Part 49

PHILLIPS, JOHN (son of John Phillips 1769–1808, an officer of excise). _b._ Marden, Wiltshire 25 Dec. 1800; employed by his uncle Wm. Smith the geologist in London; arranged the fossils in the museum at York 1824, keeper of the museum 1824–40, hon. curator 1840–4; F.G.S. 1828, Wollaston medallist 1845, president 1859–60; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; secretary of York philosophical society to 1840; assistant secretary of the British Association 1832–59; professor of geology at King’s college London 1834–44, and at Trin. coll. Dublin 1844–5; employed on the geological survey 1840–4; matric. from Magdalen coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1853, M.A. 1853, D.C.L. 13 June 1866; hon. fellow of his college May 1868 to death; deputy at Oxford for Wm. Buckland the professor of geology 1853–6, reader in geology 1856, professor 1857; keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford 1854–70; curator of the new museums at Oxford 1857; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857 and Cambridge 1866; president of British Assoc. 1865; admitted to freedom of the Turner’s company April 1874; author of Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire, 2 vols. 1829–36; A guide to geology 1834; Geological map of the British isles 1842; Memoirs of William Smith, 2 vols. 1844; Life on the earth, its origin and succession 1860; Vesuvius 1869; Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames 1871, and of more than a hundred papers in scientific periodicals. _d._ from the result of a fall on the staircase All Soul’s college Oxford 24 April 1874. _bur._ the cemetery, York 30 April, bust in museum at Oxford, and portrait at Geological soc. London. _Geological Mag._ (1870) 301 _portrait_, _and_ (1874) 240; _A. Geikie’s Life of sir R. I. Murchison i_ 130, _ii_ 106, 374 (1875); _Athenæum 2 May 1874 pp._ 597–8;. _I.L.N. xlvii_ 288 (1865) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 457, 458 (1874) _portrait_; _Graphic ix_ 490, 505 (1874) _portrait_; _Nature ix_ 510 (1874).

PHILLIPS, JOHN ARTHUR (son of John Phillips, mineral agent 1793–1851). _b._ Polgooth, near St. Austell, Cornwall 18 Feb. 1822; studied at the Ecole des mines, Paris from Dec. 1844, a graduate 1846; employed in a French colliery 1846–8; mining engineer and consulting metallurgist in London 1848–68; professor of metallurgy at college for civil engineers Putney 1848–50; went to California 1853, 1865 and 1866; manager of works of Widnes Metal company at Liverpool 1868–77; F.G.S. 1872, vice-president to death; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1870; M.C.S. 1847; F.R.S. 2 June 1881; author of A manual of metallurgy 1852, 3 ed. 1859; Gold mining and assaying 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Records of mining and metallurgy 1857; Elements of metallurgy 1874, 3 ed. 1891; with W. H. Dorman edited W. Truran’s The iron manufacture of Great Britain, 2 ed. 1862; and of many papers in scientific periodicals 1842–86. _d._ 18 Fopstone road, Kensington, London 4 Jany. 1887. _Boase and Courtney’s Bill Cornub. i_ 481–2 (1874), _iii_ 1312 (1882); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_ 481–4 (1887); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. iii–iv_ (1888); _Academy xxxi_ 29 (1887); _Nature xxxv_ 248 (1887).

PHILLIPS, JOHN JONES. _b._ Wales 1843; educ. Mill hill school, and at Guy’s hospital 1860; matric. at Univ. of London 1860, M.B. 1864, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. 1864; L.R.C.P. 1864, M.R.C.P. 1868; assistant obstetric physician at Guy’s 1869; physician to hospital for sick children and to Royal maternity charity 1869; sec. to the Hunterian and then to the Obstetrical soc. 1871 to death; practised at 26 Finsbury sq. London; joint editor of Guy’s hospital reports for some time. _d._ 26 Finsbury sq. London 22 Jany. 1874. _Obstetrical Journal Feb. 1874 pp._ 774–6; _Lancet 31 Jany. 1874 p._ 182.

PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (only son of David Phillips of Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire). _b._ Cilgerran 18 June 1844; in a solicitor’s office at Cardigan; won the prize at Cardigan eisteddfod Aug. 1866 for the best essay on the History of Cilgerran, printed 1867; the first secretary of the Cymrodorion society when revived in 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1870; deputy associate on South Wales circuit 1877–80; stipendiary magistrate of West Ham, near London 22 June 1881 to death, being the first under the act giving local boards power to appoint magistrates; author of A list of the sheriffs of Cardiganshire 1868; Memoirs of the civil war in Wales and the marches, 2 vols. 1874; An attempt at a concise history of Glamorgan 1879; collated and restored monuments of Howard family for duke of Norfolk; collected records for sir W. Harcourt’s commission on city of London 1884. _d._ The Limes, South Hampstead 3 June 1887. _Bygones in Wales_ (1887) 323; _Law Journal 11 June 1887 p._ 345.

PHILLIPS, JOHN SAMUEL (son of Samuel Phillips, an officer in the Middle Temple). _b._ in the Middle Temple, London 23 March 1799; educ. St. Paul’s school 1808–14; law stationer in partnership with James Taverner Reed of Bishop’s court, Lincoln’s inn; freeman of the city 1820; a liveryman of the Cooks’ co.; member of Metropolitan board of works for the Strand district 1857 to death; member of the court of the Cambridge asylum for soldiers’ widows to death; a founder of the Law writers’ institution and president 1846 to death. _d._ 54 Euston sq. London 4 Jany. 1879. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 11 Jany. _Metropolitan 11 Jany. 1879 pp._ 26, 29.

PHILLIPS, PHILIP. _b._ 1802 or 1803; pupil of Clarkson Stanfield; painted dioramas for Surrey theatre 1833–40; exhibited 17 landscapes at R.A., 24 at B. I., and 42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–65; purchased Duke’s Arms tavern, Upper Lambeth Marsh, Surrey, where he built the Bower saloon, opened for musical performances June 1839, from which he retired 1841; principal scenic artist to Lyceum, Haymarket, and Adelphi theatres; went with the queen to Ireland 1–12 Aug. 1849, exhibited a moving diorama of this tour at Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 18 March 1850 to Aug. 1850; painted for Albert Smith part of the scenery for his entertainment China 1859. _d._ Gloucester house, Larkhall lane, Clapham 29 May 1864. _Era 5 June 1864 p._ 10; _Sunday Times 24 March 1850 p._ 3.

PHILLIPS, RICHARD (son of James Phillips of George yard, Lombard st. London, printer and bookseller). _b._ London 1778; educ. as a chemist and druggist under Wm. Allen of Plough court; a founder of the Askesian soc. 1796, and of Geological soc. 1807; lecturer on chemistry at London hospital 1817; professor of chemistry at royal military college, Sandhurst 1818; lecturer on chemistry at Grainger’s school of medicine, Southwark 1818; F.R.S. 14 March 1822; chemist and curator of Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1839 to death; F.C.S. 1841, president 1849–50; discovered the true nature of uranite 1823; edited with E. W. Brayley The annals of philosophy 1821–6; one of the editors of The philosophical magazine 1827–50; author of An analysis of the Bath water 1806; An experimental examination of the last edition of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1811; Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1816; wrote all the chemical articles in the Penny cyclopædia, and about 70 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 2 Champion place, Grove lane, Camberwell, London 11 May 1851. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 16 May. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 206; _I.L.N. 14 June 1851 pp._ 547, 548 _portrait_.

PHILLIPS, RICHARD EMPSON (son of a livery stable keeper). _b._ Great Ormond st. Queen sq. London 2 April 1820; in a wine merchant’s offices 1835; played Edmund Esdale in the Charcoal burner, Pantheon theatre, Catherine st. May 1840; acted with Henderson’s company at Ludlow 1840, and in other provincial towns to 1842; appeared as a negro singer and dancer at theatre royal, Ipswich Jany. 1843; stage manager Manchester theatre July 1843, played Henry Bertram to Miss Cushman’s Meg Merrilies; manager of theatres at Sheffield and Chester; acted Iago at Aberdeen with great success; actor and stage manager Grecian theatre, London 3 May 1847, where he acted to Sept. 1858 when he received a testimonial; aided J. W. Anson in establishing Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 1855; manager for E. T. Smith of Her Majesty’s theatre Dec. 1860. _Theatrical times 4 Sept. 1847 pp._ 273–4 _portrait_; _The Players 5 Jany. 1861 p._ 207–8 _portrait_.

PHILLIPS, ROBERT NEWTON. _b._ 24 June 1815; ensign 53 foot 27 May 1836, captain 12 Jany. 1844; capt. 43 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 29 July 1853; lieut. col. 94 foot 21 April 1854; lieut. col. provisional battalion, Chatham 26 Sept. 1854, placed on h.p. 6 Feb. 1863; col. 65 foot 13 July 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; served in Caffre war 1851–3, medal. _d._ Pipe Grange, Lichfield 21 Dec. 1888.

PHILLIPS, SAMUEL (3 son of Philip Phillips of 71 St. James’s st. London, glass manufacturer, _d._ 1837). _b._ 28 Dec. 1814; recited before duke of Sussex who became his patron; declaimed Collins’s Ode to the passions at Haymarket theatre; played in Richard the third at Covent Garden theatre 23 June 1829; studied at univ. of Gottingen 1835–6; pensioner at Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 12 Sept. 1836, left on death of his father early in 1837; lamp manufacturer with his brother Ralph Phillips at 190 and 223 Regent st. London 1837, they became bankrupt 20 Nov. 1840; tutor to lord Francis Bruce 1843; wrote two leaders a week for the Morning Herald 1845–6; wrote literary reviews for the Times about 1845 to death; secretary to the Richmond association for support of the farmers who had been injured through fiscal changes 1845; proprietor and editor of John Bull weekly paper 1845–6; contributed to the Literary gazette 1851–4; LL.D. Gottingen 1852; literary director of the Crystal palace co. 1853 to death, and treasurer for a time; suggested formation of a society for promoting Assyrian archæological exploration Aug. 1853; author of Caleb Stukely, 3 vols. 1844 anon. (reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag.) published with his name 1862; The literature of the rail 1851; Essays from the Times 1851 anon.; A second series of essays from the Times 1854 anon.; both volumes were republished in 1871 as by Samuel Phillips, B.A. with his portrait; Guide to the Crystal palace and park 1854, 3 ed. 1854; We’re all low people there 1854; Memoir of the duke of Wellington 1856. _d._ of a rupture of a vessel on the lungs Brighton 14 Oct. 1854. _bur._ Sydenham church 21 Oct. left about £11,000. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxxviii_ 129–36 (1855); _Tait’s Mag. Jany. 1855 pp._ 41–2; _Literary Gazette_ (1854) 906–7; _G.M. Dec. 1854 pp._ 635–6.

PHILLIPS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Phillips of the excise department). _b._ London 6 July 1760; apprenticed to an apothecary at Hay in Breconshire; pupil of John Hunter; M.R.C.S.; surgeon’s mate of the Danae frigate 1780, and then surgeon of the Hind; entered service of East India co. 1782; inspector of hospitals in colony of Botany Bay 1796–8; superintendent surgeon Bengal 1802–17; member of Calcutta medical board to 1817; presented upwards of 20,000 volumes to St. David’s college, Lampeter, established 6 scholarships at the college and left by his will £7,000 to found a Phillips’ professorship in natural science; founded the Welsh educational institution at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire 1847, endowed the library with £140 a year, gave 7,000 books and left it about £11,000. _d._ 5 Brunswick sq. London 13 June 1851. _bur._ in catacombs of St. Pancras church 20 June. _G.M. June 1851 pp._ 655–6.

NOTE.--He left £1,000 to Balliol coll. Oxf. and £1,000 to Jesus coll. to found scholarships for the pupils of the Institution at Llandovery.

PHILLIPS, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Phillips of Llanellan house, Monmouthshire). _b._ Llanelly, Breconshire 1801; solicitor in partnership with Thomas Prothero at Newport, Monmouthshire June 1824 to Jany. 1840; mayor of Newport 1838–9, read the riot act from the Westgate inn when John Frost entered the town at the head of 7,000 chartists 4 Nov. 1839, when he was wounded with slugs in the arm and hip; knighted free of expense at Windsor castle 9 Dec. 1839; voted freedom of city of London 26 Feb. 1840, admitted 7 April 1840; barrister I.T. 10 June 1842, bencher 5 May 1865 to death; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1865; the arbitrator in many law suits; built a church and schools at Court-y-hella, near Newport for the use of his colliers; member of the National society 1848; president of council of Society of arts; author of Wales, the language, social condition, moral character, and religious opinions of the people considered in their relation to education 1849; The life of James Davies, a village schoolmaster 1850, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 77 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 26 May 1867. _bur._ Llanellan. _J. Morgan’s Four biographical sketches_ (1892), _Sir T. Phillips pp._ 159–79; _A.R._ (1839) 314–6, _and_ (1840) 203–19; _Law Times xliii_ 48, 110 (1867); _G.M. July 1867 p._ 107.

PHILLIPS, WATTS. _b._ Nov. 1825; the only pupil of George Cruikshank 1844; resided in Paris 1845–66, with occasional visits to London; drew the cartoons for Diogenes comic weekly paper Jany. 1853 to June 1854, and wrote in it under signature of The ragged philosopher; his book The wild tribes of London 1855 was dramatised by Wm. Travers and produced at City of London theatre; illustrated several works; wrote for the Daily news and London journal; author of the following plays, Joseph Chavigny, Adelphi theatre May 1857; The poor strollers, Adelphi 1858; The dead heart, Adelphi 10 Nov. 1859, revived by Henry Irving at Lyceum 1893; Paper wings, Adelphi 29 Feb. 1860, revived at Olympic 15 Feb. 1869; A story of the Forty five, Drury Lane 12 Nov. 1860; His last victory, St. James’s 21 June 1862; Camilla’s husband, Olympic 14 Dec. 1862, the last piece in which Robson appeared; Paul’s return, Princess’s 15 Feb. 1864; A woman in mauve, Haymarket 18 March 1865; Theodora, actress and empress, Surrey 9 April 1866; The Huguenot captain, Princess’s 2 July 1866; Lost in London, Adelphi 16 March 1867; Nobody’s child, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867; Maud’s peril, Adelphi 23 Oct. 1867; Land rats and water rats, Surrey 5 Sept. 1868; Not guilty, Queens 13 Feb. 1869; Fettered, Holborn 17 Feb. 1869; On the jury, Princess’s 16 Dec. 1871; Amos Clark, Queen’s 19 Oct. 1872; wrote in Town talk a novel entitled The honour of the family, published under title of Amos Clark or the poor dependent 1862; wrote many novels in the Family herald and other periodicals; author of An accommodation bill 1850; The hooded snake, a story of the secret police 1860; Ida Lee, or the child of the wreck by Fairfax Balfour 1864; Who will save her, 3 vols. 1874. _d._ 45 Redcliffe road, West Brompton, London 3 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 8 Dec. _Watt’s Phillips, artist and playwright._ _By E. Watts Phillips_ (1891) _portrait_; _J. Coleman’s Truth about the Dead heart_ (1890); _Dutton Cook’s Nights at the play_ (1883) 159–62; _Illust. sporting news vi_ 161 (1867) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 534, 558, 585 (1874) _portrait_; _Saturday Review lxxii_ 728 (1891); _M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch_ (1895) 56, 589.

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1808; civil engineer; inventor of Phillips’s fire annihilator patented 4 June 1844, 16 April 1849, and 5 Oct. 1865; discovered numerous important scientific problems; wrote On aërial locomotion by machinery without gaseous buoyancy, Report of Aëronautical soc. vi 53–4 (1871). _d._ 119 Linden Grove, Nunhead, Surrey 28 Nov. 1884.

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM LOVELL. _b._ Bristol 26 Dec. 1816; chorister Bristol cathedral 1822–31; pupil at Royal academy of music, London 1831–8, learning singing from Gaetano Crivelli and the violoncello and harmony from Charles Lucas; sub-professor of piano, harmony, and violoncello, professor 1831, associate honorary member; musical director at Olympic theatre, and at Princess’s; member of orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre, Philharmonic soc. and Sacred harmonic soc.; organist St. Catherine’s collegiate church, Regent’s park; author of New and complete instruction for the violoncello 1846; composer of The bridge England, song 1840; As you a nutting go, song 1844; The ivy green, a song 1844; Soft be thy slumbers, serenade 1846; I’m a little laughing gipsy 1857; The two rosebuds 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 70 compositions; under the name of Philip Lovell he wrote Songs of childhood 1843 and other songs; one of the best violoncello players of his day. _d._ 67 Oakley sq. Camden town, London 19 March 1860. _W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music_ (1854) 311; _Era 25 March 1860 p._ 10.

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM PAGE (eld. son of Wm. Page Thomas Phillips of Melton Grange, Woodbridge, Suffolk, _b._ 1833). _b._ Brent-bridge house, Hendon, Middlesex 5 Aug. 1858; educ. Eton 1871–7; rowed No. 6 in the Eton eight 1876 and was second captain of the boats 1877; member of Kingston rowing club stroked their eight and four at Henley regatta 1877; ran 150 yards in 15 seconds at Lillie Bridge and 120 yards twice in 12 seconds at Stamford Bridge 22 May 1880; ran 440 yards in 49 seconds at Aston ground 16 July 1881, 120 yards in 11 seconds at Stamford bridge 25 March 1882, and 300 yards in 32 seconds at Stamford bridge 20 May 1882, these five performances were all bests on record; lieutenant West Suffolk militia 18 March 1882 to death. _d._ 26 March 1884. _bur._ Woodbridge 1 April. _Sporting Mirror Oct. 1881 pp._ 85–8 portrait; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 5 April 1884 p._ 72, _19 April pp._ 113, 120 _portrait_.

PHILLOTT, CHARLES GEORGE RODNEY. _b._ 1782; entered navy 27 Jany. 1794; served on board the Amphion 32 guns in the Mediterranean 1802–10, shewing great gallantry in many attacks on the enemy; in command of the Primrose 18 guns, served in the Mediterranean, the North sea, and America 1810–18, retired 1 Oct. 1846; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. _d._ 39 Hans place, Chelsea 11 March 1863.

PHILLOTT, FRANCIS (youngest son of James Phillott 1749–1815, rector of Stanton Priors, Somerset). _b._ Stanton Priors 29 Oct. 1821; educ. Winchester and St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1861; C. of Saltford, Cambs. 1845–52; domestic chaplain to earl of Normanton 1853–9; C. of Huntley, Gloucs. 1865–6; C. of Lolworth, Cambs. 1872–7. author of A litany hymn for the use of church schools 1862; The textual witness to the truth and divine authority of the Pentateuch 1863; Sacred memories, the Athanasian creed metrically pharaphrased 1870. _d._ 9 Pierpont place, Dawlish 4 Sept. 1878.

PHILLOTT, HENRY WRIGHT (3 son of Johnson Phillott of Whitcombe, Gloucs. _b._ 1816; educ. Charterhouse 1827–33, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1835–51; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; assistant master Charterhouse; R. of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire 1850–87; rural dean of Weobly 1854–87; prebendary of Hereford 1864; chancellor of choir of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; resident canon of Hereford 1887 to death; wrote the beautiful Carmen Carthusianum, which was set to music by Wm. Horsley; author with W. L. Bevan of Mediæval geography, an essay in illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi 1873; author of Selections from English prose writers 1849; Hereford 1888 in Diocesan histories. _d._ The precincts, Hereford 4 Dec. 1895. _Guardian 11 Dec. 1895 p._ 1908.

PHILLPOTTS, ARTHUR THOMAS (son of succeeding). _b._ 23 May 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834, colonel 15 Dec. 1864, col. commandant 26 Nov. 1880 to death; commanded the R.A. at Aldershot 1 March 1865 to 6 June 1867 and 1 July 1871 to 18 April 1873; inspector general of artillery at head quarters 1 April 1877 to 31 Aug. 1880; M.G. 6 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 23 May 1882. _d._ Lawhitton rectory, near Launceston 2 Sept. 1890.

PHILLPOTTS, HENRY (2 son of John Phillpotts, brick factor at Bridgwater, afterwards landlord of the Bell inn, Gloucester 1744–1814). _b._ Bridgwater 6 May 1778; educ. Gloucester college school; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 7 Nov. 1791; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1778, B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of Magdalen coll. 25 July 1795 to 27 Oct. 1804, hon. fellow 2 Feb. 1862 to death; prælector of moral philosophy 25 July 1800; one of the examiners for honours 1802 and 1803; select preacher before the univ. Nov. 1804; V. of Kilmarsdon, near Bath 1 Sept. 1804 to April 1806; R. of Stainton-le-Street, Durham 24 Dec. 1805; chaplain to bishop of Durham 1806–26; V. of Bishop Middleham, Durham 24 July 1805 to 1808; R. of Gateshead 10 May 1808, master of Gateshead hospital 12 May 1808; held ninth prebendal stall in Durham cathedral 24 July 1809, the second stall 30 Dec. 1815 to 20 Sept. 1820, and the sixth stall 22 Jany. 1831 to death; chaplain of St. Margaret, Durham 28 Sept. 1810; rector of Stanhope-on-the-Wear, Durham 20 Sept. 1820 to Jany. 1831, with an income of £4,000, built a parsonage at cost of £12,000; dean of Chester 13 May 1828; bishop of Exeter 22 Nov. 1830 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 2 Jany. 1831, installed 14 Jany.; visitor of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1831 to death; treasurer of Exeter cathedral 27 Jany. 1831; prebendary of Exeter 27 Feb. 1831; carried on successful lawsuits against rev. John Shore 1843, and rev. H. E. Head 1838; refused to institute rev. G. C. Gorham to living of Brampford Speke 1847, Gorham appealed to the privy council and was instituted 8 March 1850, this matter was discussed in 35 publications; spent about £25,000 in litigation; gave £10,000 to found a theological coll. at Exeter; supported Miss Sellon’s sisterhood at Devonport 1852; presented his library to the clergy of Cornwall, library opened Truro 1871; executed the resignation of his see 9 Sept. 1869, which did not take effect on account of his death; author of Letters to C. Butler on his Book of the Roman catholic church 1822; A letter to G. Canning on catholic emancipation 1827, 6 ed. 1827; A letter to an English layman on the coronation oath 1828; A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury 1850, this letter, in which he excommunicates the archbishop, refers chiefly to the Gorham case; A pastoral letter on the present state of the church 1851, 8 ed. 1851; Correspondence with T. B. Macaulay on statements in his History of England 1860; his name is attached to upwards of 75 publications to many of which replies were printed. _d._ at Bishopstowe palace, Torquay 18 Sept. 1869. _bur._ St. Mary’s, Torquay. _R. N. Shutte’s Life of right rev. Henry Phillpotts_, _vol._ 1 (1863) _portrait_; _Annual register_ (1869) 162–4; _Edinburgh Rev. Jany. 1852 pp._ 59–94; _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ 1834 _portrait xx_; _Church of England photograph portrait gallery_ 1859 _portrait xii_; _Illust. News of the world_ 1861, _vol. viii_, _portrait xxvii_; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans i_ 180–206 (1875); _I.L.N. ii_ 191 (1843) _portrait_, _lv_ 300, 302 (1869) _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s by Mask_ (1839) 173–82; _The Church goer_, _Bristol_ (1847) 242–52.

PHILLPOTTS, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Bishop Middleham, Durham 27 Jany. 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Uny Lelant with Towednack, Cornwall 4 Nov. 1831 to Sept. 1832; V. of Grimley, Worcs. Sept. 1832 to 1845; prebendary of Exeter 21 Nov. 1840; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Jany. 1845 to death; V. of Gluvias with Budock, Cornwall 25 March 1845 to death; chancellor of diocese of Exeter Oct. 1860 to death; precentor of Exeter cathedral 1870; author of An answer to the infidels, a charge to the clergy 1864; Reply to canon Farrar’s Eternal hope 1878. _d._ St. Gluvias vicarage 10 July 1888.

PHILP, ELIZABETH (elder dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Falmouth 17 Jany. 1825; studied singing under Manuel Garcia and Madame Marchesi, and composition under Dr. Ferdinand Hiller of Cologne; a teacher of singing in London; author of How to sing an English ballad 1869, 4 ed. 1870; composer of O, had I the voice of a bird 1855; I once had a sweet little doll 1867; Lillie’s good night 1870; At rest 1884; her name is attached to 150 pieces of music. _d._ 67 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 26 Nov. 1885. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1878–82) 487–91, 1313; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 735, 1808; _F. Hays’ Women of the day_ (1885) 159.

PHILP, JAMES (son of Robert Kemp Philp, unitarian minister 1769–1850). _b._ Falmouth 4 Oct. 1800; printer and publisher Falmouth to 1836, and at Bristol 1836–46; compiled A Panorama of Falmouth 1827, printed it himself and bound a copy with his own hands, which he presented to the duke of Clarence 1827; edited The christian child’s faithful friend 1829, which ran for some years; printed The selector or Cornish magazine, 4 vols. 1826–9, and The Falmouth packet 1829 etc. which he for sometime edited; celebrated his golden wedding 24 May 1874. _d._ 164 Tuffnell park road, London 23 April 1887. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1878–82) 491, 1313.

PHILP, ROBERT KEMP (son of Henry Philp of Falmouth 1793–1836). _b._ Falmouth 14 June 1819; employed by a printer at Bristol 1835; a newsvendor at Bath; placed in the stocks for selling a Sunday newspaper; edited with Henry Vincent The national vindicator, a Bath weekly paper 1838–42; a Chartist lecturer 1839; member of executive committee of the Chartists 1841–3; a delegate to the conference called by Joseph Sturge at Birmingham 27 Dec. 1842; a member of the national convention which sat in London from 12 April 1842, drew up the monster petition signed by 3,300,000 persons in favour of the confirmation of the charter, which was presented 2 May 1842; contributed to The Sentinel from its commencement 7 Jany. 1843; publisher at Great New st. Fetter lane, London 1845; sub-editor of The People’s journal 1846–8; edited The Family friend, a monthly periodical, afterwards fortnightly and weekly 1850–5; The family tutor 1851–3, Home companion 1852–6, and The Family treasury 1853–4; Diogenes, a weekly comic paper 1853–4; author of Enquire within upon everything 1856 etc. of which more than a million copies were sold; Notices to correspondents 1856; The reason why 1856; wrote The successful candidate, a two-act comedy 1852; The mountain rill 1850, and four other songs by him were set to music; his name as author and editor is attached to upwards of 40 publications. _d._ 21 Claremont sq. Islington 30 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis_ (1874–82) 492–5 _and_ 1313; _The family treasury vol._ 1 (1853) _portrait_.

PHILPOT, BENJAMIN. _b._ Laxfield, Suffolk 9 Jany. 1791; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; senior optime and B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Christ’s 1814; C. of Walpole, Suffolk 1815; archdeacon and vicar-general of Isle of Man 22 May 1832 to 1839; R. of Great Cressingham with Bodney, Norfolk 1839–59; V. of Lydney, Gloucs. 1859–71; R. of Dennington, Suffolk 1871–3; author of Ruth, six lectures 1854; Orpah and Ruth or nature and grace 1855; Nine lectures on the second advent of Christ 1866. _d._ Mona lodge, Oak hill, Surbiton 28 May 1889. _bur._ Lydney. _Times 3 June 1889 p._ 12.

PHILPOTT, HENRY (younger son of Richard Philpott of Chichester). _b._ Chichester 17 Nov. 1807; educ. Chichester cathedral school and St. Catherine’s hall Cambridge, fellow 1829, assistant tutor, tutor, master 1845–60, hon. fellow 1887 to death; senior wrangler and 14th classic 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839, D.D. 1847; second Smith’s prizeman 1830; junior proctor 1834–5; Whitehall preacher 1837–9; examining chaplain to bishop of Ely 1844; canon of Norwich 1845–60; vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1846–7 and 1856–8; chaplain to prince Albert, chancellor of Cambridge 1848–60; bishop of Worcester 7 Jany. 1861, consecrated 25 March 1861, resigned Aug. 1890; vice-chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1877, chairman 1878; provincial chaplain of Canterbury; clerk of closet in ordinary to the queen 26 June 1865 to death; admitted to honorary freedom and livery of Salter’s company 13 Dec. 1876; prosecuted R. W. Enraght, vicar of Holy Trinity, Birmingham for ritualistic practices 1879; edited Documents relating to St. Catherine’s college 1861; author of ten triennial charges 1862–89. _d._ The Elms, Cambridge 10 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s church, Hartlebury, Worcs. 15 Jany. _Church portrait journal iv_ 65 (1883) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxviii_ 303, 322 (1861) _portrait_, _and 16 Jany. 1892 p._ 70 _portrait_; _Graphic 6 Sept. 1890 p._ 271 _portrait_; _Times 11 Jany. 1892 p._ 7.

PHIN, KENNETH MACLEAY (son of the minister of Wick). _b._ Wick 1816; educ. Edinb. univ., D.D. 1869; parish minister of Galashiel 1841–69; a strong supporter of the Established church, opposed Dr. Robert Lee’s alterations in the forms and services of the church; convenor of the army and navy chaplains’ committee 1863, and of the home mission committee 1869 to death; took up his residence in Edinb. 1871; assessor in the university court 1867; moderator in the general assembly of the church 1877; author of Scottish episcopacy the pioneer of popery 1856. _d._ 13 Chalmers st. Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1888. _The Times 13 Jany. 1888 p._ 6; _Scotsman 13 Jany. 1888 pp._ 4, 5.

PHINN, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Phinn, surgeon). _b._ Bath 1814; educ. Eton, captain of the school, and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 1836; B.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840, bencher 1854 to death; Q.C. with patent of precedence July 1854; recorder of Portsmouth July 1848 to Jany. 1852; recorder of Devonport Jany. 1852 to May 1855; a commissioner to investigate the St. Alban’s bribery case 1851; M.P. Bath 1852–5; contested Bath 2 May 1859; contested Devonport 12 July 1865; presented with a silver tea and coffee service by the working men at the guildhall, Bath 29 Nov. 1859; counsel to board of stamps and taxes in the exchequer Feb. 1852; counsel to admiralty and advocate of the fleet April or May 1854; second secretary to admiralty May 1855, resigned April 1857; reappointed counsel to admiralty Nov. 1863. _d._ 50 Pall Mall, London 31 Oct. 1866. _Law Times xlii_ 157 (1866); _I.L.N. 19 Feb. 1853 p._ 152 _portrait_.

PHIPPEN, JAMES. _b._ 1785 or 1786; author of An account of the planting of the Royal Victoria grove at Tunbridge Wells 1835; The road guide from London to Tunbridge Wells 1836; Colbran’s New guide to Tunbridge Wells 1840; Descriptive sketch of Rochester, Chatham and their vicinities 1862. _d._ 29 July 1862.

PHIPPS, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (4 son of first earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). _b._ The Admiralty, London 18 Oct. 1809; educ. Harrow 1820–7 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1831; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1834–9; R. of Boxford 1839–53; R. of Euston with Fakenham Parva and Barnham 1851–82, all in Suffolk; rural dean of Blackburne 1862–83; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1875 to death. _d._ 27 Eaton square, London 27 Jany. 1896.

PHIPPS, SIR CHARLES BEAUMONT (2 son of 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). _b._ Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 27 Dec. 1801; educ. Harrow 1813–18; ensign Scots fusilier guards 17 Aug. 1820, lieut. col. 26 May 1837, placed on h.p. 22 Jany. 1847; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; secretary to his brother, first marquess of Normanby, when governor of Jamaica 1832–4; steward of his brother’s household when lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9; secretary to master general of the ordnance; equerry to the queen 1 Aug. 1846; private secretary to prince consort 1 Jany. 1847, and treasurer; keeper of the queen’s privy purse 10 Oct. 1849; treasurer and cofferer to prince of Wales 10 Oct 1849; receiver-general of duchy of Cornwall 26 May 1862 to death; one of the council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863 to death; secretary to prince of Wales as steward of Scotland 8 Feb. 1864; C.B. 6 Sept. 1853, K.C.B. 19 Jany. 1858; _m._ 25 June 1835 Margaret Anne, 2 dau. of Henry Bathurst, archdeacon of York, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 23 March 1866, and _d._ 13 April 1874. _d._ Ambassador’s court, St. James’s palace 24 Feb. 1866. _bur._ in catacombs of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 2 March. _Full account of the presentation of a service of plate to the hon. col. C. B. Phipps in the town hall Scarbro’ Nov. 12, 1841, containing col. Phipps’ speech Scarbro’_ 1841; _G.M. April 1866 pp._ 587–8; _I.L.N. xlii_ 399, 400 (1862) _portrait_.

PHIPPS, CHARLES PAUL (youngest son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps 1771–1841). _b._ Leighton house, near Westbury, Wilts. 26 Sept. 1815; a merchant at Liverpool; M.P. Westbury 27 Feb. 1869 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Westbury 3 Feb. 1874; sheriff of Wiltshire 1875. _d._ Chalcott, near Westbury 8 June 1880.

PHIPPS, EDMUND (brother of sir C. B. Phipps 1801–66). _b._ the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason 1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850; A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. _d._ 43 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_ 226–29 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 687 (1857).

PHIPPS, EDWARD JAMES (brother of Charles Paul Phipps 1815–80). _b._ 1806; educ. Exeter coll. Oxf.,B.A. 1828; R. of Devizes 1833–53; R. of Stansfield, Suffolk 1853 to death; author of Short and easy answers, or a Sunday school catechism of the history and doctrines of the Old Testament 1832; A catechism on the Holy Scriptures 1850, 2 ed. 1860; The real question as to altar lights 1865. _d._ Stansfield 22 May 1884. _bur._ Stansfield 27 May.

PHIPPS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ 27 March 1807; with R. Stephenson and co. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1828; with R. Stephenson chalked out the sketch of the Rocket on the floor; employed at the Eyre Arms tavern, London on the drawings of London and Birmingham railway, made the Roade and Kilsby section; assistant to I. K. Brunel 2 years; manager for Alexander, Gordon and Co. in construction of beacons and lighthouses; again connected with R. Stephenson in examining wells in Liverpool and on works in Egypt; engineer of Western railway of Switzerland 1852; remodelled bridge over the Wear, Sunderland 1872; delivered a series of lectures at Chatham military school on practical engineering; M.I.C.E. 14 April 1840, Telford medal and premium 1864. _d._ 39 Stockwell park road, Surrey 11 Dec. 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 330–3 (1889).

PHIPPS, PAUL (3 son of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton house, Wiltshire). _b._ 18 Jany. 1789; cornet 1 dragoons 9 June 1804, major 19 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 27 Oct. 1829; served in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo; brevet lieut. col. 27 Oct. 1829; lieut. col. 3 dragoon guards 15 Sept. 1838, but sold out same day; K.H. 1836. _d._ Berrywood, Hampshire 22 Nov. 1858.

PHIPPS, PICKERING (son of Edward Phipps, brewer, _d._ 1830). _b._ Bridge st. Northampton 14 March 1827; apprentice to a draper; senior partner in P. and R. Phipps, brewers, Northampton and Towcester, afterwards formed into a limited liability co.; member of Northampton town council 1834; mayor of Northampton 1858 and 1866; chairman of Northampton school board; M.P. Northampton 7 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Northampton 5 April 1880; M.P. Northamptonshire South 15 Feb. 1881 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested Northamptonshire, Midland division 2 Dec. 1885; purchased the Horton estate for £49,000 in 1887; president of the Farmers’ alliance. _d._ Collingtree Grange, Northamptonshire 14 Sept. 1890. _bur._ Collingtree 17 Sept. _I.L.N. 27 Sept 1890 p._ 390 _portrait_; _Northampton Mercury 19 Sept. 1890 p._ 6.

NOTE.--A church erected by his family at cost of £40,000 in Kingsley park, Northampton, was dedicated by the bishop of Peterborough as a memorial to him 21 Sept. 1893.

PHIPSON, THOMAS WEATHERLEY. _b._ 1807; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 10 June 1845, bencher 1862 to death; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862. _d._ Southampton 15 Jany. 1875. _Solicitors’ Journal xix_ 239 (1875).

PHIPSON, WILSON WEATHERLEY (3 son of Samuel Ryland Phipson of the Cedars, Putney). _b._ Ladywood, near Birmingham 31 Aug. 1838; educ. Brussels 1847, and at Ecole des Ponts et chaussées, Paris 1857; assisted Van Hecke of Brussels to warm and ventilate the hospitals Neckar and Beaujon, Paris; an engineer London 1859, warmed and ventilated baron Rothschild’s residence Piccadilly and his offices in St. Swithin’s lane, the Albert hall, the Natural history museum, Exeter hall, Criterion theatre, etc.; ventilated Birmingham town hall 1891; A.I.C.E. 12 Jany. 1869, M.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1878; engineer at 14 John st. Adelphi, resided at Long Clawson, Leicester. _d._ Putney 21 Oct. 1891. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cviii_ 406–8 (1892); _W. W. Phipson, a memoir_ (1892).

PICCOPE, GEORGE JOHN (1 son of John Piccope, P.C. of St. Paul’s, Manchester). _b._ Manchester 1818; educ. Manchester free gr. sch. 1831 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; Hulme exhibitioner 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Brindle near Chorley 1849–64; C. of Yarwell, Northants 1864 to death; he edited for the Chetham soc. Lancashire and Cheshire wills, 3 vols. 1857–61, and transcribed Lancashire and Cheshire wills, new series, vol. 3, 1884; for the Record Society with J. Piccope he edited An index to the wills and inventories at Chester, vol. 2, 1879. _d._ Yarwell 22 Feb. 1872. _Admission register_, _Manchester school iii_ 239 (1874).

PICKARD, ARTHUR FREDERICK (3 son of J. H. W. Pickard of Southampton). _b._ 12 April 1841; lieut. R.A. 22 June 1858, major 16 Oct. 1878 to death; served in New Zealand during wars of 1860–1 and 1863–4, V.C. 22 Sept. 1864 for gallant conduct during assault on Rangiriri 20 Nov. 1863 in rendering assistance to the wounded while under fire; C.B. 15 March 1879; equerry to prince Arthur. _d._ Cannes 1 March 1880. _bur._ Cannes 4 March. _R. W. O’Byrne’s The Victoria Cross_ (1880) 40, 71.

PICKARD, BENJAMIN SPENCER (son of James Pickard, captain R.N.). _b._ 1821; sub-lieutenant R.N. 3 Nov. 1837, captain 12 Dec. 1863, retired 7 March 1875; retired R.A. 2 Aug. 1879, retired V.A. 1 July 1885; served during operations in river Plate 1845–6, and in Russian war 1854–5. _d._ 34 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 12 Aug. 1890.

PICKERING, BASIL MONTAGU (only son of Wm. Pickering 1796–1854). _b._ 1835; a godson of Basil Montagu the author; employed by James Toovey the bookseller; publisher and dealer in rare books at 196 Piccadilly, London 1858 to death; published Swinburne’s Queen Mother and Rosamund 1860; Locker’s London lyrics 1862; J. H. Frere’s Works 1872; Cardinal Newman’s Miscellaneous writings 1875–7; and a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost collated by B. M. Pickering 1873; author of Lord Selborne’s letter to The Times on the Public worship regulation bill and an answer by A Layman 1874. _d._ 196 Piccadilly, London 8 Feb. 1878. _Bookseller March 1878 p._ 210; _Athenæum i_ 221 (1878).

PICKERING, EDWARD HAYES (eld. son of Edward Rowland Pickering). _b._ 1809; educ. Eton 1817–26, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833; assistant master Eton Jany. 1830 to death; was ordained in 1830; played at Lord’s in Harrow _v._ Eton 30 July 1824, also in 1825 and 1826; an elegant batsman; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players 1844 etc. _d._ Eton 19 May 1852. _bur._ in the school chapel. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i_ 500 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _G.M. July 1852 pp._ 97–8.

PICKERING, EDWARD ROWLAND. _b._ 1778; solicitor in London in partnership with George Andree 1800, practised alone 1801–11, in partnership with George Smith 1811–32, and with George Smith and Edward Tompson at 4 Stone buildings, Lincoln’s inn 1832 to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1845–6, president 1846–7. _d._ Clapham old town, Clapham 29 Nov. 1859.

PICKERING, GEORGE. _b._ Yorkshire 1794 or 1795; succeeded George Cuitt junior as a drawing-master in Chester; non-resident member of the Liverpool academy 1827, where he exhibited many water-colour pictures; drew the landscapes that are engraved by E. F. Finden in Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire 2 series 1829–31, and many of the landscapes engraved in Ormerod’s History of Cheshire 1819, and in Baines’s History of the county palatine of Lancaster 1824; an artist and teacher of drawing at Birkenhead; exhibited 4 landscapes at Suffolk st. London 1827–8. _d._ Grange Mount, Birkenhead 8 March 1857.

PICKERING, PERCIVAL ANDREE (2 son of Edward Rowland Pickering 1778–1859). _b._ London 1811; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A., 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833–41; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 1855 to death; went northern circuit; recorder of Pontefract March 1853 to March 1865; Q.C. July 1855; judge of Passage court at Liverpool 1867 to death; queen’s attorney and serjeant within county palatine of Lancaster 1868 to death; author of Remarks on a report of the house of commons on the publication of printed papers 1838; Remarks on treating and matters relating to the election of members of parliament 1849; An essay of friendship 1875; he also wrote in the Eton miscellany in 1827. _d._ suddenly while riding in a carriage at Dover 7 Aug. 1876. _bur._ in Kensal green cemetery. _Law Times lxi_ 301 (1876); _Solicitors’ Journal xx_ 807 (1876).

PICKERING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; apprentice to John and Arthur Arch, booksellers, Cornhill 1810–18; assistant to Longmans Jany. to June 1818; assistant to John Cuthell 4 Middle Row, Holborn June 1818 to 1820; bookseller 29½ Lincoln’s inn fields 1820–3; commenced publishing his Diamond classics printed by Charles Corrall in 24 volumes 1821–31; brought out the Greek testament 1828 and Homer’s works 1830 in diamond Greek type; adopted the Aldine emblem with the motto Aldi discip Anglus about 1830, removed to 57 Chancery Lane 1823; brought out reprints of English poets; published Basil Montagu’s Bacon, Nicolas’s Walton and the Bridgewater Treatises; had books bound in red cloth in place of red paper boards which revolutionised bookbinding about 1825; publisher at 177 Piccadilly 1842 to death; published books for S. T. Coleridge, Alexander Dyce, Joseph Hunter, J. M. Kemble, and sir Harris Nicolas; issued reprints of the various versions of the Prayer book between 1549 and 1662 in 6 vols. 1844, which are remarkably fine specimens of typography; published Catalogue of biblical, classical, and historical manuscripts and of rare and curious books 1834; the Aldine edition of the English poets in 53 vols. 1835–53, and Christian classics 12 vols. 1849; became involved in debt. _d._ 5 Wellington place, Turnham Green, Middlesex 27 April 1854, left his family destitute. _Cowtan’s_ _Memories of the British museum_ (1872) 325–6; _Willis’s Current notes_ (1855) 43; _N. and Q. 2 Feb. 1895 p._ 83.

PICKERING, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired full pay as M.G. _d._ Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863.

PICKERSGILL, _Henry Hall_ (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1812; studied abroad some years; a painter in London, afterwards in the north of England; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1834–62; his picture The right of sanctuary is in the South Kensington museum. _d._ 20 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1861.

PICKERSGILL, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Dec. 1782; adopted by Mr. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who placed him in his own business 1799; pupil of George Arnald, A.R.A. 1802–5; a student in the R.A. 1805, A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1826, retired R.A. 1873, librarian 1856 to death; exhibited 384 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1806–72; many of his portraits and subject-pictures were engraved; painted portraits of nearly all the most celebrated people of his time; his portraits of Bentham, Godwin, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, George Stephenson, sir Thomas Talfourd, and Wordsworth are in the National portrait gallery. _d._ Barnes, Surrey 21 April 1875. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii_ 42–44 (1880); _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_ 47 (1862); _I.L.N. lxvi_ 456, 547 (1875) _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 436, 450 (1875) _portrait_.

PICKERSGILL, JEANNETTE CAROLINE. _b._ 1814; _m._ H. H. Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation society. _d._ 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first person cremated there 26 March 1885. _Transactions of Cremation soc._ (1885) 49; _Times 27 March 1885 p._ 10.

PICKFORD, THOMAS. _b._ 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13; attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5 July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy 30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832; consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn] 2 vols. 1864. _d._ Paris 24 June 1865. _Times 24 June 1865 p._ 9, _26 June p._ 6; _Foreign office list_, _second ed. 1865 p._ 168.

PICKNELL, GEORGE. _b._ Green farm, Chalvington, 13 miles from Brighton 29 Nov. 1813; a farmer at Chalvington; played in Sussex _v._ Nottingham 1835; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Sussex 19 June 1837; for 20 years a member of the Sussex eleven; a hard hitter, playing back, bowled fast and ripping, raising his hand to near his ear; in 2 matches in July 1850 carried out his bat in all four innings, in the last innings went in first and saw his whole side out; a match the United _v._ the Gentlemen of Sussex was played for his benefit 21 Aug. 1856. _d._ Chalvington 26 Feb. 1863. _W. Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 64; _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862).

PICKNELL, ROBERT. _b._ Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Sussex 19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852. _d._ Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Chalvington. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862).

PICTON, SIR JAMES ALLANSON (son of Wm. Pickton, timber merchant). _b._ Highfield st. Liverpool 2 Dec. 1805; employed by Daniel Stewart architect and surveyor 1826, a partner 1830, succeeded him 1 Jany. 1835, retired 1866; executed some important buildings in and near Liverpool; a leading authority on land arbitration; a local preacher among the Wesleyans to 1848; member of Liverpool town council 1849 to death; member of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 Jany. 1849; obtained a public library for Liverpool 1852, the first chairman of the library and museum committee 1851 to death, the Picton reading room was started by the corporation 1879; a member of the Wavertree local board 1851, chairman of the board 1852; originated the YZ club at Liverpool 12 members only 1870; kept his golden wedding 28 April 1878; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; edited The Watchman’s Lantern, intended to throw light on the proceedings of the Wesleyan Methodist conference 17 Dec. 1834 to 18 Nov. 1835, twenty eight numbers; Selections from the Liverpool municipal archives and records, 2 vols. 1883–6; author of The architectural history of Liverpool 1858; Baronies of Forth and Bargey, Wexford, the antique dialect of the district 1866; Memorials of Liverpool, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1875; and of about 60 papers in the transactions of learned societies. _d._ Sandyknowe, Wavertree, near Liverpool 15 July 1889. _bur._ Toxteth park cemet., bust by McBride in Liverpool free library. _Sir J. A. Picton by J. A. Picton, M.P._ (1891) 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 137 (1889–91); _Biograph Oct. 1880 pp._ 380–5.

PIDDING, HENRY JAMES (son of Mr. Pidding of 1 Cornhill, London, stationer and lottery-office keeper). _b._ London 1797; painted humorous subjects from domestic life; exhibited 21 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I., and 177 at Suffolk street 1818–64; member of Society of British artists 1843; painted a large picture of The gaming rooms at Homburg 1860; some of his pictures were engraved, several of them by himself in mezzotint; etched a series of six illustrations to The rival demons, an anonymous poem 1836. _d._ Greenwich 13 June 1864.

PIDDINGTON, HENRY (2 son of James Piddington of Uckfield). _b._ 1797; commanded a ship in the mercantile marine; curator of the museum of economic geology in Calcutta about 1830; sub-secretary of the Asiatic soc. of Bengal about 1830; president of marine court of inquiry at Calcutta about 1845; coroner of Calcutta about 1849 to death; author of The horn-book of storms for the Indian and China seas 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The sailor’s horn-book for the law of storms 1848, 6 ed. 1876, in which he proposed the word cyclone as a name for whirling storms which was accepted by meteorologists; Conversations about hurricanes for the use of plain sailors 1852. _d._ Calcutta 7 April 1858. _Journal of Asiatic society of Bengal_ (1839) 559, (1859) 64.

PIDGEON, HENRY CLARKE. _b._ March 1807; an artist and teacher of drawing in London to 1847, and 1851 to death, also at Liverpool 1847–51; professor of school of drawing at the Liverpool institute a short time; member of Liverpool academy 1847, non-resident member 1850–65, secretary 1850; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., 15 at Suffolk st. 1838–53, and about 50 at Liverpool academy; founded with Joseph Mayer and Abraham Hume the Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1848, an honorary member 7 May 1851, joint secretary with Hume till Jany. 1851, contributed many lithographs and etchings to the society’s publications; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1846, member 1861; president of the Sketching club, _d._ 39 Fitroy road, Regent’s park, London 6 Aug. 1880. _Journal of British archæol. assoc. xxxvi_ 355 (1880).

PIERCE OR PEIRCE, EARL HORTON. _b._ New York 1823; appeared with Raymond’s circus at Philadelphia; joined Dan Emmet’s minstrel party at Franklin theatre, New York 1842; joined E. P. Christy’s minstrels; came to England in 1856; member of the Christy minstrels St. James’s hall, London, where he became well known by singing a song entitled Hoop de-dooden-do. _d._ suddenly in the Holloway road, London from effusion of serum on the brain 5 June 1859, inquest 7 June.

PIERCE, EVAN. _b._ 1808; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1836; L.S.A. London 1836; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1844; mayor of Denbigh; coroner for county of Denbigh about 1831 to death; during the cholera in 1832 he was most active in his exertions; a column with a statue raised in his honor at Denbigh 23 Nov. 1876. _d._ Salusbury place, Denbigh 15 March 1895. _Y Darlunydd, Carnarvon Dec. 1876 pp._ 1–2 _portrait and view of column_; _Lancet 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 821.

PIERCE, JAMES HART, stage name of James Hart Glen. _b._ Leith, near Edinburgh 1856; a clerk; a gymnast, had a serious fall at South of England music hall, Portsmouth; partner with. Mike Mac as a gymnastic clown and pantomimist; music hall comedian; partner with George Monaghan to 1889; went to South Africa with Luscombe Searelle’s No. 6 company 1893; _m._ 1892 as his 2 wife Fanny Robina, widow of Frederick Stanislaus, musical composer. _d._ Walcot sq. Kennington, Surrey 5 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Tooting cemetery 10 Jany.

PIERCY, BENJAMIN (3 son of Robert Piercy, surveyor). _b._ Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire 16 March 1827; in his father’s office to 1847; chief assistant to Charles Mickleburgh, surveyor, Montgomery 1847–51; with Henry Robert made survey for Shrewsbury and Chester railway 1851; engineer of Red Valley railway bill 1852; engaged on the Cambrian system and on most of the railway schemes in Wales; made the railway bridge at Barmouth and the bridge near Portmadoc; engaged in surveying and making 300 miles of railways in Sardinia 1862–81, and a harbour at the Golfo de Aranci; a commendatore of the Crown of Italy 1881; acquired large estates in Sardinia and bred cattle, horses and sheep; a great friend of Garibaldi; made railway lines in Italy, France and India; purchased Marchwiel hall and estate near Wrexham 1881, where he had a cricket ground; M.I.C.E. 8 Jany. 1860; a candidate for Peterborough 1883. _d._ 15 Portman square, London 24 March 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 333–9 (1889).

PIERREPONT, HENRY MANVERS (3 son of Charles Pierrepont, 1 earl Manvers 1737–1816). _b._ 18 March 1780; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1800, D.C.L. 1834; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sweden 20 April 1804 to 19 Jany. 1807; P.C. 20 May 1807; member of the Dandy club of which he was the last survivor. _d._ Thoresby park, Ollerton, Notts. 10 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 184 (1852).

PIERSON, HENRY HUGH (son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury). _b._ Oxford 14 April 1815; educ. Harrow 1829, and Trin. coll. Camb.; studied music in Germany from 1839; Reid professor of music in univ. of Edinb. 1 June 1844, but never officiated as professor; resided in Germany 1844 to death; wrote music under pseudonym of Edgar Mannsfeldt-Pierson; produced an opera The elves and the earth king at Brunn, and another opera Leila at Hamburg 1848; his oratorio Jerusalem, produced at the Norwich festival 1852, was performed by the Harmonic union at Exeter hall 18 May 1853 and at Wurzburg 1862; composed incidental music to the second part of Goethe’s Faust produced at Stadt-theater, Hamburg 1854, printed at Mayence 1856, for which Leopold I of Belgium gave him the gold medal for art and science; his unfinished oratorio Hezekiah was performed at Norwich festival 1869; his opera Contarini in five acts was produced at Hamburg April 1872; three of his orchestral overtures Macbeth 1860, Romeo and Juliet 1870, and As you like it, have been given at Crystal palace concerts; wrote All my heart’s thine own, song 1844; Salve eternum, a Roman dirge 1853; The office for holy communion 1870; Thirty hymn tunes 1870, Second series 1872; Ye mariners of England, a part song 1880; Hurrah for merry England 1885. _d._ Leipzig 28 Jany. 1873. bur. Sonning, Berkshire 6 Feb. _Robin Legge’s History of the Norwich festivals_, _with portrait_; _H. H. Pearson’s Collected songs_, _Leipzig with portrait_; _Graphic vii_ 215, 220 (1873) _portrait_; _Grove’s Dictionary of music ii_ 752 (1880).

PIERSON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1782; entered navy 27 May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he was wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland, on the occasion of his visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836; captain 28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. 1857. _d._ Langstone, near Havant 25 March 1858. _G.M. May 1858 p._ 553.

PIERSON, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Charles Pierson of Cheltenham). _b._ Havre, France 23 Nov. 1839; educ. Cheltenham college 1853–6, head of the college; won the British Association’s gold medal 1856; gained the Pollock medal Dec. 1858, and six prizes at Addiscombe college 1858; a performer on the piano, cornet and concertina; a chess player; an actor, and a Sanscrit scholar; lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec, 1858, major 25 Nov. 1880 to death; designed and constructed the new palace of the British legation at Teheran; director of the Persian telegraph Oct. 1871 to Oct. 1873; secretary to the Indian defence committee July 1877; military secretary to lord Ripon, governor general of India, Sept. 1880; commanding engineer of the field force proceeding against the Mahsoud Waziri tribe March 1881. _d._ at Bunnoo 2 June 1881, marble tablet with medallion relief of his head in Cheltenham college chapel. _H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe_ (1894) 185, 643–6, 726.

PIESSE, GEORGE WILLIAM SEPTIMUS (7 child of Charles A. J. Piesse, chief clerk in war office). _b._ 30 May 1820; a practical optician; studied chemistry under professor Graham at University college, London; an analytical chemist; in the employment of J. and E. Atkinson, perfumers, and then with Francis Henry Breidenbach; in partnership with Wilhelm Lubin, as perfumers at 2 New Bond st. London with large cellars under the street 1855, flower farmers near Nice, lavender gardeners at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in the London docks where the perfumed spirits for exportation were made; introduced frangipani, kiss-me-quick, the trump card, and other mixed perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of ribbon of Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early associate of Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium a true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical, natural and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical wonders 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of obtaining the odours of plants 1865. _d._ Hughendon house, Grove park, Chiswick 23 Oct. 1882. _G. L. M. Strauss’ England’s Workshops_ (1864) 170–8; _Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p._ 496 _portrait_; _Journal of Chemical Soc. xliii_ 255 (1883).

PIGEON, RICHARD HOTHAM. _b._ 22 May 1789; educ. Dr. Willett’s academy Brixton; apprentice to Fynmore and Palmer, wholesale druggists 31 Throgmorton st. London 1805, became a partner 1812; a member of the Wholesale druggists’ club; treasurer of Pharmaceutical soc. from its commencement 1841 to 1850; treasurer of Christ’s hospital 1835 when he made great improvements in the administration, his portrait by J. P. Knight, R.A. presented to the hospital in 1845. _d._ London 10 June 1851. _Pharmaceutical Journal xi_ 46–7 (1852); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 212.

PIGOT, DAVID RICHARD (eld. son of David Pigot, M.D. of Kilworth, co. Cork, physician). _b._ 1796; educ. Fermoy and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1870; in the office of a conveyancer 1819–26; called to Irish bar 1826; K.C. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1839; solicitor general for Ireland 11 Feb. 1839, attorney general 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sept. 1841; M.P. Clonmel 1839–46; P.C. Ireland 1840; one of the visitors of Maynooth college 1845; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 1 Sept. 1846 to death; a violin player. _d._ 8 Merrion sq. Dublin 22 Dec. 1873. _bur._ Kilworth. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 383–5; _Dublin univ. mag. Feb. 1874 pp._ 176–9 _portrait_.

PIGOTT, EDWARD FREDERICK SMYTH (3 son of John Hugh Smyth Pigott of Brockley hall, Somerset). _b._ Somerset 1824; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1850; lived for sometime in France; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; took an active part in The Leader, No. 1 March 30 1850, which as The Saturday analyst and leader came to an end 24 Nov. 1860, acted as G. H. Lewes’s deputy in dealing with theatrical and musical matters in The Leader and writing under pseudonym of Le Chat Huant from 19 July 1851; a member of the staff of the Daily News; examiner of plays in lord chamberlain’s department 25 Aug. 1874 to death; wrote for the Saturday review. _d._ 150 Oxford st. London 23 Feb. 1895, cremated at Woking 27 Feb. _Vanity Fair 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 33 _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review Feb. 1896 p._ 222.

PIGOT, ELIZABETH BRIDGET (dau. of J. Pigot, M.D. of Derby). _b._ probably in Derbyshire 1783; lived at Southwell, Northampton nearly all her life, where she made the acquaintance of lord Byron about 1803; corresponded with him 1804–11; Byron addressed to her his poem beginning ‘Eliza what fools are the Mussulman sect’ 1806; much of her correspondence with Byron is printed in T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 32, 52–8, 731; a manuscript parody by her entitled ‘The wonderful history of Lord Byron and his dog Bosen’ was sold by a London bookseller to professor Kolbing of Breslau 1892. _d._ Easthorpe, Southwell 11 Dec. 1866. _Poetical works of lord Byron_ (1859) 400; _Russell’s Memoirs of T. Moore v_ 249 (1854).

PIGOTT, FRANCIS (1 son of Paynton Pigott, who in 1835 took the name of Stainsby Conant 1780–1862). _b._ Trunkwell house, Berkshire 1809; educ. Eton, matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 7 March 1826; lieut. Hants yeomanry cavalry 31 Dec. 1838, resigned 5 July 1861; contested Winchester 29 June 1841; M.P. Reading 1847–60; lieut. governor of Isle of Man Oct. 1860 to death, entered Douglas 14 Feb. 1861. _d._ Heckfield Heath, near Winchester 21 Jany. 1863. _Illustrated Times 23 Feb. 1861 p._ 111, _view of his reception at Douglas_.

PIGOTT, GEORGE GRANADO GRAHAM FOSTER (1 son of the rev. George G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). _b._ Abington Pigotts, Cambs. 16 May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge militia 1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of Sebastopol, served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865. _d._ Abington 14 May 1878. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix_ 237 (1879).

PIGOTT, SIR GILLERY (4 son of Paynton Pigott, who _d._ Sept. 1862). _b._ Oxford 1813; barrister M.T. 3 May 1839, went Oxford circuit; counsel to Ireland revenue department May 1854; serjeant-at-law Feb. or March 1856; received a patent of precedence 1857; M.P. Reading Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1863; recorder of Hereford Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; baron of court of exchequer 2 Oct. 1863 to death; knighted by patent 1 Nov. 1863; author with B. B. Hunter Rodwell of Reports of cases in the court of common pleas, on appeal from the decisions of the revising barristers 1844–6. _d._ Sherfield Hill house, Basingstoke 28 April 1875. _I.L.N. 31 Oct. 1863 p._ 433 _portrait and lxvi_ 451, 571 (1875); _Graphic xi_ 483, 486, 492 (1875) _portrait_.

PIGOTT, HENRY DE RENZY (2 son of Henry Pigott of Eagle hill, co. Galway). _b._ 18 May 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844; ensign 83 foot 23 July 1845, major 19 Dec. 1862; major 19 foot 30 June 1863, lieut. col. 25 Aug. 1871; lieut. col. 70 foot 14 Aug. 1872, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Indian mutiny and in the Afghan war of 1878; brevet colonel 25 Aug. 1876; commanded the regimental district of Warrington 1 April 1881 to 8 Feb. 1882, when he retired with honorary rank of M.G. _d._ Elkhorn, Manitoba 14 Nov. 1889.

PIGOT, SIR HUGH. Entered navy 1 May 1788; captain 8 May 1804; took possession of the island of Mariegalante 2 March 1808; commanded the squadron off Guadaloupe 1809, employed on the American station; commander-in-chief on Cork station 16 May 1844 to 1 July 1847; admiral 4 July 1853; C.B. 26 Sept. 1841, K.C.B. 10 July 1847; K.C.H. 18 June 1832. _d._ 96 Ebury street, London 29 July 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 905–6.

PIGOT, HUGH (2 son of Creswell Pigot of Drayton, Salop). _b._ 1820. educ. Brasn. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Hadleigh, Suffolk 1843–63; V. of Wisbeck St. Mary 1863–9; R. of Stretham, Cambs. 1869 to death; author of The blessed life, a course of sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Hadleigh, the town, the church, and the great men born in or connected with the parish 1860, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 22 Sept. 1884.

PIGOT, RICHARD. _b._ 1774; captain of a new independent company of foot 21 Dec. 1793; captain 58 foot 21 April 1795; captain 14 dragoons 13 Sept. 1798, major 4 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 21 light dragoons 1 May 1806 to 30 July 1820, when placed on h.p.; col. 4 dragoon guards 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chievely, near Newbury, Berks. 21 Nov. 1868.

PIGOTT, RICHARD (son of George Pigott, clerk to Peter Purcell, coach proprietor, Dublin). _b._ county Meath about 1828; clerk in office of The Ulsterman newspaper, Belfast, edited by Denis Holland, who transferred the paper to Dublin July 1858 and changed its name to The Irishman, manager of the paper and practically controlled it, in June 1865 the proprietor Patrick James Smith gave the paper to Pigott; started a weekly magazine entitled The Shamrock 1866, and another entitled The flag of Ireland; condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for publishing seditious matter 1867, and imprisoned for six months for contempt of court 1871; contested Limerick as a Fenian 20 Nov. 1868; sold his three publications to the Irish national newspaper and publishing company 1879; author of Personal recollections of an Irish national journalist 1882, 2 ed. 1883; sold to the Irish loyal and patriotic union in 1886 papers accusing Parnell of complicity in the murders of the Land league, The Times purchased these papers and published a series of articles on Parnellism and crime 1887, including a letter signed by Parnell condoning the Phœnix Park murders of 18 April 1887, a commission of three judges sat July 1888 onward to inquire into the allegations made by The Times against Parnell; Pigott was examined as a witness 21 and 22 Feb. 1889, confessed to Henry Labouchere, M.P. that he had forged the papers 23 Feb., fled from England same day, _shot himself dead_ in the Hotel de los Embajadores, Madrid 12 March 1889. _Report of trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott_ (1868); _James O’Connor’s Recollections of R. Pigott_ (1889); _J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections ii_ 198–9 (1892); _Vanity Fair 9 March 1889 p._ 177 _portrait_.

PIGOT, SIR ROBERT, 4 Baronet (2 son of general sir George Pigot, bart. 1766–1841). _b._ Patshull, co. Stafford 1801; succeeded 24 June 1841; M.P. Bridgnorth 1832 to 1837 and 1838 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Bridgnorth 8 July 1852 to March 1853 when unseated for bribery; contested Bridgnorth 26 July 1837; owner of racehorses, Conyngham won the 2,000 guineas 1847 and the Royal hunt cup. _d._ Hillside, Bracknell 1 June 1891.

PIKE, JOHN DEODATUS GREGORY (eld. son of John Baxter Pike, schoolmaster 1745–1811). _b._ Edmonton 6 April 1784; educ. Wymondley college Herts. 1802–6; became a particular baptist Aug. 1804; classical assistant in the school of his uncles G. and R. Gregory at Lower Edmonton 1806–9; pastor of the baptist church Brook st. Derby 1810, a new chapel was opened for him 1815, enlarged 1819, and rebuilt on a new site 1842, pastor to his death; kept a boarding school at Derby about 1810–8; the first secretary of the General Baptist missionary society June 1816; trained young missionaries in his family; edited The general baptist repository and missionary observer Jany. 1822 to death; author of A catechism of scriptural instruction for young persons 1816; The consolations of gospel truth 1817, 2 ed. Derby 1818, vol. ii Derby 1820; Persuasives to early piety, 7 ed. 1865; Swedenborgianism depicted 1820; A guide for young disciples of the Holy Saviour 1823, 2 ed. 1880; Religion and eternal life 1834; Christian liberality in the distribution of property 1836. _d._ Derby 4 Sept. 1854. _A memoir of J. D. G. Pike_, _edited by his sons_ (1855) _portrait_; _Amos Sutton’s Mission to Orissa_ (1833) _vii and_ 1–10; _Repository and missionary observer_ (1854) 463–8; _The works of J. G. Pike_ (1862–3), _memoir pp._ 11–24.

PIKE, WARBURTON (youngest son of Wm. Pike of Bucknowle, Church Knowle, Dorset). _b._ Bucknowle 1818; educ. Univ. coll. London; student of Middle Temple 7 June 1837; certificated special pleader 1840 to death; published Translations from Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo, and Vittoria Colonna 1879; A translation of Dante’s Divine comedy, Inferno 1881. _d._ the Grove, Highgate 29 Jany. 1882. _bur._ at Church Knowle.

PILCH, FULLER (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). _b._ Horningtoft, near Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played his first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club 24 July 1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30; played for England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he made the highest score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand bowling; resided at Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket Thomas Marsden the Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833 and again at Sheffield before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one of the Kent eleven with salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member of Clarke’s All England eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in England 1825–50; landlord of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent 1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept a shop for sale of cricket implements at Canterbury 1842 to death; landlord of Saracen’s head inn Canterbury 1860. _d._ Canterbury 1 May 1870. _bur._ St. Gregory’s churchyard. _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_ 270–9 (1875); _Denison’s Sketches of the players_ (1846) 64–9; _Pycroft’s Cricket field_, _3 ed._ (1859) 135 _portrait_; _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i_ 434 (1862), _v page xiii_ (1876); _F. Gale’s Game of cricket_ (1887) 11–26; _Illust. London life 16 July 1843 p._ 236 _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 24 _portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 26 _portrait_; _I.L.N. iii_ 45 (1843) _portrait_.

PILCH, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Horningtoft, Norfolk 4 Nov. 1794; a tailor and bat maker; first match at Lord’s, Marylebone v. Norfolk 24 July 1820; a slow bowler with a delivery between underhand and round; resided successively at Holt in Norfolk, London, and Norwich; went to King’s Lynn in 1860. _d._ Sheffield 4 Sept. 1866. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 434 (1862).

PILCHER, GEORGE (son of Jeremiah Pilcher of Winkfield, Berkshire). _b._ 30 April 1801; M.R.C.S. 2 April 1824, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1849 to death; surgeon in Dean st. Soho, London 1824; lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Webb st. school of medicine Snow’s Fields, Bermondsey; consulting surgeon to the Surrey dispensary many years; president of Medical society of London 1842, received the Fothergill gold medal; lecturer upon surgery at St. George’s hospital 6 July 1843; one of the best aural surgeons in England; author of Essay on the physiology of the excito-motory system 1835; A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the ear 1838, 2 ed. 1842; On some points in the physiology of the tympanum 1854. _d._ 2 Harley st. London 7 Nov. 1855. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Nov. _G.M. Jany. 1856 p._ 92; _Medical times and gazette ii_ 510 (1855).

PILCHER, JOHN MONTRESOR. Second lieut. R.M. 15 Jany. 1801, lieut. col. 11 May 1841, col. commandant 3 Nov. 1851 to 9 June 1854, when placed on retired full pay; hon. M.G. 20 June 1855. _d._ at his residence near Worcester 18 Nov. 1873.

PILGRIM, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; associated with Francis Petit Smith and the introduction of the screw propeller 1836 to death; engineer of the Archimedes, the first ship ever sent to sea propelled by the screw 1838. _d._ at his son’s residence Plumstead, Kent 6 Oct. 1871. _The Times 11 Oct. 1871 p._ 7.

PILKINGTON, SIR ANDREW. _b._ about 1767; ensign Elford’s corps 7 March 1783, placed on h.p. 1783; lieut. independent company 24 Jany. 1791, placed on h.p.; lieut. 2 foot 19 Feb. 1793, captain 2 March 1795; lieut. 3 foot guards 11 Jany. 1800, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 48 foot 9 July 1803; commanded the light company on board Royal George in lord Howe’s action 1 June 1794; employed in the West Indies, present at capture of Trinidad 1795–7; served in suppression of the Irish rebellion 1798; served in the expeditions to the Helder 1799 and 1805; assistant A.G. at the horse guards 1807–8, and D.A.G. in Nova Scotia 1809–15; col. of 82 foot 10 May 1841 and of 20 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; purchased Catsfield place, Battle, Sussex, from James Eversfield. _d._ Catsfield place 23 Feb. 1853. _Royal military calendar iv_ 261 (1820); _G.M. xxxix_ 436 (1850).

PILKINGTON, LIONEL SCOTT (only son of Redmond Wm. Pilkington, architect, London 1789–1844). _b._ Kensington, London 5 May 1831; educ. Rugby 1844; resided at Hatfield, Ash Hill, near Doncaster 1844 to death; served sir Joseph Henry Hawley as groom 1851, and was known as Jack Hawley for the rest of his life; clever in disguising himself; served as a sailor, as a butcher, and as a groom to several trainers; a Roman catholic, went to Rome and presented 2 horses to the Pope and received from him a cross; always dressed himself as a groom and refused to associate in any good society, although he owned much property. _d._ Hatfield 25 Dec. 1875. _bur._ in his hunting costume in his paddock in the midst of the graves of his horses and cattle, left his Hatfield property to his groom John Harris, and his London property to Wiggins, the son of an old servant. _Life and eccentricities of Lionel Scott Pilkington alias Jack Hawley_ (1876) _portrait_; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_ 126–8 (1882).

PILLANS, JAMES (son of James Pillans, printer). _b._ Edinburgh April 1778; educ. Edinb. high school and univ., M.A. 30 Jany. 1801, LL.D. 22 April 1863; a private tutor at Eton college; rector of the high school Edinb. Jany. 1810 to Aug. 1820; introduced a monitorial system and attracted pupils from all parts of the world; professor of humanity and laws in univ. of Edinb. 17 Aug. 1820, resigned 11 April 1863; made tours to inspect the educational systems of France, Ireland, Prussia, and Switzerland; gave evidence before the committee of house of commons on education 1834; an early advocate for compulsory education; edited Eclogæ Ciceronianæ 1845; Excerpta ex Taciti annalibus 1848; The five latter books of the first decade of Livy 1849; author of Outlines of geography, principally ancient, Edinb. 1847; First steps in the physical and classical geography of the ancient world, Edinb. 1853, 13 ed. 1882; Elements of physical and classical geography 1854; Contributions to the cause of education 1856; Educational papers, Edinb. 1862. _d._ 41 Inverleith row, Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _bur._ in graveyard of St. Cuthbert’s church, Edinb. 1 April. _Memoir of James Pillans By an old student_ (1869); _Grant’s Story of the univ. of Edinb. ii_ 80, 84, 320–2 (1884); _Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. v_ 303 (1866).

PILLING, RICHARD. _b._ Bedford 5 July 1855; played in a match Sussex _v._ Lancashire at Old Trafford 1877; wicket keeper for Lancashire 1877–89; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players at Lord’s 1879, and in Lancashire _v._ Surrey at Liverpool 1885; had a benefit under the Lancashire cricket club auspices which gave him £1,700, 1889; went to Australia with Shaw and Shrewsbury’s first combination 1881–82, when he had a sun stroke from which he never quite recovered, went to Australia with the fourth combination 1887–88; caught cold in a football match 1890; the Lancashire club sent him to Australia for his health 1890; with the exception of Blackham the best wicket keeper of his day. _d._ at his house in Manchester 28 March 1891. _Wisden’s Cricketers’ almanack_ (1891) _p. xxxiii portrait_, (1892) _p. xxxii_; _Times 30 March 1891 p._ 7; _Graphic 4 April 1891 p._ 386 _portrait_.