in Manchester; judge of Salford court of record to Nov. 1851; judge of county court of Liverpool Nov. 1851, retired on pension of £1,000, Oct. 1857. _d._ 2 Dorset st. Manchester sq. London 26 May 1858. _Law Times 5 June 1858 p._ 146.
POLLOCK, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 22 Sept. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1868; V. of St. Thomas, Stockport to 1840; C. of Ch. Ch. Macclesfield 1841; V. of St. Helens, Lancs. 1841–6; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Liverpool 1846–56; V. of Bowden, near Altrincham 1856 to death; archdeacon of Chester and hon. canon of Chester cathedral 1867, resigned 1870; author of Foundations, being a series of essays on fundamental truths 1856; Fourteen reasons for responding and singing in church 1866; The temptation of our blessed Lord, and other poems 1873. _d._ Devonshire place, Claughton, Birkenhead 11 Oct. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).
POLLOCK, SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK, 2 Baronet (son of sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1 baronet 1783–1870). _b._ 23 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 3 April 1815; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1825–33, and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1835; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838; revising barrister northern circuit 1840; master in court of exchequer Aug. 1846; queen’s remembrancer 18 Dec. 1874; resigned Sept. 1886; president of Equitable assurance society; member of Royal toxophilite soc. 15 July 1858, which he assisted financially and gave to it prizes for competition; succeeded as 2 baronet 23 Aug. 1870; author of The divine comedy, or the inferno, purgatory and paradise of Dante rendered into English 1854; Personal remembrances 1887; edited Reminiscences of W. C. Macready, 2 vols. 1876; _m._ 1844 Juliet, dau. of rev. Henry Creed, vicar of Corse, Gloucs., she was a well known toxophilite. _d._ 59 Montagu sq. London 24 Dec. 1888. _Follett’s Archer’s register_ (1889) 67–9; _Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet_, 2 _vols._ (1887).
POLLOK, ARTHUR (son of Thomas Pollok). _b._ Faside 1781; with his brother John entered grocery business of Allan Pollok, Glasgow; they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804, the firm being Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed the branch at Grangemouth, then the branch houses at St. John and Miramichi 1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and acquired forests and saw mills; the largest ship owners in the United Kingdom; retired from business 1853; John Pollock _b._ Faside 1778, _d._ 1858; he _d._ Broom, Faside 1870. _J. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 263–4 (1886) _portrait_.
POLLOK, ROBERT. _b._ Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in Ayrshire; entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united secession presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven, Fifeshire 1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death; author of Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8. _d._ 1879. _Our Scottish clergy_, _2 series_ 266–71 (1849).
POLTIMORE, GEORGE WARWICK BAMPFYLDE, 1 Baron Poltimore (only child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823). _b._ 23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823; created baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord in waiting to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841; colonel of North Devon militia. _d._ Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858.
POLWARTH, HENRY FRANCIS HEPBURNE-SCOTT, 7 Baron (eld. son of 5 baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname of Hepburne). _b._ Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire 1826–32; succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for Scotland June or July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June 1859, and July 1866 to his death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle volunteers 9 Nov. 1861 to death. _d._ Merton house, co. Berwick 16 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_ 533 (1867).
POLWHELE, THOMAS (5 son of rev. Richard Polwhele, author 1760–1838). _b._ Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal army 1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850 to 1851; lieut. col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7, and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4 May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March 1856 to 1857; general 13 Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816, in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah 1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan 1839–42, in the Sutlej campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R. G. Polwhele at Polwhele, near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. _d._ Tivoli lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885. _J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan_ (1843) 141 _et seq._; _G. C. Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 746.
POND, CHARLES ALEXANDER MACLEAN (eld. son of B. C. Pond of 102 Brixton Hill, Surrey). _b._ 1864; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890; Prendergast Greek student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics at Auckland, New Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. _d_. Auckland 28 Oct. 1893.
POND, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ England 1826; with Felix Spiers proprietors of the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia; connected with bringing the first English team of cricketers to Australia 23 Dec. 1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion restaurant and theatre 218–223 Piccadilly, London 1873, at cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened 21 March 1874; wine and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels and refreshment rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and Metropolitan railways, also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343 Strand, and of the Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne hill, Surrey. _d._ Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. _bur._ Norwood 5 Aug., will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty £215,000, bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand staircase of the Criterion Oct. 1886. _Morning Advertiser 1 Aug. 1881 p._ 4, _6 Aug. p._ 2.
POND, RICHARD RADCLIFFE. _b._ 1824; advertising agent at 17 Upper Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at 1 Exeter Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers; connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. _d._ 1 Albert villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. _G. L. M. Strauss, Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 113–24 (1882).
PONIATOWSKI, _Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann_ (son of Stanislas Poniatowski 1754–1833). _b._ Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a musician, tenor singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in Tuscany 1848; minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris 1848–70; naturalised in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to death; his opera Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872; among his compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song 1871; The flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico in tre atti 1872; The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen, song 1875; Mass in F for four voices and chorus 1876. _d._ at his residence, London 3 July 1873. _bur._ Chislehurst 8 July. _Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii_ 1391 (1874).
PONSFORD, JOHN. _b._ Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome; painted portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter of his day in Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 5 at Suffolk st. 1823–57. _d._ London 1870. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106.
PONSONBY, JOHN PONSONBY, 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). _b._ 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P. Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as 2 baron Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres 28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special mission to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8 June to 9 Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832 to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850; G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co. Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. _d._ Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. _Lamington’s Days of the dandies_ (1890) 75–9; _Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii_ 369–70 (1868); _Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord Ponsonby at Brussels_ 1831.
PONSONBY, EMILY CHARLOTTE MARY (3 dau. of 4 earl of Bessborough 1781–1847). _b._ Margaret st. London 17 Feb. 1817; author of the following novels, most of them originally published anonymously, The discipline of life, 3 vols. 1848. 2 ed. 1848; Pride and irresolution, 3 vols. 1850, a new series of the former book; Clare abbey, or the trials of youth, 2 vols. 1851; Mary Gray and other tales and verses 1852; Edward Willoughby, a tale, 2 vols. 1854; The young lord, 2 vols. 1856; Sunday readings 1857; The two brothers, 3 vols. 1858; A mother’s trial 1859; Katherine and her sisters 1861, 2 ed. 1863; Mary Lyndsay, 3 vols. 1863; Violet Osborne, 3 vols. 1865; Sir Owen Fairfax, 3 vols. 1866; A story of two cousins 1868; Nora, 3 vols. 1870; Oliver Beaumont and lord Latimer, 3 vols. 1873. _d._ 3 Feb. 1877. _D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_, _part iii_, _p._ 206 (1892).
PONSONBY, FREDERICK JOHN (3 son of sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby 1783–1837). _b._ 21 March 1837; educ. Harrow 1850–5, and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; champion tennis player at Oxford; C. of St. Giles, Reading 1862–7; chaplain of Hampton court palace 1867–8; R. of Brington, Northants 1868–77; V. of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1877 to death; rural dean of St. Pancras 1877; a member of the English church union; took a great interest in devotional retreats. _d._ 3 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 3 Feb. 1894. _Church portrait journal v_ 41 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Feb. 1894 p._ 163 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4 _portrait_.
PONSONBY, SIR HENRY FREDERICK (eld. son of sir Frederic Cavendish Ponsonby, major general 1783–1837). _b._ Corfu 10 Dec. 1825; ensign 49 foot 27 Dec. 1842; lieut. grenadier guards 16 Feb. 1844, major 27 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 April 1870; A.D.C. to lords Clarendon and St. Germans, lord lieutenants of Ireland 1847–58; served in Crimean war 1855–6; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1880; equerry to prince Albert 1856–61; private secretary and extra equerry to the queen 8 April 1870 to May 1895, and keeper of the privy purse 8 Oct. 1878 to May 1895; C.B. 26 Aug. 1872, K.C.B. 12 March 1879, G.C.B. 21 June 1887; P.C. 20 April 1880; a hard worker and a faithful servant in the service of the queen. _d._ East Cowes, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Whippingham. _St. James’s Budget 29 Nov. 1895 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Strand mag. Dec. 1892 p._ 588, 5 _portraits_; _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 7; _Graphic 30 Nov. 1895 p._ 672 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 Nov. 1895 p._ 671 _portrait_.
PONSONBY, RICHARD (3 son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). _b._ Dublin 1772; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 3 July 1817, installed 8 July; bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1828; translated to Derry patent dated 21 Sept. 1831, enthroned 2 Oct., the bishopric of Raphoe was united to Derry in pursuance of the Church temporalities act Sept. 1834; president of Church education society; author of A sermon 1834. _d._ the Palace, Derry 27 Oct. 1853. _G.M. xl_ 630 (1853).
PONTON, MUNGO (only son of John Ponton, farmer). _b._ Balgreen, near Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1802; admitted writer to the signet 8 Dec. 1825; a founder of National bank of Scotland 21 March 1825, secretary 1825–46; communicated to the Society of arts for Scotland 29 May 1839 a simple method of preparing paper for photographic drawing in which the use of any salt of silver is dispensed with, in this paper he announced the discovery that the action of sunlight renders bichromate of potassium insoluble, a discovery which forms the basis of nearly all the photo-mechanical processes now in use; F.R.S. Edinb. 1834; author of The sanctuary, its lessons and worship 1849; The material universe, its vastness and durability 1863; Earthquakes and volcanoes 1868, 2 ed. 1888; The beginning, its when and its how 1871; Glimpses of the future life 1873; Songs of the soul 1877; The freedom of the truth 1878. _d._ Clifton 3 Aug. 1880. _H. B. Pritchard’s Year book of photography for 1882_, _portrait_; _Photographic News 20 Aug. 1880 pp._ 402–3.
PONTON, THOMAS (son of Thomas Ponton of Battersea, Surrey). _b._ 1781; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., created M.A. 28 March 1800; barrister L.I. 26 April 1804; a governor of Christ’s hospital; one of the founders of the Roxburghe club 1812, and edited for it La Morte d’ Arthur 1819. _d._ 4 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 13 April 1853. _G.M. xli_ 92 (1854).
POOK, EDMUND WALTER (son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook of 2 London st. Greenwich, bookseller and stationer). _b._ 1850; a singer; tried at central criminal court 13 July 1871 for murder of Jane Maria Clousen, a servant to his father, who was found nearly dead in Kidbrook lane, near Eltham, Kent 26 April and _d._ in Guy’s hospital 30 April 1871, aged 17; he _d._ Salisbury st. London 23 April 1882. _A.R._ (1871) 229–34; _Central criminal court session paper_, _minutes of evidence lxxiv_ 245–309 (1871); _The Eltham tragedy reviewed by C._ [_i.e. Newton Crosland_] 1871, _4 ed._ 1871; _A report of the speeches at the Blackheath meeting on the Pook v. Farrah libel case 1871_.
POOLE, ANNIE. A singer at concerts in Bristol; appeared at theatre royal, Bristol as Jessy in the Crimson scarf Sept. 1876; played Patience in Sullivan’s Henry VIII at Manchester and Liverpool; was seen as Cinderella at Glasgow; played Madame Vere de Vere in Tantalus at Folly theatre 14 Oct. 1878; played Jelly in W. S. Gilbert’s Princess Toto at Opera Comique 15 Oct. 1881; was seen in many provincial pantomimes at Bristol, etc.; _m._ Russell Craufurd, actor. _d._ St. Saviour’s hospital, Osnaburgh st. Regent’s park, London 15 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xii_ 121, 151 (1879) _portrait_.
POOLE, ARTHUR WILLIAM (son of Thomas Francis Poole). _b._ Shrewsbury 6 Aug. 1852; educ. Shrewsbury school and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, D.D. 1883; C. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1876; master of the high school at Masulipatam, Madras 1878–81; a missionary at Telugu in South India 1881–3; missionary bishop of Japan May 1883 to 1885, consecrated in the chapel, Lambeth palace 18 Oct. 1883; spent winter of 1884–5 in California. _d._ at his father’s residence, Fairfield, Shrewsbury 14 July 1885. _Times 20 July 1885 p._ 6.
POOLE, EDWARD STANLEY (elder son of rev. Edward Richard Poole, barrister and book collector, and of Sophia Poole 1804–91). _b._ 1830; chief clerk of the science and art department, London 1857 to death; an Arabic scholar; wrote many articles for W. Smith’s Dictionary of the bible, 4 vols. 1868; contributed to 8th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; edited Edward Wm. Lane’s Thousand and one nights, new ed. 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1883, and his Account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1860, 2 ed. 1871. _d._ St. Nicholas road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 12 March 1867.
POOLE, ELLEN. _b._ 1846; known on the music hall stage as Nellie Desmond; _m._ John Joshua Poole, and helped in the management of the South London music hall, London road, Surrey from 1872, carried it on alone from 1882; Harry Ulph, junior was a partner with her for a short time in 1882; aided by her eldest son Jules Joshua Poole later on (he _d._ Cape Town 21 Dec. 1895 aged 22), sold the hall to a company 1893, remaining the manager; she became bankrupt 12 June 1895; her daughters Violet and Evelyn are on the music hall stage. _d._ London 1 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Abney park cemetery.
POOLE, GEORGE AYLIFFE. _b._ 1809; scholar of Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1838; C. of Twickenham 1831–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Edinburgh 1834–7; C. of St. Chad, Shrewsbury 1837–9; P.C. of St. James’s, Leeds 1839–43; V. of Welford, Northamptonshire 1843–76; R. of Winwick near Rugby June 1876 to death; rural dean of Haddon 1876; promoted the revival of Gothic architecture; contributed 35 papers to Architectural soc. of archdeaconry of Northampton 1846–77; author of The exile’s return, or a cat’s journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1837; The testimony of St. Cyprian against Rome 1838; The life and times of St. Cyprian, Oxford 1840; The appropriate character of church architecture, Leeds 1842, reissued as Churches, their structure, arrangement, and decoration 1845; A history of England from the invasion by the Romans to the accession of queen Victoria, 2 vols. 1844–5, 2 ed. 1855; A history of ecclesiastical architecture in England 1848; Peterborough 1881 in Diocesan histories; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works 1834–83. _d._ Winwick rectory 25 Sept. 1883. _Northamptonshire Notes and queries i_ 15–17, 73 (1886); _Academy xxiv_ 229 (1883).
POOLE, HENRY. _b._ 1785; a Sunday school teacher under rev. J. J. Biddulph at Bristol; C. of Ossett, near Wakefield 1811; in part charge of Corsham, Wilts. 1814; P.C. of chapelries of Coleford and Bream in Newland parish Aug. 1818; rebuilt Coleford chapel and Bream chapel and erected a church at Park End; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Dean, Gloucs. 1822 to death; devoted himself to the welfare of the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean. _d._ Park End, near Lydney, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1857. _H. G. Nicholl’s Personalities of the forest of Dean_ (1863) 152–60.
POOLE, HENRY GEORGE (son of James Poole of 171 Regent st. London, tailor, _d._ 1847). _b._ Everett st. Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1814; entered his father’s business about 1830; tailor 32 Savile row, London 1847 to death; firm became H. Poole and co. 36–39 Savile row; tailor by appointment to most of the crowned heads of Europe; regularly made clothes for Napoleon iii; the best known tailoring establishment in the world; employed 7 coat cutters, 4 trousers and vest cutters, 2 trimmers, and 2 cutters of liveries; began making clothes for the Prince of Wales 1860, received a warrant of appointment from him 20 March 1863; resided at Dorset cottage, Fulham about 1860–70, and at Marine parade, Brighton about 1870 to death. _d._ 118 Marine parade, Brighton 4 May 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 10 May, personalty sworn under £120,000, 15 June 1876, left a widow and a sister. His business went to his cousin Samuel Cundey, his niece Fanny Cutler and his executor Charles Bentley Bingley. _The Tailor 11 May 1876 p._ 304, _6 July p._ 376.
POOLE, JOHN. Ensign 22 foot 24 March 1814, major 18 Oct. 1839 to 30 Nov. 1846, when placed on retired full pay; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ 6 West Mall. Clifton 1 July 1871.
POOLE, JOHN. _b._ 1786; his best known dramas were, produced at Drury Lane, Hamlet travestie 17 June 1813; Who’s who, or the double imposture 15 Nov. 1815; Deaf as a post 15 Feb. 1823; My wife, what wife 2 April 1829; produced at Covent Garden A short reign and a merry one 19 Nov. 1819; The two pages of Frederick the Great 1 Dec. 1821; The Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825; The wife’s stratagem 13 March 1827; produced at the Haymarket Match making 25 Aug. 1821; Married and single 16 July 1824; Paul Pry 13 Sept. 1825; Twixt the cup and the lip 12 June 1826; Lodgings for single gentlemen 15 June 1829; resided in Paris many years; a brother of the Charterhouse, but resigned his appointment; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Feb. 1851; author of Crotchets in the air, or a balloon trip 1838; Christmas festivities 1845–8, four specimens; Comic miscellany 1845; Little Pedlington, 2 vols. 1839; Phineas Quiddy, or sheer industry, 3 vols. 1843. _d._ Highgate road, Kentish Town, London 5 Feb. 1872. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 10 Feb. _J. Poole’s Sketches and recollections_, 2 _vols._ (1835) _portrait_; _J. Poole’s Christmas festivities_ (1845) _portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Book of memories_, _2 ed._ (1877) 160–2; _Era 18 Feb. 1872 p._ 9; _New Monthly Mag. xxxi_ 271–81 (1831) _portrait_.
POOLE, JOHN JOSHUA (son of a hatter). _b._ King st. Southwark, London 1826; member of orchestra of theatre royal, Birmingham; musical director and manager of Holden’s music hall, Birmingham; manager of Metropolitan music hall, Edgware road, London; with Henry Speedy proprietor of South London music hall 1872–9, sole proprietor 1879 to death; he much encouraged his pianist Walter Slaughter, who wrote his first ballet at the South London. _d._ Connaught house, St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 6 Oct. 1882. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 11 Oct. _The Era 7 Oct. 1882 p._ 5, _14 Oct. p._ 5.
POOLE, JOSEPH. _b._ Portsmouth 1802; educ. in France; local Wesleyan preacher at Honiton; a bookseller at Poole, Dorset; second hand bookseller in London road, London about 1852; at 15, 16 and 39 Holywell st. Strand 1854 to death. _d._ Holywell st. 18 Dec. 1883.
POOLE, MATTHEW. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 5 Madras N.I. 20 June 1822, captain 27 May 1834, major 29 Sept. 1842, lieut. col. 22 March 1849 to death. _d._ Itchapore 10 July 1855.
POOLE, PAUL FALCONER (4 son of James Paul Poole, grocer). _b._ 43 College st. Bristol 28 Dec. 1807; baptised by names of Paul Fawkner 22 July 1810; historical painter; exhibited 65 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I., and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–79; awarded the Heywood gold medal of the royal Manchester institution 1845 for his picture Solomon Eagle exhorting the people to repentance during the plague, exhibited at the R.A. 1843; sent a cartoon The death of King Lear to Westminster Hall competition 1843, and gained a prize of £300 in same competition 1847 for Edward’s generosity to the people of Calais during the siege; A.R.A. 1846, R.A. 1861; member of Institute of painters in water colours 1878; 26 of his works were exhibited at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1884, with a portrait sketch by Frank Holl, R.A. _d._ Uplands, Green Hill, Hampstead 22 Sept. 1779. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 311–13 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1879) 263, 278; _I.L.N. xxxviii_ 175, 176 (1861) _portrait_; _Graphic xx_ 376 (1879) _portrait_.
POOLE, REGINALD STUART (younger brother of Edward Stanley Poole 1830–67). _b._ London 27 Feb. 1832; lived with his mother at Cairo 1842–9; ascended the Nile twice to study the monuments; contributed a series of articles to the Literary gazette 1849, republished in 1851 under title of Horæ Ægyptiacæ or the chronology of ancient Egypt; an assistant in the department of antiquities in the British Museum 26 Feb. 1852, assistant keeper in department of coins and medals July 1866, keeper 29 Oct. 1870, retired 1893; edited and collated 35 volumes of catalogues, chiefly of coins and medals, four of which and part of a fifth he wrote himself; sent by trustees of British Museum to report on antiquities at Cyprus and Alexandria 1869; lectured on Greek, Egyptian and medallic art to students of the Royal academy 1883–5; Yates professor of Archæology at univ. coll. London 1889, resigned 1894; founded with Amelia Betham Edwards the Egypt exploration fund 1882, honorary secretary to his death; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1880; founded with Alphonso Legros the Society of English medallists 1884; author of The cities of Egypt 1882; and with Sophia Poole, Cairo, Sinai, sixty views 1860; Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, twenty views 1860. _d._ 2 Gladstone’s road. West Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1895. _S. Lane-Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane_ (1877) 111–121; _Times 9 Feb. 1895 p._ 5.
POOLE, SOPHIA (youngest child of Theophilus Lane, prebendary of Hereford, _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 16 Jany. 1804; _m._ 1829 rev. Edward Richard Poole, book collector and bibliographer; lived with her brother Edward Wm. Lane at Cairo 1842–9; author of The Englishwoman in Egypt, published in Knight’s weekly volumes, 2 vols. 1844, and a second series forming vol. iii 1846; wrote with her younger son R. S. Poole the descriptive letterpress of Frith’s Photographic views of Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem 1860–1. _d._ at her son’s house, British Museum, London 6 May 1891. _Academy xxxix_ 466 (1891).
POOLE, WILLIAM HOWELL. _b._ 1856; a sailor 1873; appeared at the Standard theatre, London under John Douglass about 1874; at the Surrey as Johnny Lamb in New Babylon; acted in a series of Shakesperian dramas at Drury Lane; at the Adelphi and at the Princess’; played Gilbert Vaughan in Called Back at Prince’s 1884; went on tour with his own dramas and his own company; his dramas were The miracle, Surrey theatre 24 March 1883; My queen, Gaiety 20 March 1884; Adam Bede, Royal Holborn 2 June 1884; Wronged, Olympic 29 July 1885; Holding the mirror, Tyne theatre, Newcastle 26 Oct. 1885; Boys together, Prince of Wales’, Liverpool 28 March 1887; The game of life, Royal Court, Liverpool 15 Aug. 1887; A people’s hero, Vaudeville 12 June 1890; The wheel of fortune, Sadler’s Wells 12 Jany. 1891; Gertie, Royal Park theatre 26 March 1891; he also wrote the following novels On golden wings; New Babylon; The hidden million; A gilded shame, by Owl, 2 vols. 1881; Her wedding morn; _m._ Alice Raynor. _d._ 27 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 1 Feb.
POOLEY, ALFRED. _b._ 1839 or 1840; organist of Liverpool cathedral about 1863–74; organist of St. Matthew’s, Sydney, Australia to death. _d._ Sydney 7 March 1896.
POOLEY, HENRY. _b._ West Derby, near Liverpool 4 Jany. 1803; partner with his father Henry Pooley (who _d._ 1841) as H. Pooley and son at Albion foundry, Liverpool, 89 Fleet st. London, Wellington st. Gateshead, and Commercial st. Newport, Monmouth 1830, makers of scales, weighbridges, and weighing tables, took out numerous patents; their platform weighing machines are seen in railway stations throughout the world; retired 1872; gave a school to village of Seacombe 1876; A.I.C.E. 21 Jany. 1851. _d._ Home Cross, Liscard, Cheshire 1 Sept. 1878. _G. L. M. Strauss’s England’s workshops_ (1864) 26–9; _Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lv_ 331–33 (1879); _Pooley’s Patent weighing apparatus_ (1859).
POOLEY, JOHN HENRY (only son of Henry Pooley of Kelvedon, Essex). _b._ 17 Oct. 1803; educ. Dedham and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2 senior optime, 3 in first class of classical tripos and B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, B.D. 1837; Norrisian prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 1826–35; C. of St. James’, Piccadilly, London 1832–3; R, of Scotter, near Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1833 to death; rural dean of Corringham 1839; hon. canon of Lincoln 1845 to death; author of The nature and use of parables 1828, Norrisian medal essay: The case of the rev. W. T. Humphreys, missionary at Myaveram 1843. _d._ Scotter rectory 29 April 1895.
POPE, HENRY MONTAGUE RANDALL (eld. son of Peter M. Pope, physician, West Malling, Kent). _b._ 21 May 1849; educ. Merchant Taylor’s school 1859–67; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1867–72; B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; Craven scholar 1872; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1872–4; pupil of George Sweet the conveyancer; barrister L.I. 7 June 1873; equity draftsman and conveyancer; one of the originators and the first chairman of the Coffee tavern company limited 1877; published A treatise on the law and practice of lunacy 1877, 2 ed. 1890; The bills of sale act, with notes 1878. _d._ on board the Rodney at sea on his way to Australia 18 Nov. 1880. _Law Times lxx_ 250 (1881).
POPE, JOSEPH JOHN (son of Samuel Pope of London, merchant). _b._ 1836; L.S.A. 1857; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.M. 1857; senior house surgeon Liverpool south hospital; assist. surgeon in royal artillery 1 April 1861, retired as a surgeon 1 Dec. 1873; professor of hygiene Birkbeck institute; lecturer to National health association, lectured throughout England and Scotland; secretary to William Holland, the peoples’ caterer; contributed to sporting and social periodicals, wrote in The Sporting Times under the signature of Jope, and was the author of many of the best jokes in that paper; he wrote Clothing, simple lessons for home use 1877; Number one and how to take care of him, a series of popular talks 1883; Health, its friends and foes. _d._ 4 South crescent, Bedford sq. London 6 April 1885. _Sporting Times 11 April 1885 p._ 1; _Medical Times i_ 499 (1885), _14 March 1891 p._ 2.
POPE, MRS. _b._ Settle, Yorkshire 1809; first appeared on stage at Hastings as Mrs. Haller in the Stranger; leading actress at Birmingham, Bristol and other places; went to America 1846, appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as Margaret Elmore 2 Nov. 1846; made a tour in southern and western states; acted Mrs. Haller at the Arch theatre, Philadelphia 14 Jany, 1847; the Lady Macbeth at Astor place opera house at time of Macready-Forrest riots in New York 7 May 1849; acted Romeo at Academy of music, New York 1852; reappeared at a benefit tendered her at Indianapolis, Indiana 25 May 1878; _m._ William Coleman Pope, he went mad and committed suicide 1 June 1868; she _d._ Indianapolis 16 March 1880.
POPE-HENNESSY, SIR JOHN (3 son of John Hennessy of Ballyhennessy, co. Kerry). _b._ Cork 1834; educ. Queen’s coll. Cork; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1861; M.P. King s county 1859–65, being the first Roman catholic conservative member; governor of Labuan and consul general in Borneo 21 Nov. 1867, returned to England 2 Oct. 1871; acting governor of the Gold Coast 27 Feb. 1872 to 16 Feb. 1873; governor of the Bahamas 27 May 1873, came home on leave 22 June 1874 and never returned; governor of the Windward islands and Barbados 1875–6, was very popular with the negroes but unpopular with the planters, who passed a motion to address the queen for his recall 17 May 1876; governor of Hong Kong Nov. 1876, arrived there 23 April 1877, quarrelled with the commander-in-chief and was censured by the colonial office, retired from office 7 March 1882; presented with freedom of city of Cork 3 March 1877; chairman of the repression of crime section at the Social science congress at Nottingham Sept. 1882; governor of the Mauritius 26 Dec. 1882, very popular with the French creoles but unpopular with the English, was suspended by the royal commissioner sir Hercules Robinson 16 Dec. 1886, went to London Jany. 1887 where lord Knutsford the colonial secretary decided 12 July 1887 that sufficient cause had not been shown for his removal, returned to Mauritius 1887, retired on pension 16 Dec. 1889; bought Rostellan castle, near Cork 1890; M.P. North Kilkenny Dec. 1890 to death; author of Raleigh in Ireland 1883. _d._ Rostellan castle 7 Oct. 1891.
POPHAM, BRUNSWICK (2 son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). _b._ 1805; entered navy 11 Dec. 1817, present in the battle of Navarino 1827; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on half pay 10 Sept. 1869. _d._ Cardean Meigle, Forfarshire 6 Feb. 1878.
POPHAM, FRANCIS LEYBOURNE- (2 son of lieut. general Edward William Popham of Littlecote, Wilts. 1764–1843). _b._ 14 Oct. 1809; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of All Souls’ 1831–43; barrister LL. 21 Nov. 1837; kept some mares at Littlecote, his horse Wild Dayrell won the Derby 1855. _d._ 1880. _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 109–12 (1864) _portrait_.
POPHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). _b._ April 1791; entered navy May 1805; captain 19 May 1819; retired admiral 23 March 1863. _d._ Stourfield house, Christchurch 23 Aug. 1864.
POPOFF, BASIL (son of Eugene Popoff, chaplain to Russian embassy, London). _b._ 1839; chaplain to Russian embassy in London 1875 to death; private chaplain to duchess of Edinburgh 2 March 1875 to death. _d._ 32 Welbeck st. London 19 March 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 23 March.
POPPLEWELL, GEORGE OTWAY. Entered navy 14 Feb 1832; captain 15 April 1862, retired 12 Oct. 1868; retired admiral 1 May 1888. _d._ Ramsgate 12 Sept. 1889. _Times 16 Sept. 1889 p._ 6.
PORRETT, ROBERT (son of Robert Porrett). _b._ London 22 Sept. 1783; assistant to his father, the ordnance storekeeper at the Tower of London 1795, chief of the department, retired on a pension 1850; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1840; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.A.S.; an original fellow of Chemical society 1841; contributed several papers on armour to Archæologia and Proceedings of Soc. of Antiquaries; awarded a medal by Society of Arts for discovery of prussous acid 1808, which he termed sulphuretted chyazic acid in 1814; discovered ferrocyanic acid, which he named ferruretted chyazic acid; discovered electric endosmosis 1816; author of 13 scientific papers. _d._ 49 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 25 Nov. 1868. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii p. iv_ (1870).
PORTAL, GEORGE RAYMOND (4 son of John Portal of Whitchurch, Hampshire). _b._ 28 Feb. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; C. of Wilton, 1850–2; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1852–7; R. of Albury, Surrey 1858–71; R. of Burghclere with Newtown, Hampshire 1871 to death; honorary canon of Winchester Jany. 1882 to death; author of On some of the prevalent objections to ritual observances, a sermon 1854; Personal faith the only source of peace, a sermon 1855; Short prayers, &c. for those who have little time to pray 1867; Hymns for the use of the parish of Albury 1864. _d._ Burghclere rectory 5 April 1889.
PORTAL, SIR GERALD HERBERT (2 son of Melville Portal). _b._ Laverstoke, Hampshire 13 March 1858; educ. Eton 1871–9, played in the cricket eleven 1886, 1887, editor of the Eton chronicle; clerk in the foreign office 12 July 1879; sent to Rome 29 June 1880, third secretary of legation there 22 July 1881; sent to Cairo 24 June 1882, present at bombardment of Alexandria 11 July 1882, third secretary at Cairo 1 April 1884, second secretary 1 April 1885; went to Massowah to procure a reconciliation between the king of Abyssinia and the Italian government 17 Oct. 1887; acting consul general at Zanzibar 30 April to 14 Nov. 1889, agent at Zanzibar 10 March 1891; consul general for German East Africa 2 June 1891, and for the British sphere 11 Feb. 1892; sent to Uganda to report whether that part of Africa should be retained by the British or evacuated 10 Dec. 1892; arrived at the coast again 21 Oct. 1893 and reached London Nov. 1893; C.B. 3 Feb. 1888; K.C.M.G. 4 Aug. 1892; author of My mission to Abyssinia 1888, 2 ed. 1892; _m._ 1 Feb. 1890 Alice Josephine, 2 dau. of 7 earl of Abingdon, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 March 1894; he _d._ 5B Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1894. _bur._ mortuary chapel, Laverstoke, Hants. 30 Jany. _Sir G. H. Portal’s The British mission to Uganda_ (1894), _memoir pp. xxv–xlvi portrait_; _Pall Mall Budget 1 Feb. 1894 p._ 5, _two portraits_, _and 14 June 1894 p._ 10 _portrait_; _Times 26 Jany. 1894 p._ 3.
PORTARLINGTON, _Lionel Seymour William Dawson Damer_, 4 Earl of (only son of colonel George Lionel Dawson Damer of Came, Dorset, _d._ 14 April 1856, younger son of first earl of Portarlington). _b._ 7 April 1832; educ. Eton 1847–9; ensign Scots fusilier guards 23 Nov. 1849. lieut. 14 July 1854, served in the Crimea, sold out 15 Jany. 1856; lieut. Dorset yeomanry cavalry 20 April 1858; M.P. Portarlington 1857–65 and 1868–80; succeeded his cousin as 4 earl of Portarlington 1 March 1889; resided Emo park, Portarlington. _d._ Portman lodge, Bournemouth 17 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Came 21 Dec. _Times 19 Dec. 1892 p._ 6; _Graphic 24 Dec. 1892 p._ 762 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 20 Dec. 1892 p._ 9 _portrait_.
PORTER, CLASSON EMMETT (half brother of John Scott Porter 1801–80). _b._ Artikelly, co. Derry 1814; educ. Manchester college, York 1828–34; minister of the first presbyterian church, Larne, co. Antrim 2 July 1834 to death; wrote many papers on Irish presbyterian church history and biography in the Northern Whig, Larne reporter, Christian Unitarian and Disciple; author of Irish presbyterian biographical sketches, Belfast 1893, reprinted from the Northern Whig. _d._ Ballygally castle, co. Antrim 27 May 1885. _bur._ in parish churchyard of Cairncastle, co. Antrim.
PORTER, FRANK THORPE (youngest son of Wm. Porter of Willmount, near Rathfarnham, co. Dublin 1757–1841). _b._ 19 Dec. 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; barrister in Ireland 1827; went the Leinster circuit 1827–40; magistrate at the head office of the Dublin police 1840–60; author of An act to consolidate the laws relating to the presentment of public monies by grand juries in Ireland 1840; Gleanings and reminiscences, 2 ed. 1875. _d._ 15 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 24 Nov. 1882. _Irish law times 2 Dec. 1882 p._ 589.
PORTER, SIR GEORGE HORNIDGE, 1 Baronet (only son of Wm. Henry Porter, surgeon 1790–1861). _b._ 15 Kildare st. Dublin 24 Nov. 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.B. 1848, M.D. 1865, M.S. 1873; at Meath hospital, Dublin, surgeon 1849; F. and L.R.C.S.I. 1844, member of council, president 1868–9; surgeon to Simpson’s hospital 1866; consulting surgeon to the Coombe hospital 1861, to St. Mark’s Ophthalmic hospital 1876, to National children’s hospital 1876, and to Stevens’ hospital 1881; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Ireland 6 Dec. 1869 to death; sheriff of Wexford 1887; knighted at Windsor castle 19 July 1883; one of the most skilful operators in Ireland; had a large and lucrative practice; purchased an estate in Wexford; hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1888; with E. Hamilton and H. Ormsby examined the bodies of lord Frederick Cavendish and T. H. Burke who were murdered in the Phœnix park 6 May 1882; created a baronet June 1889; regius professor of surgery univ. of Dublin 1891 to death; contributed many papers to Dublin Journal of medical science. _d._ 3 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 16 June 1895. _L. H. Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital_ (1888) 209–11, 391 _portrait_; _C. A. Cameron’s Royal college of surgeons, Ireland_ (1886) 44, 229, 394, 749; _I.L.N. 22 June 1895 p._ 766 _portrait_.
PORTER, GEORGE RICHARDSON. _b._ London 29 June 1793; agent at Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 1813–5; merchant at 23 Finch lane, Cornhill 1815–7; wine merchant at 1 Old Broad st. 1817–31; superintendent of statistical department of board of trade 1832, head of the office 1834; senior member of railway department of board of trade 1840, joint secretary of board of trade 6 Aug. 1847 to death; a founder of the Statistical society 1834, treasurer 1841 to death; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838, member of council 1847–8; author of The progress of the nation in its social and economical relations, 3 vols. 1836–43, 3 ed. 1851; The nature and properties of the sugar cane, 2 ed. 1843; The tropical agriculturalist 1833; A manual of statistics in sir J. F. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry (1849) pp. 465–88. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 3 Sept. 1852, portrait in rooms of Statistical society, Adelphi terrace, London. _G.M. Oct. 1852 pp._ 427–9; _I.L.N. 11 Sept. 1852 p._ 202.
PORTER, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 1801; cornet 9 lancers 3 July 1817, major 4 Oct. 1831 to 1 Feb. 1833, when placed on h.p.; general 5 Sept. 1869. _d._ Hambury fort, Honiton 8 April 1871.
PORTER, JOHN. _b._ 1771; surgeon R.N. 1798; M.D. St. Andrews; medical superintendent of the convict hulks, Portsmouth harbour 29 years; a founder of the Portsmouth and Portsea literary philosophical society. _d._ Portsea 3 March 1855. _Medical directory 1856 p._ 748.
PORTER, JOHN SCOTT (eld. son of Wm. Porter 1774–1843, presbyterian minister of Newtownlimavady, co. Derry 1799–1843). _b._ Newtownlimavady 31 Dec. 1801; licensed by Bangor presbytery Oct. 1825; minister of Carter lane chapel, Doctors’ commons, London 2 March 1826; kept a school with David Davidson at Rosoman house, Islington; minister of the first presbyterian church of Belfast 2 Feb. 1832; professor of theology to the association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838; professor of Hebrew and cognate languages, Belfast 6 July 1851; led a secession from the Antrim presbytery and founded 21 Feb. 1862 the northern presbytery of Antrim with the purpose of emphasising a recognition of Christ and of divine revelation; formed the Ulster unitarian Christian association Dec. 1876; edited the Bible Christian, Belfast 1830–6; author of Authentic report of the discussion of the unitarian controversy, Belfast 1834, 3 ed. 1834; Twelve lectures in illustration of Christian Unitarianism, Belfast 1841, 2 ed. London 1853; Principles of textual criticism with their application to the old and new testaments, &c. 1848; Servetus and Calvin, three lectures 1854; Bible revision, three lectures 1857; The national system and the national board 1864 anon. and 32 other books. _d._ Lennox Vale, Belfast 5 July 1880. _Memorial of rev. John Scott Porter_ (1880); _Nightingale’s Lancashire nonconformity iv_ 225 (1892); _Historical sketch of first presbyterian congregation, Larne_ (1889) 20 _et seq._
PORTER, JOSHUA HENRY (eld. son of Joshua Porter of Dublin). _b._ 24 May 1831; L.R.C.S.I. 1852; assist. surgeon 97 foot 24 March 1854; served in the Crimea, medal and clasp; in India during mutiny 1857–8, mutiny medal and clasp; with the British ambulance in Franco German war 1870; hon. associate of soc. of St. John of Jerusalem; assist. professor of military surgery at Netley hospital 1873–8; in charge of field hospitals in Bengal 1879, with Sir Samuel Brownes’ division in the Kyber pass; deputy surgeon general of the Allahabad division 1879; with general Roberts’ force in the march to Cabul; author of The surgeon’s pocket-book, an essay on the best treatment of the wounded in war 1875, 4 ed. 1891. _d._ in the Sherpur camp Afghanistan 9 Jany. 1880; memorial brass in Netley hospital chapel. _Lancet i_ 111, 224 (1880); _S. H. Shadbolts’ Afghan campaigns_ (1882) 161–5 _portrait_; _Medical Times 17 Jany. 1880 p._ 79.
PORTER, JOSIAS LESLIE (youngest son of Wm. Porter of Carrowan parish of Burt, co. Donegal, farmer). _b._ 4 Oct. 1823; matric. in univ. of Glasgow 1839, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, LL.D. 1864; D.D. Edinb. 1864; studied theology in univ. of Edinb. and the New college 1842–4; licensed to preach by presbytery of Derry 20 Nov. 1844; minister of presbyterian chapel High Bridge, Newcastle 25 Feb. 1846 to 1849; a missionary of the Irish presbyterian church to the Jews in Syria Dec. 1849 to 1859; professor of biblical criticism in the presbyterian college Belfast July 1860 to 1878, and secretary of the college faculty 1867–78; moderator of the general assembly 1875; assistant comr. of board of intermediate education for Ireland 1878–9; president of Queen’s college, Belfast and member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1879 to death; D. lit. royal univ. of Ireland 1881; author of Five years in Damascus, 2 vols. 1855; A handbook for travellers in Syria and Palestine 1858, 3 ed. 1875; The Pentateuch and the Gospels 1864; The giant cities of Bashan and Syria’s holy places 1865; The life and times of Henry Cooke, D.D. 1871, 4 ed. 1877; Pew and study bible 1875; Galilee and the Jordan 1885; Jerusalem, Bethany and Bethlehem 1887; _m._ 1849 Margaret Rainey youngest dau. of rev. Dr. Henry Cooke of Belfast, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 29 May 1889. _d._ Belfast 16 March 1889. _bur._ Malone cemetery near Belfast, portrait in examination hall of Queen’s college Belfast.
PORTER, SARAH (dau. of Abraham Ricardo). _b._ 1791; _m._ about 1820 George Richardson Porter who _d._ 3 Sept. 1852; author of Conversations on arithmetic 1885, new ed. entitled National arithmetic 1852; On infant schools for the upper and middle classes 1838; The expediency and the means of elevating the profession of the educator in public estimation 1839. _d._ West Hill, Wandsworth London 13 Sept. 1862. _G.M. Oct. 1862 p._ 509.
PORTER, SEYMOUR TEULON. _b._ London; minister at Darwin, Lancs. 1836–48; minister of West George st. congregational church, Glasgow 1848–9, when he had a disagreement with Dr. Robert Wardlaw; minister of the independent church, West Bath st. Glasgow 1849–73; author of Lectures on the ecclesiastical system of the independents 1856; Christian prophecy, lectures on the Revelation 1858; The specific object of sunday schools 1858; The last sermons in a forty-one years ministry, Glasgow 1873. _Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 117–22.
PORTER, WHITWORTH (2 son of Henry Porter). _b._ Winslade house, near Exeter 25 Sept. 1827; educ. R.M. academy, Woolwich 1842–5; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 Dec. 1845, lieut. col. 14 Dec. 1868; served in the trenches at siege of Sebastopol Feb. to June 1855; employed at the war office under inspector-general of fortifications April 1859 to Sept. 1862; instructor in fortifications at Sandhurst 1862–8; executive officer at Malta March 1870, supervised construction of defences of new dockyard; designed and erected observatories at Catania and Syracuse; commander of royal engineers at Barbados 1874–6, and at Plymouth 16 Oct. 1877, retired on pension with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1881; chairman of metropolitan district of St. John’s ambulance association; knight commander of order of St. John of Jerusalem 8 July 1859; author of Life in the trenches before Sebastopol 1856; A history of the knights of Malta, 2 vols. 1858, 3 ed. 1884; History of the corps of royal engineers, 2 vols. 1889. _d._ Guildford 27 May 1892. _bur._ St. Michael’s church, York Town, Surrey. _Royal engineers’ journal_, _No._ 261, _Aug. 1892_.
PORTER, WILLIAM (brother of John Scott Porter 1801–80). _b._ Artikelly, near Newtownlimavady 15 Sept. 1805; called to Irish bar 1831; attorney general at Cape of Good Hope Jany. 1839, retired on full salary 31 Aug. 1865; gave more than half his salary to endowment of univ. of Cape of Good Hope, elected the first chancellor 1873; declined the posts of chief justice and prime minister at Cape of Good Hope; C.M.G. 30 Nov. 1872; wrote twelve articles on preachers and preaching in the Bible Christian 1834–5. _d._ Lennox Vale, Belfast 13 July 1880. _Memorial of rev. J. S. Porter and the hon. W. Porter_ (1880).
PORTER, WILLIAM (4 son of Thomas Porter of London, _d._ 1848). _b._ Oct. 1816; educ. Paris; in office of Mr. Hamlet, London; a colonial broker and founder of the firm; retired 1870 and purchased Thingwall hall, Birkenhead; a founder of the Birkenhead park archery club 1858, hon. treasurer to 1870, club reconstituted as the Wirrel archers 1870, sec. and first champion 1871; for many years shot nearly every day, winter and summer; a member of the Mersey bowmen, of the Royal British bowmen, and of the Montgomeryshire archers; won prizes at the Grand National 1874, 1876, 1887, and 1888. _d._ Thingwall hall 5 Sept. 1892. _F. T. Follett’s Archer’s register for 1892–3_ (1893) 49–50.
PORTER, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of Frank Thorpe Porter 1801–82). _b._ 5 March 1791; scholar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, M.D. 1842; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1817, and professor of theory and practice of surgery to the college Oct. 1836 to death, president 1838; surgeon to Meath hospital and county Dublin infirmary 1820 to death; member of general medical council 13 July 1860 to death; author of Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea 1826. _d._ 21 Kildare st. Dublin 28 April 1861.
PORTLAND, WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH SCOTT BENTINCK, 4 Duke of (1 son of 3 duke of Portland 1738–1809). _b._ London 24 June 1768; styled marquis of Titchfield 1768–1809; educ. Westminster 1783; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 25 Jany. 1785, D.C.L. 1793; M.P. Petersfield 29 Dec. 1790 to April 1791; M.P. Bucks 18 April 1791 to 30 Oct. 1809, when he succeeded his father as 4 duke; lord lieutenant of Middlesex 1794–1842; took name of Scott by R.L. 5 Sept. 1795; a junior lord of the treasury 31 March to 16 Sept. 1807; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 April to 16 July 1827; P.C. 30 April 1827; lord president of the council 17 Aug. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; a family trustee of the British Museum 1809–29; spent large sums in draining and improving the Welbeck estates, making plantations and transplanted large oak trees, would himself work in the trenches with his men; kept many mares and race horses, with Tiresias won the Derby 1819; proprietor of Newmarket heath, which he much improved; author of Advantages of Russia in the present contest with France 1807; Work on draining by Josiah Parkes, with observations by the duke of Portland 1847. _d._ Welbeck abbey, Notts. 27 March 1854. _bur._ Bolsover church, Derbyshire 4 April, personalty sworn under £900,000 July 1854. _Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp._ 387–95; _W. Day’s Reminiscenses_ (1886) 132–8; _Waagen’s Galleries of Art_ (1857) 511–16; _G.M. xli_ 523–4 (1854).
PORTLAND, _William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck_, 5 Duke of (2 son of 4 duke of Portland). _b._ London 17 Sept. 1800; styled lord John Bentinck 1809–24; ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 16 July 1818; cornet 10 hussars 26 Nov. 1818; capt. 7 hussars 24 Oct. 1821; capt. 2 life guards 25 Jany. 1823; styled marquess of Titchfield 1824–54; M.P. King’s Lynn 1824–6; lieut. and capt. grenadier guards 15 June 1830; succeeded his father as 5 duke of Portland 27 March 1854; constructed a mile and a half of underground tunnels at Welbeck to connect the various parts; erected a peach house 1,000 feet long; made a tan gallop a quarter of a mile long, covered with glass; erected a riding school 385 feet long; kept many mares and race horses; employed 1,500 workmen during many years at Welbeck and expended upwards of 4 millions. _d._ Harcourt house, 19 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green 12 Dec., personalty sworn under £1,500,000 March 1880. _Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp._ 387–95; _London Figaro 15 Sept 1875 pp._ 5–6 _portrait_, _reprinted 13 Dec. 1879 pp._ 10–11 _portrait_.
PORTLOCK, JOSEPH ELLISON (only son of Nathaniel Portlock, captain in the navy, _d._ 12 Sept. 1816). _b._ Gosport, Hampshire 30 Sept. 1794; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; commander of R.E. of the Cork district 1849–51, and of the south-eastern district 1856–7; inspector of studies at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1851–6; colonel 1 April 1855, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Nov. 1857; employed in the trigonometrical branch of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1825–43, where he completed the great triangulation; a founder of the Geological society of Dublin 1831, president 1838, 1839, 1851, and 1852; a founder of the Zoological society 1826, president; president of geological section of British association at Belfast 1852; member of council of military education May 1857 to 1862; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 8 June 1837; author of Report on the geology of Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, Dublin 1843; A rudimentary treatise on geology 1849, 2 ed. 1852; Memoir of the life of major general T. Colby 1869. _d._ Blackrock, near Dublin 14 Feb. 1864. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xiv_ 13–17 (1865); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi_ 40–5 (1865).
PORTMAN, EDWARD BERKELEY PORTMAN, 1 Viscount (son of Edward Berkeley Portman _d._ 19 Jany. 1823). _b._ Bryanston, Dorset 9 July 1799; educ. Eton 1814 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826; M.P. Dorset 1823–32; M.P. Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to March 1833; major 1 Somerset regt. of militia 13 March 1839; cr. baron Portman of Orchard Portman, Dorset 27 Jany. 1837, and viscount Portman of Bryanston, Dorset 28 March 1873; lord lieutenant of Somerset 22 May 1839 to June 1864; a comr. and councillor of duchy of Cornwall 19 Aug. 1840; a councillor of duchy of Lancaster 13 Feb. 1847; a councillor of duchy of Cornwall 27 Jany. 1863; lord warden of the stannaries and high steward of the duchy of Cornwall 20 Jany. 1865 to death; a breeder of Devon cattle and Alderney cows; president of royal agricultural society 1846, 1856, and 1862; author of Family Prayers 1859, 4 ed. 1868. _d._ Bryanston 19 Nov. 1888, will proved for £244,092. _Journal of royal agricultural soc._ (1889) _p. vi_; _I.L.N. 12 July 1862 p._ 57 _portrait_, _11 April 1863 p._ 400 _portrait_.
NOTE.--The following works refer to lord Portman, Statement by marquis of Hastings of the case of lady Flora Hastings and correspondence with lord Portman 1839; A warning letter to the baroness Lehzen with observations on letter of lord Portman 1839; Lady Flora Hastings by J. F. Murray, with observations on the statements of ladies Portman and Tavistock 1839.
PORTMAN, WYNDHAM BERKELEY (eld. son of capt. Wyndham B. Portman, R.N. 1804–83). _b._ 15 May 1831; attended all race meetings and had great knowledge of horse breeding; founder and proprietor of Horse and hound 30 Wellington st. Strand, London March 1884 to death. _d._ Alipose house, Worcester road, Sutton, Surrey 18 Sept. 1890. _bur._ Brookwood cemetery 20 Sept. _Horse and hound 20 Sept. 1890 p._ 573, _27 Sept. p._ 585; _Baily’s Mag. Oct. 1890 p._ 281.
PORTON, WILLIAM. _b._ on board the Saturn off Gibraltar 12 Aug. 1783; fought at Santa Cruz and Trafalgar; lived at Wolverhampton more than 60 years. _d._ Wolverhampton Oct. 1883, aged 100 years and 2 months.
PORTSMOUTH, JOHN CHARLES WALLOP 3 Earl of (son of 2 earl of Portsmouth 1742–97). _b._ Hurstbourne park near Andover 18 Dec. 1767; styled viscount Lymington 1767–97; succeeded his father as 3 earl of Portsmouth 16 May 1797; hereditary bailiff of Burley; all his property vested in trustees 1790; placed in care of a medical attendant, Mr. Coombe 1808–14; most cruelly treated by his second wife; declared to have been incapable of managing his affairs from 1 Jany. 1809 by a commission which sat 10–28 Feb. 1823. _d._ Hurstbourne park, 14 July 1853. _A genuine report of the proceedings to enquire into the sanity of the earl of Portsmouth_ (1823); _G.M. xl_ 307 (1852).
PORTSMOUTH, NEWTON FELLOWES, 4 earl of (brother of the preceding). _b._ Hurstbourne park 26 June 1772; styled the hon. Newton Wallop 1772–94; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1792; took the name of Fellowes in lieu of Wallop by R.L. 9 Aug. 1794, on succeeding to Eggesford, north Devon, on death of his uncle Henry Arthur Fellowes; capt. independent company South Devon militia 6 Feb. 1795; M.P. Andover 1802–20; M.P. North Devon 1832–7; capt. 1 East Devon regt. of militia 26 July 1820; succeeded his brother as 4 earl of Portsmouth 14 July 1853. _d._ Eggesford, North Devon 9 Jany. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 190 (1854).
PORTSMOUTH, ISAAC NEWTON WALLOP, 5 earl of (son of the preceding). _b._ Castle hill, North Devon 11 Jany. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838 and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 16 lancers 27 March 1846, sold out 16 April 1847; styled Isaac Newton Fellowes 1843–53; styled viscount Lymington 1853–4; succeeded his father as 5 earl of Portsmouth 9 Jany. 1854, and took name of Wallop in lieu of Fellowes; ran horses near Aldershot as Mr. Fellowes 1854; as lord Portsmouth won races with Aaconora 1855; his Buccaneer a favourite for the Derby 1859; a steward of the Jockey club 1859; master of his own fox hounds in the Anstey country, Dulverton 1847–50; master of the Vine hounds 1850–4; master of hounds at Eggesford 1854. _d._ Eggesford house 4 Oct. 1891, will proved at £58,166. _Baily’s mag. Sept. 1861 pp._ 219–22 _portrait_, _Nov. 1891 pp._ 353–4; _Sporting Mirror April 1883 pp._ 113–15 _portrait_.
POST, JACOB (son of John Post). _b._ Whitefriars, London 12 Sept. 1774; educ. Ackworth school 1782–7; resided in Islington many years; a founder of the North London and Islington auxiliary of the Bible society 1812; author of Some popular customs amongst Christians, questioned and compared with gospel precepts and examples 1839; On the history and mystery of the Sacraments 1846; Some reasons for continuing to refuse the payment of all ecclesiastical demands 1849; The Bible the book for all 1848, reprinted 1849 and 1856. _d._ Church st. Islington, London 1 April 1855. _bur._ Winchmore hill near London. _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889) 25; _Annual Monitor 1856 p._ 155; _J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books ii_ 428–30 (1867).
POSTANS, ROBERT BAXTER. _b._ 1787; in naval service of H.E.I.C. to 1840; saw Napoleon i lying in state at St. Helena and attended his funeral 1821, and was present at the reinterment in Les Invalides, Paris 1840; a great friend of Henry Mayhew and George Hodder; associated with the preliminaries of Punch and was an original contributor from 17 July 1841; his pen and ink etchings were unequalled, the constant work on these caused total blindness from 1884. _d._ Southsea 6 July 1892 aged 105. _bur._ Eastney cemetery. _M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch_ (1895) 12, 17, 19, 283.
POSTE, BEALE (2 son of Wm. Poste one of the four common pleaders of the city of London). _b._ Hayle place near Maidstone 1793; educ. Trin. hall Camb. LL.B. 1819; C. of High Halden, Kent; C. of Milstead, Kent; a member of British Archæological association 1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History of the college of All Saints, Maidstone 1847; The coins of Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853; Britannic researches or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853; Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brought within the limits of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an atlas of coins 1861. _d._ Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April 1871. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 309 (1872).
POSTGATE, JOHN (son of Thomas Postgate, builder). _b._ Scarborough 21 Oct. 1820; in the service of a grocer where everything was adulterated; M.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.C.S. 1854; L.S.A. July 1845; a surgeon at Birmingham from 1854; examined before select Committee of house of commons on adulteration 1855, the members for Birmingham Wm. Scholefield and G. F. Muntz introduced nine bills dealing with adulteration, into the house of commons under his influence 1860–75; promoted the National association for promotion of social science 1857; professor of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology at Queen’s college, Birmingham 7 May 1860; author of Sanitary aspects of Birmingham 1852; A few words on adulteration 1857; Medical services and public payments 1862. _d._ London hospital, London 26 Sept. 1881. _bur._ new cemet. Birmingham, portrait by Vivian Crome in council chamber at Scarborough. _Edgbastonia Feb. 1882 pp._ 20–3 _portrait_.
POTOCKI, COUNT MIECESLAS FRANCOIS JOSEPH. _b._ Russia 1794; excessively rich, having an income of 6,000,000 francs; came to England and was naturalized 6 Feb. 1875; left all his property to charities as he could not bear the idea of it going to his heir; before his death altered his will and left his money to his son Nicholas Potocki, who had never offended him, amount said to be £80,000 a year; his wife the countess Potocki, a musician, the friend and benefactor of F. F. Chopin the composer, sang at his death bed. _d._ 35 Avenue Friedland, Paris Nov. 1878. _Times 7 Dec. 1878 p._ 5; _Willeby’s F. F. Chopin_ (1892) 281–2.
POTT, DAVID. _b._ 9 Feb. 1812; ensign 47 Bengal N.I. 14 Sept. 1832, lieut. col. 1 May 1858 to 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Borthwickshiels, Hawick 2 Oct. 1881.
POTTER, ADDISON (eld. son of Addison Langhorn Potter of Heaton hall, _d._ 1853). _b._ 1820; a brewer and maltster with his father at Newcastle, head of the firm 1853; fire brick and cement manufacturer at Willington quay; chairman of Newcastle and Gateshead water co.; member of Newcastle town council 1852, alderman 1865, mayor 1873–4, 1874–5; the oldest surviving volunteer officer; captain Northumberland and Durham artillery 16 Aug. 1859, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1861 to death; C.B. 24 May 1881, invested at Windsor castle 1 July; a partner in the Stella coal co, as senior partner presented with his portrait 27 Aug. 1874, Mrs. Potter receiving a tiara of diamonds. _d._ Heaton hall, Newcastle 23 Feb. 1894. _bur._ Jesmond road cemetery 24 Feb. _I.L.N. 3 March 1894 p._ 254 _portrait_; _Newcastle Weekly chronicle 24 Feb. 1894 p._ 8 _portrait_, _3 March p._ 6.
POTTER, EDMUND (son of James Potter). _b._ Manchester 1802; calico printer at Dinting Vale, near Glossop, Derbyshire 1827, his business became one of the largest in the world; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1852–61; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; M.P. Carlisle 1861–74; resided 64 Queen’s gate, South Kensington, London; author of Calico print as an art manufacture 1852; Trade schools 1854; Practical opinions against partnership with limited liability, by a Manchester man 1855; The sugar duties 1864, 2 ed. 1864. _d._ Camfield place, Hatfield, Herts 26 Oct. 1883.
POTTER, EDMUND COMPTON (son of preceding). _b._ Manchester 22 July 1830; partner in his father’s firm of E. Potter and Co. 1851; an art collector having one of the finest collections of cloisonné ware in the kingdom; among the pictures at his residence Rusholme hall, Lancashire was the Welsh funeral by David Cox; his collection of pictures, &c. was sold in London 22 March 1884 for £37,619. _d._ Brighton 6 May 1883.