Part 42

OWEN, SIR RICHARD (younger son of Richard Owen, West India merchant 1754–1809). _b._ Brock st. Lancaster 20 July 1804; educ. Lancaster gr. sch. 1810–20; apprenticed to Leonard Dickson of Lancaster, surgeon 11 Aug. 1820; matric. at univ. of Edinb. Oct. 1824, where he founded with Gavin Milroy the Hunterian society; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825–6; M.R.C.S. 18 Aug. 1826; surgeon at 11 Cook’s court, Carey st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1826; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1829; assistant conservator to Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons 1827, joint conservator 1842, sole conservator 1849; started the Zoological Magazine Jany. 1833, sold it in July; F.R.S. 13 Dec. 1834, royal medallist 1846, Copley medallist 1851; Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at royal college of surgeons April 1836 to 1856; Wollaston gold medallist of Geological Society 1838; corresponding member of Institute of France 1839; helped to found Royal microscopical society 1839, president 1840–1; granted civil list pension of £200, 25 Nov. 1842; resided at Sheen lodge, Richmond park, lent to him by the queen 1852 to death; juror of Paris exhibition 1855, created a knight of the Legion of Honour; devised the exhibition of models of extinct animals at the Crystal palace 1855; superintendent of natural history department of British museum 26 May 1856 to 1883, with £800 a year; new Natural history museum at South Kensington opened 1881; Fullerian professor of physiology in the Royal institution 1859–61; president of British association at Leeds 1858; Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1859; awarded the prix Cuvier of the French academy 1857; went to Egypt 1869, 1871, 1872, and 1874; C.B. 3 June 1873, K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1884; granted another civil list pension of £100, 26 Feb. 1884; the first gold medallist of the Linnæan society 1888; author of Odontography, text and atlas, 2 vols. 1840–5; Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals 1843, 2 ed. 1855; A history of British fossil mammals and birds 1846; A history of British fossil reptiles, 4 vols. 1849–84; On the anatomy of vertebrates 3 vols. 1866–8; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. _d._ Sheen lodge, Richmond park 18 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Ham churchyard, portrait by Holman Hunt exhibited in Grosvenor gallery 1881. _Rev. R. Owen’s Life of Richard Owen_, 2 _vols._ (1884) 4 _portraits_; _British medical journal 19 Dec. 1892 special supplement_; _Maguire’s Portraits of distinguished naturalists_, _Ipswich_ (1852) _portrait_; _Walford’s Representative men_ (1868) _portrait_; _Nature xxii_ 577–79 (1892) _portrait_; _Modern thought March 1883 pp._ 97–101; _The coward conscience by Charles Adams_ (1882) _passim_; _Graphic xxviii_ 260 (1883) _portrait_; _Vanity Fair 1 March 1873 p._ 71 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 19 Dec. 1892 p._ 8 _portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 274 (1891) 3 _portraits_.

OWEN, ROBERT (6 child of Robert Owen of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, saddler). _b._ Newtown 14 May 1771; employed by James Mc Guffog, draper, Stamford, Northants 1780–5; a machine maker at Manchester, then a yarn spinner; manager of Mr. Drinkwater’s spinning business, Manchester 1790–4; founded the Chorlton Twist company 1794–5; he and his partners purchased David Dale’s mills at New Lanark on the falls of the Clyde for £60,000, which he managed from about 1 Jany. 1800, in 1814 he and six others bought the business for £114,000; founded schools at his works for all children under twelve, claimed to be the founder of infant schools 1816; gave up the Lanark works 1823; at meeting at London tavern 14 Aug. 1817 declared that all the religions in the world were founded in error; contested the Lanark district of burghs 31 March 1820; retired from business 1819; started the Economist a paper explanatory of the new system of society, No. 1 27 Jany. 1821, No. 26 21 July 1821, succeeded by the Political economist 1823, and The advocate of the working classes 1827; bought the village of New Harmony in Illinois and Indiana with 20,000 acres for £30,000 April 1825, the scheme failed and he retired 1827; edited The Crisis, or the change from error and misery to truth and happiness, a penny paper, No. 1 14 April 1832, last issue No. 20, vol. iv 23 Aug. 1834; opened an Equitable labour exchange at The Bazaar in Gray’s Inn road, London 3 Sept. 1832, which was moved to Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. 1 May 1833, and ultimately became bankrupt; took part in the seven cooperative congresses 1830–4, and in the 14 socialist congresses 1835–46; published The new moral world 1834–41; presented to the queen by lord Normanby 5 Jany. 1840; published the Rational quarterly June 1853; author of A statement regarding the New Lanark establishment 1812; A new view of society, or essays on the principle of the formation of the human character 1813–4, 3 ed. 1817; The addresses of R. Owen 1830; The book of the new moral world containing the rational system of society 1836; The catechism of the new moral world 1840; An outline of the rational system of society 1840, 9 ed. 1871; Manifesto of R. Owen, the discoverer of the rational system of society 1840, 8 ed. 1841; The signs of the times or the approach of the millenium 1841; The future of the human race 1853; R Owen’s Journal, No. 1, Nov. 2 1850, No. 104 Oct. 23,1852, 4 volumes. _d._ Bear’s head hotel, Newtown, Montgomeryshire 17 Nov. 1858. _The Life of R. Owen_, _written by himself_ 1857, _vol._ 1, _no more published_; _C. Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living_ (1877) 3–6; _J. Grants Portraits of public characters ii_ 163–91 (1841); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ 1876 307–15; _Georgian Era iv_ 37–41 (1834); _The Times 9 Aug. 1817 p._ 4, _with A view of the Agricultural and manufacturing village of Unity and Mutual Co-operation_ _8 Jany. 1840 p._ 7, _11 Feb. p._ 7, _26 March p._ 4; _S. J. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873) 275–8; _Reynold’s Miscellany xviii_ 88 (1857) _portrait_; _G.M. v_ 643–5 (1858).

OWEN, ROBERT DALE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Glasgow 9 Nov. 1800; educ. at the Swiss college of Hofwyl, near Berne 1820–3; joined his father’s community at New Harmony 1825; became a citizen of U.S. of America 1827; published with Francis Wright at New York The free inquirer Nov. 1828 to 1832; member of the legislature of Indiana 1835, member of the house of representatives 1843; chairman of committee for promoting the Smithsonian institution 1846, one of the regents; United States chargé d’ affaires at Naples 1853, minister 1853–8; chairman of a committee to examine into condition of emancipated freedmen 1863; author of Moral physiology 1831, 12 ed. 1870; Darby and Susan, a tale of Old England 1840; Footfalls on the boundary of another world 1859; The wrong of slavery, the right of emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United States 1864; The debatable land between this world and the next 1872. _d._ at his summer residence on Lake George, New York 17 June 1877. _R. D. Owen’s Threading my way_ (1874); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 615 (1888) _portrait_.

OWEN, ROBERT HENRY. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1839; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. _d._ 15 Lower Pembroke st. Dublin 8 Jany. 1869 aged 64.

OWEN, SAMUEL. _b._ Drayton, Shropshire 1774; introduced steam boats to Sweden. _d._ Stockholm 15 Feb. 1853. _Historiskt Bildergalleri_, _No. iii_, _Samuel Owen_ (_Norrkoping_ 1863) _portrait_.

OWEN, SAMUEL. _b._ about 1769; water-colour painter; exhibited 2 paintings and 6 drawings at the R.A. 1794–1807; member of the Associated artists in water-colours 1808, resigned 1810, exhibited 29 pictures; made 84 drawings, engraved by W. B. Cooke, for his work The Thames 1811, and 7 drawings for the Picturesque tour on the river Thames, published by Wm. Westall and himself 1828; his Shipping in a calm, and 9 other river and sea pieces are in South Kensington museum. _d._ Sunbury, Middlesex 8 Dec. 1857.

OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (brother of Joseph Butterworth Owen 1778–1870). Architect at Portsmouth; surveyor for the South Hampshire district; helped to develop Southsea as a watering place; designed the French protestant church at St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London 1842–3, and the church of St. Jude’s, Southsea 1851. _d._ 1862.

OWEN, WILLIAM (son of Luke Owen, maltster). _b._ Rotherham 1810; apprentice to Sandford and Yates, Phœnix foundry, Greasborough road, Rotherham 1823, a partner 1832, sole proprietor to March 1864, when the Wheathill foundry works were transferred to a limited liability co., chairman and managing director 1864–72; chairman of Midland wagon co.; a judge of machinery at Royal agricultural society’s meetings; A.I.C.E. 3 March 1857; member of Instit. of Mechanical engineers 1847; author of several inventions for making solid wrought-iron wheels and tires. _d._ Clifton house, Rotherham 20 Jany. 1881. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. lxiii_ 333 (1881); _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._ (1882) 10.

OWEN, WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM (son of Wm. Owen, captain R.N., _d._ 1778). _b._ 1774; entered navy 4 June 1788; explored the Maldive Islands Sept. 1806, discovered the Sea-flower channel between Si-biru and Si-pora on the west coast of Sumatra; captain 2 May 1811; surveyed the Canadian Lakes 1815–6; captain of the Leven Aug. 1821, surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–5; settled the colony at Fernando Po 1827; R.A. on h.p. 21 Dec. 1847, V.A. on h.p. 27 Oct. 1854; granted a pension 6 Feb. 1855; author of Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, 2 vols. 1833. _d._ St. John’s, New Brunswick 3 Nov. 1857.

OWEN, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 5 May 1817; ensign 11 Madras N.I. 7 Aug. 1835, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col Madras infantry 30 April 1866, colonel 30 April 1878; M.G. 4 Aug. 1866; commanded the Ceded districts 1874–6; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ Folkestone 1 May 1895.

OWENS, JOHN EDWARD (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Liverpool 4 May 1824; taken to Philadelphia 1834; first appeared on the stage at National theatre, Philadelphia, where he acted until 1843; played at Peak’s museum, Baltimore 1844–7; one of proprietors of Baltimore museum 1849–53; opened the Charles st. theatre with Uncle Tom’s cabin, playing Uncle Tom 1853; manager of the Varieties in New Orleans 1858–60; played with great success at the Broadway, New York 29 Aug. 1864 to 14 April 1865; played Solon Shingle at Adelphi theatre, London 3 July 1865; acted at Broadway theatre again 8 Jany. to 28 April 1866; played in California 1880, where he lost most of his fortune in mining speculations; acted in Esmeralda in many American cities 1882; owner of the Academy of music, Charleston, South Carolina to his death. _d._ near Towson, Baltimore county, Maryland 6 Dec. 1886. _Atlantic xix_ 750 755–8 (1867); _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 270 _portrait_.

OXBERRY, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Oxberry, actor 1784–1824). _b._ Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney; apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32; acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833; played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20 March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39 original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec. 1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama, Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; _m._ (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster; _m._ (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was _b._ Portsmouth 28 April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres and in the provinces. _d._ on 28 February 1852. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 March. _Dramatic and musical review_ 1842 _p._ 102 _et seq._; _Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp._ 49–50 _portrait, and iv_ 25–6 (1849) _portrait of his second wife_; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 129–30 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_ 194 (1852).

OXENDEN, ASHTON (5 son of sir Henry Oxenden, 7 baronet 1756–1838). _b._ Broome park, Canterbury 20 Sept. 1808; educ. Ramsgate, Harrow and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1869; C. of Barham, Kent Dec. 1833, resigned 1838; R. of Pluckley with Pevington, Kent 1848–69; hon. canon of Canterbury 1864 to death; bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada (nine dioceses) May 1869, resigned April 1878, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 1 Aug. 1869, installed in Montreal cathedral 5 Sept.; V. of Hackington or St. Stephen’s, near Canterbury 30 May 1879 to 1884; dean of Canterbury 1879 to 1884; author of The cottage library, 6 vols. 1846–51; The pathway of safety 1856, circulated 350,000 copies; The Barham tracts, 49 numbers, collected and published as Cottage readings 1859; My first year in Canada 1871; The Christian life 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. _d._ Biarritz 22 Feb. 1892. _A. Oxenden’s History of my life: an autobiography_ (1891); _A. Oxenden’s Plain sermons_ (1893) _memoir pp. xiii–lxxxv with portrait_; _Graphic 5 March 1892 p._ 298 _portrait_.

OXENFORD, HENRY. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. _d._ Putney 26 Nov. 1883, in his 100 year.

OXENFORD, JOHN (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, _d._ London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). _b._ Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812; educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on commercial and financial matters; taught himself German, Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks, a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta, Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2 Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct. 1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10 March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864; Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama, Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of 40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography 1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe 1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853; F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of French songs 1851. _d._ 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. _Life of E. L. Blanchard ii_ 465 (1891) _portrait_; _Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp._ 270–2; _Illust. sp. and dr. news vi_ 553 (1877) _portrait_; _Graphic xv_ 236 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 229 (1877) _portrait_; _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 78 _portrait_; _The theatre i_ 55–57 _and_ 68 (1877); _You have heard of them by Q_ (1854) 121–27; _E. Yates’s Recollections i_ 307–10 (1884); _Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Illust. Times 1 Dec. 1866 p._ 340 _portrait_; _The Period 11 Feb. 1871 p._ 55 _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_.

OXENHAM, HENRY NUTCOMBE (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second master of Harrow school). _b._ Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall, Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857; entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school, Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems, Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement 1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876; Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. _d._ 42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. _Tablet 31 March 1888 p._ 534, _7 April pp._ 571–2; _Saturday Review lxv_ 380 (1888).

OXENHAM, WILLIAM (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter 1771–1844). _b._ Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ. Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death; author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862; Death the christian’s gain 1861. _d._ Somers villa, Reigate 13 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. _G.M. xvi_ 660 (1863).

OXFORD, EDWARD (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop in the Borough road, London). _b._ Birmingham 19 April 1822; discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840, found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. _Reports of state trials iv_ 498–555 (1892); _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i_ 102–50 (1850); _L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials_ (1871) 528–45; _A. Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 285–9 (1884); _The Reginacide_ (1840).

NOTE.--The pistol with which he shot at the queen is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland Yard, Victoria embankment, London.

OXFORD, JACOB. _b._ 1834; only 4 feet high; played the concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for 28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100 lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. _d._ Morpeth court, Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.

OXLEE, JOHN (son of a farmer). _b._ Guisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch. 1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave 1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July 1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60 more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer, and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. _d._ Molesworth rectory 30 Jany. 1854. _Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1882) 55–6 _portrait_; _Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography_ (1839) 183, 184; _Church review 22 March 1862 pp._ 175–6; _G.M. April 1854 p._ 437, _and Feb. 1855 pp._ 203–4; _G. Smales’s Whitby authors_ (1867) 105–11.

OXLEY, RICHARD. _b._ Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. _d._ 13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.

OXTOBY, THOMAS. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife fox hounds 1853–9. _Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds_ (1883) 92 _portrait_.

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PACIFICO, DAVID. _b._ Gibraltar 1784; in business at Lagos, Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5 Jany. 1837, dismissed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter, 4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who delaying to make compensation, lord Palmerston sent the British fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs. endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted in a quarrel, and the French ambassador left London 15 May 1850; Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in London and _d._ 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854. _bur._ Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. _Correspondence respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851_; _Hansard’s Debates 25 June 1850_, _cols._ 380–444; _Ashley’s Life of lord Palmerston i_ 176–227 (1876); _Finlay’s History of Greece vii_ 209–14 (1877); _Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy_ (1855) 412–25; _McCarthy’s History of our own time ii_ 41–62 (1879); _G.M. June 1854 p._ 666.

PACKE, CHARLES WILLIAM (1 son of Charles James Packe of Prestwold hall, near Loughborough). _b._ 23 Sept. 1792; M.P. South Leicestershire 1836 to death; chairman of Leicestershire quarter sessions to death. _d._ 7 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 27 Oct. 1867.

PACKE, GEORGE HUSSEY (brother of preceding). _b._ 1 May 1796; educ. Eton; cornet 13 dragoons 24 June 1813; captain 21 light dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817, sold out 1861; sheriff of Lincs. 1843; chairman of Sleaford quarter sessions; deputy chairman of Great northern railway company 1851, chairman 1865 to death; contested Newark 31 July 1847; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1859–68. _d._ 41 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1874.

PACKER, SIR CHARLES (3 son of John Culling Packer of Barbados). _b._ Barbados 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; solicitor general of Barbados 12 March 1847 to 1874; escheator general 1859; vice-chancellor, judge of the admiralty court, and chief justice 30 Oct. 1874 to 1886; member of general assembly 1846–67, speaker 1861–7; member of legislative council 1868–76; knighted by patent 29 Oct. 1879. _d._ Ruttal house, Barbados 21 Feb. 1888. _Law Times lxxxiv_ 396 (1888), _lxxxvi_ 265 (1889).

PACKER, JOHN GRAHAM. _b._ 1812; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, London 1837–41; V. of St. Peter, Bethnal Green 1841–73; R. of Wootton, Kent 1873–9; V. of Arreton, Isle of Wight 1879 to death; author of Companion to Euclid 1835; Plain sermons 1838; Bethnal Green sermons, sermons on the Lord’s prayer 1848; Theopolis 1850; Sermons on death 1856. _d._ St. Audries, Bridgwater, Somerset 1 Aug. 1883. _Guardian 8 Aug. 1883 pp._ 1168, 1169.

PADDOCK, THOMAS. _b._ Redditch, Worcs. 1824; beat Elijah Parsons in 23 rounds 3 Dec. 1844; beat Nobby Clarke in 42 rounds 27 Jany. 1846, and again in 35 rounds 6 April 1847; beaten by Wm. Thompson, the champion known as Bendigo, at Mildenhall 5 June 1850, £200 a side, 49 rounds in 59 minutes; beaten by Wm. Perry at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes; beaten by Harry Paulson at Sedgebrook, near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851, £25 a side, 71 rounds in 95 minutes; beat Paulson at Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, £50 a side, 86 rounds in 95 minutes, sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour for this fight March 1852; beat Paulson at Mildenhall 14 Feb. 1854, £100 a side, 102 rounds in 2½ hours; beat Aaron Jones at Long Reach, Kent 18 July 1854, £100 a side, 121 rounds in 2 hours and 24 minutes; beat Aaron Jones again at Mildenhall 26 June 1855, £100 a side, 61 rounds in 89 minutes; beat Harry Broome at Bentley, Suffolk 19 May 1856, £200 a side, 51 rounds in 63 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers, the champion, at Canvey island 16 June 1858, £150 a side, 21 rounds in 80 minutes; fought Samuel Hurst for £200 a side, near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860, when Hurst won in five rounds and obtained the champion belt. _d._ 41 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 30 June 1863. _bur._ Finchley 5 July, his widow _d._ 9 July 1863. _Bell’s Life in London 5 July 1863 p._ 6, _12 July p._ 7; _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 271–307 (1881) _portrait_; _F. W. Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 130–9, 168–81; _J. Hannan’s British Boxing_ (1850) 15–26.

PADMORE, RICHARD (1 son of Thomas Padmore of Ketley, Salop). _b._ Ketley 28 Sept. 1789; educ. Wellington school; came to Worcester as a working man, became member of firm of Hardy and Padmore, iron founders, retired some years before his death; sheriff of Worcestershire 1845; alderman of Worcester 1838, mayor 1848 and 1852, retired from the corporation 1874; M.P. Worcester 1860–8; managing director of Worcester City and County banking co.; gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert asylum, Worcester. _d._ Henwick hall, near Worcester 12 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Worcester cemetery 19 Jany. _Berrow’s Worcestershire Journal 15 Jany. 1881 p._ 5, _22 Jany. p._ 5.

PADWICK, HENRY (2 son of William Padwick, butcher, _d._ 1834). _b._ Horsham, Sussex 1805; a solicitor at 38 Davis st. Berkeley sq. London 1846, retired 1855; resided at 2 Hill st. 1855–68, at 4 Hill st. 1868 to death; commenced horse racing 1849 under the name of Howard; his horses were trained at Danebury, then transferred to Findon under John Barnham Day 1853; with Virago won the 1,000 guineas 1854; sold Kangaroo to the marquess of Hastings for £12,000 in 1865, and Oulston to Mr. Elwes for £8,000; won £80,000 on Virago, and lost the money the same year on the stock exchange 1854; J.P. for London and Westminster; deputy lieutenant for Sussex; deputy keeper of Holyrood palace, Scotland; a well known money lender. _d._ 4 Hill st Berkeley sq. London 23 Sept. 1879. _J. Rice’s History of British Turf i_ 371–80 (1879); _W. Day’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 1–34; _Times 25 Sept. 1879 p._ 9.

PAE, DAVID (son of a miller). _b._ Amulree, Perthshire 6 May 1828; was with Thomas Grant, publisher, Edinburgh 1848; wrote stories for the Penny Post and the North Briton, Edinb.; editor of The Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Numbers 1851–2; edited for some years the People’s Journal, Dundee, a weekly paper; wrote 27 works of fiction, printed in instalments in the Journal from 5 Sept. 1863 to his death; wrote the dramatic criticisms for the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, from 1877; wrote Mrs. Macgregor’s Levee for W. C. Gourlay, the Comedian, and other dramas; author of The coming struggle among the nations of the earth 1853, 2 ed. 1854, five replies were made to this work; The coming rest for the nations of the earth 1853; The mission and destiny of Russia as delineated in scripture prophecy 1853; Jessie Melville or the double sacrifice 1856; The merchant’s daughter 1857; Fraud and friendship 1857; Two years after and onward, or the approaching war among the powers of Europe 1864; The present war among the powers of Europe 1866; Hard times, or the trials of the Linwood family, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ Craigmount, East Newport, Fife 9 May 1884. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 13 May. _Dundee Advertiser 10 May 1884 p._ 5, _12 May p._ 5, _14 May p._ 3.

PAGAN, JAMES (son of James Pagan, a bleacher). _b._ Trailflat, parish of Tinwald, near Dumfries 18 Oct. 1811; educ. Dumfries academy; a compositor and reporter on the Dumfries Courier; partner in a printing firm in London; reporter and sub-editor of the Glasgow Herald 1839, and editor 1856 to death, he converted it into a daily paper 1857; the correspondent of The Times in Glasgow 1857 to death; edited The prospective observer, a broadsheet; author of Sketches of the history of Glasgow 1847; History of the cathedral and see of Glasgow 1851, 2 ed. 1883; Glasgow, past and present, illustrated in dean of guild reports, 3 vols. 1851–6, another ed. 1884; Old Glasgow and its environs 1864; with J. H. Stoddart Relics of ancient architecture in Glasgow 1885. _d._ Glasgow 11 Feb. 1870. _In memoriam, Mr. James Pagan_ (1870); _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 255–60 (1886) _portrait_; _Newspaper Press iii_ 82, 106 (1870).

PAGAN, JOHN. _b._ Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire 21 May 1842; assistant surveyor to corporation of Preston 1867–9, and to corporation of Bradford 1869–72; deputy borough surveyor Sheffield 1872–5; borough surveyor Wakefield 1875–9, where he executed the main sewerage extension; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1875; surveyor general to the Gold Coast, May 1879 to death. _d._ Accra 13 Dec. 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvi_ 348–9 (1889).

PAGAN, JOHN M. (only son of Andrew Pagan, sheep farmer). _b._ Halglenmuir, parish of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Jany. 1802; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827, hon. librarian some years; in practice at Preston, Lancs. 1825, removed to Glasgow 1827; had a class for forensic medicine 1839; regius professor of midwifery and the diseases of women and children, univ. of Glasgow 1840 to death; president Glasgow Medico-chirurgical soc. 1860; invented an obstetric forceps known by his name; author of De syncope anginosa 1823; The medical jurisprudence of insanity 1840. _d._ Blythswood sq. Glasgow 19 May 1868. _Glasgow Medical journal i_ 129–31 (1869).

PAGANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. _b._ Borgomanero province of Novara, North Italy 14 May 1806; a priest 1828; prefect in theological seminary, Novara 1829; professor of dogmatic theology and canon law; spiritual director of the young ecclesiastics 1831–6; served his noviciate at San Michele della Chiusa, near Turin, in connection with the Institute of Charity 1836–7; joined Fr. Gentili at Prior park, Bath, July 1837, where he was professor of theology to 1841; superior of the English province of the Institute of Charity, established 8 houses with 80 brethren; elected general of the order of the Institute of Charity at Rome 24 July 1855, visited England every year; translated Liguori’s Instructions on the religious state 1848; L’ Anima amante or the soul loving God 1848; Leonardo’s The path to Paradise 1850; author of The Anima Divota, translated by the rev. J. Shepherd, Prior Park 1844; The way to heaven, a manual of devotion 1849; The life of the rev. A. Gentili 1851; The one thing needful, or the attainment of our last end 1852; A help to devotion, a collection of novenas 1853, new ed. 1892; The science of the saints in practice 1853–5, 3 vols.; The end of the world 1855. _d._ Rome 25–26 Dec. 1860. _G. B. Pagani’s The Anima Divota_ (1891) _memoir pp._ 7–12; _G.M. x_ 230 (1861).

PAGE, AUGUSTINE. _b._ 1783; master of Boys’ hospital, Ampton 6 March 1821 to death; author of Memoranda concerning the Boys’ hospital at Ampton in Suffolk, Ipswich 1838; A supplement to the Suffolk traveller 1843, another copy is dated 1844. _d._ Bury St. Edmunds 18 Sept. 1853.

PAGE, DAVID (son of a mason and builder). _b._ Lochgelly, Fifeshire 24 Aug. 1814; educ. univ. of St. Andrew’s 1828–34; lecturer and editor of a Fifeshire newspaper; scientific editor to W. and R. Chambers in Edinburgh 1843–51; professor of geology in Durham univ. college of physical science at Newcastle July 1871 to death; F.G.S. 1853; president of Geological society of Edinb. 1863 and 1865; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1867; author of Introductory text book of geology 1854, 12 ed. 1888; Advanced text book of geology, descriptive and industrial, Edinb. 1856, 5 ed. 1872; Handbook of geological terms and geology 1859, 2 ed. 1865; Introductory text book of physical geography 1863, 12 ed. 1887; The earth’s crust 1864, 6 ed. 1872; Geology for general readers 1866, 12 ed. 1888; and 13 other books. _d._ Newcastle 9 March 1879, his widow was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Aug. 1890.

PAGE, JAMES AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; vice-chancellor’s prize 1844, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1865; C. of Lymm, Cheshire 1845–6, and V. of Tintwistle 1846–73; lecturer at Rusholme, near Manchester 1873 to death; author of Gathered leaves 1843; The ruined cities of Central America 1844; My church 1845; Protestant ballads 1852. _d._ Anson terrace, Rusholme 25 March 1880.

PAGE, THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Page of City of London, solicitor). _b._ London 26 Oct. 1803; employed by Edward Blore, the architect; A.I.C.E. 2 April 1833, M.I.C.E. 18 April 1837; one of the assistant engineers on the Thames tunnel works 1835, acting engineer 1836 until completion of tunnel 25 March 1843; designed the embankment of the Thames from Westminster to Blackfriars 1842, but the scheme was abandoned; prepared plans for harbours at Holyhead and Port Denllaen, also for docks at Swansea; designed and executed the Albert embankment between Vauxhall and Battersea bridges, and the Chelsea suspension bridge, opened 28 March 1858, the Albert embankment was opened 24 Nov. 1869; designed Westminster bridge, commenced May 1854, opened 24 May 1862; engineer for the town of Wisbeach; invented a system for firing guns under water; author of Report on the eligibility of Milford Haven for ocean steam ships, and for a naval arsenal 1859. _d._ Paris 8 Jany. 1877. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix_ 262–5 (1877).

PAGE, WILLIAM EMMANUEL (2 son of rev. Wm. Page of Westminster). _b._ 9 April 1808; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1826, faculty student 1826–56; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.M. 1834, D.M. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838, treasurer; lecturer on theory and practice of medicine St. George’s hospital, senior physician at his decease; author of Oratio ex Harveii instituto in ædibus collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis habita 1860; An introductory address delivered at St. George’s hospital 1864. _d._ 106 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 2 Jany. 1868. _Medical Times and Gazette i_ 49 (1868).

PAGET, ALFRED HENRY (5 son of 1 Marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). _b._ 29 June 1816; educ. Westminster; cornet royal horse guards 6 July 1832, lieut. 14 March 1834; captain 7 hussars 3 July 1841, placed on h.p. with rank of major 16 May 1845; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to March 1852, Dec. 1852 to March 1858, and June 1859 to Aug. 1874; clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to death; his boat the Mystery 25 tons was the first iron yacht built; M.P. Lichfield 1837–65; _m._ 8 April 1847 Cecilia, 2 dau. of George Thomas Wyndham, she was one of the Court beauties in 1858; he _d._ on board his yacht Violet at Inverness 24 Aug. 1888. _bur._ Hampton churchyard 30 Aug. _H. Vizetelly’s Glances back through seventy years ii_ 6 (1893); _Yachting_ (_Badmington Library_ 1894) _ii_ 15, 185–6.

PAGET, CHARLES (elder son of Joseph Paget). _b._ Loughborough, Leics. 1799; a manufacturer at Nottingham; sheriff of Notts. 1844; a practical and scientific farmer; established schools for his labourers’ children at Ruddington, near Nottingham; M.P. Nottingham 1856–65; contested Nottingham 11 July 1865; author of Results of an experiment on the half-time system of education in rural districts, as carried on at Ruddington 1859; _drowned_ with his wife off Filey Brigg, Yorkshire 13 Oct. 1873. _Scarborough Mercury 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 4, _25 Oct. p._ 2.

NOTE.--Mr. and Mrs. Paget while standing on a ridge of rocks known as Filey Brigg, were washed off by a huge wave, and the bodies were not recovered.

PAGET, CLARENCE EDWARD (4 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). _b._ 17 June 1811; educ. Westminster school 1821–3; entered navy 1827; a midshipman on board the Asia at Battle of Navarino; captain 26 March 1839; commanded the princess Royal, 91 guns, in the Baltic 1854, and during blockade and bombardment of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 1 April 1870, placed on retired list 18 June 1876; M.P. Sandwich 1847–52 and 1857–66; secretary to the admiralty 1859–66; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 28 April 1866 to 28 April 1869; C.B. Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886; P.C. 9 May 1866; _m._ 1852 Martha Stuart, dau. of admiral Sir Robert Otway, she _d._ 23 March 1895; he _d._ Brighton 22 March 1895, they were both _buried_ at Patcham, near Brighton 28 March. _Illust. news of the world viii_ (1861) _portrait_.

PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD (eld. son of sir Edward Paget, general 1775–1849). _b._ 24 May 1806; educ. Westminster school 1817–24 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1825–36; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; R. of Elford, near Lichfield 1835 to death, the church was restored 1848; chaplain to Dr. Bagot, bishop of Bath and Wells; author of Caleb Kniveton, the incendiary, Oxford 1833; St. Antholin’s, or old churches and new 1841; Milford Malvoisin, or pews and pewholders 1842; The warden of Berkingholt, or rich and poor 1843; The owlet of Owlstone Edge 1856; The curate of Cumberworth and the vicar of Roost 1859; Lucretia, or the heroine of the nineteenth century 1868, a satire on the sensational novel; Some records of the Ashstead estate and of its Howard possessors, Lichfield 1873; A student penitent of 1695, 1875; Homeward bound 1876; edited The Juvenile Englishman’s library, and wrote for it 5 volumes, namely, Tales of the village children 1845, 2 vols.; The hope of the Katzekopfs 1845, also issued separately under pseudonym of William Charme of Staffordshire; Luke Sharp 1845; Tales of the village 1860. _d._ Elford 4 Aug. 1882. _Guardian 16 Aug. 1882 p._ 1124; _Church congress_ (1883) 55.

PAGET, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (brother of Clarence E. Paget 1811–95). _b._ Burlington st. London 16 March 1818; educ. Westminster school 1829; cornet 1 life guards 25 July 1834, lieut. 1837–41; captain 4 light dragoons 17 June 1842, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1846, placed on h.p. 1 May 1857; served at battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman; commanded the light brigade in the Crimea 25 Feb. to 29 July 1855; brigadier general in the Crimea 30 July 1855 to 14 May 1856, and at Aldershot 1 April 1860 to 31 Aug. 1861; commanded the Sirhind division of the Bengal army 26 Dec. 1862 to 23 March 1865; inspector general of cavalry at head quarters 1 April 1865 to 31 March 1870; col. of 7 dragoon guards 28 Jany. 1868, and of 4 hussars 7 Jany. 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. Beaumaris 1847–57; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; author of The light cavalry brigade in the Crimea, 1875, 2 ed. 1881. _d._ Farm st. Mayfair, London 30 June 1880. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 461 (1858) _portrait_; _Times 2 July 1880 p._ 5.

PAGET, SIR GEORGE EDWARD (7 son of Samuel Paget of Great Yarmouth, merchant). _b._ Great Yarmouth 22 Dec. 1809; educ. Charterhouse 1824–7, and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1827, scholar 1828, eighth wrangler Jany. 1831; fellow of his college 1832 to 11 Dec. 1851, elected fellow again 2 May 1881; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1833, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1838; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; physician to Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge 1839–84; Linacre lecturer on medicine at St. John’s college, July 1851 to 1872; president of Cambridge philosophical society 1855–6; member of council of the senate of Cambridge univ. 1856, and their representative on general council of medical education 27 Nov. 1863 to 9 July 1869, president 9 July 1869 to 18 July 1874; president of British medical association 1864; regius professor of physic at Cambridge 15 Feb. 1872 to death; delivered Harveian oration at royal college of physicians 1866; F.R.S. 12 June 1873; K.C.B. 19 Dec. 1885; author of Notice of an unpublished manuscript of Harvey 1850; The Harveian oration 1866. _d._ St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 29 Jany. 1892. _Proc. of royal society l_, _p. xii_ (1892); _Some lectures by sir G. E. Paget_, _edited by C. E. Paget_, _Cambridge_ (1893) _memoir pp._ 1–26 _portrait_; _Graphic 6 Feb. 1892 p._ 174 _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1865) _portrait_ 6.

PAGET, JOHN (son of John Paget). _b._ Thorpe Satchville, Leics. 1808; a lay student in Manchester college, York 1823–6; studied medicine in univ. of Edinb. 1826, M.D. 1830 but never used title of doctor; studied medicine in Paris and Italy; _m._ at Rome 1837 baroness Polyxena Wesselingi, widow of baron Ladislaus Bánffy, she _d._ 1878; developed his wife’s estates in Hungary, where he introduced an improved breed of cattle, and paid special attention to viniculture; member of the Unitarian church of Transylvania; author of Hungary and Transylvania, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1855; Unitarianism in Transylvania, in J. R. Beard’s Unitarianism exhibited 1846, pp. 296–315. _d._ Gyeres, Hungary 10 April 1892. _bur._ Kolozsvár 12 April. _Keresztény Magretö_ (1893) _pp._ 90 _et seq._, _memoir and portrait_; _Inquirer 30 April 1892 p._ 278.

PAGET, THOMAS TERTIUS (1 son of Thomas Paget, M.P.) _b._ 27 Dec. 1807; proprietor of banking firm of T. T. Paget, Leicester; M.P. South Leicestershire Nov. 1867 to Nov. 1868; contested S. Leicestershire 26 Nov. 1868, 13 June 1870 and 14 Feb. 1874; M.P. S. Leicestershire 1880 to death; sheriff of Leicester 1869; proprietor of the opera-house in Leicester; well known in the hunting field; author of Talbot _v._ Talbot, a statement of facts 1855; A letter on the judgement of the high court of delegates in Talbot _v._ Talbot 1856. _d._ Humberstone, near Leicester 16 Oct. 1892, will proved 1 Nov., personalty amounted to over £589,000.

PAGET, WILLIAM (2 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). _b._ Wigmore st. London 1 March 1803; entered navy 1 April 1817, captain 18 Oct. 1826; M.P. for Carnarvon 1826–30, and for Andover 1841–7. _d._ Boulogne 17 May 1873. _A.R._ (1844) 21–4, 25; _I.L.N. lxii_ 523 (1873).

PAGLIARDINI, TITO. _b._ Italy 1817; second French master St. Paul’s sch. London 28 July 1853, head French master 4 Feb. 1859 to 1879; member of the order of the Corona d’Italia 1893; a member of Workman’s Peace association, of the National Education association, of the National health soc., of the Paddington parliament, and of the Social science congresses; translated L. Manzotti’s Excelsior, a ballet at Her Majesty’s theatre 1885; C. Lisei’s Giovanni Bottesini 1886; L. Manzotti’s Amor love, a choreographic poem 1886; author of Le petit précepteur; Le petit grammairien 1868. _d._ 21 Alexander st. Westbourne park, London 26 March 1895.

PAICE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1836; educ. University coll. sch.; matric. Univ. of London 1852, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; edited Light, a journal devoted to the highest interests of humanity, both here and hereafter, No. 1, 8 Jany. 1881; author of Energy and motion, a text book of elementary mechanics 1884. _d._ 1 Portman mansions, Baker st. London 24 Jany. 1895.

PAIN, JAMES (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). _b._ Isleworth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of Buttevant, Midleton, and Carrigaline, the gaols at Limerick and Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitchelstown castle, near Cork, for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the churches and glebe houses; George _b._ London 1793, _d._ 1838, _bur._ St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James _d._ Limerick 13 Dec. 1877. _bur._ Limerick cathedral. _Dictionary of architecture vi_, _Letter P_, 6–7 (1881).

PAINTER, EDWARD. _b._ Stratford, near Manchester March 1784; a brewer by trade; fought J. Coyne of Kilkenny at St. Nicholas, near Margate 23 Aug. 1813 and won in 40 minutes; beat J. Alexander in 20 rounds at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 20 Nov. 1813; beaten by Tom Oliver 17 May 1814; beaten by John Shaw the lifeguardsman in 28 minutes at Hounslow heath 18 April 1815; beaten by Harry Sutton the Black at Moulsey Hurst 23 July 1817; beat Sutton at Bungay, Suffolk in 15 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beaten by Tom Spring at Mickleham Downs, Surrey in 31 rounds 1 April 1818; beat Spring at Russia farm, near Kingston in 42 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beat Tom Oliver at North Walsham 17 July 1820; landlord of the Anchor inn, Lobster lane, Norwich 1818 many years, then of the White Hart inn, Market place, Norwich. _d._ at his son’s residence near the Ram, Lakenham, Norwich 18 Sept. 1852. _bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard, Norwich 22 Sept. _Miles’ Pugilistica ii_ 74–88 (1880) _portrait_: _The Fancy._ _By An Operator i_ 393–400 (1826) _portrait_.

PAKENHAM, CHARLES REGINALD (4 son of Thomas Pakenham, 2 earl of Longford 1744–1835). _b._ 21 Sept. 1821; ensign 72 foot 14 June 1839; captain 69 foot 1 Dec. 1846; lieut. grenadier guards 5 March 1847, sold out 2 May 1851; aide de camp to the queen, and accompanied her to Ireland 1849; sold all his possessions and gave the proceeds to charitable institutions 1851; joined the order of the ‘Barefooted clerks of the most sacred passion of our Lord Jesus Christ’ 1854, ordained a priest 29 Sept. 1855; visited Rome 1856; rector of the ‘Retreat of blessed Paul of the Cross’ at Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Aug. 1856 to death; known as Father Paul Mary. _d._ Harold’s Cross, Dublin 1 March 1857. _bur._ in chapel of the Retreat 4 March. _The Tablet 7 March 1857 p._ 148.

PAKENHAM, EDWARD WILLIAM (1 son of sir Hercules Robert Pakenham 1781–1850). _b._ Ireland 20 Sept. 1819; M.P. Antrim July 1852 to death; ensign grenadier guards 12 Jany 1838, captain 24 Feb. 1854 to death; one of the foremost at the battle of the Alma, in the charge of the guards, he was the officer who first jumped over the embrasure of the Russian battery; at Inkerman he defended at the head of the 7 company of grenadier guards the Sand-bag battery and _fell_ pierced by many wounds 5 Nov. 1854. _bur._ 6 Nov. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 167–8.

PAKENHAM, JOHN (4 son of admiral sir Thomas Pakenham 1757–1836). _b._ 18 Oct. 1790; entered navy 22 April 1804; commanded the Harrier on the Cork station 1825; captain 26 Aug. 1826, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 15 June 1864. _d._ Cannes 1 June 1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 851.

PAKENHAM, SIR RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Pakenham hall, Castle Pollard, Westmeath 19 May 1797; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; attaché at the Hague 15 Oct. 1817; secretary to the legation in Switzerland 26 Jany. 1824, and to the legation in Mexico 29 Dec. 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the United Mexican states 12 March 1835, obtained treaty for abolition of the slave trade 1841; P.C. 13 Dec. 1843; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to United States of America 14 Dec. 1843, went on leave of absence 29 May 1847, retired on a pension 22 March 1849; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 28 April 1851, retired on pension 28 June 1855; sent on a special mission to Lisbon 7 Aug. 1855, returned to England Oct. 1855, granted pension. _d._ Coolure, Castle Pollard 28 Oct. 1868. _Men of the time_ (1868) _p._ 630; _I.L.N. liii_ 459 (1868).

PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP (eld. son of Edmund Paley, R. of Easingwold, near York, then R. of Gretford, Lincs., _d._ 1850). _b._ Easingwold 14 Jany. 1815; educ. Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; resided at St. John’s 1838–46; an original member of Cambridge Camden society, hon. secretary and member of committee, contributed to the Ecclesiologist; joined the church of Rome 1846; tutor to Bertram Talbot, heir to earldom of Shrewsbury 1847–50; tutor in the Throckmorton family 1850–2; non-resident tutor in the family of Kenelm Digby 1852–6; resided at Cambridge as a private tutor 1860–74, examiner in the classical tripos 1873–4; professor of classical literature at the new catholic univ. college at Kensington 1874–7; classical examiner to univ. of London 1875–80, and to the civil service commission; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1883; edited the greater part of the Greek tragedies separately in Cambridge Greek and Latin texts with notes; published Ecclesiologists’ guide to the churches within seven miles of Cambridge 1844; Æschyli quæ supersunt omnia 1850; A manual of Gothic mouldings 1845, 5 ed. 1891; S. A. Porpertii Carmina with English notes 1853, 2 ed. 1872; The tragedies of Æschylus with an English commentary 1855, 4 ed. 1879; The tragedies of Euripides, 3 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1872; The Epics of Hesiod, with an English commentary 1861, 2 ed. 1883; The Iliad of Homer, with English notes, 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1884. _d._ Apthorp, Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth 11 Dec. 1888. _bur._ R.C. churchyard, Boscombe.

PALEY, GEORGE BARKER (eld. son of John Green Paley of Langcliffe and Oatlands, Yorkshire 1774–1860). _b._ 28 Oct. 1799; educ. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., 25 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1833; fellow of his college 1822–32; P.C. of Little St. Mary, Cambridge 1832–3; V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs. 1833–5; R. of Freckenham, Suffolk 14 Oct. 1835 to death; published Form of family prayer for Sunday and daily use 1839; A tract for the foundry, or hear what the furnace teacheth 1846; Saul of Tarsus, a drama 1855. _d._ 90 Onslow gardens, London Feb. 1880, personalty sworn as £300,000, 10 April 1880. _Times 14 Feb. 1880 p._ 10.

PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS (only son of Meyer Cohen, member of the stock exchange). _b._ London July 1788; articled to Loggin and Smith, solicitors, Basinghall st. 1803, and was their managing clerk 1808–22; solicitor in King’s Bench walk Temple 1822; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, engaged in pedigree cases before the house of lords; became a Christian 1823; _m._ 13 Oct. 1823 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., by Mary, 2 dau. of William Palgrave of Coltishall, Norfolk, having assumed by R.L. the name of Palgrave in lieu of Cohen 30 Sept. 1823; his plan for publication of the public records was accepted Aug. 1822, edited for the record commission Parliamentary writs and writs of summons, 2 vols. 1827–34; Rolls and records of the court held before the king’s justiciars or justices 1195–1199, 2 vols. 1835; The antient kalendars and inventories of the treasury of his majesty’s exchequer, 2 vols. 1836; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland preserved in the treasury of her majesty’s exchequer 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1821; one of the municipal corporations’ comrs. 18 July 1833, but withheld his signature from their report; deputy keeper of her majesty’s records Dec. 1838 to death; collected at the rolls’ office the national muniments from 56 different offices in Lendon, issued 22 annual reports 1840–61; author of History of England vol. 1 only 1831; The rise and progress of the English commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon period, 2 parts 1832; An essay on the original authority of the King’s council 1834; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland, vol. 1 1837; Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy 1842, and 6 other editions 1847–60; The history of Normandy and of England, 4 vols. 1851–64. _d._ The Green, Hampstead 6 July 1861, after residing there from 19 March 1834. _Proc. of royal soc. xii_ 13–20 (1862); _G.M. Oct. 1861 pp._ 441–5; _Palgrave family memorials_, _edited by C. J. Palmer and S. Tucker_ (1878) 91, 108, _portrait of sir F. and lady Palgrave_; _Blackwood’s Mag. June 1857 pp._ 731–47.

PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD (2 son of sir Francis Palgrave 1788–1861). _b._ 22 Parliament st. Westminster 24 Jany. 1826; educ. Charterhouse 1838–43, gold medallist and captain of the school; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1843–7; 2 lieut. 8 Bombay N.I. 1847; entered a Jesuit establishment in Madras and was ordained a priest; employed in the missionary work of the order in Southern India until June 1853; a missionary in Syria 1853, made many converts, barely escaped from the massacre at Damascus June 1861; a perfect Arabic scholar; delivered lectures in Ireland on the Syrian massacres 1861, published under title of Four lectures on the massacres of the Christians in Syria 1861; travelled across Central Arabia disguised as a Syrian christian doctor and merchant 1862–3; sent on a special mission to Abyssinia to obtain from king Theodore the release of consul Cameron, July 1865; British consul at Soukem-Kaleh 23 July 1866, and at Trebizond 20 May 1867; consul at St. Thomas in the West Indies 30 Jany. 1873, and at Manila 3 April 1876; consul-general in Bulgaria 23 Sept. 1878, and in Siam 26 Nov. 1879; minister-resident in Uruguay 16 Jany. 1884 to death; F.R.G.S. 1878; author of Narrative of a year’s journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 2 vols. 1865, with portrait; Hermann Agha, 2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1878; Essays on eastern questions 1872; Dutch Guiana 1876; Ulysses, or scenes and studies in many lands 1887; A vision of life, semblance and reality 1891; _m._ 1868 Katherine, dau. of G. E. Simpson of Norwich, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 23 Jany. 1889; he _d._ Monte Video 30 Sept. 1888. _bur._ St. Thomas’s cemet. Fulham. _T. Cooper’s Men of mark_, _vol. iv_ (1880) _portrait_ 4.

PALIN, WILLIAM (youngest son of Richard Palin). _b._ Mortlake, Surrey 10 Nov. 1803; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 17 Dec. 1829; migrated to Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1851, M.A. Oxf. 1861; C. of Stifford, Essex, Trinity Sunday 1833; R. of Stifford 6 June 1834 to death, restored the parish church 1861–3; edited the Churchman’s Magazine 1853–7; author of Village lectures on the litany 1837; Bellingham, or narrative of a christian in search of the church 1839; The history of the church of England 1688–1717, 1851; The Christian month, original hymns, set to music by Ann Sheppard Mounsey 1842; Stifford and its neighbourhood, past and present 1871, and More about Stifford and its neighbourhood 1872. _d._ Stifford rectory-house 16 Oct. 1882. _W. Palin’s Stifford_ (1871) 72, 179–80.

PALIN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of an officer in H.E.I.C. service). _b._ India 1824; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1840, captain 21 May 1855, retired 29 May 1857; chief constable of Manchester 1857, resigned Feb. 1881. _d._ 24 Belvidere road, Prince’s park, Liverpool 16 June 1882. _bur._ Southern cemetery, Withington.

PALLISER, FANNY BURY (dau. of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich 1832–4). _b._ 23 Sept. 1805; (_m._ 8 Aug. 1832 captain Richard Bury Palliser, 3 son of John Palliser of Derrybuskan, co. Tipperary, he _d._ Cowley Grove, Middlesex 29 Oct. 1852, aged 55); contributed to the Art Journal and the Academy; helped to organise the international lace academy held at South Kensington 1874; author of The modern poetical speaker 1845; History of lace 1856, 3 ed. 1875; Brittany and its byways 1869; Historic devices, badges and war cries 1870; A descriptive catalogue of the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington museum 1871, 3 ed. 1881; Mottoes for monuments 1872; The china collector’s pocket companion 1874, 2 ed. 1875; A brief history of Germany to the battle of Könizgratz; translated from the French J. Labarte’s Handbook of the arts of the middle ages 1855; A. Jacquemarts History of the ceramic art 1873, and A history of furniture 1878. _d._ 33 Russell road, Kensington 16 Jany. 1878. _F. Marryat’s Life of captain Marryat i_, 256–60 (1872); _Academy i_ 73 (1878).

PALIOLOGUS, WILLIAM THOMAS (son of Nicholas Paliologus of Calcutta, notary public _d._ 1840). _b._ Calcutta 20 Oct. 1827; educ. by Frederick M. Walter, P.C. of St. Petrox, Dartmouth, England 1840–6; matric. at univ. of London 1846; studied medicine in London; M.R.C.S. 1851; F.R.G.S.; assistant surgeon in the army 1 Sept. 1854, served in the Crimea and India 1854–9; surgeon 20 Oct. 1869, placed on h.p. 13 April 1872; was a representative of the Palæologus family, emperors of the East. _d._ Isleworth, near Twickenham, Middlesex 15 July 1873. _Illustrated Times 17 Jany. 1863 p._ 45 _portrait_; _N. and Q. 1 S. v_ 173 _et seq._ (1852); _Archæologia xviii_ 84–104 (1817).

PALLISER, HENRY. _b._ 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 4 June 1810, colonel 13 Dec. 1854 to 22 Feb. 1863; M.G. 22 Feb. 1863. _d._ Victoria park, Dover 17 Dec. 1864.

PALLISER, JOHN (eld. son of Wray Palliser of Comragh, co. Waterford, _d._ 1862). _b._ 29 Jany. 1817; sheriff of Waterford 1844; captain Waterford artillery militia; went on a hunting expedition among the Indians of the western states of America 1847; appointed by the government leader of the expedition for exploring the west of British North America 31 March 1857; explored the Rocky Mountains 1858, for which he was granted the Victoria gold medal of the royal geographical society, May 1859; returned to England 1861; C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies 1853, eighth thousand 1856. _d._ Comragh, co. Waterford 18 Aug. 1887.

PALLISER, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 18 June 1830; educ. Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, Trin. hall, Camb., and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 22 April 1855, lieut. 31 Aug. 1855; lieut. 18 hussars 1858, captain 5 Aug. 1859; brigade major of cavalry Dublin 6 July 1860, placed on h.p. 4 Oct. 1860; major in the army 4 Oct. 1864, sold out Dec. 1871; patented improvements in the construction of ordnance and in the projectiles to be used therewith 11 Nov. 1862; took out a patent for screw-bolts 6 Dec. 1862, and another for chill-casting projectiles 27 May 1863, which were introduced into the service 1866; took out 14 patents relating to guns, bolts, and projectiles 1867–81; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Osborne 16 Jany. 1873; granted cross of a commander of the crown of Italy 1875; contested Dungarvon 15 July 1865, and Devonport 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Taunton April 1880 to death; author of Notes of recent experiments at Shoeburyness with chilled shot and shells 1866, which he withdrew from circulation; The use of earthen fortresses for the defence of London and as a preventive against invasion 1871; _m._ 1868 Anna, dau. of George Perham, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 20 June 1883. _d._ 21 Earl’s court sq. London 4 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 9 Feb. _Professional papers of the corps of R.E. xiii_ 128, _xiv_ 163, _xvi_ 125; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 418–21 (1882); _I.L.N. lxii_ 177, 178 (1873) _portrait_.

PALMER, ARTHUR (only son of John Jordan Palmer of Bristol). _b._ 1783; barrister G.I. 16 May 1821; judge of county courts, circuit 55, comprising Bristol, Thornbury, and Chipping-Sodbury 15 March 1847, resigned Jany. 1854. _d._ the Hot Wells, Clifton 19 Nov. 1856. _J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 303.

PALMER, CHARLES (eld. son of John Palmer, projector of mail-coaches 1742–1818). _b._ Weston, near Bath 6 May 1777; educ. Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1793; cornet 10 dragoons 17 May 1796, lieut. col. 3 May 1810 to 12 Nov. 1814; lieut. col. 23 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1814; A.D.C. to the prince regent, afterwards the king, 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; served during the whole of the Peninsular war; M.G. 27 May 1825; M.P. Bath 1808–26 and 1830–7; proprietor of the Bath theatre from 1818; a large vine-grower in the Gironde; author of Speech on the state of the nation, on the third reading of the reform bill 1832. _d._ 17 April 1851. _G.M. July 1851 p._ 92; _Royal military calendar iv_ 243 (1820).

PALMER, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1808; collector of rare prints and etchings; bought the great etching by Rembrandt of “Christ healing the sick,” better known as “the hundred guilder print,” at sir Charles Price’s sale for £1,180, the largest sum ever paid for a print down to May 1883; some of his paintings were sold at Christie’s on 16 May 1868. _d._ 46 Portland place, London 3 Jany. 1868. _Athenæum 18 Jany. 1868 p._ 98.

PALMER, CHARLES JOHN (only son of John Danby Palmer, ship owner). _b._ Yarmouth 1 Jany. 1805; articled to Robert Cory, attorney 1822–7; a freeman of Banff 12 Oct. 1824, and of Yarmouth 28 June 1825; a notary public 10 May 1827; an attorney 29 June 1827; proctor to admiralty court, Yarmouth 12 Aug. 1827; practised at Yarmouth 1827–77; an alderman of the old corporation to 1835, member of the town council, mayor 1854 and 1855; chief promoter of the Victoria building company; a promoter of the Wellington pier and of the assembly rooms; hon. sec. of church restoration committee 1845–75; F.S.A. 1830; edited The history of Great Yarmouth by Henry Manship 1854; author of The history of Great Yarmouth 1856; The perlustration of Great Yarmouth with Gorleston and Southtown, 3 vols. 1872–5; Memorials of the family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth and of New York 1873; edited with Stephen I. Tucker, Palgrave family memorials, Norwich 1878. _d._ Villa Graham, Great Yarmouth 24 Sept. 1882. _Leaves from the diary of C. J. Palmer_, _edited by F. D. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _Law Times lxxiii_ 388 (1882).

PALMER, EDWARD (3 son of James Burden Palmer of Charlottetown, Prince Edward island). _b._ Charlottetown 1 Sept. 1809; called to the local bar 1831, admitted solicitor 1834; Q.C. 1857; member of the assembly to 1860, of the legislative council 1860; solicitor general Prince Edward island 1848–51; attorney general 1854, 1863–9, and 1872–3; president of executive council 1859; judge of county court of Queen’s county 1873, and chief justice July 1874 to death. _d._ Charlottetown 3 Nov. 1889. _Law Times 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 229.

PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Palmer, schoolmaster). _b._ Green st. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1840; educ. Perse gr. sch. Cambridge; clerk in the office of Hill and Underwood of Eastcheap, London, wine merchants 1856–9; learnt Persian, Arabic and Hindustani; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Camb. 9 Oct. 1863, scholar 16 June 1865, fellow 5 Nov. 1867 to death; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish manuscripts of King’s and Trinity colleges and of the university library; one of the surveyors of Sinai for the Palestine exploration fund 1869; walked from Sinai to Jerusalem with C. F. T. Drake, identifying sites and searching for inscriptions 1870; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Cambridge 10 Nov. 1871 to death, lectured on Arabic, Persian and Hindustani 1873–81; barrister M.T. 6 June 1874; wrote leading articles for the Standard, London, daily paper Aug. 1881 to June 1882; sent by the government to Egypt on a secret-service mission June and July 1882; rode from Alexandria across the desert to Suez; interpreter-in-chief to British forces in Egypt Aug. 1882; started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, _shot_ by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. _bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. London 6 April 1883; portrait in hall of St. John’s coll. Camb., his widow was granted civil list pension of £200, 2 Feb. 1883; author of Oriental mysticism, a treatise on the Sufiistic and unitarian theosophy of the Persians 1867; A catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in Trinity college, Cambridge 1870; The desert of the exodus, journeys on foot 1871; A grammar of the Arabic language 1874; A dictionary of the Persian language 1876; The Arabic manual 1881; Simplified grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic 1882; with W. Besant, Jerusalem the city of Herod and Saladin 1871, 2 ed. 1888; with C. G. Leland English gipsy songs 1875. _W. Besant’s Life of E. H. Palmer_ (1883) _portrait_; _A. E. Haynes’ Man-hunting in the desert, a narrative of Palmer’s Search-expedition_ (1894) _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_ 469 (1882) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 461 (1882) _portrait_.

PALMER, EDWIN (4 son of William Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, V. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 18 July 1824; educ. Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1841, scholar 1841–5; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1843; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1850, D.D. 1878; fellow of Balliol 29 Nov. 1845 to 19 Sept. 1867, hon. fellow 1870; senior dean 1855, catechetical lecturer 1871; select preacher univ. of Oxf. 1865–6 and 1873–4; fellow Corpus Christi coll. 1870–8, vice-president 1877, hon. fellow 1878; Corpus professor of Latin literature 1870–8; examining chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1869; archdeacon of Oxford with canonry of Christ Church 1878 to death; edited The Apology of Plato 1867; Catulli Veronensis Carmina selecta 1872; The Greek testament 1881; author of Bishop Patteson missionary bishop and martyr 1872, and of charges and sermons. _d._ Christ Church, Oxford 17 Oct. 1895. _bur._ Osney cemet. Oxford 21 Oct. _I.L.N. 26 Oct. 1895 p._ 510 _portrait_; _Black and White 26 Oct. 1895 p._ 530 _portrait_.

PALMER, FRANCIS ROGER. _b._ 21 Oct. 1811; ensign 89 foot 22 March 1833; 1 lieut. rifle corps 26 Feb. 1836, lieut. col. 22 June 1858 to death; colonel in the army 22 June 1863; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Villa d’ Este, Lake Como, Italy 18 Oct. 1872.

PALMER, GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Palmer of Wanlip, Leics. and of London, merchant, _d._ 1821, aged 53). _b._ 11 Feb. 1772; educ. Charterhouse; served in the East India company’s navy 1786–99; East India merchant and shipowner at 28 Throgmorton st. London 1802; master of the Mercers’ company 1821; connected with the National lifeboat institution 1826, lifeboats on his plan were used at more than 20 ports until 1858, deputy chairman 25 years, resigned Feb. 1853; chairman of the General shipowners’ society 1832; contested South Shields Dec. 1832; M.P. South Essex 1836–47; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1818; sheriff of Essex; author of Memoir of a chart from the strait of Allas to the island Bouro 1799; A new plan for fitting all boats so that they may be secure as lifeboats at the shortest notice 1828. _d._ Nazeing park, Essex 12 May 1853. _The lifeboat July 1853 pp._ 28–32; _G.M. June 1853 pp._ 656–7.

PALMER, GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of Henry Palmer of Brynbank, Carmarthenshire). _b._ Wernligoes parish, Llanvalteg, Carmarthenshire 29 Dec. 1831; educ. Narberth and Carmarthen college; usher at a school in France; a student of univ. of Glasgow Nov. 1853, M.A. 1856; resident lecturer in classics and history at cavalry college, Richmond, Jany. to Dec. 1859; sec. of Law amendment society 8 April 1861 to 1864; barrister G.I. 6 June 1861; contributed to Law Magazine and Law Times; edited a trades’ protection paper 1863; edited The law magazine and law review 1864; secretary of jurisprudence department of Social science association 1864; left Gravesend for Melbourne in the steamer “London” 30 Dec. 1865, the ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. _Law Mag. and Law Review xxi_ 129–36 (1866).

PALMER, GEORGE JOSIAH (son of George Josiah Palmer, printer in Savoy st. Strand, London). _b._ Clapham, Surrey 30 June 1828; educ. Clapham gram. sch. and King’s coll. sch. London; a compositor in his father’s establishment, then manager of the printing office; a printer at 27 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1853–60; removed to 32 Little Queen st. Holborn 1860; publisher of the Union newspaper to 27 June 1862; started The Church Times, a penny weekly paper in the high church interest, which he also edited, No. 1 7 Feb. 1863, editor to his death; hon. treasurer of Church of England working men’s soc.; a publisher of books. _d._ Ramsgate 27 Jany. 1892. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 Feb. _Church portrait journal 15 July 1885 pp._ 45–6 _portrait_; _Church Times 29 Jany. 1892 p._ 97, _5 Feb. 1892 p._ 119.

PALMER, HENRY. _b._ 11 July 1807; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 13 Feb. 1826, major 5 June 1853; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 4 Oct. 1857, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; served against Bheel tribes 1827–8; served in Afghan and Belooch campaigns 1838–40; commanded 48 B.N.I. at Modkie and Ferozeshah; brigade major of general Wheeler’s force in the Punjab 1848–9. _d._ Mussoorie, North West Provinces of India 23 Aug. 1892.

PALMER, HENRY ANDREWES (son of Arthur Palmer of Bristol, solicitor). _b._ 1803; articled to his father 1817–22; solicitor at Bristol 1826–60; comr. of bankruptcy for Bristol district 1833 to date when local courts of bankruptcy were established; registrar and deputy judge of the Tolzey court, Bristol 1838–60; defended owner of Ashton Court estates against Thomas Provis, calling himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth, 8–10 Aug. 1853, he was found guilty of perjury and forgery and sentenced to be transported for 20 years. _d._ South Dulwich 16 Dec. 1884. _Solicitor’s Journal 3 Jany. 1885 p._ 156.

PALMER, HENRY SPENCER (youngest son of colonel John Freke Palmer of the East India company’s service). _b._ Bangalore, Madras 30 April 1838; lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1856, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1887; surveyed in British Columbia 1858–63; joined the ordnance survey Dec. 1863, surveyed Kent and East Sussex; assistant comr. in the parliamentary boundaries’ commission 1867–8 and 1869; surveyed the Sinaitic peninsula Oct. 1868 to May 1869; chief of the party sent to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venus, June 1874; went to Barbados Nov. 1875, A.D.C. to the governor Feb. 1877 to March 1878; went to Hongkong Jany. 1878, engineer of the admiralty works, A.D.C. to the governor 11 May 1878 to June 1880; designed a physical observatory for Hong Kong 1881; commanding R.E. of the Manchester district July 1883; designed and constructed waterworks for Yokohama, Japan 1883–7; superintendent of the Yokohama harbour works and engineer to the Yokohama docks’ company 1889 to death; published with sir C. W. Wilson Ordnance survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, &c. 1869; author of The ordnance survey of the kingdom: its objects, mode of execution, history, and present condition 1873; Ancient history from the monuments, Sinai from the fourth Egyptian dynasty to the present day 1878, new ed. 1892. _d._ Tokio, Japan 10 March 1893. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxiii_ 373–5 (1893).

PALMER, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (youngest son of John Palmer 1752–1827, R. of Great Torrington, Devon). _b._ Torrington 27 June 1803; a surgeon in London to 1839; surgeon to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary to 1838; went to New South Wales 1839; a doctor at Port Philip some time, then a manufacturer of cordials, then a wine merchant; mayor of Melbourne 1846; member for Port Philip of legislature of New South Wales Sept. 1848 to July 1849; member for Normanby district of legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851, elected speaker Dec. 1851; member for Western province to the new legislative council 23 Nov. 1855, first president 21 Nov. 1856, re-elected five times, resigned Oct. 1870; knighted by patent 13 July 1857; edited The works of John Hunter, 4 vols. 1835–7; and A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect 1837. _d._ Burwood road, Hawthorn, Melbourne 23 April 1871. _Colby’s Pedigree of Palmer family_ (1892) 7–9.

PALMER, JOHN BERNARD (son of Wm. Palmer of Charmouth, Dorset, farmer). _b._ 15 Oct. 1782; joined the Church of Rome 1806; a novice in the Cistercian monastery of St. Susan, Lulworth, Dorset 1808, professed there by the name of Bernard 21 Nov. 1810; received minor orders at the abbey of La Meilleraie, near Nantes, where the community had taken refuge in 1817; the abbey was suppressed 1831 and Palmer was confined at Nantes by the French government 1831–7; joined a community of Cistercian monks in Charnwood forest, Leics. March 1837, received priest’s orders 31 July 1838, superior of the monastery 1841, a new monastery called Mount St. Bernard was built by Pugin 1844, the monastery was constituted an abbey and Palmer appointed abbot 9 May 1848, consecrated with mitre, crozier, ring, and gloves 18 Feb. 1849, being the first English mitred abbot since the reformation. _d._ Mount St. Bernard abbey 10 Nov. 1852. _The metropolitan and provincial catholic almanac for 1855 pp._ 1–16 _portrait_; _G.M. Jany. 1853 p._ 101.

PALMER, JOHN HINDE (only son of Samuel Palmer of Dulwich common, Surrey). _b._ Surrey 1808; barrister L.I. 24 Jany. 1832, bencher 16 June 1869 to death; Q.C. 10 June 1859; contested Lambeth 7 Aug. 1850; M.P. Lincoln 16 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874. _d._ 11 St. George’s sq. London 2 June 1884.

PALMER, JOHN HORSLEY (4 son of Wm. Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). _b._ 7 July 1779; partner with his brother George Palmer and captain Wilson as East India merchants in City of London 1802, retired April 1857; a director of the bank of England 1811–57, governor 1830–2, gave evidence before the committee of secrecy on the bank of England charter 1832; a leading authority on currency and finance; a member of royal commission on bankruptcy and insolvency 4 Dec. 1839; examined by select committee on banks of issue 1840; author of Reasons against the proposed Indian joint-stock bank 1836; The causes and consequences of the pressure upon the money market, with a statement of the action of the bank of England from 1 Oct. 1833 to 27 Dec. 1836, 1837; Reply to the reflections of Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd on the pamphlet entitled ‘Causes and consequences’ 1837. _d._ Mulgrave house, Hurlingham, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1858. _Maclaren’s History of the currency_ (1858) 173–8.

PALMER, NATHANIEL (son of Nathaniel Palmer government contractor for the navy and stamp distributor at Great Yarmouth). _b._ Great Yarmouth Oct. 1792; solicitor at Great Yarmouth; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1827, went Norfolk circuit; a county comr. of bankruptcy; judge of Guildhall court of record at Norwich; recorder of Great Yarmouth June 1836 to death. _d._ Coltishall, near Norwich 30 March 1872. _Law journal vii_ 264 (1872).

PALMER, RICHARD (son of Robert Palmer, landlord of the White Horse inn, Preston). _b._ Lancaster 23 Feb. 1773; articled to Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, attorney 6 June 1788; admitted attorney March 1794; partner with N. Grimshaw Dec. 1799; one of coroners for Lancashire 12 Nov. 1799 to death; town clerk of Preston 1801 to death, officiated at the three guilds of 1802, 1822, and 1842, when a medal was struck in his honour; N. Grimshaw died in 1835, when all his public offices were conferred on Palmer; clerk to local board of health 7 Oct. 1850, resigned 12 Feb. 1852; attended the Lancaster assizes for the 127th time 7 Aug. 1852. _d._ Preston 13 Dec. 1852. _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 212–3.

PALMER, ROBERT (1 son of Richard Palmer of Hurst and Sonning, Berks.) _b._ 31 Jany. 1793; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Berks. 1818; M.P. Berks. 1825–59; chairman of Berks. quarter sessions. _d._ Holme park, near Reading 24 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Sonning churchyard 29 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 527 (1872).