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PAYN, William Henry (son of Anthony Payn of Dover). b. Dover 1802; educ. Henri Quatre college, Paris; solicitor at Dover 1827–79; proclaimed accession of queen Victoria at Dover 1837; coroner for Dover 1860–82; member of town council, mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Dover 16 April 1855, presented with diamond snuff box and gold medal by the emperor when he embarked for Calais 21 April 1855. d. Kearsney, near Dover 14 Sept. 1887. Law Times 29 Oct. 1887 p. 450.

PAYNE, Arthur Gay (son of John Robert Payne, d. 6 Nov. 1877). b. Camberwell, Surrey 7 Feb. 1840; educ. Univ. college school, London and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1866, coxswain of his college boat; a gourmet; a friend of J. G. Chambers (athlete 1843–83); advised and aided Matthew Webb the swimmer; sporting editor of the Standard 1871–83; assistant editor of Land and water to 1883; contributed to Bell’s Life in London and the Girls’ own paper; edited M. Webb’s Art of swimming [1875], and W. Cook’s Billiards 1884; edited Cassell’s Dictionary of cookery 1875–6, and wrote The principles of cookery, prefixed; author of Common sense cooking [1877]; Choice dishes at small cost 1882; Cassell’s Shilling cookery 1888; Cassell’s Popular cookery 1889; Cassell’s Vegetarian cookery 1891; edited The billiard news 1875–8; in Cassell’s Popular recreation 1873 he wrote on Conjuring, cricketing, etc. d. Bay View terrace, Penzance 1 April 1894.

PAYNE, Charles. Entered Bombay army 1803; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 12 Aug. 1805, captain 31 Oct. 1822; major 16 N.I. 29 Dec. 1828 to 16 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 16 Sept. 1833–9, of 13 N.I. 1839–44, of 13 N.I. 1844–5, and of 22 N.I. 1845–7; brigadier at Baroda 20 Sept. 1844 to March 1846; col. of 15 N.I. 9 June 1847 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. 24 April 1858.

PAYNE, Charles. b. 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5; whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65; huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. d. 30 Dec. 1893. bur. Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. Sporting Review xliv 14 (1860); Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp. 135–6.

PAYNE, Frederick (younger son of W. H. S. Payne 1804–78). b. Jany. 1841; first appeared in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; played harlequin at Covent Garden theatre about 1863–73; played harlequin also in the opening of E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; his mind became affected while playing in pantomine The yellow dwarf at Alexandra palace Jany. or Feb. 1877. d. 3 Alexandra road, Finsbury park, London 27 Feb. 1880. bur. Highgate cemet. 2 March. Era 29 Feb. 1880 p. 6.

PAYNE, Gallway Byng. Second lieut. R.M. 17 May 1831, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1858, col. 22 May 1862; col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864 to 12 June 1865, when he retired on full pay as major general. d. Torquay 19 May 1870.

PAYNE, George (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall, Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). b. 3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about £300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine 1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. d. 10 Queen st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 6 Sept. Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt (1888) 4, 99, 117–48 portrait; Rice’s British turf ii 296–388 (1879) portrait; Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 113–20 portrait; Baily’s Mag. i 183–6 (1860) portrait, xli 148–53 (1883); Westminster Papers x 139 (1878) portrait; Racing in Badminton library (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; Illust. sp. and dr. news iv 475, 496 (1876) portrait; Sporting Times 8 May 1875 pp. 305, 308 portrait.

PAYNE, Henry Edward (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). b. 1831; first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–; played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871; clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. d. Norfolk house 322 Camden road, London 27 Sept. 1895. bur. Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858 16 6. Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p. 832, 2 portraits; Illust. sporting news v 808 (1866) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xx 432 (1884) portrait; St. James’s Budget 4 Oct. 1895 p. 33 portrait; Era 28 Sept., 5 Oct., 24 Nov. 1895; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 214, 403, 721.

PAYNE, John. Officer in charge of H.M. Indian mails 31 years; his grandfather René Payne was the founder of the banking house of Smith, Payne and Smiths’, London 1759. d. Dove’s Nest, Margate 17 Dec. 1893.

PAYNE, John Howard (son of William Payne, schoolmaster). b. New York 9 June 1791; in a counting house 1805; first appeared at Park theatre, New York as Young Norval 24 Feb. 1809; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval 4 June 1813; played in principal cities of Great Britain; edited The opera glass, for peeping into the microcosm of the fine arts and more especially of the drama, London, 26 numbers 2 Oct. 1826 to 24 March 1827; resided in London and Paris, where he wrote dramas, chiefly adaptations from the French; his tragedy of Brutus was produced at Drury Lane 3 Dec. 1818 with Edmund Kean as Brutus; The accusation at Drury Lane 1 Feb. 1816; his dramas, Ali Pacha 19 Oct. 1822; The two galley slaves 6 Nov. 1822, and Charles the Second 3 May 1824, all at Covent Garden; his name is attached to upwards of 50 dramas; his song of Home sweet home, sung by Miss Tree in his Clari or the Maid of Milan, produced at Covent Garden 2 May 1823, made him famous all over the world, more than 100,000 copies were sold in twelve months; a friend and correspondent of Coleridge and Charles Lamb; returned to U.S. of America 1832; had a benefit at the Park theatre, New York 29 Nov. 1832 producing 4,200 dollars; American consul at Tunis 1841–4, and May 1851 to death. d. Tunis 10 April 1852, memorial monument in St. George’s cemet. Tunis, his body was reinterred in Oak Hill cemet. Washington June 1883, where is monument, colossal bust in Prospect park, Brooklyn. C. H. Brairard’s John Howard Payne (1885); Memoirs of J. H. Payne, the American Roscius (1815) portrait; Appleton’s American biog. iv 68 (1888) portrait; The Theatre vi 211–6 (1885).

PAYNE, Joseph (son of Wm. Payne of St. Alphage, London). b. 13 Nov. 1797; matric. from St. Edmund’s hall, Oxf. 6 May 1818; barrister L.I. 14 June 1825; migrated to Middle Temple; deputy assistant judge of court of sessions for Middlesex May 1859 to death; author of Lines written to commemorate the opening of London bridge 1831; An Easter Monday ode 1837; with F. A. Carrington Reports of cases at nisi prius 1825; and with J. B. Moore Reports of cases in the common pleas and exchequer chambers 1828. d. Westhill, Highgate 29 March 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery, where is marble memorial 16 feet high erected by friends of ragged schools and temperance societies. Illust. Times 19 Nov. 1870 p. 333, view of memorial in Highgate cemetery; Lectures edited by J. F. Payne (1883) portrait; Christian cabinet illustrated almanac for 1860 pp. 37–8.

PAYNE, Joseph. b. Bury St. Edmunds 2 March 1808; assistant master in a school in New Kent road, London 1828, a believer in Joseph Jacotot’s style of teaching; with Mr. Fletcher kept the Denmark Hill grammar school 1828–45; kept the Mansion house school at Leatherhead with great success 1845–63; member of council of Social science association 1871; chairman of council of Philological society 1873–4; chairman of the central committee of the Women’s education union 1871–5; professor of education at the College of preceptors, London Dec. 1872 to death; author of A compendious exposition of professor Jacotot’s celebrated system of education 1830; C. F. Lhomond’s Universal instruction, Epitome historiæ sacræ, a Latin reading book on Jacotot’s system 1831; Select poetry for children 1839, 18 ed. 1874; Studies in English poetry 1845, 8 ed. 1881; Studies in English prose 1868, 2 ed. 1881; A visit to German schools 1876; The works of Joseph Payne, edited by his son Dr. J. F. Payne, 2 vols. 1883–92, two portraits. d. 4 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 30 April 1876, portrait in common room of college of preceptors. Educational Times 1 June 1876.

PAYNE, Louisa. First appeared theatre royal Birmingham; under Mrs. Nye Chart at Brighton theatre many years, where she was a favourite; acted in The world Drury Lane 31 July 1880, and played Maligna in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Mother Goose at Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1880; played Ursula in Much ado about nothing 11 Oct. 1882, and Bessy in Faust 19 Dec. 1885, at Lyceum. d. from cancer at Elm Bank, Malvern 11 April 1887.

PAYNE, William (2 son of Wm. Payne of London). b. 1799; coroner of London and Southwark 1829 to death, revived the ancient practice of holding an inquest touching fires 22 Aug. 1845; chief clerk at the Guildhall, London 1833, resigned Oct. 1843; student G.I. 13 June 1832; barrister G.I. 22 Nov. 1843; high steward of Southwark and judge of borough court of record 1850 to death; serjeant-at-law 11 May 1858. d. 26 Brunswick sq. London 25 Feb. 1872. I.L.N. lx 207 (1872).

PAYNE, William Henry Schofield. b. City of London 1804; played small parts at T.R. Birmingham; studied pantomime and clowning under Grimaldi and Bologna at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1823; played small parts at Pavilion theatre 1825–31; played Medow Mawr the Welsh ogre in Charles Farley’s pantomime Hop o’ my thumb and his brothers at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1831, and Tasnar in Puss in boots 26 Dec. 1832; played harlequin to Grimaldi’s clown at Sadler’s Wells 1827, and dandy lover to young Joe Grimaldi’s clown; danced in grand ballet with Cerito, Grisi, and the Elsslers, and played in state before George IV, Wm. IV, Victoria, and Napoleon III; played Guy, earl of Warwick, in the pantomime at Covent Garden Dec. 1841; danced in a ballet at Vauxhall gardens 31 March 1847; played at T.R. Manchester 1848–54; in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; at Covent Garden about 1860–73; in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874. d. Calstock house, Dover 18 Dec. 1878. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii 204–5 (1881); Spectator 28 Dec. 1878 pp. 1633–4; Era 22 Dec. 1878 p. 12; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 57, 444, 721; The Sun 27 Dec. 1893 p. 1.

PAYNE, William John (eld. son of William Payne, serjeant-at-law 1799–1872). b. 1822; barrister L.I. 7 June 1844; counsel of the Southwark court of record 1852–72; steward of Southwark and judge of the Southwark court of record 1872 to death; coroner for duchy of Lancaster Jany. 1857 to death; recorder of Buckingham 10 Feb. 1866 to death; deputy coroner for the city of London and borough of Southwark Aug. 1843, coroner July 1872 to death. d. Fonthill, Reigate at midnight 14 April 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 19 April. Law Times 26 April 1884 p. 465.

PAYNE-SMITH, Robert (1 son of Robert Smith, land agent, d. 1827). b. Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 7 Nov. 1819; educ. Campden gr. sch. and Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1837; Boden Sanskrit scholar 1840, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1843; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843, B. and D.D. 1865; fellow of Pemb. coll. 1843–50; a well known Syriac scholar; C. of Crendon, Oxf. and C. of Thame Bucks.; classical master at Edinburgh academy 1847–53; incumbent of Trinity chapel, Edinb. 1848–53; head master of Kensington proprietary school 1853–7; sub-librarian at Bodleian library, Oxford 1857–65; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and R. of Ewelme 1865 to Jany. 1870; delivered the Bampton lectures on Prophecy a preparation for Christ 1869, 2 ed. 1871; helped to found Wycliffe hall 1877, chairman of council 1877 to death; canon of Christ Church 1865–71; dean of Canterbury Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Old Testament revision committee 1870–85; the intermediate church schools at Canterbury have been rechristened the Payne-Smith schools; edited Commentarii in Lucæ evangelium quæ supersunt Syriace 1858; Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars sexta codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendacos, complectens 1864; An Old Testament commentary for scripture readers in Genesis 1882, new ed. 1885; translated The third part of the Ecclesiastical history of John, bishop of Ephesus 1860; author of The authenticity and messianic interpretation of the prophecies of Isaiah vindicated 1862; Thesaurus Syriacus 1868–91; An exposition of the historical portion of Daniel 1886. d. the deanery, Canterbury 31 March 1895. bur. St. Martin’s churchyard 3 April, memorial in cathedral. Church portrait journal, v i (1884) portrait; Times 1 April and 3 April 1895.

PAYNTER, Howel (1 son of David Renwa Paynter). b. 1812; ensign 56 foot 21 Nov. 1828; lieut. 24 foot 5 April 1833, lieut. col. 14 Jany. 1849 to 8 Aug. 1851; wounded at Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Bath 13 Nov. 1851.

PAYNTER, James Aylmer Dorset (2 son of David Renwa Paynter of Dale castle, Pembroke). b. 21 Oct. 1814; entered navy 1 Jany. 1826; captain 17 April 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; mayor of Bath 1874–6; author of Notes on night quarters and boat service 1848. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 17 Dec. 1876.

PAYNTER, Joshua (son of Joshua W. Paynter). L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1837; assistant surgeon 60 foot 7 June 1839; surgeon 73 foot 11 Feb. 1848; surgeon 13 light dragoons 16 Aug. 1850 to 9 Feb. 1855, placed on h.p. 31 July 1857; deputy inspector general of hospitals 31 Dec. 1858; inspector general at Malta 4 Sept. 1867, retired 19 Oct. 1872; C.B. 20 May 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846 and Crimean war 1854–5. d. The Croft, Tenby 19 June 1883.

PAYNTER, Thomas (2 son of James Paynter of Boskenna, Cornwall 1748–1800). b. Boskenna 24 July 1794; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., senior optime Feb. 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; revising barrister Suffolk and Norfolk 1833; recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1838–41; police magistrate Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–5, at Hammersmith and Wandsworth 1845 to Dec. 1855, and at Westminster Dec. 1855 to death; author of The practice at elections, instructions for sheriffs and other returning officers 1837, 4 ed. 1852. d. 53 Thurloe square, London 20 April 1863.

PEABODY, George (2 son and 3 child of Thomas Peabody). b. Danvers, Massachusetts 18 Feb. 1795; managed his uncle’s business at Georgetown, Columbia 1812–4; opened with Elisha Riggs dry goods’ warehouse at Georgetown 1814, moved to Baltimore 1815, opened branches in New York and Philadelphia 1822; resided in London 1837 to death; retired from his American business 1843; a merchant and banker in London 1843 to death; negotiated in London a loan of £1,600,000 for the state of Maryland 1835; gave £2,000 for the Kane expedition in search of Franklin 1852; founded the Peabody institute at Baltimore 1857, gave it £200,000; gave Harvard university £60,000, 1866; gave £700,000 for negro education in the south 1866–9; presented £150,000 to the city of London in 1862 for the poor, gave altogether half a million to London from which the Peabody dwellings have been built, the first block was opened in Spitalfields 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 26 June 1867; bronze statue of him by W. W. Story, on east side of royal exchange unveiled by prince of Wales 28 July 1869; voted freedom of city of London 22 May 1862, admitted 10 July 1862; declined a baronetcy and the grand cross of the Bath. d. at the house of sir C. M. Lampson 80 Eaton sq. London 4 Nov. 1869, body lay for a month in Westminster abbey, taken to America and bur. at Danvers 8 Feb. 1870; personalty sworn under £400,000, 25 Nov. 1869. I.L.N. lv 498, 517–18, 519–20, 645, 648, 655, 661, 664–5 (1869), lvi 277–8 (1870); L. S. Mockett’s Men of our day (1868) 540–5; James Dafforne’s The Pictorial table book (1873) 121–22; H. N. F. Bourne’s Famous London merchants (1869) 285–300 portrait; Illust. Times 5 April 1862 p. 217, whole page portrait; Leisure hour xi 776 portrait, xv 471 portrait; S. T. Wallis’s Discourse on character of G. Peabody (1870); Appleton’s American biography iv 688–9 (1888) portrait.

PEACE, Charles (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). b. Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4 years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme, received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct. 1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany. 1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25 Feb. 1879. The life of C. Peace (London 1878) portrait; M. Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 257–63; Times 26 Feb. 1879 p. 10, cols. 1–3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb., 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March, 5 April 1879 portraits; Graphic xix 121 (1879) portrait; A. Griffiths’ Secrets of the prison house i 30, ii 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).

Note.—Nicholas Cock a policeman was shot by a burglar at Whalley Range, Manchester on 1 Aug. 1876, and William Habron, chiefly on the evidence of the police, was convicted of the offence and sent to penal servitude. Peace afterwards confessed that he had committed the murder and Habron was released 18 March 1879. Did Peace commit the Whalley Range murder (Manchester 1879).

His folding ladder by which he could ascend to a first floor window is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland yard, Thames Embankment.

PEACE, John (son of Peter Peace). bapt. St. Peter’s ch. Bristol 8 Dec. 1785; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb. for some terms; an acquaintance of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; keeper of the city library Bristol for 40 years: edited Sir T. Browne’s Religio medici, with resemblant passages from Cowper’s Task 1844; author of An apology for cathedral service, anon. 1839; A descant on the penny postage, signed XAP 1841; A descant upon railroads, signed XAP 1842. d. Swiss cottage, Durdham downs, Clifton 28 March 1861. Axiomata Pacis by J. Peace (1862) anon., memoir pp. v–xxi; G.M. x 577 (1861).

PEACE, Maskell William. b. 1834; solicitor Wigan 1855 to death; town clerk of Wigan 1866–85; sec. to Mining association of Great Britain; sec. of the Wigan coal and iron co.; sec. of the Lancashire association; great supporter of Wigan mining industry; author of South Lancashire and Cheshire coal association, report on private bills 1885; The coal mines regulation act 1888. d. Lynwood, Southport 9 Nov. 1892.

PEACH, Charles William (son of Charles Wm. Peach, yeoman). b. Wansford, Northamptonshire 30 Sept. 1800; a coastguardman at Weybourne, Norfolk Jany. 1824, at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to 1845; employed in the customs at Fowey, 1845–9, at Peterhead 1849–53, at Wick 1853, retired on a pension 1861; discovered many new species of sponges, cælenterates and molluscs; discovered fish remains in the Devonian rocks of the south west, and fossils which determined the age of the quartzites of Gorran Haven, and of the Durness limestone of Sutherlandshire; received Neill medal from royal society of Edinburgh 1875; author of 71 papers. d. Haddington place, Leith walk, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1886. Nature 11 March 1886 pp. 446–7; Academy xxix 171 (1886).

PEACH, William. b. 1796; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; Hulsean prizeman 1818; fellow of St. John’s 20 March 1820 to 1823; P.C. of Brampton, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1826 to death; rural dean of Brampton 1836; author of The probable influence of revelation on the writings of heathen philosophers, Hulsean essay 1819; Themis, a satire 1853; Cwm Dhu or the Black Dingle, and other poems 1853. d. Brampton 31 Jany. 1867.

PEACOCK, Sir Barnes (3 son of Lewis Peacock of 38 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitor and messenger to the great seal, d. 1839). b. 1810; practised as special pleader 1831–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836, bencher 10 May 1850 to death, reader 1864; one of the counsel for Daniel O’Connell in his appeal to the house of lords Aug. 1844; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; legal member of supreme council of the viceroy of India at Calcutta 2 April 1852 to April 1859; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 1859–70; vice-president of legislative council of India June 1859; knighted by patent 26 May 1859; P.C. 6 July 1870; a paid member of judicial committee of privy council 10 June 1872 to death. d. 40 Cornwall gardens, Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1890. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 250–7; I.L.N. 20 Dec. 1890 p. 771 portrait; Pictorial world 18 Dec. 1890 p. 772 portrait; Saturday Review lxx 675 (1890); Times 4 Dec. 1890 pp. 8 and 14.

PEACOCK, Dimitri Rudolf (son of Charles Peacock, estate manager). b. village of Shakmanovka, district of Kozlov in the government of Tambov, Russia 26 Sept. 1842; educ. at a school in England and univ. of Moscow; British vice-consul at Batoum 25 Oct. 1881, consul 27 Jany. 1890, consul general at Odessa 14 Oct. 1891 to death; author of Original vocabularies of five west Caucasian languages, Georgian, Mingrelian, Lazian, Svanetian, and Apkhazian in the Journal of Royal Asiatic society for 1877, pp. 145–56; wrote a book on the Caucasus, which has not been published. d. Odessa 23 May 1892. Times 17 June 1892 p. 8.

PEACOCK, Elizabeth, who was a Miss Stone. b. 1772; m. John William Peacock, cooper; successor to Johanna Southcott 1814; issued a proclamation to the believers in the divine mission of Johanna Southcott to attend their parish churches 3 June 1864; issued one number of The Morning Star Dec. 1864. d. 49 Westmoreland road, St. Peter’s, Walworth, Surrey 10 March 1875, aged 103.

PEACOCK, Frederick Barnes (eld. son of sir Barnes Peacock 1810–90). b. 1836; educ. Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1 Feb. 1857, registrar of the high court May 1864; student I.T. 16 April 1866, barrister 9 June 1880; officiating secretary to board of revenue Bengal Nov. 1871; a magistrate and collector July 1873; comr. of the Dacca division April 1878 to 1881, and of the Presidency division May 1881 to 1883; chief secretary to government of Bengal for the judicial, political and appointments departments March 1883 to 1890; an acting member of board of revenue 1884, member 1887–90, when he retired on annuity; C.S.I. 21 May 1890. d. on board the Britannia off Sicily 14 April 1894. Times 25 April 1894 p. 10.

PEACOCK, George (youngest son of Thomas Peacock 1756–1851, perpetual curate of Denton, near Darlington 50 years). b. Thornton hall, Denton 9 April 1791; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 21 Feb. 1809, scholar 12 April 1812, fellow 1814–39; second wrangler and second Smith’s prizeman 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, D.D. 1839; lecturer in mathematics at Trin. coll. 1815, joint tutor 1823–35, sole tutor 1835–9; moderator 1816–7, 1818–9 and 1820–1, and introducer of the symbols of differentiation into the papers set in the senate house 1816–7; one of the syndics for building the new observatory 1817, and for building the Fitzwilliam museum 1835; F.R S. 29 Jany. 1818, member of council 30 Nov. 1836, vice-president; F.R.A.S. 1820, F.G.S.; Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge Jany. 1837 to death; dean of Ely 7 May 1839 to death, installed 22 May, raised a large sum of money for restoration of the cathedral; prolocutor of the lower house of convocation 1841–7 and 1852–7; R. of Wentworth, near Ely 1847 to death; member of commission of enquiry into statutes of Cambridge university 1850, and of commission for making new statutes for the univ. and colleges 1855; author of A collection of examples of applications of the differential and integral calculus 1820; A treatise on algebra 1830; Syllabus of a course of lectures upon trigonometry and the application of algebra to geometry 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A treatise on algebra, 2 vols. 1842–5; Life of Thomas Young, M.D. 1855; edited vols. 1 and 2 of Young’s works 1855. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 8 Nov. 1858. bur. Ely cemetery. Proc. of Royal soc. ix 536–43 (1858); G.M. April 1859 pp. 426–8.

PEACOCK, George (son of Richard George Peacock, a master in the navy). b. Starcross, near Exeter 1805; entered navy 1828; master of the Medea steamer in the Mediterranean 21 Sept. 1835; made a survey of the isthmus of Corinth, marking line of a possible canal, presented with a gold snuff-box by king Otho 1836, and received order of the Redeemer of Greece 1882; resigned the navy 1840; superintended the building of the steamers of the Pacific steam navigation company, commanded the first steamer which he took through the Strait of Magellan, acted as the company’s marine superintendent 1841–6; started a company under style of Peacock and Buchan for manufacture of an anti-fouling composition for the bottoms of iron ships 1848; dockmaster at Southampton 1848–58; a shipowner at Starcross from 1858; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the Sahara for the discovery of nitrates 1860; took out a patent for chain cables 1873; edited Handbook of Abyssinia 1867; author of A treatise on ships’ cables, with the history of chains, their use and abuse 1873; The resources of Peru 1874, 4 ed. 1874; On the supply of nitrate of soda and guano from Peru 1878. d. at house of his son-in-law Henry Cookson, 16 Holly road, Fairfield, Liverpool 6 June 1883. bur. Starcross.

PEACOCK, John Macleay (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine, Perthshire). b. Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker; employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. d. Glasgow 4 May 1877. Selections of verse, edited by W. Lewin (1880) portrait.

PEACOCK, Mark Beauchamp. b. 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London 1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to death. d. Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.

PEACOCK, Richard (7 son of Ralph Peacock, superintendent of mines, d. 1843). b. Swaledale, North Riding of Yorkshire 9 April 1820; apprentice to Fenton, Murray, and Jackson, locomotive makers, Leeds 1834–8; locomotive superintendent Leeds and Selby railway 1838–40; worked under sir David Gooch on Great Western railway 1840–1; locomotive superintendent Manchester and Sheffield railway 1841–54, and builder of the Gorton locomotive depôt, Manchester; partner with Charles Beyer as locomotive and machine tool makers at Gorton 1854, with works covering 14 acres; experimented on the blast pipe and locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; a founder of the Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.P. Gorton 1885 to death. d. Gorton hall, Manchester 3 March 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii 404–7 (1889); W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 271–4 (1890) portrait; Figaro 9 March 1889 p. 9 portrait.

PEACOCK, Thomas Bevill (son of Thomas Peacock, merchant). b. York 21 Dec. 1812; apprentice to J. Fothergill, surgeon, Darlington 1828–33; studied at Univ. college, London, and at St. George’s hospital 1833–5; M.R.C.S. 1835; L.S.A. 1835; went two voyages to Ceylon 1835–6; house surgeon to the hospital at Chester 1838–42; M.D. Edinb. 1842; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1850, Croonian lecturer 1865; founded a dispensary in Liverpool st. London, which became the City of London hospital for diseases of the chest, physician to the hospital 1848; assistant physician to St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1849, physician 1862, retired 1877; dean of the medical school, delivered lectures on medicine to the nurses; a founder of the Pathological society of London 1846, secretary 1850, vice-president 1852–6, president 1865–6; member Med. and Chir. soc. 1845, sec. 1855–6, referee 1857–65, vice-president 1867; author of On the influenza or epidemic catarrh fever of 1847–8, 1848; On malformations of the human heart 1858, 2 ed. 1866; On French millstone makers’ phthisis 1862; On the prognosis in cases of valvular diseases of the heart 1877; and of many papers in medical periodicals; gave his preparations of cardiac diseases and malformations to Hunterian museum. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 31 May 1882. bur. Friends’ ground at Tottenham. St. Thomas’s hospital reports xi 179–85 (1882); Medico-Chirurgical transactions (1883) 20–3.

PEACOCK, Thomas Love (only child of Samuel Peacock of St. Paul’s church yard, London, glass merchant, d. 1788). b. Weymouth, Dorset 18 Oct. 1785; secretary to sir H. R. Popham on board the fleet before Flushing 1808–9; made the acquaintance of Shelley at Nant Gwillt, North Wales 1812, Shelley’s executor 1822; clerk in East India house 1819, assistant examiner of correspondence 1822, chief examiner 1836, retired on a pension March 1856; author of The monks of St. Mark 1804; Palmyra 1806; The genius of the Thames 1810, 3 ed. 1817; The philosophy of melancholy 1812; Sir Proteus. By P. M. O’Donovan, Esq. 1814; Headlong hall 1816, anon.; Melincourt 1817, 2 ed. 1856; Rhododaphne, or the Thessalian spell 1818; Nightmare abbey 1818; Maid Marian 1822, dramatised by Planche as an opera and produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; The misfortunes of Elphin 1829; Crotchet Castle 1831, new ed. 1887; Paper money lyrics and other poems 1837; Gryll Grange 1861; and two translations, Gl’ingannati, The deceived, a comedy performed at Siena 1851, and Ælia Laelia Crispis 1862. d. Lower Halliford, near Shepperton, Middlesex 23 Jany. 1866. bur. new cemet. Shepperton. Macmillan’s Mag. liii 414–27 (1886); Temple bar lxxx 35–52 (1887); G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 111–50; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 417–26 (1883); St. James’s mag. Sept. 1875 pp. 332, 600–10; H. Cole’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 3 vols. (1875), memoir in i, xxv–lii portrait; R. Garnett’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 10 vols. (1891) memoir in x 7–43.

Note.—He married 20 March 1820 Jane Gryffydh, known as the Caernarvonshire nymph and ‘the Beauty of Caernarvonshire,’ she is celebrated by Shelley as the Snowdonian Antelope, and d. 1852. W. M. Rossetti’s Poetical works of P. B. Shelley ii 322 (1878), in Letter to Maria Gisborne line 240.

PEACOCKE, George John. b. 3 April 1825; ensign 16 foot 8 July 1842, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1859, placed on h.p. 2 July 1870; A.A.G. North Britain 15 July 1871 to 31 Jany. 1876; lieut. col. brigade depôt 12 April 1876, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. 23 Lowndes sq. London 15 Dec. 1895.

PEAKE, Thomas Ladd (son of sir Henry Peake, surveyor of the navy). b. 1785; entered navy 1798; served in Walcheren expedition 1809; as first lieut. in the Victorious took part in action with the Rivoli 21 Feb. 1812; special magistrate at Cape of Good Hope 4 years; inspecting commander of coastguard 31 Aug. 1820 to 1825; captain 1 March 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846, rear-admiral 7 Oct. 1852, vice-admiral 28 Nov. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. d. Cumberland st. London 19 Jany. 1865.

PEARCE, Elizabeth. A popular serio-comic singer and dancer at the principal London and provincial music halls many years; created the famous songs Betsy Gay, Buy a broom, and When the family are from home; retired some years before her death; m. Richard Arnold Burnett, map mounter; she d. 146 York road, Waterloo road, London 24 Dec. 1890.

PEARCE, Paulin Huggett (son of Edward Pearce of Ramsgate, d. 25 Sept. 1851, aged 81, by Susannah his wife, who d. 19 May 1869, aged 92). b. Ramsgate 1809; a well known swimmer; saved many lives and had medals from Royal humane soc. 1818 etc.; instrumental in saving lives of crew of the Colonist at Barbadoes 1826; gave swimming exhibitions off Ramsgate pier; author of The funeral of lord Nelson 1850; The duke of Wellington’s grand funeral ode 1854; King Edward IV, a play 1868; King Richard I, a play 1868; Lord Nelson’s battles 1868; A treatise and poem on swimming 1868; P. H. Pearce’s Tragedy of the battle of Waterloo 1869; The infallible art of swimming 1869; The warrior’s swimming book 1869; Alexander the Great, a play 1872; Godwin island, a play 1872; King Darius of Persia, a play 1872; King Petri and the Black prince, a tragedy 1874; Tippo Sahib, the sultan of Mysore, a poem 1876. d. 10 Harbour st, Ramsgate 23 Nov. 1888. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard.

Note.—His brother Frederick Pearce was residing at Ramsgate 1894. His brother Charles Pearce made a fortune as a boot maker at No. 10 Harbour st. Ramsgate, was organist of St. Peter’s church 1846–91, d. 29 May 1891, aged 66.

PEARCE, Thomas (youngest son of Francis Pearce, rector of Hatford, Berks.) b. 1820; educ. Lincoln coll. Oxf, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1848; C. of Golden hill, Staffs. 1845–7; C. of Highcliffe, Hants. 1847–9; C. of Waterperry, Oxon. 1850–2; C. of Sparsholt, Berks. 1852–3; V. of Morden, Wilts. 1853 to death; author of The dog, with directions for his treatment and notices of the best dogs of the day, by Idstone 1872; The Idstone papers, by Idstone of the Field 1872, 2 ed. 1874; he wrote a considerable portion of The dogs of the British islands edited by Stonehenge [John Henry Walsh] 1867. d. Kempstone, Westcliffe, Bournemouth 24 Sept. 1885.

PEARCE, Walter. b. 1854; educ. St. Mary’s hospital, Univ. coll. London, and Rotunda hospital, Dublin; studied at school of mines; B.Sc. univ of London 1874, M.R.C.S. 1881, M.B. and B.S. 1885, M.D. 1886; L.R.C.P. 1886. M.R.C.P. 1886; took diploma in Sanitary science 1887; took diploma in Mental medicine of Medico-Psychological assoc. 1886; medical superintendent, then assist. surgeon St. Mary’s hospital, London; acting surgeon of the 20th Middlesex volunteers (Artists’ corps) 23 Aug. 1884; resided 63 Montagu square, London. shot himself in medical staff room St. Mary’s hospital 15 May 1890. Lancet 24 May 1890 p. 1156.

PEARCE, William. b. 1789; quartermaster 4 West India foot 26 Dec. 1805; lieut. 44 foot 21 Sept. 1810; captain 60 foot 15 Aug. 1813, major 25 Dec. 1825; placed on h.p. as lieut. col. 29 Aug. 1826; K.H. 1835. d. Ffowdgrech, Brecknockshire 5 Feb. 1871.

PEARCE, Sir William, 1 Baronet (son of Joseph George Pearce of Brompton, near Chatham). b. Brompton 8 Jany. 1833; apprenticed in Chatham dockyard; superintended the building of the Achilles, the first ironclad built in a royal yard 1861; surveyor of Lloyd’s registry for the Clyde district 1863; general manager of the works of Robert Napier and son 1864; shipbuilder with Ure and Jameson, under style of John Elder and Co. 1869, his partners retired in 1878; the business was turned into a limited company under name of the Fairfield shipbuilding and engineering company of which he was chairman 1885; built all the steamers for the North German Lloyd’s and for the New Zealand shipping company; built 11 stern-wheel vessels for service on the Nile in 28 days 1884; chairman of the Guion steamship company and of the Scottish oriental steamship company; M.P. Govan division of Lanarkshire Dec. 1885 to death; created baronet 25 July 1887. d. 119 Piccadilly, London 18 Dec. 1888. bur. Gillingham, Kent 22 Dec., personal estate declared at £1,069,669. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry ii 409 (1884) portrait; D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding (1884) 30.

PEARCEY, Mary Eleanor, taken name of Mary Eleanor Wheeler (dau. of James Whitford Wheeler, a marine, d. 17 Aug. 1882). b. Ightham, Kent 26 March 1866; worked as a furrier in Cannon st. Stepney; lived with Charles Pearcey about Nov. 1885 to Nov. 1888, and took his name; invited Phœbe Hogg to visit her at 2 Priory st. Kentish town 24 Oct. 1890, and then quarrelled with her and fractured her head and cut her throat, conveyed the body in a perambulator to Crossfield road, Eton avenue, South Hampstead, where it was found on 25 Oct. as well as the dead body of her young child; executed Newgate 22 Dec. 1890. Central criminal court minutes of evidence cxiii 44–72 (1891); Times 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Oct. 1890, 1, 3, 18 Nov., 6, 18, 20, 23, 24 Dec.; Western Morning News 14 Nov. 1890 p. 3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Dec. 1890, many portraits.

PEARD, John Whitehead (2 son of vice-admiral Shuldham Peard 1761–1832). b. Fowey, Cornwall, July 1811; educ. King’s school, Ottery St. Mary, and Exeter college, Oxford, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, stroke of his college boat; student Inner Temple 16 Nov. 1832, barrister 17 Nov. 1837; captain in Duke of Cornwall’s Rangers 4 June 1853, displaced 24 Dec. 1861; joined the forces of Garibaldi and organized and commanded a company of revolving-rifle soldiers 1860, distinguished himself at battle of Melazzo in Sicily 20 July 1860, raised to rank of colonel; commanded the English legion in the advance to Naples, received cross of the order of Valour from Victor Emmanuel; generally known as Garibaldi’s Englishman; was visited by Garibaldi at his seat Penquite on the Fowey river 25–7 April 1864; sheriff of Cornwall 1869. d. Trenython, Par, Cornwall 21 Nov. 1880. bur. Fowey cemet. 24 Nov. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 439, iii 1456 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 690, 1018; Sir C. Forbe’s Campaign of Garibaldi (1861) 94–9, 143, 200, 217–31; Trollope’s What I remember ii 222–1 (1887–9); Pycroft’s Oxford memories i 48–9, ii 71 (1886); Sir F. H. Doyle’s Reminiscences (1886) 222–3; I.L.N. 11 Aug. 1860 p. 135 portrait; Illust. times 9 Feb. 1861 p. 83 portrait.

Note.—His name was never inserted in the Law List, this is a very remarkable case.

PEARL, Cora, assumed name of Emma Elizabeth Crouch (one of the 16 children of Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, b. 31 July 1808, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen, who went to America in 1845). b. Caroline place, East Stonehouse, Devon 23 Feb. 1842; educ. at Boulogne to 1855; seduced by an admirer in London and thenceforth led a life of dissipation under the name of Cora Pearl 1856; went to France with the returning Persigny embassy March 1858; had a series of liaisons with persons connected with the imperial court; large sums of money, diamonds and jewellery passed through her hands; maintained an establishment in the Rue de Chaillot, which was known as Les Petits Tuileries; kept the finest horses and carriages of any one in Paris, crowds assembled daily to see her in the Bois de Boulogne and ladies imitated her dress and manners; appeared for 12 nights at Les Bouffes Parisiens as Cupid in Offenbach’s opera Orphée aux Enfers 1869; refused admission at the Grosvenor hotel, London 1870; converted her Paris residence into an ambulance during the war and spent 25,000 francs on the wounded 1870; a son of Pierre Louis Duval, founder of the Duval restaurants, spent seventeen million francs on her 1870–1, after which she deserted him and he attempted suicide; expelled by the police at various times from France, Baden, Monte Carlo, Nice, Vichy and Rome; blackmailed her acquaintances, to keep their names out of her printed memoirs; often called La lune rousse in allusion to her round face and red hair; her figure in marble was modelled by M. Gallois in 1880. d. of cancer in squalid poverty in a small room in the Rue de Bassano, Paris 8 July 1886. Memoirs de Cora Pearl, Paris (1886); The memoirs of Cora Pearl, London (1886); Folly’s Queens, New York (1882) 23–7; Truth 15 July 1886 pp. 105–6; London Figaro 24 July 1886 p. 6 portrait; Daily News 10 July 1886 p. 5.

PEARS, Steuart Adolphus (7 son of rev. James Pears, head-master of Bath gram. sch.) b. Pirbright, Surrey 20 Nov. 1815; scholar of C. C. coll. Oxf. 1832–6, fellow 1836, dean 1844–6; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846; tutor to lord Goderich 1838–42; sent abroad by the Parker society to search the libraries of Zurich and other places for correspondence relating to the English reformation 1843; fellow and tutor of univ. of Durham 1846–7; assistant master at Harrow 1847–54; head-master of Repton school July 1854, resigned March 1874, raised the school from a local grammar school of fifty boys to a first-grade public school of nearly 300; R. of Childrey, Berkshire 1874 to death; translated from the Latin The correspondence of sir Philip Sidney and H. Languet 1845; author of Sermons 1851; Three lectures on education 1859; Short sermons on the elements of christian truth 1861; Sundays at school, sermons in Repton school chapel 1870; Sermons 1877. d. Childrey rectory 15 Dec. 1875.

PEARS, Sir Thomas Townsend (brother of preceding). b. 9 May 1809; lieut. Madras engineers 17 June 1825; commandant of the Madras sappers and miners 1836; chief engineer with the field force in Karnul 1839; commanding engineer with the army in China under sir Hugh Gough 1841–2, was present at nearly every action; consulting engineer for railways to government of Madras 1851–7; lieut.-col. 20 June 1854, col. 16 Feb. 1856; chief engineer in the public works’ department for Mysore 1857, retired on a pension with honorary rank of M.G. 8 Feb. 1861; military secretary at the India office, London 1861; organised the arrangements for the Abyssinian expedition, retired 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 June 1871. d. Eton lodge, Upper Richmond road, Putney 7 Oct. 1892. bur. Mortlake cemet. H. M. Vibart’s Madras engineers ii 133 et seq. (1883); J. Ouchterlony’s Chinese war (1844) 47 et seq.; Daily Graphic 12 Oct. 1892 p. 8 portrait.

PEARSALL, Robert Lucas (son of Richard Pearsall). b. Clifton 14 March 1795; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821, went the western circuit 4 years; contributed to Blackwood’s and other magazines; wrote a cantata Saul and the witch of Endor 1808; studied music at Mayence 1825–9, and at Carlsruhe, Munich and Vienna 1830–6; a member of Bristol madrigal society 1837; sold Willsbridge house, Gloucs. 1837; purchased castle of Wartensee on the lake of Constance 1837, resided there to his death; received into the R.C. church and became known as R. L. de Pearsall; composed many settings of psalms, madrigals, a requiem, etc.; composer of Great God of love, an eight part madrigal 1840; The hardy Norseman’s house of yore 1840; O, who will o’er the downs so free 1853; The bishop of Mentz, a four part song 1863; 24 Choral songs 1864; Sir Patrick Spens, a ballad dialogue in ten parts 1880; The sacred compositions of R. L. de Pearsall 1880; Lay a garland, a madrigal 1883; his name is attached to upwards of 80 musical compositions 1840–83; published translations in English verse of Faust and Wilhelm Tell. d. Wartensee castle 5 Aug. 1856. G.M. Oct. 1856 pp. 511–2; Musical Times 1882 p. 376; Grove’s Dict. of music ii 678 (1880).

PEARSALL, Thomas J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). b. at the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London 10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution, London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution, Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association 1853. d. London May 1883. Catalogue of Scientific papers iv 794 (1870).

PEARSE, George. b. 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals, Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861; hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. d. Cheltenham 28 March 1885. Times 2 April 1885 p. 7.

PEARSE, George. b. Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852; solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon 1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made highest aggregate score. d. Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894.

PEARSE, John. b. 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval architecture, Plymouth 1835. d. 1864. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. (1849) 882.

PEARSE, Richard Bulkeley (son of B. Pearse of Munkham, Woodford). b. 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in 1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war 1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. d. 9 Hyde park st. London 19 Nov. 1895. Times 22 Nov. 1895 p. 10.

PEARSE, Thomas. b. 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death, 68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address, the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning 1848. d. Westoning 14 June 1891.

PEARSON, Alfred. b. 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. d. Oldham 29 Dec. 1868. bur. Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. The Era 3 Jany. 1869 p. 14.

PEARSON, Charles (son of Thomas Pearson, merchant). b. London 1794; educ. Eastbourne, Sussex; admitted solicitor 1816; solicitor to the Irish society 1839 to death; city solicitor 1839 to death; solicitor to city comrs. of sewers July 1859 to death; M.P. Lambeth 31 July 1847 to July 1850; the original promoter of Metropolitan underground railway 1859; author of The subject of an address, a brief history of the corporation of London as an asylum of English freedom in past ages 1844; Are the citizens of London to have better gas 1849; An address on the Fleet valley improvements 1852; City improvements 1853; A letter in favour of the Metropolitan railway and city station 1859. d. Oxford lodge, West hill, Wandsworth 14 Sept. 1862. Law Times xxxvii 577, 590 (1862).

PEARSON, Charles Buchanan (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson 1767–1856). b. Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832 to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct. 1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853; contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862; Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations 1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. d. 2 Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.

PEARSON, Charles Henry (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson 1787–1865). b. 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept. 1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863; lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’ Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education 18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861; History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols. 1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873; National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H. Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; m. 6 Dec. 1872 Edith Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he d. at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 June. Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894 p. 4 portrait.

PEARSON, Sir Edwin (son of John Pearson, F.R.S. of Yorkshire). b. 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 13 Feb. 1836, resigned April 1842; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 May 1836; vice-president of the French Institut d’Afrique. d. Rozel, Sunnyside, Wimbledon 18 April 1883.

PEARSON, Emma Maria (1 dau. of capt. Charles Pearson, R.N. of Great Yarmouth). Sent out as a volunteer by the Red Cross soc. under the auspices of the Order of St. John to nurse the sick at Sedan, at Paris, and at Orleans 1870; nursed the wounded in Servia 1877; had medals and decorations from Germany, France, and Servia; wrote for the St. James’ Mag. and other periodicals; author of From Rome to Mentana 1868; One love in a life, 3 vols. 1874; His little cousin, a tale, 3 vols. 1875; with Louisa Elizabeth Maclaughlin she wrote Our adventures during the war 1870; Under the red cross 1872; Service in Servia under the red cross 1877. d. Florence 3 June 1893, aged 65. Times 12 June 1893 p. 6.

PEARSON, Hugh (4 son of succeeding). b. 25 June 1817; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1841; V. of Sonning, Berkshire 1841 to death, restored the church; rural dean of Henley-on-Thames 1864–74, and of Sonning 1874–6; chaplain to bishop of Manchester 1870; canon of St. George’s, Windsor 26 Feb. 1876; deputy clerk of the closet to the queen 2 Aug. 1881 to death; great friend of dean A. P. Stanley 1836–81, frequently went abroad with him; declined the deanery of Westminster 1881. d. Sonning vicarage 13 April 1882. bur. Sonning church 18 April. Times 19 April 1882 p. 12.

PEARSON, Hugh Nicholas (only son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington, Hants.). b. Lymington 1777; educ. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803, B. and D.D. 1821; proctor 1813; gained the prize of £500 offered by Claudius Buchanan for the best essay on Missions in Asia 1807, printed under title of A dissertation on the propagation of christianity in Asia, Oxford 1808; V. of St. Helen’s, Abingdon 1822–3; R. of Chiddingfold, Surrey 1826–31; R. of Guildford, St. Nicholas, Surrey 18 June 1832 to 1837, laid first stone of the new church 7 June 1836, finished Aug. 1837; dean of Salisbury 9 April 1823, resigned June 1846; domestic chaplain to George IV at Brighton 4 Feb. 1823 to 1830; author of Memoirs of the life and writings of the rev. Claudius Buchanan, 2 vols. Oxford 1827; Memoirs of the life of the rev. Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a sketch of the history of Christianity in India, 2 vols, 1834, 3 ed. 1839. d. Sonning, Berkshire 17 Nov. 1856. W. H. Jones’s Fasti Sarisburiensis (1879) 325; Brayley’s Surrey i 355–60 (1850).

PEARSON, Sir John (son of rev. John Norman Pearson of Bower hall, Essex 1787–1865). b. 5 Aug. 1819; educ. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June 1844, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1884–5; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; judge in chancery division of high court of justice 24 Oct. 1882 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Nov. 1882; member of councils of legal education and law reporting; author of The duty of laymen in the church of England 1856. d. 75 Onslow sq. South Kensington, London 13 May 1886. bur. Brompton cemetery. Law quarterly review ii 373–8 (1886); Law Times 22 May 1886 p. 69.

PEARSON, John Armitage. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1856; surgeon of Woolton dispensary, Liverpool 25 years; surgeon of Devonshire hospital and Bath charity, Buxton to death; author of Reports of cases treated at the Buxton bath charity and Devonshire hospital 1861. d. St. Anne’s hotel, Buxton 6 June 1863. bur. St. John’s church 11 June.

PEARSON, John Henry (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). b. Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers, Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East, London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st. Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s, Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. d. Southport 1 July 1887. bur. Southport cemet. Era 10 July 1887.

PEARSON, John Norman (son of John Pearson, surgeon 1758–1826). b. 7 Dec. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., Hulsean prizeman 1807; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; chaplain to marquess of Wellesley; the first principal of the Church Missionary society’s college at Islington 1826–39; V. of Holy Trinity church Tunbridge Wells 1839–53; author of A critical essay on the ninth book of Warburton’s Divine legation of Moses, Cambridge 1808; Christ crucified: or some passages of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, devotionally and practically considered 1826; The candle of the Lord uncovered, or the bible rescued from papal thraldom by the Reformation 1835; The days in paradise 1854. d. Bower hall, near Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 4 Oct. 1865. G.M. ii 792 (1865).

PEARSON, Josiah Brown (son of Benjamin Pearson). b. Chesterfield 1841; educ. Chesterfield gram. sch.; scholar St. John’s coll. Camb.; a first in the moral science tripos 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, LL.M. 1871, LL.D. 1874, D.D. 1880; fellow of St. John’s 1864–80, lecturer 1864–71; C. of St. Michael, Camb. 1865–7; C. of St. Andrew the great, Camb. 1867–9; V. of Horningsea, Cambs. 1871–4; Whitehall preacher 1872–4; Hulsean lecturer and Ramsden preacher 1872; V. of Newark 1874–80; commissioner to bishop of Melbourne 1876–80; bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales 1880, consecrated in St. Paul’s cathedral 1 May 1880, resigned Nov. 1890; V. of Leck Kirkby, Lonsdale 1893 to death; author of The divine personality, the Burney prize essay 1865; Creed or no creed, three sermons 1871; Disciples in doubt, five sermons 1879. d. Leck vicarage 10 March 1895.

PEARSON, Julius Alexander. b. 1839; educ. King’s coll. London; LL.D.; admitted solicitor 1862; practised at 46 Hyde park sq. London 1864; junior partner in Cope, Rose, and Pearson 26 Great George st. Westminster 1867 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., and Notes and Queries, chiefly upon heraldic matters; F.S.A. 7 June 1866. d. Surbiton, Surrey 29 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 511 (1871).

PEARSON, Richard Lyons Otway (son of Henry Shepherd Pearson). b. 1831; educ. Eton and at Sandhurst; ensign 95 foot 10 Dec. 1847; captain 7 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. grenadier guards 20 July 1855, captain 27 Dec. 1864, sold out 2 Jany. 1869; aide-de-camp to sir George Brown during Crimean war 1854–5, present at Alma, Inkerman, the expedition to Kertch, and the siege of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; assistant commissioner of metropolitan police 1 July 1881 to death; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. 57 Warwick sq. London 30 May 1890.

PEARSON, Thomas Hooke (son of John Pearson, advocate-general of India). b. June 1806; educ. Eton; cornet 11 light dragoons 14 March 1825; served at siege of Bhurtpore Nov. 1825; captain 59 foot 23 Aug. 1831; captain 16 lancers 9 Dec. 1831, major 23 April 1847, placed on h.p. 7 April 1848; served at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843 and in the first Sikh war; commanded his regiment during latter part of battle of Aliwal (and saved the battle by a spirited cavalry charge) 28 Jany. 1846, and at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; on retired list as L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel 12 lancers 4 Feb. 1879 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869; won the One thousand guineas, Great Yorkshire stakes, St. Leger and Doncaster cup with Achievement 1867, her foals did not live and she died in 1872. d. The Hasells, Sandy, Beds. 29 April 1892. Times 3 May 1892 p. 10.

PEARSON, William (son of capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N.) b. Hilton, Kilmany, Fifeshire 20 Sept. 1818; a squatter in Gippsland, Australia 1841, owning Lindenow and Kilmany park stations; member for North Gippsland to legislative assembly 1868 and 1871; member for the Eastern province in legislative council; largest shareholder in Long tunnel gold mine, Walhalla; a breeder of race horses from 1842; a winner of several hundred races; great supporter of the turf in Victoria; an exceedingly wealthy man. d. Melbourne Sept. 1893.

PEARSON-GEE, Arthur Beilby (elder son of Wm. Pearson, Q.C., b. 1824). b. 2 Nov. 1855; educ. Rugby and Trin. hall, Camb., B.A. 1877; barrister I.T. 25 June 1879; went north eastern circuit; member of joint legal board of examiners 1881 to death; assumed additional surname of Gee by R.L. 15 Jany. 1885; edited J. P. Benjamin’s Treatise on the law of sale of personal property, 3 ed. 1883, and 4 ed. 1888; author with H. F. Boyd of Factors acts 1823 to 1877, 1884, and alone of The new factors acts annotated 1890. d. 19 Portland place, London 9 Jany. 1896. Times 11 Jany. 1896 p. 6.

PEASE, Edward (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27 Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death. d. Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. Annual Monitor (1859) 123–64; S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R. Stephenson (1874) 123–32, 385 portrait; I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858 p. 121; Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 487–95.

PEASE, Edward (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). b. 24 June 1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’ institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly; chief promoter of British and foreign training college for female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. d. Lucerne 13 June 1880. bur. Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25 Sept. 1880. First Report of E. Pease public library (1887).

PEASE, Henry (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. 4 May 1807; helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in 1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England, the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war 10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society 1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871; the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. d. while attending the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May 1881. bur. at Darlington, personalty sworn at £360,489, 13 Aug. 1881. Fortunes made in business i 331–78 (1884); I.L.N. xxiv 201 (1854) portrait; J. Sturge’s Some account of a deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia (1854); London Society (1881) 431–46.

PEASE, John (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. Darlington 1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S. of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825; a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great Ayton, Yorks. 1841. d. Darlington 29 July 1868. Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends (1888) 495–500.

PEASE, Joseph (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member, objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.; assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books; had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy 1841. d. Southend, Darlington 8 Feb. 1872, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington unveiled 1875. J. H. Bell’s British folks and British India (1891) 39, 42, 131; Joseph Pease, a memoir (1872); Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 503–7; I.L.N. lx 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) portrait; Leisure Hour xxi 375 portrait; J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway system (1875); Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp. 321, 328, view of statue.

PEASE, Joseph Walker (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866). b. Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1 East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull 7 Feb. 1874. d. Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.

PEAT, David. b. Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy 2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29 July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard 1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug. 1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. end of Dec. 1880.

PEBODY, Charles (son of Charles Pebody). b. Watford or Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882; wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post. d. Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. bur. Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p. 5, 4 Nov. p. 4.

PECHELL, Sir George Richard Brooke, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). b. London 30 June 1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820; commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822; gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton 13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852, and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820. d. 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.

PECHELL, Horace Robert (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone, London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). b. 12 May 1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.

PECHEY, William Crisp. b. Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838; educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868 to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji islands 1871. d. at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st. Walthamstow 22 June 1871. Medical times and gazette ii 236 (1871).

PECK, Charles. b. Beverley 1801; a jockey; horse trainer at Highfield, near Malton in succession to William Perren for 6 years; had some breeding mares of his own; a trainer at Grove house, Malton from 1842 for sir R. Bulkeley, lord Glasgow, Stanhope Hanke, Mr. Wentworth, major Yarburgh, and Mr. Pedley; for Mr. Wilkins trained Old Dan Tucker and Napoleon, which won the Great Yorkshire stakes 185- and 1859; trained Mr. Graham’s horses 1863. d. Malton 16 Jany. 1867. bur. Malton 21 Jany. Sporting Review Feb. 1867 pp. 85–6.

PECK, Lillian or Lydia Elizabeth (2 dau. of Wm. Priest Peck of Chelmsford, Wesleyan minister). b. 1850; under the pseudonym of Ruth Elliott she wrote Margery’s Christmas box 1875; Little Ray and her friends 1877; James Daryll 1877; Undeceived, Roman or Anglican, a story of English ritualism 1877; John Lyon 1879; My first class 1881; A voice from the sea 1881; Talks with the bairns 1882; Auriel 1883; Fought and won 1885; Archie and Nellie 1885; Twixt promise and vow 1886. d. New London road, Chelmsford 25 Oct. 1878.

PECKHAM-MICKLETHWAIT, Sir Sotheron Branthwayt, 1 Baronet (younger son of Nathaniel Micklethwait of Beeston, Norfolk 1760–86). b. 30 May 1786; cornet 3 dragoon guards 15 Jany. 1803, captain 5 Jany. 1807, sold out 15 Sept. 1808; assumed surname of Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet 27 July 1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty and the duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of Sussex 1848. d. Iridge place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.

PECKOVER, Algernon (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech, Cambridge, d. 1833). b. 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. d. 10 Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.

PEDDER, James. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went to U.S. of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture of sugar in Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an agricultural journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844 to death; author of a book of conversations entitled Frank, which ran to several editions; The yellow shoestrings, or obedience to parents 1814, 17 editions; Report made to the beet sugar society of Philadelphia on the culture in France of the beet root 1836; The farmer’s land measure, New York 1854. d. Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.

PEDDER, John. b. 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and tutor, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham Dec. 1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of North Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. d. 13 Somerset place, Walcot, Bath 12 July 1890.

PEDDER, Sir John Lewes (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle Temple, barrister). b. 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1822; barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van Diemen’s Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a dispute with sir William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s Land in 1848; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8 Bedford square, Brighton. d. 24 March 1859.

PEDDIE, John. Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept. 1813; captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827; lieut. col. 31 foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April 1832; lieut. col. 90 foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840; K.H. 1832. d. 1873.

PEDDIE, John Crofton. b. 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814, major 5 Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March 1849, sold out 27 Dec. 1850. d. Douglas, Isle of Man during a service in St. Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.

PEDDIE, John Dick (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years; architect 1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn st. Edinb., the Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank, Glasgow; A.R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of council; M.P. Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock burghs 1885; a leader in the disestablishment movement 1880. d. 33 Buckingham terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. Scotsman 13 March 1891 p. 5.

PEDDIE, William (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister 1758–1845). b. 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ. of Edinb. and Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to preach May 1827; colleague to his father at the Bristo street secession chapel, Edinb. Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel 11 Oct. 1845 to death; moderator of the United Presbyterian synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania 1843; edited the United Presbyterian magazine several years; edited Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a memoir 1846. d. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1893. United Presbyterian Magazine April 1893.

PEDLEY, Charles. b. Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. Independent college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street 1848; pastor of Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1857; pastor at Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to death; author of The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest times to the end of 1860, 1863. d. Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872. H. J. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 304.

PEDLEY, Mr. b. Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses which he trained at Danebury; m. a daughter of John Gully and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner; won the Derby with Cossack 1847. d. about 1872. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 76–8.

PEEBLES, Alexander Marshall. b. 1837; an architect at Highbury hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London; member of common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook 1882–5; F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London 1887 to death, built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and vegetable market. d. 23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood, London 21 May 1891. bur. Kensal green 25 May. I.L.N. 6 June 1891 p. 735 portrait; City Press 23 May 1891 p. 2.

PEEBLES, Allan Laing (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot). b. Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut. Devonshire regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death; adjutant of the first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894; inspector of small arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in charge of Maxim battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and other eastern languages; made improvements in the maxim gun; with the Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river Panjkora, Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.

PEEBLES, James. b. 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1858. d. 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.

PEEBLES, Philip Cadell. b. 23 April 1842; head of the firm of A. M. Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire, paper manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for illustrated journals; made improvements in dry printing; member of hon. artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name of Mr. Renfrew from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two years’ old plate at Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great Lancashire handicap in 1888. d. 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park, London 26 Nov. 1895. bur. Kensal green 30 Nov. I.L.N. 7 Dec. 1895 p. 694 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895 p. 467 portrait.

PEED, Thomas Thorpe. b. 1825; educ. Royal academy of music under Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis to D. F. M. Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a singing class at the academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic institution; conducted a lecture on the music of the Beggars’ opera; lessee of the Alexandra theatre, Camden Town, opened 31 May 1873 with his own operetta Marguerite and Robert Reece’s 3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s debt; produced The magic pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball, music by himself 29 Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto by R. Reece, music by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon quadrilles 1843; Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not gold, a song 1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a song 1880. d. Margate 9 Nov. 1888. I.L.N. xxxv 243 (1859) portrait.

PEEK, James (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). b. 8 June 1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London, the firm being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the firm of Peek, Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead, St. Saviours, London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir Henry Peek, 1 baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. d. Watcombe, Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 13–17 (1865).

PEEL, Arthur (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham, Lincs.) b. 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of islands of Antigua and Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. d. 15 Oct. 1873.

PEEL, John. b. Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with Miss White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole expense a pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide reputation by a song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the old Cumberland tune of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to music by Metcalfe; Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John Peel and At the grave of John Peel. d. Ruthwaite, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1854. bur. Caldbeck churchyard. S. Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 106; West Cumberland Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886.

PEEL, John (5 son of Thomas Peel of Peelfold, Lancashire, calico printer). b. 4 Feb. 1804; educ. Manchester gram. sch.; a merchant; M.P. Tamworth 1863–8, and 28 March 1871 to death; contested Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868. d. Middleton hall, Tamworth 2 April 1872, personalty under £300,000, 27 July 1872.

PEEL, John (4 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart., d. 1830). b. 22 Aug. 1798; educ. Rugby 1812–7, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, B.D. and D.D. 1845; V. of Stone, Worcs. 1828 to death; canon residentiary of Canterbury cathedral 1829–45; dean of Worcester 9 Dec. 1845 to death. d. Waresley house, Worcester 18 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 211, 403 (1875).

PEEL, John (4 son of succeeding). b. 11 April 1829; ensign 34 foot 22 June 1847, captain 25 Nov. 1853; served in Crimean war, severely wounded; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 23 Oct. 1857; assistant military secretary at Malta 1864–7; A.A.G. S.W. district 1867–72; A.A. and Q.M.G. home district 1 May 1876 to 10 July 1880; M.G. 11 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 11 July 1885. d. at his residence near Herne Bay 17 Nov. 1892.

PEEL, Jonathan (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ. Rugby 1811–5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71 foot 18 Feb. 1819 to 13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7 Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825; major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June 1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June 1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug. 1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P. Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–68; surveyor general of the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for war 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March 1867; began racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with Archibald 1832, ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando and Ionian 1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851; kept race horses again 1869 to death. d. Marble hall, Twickenham 13 Feb. 1879. bur. Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 120–4; Rice’s British Turf ii 323–7 (1879); Baily’s Mag. iii 273–8 (1861) portrait; New sporting mag. xv 371 (1838) portrait; Sporting Times 13 Feb. 1875 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 201, 202 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 224 (1879) portrait.

PEEL, Jonathan (eld. son of Robert Peel of Accrington house, Lancs., d. 16 April 1839). b. 1 May 1806; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 3 May 1833; contested Cheltenham 24 July 1837 and Clitheroe Lancs. 23 Aug. 1853; resided at Knowlmere manor, near Clitheroe, where he kept a large flock of Lonk sheep, his ram Mountain King won 40 first prizes and died 12 Nov. 1864; bred short horn cattle 1851 to death, lost all his first herd by murrain 1856. d. Knowlmere manor 6 March 1885. H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 358–65.

PEEL, Sir Lawrence (3 son of Joseph Peel of Bowes farm, Middlesex, d. 1821). b. 10 Aug. 1799; educ. Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 7 May 1824, bencher 8 May 1856 to death, treasurer 3 Dec. 1866; advocate general at Calcutta 1840–2; chief justice of supreme court at Calcutta 11 Feb. 1842, retired Nov. 1855; knighted by patent 18 May 1842; vice-president of legislative council at Calcutta 1854–5; gave away in charity his official income of £8,000, was voted a statue at Calcutta Nov. 1855; P.C. and paid member of the judicial committee 4 April 1856; a director of the East India company 1857; D.C.L. Oxford 1858; president of Guy’s hospital Jany. 1864; author of Horæ Nauseæ 1841, and of A sketch of the life and character of Sir R. Peel 1860. d. Garden Reach, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 22 July 1884.

PEEL, Laurence (brother of Jonathan Peel 1799–1879). b. 28 June 1801; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1819; one of the secretaries of the India board; M.P. Cockermouth 1827–30. d. 32 Sussex sq. Brighton 10 Dec. 1888.

PEEL, Sir Robert, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. London 4 May 1822; educ. Harrow 1835–41; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 May 1841; attaché to British legation at Madrid 18 June 1844; secretary of legation in Switzerland 2 May 1846, chargé d’affaires there Nov. 1846, resigned on his father’s death 2 July 1850; M.P. Tamworth 20 July 1850 to 24 March 1880; shipwrecked off the coast of Genoa in the steamboat Ercolano 24 April 1854; captain in Staffordshire yeomanry 1854–9; a junior lord of the admiralty March 1855 to May 1857; secretary to lord Granville’s special mission to Russia at coronation of Alexander II. July 1856; chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland 26 July 1861, resigned Nov. 1865; P.C. 25 July 1861; G.C.B. 5 Jany. 1866; contested Gravesend 1 July 1880; M.P. Huntingdon 21 March 1884, the borough was disfranchised 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. Blackburn 24 Nov. 1885 to 26 June 1886; contested the Inverness burghs 9 July 1886 and Brighton 25 Oct. 1889; raced on the turf under name of Mr. F. Robinson from about 1856, bred horses at Bonehill, near Tamworth; sold his father’s collection of 77 pictures and 18 drawings, including Ruben’s Chapeau de Poil, to the National gallery for £75,000, March 1871; found dead in his bedroom at 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 9 May 1895. bur. Drayton-Bassett parish church 16 May. St. Stephen’s Review 9 May 1891 pp. 13–4 portrait; Sporting Times 1 May 1875 pp. 297, 300 portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1851 p. 254 portrait, and 18 May 1895 p. 606 portrait.

PEEL, Sir William (3 son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. 2 Nov. 1824; midshipman R.N. 7 April 1838; commander 27 June 1846; commanded the Daring on the North American and West Indies’ station 1847–8; captain 10 Jany. 1849; captain of the Diamond frigate in the Mediterranean Oct. 1853; served with the naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5, threw a live shell over the parapet of his battery 18 Oct. 1854; led the ladder party at the assault on the Redan 18 June 1855; one of the first recipients of the Victoria cross 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858; captain of the Shannon, 50 guns, 13 Sept. 1856; formed a naval brigade at Calcutta July 1857, and served at all the chief operations during Sepoy mutiny; severely wounded in the thigh in the second relief of Lucknow 9 March 1858; A.D.C. to the queen 21 Jany. 1858 to death; author of A ride through the Nubian desert 1852. d. Cawnpore 27 April 1858, statues in Eden gardens at Calcutta and in painted hall, Greenwich, and portrait by John Lucas in painted hall at Greenwich. I.L.N. xxxviii 68 (1861) view of statue at Greenwich; E. H. Verney’s The Shannon brigade in India, account of Peel’s naval brigade in the Indian campaign (1862) portrait.

PEEL, William Yates (2 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart. 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, Bury 3 Aug. 1789; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M. A. 1815; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1816; M.P. Bossiny 1817–8; M.P. Tamworth 1818–30; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1830; M.P. univ. of Cambridge 1831–5; M.P. Tamworth again 1835–47; comr. of board of control 2 June 1826 to 4 June 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 April 1828 to 5 Aug. 1830; a lord of the treasury 31 July 1830 to 24 Nov. 1830, and 31 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 20 Dec. 1834. d. Bagington hall, Warwickshire 1 June 1858. G.M. Aug. 1858 p. 191.

PEELE, Edward. b. 1838; educ. for musical profession; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland and L.M. 1872; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1873; on staff of hospital for diseases of the throat, Dublin; physician to hospital for incurables; demonstrator of anatomy royal coll. of surgeons’ medical school; visiting physician to Coombe lying-in hospital. d. of typhus fever 41 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1881. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 21 Feb. Medical times and gazette i 416 (1881).

PEENE, William Gurden. b. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1833; in practice at Maidstone, Kent. d. Maidstone 20 June 1853, left £1,700 for purchase of books for the library of University college, London.

PEER, John. Drove the Southampton Telegraph team, being the crack whip of his day, dressed in a surtout olive coat, white waistcoat, buckskin breeches and top boots; always stood in a leaning position when driving; patronised by the marquis of Worcester, afterwards duke of Beaufort; started a coach from London to Southampton and lost his money. d. in poverty Fetter lane, London at an advanced age. Sporting Review lii 113 (1864); Driving, by the duke of Beaufort (1889) 245.

PEERS, Charles (only son of Robert Peers of Chislehampton lodge, Wallingford, Oxon.) b. 1774; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1804; gained Seatonian prize for Christ’s lamentation over Jerusalem 1805; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1802; recorder of Henley-upon-Thames; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 14 June 1820; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1821; F.S.A.; author of The siege of Jerusalem, a poem 1823. d. Chislehampton lodge, Oxfordshire 6 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 551 (1853).

PEET, John. Educ. Univ. college, London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1841; M.D. Aberdeen 1866; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1858, F.R.C.P. 1860; assistant surgeon Bombay army 2 May 1842, surgeon 23 June 1858; professor of anatomy and of surgery Grant Medical coll. Bombay Oct. 1845; acting principal of the college 1854–6, principal 1858, retired 1865; surgeon Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital 1858–65; member of Medical and physical soc. of Bombay, sec. 1849–53, president 1863 and 1864, contributed many papers to the Transactions; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1864, translated into 3 vernacular languages; resided at Shanklin from 1865. d. Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 18 Jany. 1874. Medical times and gazette 7 Feb. 1874 p. 168.

PEET, Thomas. b. Wigan 24 March 1788; educ. Wigan gram. sch.; capt. Wigan local militia; local sec. of British archæological assoc. at Manchester 1851; a calico printer at Manchester; director of Union bank of Manchester; received present of plate from Salford market committee for his researches which enabled them to establish their right to the ancient market Feb. 1844. d. Manchester 14 Jany. 1862. Journal of British Archæol. assoc. xix 155 (1863).

PEILE, Thomas Williamson (eld. son of John Peile of Whitehaven). b. 10 Nov. 1806; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, Davies’ scholar 1824; 18 wrangler 1828; B.A 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1 Oct. 1829 to 1831; head master of Liverpool collegiate school 1829; P.C. of St Catherine’s, Liverpool 1831; tutor in univ. of Durham 1834; P.C. of Croxdale, near Durham 1836; head master of Repton school 1841–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1857–60; V. of St. Paul, South Hampstead Oct. 1860, resigned 1873; edited the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1839, and The Cheophoræ 1840; author of Annotations on the apostolical epistles, 4 vols. 1847–52; Sermons, doctrinal and didactic 1866; Three sermons on the holy communion 1871; his name is attached to upward of 35 works. d. 37 St. John’s Wood park, London 29 Nov. 1882. bur. Buckhurst Hill churchyard 2 Dec., portrait in hall of Repton school. The Guardian 6 Dec. 1882 p. 1716.

PEILL, John Newton. b. Liverpool 14 Dec. 1808; educ. royal institution, Liverpool and Queen’s coll. Camb., 7th wrangler and B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1832–53, bursar 1843–50, dean 1850–1 and tutor 1850–3; R. of St. Botolph’s, Camb. 1843–53; R. of Newton Toney, Wilts. 1853 to death; rural dean of Amesbury; diocesan inspector of schools; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1869; with his own astronomical instruments made observations at Newton Toney. d. Newton Toney 12 June 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Society xl 204 (1880).

PEITHMAN, Edward (son of major Peithman, who fell at Jena). b. Osnabruck, Hanover 1804; educ. Bonn, Halle and Berlin; L.L.D.; came to England June 1824; lectured on education in Oxford and Cambridge; tutor to sons of baron Cloncurry at Lyons, near Dublin 1835, dismissed for refusing to take part against a girl seduced by one of his pupils; confined in Kilmainham gaol as a lunatic to prevent his giving evidence in the law courts 1835, transferred to Dublin house of industry, then to Swift’s hospital; lectured before university of Dublin and the Royal society; tutor to earl Fortescue’s sons at Dublin castle to 1840; called twice at Buckingham palace to obtain situation of librarian to prince Albert 1840, confined in Bethlehem hospital 1840–54; made calls at Buckingham palace 1854, confined in Hanwell asylum; went to Prussia where his case was commented on by count Arnim in the Upper chamber; awarded £100 a year, paid by the British embassy at Berlin. Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 38–47.

PELHAM, Dudley Anderson Worsley (younger son of Charles, 1 earl of Yarborough 1781–1846). b. Stratford place, London 20 April 1812; entered R.N. 4 Aug. 1825, captain 26 Oct. 1840; M.P. Boston 2 Aug. 1849 to death. d. Motcombe st. Belgrave sq. London 13 April 1851. G.M. xxxv 664 (1851).

PELHAM, Frederick Thomas (2 son of Thomas, 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 2 Aug. 1808; entered navy 27 June 1823; served on the coast of Spain 1835; commanded the Tweed, 20 guns, on Lisbon station 1837–8; captain 3 July 1840; commanded Odin steam frigate in Mediterranean 1847; R.A. 6 March 1858; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.S.F. of Spain; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to June 1861. d. Brighton 21 June 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.

PELHAM, John Thomas (3 son of 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 21 June 1811; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. and D.D. 1857; C. of Eastergate, Sussex 1834–7; R. of Bergh Apton, Norfolk 1837–52; honorary canon of Norwich cathedral 1847–57; chaplain to the queen 18 June 1847 to 1857; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hampstead 1852–5; R. of St. Marylebone, London 27 Dec. 1854 to 1857; bishop of Norwich 30 April 1857, resigned early in 1893, consecrated in Marylebone church 11 June 1857; founded a diocesan church association for building churches and in 1879 a diocesan conference; published Hymns for public worship 1855, and printed 7 charges and sermons. d. Sunnyhill, Thorpe, Norwich 1 May 1894. bur. Berghampton 5 May. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 45 portrait; Black and White 12 May 1894 p. 571 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 365 (1865) portrait; Daily Graphic 1 Feb. 1893 p. 14 portrait.

Note.—His fourth, son Herbert Pelham, b. 1855; educ. Haileybury and Magd. coll. Oxf.; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877 and 1878; B.A. 1878; C. of St. Philip’s, Heigham, Norfolk 1878 to death; d. at Les Avants, Switzerland 30 May 1881 from injuries received in a fall while mountain climbing. Times 1 June 1881 p. 12.

PELHAM, Richard Ward. b. 1816; was often known as R. W. Pell; the first to introduce negro entertainments in America and England, the four original Virginia minstrels were R. W. Pelham, F. M. Brower, D. D. Emmett, and W. Whitlock; took farewell benefit at Park theatre, New York 19 April 1843, arrived in England 21 May 1843; gave 5 concerts at Bold st. hall, Liverpool, 6 concerts at the Athenæum, Manchester, and 6 nights at Queen’s theatre, Manchester, the first theatre a band of minstrels ever appeared in; made first appearance at Adelphi theatre, London 19 June 1843, under John Henry Anderson, at expense of £100 a week; the oldest manager of negro minstrels in the world. d. 2 Harford st. Liverpool 8 Oct. 1876. bur. Anfield cemetery 11 Oct. G. W. Moore’s Bones (1870) pp. 3–4, Dedicated to R. W. Pelham.

PELHAM-CLINTON, Robert Renebald (6 son of 4 duke of Newcastle 1785–1851). b. Clumber 15 Oct. 1820; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 11 Dec. 1839; M.P. North Notts. 17 July 1852 to 6 July 1865; first lieut. Sherwood rangers 1853. d. Earlswood, Reigate 25 July 1867.

PELL, Gilbert Ward. b. New York 1825; the original “Bones” of the negro entertainments; opened St. James’s theatre, London under title of the “Ethiopian serenaders” 10 Feb. 1846, Pell was bones, Harrington concertina, White violin, Stanwood banjo and Germain tambourine, Juba a real black and a splendid dancer in boots was also in the company. d. 21 Dec. 1872. bur. St. Helen’s cemetery, Lancs. 24 Dec.

PELL, Morris Birkbeck. b. U.S. of America about 1826; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B. A. 1849, senior wrangler and Smith’s junior prizeman 1849; fellow of his college March 1850 to March 1852; the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in univ. of Sydney N.S.W. Jany. or Feb. 1852, retired on a pension 1877; fellow of the senate of the univ. 1878; barrister of supreme court of N.S.W. 1863; member of the water and sewerage and the Hunter river floods preventions commissions; actuary of the Australian mutual provident society; author of Geometrical illustrations of the differential calculus 1850. d. Sydney 7 May 1879.

PELL, Oliver Claude (youngest son of sir Albert Pell, judge of court of review, d. 1832), b. Pinner hill, Middlesex 3 Sept. 1826; educ. Rugby 1839–44; first match at Lord’s Marylebone v. Rugby 16 June 1842, a fine back player combined with hard forward hitting to leg, could throw a ball a great distance; in the university and All England cricket elevens; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1851; took an active part in the public affairs of Isle of Ely, chairman of bench of magistrates, chairman of Isle of Ely county council 1888 to death; won many rifle shooting prizes at Wimbledon, a member of the English eight which defeated Scotland 1868; lord of the manor and lay rector of Wilburton; author of A new view of the geldable unit of assessment of domesday, printed in P. E. Dove’s Domesday studies (1888) vol. i, pp. 227–385. d. Wilburton manor, Ely 18 Oct. 1891. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 81 (1863).

PELL, Sir Watkin Owen (son of Samuel Pell of Sywell hall, Northamptonshire). b. 1788; entered navy April 1799; lost his left leg in the capture of the French frigate Pallas 6 Feb. 1800; commander 29 March 1810; commanded the Thunder bomb at the defence of Cadiz 1810–12; captured the Neptune privateer 9 Oct. 1813; captain 1 Nov. 1813; captain of the Menai frigate on the coast of North America 1814–7; senior officer on the Jamaica station May 1833 to March 1837; knighted by queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; K.C.H. 1837; captain of the Howe 1840; superintendent of Deptford victualling yard Aug. 1841, then at Sheerness dockyard; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 17 Dec. 1841 to 18 Feb. 1845; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 18 Feb. 1845; R.A. 5 Sept. 1848, V.A. 28 Dec. 1855, admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Greenwich hospital 29 Dec. 1869. I.L.N. lvi 82 (1870).

PELLATT, Apsley (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the glass lenses known as deck lights, d. 21 Jany. 1826). b. 80 High Holborn, London 27 Nov. 1791; in business with his father at the Falcon glass works, Holland st. Southwark; took out a patent for crystallo-ceramic or glass incrustation 1819; took out a patent for improvements in the manufacture of pressed glass articles 1831, and another with his brother Frederick for improvements in the composition of glass 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb. 1838, member of council 1840; member of court of common council of city of London 7 years; M.P. Southwark 1852–7; contested Southwark 31 March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for facilitating dissenter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his bill to define the law as to crossed cheques was passed and became the act 19 and 20 Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided at Staines 1843 to death; one of jurors at exhibition of 1862, and wrote the report on glass manufactures; author of Memoir on the origin, progress and improvement of glass manufactures 1821; Brief memoir of the Jews in relation to their civil and municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities of glass making 1849. d. of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law Mr. Field, Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii 511 (1863); H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 67–9 (1865); Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 166; I.L.N. xxii 237 (1853) portrait.