Part 47

PEMBERTON, EDWARD LOINES. _b._ U.S. of America 1844; educ. in England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps 1859; author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to detect them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5; author of The philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp collector’s handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps at Southampton to decease. _d._ Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. _The Philatelic Record i_ 2 (1879–80) _with portrait_.

PEMBERTON, GEORGE (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll. Oxf. 1743–1831). _b._ 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March 1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold out 22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. _d._ Bainbridge, Holme, Durham 6 April 1851.

PEMBERTON, GEORGE RICHARD. _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain 56 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut. col. of 67 N.I. 1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel 19 March 1849 to death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. _d._ York house, Chertsey 28 April 1866.

PEMBERTON, HENRY LEIGH (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton 1795–1877). _b._ 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of Pemberton, Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London; solicitor to the Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec. 1871; official solicitor to chancery division of the supreme court 1875, and to supreme court of judicature 1876 to death; solicitor to honourable society of Lincoln’s Inn to death. _d._ 20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 29 March 1895. _Law Journal 6 April 1895 p._ 238.

PEMBERTON, JOHN. L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. _d._ Droitwich 4 May 1854.

PEMBERTON, MORDAUNT (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St. Kitts, West Indies). _b._ 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ. Brighton college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868, practised in Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of Nevis July 1870; deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward islands 1880, and acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1886. _d._ Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec. 1887. _Law Times 31 Dec. 1887 p._ 162.

PEMBERTON, SHOLTO THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis, West Indies). _b._ Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis 1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua 1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death; acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of British Honduras and of the Bahamas. _d._ Queen’s house, Nevis 29 June 1889. _Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p._ 359.

PEMBROKE, GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, 13 Earl of (1 son of Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). _b._ 5 Carlton gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40 (Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll. Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers 2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover 1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. _d._ Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort, Germany 3 May 1895. _bur._ at Wilton. _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_ 142–65 (1854); _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 249 (1875) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p._ 570 _portrait_; _The new budget 9 May 1895 p._ 3 _portrait_; _Times 4 May 1895 p._ 11.

PENDARVES, EDWARD WILLIAM WYNNE (2 son of John Stackhouse of Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). _b._ 6 April 1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796, sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815. _d._ Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.

PENDER, DANIEL. _b._ 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant, and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb. 1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ 20 Oxford gardens, London 12 March 1891.

PENDLEBURY, SIR RALPH (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport, bleacher). _b._ Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of chartist disturbances of 1839. _d._ Mersey bank house, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester 1861.

PENDLETON, FREDERICK HENRY SNOW. _b._ 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ. of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s, Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May 1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31 Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882 to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. _d._ St. Sampson’s rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. _Times 19 Sept. 1888 p._ 4.

PENFOLD, CHARLES. _b._ 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc. 1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863; A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads, printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful knowledge 1840). _d._ Twickenham 23 May 1864.

PENGELLY, WILLIAM (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting vessel 1788–1861). _b._ Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany. 1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay 1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; president of geological section of British Association meeting 1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian periodicals. _d._ Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. _bur._ Torquay cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to Torquay natural history society. _Quarterly journal of Geol. soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii_; _Geol. Mag._ (1894) 192, 238–9; _Natural science May 1894_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.

PENGILLY, RICHARD. _b._ Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7; minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed. 1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. _d._ Newcastle 22 March 1865. _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men_ (1884) 224–5.

PENLEAZE, JOHN STORY. _b._ 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17 Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants. _d._ Hereford 12 April 1855.

PENLEY, AARON EDWIN. _b._ 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70; member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856, reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861; master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The English school of painting in water colours, in theory and practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869; A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. _d._ 5 Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. _H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe_ (1894) 210–2 _portrait_.

NOTE.--His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and teacher of painting, he became paralysed and _d_. 1866.

PENLEY, BELVILLE (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor, Drury Lane, _d._ Paris April 1832). _b._ 1809; manager of Drury Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle; with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley, an actress at the Bath theatre, _d._ Budleigh Salterton, Devon 1879 aged 82; he _d._ 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. _B. S. Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 118.

PENN, ALFRED. _b._ Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from 1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. _d._ 18 Oct. 1889.

PENN, JOHN (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). _b._ Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins 1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed; fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878; patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers 1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business 1875. _d._ The Cedars, Lee, Kent 23 Sept. 1878. _bur._ St. Margaret’s ch. Lee 29 Sept., personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 26 Oct. 1878. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 298–308 (1880); _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 325–6 (1878) _portrait_.

PENN, JOHN (son of farrier major Penn). _b._ in 14 regt. of dragoons; in the service of lady John Bethell; private in 3 light dragoons to 1853; served in Afghanistan campaign 1842, Cabul medal; in Sutlej campaign, wounded at Modkee 18 Dec. 1845, lay on the field all night, despite his wounds present at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; with the army at Lahore, in action of Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849, at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; volunteered into 17 lancers June 1854, at the Alma and at Balaklava 1854, medal, in gallant style cut down a Russian officer; in battle of Inkerman, received a clasp, invalided home July 1855. _E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i_ 552–3 (1857) _portrait_.

PENN, LEWIS WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1847; lieut. col. 1 April 1872 to death; brevet colonel 23 Jany. 1875; aide-de-camp to the queen 23 Jany. 1875 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Kirkee, near Poona 14 Dec. 1877.

PENN, RICHARD (younger son of Richard Penn 1736–1811, M.P. Lancaster 1796–1802). _b._ 1784; served in the colonial office under lord Hobart, viscount Castlereagh, and earls Camden and Bathurst; arranged a cipher for use in despatches which is illustrated in his pamphlet On a new mode of secret writing 1829; F.R.S. 18 Nov. 1824; author of Maxims and hints for an angler and miseries of fishing, illustrated by sir Francis Chantry, to which is added Maxims and hints for a chess player, with portrait caricatures of Penn and Chantry 1833, enlarged ed. 1839, and another ed. containing Maxims and hints on shooting 1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 21 April 1863, portrait by E. W. Eddis engraved by M. Ganci 1884.

PENNA, CATHERINE (dau. of the succeeding). Pupil of sir George Smart; concert vocalist, a soprano. _d._ 25 Victoria road, Kilburn, London 15 June 1894.

PENNA, CATHERINE LOUISA (niece and goddaughter of Catherine Stephens, countess of Essex, who _d._ 1882). Soprano of the duet singers called the “Misses Smith” who toured chiefly in Scotland and Ireland; _m._ Frederic Penna, who was living in 1879; mother of William Penna, known as W. W. Whitlock. _d._ 44 Westbourne park road, Bayswater, London 27 Dec. 1879.

PENNEFATHER, _Catherine_ (eld. dau. of James Wm. King, rear-admiral, _d._ 1848, 7 child of second earl of Kingston). _b._ about 1825; _m._ 16 Sept 1847 rev. Wm. Pennefather 1816–73; greatly aided her husband in his evangelical work at Mellifont, Walton and Barnet; carried on religious work at the conference hall, Mildmay park, Islington 1873 to death; author of Follow thou me, discipleship 1881; Follow thou me, service 1881; Songs of the pilgrim land 1886; That nothing be lost 1892; author with others of The homeward journey 1888, a selection of poems. _d._ 68 Mildmay park, Islington, London 12 Jany. 1893. _Christian portrait gallery_ (1889) 287; _The Record 13 Jany. 1893 p._ 39; _Times 17 Jany. 1893 p._ 10.

PENNEFATHER, EDWARD (1 son of Edward Pennefather 1774–1847, lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland). _b._ 1809; called to the Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1863 to death. _d._ 6 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Feb. 1895. _Law Times 2 March 1895 p._ 432.

PENNEFATHER, JOHN (2 son of Richard Pennefather 1773–1859). _b._ 1814 or 1815; entered Harrow school Feb. 1830, in the cricket eleven 1832–3; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 25 May 1833 B.A. 1837; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 17 June 1836 from Westminster to Putney; a student of Inner Temple 1835; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1838; crown prosecutor at Tipperary assizes to death; chairman of Killarney junction railway to death. _d._ 7 April 1855.

PENNEFATHER, Sir John Lysaght (3 son of rev. John Pennefather of New Park, co. Tipperary). _b._ 1800; cornet 7 dragoon guards 14 Jany. 1818, lieut. 1823–5; captain 22 foot 8 April 1826, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. col. 28 foot 2 Dec. 1847, placed on h.p. 21 July 1848; commanded the infantry brigade at battle of Meanee, India 17 Feb. 1843 when he was shot through the body; A.D.C. to the queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; assistant Q.M.G. in the Cork district 1849–54; commanded the first brigade of second division in the army sent to Russia 1854; at the battle of the Alma; commanded the second division at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 when with less than 3,000 men he defeated 35,000 Russians who lost nearly 12,000 men; commanded the second division again Nov. 1854 to July 1855; colonel of 46 foot 19 Nov. 1854 to 13 Feb. 1860; commanded the troops at Malta 1855–60, in the northern district 1860, and at Aldershot 1860–5; col. of 22 foot 13 Feb. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1860, general 9 May 1868; governor of Chelsea hospital 27 Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 4 July 1843, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 May 1867; grand officer of Legion of Honour; commander of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare; bailiff ad honores of order of St. John of Jerusalem 16 Feb 1858. _d._ Chelsea hospital 9 May 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 15 May. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) 97–100.

PENNEFATHER, RICHARD (eld. son of major Wm. Pennefather of 13 light dragoon, M.P. Cashel). _b._ Knockeven, Tipperary 1773; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, and King’s inns, Dublin; called to Irish bar 1795; practised in court of chancery and on the Munster circuit; king’s counsel; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1821, resigned Feb. 1859. _d._ at his residence, near Clonmel 7 Aug. 1859. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 288–92; _Dublin univ. mag. liv_ 532–5 (1859).

PENNEFATHER, WILLIAM (youngest son of preceding). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin Feb. 1832 to 1840, B.A. 1840; C. of Ballymacugh, Kilmore 1841–4; V. of Mellifont, near Drogheda 1844–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Walton, near Aylesbury 1848–52; V. of Ch. Ch. Barnet, Herts. 1852–64; held conferences on missionary enterprise at Barnet and then at Mildmay 1855 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Mildmay park, Islington 1864 to death; known as a mission preacher all over England; author of The church of the first-born 1865; The bridegroom king 1875; Hymns, original and selected 1875, of these he wrote 25; Original hymns and thoughts in verse 1875, a collection of 71 pieces. _d._ Melford lodge, Muswell hill, Middlesex 30 April 1873. _bur._ Ridge, near Barnet, next to his friend Capt. Trotter 6 May. _R. Braithwaite’s Life of W. Pennefather_ (1878) _portrait_; _Julian’s Dict. of hymnology_ (1892) 888–9; _Woman’s work ii_ 161–70 (1873).

PENNELL, EDMUND BURKE. _b._ 1840; clerk in office of sec. of state for the colonies April 1859, third class clerk April 1863; private sec. to W. E. Forster, under sec. to 6 July 1866, to sir C. Adderley to 1 Oct. 1866, and to lord Blachford from 1 Oct. 1866; assist. clerk 20 May 1867, first class clerk 30 Sept. 1872; sent to Paris on a special mission 1874; principal clerk 1 May 1879; British comr. on Anglo-French commission on Newfoundland fisheries, in Paris 1884–5, in Newfoundland 1884–5, again in Paris 1886; C.M.G. 1 Feb. 1886. _d._ at his brother’s residence, The cottage, East Moulsey, Surrey 16 March 1895. _bur._ West Moulsey.

PENNELL, FOLLETT WALROND (6 son of Wm. Pennell, consul at Rio de Janeiro). _b._ 4 Feb. 1804; entered navy Feb. 1818; captain 14 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 2 May 1855; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. _d._ Ravenside, near Carlisle 30 July 1876.

PENNETHORNE, SIR JAMES (son of Thomas Pennethorne of Worcester). _b._ Worcester 4 June 1801; pupil of John Nash and Augustus Pugin 1820–4; studied in France and Italy 1824–6; elected a member of the academy of St. Luke; principal assistant of John Nash 1826; directed the West Strand improvement 1829, and the King Wm. st. opening 1831; employed by the comrs. of the woods and forests to prepare plans for improvements in London 1832; four streets New Oxford st. opened 1847, Endell st. 1846, Cranbourne st. 1843, and Commercial st. 1870, were made by him at a cost of one million pounds, also Garrick st. 1864, Southwark st. 1864, and Old st. 1855; built Crockford’s bazaar in St. James’s st. 1832, and Christ church in Albany st. 1836; his design for rebuilding the Royal exchange was one of the five selected in the competition 1838; joint surveyor of houses in London in the land revenue department June 1840; sole surveyor and architect of the office of woods 1843–70; a comr. to inquire into construction of work-houses in Ireland 1843; designed and laid out Victoria park at cost of £115,000, 1842 etc., and Battersea park 1846–58; cleared away the houses from the walls of Windsor Castle 1851–3; architect of the Museum of economic geology in Jermyn st. opened in 1851; removed the colonnade of the Quadrant, Regent st. and designed the balcony 1848; completed the west wing of Somerset House 1852–6, for which he received a gold medal from the R.I.B.A. 18 May 1857; built the ball-room at Buckingham palace, completed 1856, the duchy of Cornwall office, and district post office 1852, the Record office 1856–70, the stables at Marlborough house 1863, the Patent office library, opened 1855, and the new stationery office 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, royal gold medallist 1865; designed the University of London in Burlington Gardens 1866–8; knighted at Windsor castle 29 June 1870. _d._ Worcester park house, Wimbledon, Surrey 1 Sept. 1871. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Transactions of the R.I.B.A._ (1871–2) 53–69; _The Builder_ (1866) 877–98.

PENNETHORNE, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ Worcester 4 Jany. 1808; pupil of John Nash in London; studied in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt 1830–5; made an elaborate study of the Parthenon at Athens 1832, 1834 and 1837; author of The elements and arithmetical principles of the Greek architects and artists, recovered by study of the remaining works of architecture designed and erected in the age of Pericles 1844; and with J. Robinson The geometry and optics of ancient architecture, illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome 1878; contributed to the Transactions of the R.I.B.A. a paper on The connection between ancient art and the ancient geometry as illustrated by works of the age of Pericles Feb. 1879 pp. 105–36. _d._ Hamstead, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 20 Jany. 1888. _Dictionary of architecture_, _vol. vi p._ 18 (1881).

PENNEY, JOHN. Cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 25 April 1824, lieut. col. 7 Dec. 1850 to 1852, and 24 April 1854 to death; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1852 to 24 April 1854; changed his name from Penny to Penney 1845. _d._ of heat apoplexy in the retreat from Nasírábád 28 May 1857.

PENNEY, WILLIAM, lord Kinloch (eld. son of Wm. Penney, merchant). _b._ Glasgow 1801; educ. Glasgow univ. where he took honours; advocate 1824, had a large practice; judge of court of session 7 May 1858, took courtesy title of lord Kinloch; judge of the first division court Oct. 1868 to death; author of The circle of Christian doctrine 1861, 3 ed. 1865; Time’s treasure or devout thoughts for every day of the year, expressed in verse 1863, 5 ed. 1865; Studies for Sunday evening 1866; Faith’s jewels presented in verse 1869; Thoughts of Christ for every day in the year 1871; Readings in holy writ 1871; Hymns to Christ 1872. _d._ Hartrigge house, near Jedburgh 31 Oct. 1872. _Journal of jurisprudence xvi_, 650, 664 (1872); _Law mag. and law review i_ 1075–7 (1872); _I.L.N. lxi_ 452 (1872) _portrait_.

PENNINGTON, JAMES (son of Wm. Pennington, bookseller). _b._ Kendal, Westmoreland 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in business in London; appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company 1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British colonies 1848. _d._ 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23 March 1862. _A. R. Pennington’s Recollections of persons and events_ (1895) 109–11.

PENNY, CHARLES (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 1810; educ. Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B. and D.D. 1850; C. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1832–4; C. of Sutton Courtney, Berks. 1834–6; C. of Dorchester 1836–7; C. of West Ilsley, Berks. 1837–8; head master of Crewkerne gr. sch. 1838 to death; R. of Chaffcombe, Somerset 1848 to death; author of A sermon preached before the university of Oxford 1851. _d._ Greenham house, Beaminster, Dorset 15 Dec. 1875.

PENNY, FREDERICK (3 son of Charles Penny, wholesale stationer, Cheapside, London). _b._ London 10 April 1816; studied under Henry Hennel, chemical operator to the soc. of apothecaries 1830–6; professor of chemistry Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1839 to death, where he had a large number of pupils; retained by the crown in criminal cases; doctor of philosophy of Giessen univ.; F.R.S. Edinb.; wrote On the conversion of chlorates and nitrates into chlorides and of chlorides into nitrates, _Philos. Trans. 1839 pp._ 13–33; author of On the composition and phosphorescence of plate-sulphate of potash 1855; with J. Adams On the detection of aconite, in reference to trial of E. W. Pritchard 1865; with W. Wallace Notes on chloride of arsenic 1852. _d._ 44 Windsor terrace, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow Medical Journal ii_ 258–70 (1870); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii_ 25 (1872).

PENNY, JOHN (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 16 Feb. 1803; educ. King’s school, Sherborne; proprietor and editor of the Sherborne Journal by purchase from Chiswick and co. 1 May 1828, retired 1858; head stamp distributor for Dorset, residing at Dorchester, about 1833, and at Leeds shortly afterwards, retired on a superannuation; author of Dorsetshire emancipated from Tory dominion 1832; Practical retrenchment the object of reform 1833; Stephen, king of England, or the Danish usurpation 1851, a drama produced at the Leeds theatre; resided Chetnole, Dorset. _d._ 27 Pulteney st. Bath 7 Feb. 1885. _bur._ in the catacombs at Exeter 12 Feb. _Mayo’s Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis_ (1885) 33, 79; _Sherborne Journal 12 Feb. 1885 p._ 8, _16 Feb. p._ 3.

PENNY, NICHOLAS (son of Robert Penny of Weymouth). _b._ Nov. 1790; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1830, lieut. 19 Dec. 1812; captain 69 Bengal N.I. 1829, lieut. col. 29 July 1848 to 1849; served at the siege of Bhurtpore 1825; brigade-major on the Muttra and Agra frontier 1826–8; assistant adjutant general of a division 9 July 1832; commanded the Nusseree battalion 2 June 1841 to 7 Oct. 1848; commanded the second infantry brigade in the first Sikh war 1846; lieut. col. of 2 European fusiliers 1849–51, of 40 Bengal N.I. 1851–2, of 61 Bengal N.I. 1852 to 16 Jany. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 5 June 1849 to 20 June 1854; commanded the Jullunder field force 2 Feb. 1852, the Sirhind division 28 Aug. 1852, the Lind-Sangor district 22 Feb. 1853, and the Sialkot district 19 Jany. 1854; commanded the Cawnpore division May 1855; commanded the Meerut division 30 June 1857 to death, and the Delhi field force 30 Sept. 1857 to death; _killed_ by the rebels at Kakràtá, near Bareilly 30 April 1858. _Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny iv_ 73–6, 349–351 (1889).

PENNY, WILLIAM CARPENTER (eld. son of William Ponsford Penny, bookseller, Frome, _d._ 1856). _b._ Frome 2 May 1822; in his father’s business, Bath st. Frome; clerk to Whittaker and co. London; with his brother James Penny succeeded to the business in Frome 1856; established and edited the Frome Times 1859, ultimately purchased by Frome newspaper co. and became The Somerset Standard; published W. J. E. Bennett’s The old church porch 1854–62; a witness in the case of Sheppard _v._ Bennett. _d._ Church-slope, Frome 15 May 1887. _bur._ the parish cemetery 18 May. _Bookseller June 1887 p._ 546; _The Somerset and Wilts. journal 21 May 1887 p._ 5.

PENNYCUICK, JAMES FARRELL (eld. son of John Pennycuick, brigadier-general, _killed_ near Chillianwalla 13 Jany. 1849). _b._ 10 Aug. 1829; educ. royal military academy 1844–7; 2 lieut. R.A. 2 May 1847, colonel 1 May 1880, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 4 Jany. 1886; served in the Crimean war, the Indian mutiny 1857–8, and the expedition to China 1860; M.G. 8 Nov. 1880, L.G. 1 July 1885; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Bedford 6 July 1888. _bur._ Bedford cemet. 10 July.

PENON, JULES FRANCOIS CHARLES. _b._ France 1814; instructor in French at royal naval college, Greenwich 1874 to death; naturalised in England 17 Feb. 1876. _d._ 2 Dovercourt villas, Lee, Kent 13 May 1881.

PENRHYN, EDWARD GORDON DOUGLAS-PENNANT, 1 Baron (3 son of colonel the hon. John Douglas 1786–1818, and brother of 17 earl of Morton 1789–1858). _b._ 20 June 1800; ensign grenadier guards 31 Aug. 1815, lieut. 13 May 1824, captain 18 April 1834, placed on h.p. 25 April 1834; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; captain Scots fusilier guards 10 Dec. 1847, sold out same day; one of a crew of 6 officers of the guards who for a bet of 600 guineas undertook to row in a wherry from Oxford to Westminster bridge within 16 hours 24 April 1824, the distance, 118 miles, was rowed in 15¾ hours; proprietor of the Penrhyn slate quarries, Wales; _m._ 6 Aug. 1833 Juliana, co-heiress of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant and took by R.L. name of Pennant 12 Jany. 1841, was given precedence as the son of an earl, by royal warrant 26 Aug. 1835; M.P. Carnarvonshire 1841–66; cr. baron Penrhyn of Llandegai, co. Carnarvon 3 Aug. 1866; lord lieutenant of Carnarvonshire 14 Sept. 1866; hon. col. Carnarvon militia 30 Aug. 1852 to death. _d._ Penrhyn castle, Llandegai 31 March 1886. _Annual Register_ (1824) 59–60; _Practical Mag. ii_ 161 (1873) _portrait_.

PENROSE, CHARLES THOMAS (2 son of John Penrose 1778–1859, vicar of Bracebridge, Lincoln). _b._ Bracebridge 15 July 1816; educ. Rugby 1828–36; Bell scholar Trin. coll. Camb. 1836, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; rowed in the first and second races against the Leander eight oared boat 1837 and 1838; rowed No. 5 in the Cambridge boat against Oxford from Westminster to Putney 3 April 1839; head master of Grosvenor college, Bath 1843–5; head master of Sherborne gr. sch. 1845–55; C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. 1856; P.C. of North Hykeham 1859 to death; edited Select private orations of Demosthenes with notes 1843, 2 ed. 1853; author of Eight village sermons, Lincoln 1857. _d._ North Hykeham 5 May 1868. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 453 (1878).

PENROSE, JOHN (eld. son of John Penrose 1754–1829, rector of Fledborough, Notts.). _b._ Cardinham, near Bodmin 15 Dec. 1778; educ. Tiverton school 1794–5; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 3 July 1795; migrated to C.C. coll. 26 Nov. 1795; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; Bampton lecturer 1808; V. of Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs. Dec. 1802 to death; V. of Poundstock, Cornwall 1803–9; V. of Bracebridge, Lincs. 1809–38; P.C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. Nov. 1837 to death; author of An attempt to prove the truth of christianity, Bampton lecture 1808; An inquiry into the nature and discipline of human motives 1820; Of the use of miracles in proving the truth of a revelation 1824; Familiar introduction to the Christian religion. By a Senior 1831; Explanatory lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew 1832; On the moral principle of the atonement 1843, 2 ed. 1846; Lives of vice-admiral sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose and captain James Trevenen. By their nephew 1850; Fifty-four sermons for Sunday reading in families 1851, 2 ed. 1859; _m._ 1814 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Edmund Cartwright, rector of Goadby-Marwood, Leics., she was _b._ 3 Aug. 1780, wrote many school histories under pseudonym of Mrs. Markham, and _d._ Lincoln 24 Jany. 1837; he _d._ Langton 9 Aug. 1859. _J. Penrose’s Life of rev. J. Penrose of Fledborough_ (1880); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 454–8 (1874–8); _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 712, 1084.

PENSON, JAMES (son of a dockyard artizan). _b._ Devonport 1814; a teacher of drawing; studied in Sass’ academy, Bloomsbury, London; a water colour painter; exhibited at Royal academy, London 1850. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 104.

PENTLAND, JOSEPH BARCLAY. _b._ Ireland 1797; educ. Armagh and univ. of Paris; secretary to British consulate in Peru 1827; consul-general in republic of Bolivia 1 Aug. 1836 until 1839; surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes 1826–7, and was the first to measure height of the mountains; travelled in the southern province of ancient Peru 1838; spent his winters in Rome from 1845, acted as guide to the prince of Wales twice; edited for John Murray A handbook of Rome and its environs, 9 ed. 1860, 10 ed. 1871, and 11 ed. 1872; A handbook for travellers in Southern Italy, 6 ed. 1868; and A handbook for travellers in Northern Italy, 11 ed. 1869. _d._ 3 Motcomb st., London 12 July 1873. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Athenæum 6 Sept. 1873 p._ 309.

PEPLOE, ANNIE (2 dau. of John Molyneux of Gavel Hill, Salop, captain R.N.) _b._ Ludlow 21 Feb. 1805; _m._ 3 Jany. 1828 John Birch Webb, vicar of Weobly, Herefordshire, who took name of Peploe 1866, he was _b._ Court lodge, Kent 9 Sept. 1801 and _d._ Garnstone, Herefordshire 26 Jany. 1869; author of Naomi, or the last days of Jerusalem 1841, 20 ed. 1895; A tale of the Vaudois 1842, 2 ed. 1854; Julamerk, a tale of the Nestorians, 3 vols. 1849, 3 ed. 1854; The martyrs of Carthage, 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed. 1857; Alypius of Tagaste 1865, 2 ed. 1891; Benaiah, a tale of the captivity 1865; Oliver Wyndham 1867; Pomponia, or the gospel in Cæsar’s household 1867; I know, or the verities of the Bible 1879; her name is attached to upwards of 25 works 1841–79. _d._ 25 Onslow gardens, London, the residence of her son rev. Hanmer Wm. Webb Peploe 13 Jany. 1880. _Reg. and mag. of biog. March 1869 p._ 253.

PEPLOE, DANIEL PEPLOE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 15 Feb. 1829; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; cornet 4 royal Irish dragoon guards 14 May 1852, captain 11 Dec. 1857, sold out 3 July 1860; assumed name of Peploe 16 July 1866; M.P. Herefordshire 1874–80; contested Herefordshire 6 April 1880. _d._ 4 Nov. 1887.

PEPOLI, COUNT CARLO. _b._ 1800; joined in attempts to overthrow the Papal government and was head of provisional government in Bologna 1831; lived in England 1831–59; naturalised in England 18 Feb. 1847; held an appointment in Glasgow univ.; brought with him from Italy a collection of pictures by the old masters which was sold in London 1850; rector of Bologna univ. 1859; Rosa M. Kettle in her novel My home in the shires 1876 introduced him under the name of The Marchese di Petralva; author of I puritani e cavalieri, a serious opera in 3 acts 1835; Malek-Adel, a drama 1837; On the language and literature of Italy, an inaugural lecture in University college London 1838; he also published various works in Bologna, Ginevra, Milan, and Pinerolo 1827–81. _d._ Palazzo Pepoli, giá Albergati, Bologna 6 Dec. 1881. _Colburn’s New monthly mag. Dec. 1882 pp._ 29–35; _Art Journal ii_ 127 (1850).

PEPYS, HENRY (younger brother of 1 earl of Cottenham 1781–1851). _b._ Wimpole st. London 18 April 1783; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1840; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1804; R. of Aspeden, Herts. 1818–27; R. of Moreton, Essex 1822–40; prebendary of Wells 3 Feb. 1826 to 1840; R. of Westmill, Herts. 1827–40; bishop of Sodor and Man 27 Jany. 1840, consecrated at Whitehall 1 March, installed at St. Mary’s Castleton 8 May; bishop of Worcester 4 May 1841 to death; author of The remains of the lord viscount Royston, with a memoir of his life 1838; Six charges and two single sermons. _d._ Hartlebury castle, Stourport, Worcs. 13 Nov. 1860. _G.M. Dec. 1860 p._ 674.

PEPYS, PHILIP HENRY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 8 June 1849; sec. of presentations to lord chancellor 1846–51, and 1852–62, principal sec. 1862–4; chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1855 to death; one of the registrars of court of bankruptcy London about 1 June 1864 to death; author of Constance Tyrell, or the half-sister, 3 vols. 1852. _d._ Brighton 6 Feb. 1886. _Law Times 6 March 1886 p._ 330.

PEPYS, WILLIAM HASLEDINE or HASELDINE (son of W. H. Pepys of 24 The Poultry, London, cutler). _b._ London 23 March 1775; a founder of Askesian society March 1796, which led to foundation of British mineralogical and geological societies, and the London institution of which he was an original manager and honorary secretary 1821–4; treasurer of Geological society 1811, then vice-president; succeeded his father as a cutler and carried on the business to his death; worked with Desvignes on soda-water apparatus 1798; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1808; president of the Royal Institution 1816; F.L.S. 1821; invented the mercury gasometer and water gasholder, both still in use; one of the first to use mercury contacts for electrical apparatus and tubes coated with indiarubber for conveying gases; invented an eudiometer which he calibrated by a method still used for the purpose 1807; author of many papers in Tilloch’s Philosophical magazine, the Philosophical transactions of the Royal society, and the Journal of science and the arts. _d._ 11 Earls terrace, Kensington road, London 17 Aug. 1856. _Life of Wm. Allen_, 3 _vols._ (1846–7) _passim_; _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs ii_ 101 (1872).

PERCEVAL, ALEXANDER (2 son of rev. Philip Perceval of Temple house, Ballymote, co. Sligo). _b._ Temple house 10 Feb. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. colonel of Sligo militia 12 April 1809 to 16 June 1855; M.P. co. Sligo 17 May 1831 to Sept. 1841; created D.C.L. Oxford 13 June 1834; treasurer of the ordnance Dec. 1834 to April 1835; treasurer of the Orange association of Ireland, dissolved 1835; sergeant-at-arms of the house of lords Sept. 1841 to death; one of the 6 comrs. for executing the office of treasurer of the exchequer of Great Britain 6 to 16 Sept. 1841. _d._ 28 Chester st. London 9 Dec. 1858. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd series_ (1846) _portrait xi_; _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.

PERCEVAL, ARTHUR PHILIP (youngest son of 2 baron Arden 1756–1840). _b._ at the Admiralty, London 22 Nov. 1799; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, B.C.L. 1824; fellow of All Soul’s coll. 1821–5; R. of East Horsley, Surrey 18 June 1824 to 1846; chaplain to the sovereign 7 March 1826 to death; author of The Roman schism illustrated from the records of the Catholic church 1836; The origin of church rates 1837; Sermons preached chiefly at the chapel royal, St. James’s 1839; An apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession 1839, 2 ed. 1841; A vindication of the principles of the authors of the Tracts for the times 1841, of which he wrote Nos. 23, 35, 36, and perhaps 17; A collection of papers connected with the theological movement of 1833, 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Results of an ecclesiastical tour in Holland and Northern Germany 1846; Plain lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 1846; Origines Hibernicæ. By A. P. P. Dublin 1849; his name is attached to upwards of 40 works. _d._ Little Bookham, Surrey 11 June 1853 after taking laudanum, verdict temporary insanity. _Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 247, 264, _ii_ 178 (1893–4); _E. Sheppard’s St. James’s Palace ii_ 341–2 (1894); _G.M. Aug. 1853 p._ 208.

PERCEVAL, CHARLES SPENCER (only son of succeeding). _b._ 11 Feb. 1829; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1853, LL.D. 1858; fellow of his college 1855–67; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; principal secretary to lords chancellors Chelmsford and Cairns 1866–8; secretary to comrs. in lunacy May 1872 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1860, director 1847–72, treasurer 1874 to death, catalogued the collection of impressions and matrices of seals belonging to the society; edited Catalogue of a collection of works on pageantry bequeathed to the Society of antiquaries by F. W. Fairholt 1869; and with W. S. Walford Three rolls of arms of the thirteenth century 1864. _d._ 64 Eccleston sq. London 29 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 2 Feb. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 383–4 (1889); _Law Times 2 March 1889 p._ 340.

PERCEVAL, DUDLEY MONTAGUE (4 son of Spencer Perceval 1762–1812, prime minister). _b._ 22 Oct. 1800; educ. Harrow Oct. 1811 to Dec. 1815, and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1822; student of Lincoln’s Inn 1823; clerk of the council at Cape of Good Hope 1825–8; first clerk and deputy teller of the exchequer in London 1828–34, when the tellerships were abolished; contested Finsbury 26 July 1837 and univ. of Oxford 20 Jany. 1852; wrote a series of letters signed Philalethes in the Standard on the Irish church temporalties bill; author of Quietus optabilissimus, or the nature and necessity of real securities for the United church with a settlement of the catholic question 1829; Remarks on the character ascribed by colonel Napier, in the History of the war in the Peninsula, to the rt. hon. S. Perceval 1835, 2 ed. 1835. _d._ 16 Wilton st. London 2 Sept. 1856. _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._ 649–52.

PERCEVAL, FREDERICA. Attended the Mildmay conference Islington, London 1874; the chief means of establishing a protestant preacher at Spa, Belgium. _d._ Bruges, Belgium July 1875. _Women’s Work iv_ 299–301 (1875).

PERCEVAL, SPENCER (brother of D. M. Perceval 1800–56). _b._ 57 Lincoln’s inn fields, London 11 Sept. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1816; received a grant from parliament on the assassination of his father 1812; one of the four tellers of the exchequer by patent 15 Feb. 1813, office abolished 10 Oct. 1834; M.P. Ennis 1818–20; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1827–31; M.P. Tiverton 1831–2; attended Henry Drummond’s meetings at Albury park 1826–30; called to be an apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic apostolic church 18 Dec. 1833, representing the tribe of Manasseh and taking Italy as his sphere; a compiler of The Testimony which he delivered to William IV and all the privy councillors 1836; with H. Drummond delivered a testimony to the Pope July 1838; the rev. Hugh M’Neile addressed him in “Letters to a Friend who has felt it his duty to secede from the church of England” 1834; resided 31 Portman sq. London. _d._ of apoplexy, Weymouth 16 Sept. 1859. _Spencer Walpole’s Life of S. Perceval i_ 26, _ii_ 303 (1874); _E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i_ 41, 98, 139, 178, 180, 191, 285–6 (1878); _Weymouth Journal 23 Sept. 1859 p._ 2.

PERCEVAL, SPENCER. _b._ 1817; ensign Coldstream guards 13 Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 2 July 1861 to 9 Nov. 1862; M.G. 9 Nov. 1862; L.G. 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 6 Down st. Piccadilly, London 5 July 1877.

PERCIVAL, CHARLES. _b._ England; lived in France 1789 to death; rode at Sablonville for comte d’Artois, afterwards Charles X, in the first race ever publicly run in France. _d._ Chantilly, near Paris Feb. 1865.

PERCY, CHARLES GREATHEED BERTIE (youngest son of Algernon, 2 earl Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Portman sq. London 4 March 1794; educ. Eton 1805–9, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; M.P. Newport, Cornwall 1826–30; _m._ 20 March 1822 Anne Caroline, heiress of Bertie Bertie Greatheed, with whom he acquired the historic mansion Guy’s cliff, near Leamington, and assumed by R.L. the surname of Greatheed Bertie 1 April 1826; obtained precedence of a duke’s youngest son 16 March 1865. _d._ Alnwick castle, at the residence of his nephew the duke of Northumberland 11 Oct. 1870. _I.L.N. 22 Oct. 1870 p._ 435.

PERCY, SIR HENRY HUGH MANVERS (3 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). _b._ Burwood house, Cobham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1817; educ. Eton 1832–5; ensign grenadier guards 1 July 1836, major 19 June 1860 to 3 Oct. 1862; served during Canadian insurrection 1838, and the Crimean war 1854–5; wounded at battles of Alma and Inkerman; brigadier general in command of the British-Italian legion in the Crimea 31 Aug. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Feb. 1865; V.C. 5 May 1857 for bravery at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; sent to New Brunswick in command of first battalion of Grenadier guards Dec. 1861; col. of 89 foot 28 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. North Northumberland 19 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; K.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of Explanation of the manœuvres of a brigade of infantry 1852; Caution for company and battalion drill 1855; _found dead_ in his bed at 40 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1877. _bur._ in Northumberland vault, Westminster abbey 7 Dec. _O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross_ (1880) 31, 79.

PERCY, HUGH (brother of C. G. B. Percy 1794–1870). _b._ London 29 Jany. 1784, twin with Josceline Percy; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825; migrated to St. John’s coll. Camb.; D.D. Oxf. 1834; R. of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent 1809; chancellor of Exeter 30 Jany. 1810 and prebendary 16 April 1810 to 1816; chancellor of Salisbury cathedral 21 Dec. 1811 to death; prebendary of Canterbury 16 May 1816 to 1825; prebendary of St. Paul’s 12 July 1816 to death; archdeacon of Canterbury 26 April 1822, dean 20 June 1825; bishop of Rochester 21 June 1827, consecrated at Lambeth palace 15 July 1827; bishop of Carlisle 17 Sept. 1827 to death; established a Clergy aid society 1838 and a diocesan education society 1855; restored Rose castle the episcopal residence and spent £40,000 of his own money on the gardens and grounds. _d._ Rose castle, Carlisle 5 Feb. 1856. _bur._ Dalston churchyard. _R. S. Ferguson’s Diocesan history of Carlisle_ (1889) 2, 242; _G.M. April 1856 p._ 421.

PERCY, JOHN (3 son of Henry Percy, solicitor). _b._ Nottingham 23 March 1817; studied medicine in Paris and Edinb.; M.D. Edinb. 1838; physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1839; F.R.S. 22 April 1847, member of council 1857–9; F.G.S. 1851; lecturer on metallurgy at Metropolitan school of science in London 1851, which became the Royal school of mines where he was professor to Dec. 1879; invented the silver process and discovered aluminium bronze; lecturer on metallurgy to artillery officers at Woolwich about 1864 to death; superintendent of ventilation of houses of parliament 6 Feb. 1865; member of commission on application of iron for defensive purposes 1861, and on Gibraltar shields 1867; member of royal commissions on coal 1871 and on spontaneous combustion of coal in ships 1875; awarded Bessemer medal of the Iron and steel institute 1876, president 1885–6; wrote many letters to The Times signed Y; author of An experimental enquiry concerning the presence of alcohol in the ventricles of the brain after poisoning by that liquid 1839; On the importance of scientific knowledge to the practical metallurgist 1852; On the metallurgical treatment and assaying of gold ores 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Metallurgy, the art of extracting metals from their ores and adapting them to the purposes of manufacture, 4 vols. 1861–70, 2 ed. 1875; The manufacture of Russian sheet iron 1871; awarded Albert medal of Society of arts 18 June 1889. _d._ 1 Gloucester crescent, Hyde park, London 19 June 1889, his metallurgical specimens went to South Kensington museum, his other collections were sold. _Temple Bar July 1890 pp._ 354–74; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi pp. xxxv–xl_ (1890); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix_ 343–6 (1890); _Nature 27 June 1889 p._ 206; _Spon’s Industrial arts i_ 320 (1879).

PERCY, JOSCELINE (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). _b._ London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept. 1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus 1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845; V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851 to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. _d._ at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts. 19 Oct. 1856.

PERCY, JOSCELINE WILLIAM (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). _b._ Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston 1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in inscriptions and documents 1847. _d._ Pembroke lodge, Sonning hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881.

PERCY, SIDNEY RICHARD (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape painter). _b._ about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’ _d._ Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. _Athenæum i_ 592 (1886).

PERCY, WILLIAM HENRY (younger brother of Josceline Percy 1784–1856). _b._ 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801; commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany. 1849. _d._ at the residence of his brother the earl of Beverley 8 Portman sq. London 5 Oct. 1855.

PEREIRA, JONATHAN (son of an underwriter at Lloyd’s). _b._ Shoreditch, London 22 May 1804; educ. Aldersgate st. general dispensary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 6 March 1823; M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1845; apothecary to the dispensary 1823–32, lecturer on chemistry 1826–8, lecturer on materia medica 1828–41; F.L.S. 1828; professor of materia medica in new medical school in Aldersgate st. 1832; lecturer on chemistry at the London hospital 1833–51, assistant physician 1841–51, physician 1851 to death; F.R.S. 3 May 1838, member of council 1843; examiner in materia medica to univ. of London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845, curator of the museum to death; M.D. Erlangen 1840; professor of materia medica to Pharmaceutical society 1843–52; author of A translation of the pharmacopæia of 1824, 1824; A selection of prescriptions for students 1824, 18 ed. 1890; Manual for medical students 1826; General table of atomic numbers 1827; The elements of materia medica, 2 parts 1839–40, 6 ed. 1874; A treatise on food and diet 1843; Lectures on polarised light 1843, 2 ed. 1854. _d._ 47 Finsbury sq. London 21 Jany. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet., bust by McDowall executed for London hospital. _Pharmaceutical Journal March 1853 p._ 409 _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii_ 237–9 (1855); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 224; _G.M. xxxix_ 320–2 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_ 77, 78 (1853) _portrait_.

PEREIRA, MENASSAH LOPEZ. _b._ 1776; entered Madras army 1796; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, major 6 April 1810 to 19 July 1817; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 19 July 1817 to 1820, and of 18 N.I. 1820–4; lieut. col. commandant 34 N.I. 1 May 1824 to 5 June 1829; col. of 16 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 29 June 1842, of 30 N.I. 29 June 1842 to 11 May 1848, and of 28 N.I. 11 May 1848 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Brighton 20 April 1853.

PERFECT, ROBERT (only son of Wm. Perfect, M.D. of Wincanton, Somerset). _b._ 1799; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; founded East Somerset registration soc. 1841; M.P. Lewes 1847–52. _d._ Woolstone house, Castle Cary, Somerset 29 July 1875.

PERIGAL, ARTHUR (son of Arthur Perigal, historical painter 1784–1847). _b._ London Aug. 1816; a drawing-master in Edinburgh then a landscape painter; travelled in Switzerland, Italy, and Norway; A.R.S.A. 1841, R.S.A. 1868, treasurer 8 March 1880 to death; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1861–76; his picture ‘Moorland, near Kinlochee, Rossshire,’ is in National gallery of Scotland. _d._ 7 Oxford terrace, Edinburgh 5 June 1884. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery.

PERKINS, ANGIER MARCH (2 son of Jacob Perkins, civil engineer). _b._ Newbury Port, Massachusetts 1799; came to England 1827; assisted his father to perfect his method of engraving bank-notes and of using steam under very high pressure; introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water circulating through small closed pipes, carried on a large business with his son in Harpur st. and then at 43 Regent’s sq. Gray’s inn road, London; took out a patent for the manufacture of iron by the use of superheated steam 1843; took out a patent for heating bakers’ ovens 1851, and another for railway axles and boxes 1851; A.I.C.E. May 1840; author with G. W. Fitch of A manual of geographical names 1852. _d._ 22 April 1881. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii_ 417–9 (1882).

PERKINS, FREDERICK. _b._ 1780; F.L.S. 13 March 1816; F.G.S.; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark, London; collected books 1820–60, they were sold by Sotheby’s in a 7 days sale for £8,500, July 1889; his Shakespeare collection, 47 vols. fetched £2,400. _d._ Chipstead place, Kent 10 Oct. 1860. _Quaritch’s Contributions to a Dictionary of English book collectors_, _Part v_, _Feb. 1894_.

PERKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1778; partner in firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark, London; began collecting books at his residence Springfield, near Tooting, Surrey 1823; left his library to his relative, Algernon Perkins of Hanworth park, Middlesex, who _d._ 15 Nov. 1872 and whose personalty was sworn under £250,000, 4 Jany. 1873; the books were sold by Gadsden, Ellis and co. at Hanworth park 3–6 June 1873, the 865 lots produced £26,000, being an average of more than £30 each, ten of the volumes sold for £10,500, the Mazarin bible 2 vols. printed on vellum sold for £3,400, Biblia sacra Latina 2 vols. 1462 sold for £780, and the manuscript of John Lydgate’s Siege of Troy sold for £1,370. _d._ Dover 15 April 1855. _A dictionary of English book collectors_, _part ii_, _September 1892_; _Athenæum 1 March 1873 pp._ 279–80, _14 June 1873 pp._ 762–3; _Chambers’s Journal l_ 709 (1873).

PERKINS, JULIUS E. _b._ Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S. of America 1845; studied in Paris and in Italy; called himself Giulio Perkins; came out as a singer in Italy 1868; a bass singer; joined Mapleson opera co. 1874; acted Baldassare in La Favorita, Drury Lane 11 April 1874, and Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic flute 4 July 1874; _m._ 1874 Marie Roze, soprano vocalist, she _m._ (2) 1877 Henry Mapleson. _d._ after a few days’ illness Queen’s hotel, Manchester 25 Feb. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 Feb.

PERKINS, LOFTUS (son of Angier March Perkins 1799–1881). _b._ 21 Coram st. London 8 May 1834; employed by his father to 1853 and 1854–62; an engineer in New York 1853–4; an engineer in Hamburg and Berlin 1862–6, designing and executing installations for warming buildings; partner with his father as engineers in Francis st. now Seaford st., Gray’s inn road, London 1866–81; took out many patents from 1859; experimented on the use of very high pressure steam as a motive power and on the production of artificial cold; invented the Arktos, a cold chamber suitable for preserving food; M.I.M.E. 1861, M.I.C.E. 1881. _d._ 148 Abbey road, Kilburn, London 27 April 1891. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 1 May. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cv_ 311–4 (1891); _The Engineer 1 May 1891 p._ 349.

PERKINS, SHIRLEY FARMER STEELE (son of Samuel Steele Perkins of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.) _b._ 17 April 1768; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1784; barrister L.I. 16 June 1792, went Midland circuit; comr. of bankrupts for Birmingham 1794 to March 1847. _d._ Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham 15 Jany. 1852. _G.M. June 1852 p._ 621.

PERKS, GEORGE, stage name of George William Reed. _b._ 1831; equestrian performer; father of the Perks family equestrian performers, performing at Agricultural hall, Christmas 1863–4. _d._ Ernest villa, Hornsey park road, Hornsey 10 June 1893. _bur._ New Southgate cemetery 17 June. _Illust. Sporting News 2 Jany. 1864 p._ 378, _20 Feb. 1864 p._ 441, _portrait of Mr. Perks and Son_.

PERKS, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Madeley, Salop 29 Aug. 1819; educ. Theological instit. Hoxton; Wesleyan methodist minister at Edinburgh 1843–5, at Manchester 1850–6, at Bristol 1859–62, in London 1862; visited Africa in connection with the missionaries; sec. to the committee of privileges; sec. of Didsbury and Richmond theological institutions; general sec. of Wesleyan foreign mission 1867 to death; sec. of the conference 1872, and president 30 July 1873; author of Sermons on standard questions 1882; while preaching taken ill in the pulpit 27 May and _d._ at residence of H. Wigfield, St. Leonard’s house, Rotherham 29 May 1877. _I.L.N. 16 Aug. 1873 p._ 149 _portrait_; _Times 30 May 1877 p._ 6; _Minutes of the conference 1877 pp._ 37–9.

PERRIER, SIR ANTHONY GEORGE (son of George Perrier, merchant). _b._ Cork 1792; served in the commissariat department in Peninsular war; British consul at Brest 7 Oct. 1824 to death; knighted by patent 22 Nov. 1843; delegate to European sanitary conference assembled at Paris 1851–2, and 25 Feb. 1859 to 25 April 1860; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Brest 8 July 1867. _bur._ in the cemetery.

PERRIN, LOUIS (son of Jean Baptiste Perrin, teacher of French in Dublin). _b._ Waterford 15 Feb. 1782; educ. diocesan school Armagh and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1799, B.A. 1801; called to Irish bar Jany. 1806; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1832; M.P. Dublin 6 May 1831, unseated Aug. 1831; M.P. Monaghan 24 Dec. 1832 to 1834; M.P. Cashel 14 Jany. 1835 to Aug. 1835; third sergeant-at-law 7 Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1835, first sergeant-at-law Feb. to April 1835; attorney general 29 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1835; judge of court of king’s bench 31 Aug. 1835, retired on a pension Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1835. _d._ Knockdromin, near Rush, co. Dublin 7 Dec. 1864. _bur._ Rush 10 Dec. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 307–15; _G.M. Jany. 1865 pp._ 123–4.

PERRING, JAMES ERNEST. _b._ London 1822; led the soprano chorus at Her Majesty’s theatre about 1835; studied under sir Julius Benedict; an intimate friend of Sims Reeves; went to U.S. of America with Maria Piccolomini in 1858; a singer in oratorios; composer of The fairy ring, comic ballad, London 1840; I’d be a gipsy, ballad 1847; I’ll keep thee in remembrance 1854; Life’s rosy morning, sacred song 1864; Beware, cavatina, New York 1864; The home of my youth, duet 1870; The wishing gate 1867; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1840–74. _d._ New York, U.S. of America 12 Jany, 1889.

PERRING, JOHN SHAE. _b._ Boston, Lincs. 24 Jany. 1813; employed as an engineer in London 1833; assistant engineer to Galloway Bey, manager of public works for the viceroy of Egypt March 1836, became a member of the board of public works; helped to make a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh Jany. to Aug. 1837; explored and surveyed the pyramids at Abou Roash 1838–9; and made a trigonometrical survey of the 53 miles of country near the pyramids; engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway docks and harbour 1 March 1841 to 1844; resident engineer of the East Lancashire railway 1846–59; engineer of the Ribblesdale railway, constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn; one of the engineers of the Manchester city railway; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1853; M.I.M.E. 1856; author of On the engineering of the ancient Egyptians 6 numbers 1835; The pyramids of Gizeh from actual survey and admeasurement 1839; _d._ 104 King st. Manchester 16 Jany. 1869. _R. W. H. H. Vyse’s Operations at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with a survey by J. S. Perring of the pyramids of Abou Roash_ 3 _vols._ (1840–3) _portrait_; _C. C. J. Bunsen’s Egypt’s place in universal history ii_ 28–9, 635–45 (1854); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 455–6 (1870); _Proc. of instit. of mining engineering_ (1878) 15.

PERRING, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; edited The Carlisle Patriot from 1815, and again from 1848 to 1868; editor and proprietor of The Intelligencer at Leeds; sub-editor of the Morning Herald; he encouraged Robert Anderson “The Cumberland bard” who in his Poetical Works 2 vols. 1820 acknowledges the help given him vol. i p. xxxiv. _d._ Carlisle 4 Oct. 1869, _bur._ Embleton 7 Oct. _Newspaper Press iii_ 249 (1869).

PERROT, JULES JOSEPH. _b._ 1800; pupil of Auguste Vestris; dancer and ballet master at Grand opera Paris 1828; the teacher of Carlotta Grisi, whom he married and from whom he was afterwards separated, she was _b._ Visinida 1821; one of the most famous dancers of his day, well known at the King’s theatre London; the inventor of the successful ballets Zingari at the Renaissance 1841 La fille du Bandit 1857. _d._ Sept. 1892.

PERRY, ALFRED JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1853; C. of Plaistow Essex 1853–6; C. of Stanningfield, Suffolk 1856–8; C. of Lackford, Suffolk 1860–2; chaplain to hospital Bury St. Edmunds 1862–9; C. of St. Augustine, Wisbech 1869 to death; 3rd classical master of Royal Naval sch. New Cross; author of The old year and the new 1864; A few plain words on the real presence 1865. _d._ St. Augustine’s vicarage 10 July 1876.

PERRY, CHARLES (youngest son of John Perry of Moor hall, Essex, proprietor of Blackwell dockyard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Hackney 17 Feb. 1807; educ. Harrow Feb. 1819 to June 1823, played in the eleven against Eton; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and seventh classic 1828; aided in establishing the first eight oared boat on the Cam 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1847; fellow of Trinity 1837–41, tutor 1837–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Barnwell, Cambridge 1842–7; bishop of Melbourne 25 June 1847 to May 1876, consecrated in Westminster abbey 29 June 1847; reached Melbourne 23 Jany. 1848; resided at Jolimont 1848–53 and in the palace of Bishop’s court 1853–74; obtained passing of the Church assembly act 1854; left Victoria 26 Feb. 1874, resigned May 1876; select preacher at Cambridge 1863–4; attended and addressed all the church congresses 1874–88; prelate of the order of St. Michael and St. George 1878 to death; canon of Llandaff 1878–89; author of Five sermons preached before the university of Cambridge 1856; Foundation truths, four sermons 1864; The Galatian lapse, six lectures 1885. _d._ 32 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 Dec. 1891. _bur._ Harlow, Essex, portrait by Weigall at Ridley hall, Cambridge, and a memorial in St. Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne. _G. Goodman’s Church in Victoria during the episcopate of bishop Perry_ (1892) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 12 Dec. 1861 p._ 758 _portrait_.

PERRY, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Salisbury; a turf commissioner with a large business in connection with city of London 40 years; in Blink Bonny, Beadsman and Musjid’s years his settlings were very heavy; ruined by the failure of Overend, Gurney and co. 1866; trained and ran some horses under name of E. Hall; chairman of Victoria club, Wellington st. Strand many years. _d._ 23 Sept. 1890.

PERRY, FREDERICK C. With his son sang and conducted at the King’s head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night; a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house; I’d a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick French 1867; The charming young girl. In the arcade one evening, music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette’s my name, music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876.

NOTE.--He also wrote Daddy’s Knock, a parody on The Postman’s knock, We’ve taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from the Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King’s head music hall.

PERRY, GEORGE. _b._ Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C. Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845; his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast, a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores. _d._ 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 11 March. _T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism_ (1872) 197–289.

PERRY, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr. in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death; author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833. _d._ New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. _Law Journal iv_ 330 (1869).

PERRY, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25 Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841 to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20 Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. _d._ 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17 March 1863.

PERRY, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843; surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings; a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some observations at Burgos. _d._ 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park gardens, London, Jany. 1870. _Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p._ 107; _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p._ 102.

PERRY, RICHARD DAVIS. _b._ 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; _shot himself_ at Phœnix coffee house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892.

PERRY, STEPHEN JOSEPH (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq. London, steel-pen manufacturer). _b._ London 26 Aug. 1833; educ. Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London 1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866; made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882; took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register, Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. _d._ on board her majesty’s ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Georgetown, Demerara. _Father Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed._ (1890) _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv_ (1890); _The Month lxviii_ 305–23, 474–88 (1890); _Nature xli_ 279–80, 301 (1890); _Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota) ix_ 197 (1890) _portrait_; _Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 55, _25 Jany. pp._ 128, 137; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 67 _portrait_.

PERRY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821, proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). _b._ Wandlebank house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827 to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832, student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10 April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July 1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug. 1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41, 4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848. _d._ 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. _Biograph iii_ 129–37 (1880); _New monthly mag. cxvii_ 382–91 (1880) _portrait_; _Law Times lxxiii_ 34 (1882).

PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to 1856. _d._ St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton 22 Dec. 1868.

PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1815; educ. Chichester college 1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London 1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael, Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments before the judicial committee in Ridsdale _v._ Clifton 1878; Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton _v._ Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863; Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert _v._ Purchas 1877. _d._ Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.

PERRY, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of James Perry). _b._ 1801; educ. Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1 April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided at Venice 1860 to death. _d._ Venice 24 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lv_ 236, 547 (1874).

PERRY, WILLIAM. _b._ Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec. 1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38 rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67 rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in 152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846; presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847; beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall 29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again 1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in 102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857 when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. _d._ Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 157–205 _portrait_, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); _John Hannan’s British boxing_ (1850) 26–9; _Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p._ 9.

PERSIANI, FANNY (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and teacher of music, _d._ 1859). _b._ Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; _m._ at Florence 1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12 Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina 1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18 notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847; sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda, Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death. _d._ Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. _Grove’s Dict. of music ii_ 693–4 (1880); _C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera_ (1845) 17 _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii_ 257–73 (1863); _I.L.N. ii_ 438 (1843) _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s The prima donna ii_ 191–6 (1888).

PERSIANI, or PERSIANO GIUSEPPE. _b._ Recanati in the Papal States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent Garden on lease in 1847. _d._ Paris 14 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 151 (1869); _Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii_ 3 (1864), _ii_ 325 (1880); _H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii_ 196–204 (1888).

PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, DUC DE (son of M. Fialin, _killed_ at Salamanca 1812). _b._ St. Germain-Lespinasse, Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis, London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848; minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860 to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16 June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in England 1871. _d._ Nice 12 Jany. 1872. _H. Castille’s Portraits politiques_ (1857) _pp._ 1–60 _portrait_, _No._ 20; _Weekly Reporter xi_ 146 (1863).