Chapter LXV: Part 65

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEBODY, CHARLES (son of Charles Pebody). _b._ Watford or
Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor
at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford
Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying
Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented
with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at
Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial
paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at
work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882;
wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under
signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post.
_d._ Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. _bur._
Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. _Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p._ 5, _4
Nov. p._ 4.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEDLEY, MR. _b._ Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses
which he trained at Danebury; _m._ a daughter of John Gully
and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others
being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner;
won the Derby with Cossack 1847. _d._ about 1872. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 76–8.

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

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

PEEBLES, JAMES. _b._ 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28
Jany. 1858. _d._ 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PEEL, JONATHAN (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830).
_b._ Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ.
Rugby 1811–5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71
foot 18 Feb. 1819 to 13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7
Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825; major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June
1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June 1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug.
1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P.
Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–68; surveyor general of
the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for war 26 Feb. 1858
to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March 1867; began
racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with Archibald 1832,
ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando and Ionian
1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851; kept race
horses again 1869 to death. _d._ Marble hall, Twickenham 13
Feb. 1879. _bur._ Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. _Famous racing
men._ _By Thormanby_ (1882) 120–4; _Rice’s British Turf ii_
323–7 (1879); _Baily’s Mag. iii_ 273–8 (1861) _portrait_; _New
sporting mag. xv_ 371 (1838) _portrait_; _Sporting Times 13 Feb.
1875 portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 201, 202 (1874)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 224 (1879) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PELHAM, DUDLEY ANDERSON WORSLEY (younger son of Charles, 1 earl
of Yarborough 1781–1846). _b._ Stratford place, London 20 April
1812; entered R.N. 4 Aug. 1825, captain 26 Oct. 1840; M.P.
Boston 2 Aug. 1849 to death. _d._ Motcombe st. Belgrave sq.
London 13 April 1851. G.M. XXXV 664 (1851).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE.--In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for which Venice was so celebrated.

PELLEGRINI, CARLO (son of a land owner). _b._ Capua, Italy
March 1839; dissipated his fortune in Naples where he led the
fashion; fought as a volunteer under Garibaldi at the Volturno
and at Capua 1861; came to London Nov. 1864; drew caricatures
of statesmen and other public characters, these appeared in
Vanity Fair weekly from 30 Jany. 1869 to his death, the first
few caricatures were signed Singe, but all the rest Ape;
executed a statuette in red plaster of Robert Lowe standing on
a matchbox 1871; painted portraits in oils of sir Edwin Watkin,
sir Algernon Borthwick and other friends; exhibited at the R.A.
1878, and several times at the Grosvenor gallery; gave his name
to a cigarette. _d._ 53 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 22
Jany. 1889. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemet. Kensal Green. _Vanity
Fair 26 Jany. 1889 pp._ 55, 67, _also 27 April 1889 p._ 309
_portrait_; _Pall Mall Budget 2 March 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_;
_London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_.

PELLEW, SIR FLEETWOOD BROUGHTON REYNOLDS (2 son of 1 viscount
Exmouth 1757–1833). _b._ 13 Dec. 1789; entered navy March 1799,
commander 12 Oct. 1807; captain of the Phæton, 38 guns, 14 Oct.
1808 to Aug. 1812; served at reduction of the Mauritius 1810
and of Java 1811; captain of the Révolutionnaire, 46 guns, Aug.
1818, placed on h.p. June 1822; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 25
Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836; naval
A.D.C. to the queen 4 July 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov.
1846; commander-in-chief on the East India and China stations 6
Dec. 1852, was recalled 19 Jany. 1854 in consequence of a mutiny
on board the Winchester caused by his refusing the men leave at
Hongkong Sept. 1853; V.A. 22 April 1853, admiral 13 Feb. 1858.
_d._ Marseilles 28 July 1861.

PELLEW, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ Flushing, Cornwall
3 April 1793; educ. Eton 1808–11, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815,
M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. Nov. 1828; V. of Nazeing, Essex 16 Feb.
1819; V. of Sutton Galtres, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1820; seventh
canon in Canterbury cathedral 14 Nov. 1822 to 1828; R. of St.
George-the-Martyr, Canterbury 27 Dec. 1826 to 1828; prebendary
of York 1824–52; R. of St. Dionis Backchurch London 1828–52;
dean of Norwich 27 Nov. 1828 to death; R. of Great Chart,
Kent 1852 to death; author of A letter to sir Robert Peel on
the means of rendering cathedral churches most conducive to
the efficiency of the established church 1837; The life and
correspondence of H. Addington, first viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols.
1847; Sermons on many of the leading doctrines and duties taught
by the church of England, 2 vols. 1848. _d._ Great Chart rectory
13 Oct. 1866. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 441, _iii_
1307 (1874–82); _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 697; _Church
of England photographic portrait gallery_ 1859, _portrait_ 46.

PELLY, SIR HENRY CARSTAIRS, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir John Henry
Pelly, 2 baronet 1809–64). _b._ Balls park, near Hertford 23
April 1844; succeeded 20 Dec. 1864; cornet 2 light dragoons 2
Sept. 1862, lieut. 26 May 1865; captain 2 life guards 19 Oct.
1872, retired 25 June 1873; major 15 Middlesex volunteers 12 May
1875 to death; M.P. Hunts. 13 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 4 June
1877.

PELLY, HENRY JOSEPH (3 son of John Hinde Pelly of Bombay civil
service 1786–1852). _b._ 9 Jany. 1818; ensign 16 Bombay N.I. 11
July 1835; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 13 Oct. 1836, major 1 Oct. 1859;
served in Scinde 1840–7; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 March
1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; thrown from his carriage while driving through
Hereford 9 Dec. _d._ Wye bank, Tower road, Hereford 10 Dec.
1891. _Hereford Journal 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8.