Chapter LX: Part 60

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PALMER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Palmer, bookseller, _d._ Dec.
1848). _b._ Surrey sq. St. Mary’s, Newington 27 Jany. 1805;
educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1817 etc.; exhibited 57
landscapes at R.A., 20 at B.I., and 8 at Suffolk st. 1819–80;
his first picture exhibited at the British institution sold
1819; resided at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent 1826–32; lived
at Rome and Naples 1837–9; associate of Society of painters in
water-colours Feb. 1843, member June 1854; member of the Etching
society 1853; nearly the last of the ideal school of landscape
painters; resided at Mead Vale, Redhill 1862 to death; his eight
pictures, illustrating Milton’s poems L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso
were exhibited at the Water-colour society 1868–82; seven of his
plates were published by the Etching club 1872–80; author of
English version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with illustrations
1883; he illustrated A. A. Procter’s Legends and lyrics 1866,
and The shorter poems of John Milton 1889; _m._ 1837 Hannah,
eld. dau. of John Linnell, the painter, she exhibited 8 Italian
views at the R.A. and B.I. 1840–2, and _d._ Nov. 1892 in 76
year; he _d._ Furze hill house, Mead Vale, Redhill 24 May 1881.
_bur._ Reigate old church 28 May; a collection of his works was
exhibited by Fine Art Society 1881, and 17 of his drawings were
lent to the winter exhibition of the R.A. 1893. _A. H. Palmer’s
Life and letters of S. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _S. Palmer,
a memoir by A. H. Palmer_ (1882) _portrait_; _P. G. Hamerton’s
Etching and etchers_ (1876) 325–38; _The Portfolio_ (1872)
161–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 616 (1881) _portrait_; _F. G. Stephens’
Notes on a collection of drawings by S. Palmer, with an account
of the Milton series_ (1881).

PALMER, SHIRLEY (son of Edward Palmer, solicitor). _b._
Coleshill, Warws. 27 Aug. 1786; educ. Coleshill gr. sch.
and Harrow; M.R.C.S. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1815; practised at
Tamworth, Staffs. 1807 to death, also at Birmingham from 1831;
edited with Wm. Shearman and James Johnson the New medical
and physical journal 1815–9; and with D. Uwins and S. F. Gray
the London medical repository 1819–21; author of The Swiss
exile, Lichfield 1804; Popular illustrations of medicine 1829;
Popular lectures on the vertebrated animals of the British
islands 1832; A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in
anatomy, physiology, pathology, practical medicine, &c. 1845.
_d._ Tamworth 11 Nov. 1852. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_
(1894) 345.

PALMER, SILAS (son of Mr. Palmer of 47 regt.) _b._ Stirling
castle 1815; educ. in medicine at Paris, Vienna, and Rome;
M.D. Edinb. 1836; L.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Speenhamland,
Newbury, Berks. 1846 to death; a leading authority on
archæological matters in Berks.; local sec. of congress of
British Archæological assoc. at Newbury in 1859; a founder of
the Newbury district field club 1870; contributed to Provincial
medical journal, to the Lancet, and to British Archæol. journal.
_d._ London road, Newbury 24 March 1875. _A rod taken out of
pickle, correspondence between J. Taylor and S. Palmer during
the late annual meeting at Newbury, Berks. 1860_; _Journal
British Archæol. assoc. xxxii_ 282–3 (1876).

PALMER, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I.
28 Oct. 1804, capt. 11 Jany. 1818; major 39 N.I. 30 Sept. 1827,
and lieut. col. 15 Oct. 1832 to 18 June 1834; lieut. col. of 21
N.I. 18 June 1834 to 1840, and of 27 N.I. 1840 to 16 April 1844;
col. of 72 N.I. 16 April 1844 to death; commanded at Delhi 13
June 1846 to 14 July 1851; commanded Cawnpore division 9 April
1852 to death. _d._ Mussoorie 15 April 1854.

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffs.,
timber merchant). _b._ Rugeley, _baptised_ there 21 Oct.
1824; educ. Rugeley gr. school; apprenticed to Evans and
Sons, druggists, Liverpool, dismissed for opening letters;
apprenticed to Dr. Tylecote at Heywood, near Rugeley 1842;
studied at Stafford infirmary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital
1846, house surgeon 8 Sept. 1846, resigned Oct. 1846; M.R.C.S.
10 Aug. 1846; practised at Rugeley from 1846 for several years;
owner and breeder of racehorses 1850; won the Liverpool autumn
handicap with The Chicken Nov. 1855, this horse afterwards named
Vengeance won the Cesarewitch; _m._ 7 Oct. 1847 Ann, dau. of
colonel William Brookes, insured his wife’s life for £13,000,
she died of bilious cholera 25 Sept. 1854, when he was paid the
amount; insured his brother Walter Palmer’s life for £13,000,
he died suddenly 16 Aug. 1855, when the insurance office refused
to pay, on account of the suspicious circumstances; arrested 15
Dec. 1855 on the charge of poisoning his friend, John Parsons
Cooke, a betting man from Lutterworth, who _d._ 21 Nov. 1855 at
the Talbot arms, Rugeley; verdicts of wilful murder were found
against Palmer at the inquests on the exhumed bodies of his wife
and brother; tried at the Old Bailey before lord chief justice
Campbell 14–27 May 1856, found guilty of murder 27 May; _hanged_
outside Stafford gaol 14 June 1856, in the presence of 20,000
people; he had poisoned many persons 1850–6. _Illustrated life
of William Palmer_ (1856) _portraits_; _Central criminal court
proceedings xliv_ 5–225 (1856); _A. S. Taylor On poisoning by
strychnine_ (1856); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_
(1883) 84–232; _J. F. Stephen’s General view of the criminal
law of England_ (1890) 231–72; _J. F. Stephen’s History of
the criminal law iii_ 389–425 (1883); _Simms’s Bibliotheca
Staffordiensis_ (1894) 345–6; _Reynolds’s Miscellany xvi_ 377–9,
391–2 (1856) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxvi_ 110–14 (1856);
_Law Mag. and Law Review i_ 332–56 (1856); _I.L.N. xxviii_
560–4, 554–5, 566–7, 598–9, 694 (1856); _A.R._ (1856) 13, 60–62,
387–529; _Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 432–9 (1884).

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of George Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex).
_b._ 9 Nov. 1802; educ. St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1828; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; had a large practice as a
conveyancer; professor of civil law at Gresham college, city of
London 1836 to death; author of An inquiry into the navigation
laws 1833; Discourse on the Gresham foundation, two introductory
lectures 1837; The law of wreck considered with a view to its
amendment 1843; Principles of the legal provision for the relief
of the poor 1844. _d._ 56 Eaton place, London 24 April 1858.
_Law Times xxxi_ 87, 101 (1858).

PALMER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, R.
of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 12 July 1811; educ.
Rugby and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 1826–32, fellow 1832–55, tutor
1838–43; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; tutor and censor and member of
the senate in univ. of Durham 1833–6; examiner in classical
schools at Oxford 1837–9; resided in Russia examining oriental
christianity 1840–1; sought admission to the Greek church, but
was refused 1841–52; received into church of Rome in chapel
of Roman college at Rome 27 Feb. 1855; resided at Rome 1855
to death; always known as Palmer of Magdalen; author of Aids
to reflection on the foundation of a Protestant bishopric at
Jerusalem, Oxford 1841; Short poems and hymns 1843; Harmony
of Anglican doctrine with the doctrine of the Eastern church,
Aberdeen 1846, translated into Greek 1851; An appeal to the
Scottish bishops and clergy, and generally to the church of
their communion. By N. N., deacon of the church of England,
Edinburgh 1849; Dissertations on subjects relating to the
orthodox or eastern-catholic communion 1853; Egyptian chronicles
with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, 2 vols. 1861;
Commentatio in Librum Danielis, Rome 1874; The Patriarch Nicon
and the Tsar, 6 vols. 1871–6. _d._ Piazza di Santa Maria in
Campitelli, Rome 5 April 1879. _bur._ cemet. of S. Lorenzo in
Campo Verano 8 April. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen
college vii_ 297–318 (1881); _Life of Leon Papin Dupont_ (1882)
55–64; _Contemporary Review May 1883 pp._ 636–59; _H. P.
Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii_ 287 (1893).

PALMER, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Palmer of St. Mary’s, Dublin,
_d._ 1865). _b._ 14 Feb. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1824; M.A. Oxf. 1829; incorporated at Magd. hall, Oxf. Oct.
1828, removed to Worcester coll. 1831; always known as Palmer
of Worcester; founded with Hurrell Froude and Hugh James Rose
the Association of friends of the church 1833; he wrote No. 15
of the Tracts for the Times 13 Dec. 1833, On the apostolical
succession in the English church, but it was revised and
completed by J. H. Newman; V. of Monkton-Wyld, Devon and Dorset
1846–69; V. of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Dorset, with Chideock,
Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, in Dorset and Wilts. 1846
to death; preb. of Salisbury 1849–58; claimed and assumed the
title of baronet on his father’s death 1865; author of Origines
liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual, 2 vols. Oxford
1832, 4 ed. 1845; A treatise on the church of Christ, 2 vols.
1838, 3 ed. 1842; A letter to N. Wiseman, D.D. (calling himself
bishop of Melipotamus) containing remarks on his letter to
Mr. Newman, Oxford 1841; A narrative of events connected with
the publication of Tracts for the times 1843, 4 ed. 1883; The
doctrine of development and conscience considered in relation
to the evidences of Christianity and of the Catholic system
1846; Results of the expostulations of W. E. Gladstone in their
relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism. By Umbra Oxoniensis
1875. _d._ London Oct. 1885. _J. H. Newman’s Essays_, _2 ed. i_
143–85, _ii_ 454 (1846); _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i_
263, _ii_ 146, 524, _iii_ 137, 485 (1893–95).

PALMER, WILLIAM ISAAC. _b._ Manor house, Elberton,
Gloucestershire 31 May 1824; educ. at a quaker school at Sidcot,
Somerset; signed the temperance pledge 1836; an apprentice at
Reading, then in Liverpool; one of the founders of the firm of
Huntley and Palmer, Reading Biscuit factory, the most extensive
manufactory in the United Kingdom, employing continuously
4,000 hands; gave £5,000 towards Reading municipal buildings;
connected with and contributed liberally to all the Reading
public institutions and libraries; presented with his portrait
19 March 1885; a great supporter of the Blue Ribbon movement and
the first to wear the ribbon 1882; for many years he conducted
a weekly gathering of the work people of Reading for a pleasant
Saturday evening. _d._ Hillside, Reading 4 Jany. 1893. _bur._
Friends’ ground 9 Jany. _Reading Mercury 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 5, _14
Jany. p._ 2; _Daily Graphic 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.

PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry
Temple, 2 viscount Palmerston 1739–1802). _b._ Park st.
Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, _bapt._ St. Margaret, Westminster
23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb.
M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April
1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov.
1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes;
M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard
Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the
election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Bletchingley
1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord
of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first
speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer
Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov.
1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April
1818, by lieut. David Davies, who _d._ of apoplexy at Bethlehem
hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov.
1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July
1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec.
1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime
minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18
Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon
whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27
March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the
Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals
of tours in France (1871). _d._ Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct.
1865. _bur._ north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will
proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. _Bulwer’s Life of viscount
Palmerston to 1847_, 3 _vols._ (1870) _portrait_; _Ashley’s
Life of viscount Palmerston_, 2 _vols._ (1879) _portrait_; _W.
H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc._, _New
York_ (1863) _pp._ 137–44; _The drawing room portrait gallery
of eminent personages_, _1st series_ (1859) _portrait_; _Justin
McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii_ 121–63 _and_ 259–94
(1879); _Rice’s History of the British turf i_ 319–22 (1879);
_Opinions and policy of viscount Palmerston, with a memoir
by George Henry Francis_ (1852); _The two great statesmen,
a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Russell and Viscount
Palmerston_ (1862); _Materials for the true history of Lord
Palmerston_ (1866); _Memoir by Edward Walford_ (1865); _Lord
Palmerston, a biography by John McGildrist_ (1865); _Life
and times of Lord Palmerston by J. Ewing Ritchie_ (1867);
_Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 163 _portrait_;
_Orators of the age by G. H. Francis_ (1847) 124–41; _Illust.
news of the world i_ (1858) _portrait_; _D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs
of parties_ (1859) 154–84; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches
4 ed._ (1876) 143–53; _G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of
British parliament_ (1880) 268–78; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 229–35
(1861) _portrait_; _The betrayal of England by Wm. Coningham_;
_The British cabinet in 1853 pp._ 70–113; _I.L.N. i_ 309 (1842)
_portrait_, _xvi_ 457 (1850) _portrait_; _Representative
statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii_ 294–355 (1879); _St. Stephens_. _By
Mask_ (1839) 164–72; _Malmesbury’s Memoirs_, 2 _vols._ (1884)
_passim_; _Sporting Review liv_ 317–20 (1865); _Sporting Times 9
May 1885 p._ 2; _W. Day’s Reminiscenses_, _2 ed._ (1886) 210–7;
_Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp._ 312–3, _double page portrait_;
_P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii_ 307–36 (1881).

NOTE.--Lord Palmerston was dismissed from the office of foreign sec. on 17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject. _Ashley’s Life ii_ 193–228.

He had race horses in training from 1815. He first raced at Winchester in 1816, with Luzborough he won small races in 1824, with Iliona he won the queen’s plate at Guildford in 1840 and the Cesarewitch in 1841, with Buckthorn the Ascot stakes in 1853. His horse Maidstone was a favourite for the Derby in 1860. A member of the Jockey club 1845, he frequently rode from London to the Derby race at Epsom, and in 1864 trotted from London to Harrow to hear the speeches, twelve miles in one hour.

At his funeral in Westminster Abbey the Rev. H. Sullivan threw into the grave several diamond and gold rings, as ‘a precious offering to the dead.’ _Times 28 Oct. 1865 p._ 9.

PALMERSTON, EMILY MARY, Viscountess (1 dau. of Penistar Lamb,
1 viscount Melbourne, _d._ 1828). _b._ 21 April 1787; _m._
20 July 1805 Peter Leopold, 5 earl Cowper, who _d._ 27 June
1837; a leader of society; one of the first six patronesses
of Almacks when quadrilles were introduced 1813; _m._ (2) 16
Dec. 1839 Henry J., 3 viscount Palmerston, who _d._ 1865; her
houses at Panshanger park, Herts. and Cambridge house, London,
were frequented by the élite of society, including diplomatists
and politicians; resided later on at Brocket hall, Herts. and
Broadlands; on death of her brother Frederick, 3 viscount
Melbourne 1853, she inherited the family estates in Herts. and
Derbyshire. _d._ Brocket hall 11 Sept. 1869. _bur._ Westminster
abbey 17 Sept., will proved 22 Jany., resworn June 1870 under
£170,000. _A. Hayward’s Essays ii_ 293–302 (1873); _A.R._ (1869)
101; _Register and Mag. of Biography Oct. 1869 pp._ 189–90;
_Every Saturday viii_ 503 (1873).

PANIZZI, SIR ANTHONIO GENESIO MARIA (son of Luigi Panizzi of
Brescello in duchy of Modena). _b._ Brescello 16 Sept. 1797;
educ. Reggio and univ. of Parma 1814–8; practised as an advocate
1818; became a Carbonaro March 1820, arrested 22 Oct. 1822,
escaped and fled to Lugano, was sentenced to death 6 Oct. 1823
in his absence, having published a pamphlet entitled I Processi
di Rubiera, denouncing the Modenese government; came to London
May 1823; taught Italian in Liverpool to 1828; professor of
Italian at London univ. May 1828 to 1837, the univ. opened 1
Oct. 1828; assistant librarian in the British Museum 27 April
1831, keeper of the printed books 15 July 1837, principal
librarian 6 March 1856, procured an annual grant of £10,000
for the library 1845; submitted a design for the new reading
room to the trustees 5 May 1852, foundations were laid May 1854
and the building opened 2 May 1857; resigned librarianship 26
June 1866 on his full pay; naturalised 24 March 1832; received
cross of the legion of honour 24 Dec. 1851; received Sardinian
order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus Dec. 1855; a senator of the
Kingdom of Italy 12 March 1868; a commander of the order of
crown of Italy 22 April 1868; K.C.B. 27 July 1869; edited Works
of Ariosto 1818, Bojardo 1830, and Dante 1858; author of An
elementary Italian grammar for the use of students in the London
university 1828; Extracts from Italian prose writers 1828; On
the supply of printed books from the library to the reading
room of the British museum 1846; On the collection of printed
books at the British museum, its increase and arrangement 1845.
_d._ 31 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 April 1879. _bur._ St. Mary’s
catholic cemet. Kensal Green 12 April, bust by Marochetti and
portrait by Watts at British Museum. _L. Fagan’s Life of sir A.
Panizzi_, 2 _vols._ (1880) _portrait_; _R. Cowtan’s Biographical
sketch of sir A. Panizzi_ (1873); _F. Espinasse’s Literary
recollections_ (1893) 15–21; _L. Fagan’s reform club_ (1887)
125–6 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 369 (1879) _portrait_; _Graphic
xix_ 396 (1879) _portrait_; _Leisure Hour xxx_ 344 _portrait_.

PANMURE, WILLIAM MAULE, 1 Baron (2 son of George Ramsay, 8 earl
of Dalhousie, _d._ 15 Nov. 1787). _b._ 27 Oct. 1771; succeeded
to the greater part of the Panmure estates on death of his great
uncle Wm. earl of Panmure 4 Jany. 1782, when he assumed the name
of Maule; cornet 11 dragoons 10 Oct. 1788; raised an independent
company of foot, which was disbanded 1791; M.P. Forfarshire 25
April 1796 to 20 May 1796, and 24 June 1805 to 9 Sept. 1831, and
was a great supporter of Fox; a boon companion of George IV;
cr. baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar, co. Forfar, by letters
patent 10 Sept. 1831, on coronation of William IV; his dinner
parties were sometimes protracted to eighteen hours, when the
consumption of claret was enormous; gave considerable sums in
charity to Dundee and neighbouring towns. _d._ Brechin castle,
Forfarshire 13 April 1852, portrait in Dundee town hall. _G.M.
xxxvii_ 515 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 315 (1852); _Norrie’s Dundee
celebrities_ (1873) 136–9; _Times 16 April 1852 p._ 8.

PANOFKA, HEINRICH. _b._ Breslau 2 Oct. 1807; a singer and
violinist; gave concerts in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Paris
1827 etc.; came to London 1844; an assistant of Benjamin Lumley
at Her Majesty’s opera 1847; resided in London as a teacher of
music and singing to 1852; composer of The practical singing
tutor, 24 studies 1849; Twelve two part studies for soprano and
contralto 1850; Two romances for the violin and piano 1851; The
dear old Linden tree, a song 1852; The mountain flower, a song
1872; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music
1830–85. _d._ Carlsruhe or Florence 18 Nov. 1887. _Allgemeine
Deutsche biographie xxv_ 124 (1887).

PANTIN, THOMAS PINDEN (son of Thomas Pantin of St. Sepulchre’s,
London). _b._ 1792; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1827; R. of Westcote, Gloucs. 1828 to death; author of
Observations on certain passages in Dr. Arnold’s Christian duty
of granting the Roman Catholic claims, Lutterworth 1829; The
novelty of popery in matters of faith and practice 1837; The
church of England apostolical in its origin, episcopal in its
government, and scriptural in its belief 1849; edited G. Bull’s
The corruptions of the church of Rome 1836; and Stillingfleet’s
Origines Britannicæ, 2 vols. Oxford 1842. _d._ Westcote rectory
2 Sept. 1866.

PANTON, CHARLES. _b._ 1802; educ. Westminster; clerk in the Pipe
office in the exchequer 1819–33, when office was abolished;
clerk in the Queen’s Remembrancer’s office 1833, and chief clerk
1855 to Nov. 1879. _d._ 18 Woburn square, London 27 Sept. 1882.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29 Sept. _Law Times lxxiii_ 388
(1882).

PANTON, DAVID BROOKE. _b._ 1832; educ. Gonville and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; C. of Birnan Wood and St.
Andrew’s parish ch. Jamaica to 1884; R. of Mandeville and acting
archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica 1884 to death. _d._ Mandeville
14 Sept. 1891.

PANTON, WILLIAM. Surgeon Bengal army 23 June 1818; inspector
general of hospitals 16 Feb. 1844; surgeon general 15 Feb. 1845;
physician general 24 July 1848, retired 10 Feb. 1849. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 10 May 1858.

PAPAFFY, NICHOLAS. _b._ Hungary; alchemist; professed to have
an invention by which he could convert base metals into silver;
with bismuth, aluminium and other ingredients, a crucible and
a furnace he manipulated, in the presence of Barnet, Cox,
Cole, and co., and produced 10 pounds of silver; a company was
formed to work the patent, with offices at 104 Leadenhall st.
London, the inventor to receive £12 a week; having drawn £600 in
advance and raised £10,000 on bills in the name of the company,
he decamped 1860 and was not heard of afterwards. _Bell and
Redwood’s Progress of pharmacy_ (1880) 297.

PAPE, C. First clarionet in Crystal palace band 1855 to death.
_d._ 11 St. Hugh road, Anerley, Surrey 7 Sept. 1874.

PAPINEAU, LOUIS JOSEPH (son of Joseph Papineau, notary
1752–1841). _b._ Montreal 7 Oct. 1786; educ. Quebec seminary;
member for Kent of legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1809,
member for West ward of city of Montreal 1811; called to the bar
1811; served in the militia in the American war 1812; speaker of
the legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1815–37; denounced the
government in violent speeches 1837; attended the meeting held
at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, when armed rebellion was decided
on; fled to the U.S. of America 1837; resided in Paris 1839–47;
member of the Lower house of Canadian legislature 1847–54, was
paid £4,500 arrears of salary as speaker. _d._ Montebello,
Quebec 28 Sept. 1871. _L. O. David’s Ls.-Jos. Papineau_ (1872)
_portrait_; _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of Canadians_ (1862)
327–30; _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie i_ 352 _etc._,
_ii_ 13 _etc._ (1862); _S. Walpole’s History of England iii_
413–35 (1880); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 642 (1888)
_portrait_.

PAPWORTH, EDGAR GEORGE (only son of Thomas Papworth of London,
builder 1773–1814). _b._ 20 or 21 Aug. 1809; pupil of E. H.
Baily, R.A.; student at the R.A. 15 Dec. 1826, silver medallist
1829 and 1831, and gold medallist 1833, travelling student 1834;
exhibited a panorama of Rome at a gallery in Great Portland
st. about 1844; published Original sculptural designs executed
in Rome 1834–6, London 1840; exhibited 62 busts and statuettes
at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. 1832–60; his best
known works are Adam and Eve, The woman of Samaria, and The
Moabitish maiden; executed Bunyan’s memorial tomb in Bunhill
Fields; gained the third prize of £300 in the competition for
the Wellington monument for St. Paul’s cathedral 1857. _d._ 90
Milton st. Dorset sq. London 26 Sept. 1866. _bur._ Highgate
cemet.

PAPWORTH, GEORGE (3 son of John Papworth of London, builder
1750–99). _b._ 9 May 1781; exhibited 4 drawings at R.A.
1796–1803; an architect in Dublin 1812 to death; constructed
the King’s bridge, Dublin 1822–7; designed two Roman Catholic
churches in Dublin; built the Kilkenny lunatic asylum 1849, and
the museum of Irish industry, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1851;
architect to the ecclesiastical comrs. for province of Connaught
1837–42; architect to Dublin and Drogheda railway and to the
Royal bank, Dublin; member of royal Hibernian academy 1831,
treasurer 1849; introduced into Ireland external decoration in
architectural design especially in private houses. _d._ Dublin
14 March 1855.

PAPWORTH, JOHN WOODY (elder son of John Papworth, architect
1775–1847). _b._ 4 March 1820; secretary to the council of
the government school of design, Somerset House, opened 1
June 1837; associate of Institute of British architects 1841,
a fellow 1846; made designs for glass, pottery, terra cotta,
paper hangings and other art manufactures; designed the carpet
presented by 150 ladies to the queen, exhibited at great
exhibition of 1851; designed the Albert Institution, Gravel
Lane; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1837–51; author of An
alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families
in Great Britain and Ireland upon a new plan 1874; author with
his brother, Wyatt A. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in
the Italian style, selected from the designs of Raffaello in
the Vatican 1844; Museums, libraries, and picture galleries,
their establishment, formation, arrangement, and architectural
construction 1853; contributed papers to the Architectural
Publication society. _d._ 13 Hart st. Bloomsbury sq. London 6
July 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _Dict. of architecture vi
p._ 39 (1881); _Builder 16 July 1870 pp._ 559–60.

PAPWORTH, THOMAS. Wrote poetry; author of Letter of
recommendation, a romance of the Levant by Frank P. Worth, 2
vols. 1870. _d._ Smyrna Feb. 1871.

PAPWORTH, WYATT ANGELICUS VAN SANDAU (brother of John Woody
Papworth). _b._ London 23 Jany. 1822; employed by the comrs.
of sewers for Westminster; assistant surveyor to the Alliance
assurance company June 1866, sole surveyor, retired on a pension
1887, designed and erected a branch office at Ipswich; member
of the clothworker’s company, junior and senior warden 1879–81,
master 1889; founded the Architectural publication society
for the production of detached essays and illustrations 1848;
edited and compiled Dictionary of explanation and reference,
brought out in parts May 1853 to April 1892, making 11 vols.
at cost of nearly £10,000; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, member of council
many years; curator of sir John Soane’s museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, London Jany. 1893 to death, rewrote catalogue of the
museum and brought out a new edition of the General description;
edited Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of architecture, 2 ed. 1867, 3 ed.
1876 and 4 ed. 1889; author with his brother, J. W. Papworth,
of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style 1844, and of
Museums, libraries, and picture galleries 1853; author alone
of J. B. Papworth, a brief record of his life and works 1879;
Memoir of A. W. W. Morant 1881; The renaissance and Italian
style of architecture in Great Britain 1883. _d._ the Soane
museum, London 19 Aug. 1894. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 Aug.

PARADISE, JOHN. _b._ 1812; editor of Lincoln Rutland and
Stamford Mercury. _d._ 24 St. Mary st. Stamford 29 Jany. 1887.

PARDEY, JOHN QUIN. _b._ 17 Feb. 1796; ensign 66 foot 18
July 1811; ensign royal staff corps 22 Oct. 1811, lieut. 17
Dec. 1812; in Spain 1813 in connection with quartermaster
general’s department, engaged in constructing the rope bridge
at Alcantara; present at Vittoria, San Sebastian and Toulouse
1813–4; aided in restoring French bridges 1814; war medal and
clasp; received Decoration du Lis 1819; captain 53 foot 9 July
1830; paymaster 12 Feb. 1836, placed on h.p. 1 May 1844; served
at Gibraltar, Malta, and Ionian islands; adjutant of auxiliary
forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. _d._ 12 Sion hill, Bath 17
March 1887.

PARDOE, JULIA S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal
waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). _b._
Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided
in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols.
1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833;
Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3
vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the
Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854;
The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the
Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839,
reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The
romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of
the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The
Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty
woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858;
Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century,
3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties,
3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis,
king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3
vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3
vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady
Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home,
tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor
relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history
during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life
struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La
Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of
the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven
authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list
pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. _d._ at her lodgings, Upper
Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi_
323–4 (1849) _portrait_; _S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record_, _2
ed._ (1855) 765 _portrait_; _Eclectic Mag. xlii_ 135–6 (1857)
_portrait_; _Godey’s Lady book xlvii_ 344 (1853); _J. Pardoe’s
Beauties of the Bosphorus_ (1839) _portrait_.

PARDON, CHARLES FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 28
March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press
Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to
his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting
agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack,
under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886;
an original member of London press club and president Jany.
1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and
the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist
1888. _d._ 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London
18 April 1890. _Sell’s World’s Press_ (1891) 83 _portrait_;
_London Figaro 26 April 1890 p._ 10 _portrait_.