Chapter LXII: Part 62

PARKINSON, RICHARD (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.)
_b._ Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric.
from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824,
B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston
1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St.
Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St.
Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept.
1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize
at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41;
fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean
lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church
1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham
society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the
society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography
of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of
John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of
doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and
miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation:
Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880.
_d._ the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented
to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. _R. Parkinson’s Old
church clock_, _5 ed._ (1880), _memoir pp. ix–xcvii_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 198–204; _G. Huntington’s
Random recollections_ (1893) 263–82; _Raines’s Fellows of the
collegiate church of Manchester ii_ 361 (1891); _G.M. iv_ 556–8
(1858).

PARKINSON, STEPHEN (7 child of a land agent). _b._ Keighley,
Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar
and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845;
fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics,
tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to
death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D.
1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate
1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise
on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed.
1884. _d._ Newnham, Cambridge 2 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Madingley,
Camb. _Cambridge Review 24 Jany. 1889 pp._ 148–9; _The Eagle
March 1889 pp._ 356–62; _Proc. of royal soc. xlv pp. i–iii_
(1889).

PARKYNS, MANSFIELD (2 son of Thomas Boultbee Parkyns). _b._
Ruddington, Notts. 16 Feb. 1823; matric. from Trin. coll. Camb.
Oct. 1839; travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan 1843–50, living
like a native, and was given up for dead by his relatives,
during the first part of the time he was in correspondence with
the Foreign office; attaché to embassy at Constantinople 15
Feb. 1850 to 1852; knew many languages and dialects; resided at
Woodborough hall, Notts. 1852; in the Sherwood forest militia;
lieut. col. of Nottinghamshire rifle volunteers; comptroller
of court of bankruptcy, London, Jany. 1870 to 1884; F.R.G.S.;
author of Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during
three years’ residence in that country, 2 vols. 1853, new ed.
1868; carved the oak choir stalls for Woodborough church. _d._
Woodborough hall 12 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Woodborough church,
Notts. _Times 19 Feb. 1894 p._ 8.

PARLBY, BROOK BRIDGES (son of Samuel Parlby, C. of
Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk). _b._ 1 June 1783; educ. Rugby
1796–8; entered Madras army 1798; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 15 Dec.
1800, major 15 April 1817; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 1823–28; lieut.
col. 13 N.I. 1828 to 13 Nov. 1829; col. 35 N.I. 13 Nov. 1829 to
5 July 1854; col. 20 N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 13 Oct.
1857; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826; in the battle of the Argaum; wounded
at storming of Gawilghur 1803, and at Lassoulgaum Oct. 1804;
commanded a division at Rangoon 8 Dec. 1824, and at Melloon
13 Jany. 1826; in Burmese war 1824; author of Revenge, or the
novice of San Martino, a tragedy 1818; A brief sketch of the
establishment of the Anglican church in India 1851. _d._ Upper
Norwood, Surrey 7 March 1873.

PARLBY, WILLIAM. _b._ 19 May 1801; cornet 8 dragoons 3 Oct.
1816; captain 4 dragoons 7 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846;
lieut. col. 10 hussars 7 Aug. 1846 to 10 Aug. 1856, when placed
on h.p.; col. 21 hussars 24 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1880; general 22
May 1876; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; col. 4 hussars 1
July 1880 to death. _d._ Hubberston, Milford Haven 26 Oct. 1881.

PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART (2 son of John Henry Parnell of
Avondale, co. Wicklow, _d._ 1859). _b._ Avondale 27 June 1846;
educ. at Yeovil, Somerset; matric. as a pensioner from Magdalene
coll. Camb. 1 July 1865, left Cambridge May 1869; resided at
Avondale 1869–72; an officer in the Wicklow militia; travelled
in the U.S. of America 1872–3; sheriff of Wicklow 1874;
contested co. Dublin 19 March 1874; M.P. co. Meath 1875–80;
joined the Amnesty association 1876; his plan for obstructing
the business of house of commons caused the house to sit
continuously from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. on the following evening
31 July to 1 Aug. 1877, this was then the longest recorded
sitting; president of the National land league of Ireland,
founded at a convention in Dublin Oct. 1879; went to U.S. of
America to obtain funds for the league 21 Dec. 1879, addressed
the house of representatives at Washington 2 Feb. 1880, also
addressed the legislatures of 5 states; M.P. Cork city 1880 to
death; chairman of the home rule party in the house of commons
17 May 1880; founded The Irish national newspaper and publishing
company, July 1881; held a great land league convention at
Dublin 15 Sept. 1881; arrested at Morrison’s hotel, Dublin 13
Oct. 1881, imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol, released 2 May 1882;
at a meeting of the Ladies’ land league at Dublin 2 Jany.
1882 Parnell was described as the uncrowned King of Ireland,
which title was adopted by his supporters; attended a national
conference in Dublin 17 Oct. 1883, when the Land League was
revived as the Irish national league; presented with sum of
£37,000 at a banquet at the Rotunda in Dublin 11 Dec. 1883;
elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party 11 Jany.
1886, re-elected 25 Nov. 1890; the freedom of city of Edinburgh
was conferred on him 20 July 1889; his friend capt. Wm. Henry
O’Shea obtained a decree nisi for a divorce 17 Nov. 1890 with
costs against Parnell as co-respondent; on 25 June 1891,
Parnell married Mrs. Katherine O’Shea in the registry office at
Steyning, near Brighton; deserted by 45 of his followers in the
house of commons 6 Dec. 1890; repudiated by the Roman Catholic
archbishops and bishops 4 Dec. 1890. _d._ of inflammation of
the lungs at his residence 10 Walsingham terrace, Aldrington,
Brighton 6 Oct. 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. Dublin 11 Oct.
_T. P. O’Connor’s Life of C. S. Parnell_ (1891) _portrait_;
_R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume, C. S. Parnell_ (1892), _memoir
pp._ 1–210 _four portraits_; _J. S. Mahoney’s C. S. Parnell_
(1886) _two portraits_; _T. Sherlock’s Life of C. S. Parnell_
(1887) _portrait_; _J. Connellan’s Life of C. S. Parnell_ (1888)
_portrait_; _A. Filon’s Profils Anglais_, _Paris_ (1893); _H.
Le Caron’s Twenty five years in the secret service_ (1892) 178
_portrait_.

NOTE.--In 1887 The Times published articles entitled Parnellism and Crime, and on 18 April gave a facsimile of a letter said to be by C. S. Parnell in which he extenuated the Phœnix park murders. On 22 Oct. 1888 three judges, forming a special commission, commenced inquiring into all the charges which had been made against Parnell. On 1 March 1889 Richard Piggott, who had forged the letter, committed suicide at Madrid. The report of the commission acquitted Parnell of any sympathy with the Phœnix park murders 13 Feb. 1890. He brought an action for libel against The Times claiming £100,000 damages, but the action was compromised by a payment of £5,000 on 3 Feb. 1890. _Annual Register 1887 p._ 99 _etc._, 1888 _p._ 233 _etc._, 1889 _pp._ 477–507, 1890 _p._ 7; _David Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons_ (1884) 202–21; _I.L.N. lxxix_ 389 (1881) _portrait_; _Graphic 10 Oct. 1891 p._ 424 _portrait_.

PARNELL, FANNY (sister of the preceding). _b._ Avondale, co.
Wicklow 3 Sept. 1854; contributed poems to the Irish People,
the Fenian newspaper, under signature of Alena or Alerta 1867,
and wrote poetry in the Nation and the Irishman; went with her
mother to America and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey;. wrote
much verse in the Boston Pilot and Dublin Nation 1879–82; made
many speeches during the land league agitation in America 1880;
organized in 1881 the despatch to Ireland of Irish-American
women to take the places of women who had helped to administer
the ladies’ land league in Ireland and had been imprisoned.
_d._ Bordentown, New Jersey 29 July 1882. _bur._ Mount Auburn
cemetery, near Boston. _R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume_ (1892)
_p._ 3 _portrait_.

PARR, GEORGE. _b._ Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. 22 May 1826; first
played at Lord’s 1845; member of Clarke’s touring eleven 1847,
captain 1857; played for the Players against the Gentlemen
1846–65; played for Notts. 1846–70, made 130 runs against Surrey
1859; took a team to Canada 1859, winning all the five matches
against twenty-twos; coached the Harrow eleven 1859–62; captain
of a team in Australia 1863, winning ten matches; captain of
the All England eleven 1857–70; played his last match 1871;
the finest batsman in England, especially famous for his leg
hitting. _d._ Radcliffe-on-Trent 23 June 1891. _Baily’s Mag. ii_
215–20 (1860) _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 115
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 161 (1864) _portrait_,
_v_ 36 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 161
(1874) _portrait_.

PARR, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; travelled in Dorset and Devonshire as
a dealer in tea; began racing 1839 with two horses, increased
his stud to about 20; ran second for the Cesarewitch with
Giselle; won 18 races with Rataplan 1854; won the St. Leger with
Saucebox 1855; won the Queen’s vase and 22 other races with
Fisherman 1856; won the Goodwood stakes and the Cesarewitch with
Weathergaze and the Cambridgeshire with Odd Trick and Malacca.
_d._ Manor house, Letcomb Regis 19 Jany. 1880. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 286–300; _W. Day’s The race horse
in training_ (1880) 19.

PARR, THOMAS CHASE (son of John Owen Parr of London). _b._
1802; entered Bombay army 1818; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 5 Feb.
1819; captain 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827, major 19 Oct. 1839 to 21
Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 1 European regiment right wing 21 Jany.
1846 to 15 Aug. 1847; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to
1850, of 7 N.I. 1850–1, of 2 N.I. 1851–3, and of 6 N.I. 1853–6;
commandant Kurrachee 28 March 1854 to 13 March 1856; col. of 2
European regiment 18 March 1856 to 1863, and of 12 N.I. 1863;
general 10 Feb. 1876. _d._ Powis lodge, Bickley, Kent 15 June
1883.

PARR, WILLIAM CHASE (2 son of rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of
Preston). _b._ 4 Dec. 1826; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 27 Jany. 1844,
captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 Sept.
1869; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 2 July 1885;
general 1 April 1894. _d._ King’s Holt, West Lyss, Hants. 6
March 1895.

PARRAVICINI, STEFANO ANNONI DE (only son of Carlo De
Parravicini, advocate, Milan). An officer in the Italian army;
joined an opera company in England; business manager to Willert
Beale to 1856; a musical and professional agent 49 Duke st.
St. James’, London 1856–86, in partnership with Wardle Corbyn
and then with J. F. P. Hyatt 1876–86; agent for Blondin; for
the Alhambra music hall, under F. Strange, where he introduced
Madame Pitteri, the dancer; he brought Pauline Virginie Déjazet
to the Charing Cross theatre Oct. 1870; agent for the circuses
at Covent garden, for Barnum’s show and Venice at Olympia; joint
lessee with W. Corbyn of Park theatre, London, opened Oct. 1875.
_d._ Addison road north, London 13 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s
R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 18 Jany. _The Era 21 Jany. 1893._

PARRIS, EDMUND THOMAS (son of Edward Parris). _b._ parish of
St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and
metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered
schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for
the Colosseum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama
of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many
of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, &c.; made a
sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury
Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of
which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture
of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the
cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph
of Arimathea converting the Britons; repainted Thornhill’s
paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter
to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at
B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the
mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at
his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when
mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was
widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Countess of
Blessington’s The confessions of an elderly gentleman 1836,
her Flowers of loveliness 1836, and her The confessions of an
elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. _d._ 27 Francis
st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853
portrait xxix_, 145, 146 (1856) _portrait_, _lxiii_ 543, 564,
587 (1873) _portrait_.

PARROTT, THOMAS. _b._ 1796; admitted attorney 1826; practised
at Macclesfield, Cheshire 1826 to death; town clerk 27 Jany.
1830 to death; partner with Thomas Michael Colville and with
John May 1839, firm becoming Parrott, May and Sons; clerk to
the county and borough magistrates, also coroner; his portrait
was presented to the corporation of Macclesfield March 1879; a
successful proprietor of a dairy farm. _d._ Green bank, Higher
Sutton, Macclesfield 29 May 1879. _bur._ St. James’ ch. yard,
Sutton 6 June. _The Macclesfield courier 31 May 1879 p._ 5, _7
June p._ 5.

PARROTT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; exhibited 25 landscapes at
the R.A., 19 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–69.
_d._ 3 Nether st. North Finchley, London 23 Sept. 1893.

PARRY, ALBERT WOODWARD (son of Richard Parry, builder). _b._
Salford 19 Jany. 1834; principal assistant to borough surveyor,
Bradford 1863–71; borough surveyor, Reading 1871–91, completed
the sewerage, enlarged the water works, and erected the sewage
farm buildings; consulting engineer for Reading 1891 to death; a
surveyor with his son Richard Parry at 27 Great George street,
Westminster 1893; A.I.C.E. 1 April 1873, A.M.I.C.E. 1878. _d._
Reading 13 July 1894. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii_
462–3 (1894).

PARRY, CHARLES HENRY (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician
1755–1822). _b._ Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen;
travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb.
24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812;
practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital,
Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De
Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et
efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments
on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments
and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir
of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. _d._ 5 Belgrave place, Brighton
21 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Weston, near Bath. _Munk’s College of
physicians ii_ 385–8, _iii_ 45–6 (1878).

PARRY, EDWARD (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). _b._
Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey
1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered
Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870;
D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to
1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to
A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining
chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69,
and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of
Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26
Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel
25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882;
author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed.
1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. _d._
St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. _bur._ in churchyard of St.
Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral.
_Graphic 19 April 1890 p._ 444 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 19 April 1890
p._ 483 _portrait_.

PARRY, FRANCIS CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of
Speen, Berks., _d._ 1788). _b._ Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and
Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June
1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of
bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh
Review 1819–23. _d._ Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. _Law Times
lxvi_ 213 (1879).

NOTE.--He occupied a prominent place in the Collier Shakespeare controversy as having been the possessor of a folio which was for some time wrongly identified with the Perkins folio.

PARRY, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ India 8 Dec. 1794; first played
at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818;
played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from
1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket,
a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park,
Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. _d._ Mentone 11 Jany. 1872.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 407 (1862).

PARRY, HENRY HUTTON (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). _b._ 18
Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A.
1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity,
Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college,
Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon
of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop
of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia
20 May 1876 to death. _d._ Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov.
1893.

PARRY, JAMES (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited
landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal
Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in
Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from
his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’
work. _d._ Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in
royal Salford museum.

PARRY, JOHN. _b._ Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined
the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to
play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the
same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of
the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens
from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15
June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb.
1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives
or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My
uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the
Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received
degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter
of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to
Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of
the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times
for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang
his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal
musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer
of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800;
Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814;
Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel
boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of
Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts
and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The
vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian
divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the
antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp,
2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and
Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion
1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions
1800–50. _d._ 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April
1851. _Grove’s Dictionary of music i_ 484, 651, _ii_ 248, _iv_
443 (1878).

PARRY, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52
Charlotte st. Portland place, London). _b._ London 1809; clerk
in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds
theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract
1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s
management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good
as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria
theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. _Actors by
gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp._ 161–2 _portrait_; _Theatrical times 3
July 1847 pp._ 201–2 _portrait_.

PARRY, JOHN BILLINGSLEY (2 son of James Parry of Preston
Montford hall, Salop). _b._ 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.;
barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845;
judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847,
resigned Sept. 1874. _d._ Brighton 28 March 1876.

PARRY, JOHN HAYDN (son of Dr. Joseph Parry of univ. coll. of
South Wales, Cardiff). _b._ April 1864; musical instructor
Harrow school; professor of London Guildhall school of music
Sept. 1889 to death; composer of Gwen, a cantata produced by
students of Guildhall school of music 1890; Cigarette, an opera,
T.R. Cardiff 15 Aug. 1892, and Lyric theatre, London 7 Sept.
1892; Miami, a musical version of The green bushes, Princess’s
theatre 16 Oct. 1893; O Lord abide with me, a song 1894. _d._ 87
Broadhurst gardens, West Hampstead, London 29 March 1894. _bur._
West Hampstead cemet. 2 April.

PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (son of John Humffreys Parry, Welsh
antiquary 1786–1825). _b._ London 24 Jany. 1816; employed in the
printed-book department of the British Museum, engaged on the
new catalogue Jany. 1839 to June 1843; barrister M.T. 9 June
1843, bencher 15 Nov. 1878 to death; obtained a large criminal
practice; sergeant-at-law 9 June 1856, obtained patent of
precedence 9 Feb. 1864; largely employed in compensation cases;
leader of the home circuit; retained in the trials of Manning
1849, Muller 1864, Overend and Gurney 1869, the Tichborne
claimant 1873–4, and Whistler _v._ Ruskin Nov. 1878; a founder
of the Complete suffrage association 1842; contested Norwich
30 July 1847 and Finsbury 30 March 1857; edited The National
association gazette, No. 1–28, 1841–2. _d._ 56 Holland park,
Kensington, London 10 Jany. 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 15 Jany.
_M. William’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 39, 50, 58, 90, 127, 141,
143, 181, 218; _Law Times lxviii_ 211 (1880); _I.L.N. lxxvi_ 85
(1880) _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_ 93 (1880) _portrait_.

PARRY, JOHN ORLANDO (only son of John Parry 1776–1851). _b._
London 3 Jany. 1810; first appeared as a vocalist at Hanover sq.
rooms, London 7 May 1830; sang at the Antient and Philharmonic
concerts, and at musical festivals; pupil of Luigi Lablache
at Naples 1833; sang at St. James’s theatre in a burletta The
Sham prince 29 Sept. 1836, and in Charles Dickens’s Village
Coquettes 6 Dec.; sang at concerts and in the provinces 1842–9;
produced an entertainment by Albert Smith entitled Notes,
vocal and instrumental, at the Store st. music hall, Bedford
sq. London 25 June 1850, gave another entertainment there The
portfolio for children of all ages 17 Aug. 1852 to Aug. 1853;
was mentally deranged some time; organist at St. Jude’s church,
Southsea; gave musical monologues with Mr. & Mrs. German Reed at
Gallery of illustration, Regent st. London 1860–9; wrote his own
entertainments and composed his own music; received prizes for
songs from the Melodists’ club; his farewell benefit at Gaiety
theatre 7 Feb. 1877 realised £1,300; lost his 40 years’ savings
1877; author of Ridiculous things: scraps and oddities 1854;
composer of Wanted a governess, a song 1840; Charming Chloe
Cole 1854; Don’t be too particular 1868; Take a bumper and try
1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 compositions. _d._
at his daughter’s residence Pembroke lodge, East Molesey, Surrey
20 Feb. 1879. _bur._ East Molesey cemet. 25 Feb. _Theatrical
times ii_ 201 (1847) _portrait_; _Dramatic and musical review
ii_ 541–3 (1843); _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1879) 253–5; _I.L.N.
iv_ 389 (1844) _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iv_ 657
(1865) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news x_ 572, 574 (1879)
_portrait_; _Life of Ignatz Moscheles i_ 289, _ii_ 10, 107
(1873).

PARRY, LOUISA (3 dau. of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont,
Essex). Author of The young christian’s Sunday evening or
conversations on scripture history, the Old Testament 1836,
Second series, on the Four gospels 1837, Third series, on the
Acts of the Apostles 1840; _m._ 1824 Rev. Thomas Parry 1795–1870.

PARRY, SIR LOVE PARRY JONES- (eld. son of Thomas Jones of
Lwynen, Denbighshire, who took surname of Parry 1780). _b._
London 28 Nov. 1781; educ. Westminster sch.; elected to Trin.
coll. Camb. 1799; gentleman commoner Ch. Ch. Oxf. 8 May 1799;
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1811; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1802; ensign 105
foot April 1794; captain 112 foot 30 Oct. 1794, placed on h.p.
June 1795; captain 81 foot 9 July 1803; major 90 foot 28 Aug.
1804, placed on h.p. 16 June 1808; major 103 foot 5 Sept. 1811;
commanded a brigade on the Canadian frontier during the war
1812–4; major 6 garrison battalion 1 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p.
1814; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted 1835; K.H. 1836; M.P. Horsham
1806, re-elected 1807 but unseated on petition; M.P. Carnarvon
1835–37; contested Shrewsbury 30 June 1841; sheriff of Anglesey
1840; chairman of quarter sessions of Carnarvon many years. _d._
Madryn park, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire 23 Jany. 1853. _bur._ in
family vault, Llanbedrog church 1 Feb.

PARRY, ROBERT. _b._ Carnarvon Feb. 1804; a lecturer in the
Principality; a Welsh bard of great renown; known as Robyn Ddu
Eryri; received grant of £100 from Royal Bounty fund; author of
Awdl ar etholiad, Arglwydd Newborough yn aelod seneddawl dros
Swydd Caernafon 1826; Teithiau a barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri
1857. _d._ Ludlow, Salop Nov. 1892. _bur._ Ludlow 8 Nov.

PARRY, SEFTON HENRY. _b._ 1822; conducted dramatic performances
at Cape Town 1859; travelled with a small company in various
parts of the world; designed and built the Holborn theatre,
which he opened with Boucicault’s drama The flying scud 6 Oct.
1866, lessee of the house until 1872; built the Globe theatre,
which he opened with Byron’s Cyril’s success 28 Nov. 1868,
lessee until 1871; built the Avenue theatre, which he opened
with Offenbach’s Madame Favart 11 March 1882; proprietor of
theatres at Hull and Southampton; wrote The bright future, a
drama, produced at the opening of Grand theatre, Islington 4
Aug. 1883. _d._ Cricklewood lodge, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1887.
_bur._ Old Willesden churchyard 24 Dec. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_
(1891) 283, 327, 364, 552, 613; _Era 24 Dec. 1887 p._ 14.

PARRY, THOMAS (brother of John Parry of the Britannia theatre).
_b._ 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he
wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and
the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight,
a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s
trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a
comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama,
Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The
First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. _d._
Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862.
_The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p._ 11.

PARRY, THOMAS (4 son of Edmund Parry, R. of Llanferras,
Denbighshire). _b._ Llanferras 1795; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of Balliol coll. 1816;
R. of St. Leonard’s, Colchester 1817; archdeacon of Antigua
1824–40; archdeacon of Barbados 1840–2; bishop of Barbados
1842–69, consecrated in Westminster abbey 21 Aug. 1842; author
of Parochial sermons preached in the West Indies, Oxford, 1828;
A practical exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1832; The
apostleship and priesthood of Christ: an exposition of the
epistle to the Hebrews 1834; Ordination vows, a series of
sermons 1846. _d._ Malvern 16 March 1870. _bur._ West Malvern.
_I.L.N. lvi_ 386, 643 (1870).

PARRY, THOMAS GAMBIER (only child of Richard Parry, director
of H.E.I.C.) _b._ 22 Feb. 1816; educ. Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1848; purchased estate of Highnam, near
Gloucester 1838, which he raised from a small hamlet to an
important parish; built and endowed Highnam church, adorned the
walls with frescoes of his own designing, for which he invented
and employed a process named by him spirit frescoe; painted from
his own designs the frescoes on the six eastern bays of the roof
of the nave of Ely cathedral 1862–5; painted frescoes in St.
Andrew’s chapel, Gloucester cathedral; reported officially on
Painting on glass in the Paris exhibition of 1867, and on Mosaic
and glass painting in the London exhibition of 1871; founded and
endowed in Gloucester the free hospital for children, the St.
Lucy’s home for orphans, and the Gloucester schools of science
and art; author of Spirit fresco painting, an account of the
process 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The ministry of fine arts to the
happiness of life 1886. _d._ Highnam court, near Gloucester 28
Sept. 1888.

PARRY, SIR THOMAS LOVE DUNCOMBE JONES-, 1 Baronet (eld. son
of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). _b._ Llanbedrog,
Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ.
coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain
royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon
1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug.
1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. _d._ Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec.
1891. _bur._ Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.

PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry,
physician 1755–1822). _b._ Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30
June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to
the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition
to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville
island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the
freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26
Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another
expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer
1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and
wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the
admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from
Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827,
reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained
until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr.
for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834;
D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk
7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department
of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of
Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852;
lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death;
author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage
for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to
the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery
of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for
the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the
first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an
attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose
and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental
character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. _d._ Ems 8 July 1855. _bur._
in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July,
portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. _E.
Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry_ (1857) _portrait_; _Marshall’s
Royal naval biography viii_ 315 (1833); _G.M. ii_ 233–9 (1826);
_Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_ 603–12 (1855); _Georgian era iii_
87–91 (1833).

PARSELLE, JOHN. _b._ 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen;
attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9;
acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market,
Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s
management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he
also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860,
Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut.
Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward
Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865;
wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept.
1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April
1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went
to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected
with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New
York 1873 to death. _d._ New York 17 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Evergreen
cemetery. _Entr’acte Annual_ (1882) 58 _portrait_; _Scott and
Howard’s E. L. Blanchard_ (1891) 105, 720.

PARSONS, BENJAMIN (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). _b._
Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at
Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5;
congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to
death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has
been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have
you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a
baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud
1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question
settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts
for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. _d._ at
the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. _E. P. Hood’s The Earnest
minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons_ (1856) _portrait_; _The
lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ (1856) 520–41; _S. Couling’s
History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 339–40.

PARSONS, DANIEL (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne,
Dorset). _b._ 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A.
1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs.
1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican
orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870;
edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain
parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. _d._
Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.

PARSONS, ELIZABETH (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon,
congregational minister). _b._ Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted
a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for
whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her
pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become
popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to
meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns
for adults; _m._ 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she _d._ Plymouth
1873. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 69, 834, 882,
996, 1267; _W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover_ (1889) 442.

PARSONS, GEORGE SAMUEL. _b._ 1783; entered R.N. July 1795;
signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut.
1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy
from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on
board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander
15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from
memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany.
1854. _G.M. July 1854 p._ 79.

PARSONS, GERTRUDE (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall,
captain in 22 foot, _d._ 30 June 1838). _b._ Restormel near
Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844;
_m._ 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman,
or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June
1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30
Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established
church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The
romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3
vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3
vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint
Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879;
Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends
1890. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. _bur._ the Priory
church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub._ (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; _Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p._ 348.

PARSONS, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal
N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May
1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18
N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846
to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany.
1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July
1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53;
col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death;
commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18
March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of
France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree
war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign
and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. _d._ Almorah,
N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.

PARSONS, JAMES (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational
minister 1762–1833). _b._ Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the
academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at
Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York,
opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman
of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the
Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society
1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of
Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827;
Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of
his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. _d._ York 20
Oct. 1877. _bur._ York 26 Oct. _The lamps of the temple_, _3
ed._ (1856) 282–323; _Congregational year book_ (1878) 332–5;
_Congregational magazine_ (1831) 229–40; _Congregationalist_
(1877) 748–53; _The Pulpit v_ (1826) _portrait and xvi_ 250–2,
365; _E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials_ (1878)
343–80.

PARSONS, JOHN MEESON (youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport,
Shropshire). _b._ Newport 27 Oct. 1798; a member of the Stock
exchange, London; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1839; a director of London and
Brighton railway company 9 Feb. 1843 to 21 Aug. 1848, chairman
19 June 1843 to 11 April 1844; a director of the Shropshire
union railway 1845–9; resided at 6 Raymond buildings, Gray’s
inn to 1869; collected a gallery of pictures of the German and
Dutch schools and of water-colour drawings by English artists;
bequeathed 92 oil and 47 water-colour paintings to South
Kensington museum 1870; he also gave three pictures to the
National gallery, and many fine engravings to British Museum.
_d._ 45 Russell sq. Bloomsbury, London 25 March 1870. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 252–3 (1871).

PARSONS, NEEDHAM THOMPSON. _b._ 1 Nov. 1826; ensign 1 European
Bengal fusiliers 26 July 1845; captain 101 foot 12 March 1858,
major 15 Sept. 1869; lieut.-col. 103 foot 24 July 1872, placed
on h.p. 8 Dec. 1877; lieut.-col. regimental district 19 Dec.
1877 to 19 Dec. 1882; honorary M.G. 17 Nov. 1883; served in the
Burmese war 1852–3, the Indian mutiny 1857, and the Indian north
west frontier war 1863. _d._ Isle of Man 7 Aug. 1895.

PARSONS, PERCIVAL MOSES (son of John Parsons of Seraptoft house,
Leics.) _b._ London 1819; under chief engineer Portsmouth
dockyard 1834–6; articled to Braithwaite, Milner & co. 1836–40;
engaged laying out Eastern counties’ railway 1841–5; an engineer
in London from 1850; invented improved switches and axle-boxes;
connected with the Permanent way co.; designed a central railway
station for London on north bank of the Thames, near Charing
Cross 1853; patented an invention for rifled cannon which
had occupied him 8 years; patented improved bolts Feb. 1867;
engineer to the Bessemer steel and ordnance co. 1871; invented
white brass for shaft bearings, and manganese bronze for
propellers; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1873; took out 52 patents 1851–89;
author of Proposed London railway 1853; Guns versus armour
plates 1863. _d._ Melbourne house, Blackheath, Kent 5 Nov. 1892.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxi_ 385–9 (1893).

PART, JAMES. _b._ Wigan 1809; apprentice to Christopher Morris
of Wigan; educ. St. Bartholomew’s, Aldersgate sch. and Univ.
coll.; L.S.A. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1854; F.M.C. and
C.S. 1851; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1860; surgeon Artists’ annuity fund
soc.; president North London medical soc.; author of Medical and
surgical case book. _d._ 89 Camden road, London 1 Oct. 1875.
_Lancet 24 Dec. 1875 p._ 931; _Proc. of royal Med. and Chir.
soc. viii_ 71 (1875).

PARTINGTON, CHARLES FREDERICK. Lecturer on modern improvements
in mechanics and on other subjects at mechanics’ institutions;
published Lectures on select subjects in mechanics and
hydrostatics by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present
state of science 1825; The century of inventions by the Marquis
of Worcester, with notes and a biographical memoir 1825; edited
The scientific gazette July 1825 to 4 Feb. 1826; edited with
Wm. Newton the second series of The London journal of arts and
sciences, 9 vols. 1834–42; edited with other authors The British
cyclopædia of arts and sciences, 10 vols. 1835–8; author of An
historical and descriptive account of the steam engine 1822, 3
ed. 1826; A brief account of the royal gardens, Vauxhall 1822; A
manual of natural and experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 1828; The
builder’s complete guide 1852; he was living in 1857.

PARTON, JAMES. _b._ Canterbury 9 Feb. 1822; taken to America
1827; a teacher in Philadelphia and New York; a contributor to
the Home journal 3 years; a public lecturer; resided in New York
to 1875, then at Newbury Port, Massachusetts; _m._ Jany. 1856
Sarah Payson Willis (1811–72) widow of Charles H. Eldredge,
she became a well known author under the name of Fanny Fern;
he was the author of The life of Horace Greeley 1855; General
Butler in New Orleans 1864; The life of Aaron Burr 1861; Life
of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1864; Life of J. J. Astor 1865;
Famous Americans of recent time 1867; Eminent Women of the age
1868; People’s Book of biography 1869; Life of Thomas Jefferson
1874; Caricature and other comic art in all times 1877; The
humorous poetry from Chaucer to Saxe 1881; Life of Voltaire, 2
vols. 1881; Life of Andrew Jackson, 3 vols. 1883. _d._ Newbury
port, Massachusetts 17 Oct. 1891. _Appleton’s American Biog. iv_
665–6 (1888) _portraits of J. and S. P. Parton_.

PARTRIDGE, JOHN (son of Samuel Partridge). _b._ Glasgow 28
Feb. 1790; pupil of Thomas Phillips, R.A. about 1814; studied
in France and Italy 1823–7; a fashionable portrait painter
in London 1827; painted portraits of the queen and prince
Albert 1840; portrait painter extraordinary to the queen 1842;
exhibited 72 pictures at R.A. and 58 at B.I. 1815–61; presented
to the National portrait gallery 1872 his picture entitled
Meeting of the fine art commission at Gwydyr house, Whitehall in
the year 1846; author of On the constitution and management of
the royal academy 1864. _d._ 60 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London
25 Nov. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1873) 44.

PARTRIDGE, RICHARD. _b._ 19 Jany. 1805; apprenticed to his uncle
W. H. Partridge of Birmingham 1821–7; entered St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1827; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council
1852, examiner 1854, Hunterian orator 1865, and president 1866;
L.S.A. 1827; demonstrator of anatomy at Kings’ college, London
1831–6, professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy 1836 to
death; assistant surgeon to Charing Cross hospital 23 Dec. 1836,
surgeon 8 Jany. 1838 to 13 April 1840; surgeon to Kings’ college
hospital 13 April 1840 to 1870; F.R.S. 23 Feb. 1837; professor
of anatomy at the royal academy 1853 to death; fellow of royal
Med. and Chir. soc. of London 1828, secretary 1832–6, member of
council 1837–8 and 1861–2, vice-pres. 1847–8, president 1863–4.
_d._ 18 Wimpole st. London 25 March 1873. _Illust. times 4 Oct.
1869 p._ 369 _portrait_; _Lancet 29 March 1873 pp._ 456, 464.

NOTE.--The body of the murdered Italian boy Carlo Ferrari was brought to Kings’ coll. hospital for dissection, and it was through Partridge’s astuteness that the murderers Bishop and Williams were arrested, and executed 5 Dec. 1831.

PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM (1 son of John Partridge of Monmouth). _b._
2 Jany. 1818; educ. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840,
M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 12 June 1840; barrister
M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; stipendiary magistrate, Wolverhampton 1860–3;
police magistrate at the Thames court 2 April 1863, at Southwark
1867–79, at Westminster 1879–89, at Lambeth 1889–90, and at
Marylebone 1890 to death; presided in his court 29 Aug. 1891.
_d._ The Grange, Uxbridge road, London 10 Sept. 1891. _Graphic
19 Sept. 1891 p._ 327 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1891 p._ 369
_portrait_.

PASCO, JOHN. _b._ 20 Dec. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1784;
lieutenant of the Victory in the Mediterranean April 1803;
served at the blockade of Toulon, in the chase of the French
fleet to the West Indies, and in the battle of Trafalgar, where
as signal officer, he made Nelson’s famous signal England
expects that every man will do his duty, severely wounded in the
right arm for which he was afterwards granted pension of £250 a
year; captain 3 April 1811; captain of the Rota frigate on the
Lisbon station 1811–5; commanded the Victory at Portsmouth 1846;
R.A. 22 Sept. 1847. _d._ East Stonehouse, Devon 16 Nov. 1853.
_O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 869–70.

PASCOE, FRANCIS POLKINGHORNE (only child of Wm. Pascoe of
Penzance, Cornwall, _d._ 1817). _b._ Penzance 1 Sept. 1813;
studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1835;
assistant surgeon in the navy 1836–43; resided in London
1851–91, where he formed the entomological collection, which is
in the Natural history museum at South Kensington; F.L.S. June
1852; member of Entomological society of London 1854, president
1864–5; author of Zoological classification 1877, 2 ed. 1880;
Hints for collecting and preserving insects 1882; The student’s
list of British coleoptera 1882; Notes on natural selection and
the origin of species 1884; List of British vertebrate animals
1885; Analytical lists of the orders of the animal kingdom
1886; The Darwinian theory of the origin of species 1890. _d._
Brighton 20 June 1893. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_
427–9, _iii_ 1302 (1882–90); _Entomologists’ monthly mag._
(1893) 194–6.

PASHLEY, ROBERT (son of Robert Pashley of Hull). _b._ York 4
Sept. 1805; admitted at Trin. coll. Camb. 3 May 1825, fellow
1830–53; took a double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832;
travelled in Greece, Asia Minor and Crete 1833; barrister I.T.
17 Nov. 1837, bencher 1851 to death; Q.C. July 1851; contested
King’s Lynn 9 July 1852; assistant judge of the Middlesex
sessions 19 Jany. 1856 to death; author of Travels in Crete, 2
vols. 1837; Pauperism and poor laws 1853; Observations on the
government bill for abolishing the removal of the poor 1854,
2 ed. 1854. _d._ 16 Manchester sq. London 29 May 1859. _bur._
Kensal green cemet. 4 June. _G.M. vii_ 191 (1859); _Law Times
xxxiii_ 154, 225 (1859).

NOTE.--He acquired great reputation as a settlement lawyer, raising the most ingenious points and arguing them with such pertinacity, that the act for regulating appeals which gave the court the power of amendment was jocosely called in Westminster Hall “An act for the better suppression of Pashley” about 1850.

PASLEY, CHARLES (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ Brompton
barracks, Chatham, Kent 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Rochester gr.
sch. and R.M. Academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1843;
served in Canada and Bermuda 1846–50; on the staff of the Great
Exhibition 1851; colonial engineer to the colony of Victoria 18
Sept. 1853, member of legislative council 16 Oct. 1854; comr.
of public works for Victoria 25 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857,
professional head of department of public works 1857–60; served
in the war in New Zealand 1860, where he was wounded in the
attack of the pah at Kaihihi, for which he was granted a pension
of £100 per annum; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; special agent for
Victoria in London 1864 to Dec. 1868; in charge of the great
extension works at Chatham dockyard Oct. 1865 to 1873; secretary
to the committee on designs for ships of war Dec. 1870, member
of the committee May 1871, drafted the report; colonel in the
army April 1876, retired as major general Aug. 1881; director
of engineering works and of architecture at the admiralty Sept.
1873 to Sept. 1882; acting agent general for Victoria with title
of chairman of the board of advice May 1880 to 1882; C.B. 23
April 1880. _d._ 7 Queen Anne’s grove, Bedford park, Chiswick 11
Nov. 1890. _Royal engineer’s journal_ (1891); _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. ciii_ 388–92 (1891).

PASLEY, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM. _b._ Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire
8 Sept. 1780; educ. at Selkirk and R.M. academy, Woolwich;
2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 April 1798, col.
commandant 28 Nov. 1853 to death; served at the battle of
Corunna, also in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege
of Flushing 1809; director of the establishment for field
instruction at Chatham June 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; hon. M.I.C.E.
1820; presented with freedom of city of London, for having
removed the brig William and the schooner Glenmorgan from the
bed of the Thames, near Gravesend in 1838; blew up wreck of the
Royal George at Spithead 1839–43; formed the schools for the
royal engineers and for the navy; inspector general of railways
23 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.S. 7 March 1816; general 20 Sept.
1860; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831, K.C.B. 21 Dec. 1846; author of Essay
on the military policy and institutions of the British empire
1810, 4 ed. 1812; Course of instruction for use of the royal
engineer department, 3 vols. 1814–7; A course of elementary
fortifications, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1822; The practical operations of
a siege, 2 parts 1829–32; Observations on limes, calcareous,
cements, mortar, stuccos, and concretes 1838. _d._ 12 Norfolk
crescent, Hyde park, London 19 April 1861, portrait in royal
engineers’ mess-room at Chatham. _Proc. of royal society xii_
20–5 (1862); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_ 545–50
(1862).

PASLEY, SIR THOMAS SABINE, 2 Baronet (only son of colonel
John Sabine of the grenadier guards 1773–1805). _b._ Welbeck
st. London 26 Dec. 1804; succeeded his grandfather sir Thomas
Pasley as baronet 29 Nov. 1808; assumed surname of Pasley by
R.L. 20 March 1809; entered navy Dec. 1818; captain 24 May
1831; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1849–54; captain of
the Agamemnon in the Black sea Nov. 1854 to 31 Jany. 1856;
superintendent of Devonport dockyard Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862;
commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1866 to 25 Feb. 1869;
admiral 20 Nov. 1866; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Moorhill,
Shedfield, Botley, Hampshire 13 Feb. 1884.

PASSMORE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1822; member of firm of Alabaster and
Passmore, printers and publishers, 34 Wilson st. Finsbury,
London 1853, Alabaster died 1891; a member of C. H. Spurgeon’s
church, actively assisted in building the Tabernacle
institutions and in founding the Stockwell orphanage 1867;
suggested the weekly issue of Spurgeon’s Sermons 1855 and
continued printing it without intermission 36 years; printed and
published the whole of Spurgeon’s works 1855–95. _d._ at his
residence in London 1 Aug. 1895. _Bookseller Sept. 1895 p._ 778.

PASTA, GIUDITTA (dau. of Mr. Negri, a Jew). _b._ Sarrano, near
Milan 1798; had a soprano voice of two octaves and a half, from
A above the bass clef note to C flat and even to D in alt.;
appeared at King’s theatre, London 11 Jany. 1817 as Telemaco in
Cimarosa’s Penelope; then acted Cherubino in Nozze de Figaro;
appeared at King’s theatre 24 April 1824 as Desdemona and was a
great success, her salary being £14,000; was also seen in London
1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1831, 1837, 1850; among her parts were
Tancredi, Romeo, Desdemona, Medea, Semiramide, Maria Stuarda,
Niobe, Anna Bolena, and Norma; lost her fortune in the failure
of Guymuller’s bank, Vienna 1841. _d._ at her villa at Como 1
April 1865. _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii_ 1–32 (1863)
_portrait_; _Musical gem for 1831 p._ 2 _portrait_.

PASTRANA, JULIA, called the Nondescript; said to have been born
near Copala, Mexico 1834; a servant to Pedro Sanchez, governor
of the state of Sinaloa to 1854; brought to the United States
April 1854 and was publicly exhibited; her nose, forehead, face,
shoulders and arms were covered with thick black hair, and all
her body was hairy except her bosom, hands and feet; had no
apparent pupil in the eye, no cartilage in the nose; possessed
double gums in her jaws, but only one row of front teeth; spoke
and sang in English and Spanish, and danced the Highland fling,
etc.; could sew, cook, wash and iron; 4 ft. 6 inches high
and weighed 112 pounds; was exhibited at the Regent gallery
69 Quadrant, London Aug. 1857; _m._ Lewis B. Lent, circus
manager. _d._ in childbirth at Moscow April 1860. _Account of
Miss Pastrana_, _London_ (1857) _portrait_; _F. T. Buckland’s
Curiosities of Natural history_, _3 Series_, _ii_ 40–2 (1868);
_G. Van Hare’s Fifty years of a showman’s life_ (1888) 46.

NOTE.--Mr. Lent sold her body to Dr. Suckaloff for £500, who embalmed it so naturally that Lent thought he could make a fortune by exhibiting it and gave the doctor £800 for it, but the authorities would not allow him to show it in Russia; he exhibited it at the Burlington gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London in March 1862.

PATCH, JOHN. _b._ 1798; surgeon Bombay army 29 Dec. 1833;
superintending surgeon in Sinde 31 March 1846 to 1848; surgeon
general Bombay army 29 Aug. 1848, retired 17 Sept. 1849. _d._
Penzance, Cornwall 20 Aug. 1865.