Part 53

PREVOST, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost 1767–1816, governor general of Canada). _b._ Roseau, Dominica 20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death; rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death; archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84 of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Stinchcombe 18 March 1893. _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii_ 37, 280 (1894); _Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p._ 9 _portrait_.

PREVOST, GEORGE PHIPPS (eld. son of sir George Prevost, 2 baronet 1804–93). _b._ 10 Nov. 1830; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852; ensign 85 foot 26 Aug. 1853; lieut. 25 foot 26 Jany. 1855, adjutant 9 Oct. 1855 to 21 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Sept. 1870, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; brevet colonel 3 Sept. 1875; assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general home district 7 Aug. 1880 to death. _d._ Chart lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 March 1885.

PREVOST, JAMES CHARLES (only son of James Prevost, rear-admiral 1771–1855). _b._ 31 July 1810; entered navy 1829; lieut. 10 Dec. 1835; captain 17 April 1854, R.A. 16 Sept. 1869, retired 1 April 1870, admiral 9 Jany. 1880; first comr. for marking boundary between Vancouver island and Oregon 1856–62; superintendent of naval establishment at Gibraltar 1864–9; employed on the San Juan boundary question 1871–3; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 6 Sept. 1877. _d._ 133 Ebury st. London 28 Jany. 1891.

PREVOST, JOHN LEWIS (son of professor Prevost, _d._ Geneva 27 June 1796). Came to England 1814; vice-consul of Swiss confederation in London 1818, and consul general at 24a Gresham st. city of London from 1830; F.G.S., treasurer 1843 to death; resided at 3 Suffolk place, Pall Mall East, London. _d._ Geneva 4 Nov. 1852. _Quarterly journal of geological society ix_ 25 (1853).

PREVOST, LOUIS AUGUSTINE. _b._ Troyes, Champagne 6 June 1796; educ. at a college in Versailles; came to England and became tutor in the family of Wm. Young Ottley 1823; taught languages in London 1823–43; learnt 40 languages, including most of the European languages and many Asiatic; employed at the British Museum cataloguing the Chinese books 1843–55. _d._ Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 25 April 1858. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 30 April. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 358–62; _G.M. July 1858 p._ 87.

PREVOST-PARADOL, LUCIEN ANATOLE (only son of Madame Lucinde Prevost-Paradol 1798–1843, actress). _b._ Paris 8 July 1829; eminent littérateur; lectured in English in Edinburgh 1869; sent letters to The Times on French politics from A Parisian Correspondent to 1869; French minister at Washington 12 June 1870; author of many works including, Jonathan Swift, sa vie et ses œuvres 1856; France, an address, Edinb. 1869; _shot himself_ at Washington 11 Aug. 1870. _Newspaper Press iv_ 194 (1870); _Appleton’s American biography v_ 116 (1888).

PRIAULX, OR DE PREAUX, OSMOND DE BEAUVOIR (2 son of Antony de Preaux). _b._ Guernsey 5 March 1805; educ. Catherine hall, Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 19 April 1832; the last survivor of the original members of the Reform club, an active member of committee; author of Outlines of a system of national education 1834; National education 1837; Quaestiones Mosaicae, or the first book of Moses compared with the remains of ancient religions, 2 ed. 1854; The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana and the Indian embassies to Rome 1873. _d._ 8 Cavendish sq. London 15 Jany. 1891, left his library to the college at Guernsey with money for its continued support.

PRICE, ANDREW (son of Roger Price of Leigh, Essex). _b._ Lee, Kent 23 July 1754; educ. Magd. coll. Oxf., chorister 1767–72, usher of the school 1772–88; B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778; ordained deacon 22 Sept. 1776, priest 20 Dec. 1778; chaplain of Ch. Ch. Oxf. and of bishop Warner’s coll. at Bromley 1778–1800; R. of Britwell Salome, Gloucs. 1782 to death; V. of Down Ampney, Gloucs. 1778 to death. _d._ Britwell Salome 7 June 1851.

PRICE, ANNIE, her maiden name was Annie Allen. _b._ County Tyrone, Ireland 1842; weighed 245 lbs. in 1856, afterwards scaled 525 lbs., fell to 400 before her death; travelled with Adam Forepaugh’s circus in U.S. of America; exhibited in the museums about Gotham, New York; _m._ (1) Mr. Pettit, who died leaving her with 2 children; _m._ (2) at 210 Bowery, New York an Albino. _d._ New York Nov. 1889, lay in state in an ice box at 19 Bayard st. New York. _bur._ Greenwood cemetery.

PRICE, ASTLEY PASTON (3 son of Dr. Price of Margate). _b._ 1826; studied chemistry at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and took the Ph.D. degree; studied in Paris under Théopile J. Pelouze; assistant to Dr. August W. Hofman at Royal college of chemistry, London 1845; held an appointment in the School of mines; chemist in the silver works of Dillwyn and Co. Swansea 1851–7; a consulting chemist in London from 1857; had much practice in chemical patent cases, conducted the case Young _v._ Fernie in which the validity of Young’s patent for making parafine oil was maintained; took out patents for manufacture of sugar, the treatment of metals and ores, the distillation of carbonaceous materials and the treatment of sewage; F.C.S.; A.I.C.E. 23 May 1865. _d._ Margate 3 April 1886. _Report on Forbes and Price’s patent process for deodorizing sewage of towns_ (1871); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_ 458–60 (1886).

PRICE, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Isaac Price of Builth). _b._ Wales 1804; in a business house in Worcester to 1822; a presbyterian minister 1830; minister of a Free church, Christ church, Ilfracombe 1845 to death; the various Free churches of England united in 1863 and he was elected the first bishop president and consecrated in London Aug. 1876 by bishop Cridge of the Reformed episcopal church in America. _d._ Horne villa, Ilfracombe 6 Jany. 1896.

PRICE, BONAMY (eld. son of Frederick Price of St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey). _b._ St. Peter’s Port 22 May 1807; educ. Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar 1828–35, double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; mathematical master at Rugby 1830, classical master 1832–8, in charge of the form known as The Twenty 1838–50; served on the commissions on Scottish fisheries, the queen’s colleges in Ireland, agriculture and the depression of trade; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 6 Feb. 1868 to death; president of economical section of Social science congress at Cheltenham 1878 and Nottingham 1882; honorary fellow of Worcester coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; author of Suggestions for the extension of professorial teaching in the university of Oxford 1850; The principles of currency, six lectures delivered at Oxford 1869; Currency and banking 1876; Chapters on practical political economy 1878, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ London 8 Jany. 1888. _Temple Bar Aug. 1888 pp._ 494–508; _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 p._ 58 _portrait_.

PRICE, CHARLES (eld. son of Thomas Price, vicar of Merriott, near Crewkerne, Somerset). _b._ Merriott 1776; educ. Ilminster and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, M.B. 1802, M.D. 1804; fellow of his college to 1821; admitted candidate of coll. of physicians 1 Oct. 1804, fellow 30 Sept. 1805, censor 1807, delivered the Harveian oration 1820; physician to Middlesex hospital 19 June 1807 to 16 May 1815, practised at Brighton 1815 to death; physician extraordinary to William 4, 23 Aug. 1832. _d._ Brighton 8 Sept. 1853. _Munk’s Roll of coll. of Physicians iii_ 25 (1878).

PRICE, DAVID. _b._ 1790; entered navy 1 Jany. 1801; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; captain 13 June 1815; commanded the Portland in the Mediterranean 1834–8; granted the order of the Redeemer of Greece; superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 1846–50; R.A. 6 Nov. 1850; commander-in-chief in the Pacific 17 Aug. 1853 to death; _shot himself_ on board the President, 50 guns, off Petropaulovski in Kamchatka 30 Aug. 1854. _bur._ on shore on the opposite side of the bay 1 Sept. _A.R._ (1854) 403, _Part ii pp._ 199, 540.

PRICE, EDWARD. _b._ 10 June 1816; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1834, colonel 31 Aug. 1865, col. commandant 27 June 1883 to death; inspector and purchaser of horses for the remounts of the R.A. 4 April 1865 to 31 March 1876; M.G. 28 June 1868, L.G. 27 May 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ 13 Gledhow gardens, South Kensington, London 13 Aug. 1887.

PRICE, EDWARD. _b._ 1840; a printer in Birmingham; a member of Mrs. Jessie Pollock’s stock company in Aberdeen where he became a favourite; a member of Chatterton’s company at Drury Lane; _m._ Emma Ryder, dau. of Mrs. Pollock by her first husband Corbet Ryder; with his wife lessees of the old theatre Marischal st. Aberdeen 1869–73, where he produced Little Em’ly (in which he acted with success Micawber). The Rivals, and The Prompter’s box; travelled with Isabel Batemen’s company; acted at Greenock John Grist in Jane Shore, Cheal in The Profligate, and David Deans in Jeanie Deans. _d._ from a fracture of his ankle Greenock infirmary 8 Feb. 1895. _bur._ Greenock. _J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house,_ Aberdeen (1878) 49; _Life of E. L. Blanchard i_ 272, 340, _ii_ 490, 722 (1891).

PRICE, GEORGE UVEDALE. _b._ 3 April 1821; ensign 1 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1840, captain 5 July 1849; captain 3 Bombay European regiment 15 Nov. 1853, major 16 July 1864; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. _d._ St. Leonard’s 7 Dec. 1891.

PRICE, JAMES. _b_. 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; from an early age a contributor to the Dublin evening packet, with which he was officially connected, for many years as editor, 1838 to death. _d._ Dublin 14 Jany. 1853. _The Evening Packet 15 Jany. 1853 p._ 3.

PRICE, JAMES (son of Robert Price, vicar of Shoreham, Kent). _b._ 1804; landscape painter; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 7 at B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1842–76. _d._ 14 Woodland villas, Blackheath, Kent 23 June 1879.

PRICE, JAMES. Formed a collection of pictures at his residence, Barcombe, Paignton, Devon chiefly of the early English school, these 91 pictures were sold at Christie’s 15 June 1895 and produced £87,143 15s., Gainsborough’s portrait of Lady Mulgrave brought 10,000 guineas, Turner’s Helvoetsluys made 6,400 guineas, and Reynold’s Lady Melbourne fetched 2,300 guineas; the dispersion of this, the finest collection of the kind ever in the market, excited great interest and the bidding was so rapid that the sale occupied only three hours; his books were sold by auction on 25–28 June 1895. _d._ 25 Berkeley sq. London 23 Jany. 1895, will proved for £149,382. _Times 15 June 1895 p._ 11; _Athenæum 22 June 1895 p._ 813–4; _Catalogue of collection of pictures formed by J. Price_ (1895) _with_ 60 _illustrations_.

PRICE, JAMES (2 son of James Price of Newton park, Monkstown). _b._ 18 Jany. 1831; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851; engineer in chief of the Midland great western railway of Ireland 1862–77; one of three engineers to report on the purification of the Liffey 1874; an engineer in Dublin from 1877 to death; reported to government on light railways and tramways in Ireland; deputy professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1887; president of Institution of civil engineers, Ireland 1895; M.I.C.E. England 1 March 1870, Telford medal and premium for a paper On the testing of rails 1871, and a second Telford medal for a paper on Movable bridges 1879; introduced the bascule bridge into Ireland. _d._ Dublin 4 April 1895. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxi_ 327–9 (1895).

PRICE, JOHN (4 son of sir Rose Price, 1 baronet of Trengwainton, near Penzance 1768–1834). _b._ 20 Oct. 1808; a settler on the Huon river in Van Diemen’s land 1835; an adept in recapturing bushrangers; police magistrate at Hobart Town 1838–46; presented with a service of plate value £300; chief superintendent of the convict settlement at Norfolk Island 1846–53; inspector general of penal establishments and hulks in Victoria 5 June 1854 to death; struck down with a shovel and struck with stones by the convicts employed on the jetty at Williamstown, near Melbourne 26 March 1857. _d._ in Dr. Wilkin’s house 27 March 1857, seven of the convicts were executed for taking part in this murder. _Biographical memoir of the late Mr. John Price_ (1857).

PRICE, JOHN EDWARD. In business in Cowcross st. City of London some years; well known archæologist, especially interested in the Roman occupation of London; F.S.A. 25 May 1871; author of A descriptive account of the Guildhall of the city of London 1886; and with F. G. Hilton Price A description of the remains of Roman buildings at Morton near Brading in the Isle of Wight 1881; resided 27 Bedford place, London. _d._ Harvey road, Leytonstone about 25 Jany. 1892. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xiv_ 135 (1891–3).

PRICE, MORTON, (stage name of Horton Rhys). _b._ 1823 or 1824; an amateur actor; went to America with his wife Catherine Lucette 1859; appeared at the Metropolitan, New York 23 May 1859 as Citizen Sangfroid in Delicate Ground, and Pierre Chase in All’s fair in love and war, when he failed to please his audience; concluded his theatrical tour through Canada 15 Dec. 1859; played in the English provinces 1860–8; gave, with his wife, a musical entertainment called A double courtship at Sadler’s Wells 27 Sept. 1862; lessee of a small hall, called a theatre, in Brooklyn, New York 1868; attacked the actors and managers of America in an English journal over the nom de plume of “Imported Sparrow”; author of A theatrical trip for a wager, through Canada and the United States 1861. _d._ Birmingham 8 May 1876.

PRICE, PETER (brother of Benjamin Price). _b._ Builth, Breconshire 16 Feb. 1824; with a builder at Tredegar; a builder at Builth; head of firm of Price and Dicksee, builders and contractors, Cardiff; an advocate of the Free public library act 1853; hon. sec. of the Free library, Cardiff, the first in Wales 1861–74; member of the town council 1886; sec. of Cardiff building soc., the cashier made away with £10,000 of the money, Price gave up nearly the whole of his property to meet the deficiency; a member of the school board 5 years. _d._ 12 Windsor place, Cardiff 4 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Cardiff cemetery 7 Oct. _The Accountant 15 Oct. 1892 p._ 776; _South Wales Daily News 5 Oct. 1892 p._ 6 _portrait_, _8 Oct. p._ 6.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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