Chapter LXIV: Part 64

PAUNCEFORT, GEORGIANA (dau. of Mr. Edwards). _b._ 1825; came
from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at
Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the
Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire
in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat
15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864;
Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in
A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty
Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty
Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at
Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4
Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22
Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played
at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother
Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in
Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore
in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept.
1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876,
Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit
in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878,
Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in
The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880,
Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept.
1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s
theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June
1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham
26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court
theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller
at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; _m._ (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at
Boston and Philadelphia; _m._ (2) Mr. Cooke. _d._ 4 Shawfield
st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. _Era 28 Dec.
1895_; _T. A. Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) 281.

PAVER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; registrar of births and deaths at 4
Rougier st. York 1867; author of Original genealogical abstracts
of the wills of individuals of noble and ancient families
resident in the county of York, Sheffield 1830; Pedigrees of
families of the city of York, from a manuscript entitled “The
heraldic visitations of Yorkshire consolidated,” York 1842; his
collections relating to Yorkshire were bought by the British
Museum 1874; his transcripts of marriage licenses commencing
in 1567 were printed by rev. C. B. Norcliffe in Yorkshire
archæological and topographical journal, vii 289 et seq. (1882).
_d._ Rishworth st. Wakefield 1 June 1871.

PAXTON, JAMES. _b._ London 11 Jany. 1786; M.R.C.S. 16 March
1810; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; served in army medical service;
practised at Long Buckley, Northamptonshire 1816–21, at Oxford
1821–43, and at Rugby 1843–58; assistant surgeon to Oxfordshire
militia; edited Paley’s Natural theology, with plates and
notes, 2 vols. Oxford 1826; An introduction to the study of
human anatomy, 2 vols. 1831–4, new ed. 1841 republished in
America; The medical friend, or advice for the preservation of
health, Oxford 1843; The works of W. Paley, 5 vols. 1845; Living
streams, or illustrations of the natural history and diseases of
the blood 1855. _d._ Ledwell, in parish of Sandford St. Martin,
Oxfordshire 12 March 1860. _E. Marshall’s Account of Sandford_
(1866) 40.

PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near
Woburn, Bedfordshire). _b._ Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener
to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821,
constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural
society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent
of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his
woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid
houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40;
travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the
village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the
fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height;
succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the
first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of
1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected;
knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the
re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director
of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the
army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854
to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières,
France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president;
F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844;
edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and
general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany
and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s
magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley,
Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical
dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on
the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. _d._ Rockhills, Sydenham 8
June 1865. _bur._ Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. _Journal
of horticulture viii_ 446 (1865) _portrait_; _G.M. ii_ 247–9
(1865); _Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p._ 491: _Practical
Mag. vi_ 161 (1876) _portrait_; _Catalogue of the library at
Chatsworth iv_ 161 (1879) _view of his house_; _The Crystal
palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior_ (1851); _I.L.N.
xviii_ 343, 344 (1851) _portrait_, _xlvi_ 601 (1865) _portrait_;
_Times 9 June 1865 p._ 9, _16 June p._ 9.

NOTE.--He devised a plan for girdling London with an arcade resembling the transept of the old Crystal palace, in which were to be lines of railway on the atmospheric principle, bordered by dwellings and shops. This plan he laid in detail before a committee of the house of commons in 1855.

PAYN, SIR WILLIAM (son of William Payn of Kidwells, Maidenhead,
clerk to the Thames comrs.) _b._ 3 Feb. 1823; ensign 53 foot 27
May 1842, lieut. col. 13 July 1858; lieut. col. 72 foot 14 Aug.
1860 to 2 Dec. 1876; served in the Sutlej and other campaigns in
India 1845–52; staff officer at Smyrna March 1855 to May 1856;
in the Indian mutiny 1857–8, present at Cawnpore and Lucknow;
brigadier general in Bengal 14 June 1872 to 9 March 1877; C.B.
14 May 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; commanded Mysore division of
Madras army 1879–84; general 12 Aug. 1888, placed on retired
list 20 Feb. 1889; col. of Bedfordshire regt. 26 Jany. 1892 to
death. _d._ Lynwood, Ashtead, Epsom 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic
21 June 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.

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

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

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

PAYNE, CHARLES. _b._ 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5;
whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in
and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65;
huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. _d._ 30 Dec. 1893. _bur._
Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. _Sporting Review xliv_ 14
(1860); _Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp._ 135–6.

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

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

PAYNE, GEORGE (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall,
Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). _b._
3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf.
12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about
£300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in
a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the
Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to
death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose
colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated
them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards
with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the
St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine
1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron
de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. _d._ 10 Queen
st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.
6 Sept. _Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt_ (1888) 4, 99, 117–48
_portrait_; _Rice’s British turf ii_ 296–388 (1879) _portrait_;
_Famous racing men_. _By Thormanby_ (1882) 113–20 _portrait_;
_Baily’s Mag. i_ 183–6 (1860) _portrait_, _xli_ 148–53 (1883);
_Westminster Papers x_ 139 (1878) _portrait_; _Racing in
Badminton library_ (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; _Illust. sp. and dr.
news iv_ 475, 496 (1876) _portrait_; _Sporting Times 8 May 1875
pp._ 305, 308 _portrait_.

PAYNE, HENRY EDWARD (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). _b._ 1831;
first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–;
played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings
of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a
noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden
Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted
Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871;
clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at
Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. _d._ Norfolk house 322 Camden road,
London 27 Sept. 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858
16 6. _Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p._ 832, 2 _portraits_;
_Illust. sporting news v_ 808 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news xx_ 432 (1884) _portrait_; _St. James’s Budget 4
Oct. 1895 p._ 33 _portrait_; _Era 28 Sept._, _5 Oct._, _24 Nov.
1895_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 214, 403, 721.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEACE, CHARLES (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). _b._
Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at
a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern
Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a
portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4
years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme,
received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary
at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in
prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a
picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson
at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a
wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing
burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina
road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct.
1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude
for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an
associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the
police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a
railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany.
1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25
Feb. 1879. _The life of C. Peace_ (_London_ 1878) _portrait_;
_M. Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 257–63; _Times 26 Feb.
1879 p._ 10, _cols._ 1–3; _Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15,
22 Feb._, _1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March_, _5 April 1879 portraits_;
_Graphic xix_ 121 (1879) _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Secrets of
the prison house i_ 30, _ii_ 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEACOCK, JOHN MACLEAY (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine,
Perthshire). _b._ Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker;
employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some
years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems
and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. _d._ Glasgow 4 May 1877.
_Selections of verse_, _edited by W. Lewin_ (1880) _portrait_.

PEACOCK, MARK BEAUCHAMP. _b._ 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London
1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to
death. _d._ Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.

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

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

PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (only child of Samuel Peacock of St. Paul’s
church yard, London, glass merchant, _d._ 1788). _b._ Weymouth,
Dorset 18 Oct. 1785; secretary to sir H. R. Popham on board the
fleet before Flushing 1808–9; made the acquaintance of Shelley
at Nant Gwillt, North Wales 1812, Shelley’s executor 1822; clerk
in East India house 1819, assistant examiner of correspondence
1822, chief examiner 1836, retired on a pension March 1856;
author of The monks of St. Mark 1804; Palmyra 1806; The genius
of the Thames 1810, 3 ed. 1817; The philosophy of melancholy
1812; Sir Proteus. By P. M. O’Donovan, Esq. 1814; Headlong
hall 1816, anon.; Melincourt 1817, 2 ed. 1856; Rhododaphne, or
the Thessalian spell 1818; Nightmare abbey 1818; Maid Marian
1822, dramatised by Planche as an opera and produced at Covent
Garden 3 Dec. 1822; The misfortunes of Elphin 1829; Crotchet
Castle 1831, new ed. 1887; Paper money lyrics and other poems
1837; Gryll Grange 1861; and two translations, Gl’ingannati,
The deceived, a comedy performed at Siena 1851, and Ælia Laelia
Crispis 1862. _d._ Lower Halliford, near Shepperton, Middlesex
23 Jany. 1866. _bur._ new cemet. Shepperton. _Macmillan’s
Mag. liii_ 414–27 (1886); _Temple bar lxxx_ 35–52 (1887); _G.
B. Smith’s Poets and novelists_ (1875) 111–50; _T. H. Ward’s
English poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 417–26 (1883); _St. James’s mag.
Sept. 1875 pp._ 332, 600–10; _H. Cole’s Works of T. L. Peacock_,
3 _vols._ (1875), _memoir in i_, _xxv–lii portrait_; _R.
Garnett’s Works of T. L. Peacock_, 10 _vols._ (1891) _memoir in
x_ 7–43.

NOTE.--He married 20 March 1820 Jane Gryffydh, known as the Caernarvonshire nymph and ‘the Beauty of Caernarvonshire,’ she is celebrated by Shelley as the Snowdonian Antelope, and _d._ 1852. _W. M. Rossetti’s Poetical works of P. B. Shelley ii_ 322 (1878), _in Letter to Maria Gisborne line_ 240.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEARCEY, MARY ELEANOR, taken name of Mary Eleanor Wheeler (dau.
of James Whitford Wheeler, a marine, _d._ 17 Aug. 1882). _b._
Ightham, Kent 26 March 1866; worked as a furrier in Cannon st.
Stepney; lived with Charles Pearcey about Nov. 1885 to Nov.
1888, and took his name; invited Phœbe Hogg to visit her at
2 Priory st. Kentish town 24 Oct. 1890, and then quarrelled
with her and fractured her head and cut her throat, conveyed
the body in a perambulator to Crossfield road, Eton avenue,
South Hampstead, where it was found on 25 Oct. as well as the
dead body of her young child; _executed_ Newgate 22 Dec. 1890.
_Central criminal court minutes of evidence cxiii_ 44–72 (1891);
_Times 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Oct. 1890_, _1, 3, 18 Nov._, _6, 18,
20, 23, 24 Dec._; _Western Morning News 14 Nov. 1890 p._ 3;
_Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Dec. 1890_, _many
portraits_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEARSON, ALFRED. _b._ 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while
taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre
royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. _d._ Oldham 29
Dec. 1868. _bur._ Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. _The Era 3 Jany.
1869 p._ 14.