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

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

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

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

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

PHIPSON, Thomas Weatherley. b. 1807; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 10 June 1845, bencher 1862 to death; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862. d. Southampton 15 Jany. 1875. Solicitors’ Journal xix 239 (1875).

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

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

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

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

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

PICKERING, Edward Hayes (eld. son of Edward Rowland Pickering). b. 1809; educ. Eton 1817–26, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833; assistant master Eton Jany. 1830 to death; was ordained in 1830; played at Lord’s in Harrow v. Eton 30 July 1824, also in 1825 and 1826; an elegant batsman; played in Gentlemen v. Players 1844 etc. d. Eton 19 May 1852. bur. in the school chapel. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i 500 (1862), v p. xiii (1876); G.M. July 1852 pp. 97–8.

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

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

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

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

PICKERING, William Henry. b. 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired full pay as M.G. d. Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863.

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

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

PICKERSGILL, Jeannette Caroline. b. 1814; m. H. H. Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation society. d. 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first person cremated there 26 March 1885. Transactions of Cremation soc. (1885) 49; Times 27 March 1885 p. 10.

PICKFORD, Thomas. b. 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13; attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5 July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy 30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832; consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn] 2 vols. 1864. d. Paris 24 June 1865. Times 24 June 1865 p. 9, 26 June p. 6; Foreign office list, second ed. 1865 p. 168.

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

PICKNELL, Robert. b. Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Sussex 19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852. d. Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. bur. Chalvington. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 406 (1862).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PIGOTT, George Granado Graham Foster (1 son of the rev. George G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). b. Abington Pigotts, Cambs. 16 May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge militia 1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of Sebastopol, served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865. d. Abington 14 May 1878. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix 237 (1879).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PILCH, Fuller (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). b. Horningtoft, near Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played his first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club 24 July 1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30; played for England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he made the highest score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand bowling; resided at Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket Thomas Marsden the Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833 and again at Sheffield before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one of the Kent eleven with salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member of Clarke’s All England eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in England 1825–50; landlord of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent 1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept a shop for sale of cricket implements at Canterbury 1842 to death; landlord of Saracen’s head inn Canterbury 1860. d. Canterbury 1 May 1870. bur. St. Gregory’s churchyard. Baily’s Mag. xxvii 270–9 (1875); Denison’s Sketches of the players (1846) 64–9; Pycroft’s Cricket field, 3 ed. (1859) 135 portrait; Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i 434 (1862), v page xiii (1876); F. Gale’s Game of cricket (1887) 11–26; Illust. London life 16 July 1843 p. 236 portrait; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 24 portrait; R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 26 portrait; I.L.N. iii 45 (1843) portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PIM, Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan (only son of Edward Bedford Pim, lieut. R.N., d. 1830). b. Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826; entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald 1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in the western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21 April 1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6, and the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon 1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route across the Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now known as Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861; captain 16 April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5 July 1885; made three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his traffic transit scheme March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the Nicaraguan railway company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was dissolved July 1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went the western circuit; contested Totnes 12 July 1865; contested Gravesend 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Gravesend 1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of Anthropological institute 1871 to death, member of council 1871–4; author of An earnest appeal on behalf of the missing Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857; The gate of the Pacific 1863; An essay on feudal tenures 1871; War chronicle, with memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king William I 1873; The Eastern question, past, present and future 1877; Gems from Greenwich hospital 1881; author with Beethold Seeman of Dottings on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito 1869. d. Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial brass tablet and window at west end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii 448–54 (1887).

PIM, Jonathan (son of Thomas Pim, merchant, Dublin). b. 1806; partner in firm of Pim Brothers & Co. poplin manufacturers, cotton spinners, linen weavers, and flour millers 22 William st. Dublin; M.P. Dublin city 17 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Dublin 7 Feb. 1874; author of The condition and prospects of Ireland 1848; Ireland and the imperial parliament 1871. d. Greenbank, Monkstown, co. Dublin 6 July 1885.

PIM, Thomas (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market, Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of Royal yacht club. d. Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.

PINCHIN, Robert. b. 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa 1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death; partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H. L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L. Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. d. Port Elizabeth 9 May 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv 388 (1889).

PINCKARD, George Henry (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court Barton, Devon, d. 1839). b. Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court, Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. d. Combe court 23 July 1892. The Times 26 July 1892 p. 9.

PINCKNEY, Frederick George Augustus. Ensign 73 foot 8 April 1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858. d. off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.

PINCOFFS, Peter. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840, where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841; in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond. 1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari 1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec. 1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. d. Munich 17 July 1872. Medical times and gazette ii 165–6 (1872).

PINDER, Francis Ford (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa, Bath). b. 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857, went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. d. 129 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.

PINDER, George. b. 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. d. Clifton 14 Jany. 1881.

PINDER, John Hothersall (son of Francis Ford Pinder of Barbadoes). b. 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2 ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures 1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. d. West Malvern 16 April 1868. bur. in West Malvern churchyard. G.M. May 1868 p. 783.

PINE, Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell (eld. son of Benjamin Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). b. 1813; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831, barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer 1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849 to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855, governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher, West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31 May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16, and others. d. Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. The Times 2 March 1891 p. 7.

PINE, Richard. Employed on important missions to native kings and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia 1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866; registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870. d. 6 Feb. 1878.

PINHEY, Robert. b. 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army 15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1 May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board 1843–6. d. Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.

PINK, Charles Richard (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester). b. Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London 1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886; designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. d. Hyde, near Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church. Pink memorial (1889) portrait; Journal of proc. of royal instit. of British architects v 172, 314 (1889).

PINKERTON, Allan. b. Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other books. d. Chicago 1 July 1884. Appleton’s American biography v 25 (1888); Harper’s Mag. xlvii 720–7 (1873).

PINKETT, Francis Frederick (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of Barnstaple). b. about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany. 1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T. 19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement June 1880, administered government of the West African settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883; acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements 31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. Law Times 11 June 1887 p. 108.

PINKS, William John. b. Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29 Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde, bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries, the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals; a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i, no more published. d. at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. bur. Highgate cemet. 19 Nov., memorial stone erected by subscription. Memoirs of W. J. Pinks (1861); W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell, 2 ed. (1881) memoir pp. v–viii portrait.

PINNEY, Charles (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed surname of Pinney 1762). b. 29 April 1793; partner with E. Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received £3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833; mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol 1836. d. Camp house, Clifton 17 July 1867. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii 273–355 (1850); Trial of Charles Pinney (1833); Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887) 146–79, 188, 212; Nicholls and Taylor’s Bristol iii 325–38 (1882); P. C. Scarlett’s Memoir of James, first lord Abinger (1877) 350–402.

PINNOCK, William Henry (son of Wm. Pinnock, publisher and author 1782–1843). b. 1813; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1850, LL.D. 1855; admitted LL.D. at Oxford 1859; C. of Somersham, Hunts. 1846–70; English chaplain at Chantilly, France 1870–6; C. in charge of All Saints, Dalston, London 1876–7; V. of Pinner, Herts. 1879 to death; edited W. Pinnock’s History of England made easy, new ed. 1847; wrote a continuation of Pinnock’s Abridgment of Goldsmith’s History of England, 46 ed. 1858; edited Clerical papers on church and parishioners, 6 vols. 1852–63; author of The laws and usages of the church and clergy, the unbeneficed clerk, 2 ed. 1854; Rubrics for communicants explanatory of the holy communion office 1863; The law of the rubric and the transition period of the church of England 1866; The church key, belfry key and organ key 1870; The Bible and contemporary history: an epitome of the history of the world from the creation to the end of the old testament, edited by E. M. B., 2 vols. 1887. d. Pinner vicarage 30 Nov. 1885. The Times 5 Dec. 1885 p. 9.

PINSENT, Sir Robert John (son of Robert John Pinsent, a judge in Newfoundland). b. Newfoundland 1834; called to the bar of Newfoundland 1856; Q.C. 1865; member of legislative council 1859; acting attorney general 1869; solicitor general 1873; judge of the supreme court 1880 to death; knighted by patent 12 June 1890; D.C.L. from the archbishop of Canterbury Feb. 1881; author of Newfoundland, our oldest colony in Proceedings of Royal Colonial institution 1884–85, pp. 215–72, and of articles in magazines upon the French treaty question 1889. d. Bintry rectory, Norfolk 27 April 1893.

PINSON, Albert. Entered Madras army 1817; lieut. 21 Madras N.I. 29 Oct. 1818; captain 46 N.I. 3 June 1826, major 31 Dec. 1844 to 20 April 1853; lieut. col. 17 N.I. 20 April 1853 to 1854, of 2 N.I. 1854–6, of 32 N.I. 1856–7, of 39 N.I. 1857–8, and of 37 N.I. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861, when he retired with rank of M.G. d. 12 Nov. 1865.

PINSUTI, Ciro Ercole. b. Sinalunga, near Siena 9 May 1829; educ. in Rome, where he gave a concert when aged 11; Henry Drummond, M.P. brought him to London and placed him under the tuition of Cipriani Potter at Royal academy of music; pianist; studied at Bologna conservatoire 1845; returned to England 1848; professor at Royal academy of music, London 1856–85; wrote 3 operas Il merccante de Venezia 1873, Mattia Corvino 1877, and Margherita; composer of There is a reaper 1844; Excelsior, a romance 1850; Te Deum 1860; The sea hath its pearls, part song 1865; After the rain, two part song 1867; Tell me not in mournful numbers 1869; Dreams only dreams, song 1873; I fear no foe, a song 1876; Tell me where is fancy bred, a part song 1884; author of Hints to teachers on singing 1880; his name is attached to upwards of 500 pieces of music. d. of cerebral apoplexy while playing the piano at Florence 10 March 1888. The Times 15 March 1888 p. 6.

PINTI, Raffaelle. b. near Rome 1826; came to London when a young man; dealer in Italian works of art 46 Berners st. London 1860 to death; his knowledge of Italian pictures, sculptures, etc. and his connection with Italy enabled him to bring many important works of art to England; picture restorer. d. 28 Langham st. London 30 July 1881. Academy ii 128 (1881); Times 11 Aug. 1881 p. 10, col. 3.

PINWELL, George John. b. London 26 Dec. 1842; worked for the brothers Dalziel as a designer and drawer on wood 1863; illustrated the Sunday magazine, Good words, Once a week, and other periodicals; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1869, member 1870; exhibited at Dudley gallery 1865; an honorary member of Belgian society of painters in water-colours; his picture entitled Strolling players was engraved by Charles Cousen for the Art Journal 1873, and The elixir of love was etched by R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. 1885; he illustrated H. Lushington’s The happy home 1864; R. W. Buchanan’s Ballad stories of the affection 1866; and Jean Ingelow’s Poems 1867. d. Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 8 Sept. 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 11 Sept. A catalogue of pictures by G. Mason and G. Pinwell exhibited at Birmingham March 1895, with an essay by H. Quilter 1895; Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii 396–9 (1891); Good words xxix 814 (1888); I.L.N. 18 Sept. 1875 p. 285 portrait; Graphic xii 328 (1875) portrait.

PIOZZI-SALUSBURY, Sir John Salusbury (2 son of Giambattista Piozzi of Brescia, Lombardy, merchant). b. Brescia 1793; assumed additional surname of Salusbury 4 Dec. 1813; sheriff of Flintshire 1816; knighted at Carlton house 21 April 1817, on presenting an address to the Prince Regent. d. Cheltenham 18 Dec. 1858. G.M. Feb. 1859 p. 208.

PIPER, Robert Sloper. b. 1790 or 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 10 Jany. 1809, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841, retired on full pay 2 Feb. 1848; served six campaigns in the Peninsula, France, and Flanders March 1810 to Jany. 1816; commanding engineer in the Kandian provinces during insurrection of 1817–18; general 1 Jany. 1868; he wrote A memorandum of the manner in which the repairs of the chain pier at Brighton have been executed, in Papers of Corps of Royal engineers ii 122–7 (1844). d. 7 New Steine, Brighton 26 Dec. 1873.

PIPER, Stephen Edward. b. Ipswich 1813; educ. Univ. coll. London; L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1853; joined the army medical staff 1836; served against Don Carlos in Spain, where he was shot in the chest 1836; settled at Darlington 1841; consulting surgeon Darlington hospital; president North of England British medical association. d. Orwell house, Darlington 24 Aug. 1894. The Lancet 8 Sept. 1894 p. 601.

PIPON, James Kennard. b. 1806 or 1807; ensign 94 foot 3 Aug. 1826, captain 6 March 1835; captain 85 foot 15 July 1836, placed on h.p. 31 March 1843; major on h.p. 8 April 1859; brevet colonel 20 June 1857; inspector general of militia 8 May 1863 to death; officiating judge advocate at the court martial on colonel Thomas Robert Crawley, held at Aldershot camp 17 Nov. to 23 Dec. 1863; author with John Francis Collier of Manual of military law for all ranks of the army, militia, and volunteer services 1860, 3 ed. 1863. d. Alne vicarage, Yorkshire 7 June 1868. Illust. times 28 Nov. 1863 p. 345 portrait.

PIRIE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse, Berwickshire). b. Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept. 1781; merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley, London 1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman of ward of Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841; created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a prince of Wales during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June 1841. d. Champion hill, Camberwell 26 Feb. 1851. G.M. xxxv 551 (1851); I.L.N. 8 March 1851 p. 200.

PIRIE, William Robinson (2 son of George Pirie, D.D. minister of Slains, Aberdeenshire). b. manse of Slains 26 July 1804; studied at Univ. and King’s college, Aberdeen 1817–21, and 1821–5, D.D. 1844; licensed to preach by presbytery of Ellon 1825; minister of parish of Dyce 1830; minister of Greyfriars church, Aberdeen 1846–7; professor of divinity in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen 30 Dec. 1843 to 1860; hon. professor of divinity and biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 15 Sept. 1860 to 1876, and principal Dec. 1876 to death; moderator of the general assembly 19 May 1864; the chief advocate for the abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland, which was abolished by act of parliament 1874; author of The independent jurisdiction of the church vindicated 1838; Some notice of the rev. Andrew Gray 1840; An inquiry into the constitution, power, and processes of the human mind 1858; The position, principles and duties of the church of Scotland 1864; Natural theology, an inquiry into the fundamental principles of religions, moral and political science 1867. d. Aberdeen 3 Nov. 1885. In memoriam, W. R. Pirie (1888); Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ iii, part ii, p. 501, 516, 898.

PIRRIE, William (son of George Pirrie, farmer). b. near Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1807; educ. Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen, and univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.A. Aberdeen 1825; M.D. Edinb. 1829, hon. LL.D. 1875; lecturer on anatomy and physiology in the joint medical schools of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1830–9; regius professor of surgery in Marischal college 1839–60; professor of surgery in univ. of Aberdeen 1860–82; the leading surgeon in north Scotland for 20 years; known by sobriquet of The Baron; author of The principles and practice of surgery 1852, 3 ed. 1873; On hay asthma and hay fever 1867; author with Wm. Keith of Acupressure an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage 1867. d. 253 Union st. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1882. Medical times and gazette ii 681 (1882).

PISTRUCCI, Benedetto (2 son of Federico Pistrucci, judge of the high criminal court of Rome). b. Rome 29 May 1784; a gem-engraver at Rome 1800; went to Paris Dec. 1814, and to London 1815; designed the St. George and the dragon on the reverse of the gold coinage 1817, which is still in use; an outside assistant at the mint 1816, acted as chief engraver from 22 Sept. 1817, chief medallist 1828; engraved part of the coinage at end of reign of George III, and all the coins of early part of George IV; engraved the coronation medal of George IV 1820–1, and of Victoria 1838; made the silver seal of the duchy of Lancaster in 15 days by a new process of his invention 1838; resided at the Mint 1817–49; made cameos and intaglios for which he obtained high prices; made busts of the duke of Wellington and of Pozzo di Borgo; was paid £3,500 for the famous Waterloo medallion 1850. d. Flora lodge, Englefield Green, near Windsor 16 Sept. 1855. A. Billing’s Science of gems (1875) 3, 224; F. P. Weber’s Medals by foreign artists (1894) 62–7; N. Carlisle’s Memoir of W. Wyon (1837) 43 etc.; G.M. Oct. 1856 pp. 653–6.

Note.—In the British museum with the shelf mark 10825 d. 28 is A collection of letters, etc. from newspapers and magazines on B. Pistrucci and W. Wyon as medallists.

PITCAIRN, David. b. 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian minister of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May 1830 to 29 Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867; resided at Torquay from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his parishioners 1840, 2 ed. 1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed. 1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s king, the second Psalm expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a memoir of E. H. M. Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862; The ages of the earth 1868. d. 4 Jany. 1870. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ, vol. 3 part 1 p. 382.

PITCAIRN, Sir James (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of Englishcombe, Somerset). b. Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776; F.R.C.S. 7 June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and in Egypt 1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in Ireland 1803, and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852, when he retired on half pay; knighted 1837. d. 3 Haddington road, Dublin 12 Jany. 1859.

PITCAIRN, Robert (2 son of Robert Pitcairn, writer to the signet and principal keeper of the register of deeds). b. Edinburgh 1793; a writer to the signet 21 Nov. 1815; assistant to the deputy clerk register in H.M.’s register house a long time, one of the four official searchers of records for incumbrances in the register house 1853 to death; employed in making an Abridgment of the register of the great seal of Scotland 1824, for the Record commission; edited for the Abbotsford club Historical memoirs of Mary, queen of Scots 1836; for the Bannatyne club Criminal trials in Scotland 1833, and 3 other works; for the Wodrow society The autobiography of J. Melvill 1842; he also edited Collections relating to the funeralls of Mary, queen of Scots 1822; Historical account of the principal families of Kennedy 1830. d. 9 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 16 July 1855. Record commission, the case of Robert Pitcairn (1835).

PITCAIRN, Thomas (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister 1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk of Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church at Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. d. Bonnyrig 21 Dec. 1854. Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 438–48 portrait; Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ i, part 1, p. 274.

PITMAN, Frederick. b. Trowbridge, Wilts. 1828; bookseller, phonetic shorthand writer and reporter at 1 Queen’s Head passage, Paternoster row, London 1847, and at 20 Paternoster row 1850 to death; edited The shorthand magazine 1866 to his death; The phonographic student 1867–76, ten volumes; The phonographic pulpit 1869–76, seven volumes, and The phonographic lecturer 1871 etc.; and was the author of Second book in phonetic reading for adults 1850; Pitman’s Reporters’ reading book 1867; Learning to report 1883; How to get speed in shorthand 1884; Pitman’s Shorthand library, Tom Brown’s school days 1884. d. Oak lawn, Avenue road, Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex 21 Nov. 1886.

PITMAN, John Rogers. b. 1782; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1815; P.C. of Berden and V. of Ugley, Essex 18 Feb. 1817, resigned 1846; preached at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels, London, also at Foundling and Magdalene hospitals; P.C. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1833–48; domestic chaplain to duchess of Kent 1848–61; author of Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis 1808, 2 ed. 1817; Practical lectures upon the ten first chapters of the gospel of St. John 1821, Supplement 1822; The school Shakespeare with notes 1822, 2 ed. 1851; Sophoclis Ajax, Greek and Latin, with notes 1830; A practical commentary on our Lord’s sermon on the mount 1852. d. 8 Green park buildings, Bath 27 Aug. 1861.

PITMAN, Joseph (brother of sir Isaac Pitman, b. 1815). b. 1818; engaged with Thomas Allen Reid in lecturing in Great Britain on Pitman’s system of shorthand many years; lived in retirement at Worthing 1885 to death. d. Worthing about 1 April 1895.

PITMAN, Mrs. Became proprietor of The Sporting review on her husband’s death in 1827, and conducted it with much skill until the four sporting serials, The Sporting review, The Sporting magazine, The New sporting magazine, and The Sportsman, were united in July 1846. d. Feb. 1858. Sporting Review xxxix 153 (1858).

PITMAN, Samuel (son of rev. Samuel Pitman of Oulton hall, Norfolk, d. 1854). b. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; captain West Somerset yeomanry cavalry; master of the Taunton harriers, hunting on alternate days with the Blackmoor vale foxhounds; hunted his own harriers in the Langport and Martock districts; master of South Berkshire fox hounds 1873, for 3 seasons he hunted both packs; at last his health gave way under the strain of hunting five and even six days a week; with sir T. Acland instrumental in reviving the Bath and west of England agricultural society 1850; resided Bishop’s Hull manor, Taunton. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 April 1886. The Times 19 April 1886 p. 5.

PITMAN, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Dix Pitman, solicitor, London). b. 1801; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of Brightwell, Oxfordshire 1826–8; V. of Eastbourne, Sussex 1828 to death; prebendary of Chichester 27 Aug. 1841 to death. d. Eastbourne 11 May 1890. I.L.N. 24 May 1890 p. 646 portrait.

PITTMAN, Josiah. b. 3 Sept. 1816; organist of Sydenham parish church 1831; organist of Tooting parish church 1833–5; organist at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1835–47; organist at Lincoln’s Inn 1852–64; accompanist at Her Majesty’s opera 1865–8 and at Covent Garden 1868 to death; a regular frequenter of the Albion tavern, Russell st. Covent garden, where he always sat in the same box; author of The people in church 1858; The people in the cathedral 1859; author with Colin Brown of Songs of Scotland 1873; edited Hymns and canticles 1858; Six easy preludes by J. S. Bach 1858; The musical antiquarian magazine 1863–5, fifteen numbers; The contralto album, 50 songs 1878; The prima donna’s album, 40 songs 1878; The tenor album, 50 songs 1878; The baritone album, 45 songs 1879; Songs from the operas, 2 vols. 1880; A series of studies for pianoforte, organ, or harmonium 1882; Album of 40 duets 1885; Diversions for students, 2 books 1889; he also edited a large number of single operas 1865–80; his name is attached to upwards of 100 works. d. 228 Piccadilly, London 23 April 1886. London Figaro 1 May 1886 p. 12.

PITT, Charles Dibdin (1 son of George Dibdin Pitt). b. 1819; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London as Ferdinand in the Tempest at Covent Garden 1843; acted in the provinces; with his wife played in the United States and Canada, first appearing at Park st. theatre, New York as Hamlet on 8 Nov. 1847, produced The Cavalier or England in 1640 on 10 Nov.; last appeared in New York 1851; appeared as Lear at City of London theatre 15 March 1852; in John Wilkins’ The Egyptian, March 1853; as Bottom in Midsummer night’s dream 5 June 1854; in the Spanish girl March 1857; lessee of theatre royal, Sheffield at his death; m. 1839 Ellen Coveney, actress. d. 87 Norfolk st. Sheffield 21 Feb. 1866. bur. Sheffield general cemetery 23 Feb. Tallis’ Drawing-room table book 1851, Part 20 portrait; M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 61–9; The Era 25 Feb. 1866 p. 11, 4 March p. 10; Illust. Sporting News 16 March 1866 pp. 129, 142; Ireland’s New York stage ii 486 (1867).

PITT, George Dean-. Lieut. Royal West India rangers as George Dean 5 Dec. 1805, captain 10 Aug. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814; took additional name of Pitt 1819; major 80 foot 19 Aug. 1819, lieut. col. 18 April 1822 to 24 March 1837; superintendent of recruiting department in London Jany. 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the troops in New Zealand Jany. 1847 to death, granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; K.H. 1836. d. New Zealand 8 Jany. or 21 Feb. 1851. G.M. Sept. 1851 p. 328.

Note.—The monthly army list July 1851 says he died 8 Jany., but according to Hart’s quarterly army list of July 1851 he died 21 Feb.

PITT, George Dean- (eld. son of preceding). b. 14 June 1823; ensign 48 foot 11 Oct. 1839; lieut. 80 foot 1844, captain 4 May 1849, placed on h.p. 30 Dec. 1864; A.D.C. to major general in New Zealand 1848–51; captain instructor at Hythe 1855–8; district inspector of musketry, Australia 1858–64; assistant military secretary, New Zealand 1864–70; D.A. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 1872–7; lieut. col. brigade depôt at Guildford 1877 to 1880; M.G. 7 June 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 30 Aug. 1882; C.B. 10 Aug. 1866; keeper of the Regalia in Tower of London 25 Aug. 1882 to death. d. Tower of London 4 April 1883.

PITT, George Dibdin. b. 1799; first appeared under R. W. Elliston at the Surrey theatre as Sir Archy M’Sarcasm 1827, and remained at the Surrey many years as a most successful actor; acting and stage manager at the Pavilion, Coburg and Surrey theatres, a severe malady obliged him to retire from the stage; wrote the following dramas The whistler or the fate of the lily of St. Leonard’s, Victoria theatre 18 Jany. 1833, Reprinted as The lily of St. Leonard’s; The last man or the miser of Eltham, Surrey theatre 20 June 1833; The Eddystone elf, Sadler’s Wells 1833; The prisoner of Rochelle, Surrey 23 Jany. 1834; Simon Lee, City of London theatre 1 April 1839; Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl, Victoria 31 May 1841; The beggar’s petition, City theatre 18 Oct. 1841; Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet street, Britannia 1842, founded on T. Prest’s story The string of pearls, which he wrote in the Penny Sunday Times 1841; The twins, Adelphi 1844; The Jersey girl, Surrey theatre; Marianne or the child of charity, Victoria theatre; Rookwood, Victoria 27 Oct. 1845; also The last nail; The lord mayor’s fool; The maid, the mill, and the ferry; The devil’s bridge; The bride of Aldgate; and The devil’s punch bowl; he wrote upwards of 700 pieces for the stage; author of The wreck of the heart or the story of Agnes Primrose 1842; The sea-fiend or the abbot of St. Mark’s 1846. d. Bethnal green, London 16 Feb. 1855. The Era 25 Feb. 1855 p. 10.

PITT-BYRNE, Julia Clara (2 dau. of Hans Busk 1772–1862). b. about 1820; m. 28 April 1842 William Pitt-Byrne, proprietor of Morning Post, d. 8 April 1861; contributed to Fraser’s Magazine, Once a week, and other periodicals; author of A glance behind the grilles of religious houses in France 1855; Flemish interiors 1856; Realities of Paris life 1859; Undercurrents overlooked 1860; Red, white, and blue 1862; Cosas de Espana 1866; The Beggynhoff 1869; Feudal castles of France 1869; Gheel the city of the simple 1869; Pictures of Hungarian life 1869; Curiosities of the search room 1880; Gossip of the century 1892. d. 16 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 29 March 1894. Men of the Time 1887 p. 188.

PITTIS, Sir Francis. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 1812; member of first Newport school board; mayor of Newport 1852, and for the eighth time 1887; presented with an address and a painting by George Cole 14 March 1880; chief promoter and subscriber to the Jubilee clock tower, Newport 1887; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; received the jubilee decoration 1887. d. Newport house, Newport 3 Nov. 1889. bur. St. Thomas’ churchyard 8 Nov. The Isle of Wight County press 9 Nov. 1889 p. 5.

PLACE, Francis (son of Simon Place, keeper of a sponging house in Vinegar yard, Drury lane, London). b. 3 Nov. 1771; apprenticed to a leather-breeches maker 1785–9; worked at his trade from 1789; joined the London Corresponding society 1794; opened a tailor’s shop with another man at 29 Charing Cross 1799; a tailor alone at 16 Charing Cross 1800 to 1833; resided at 21 Brompton sq. 1833 to 1852; member of committee of British and foreign school society to 1815; stayed some months with Jeremy Bentham and James Mill at Ford Abbey 1817; collected much of the materials for Joseph Hume’s parliamentary work 1812 etc.; issued from his shop James Mill’s Essays from the supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and many tracts by himself and others; agitated against the sinking fund 1816–23; got the laws against combinations of workmen repealed after ten years’ work 1824, and prevented their being reenacted 1825; made preparations for civil war during the crisis of May 1832, when he drew up a placard with the words ‘Go for gold and stop the Duke,’ which caused a run upon the bank of England; drafted for Wm. Lovett the Peoples’ charter 1838; wrote history of the Reform bill 1836–9, the manuscript of which is at the British Museum; author of Illustrations and proofs of the principles of population 1822; A letter to a minister of state respecting taxes on knowledge 1831, 3 ed. 1835; kept and indexed his political correspondence 1814 to death; 71 volumes of his manuscripts are in the British Museum. d. at his daughter’s house, Foxley terrace, Hammersmith 1 Jany. 1854. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 344–50 portrait; Fortnightly Review Dec. 1892 pp. 767–79; Fraser’s Mag. xiii 427 (1836) portrait.

PLACE, Louisa (dau. of Mr. Simeon). b. 16 Oct. 1797; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre as Harriet in Is he jealous 9 July 1816; played Julia in the Rivals at opening of the Haymarket theatre 4 July 1821; played at Covent Garden as Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer Nov. 1821; retired from the stage; played again at the Olympic and Adelphi theatres; acted in Born to good luck at Adelphi 22 July 1856; and in Morton’s French Lady’s maid 22 May 1858; m. (1) about 1816 William Chatterly, comedian, b. 21 March 1787, d. 20 April 1821; she m. secondly 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place, who d. before his wife; she d. 37 Brompton square, London 4 Nov. 1866. The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p. 81; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 161, 197–8, 331.

PLANCHÉ, James Robinson (son of Jacques Planché, watchmaker 1734–1816). b. Old Burlington st. Piccadilly, London 27 Feb. 1796; articled to a bookseller 1810; wrote Amoroso, king of Little Britain for Drury Lane 21 April 1818, and Rodolph the wolf Olympic Pavilion 21 Dec. 1818; The Vampire or the bride of the isles, English opera house 9 Aug. 1820, when the vampire trap was first used; wrote ten pieces for Adelphi theatre 1820–1; his opera Maid Marian was produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; present at coronation of Charles X in Paris 29 May 1825; wrote the libretto to Weber’s Oberon, Covent Garden 12 April 1826; managed the musical arrangements at Vauxhall gardens 1826–7; produced at Covent Garden Charles XIIth, a drama 11 Nov. 1828, and his version of Scribe and Auber’s opera Gustave Trois 13 Nov. 1833; managed the Adelphi theatre for S. J. Arnold 1830; author with Charles Dance of Olympic Revels, Olympic 3 Jany. 1831, and Riquet with the tuft Dec. 1836; managed the Olympic July to Dec. 1838; director of costume and reader of the plays at Covent Garden 1839; wrote plays for the Haymarket 1843–7; superintended the decorations at the Lyceum for Madame Vestris Oct. 1847, and wrote for her The pride of the market 18 Oct. 1847, The island of jewels 26 Dec. 1849, and other burlesques; his Mr. Buckstone’s Ascent of Mount Parnassus produced at Haymarket 28 March 1853, and Love and fortune, a comedy, Princess’s 24 Sept. 1859; My lord and my lady, Haymarket 12 July 1861 ran 50 nights; Orpheus in the Haymarket Dec. 1866 ran till Easter 1867; King Christmas masque at Gallery of illustration 26 Dec. 1871; F.S.A. 24 Dec. 1829, resigned 1852; a founder of British archæological association Dec. 1843; rouge croix pursuivant of arms 13 Feb. 1854, and Somerset herald 7 June 1866 to death; arranged col. Augustus Meyrick’s collection of armour for exhibition at Manchester 1857, and at South Kensington Dec. 1868; rearranged the armour at Tower of London 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 June 1871; author of The descent of the Danube from Ratisbon to Vienna 1828; The history of British costumes 1834, 3 ed. 1874; The pursuivant of arms or heraldry founded upon facts 1852, 3 ed. 1874; The conqueror and his companions, 2 vols. 1874; A cyclopædia of costumes, 2 vols. 1876–9; Extravaganzas, 5 vols. 1879, with portrait; wrote 72 original pieces, also 96 translations and adaptations. d. 10 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 30 May 1880. Planché’s Recollections and reflections, 2 vols. (1872); Biograph iii 225–38 (1880); Journal of British Archæol. Association xxxvi 261–5 (1880); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i 257–76 (1883); Illustrated Review, ii 353–55 (1870); Cartoon portraits (1873) 102–103; Illust. news of the world vii 273 (1861) portrait; The Critic xix 444 (1859) portrait; Theatre ii 95–99 (1880) portrait.

PLANK, William (son of James Plank). b. Wandsworth, Surrey 7 Nov. 1767; educ. under W. Franks at Clapham to 1781; apprenticed to his brother James Plank, a calico printer, London 28 May 1782; took up his freedom in the Salters’ Co. 20 Oct. 1789, the father of the Salters’ Co.; resided at Harrow from 1811; had a dinner party on 7 Nov. 1867, and d. Harrow 19 Nov. 1867, being 100 years and 12 days old. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man (1879) 252–5; G.M. iv 783, 833 (1867).

PLANT, James (son of Robert Fisher Plant, stationer, Leicester). b. Leicester 1818; a well known geologist; F.G.S.; an authority on questions respecting coal and water supply; a frequent attendant at meetings of the British association. d. Leicester 8 Nov. 1892.

PLANT, John (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester Oct. 1819; educ. at the national school and at the mechanics’ institution; articled to T. Paget, surgeon, Leicester; an assistant in his father’s business; hon. sec. of Leicester naturalists’ club 1844; curator of the Literary and philosophical society’s museum; discovered fossiliferous keuper sandstone near Leicester 1844; sec. and librarian of the library, Leicester 1846, where he arranged and catalogued 10,000 books; librarian and curator of the Museum and public library, Peel park, Salford Oct. 1849 to April 1892, it became one of the chief attractions in Manchester and the most popular holiday resort in Lancashire, the library containing 60,000 volumes; F.G.S. 1864; lieut. 56 Salford rifle volunteers 12 April 1873, captain 8 Jany. 1876 to April 1885; made a special study of the coal measure fishes near Manchester, and of the Cambrian fossils near Dolgelly; a selection of his fossils is in the British museum, including the olenus planti named after him; author of Guide to the general collections in the Salford museum 1860; Catalogue of the library of the Manchester geological society 1875; Descriptive catalogue of pictures in the Salford art gallery and museum 1883. d. Rhosnegir, near Holyhead 18 Jany. 1894, portrait placed on walls of Salford free library 1893. Geological magazine June 1892 pp. 286–8 portrait; The Times 10 Jany. 1894 p. 5; The Library vi 93 (1894).

PLANT, Nathaniel (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester 1832; curator of museum of Leicester philosophical and literary society 5 years; spent 16 years in Brazil mining and exploring 1851–67; F.G.S. 1867, F.R.G.S. d. London Aug. 1875.

PLANT, Thomas Livesley (son of George Halewood Plant, iron merchant). b. Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire 1819; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, near Durham; representative in Birmingham of W. H. Smith and Son, the advertising contractors 1849–81; kept systematic records of meteorology 1837 to death, furnished meteorological information to The Times and contributed to the local press; author of Meteorology: its study important for our good, Birmingham 1862. found dead in the train at New st. station, Birmingham 31 Aug. 1883. Athenæum 8 Sept. 1883 p. 310.

PLATT, James (son of Henry Platt of Dobcross, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, maker of woollen machinery, removed to Oldham 1821, d. 1842). b. 1823 or 1824; partner in Hibbert, Platt and Sons, Oldham 1845; member of Oldham town council; M.P. Oldham 31 March 1857 to death; accidentally shot by Josiah Radcliffe when shooting on the moors at Greenfield 27 Aug. 1857, d. Ashway Gap, near Oldham 27 Aug. 1857. Fortunes made in business iii 426–7 (1887).

PLATT, John T. (brother of James Platt, d. 1857). b. Dobcross 15 Sept. 1817; member of firm of Hibbert, Platt and Sons of Oldham 1837, Joseph Platt d. 1845, Mr. Hibbert d. 1846; firm employed 2,500 men, business converted into a limited liability company 1 Jany. 1868, chairman of the company to his death; sheriff of Carnarvon 1863; helped to obtain incorporation of Oldham 1849; mayor 1854, 1855, and a third time; gave large sums to the Oldham lyceum 1847–65; M.P. Oldham 13 July 1865 to death. d. Hotel Maurice, Paris 18 May 1872. bur. Oldham, statue unveiled at Oldham Sept. 1878. I.L.N. lx 537 (1872) portrait; Fortunes made in business iii 419–85 (1887) portrait.

Note.—The commercial prosperity of Oldham is mainly due to his influence as an engineer and a large employer of labour and to his untiring energy.

PLATT, Thomas (4 son of Samuel Platt, clerk of the papers of court of king’s bench). b. Blackfriars, London 14 Sept. 1800; educ. St. Paul’s school 1812–16; barrister L.I. 9 June 1826; author of A practical treatise on the law of covenants 1829; A treatise on the law of leases, 2 vols. 1847. d. Brockley lodge, Finchley, Middlesex 14 Dec. 1886.

PLATT, Sir Thomas Joshua (eld. son of Thomas Platt of Brunswick sq. London, solicitor). b. 1789; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher 1835–45; became a leader on the home circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834; baron of court of exchequer 27 Jany. 1845, retired 2 Nov. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 April 1845. d. 59 Portland place, London 10 Feb. 1862. bur. Highgate cemet. Ballantine’s Some experiences, 8 ed. (1883) 46–47; Foss’s Judges ix 244–5 (1864).

PLATT, Thomas Pell (son of Thomas Platt). b. London 1798; pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. 25 Nov. 1815, scholar 3 April 1818, minor fellow 2 Oct. 1820, major fellow 2 July 1823; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; librarian of the British and foreign bible society some years and a defender of the society in 1827 from an attack made on their publications in the Quarterly Review June 1827 pp. 1–28; an early member of Royal Asiatic society and acted as one of its oriental translation committee many years; F.S.A.; author of A catalogue of the Æthiopic biblical MSS. in the royal library of Paris and in the library of the British and foreign bible society 1823; edited Evangelia sancta in linguam Amharicam 1824; Evangelia sancta Æthiopice 1826; The Gospels in Syriac 1829; The Ethiopic Didascalia 1834; The books of the Old Testament in Amharic 1871; author of Facts respecting versions of scripture published by the Bible Society in reply to the Quarterly Review 1827, 3 ed. 1828; The literal interpretation of scripture enforced 1831. d. Dulwich hill, Surrey 31 Oct. 1852. T. H. Horne’s Introduction to critical study of the holy scriptures, 10 ed. iv 317–20, 733 (1856); G.M. Dec. 1852 p. 660.

PLAYER, John. b. Elberton, Gloucs. 1808; manager of Gwendraeth iron works 1838; introduced anthracite as a fuel for blast furnaces and steam boilers; a steamer called the Anthracite ran for some time on the Thames below London bridge 1839, which attracted much notice; built many blast furnaces; settled at Philadelphia 1868; invented ‘mineral wool’ from iron slag. d. Philadelphia 11 March 1870.

PLAYFAIR, George Ranken (son of George Playfair). Educ. at Edinburgh univ.; M.D. 1838; surgeon in navy of H.E.I.C.S. and saw service in the Phlegthan during the first China war 1840; assistant surgeon Bengal 3 Nov. 1844; civil surgeon at Jaharunpore, where he gained experience as a lithotomist; on the Agra circle, present at siege of Lucknow 1857; inspector general 29 March 1871; retired surgeon general Bengal 31 March 1872; wrote on Continued fever. d. Longridge road, South Kensington, London 4 Oct. 1881. Lancet 8 Oct. 1881 p. 651, 15 Oct. p. 689.

PLAYFAIR, Sir Hugh Lyon (3 son of James Playfair 1738–1819, principal of St. Andrew’s univ.) b. Meigle, East Perthshire 17 Nov. 1786; educ. Dundee gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ.; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 May 1805; adjutant and quartermaster of the horse artillery 15 Nov. 1809, at siege of fortress of Ralunga Nov. 1814, captain 5 Oct. 1815; granted freedom of city of St. Andrew’s 1820; superintendent of the great military road, telegraph towers and post office department between Calcutta and Benares 1820–7; major in command of the fourth battalion of artillery at Dum-Dum June 1827 to 4 July 1831, resigned the service 10 Feb. 1834; provost of St. Andrew’s 1842 to death; established a public library and revived the celebrated St. Andrew’s golf club 1834; his portrait by sir J. W. Gordon placed in the old town hall 1847; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; author of First catechism of the principles of religion 1853. d. St. Leonard’s, St. Andrew’s 21 Jany. 1861. D. Louden’s Biographical sketch of sir H. L. Playfair (1874); Memoirs of sir H. L. Playfair (1861) portrait; I.L.N. x 176 (1847) portrait, xxxviii 103 (1861).

PLAYFAIR, William Henry (son of James Playfair of London, architect). b. Russel sq. London July 1789; pupil of Wm. Starke of Glasgow, architect; architect in Edinburgh 1812 to death; laid out part of the new town 1815; rebuilt and enlarged the university buildings 1817–24; designed the Royal and Regent terraces 1829; designed the observatory 1814–18, advocates’ library 1819, royal institution 1822–36, college of surgeons 1830, St. Stephen’s church 1826–8, and the Free church college 1846–50; constructed Donaldson’s hospital in the Tudor style 1842–8; designed the monument to his uncle professor John Playfair 1820, and that to Dugald Stewart on the Calton hill 1830; designed the National gallery of Scotland in the classical style, first stone laid 30 Aug. 1850, and the unfinished national monument on the Calton Hill 1822–6; his classical buildings have gained for Edinburgh the sobriquet of the ‘Modern Athens’; built many country houses and mansions; author of Report concerning completion of the college of Edinburgh 1816; Report on laying out the new town between Edinburgh and Leith 1819. d. 17 Great Stuart street, Edinburgh 19 March 1857. Dictionary of architecture vi 134 (1881); Building News iii 359–60 (1857).

PLENDERLEATH, Charles. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49 foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney creek in America. d. Florence 1 Jany. 1854.

PLEON, Tom, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. b. 1862; appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane 1887–91. d. Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April 1892.

PLEWS, John Mackay. b. 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect 1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale. d. Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. A. Barnard’s Noted breweries iv 410–35 (1891); The Brewers’ Journal 15 June 1890 p. 385.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Edward (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869). b. 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24 Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July 1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3 April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July 1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov. 1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and other countries; director of the Great Western railway company and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters in The Times over the initials E. B. P. d. 44 Wilton crescent, London 16 Dec. 1889. Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp. 10, 11.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Philip (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828). b. Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth 1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65; sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. d. Clyffe hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872.

PLINT, Thomas. b. 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist; was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec. to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years; a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies 1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent 1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851. d. Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 471.

PLINT, Thomas Edward. b. 1823; stock and share broker Leeds, suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost £25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas, and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising £18,391. d. Leeds 11 July 1861. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 497; Art Journal Aug. 1861 p. 255, April 1862 p. 105.

PLOW, Anthony John (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94, rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863 to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs. Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he d. of his wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. Annual register (1868) 22–4.

PLOWDEN, Charles Joseph. b. 1804; head of firm of Plowden and Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. d. the Palazetto, Rome 28 Feb. 1884.

PLOWDEN, Florence. b. 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W. S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No Escape company to 1881; m. Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. d. 3 Royal terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890.

PLOWDEN, Trevor John Chichele. b. 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879; adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr. first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge; C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W. C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. d. Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887.

PLOWDEN, Walter Chichele (youngest son of Trevor Chichele Plowden of the Bengal civil service). b. 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England 1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for 1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he d. 13 March 1860. W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country (1868), memoir pp. vii–x; Foreign office list July 1860 p. 146.