Chapter LXVI: Part 66

PELLY, SIR JOHN HENRY 1 Baronet (eld. son of Henry Hinde Pelly
of Upton house, near Bow, Essex, captain H.E.I. co. 1744–1818).
_b._ 31 March 1777; a director of Hudson’s Bay company 1806,
deputy governor 1812–23, governor 1823 to death; sent exploring
parties under Dease and Simpson for discovery of the north west
passage and the coast line of North America, Cape Pelly marks
on the map the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson strait;
elder brother of the Trinity house 1823, deputy master 1834–52;
a director of the Bank of England 1839 to death, deputy governor
1839–41, governor 1841–2; created baronet 12 Aug. 1840; F.R.S. 2
April 1835. _d._ Upton house, Essex 13 Aug. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_
527–8 (1852); _I.L.N. xxi_ 130, 187 (1852).

PELLY, SIR LEWIS (brother of Henry Joseph Pelly 1818–91). _b._
Hyde house, Minchinhampton, Stroud 14 Nov. 1825; educ. Rugby
1838–40; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1841; assistant to the
resident at the court of Baroda 1851–2; A.D.C. to general
John Jacob in the Persian war 1857; secretary of legation at
Teheran 1859, chargé d’affaires there 1860; sent on a special
mission through Afghanistan and Baluchistan 1860; political
agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861; political resident on the
Persian gulf Nov. 1862 to Nov. 1872; lieut. col. Bombay staff
corps 12 Dec. 1866; went with Bartle Frere on an anti-slavery
mission to the east coast of Africa and Arabia 1872–3; chief
comr. to the states of Rajputana 1873–5; special comr. to
investigate the disordered condition of Baroda 30 Nov. 1874, he
arrested the gaekwar of Baroda Jany. 1875 who was tried by a
commission and deposed; sent to Pesháwar as envoy-extraordinary
for Afghan affairs Dec. 1876, recalled March 1877; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1882; general 31 March
1892; M.P. North Hackney 25 Nov. 1885 to death; C.S.I. 8 Dec.
1868, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of The
views and opinions of brigadier-general John Jacob, C.B. 1858;
Journal of a journey from Persia to India 1866; The miracle play
of Hasan and Husain: collected from oral tradition, 2 vols.
1879. _d._ Falmouth 22 April 1892. _Graphic xviii_ 508 (1878)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 April 1892 p._ 543 _portrait_; _Pictorial
World 30 April 1892 p._ 3 _portrait_.

PELLY, SAVILLE MARRIOTT (brother of preceding). _b._ 28 March
1819; educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841,
F.R.C.S. 1859; assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841;
served in Sind 1843, and with the Sind irregular horse in sir
C. Napier’s campaign 1844–5; with the army of observation at
Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8;
served in Rajpootana during the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior
medical officer was present at attack on Nimbhaira, the action
of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch and the pursuit of Tantia Topee,
Indian medal and clasp for Central India; principal medical
officer of Indian medical department in Abyssinian campaign
1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector general of hospitals
Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867, retired as inspector
general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. _d._ Woodstock
house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895.

PEMBERTON, CHRISTOPHER PEACH (elder son of Christopher Robert
Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). _b._ May 1838; ensign
Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22
Aug. 1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The
Times during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps
under the crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat.
By Leo, 2 vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton;
_killed_ by a chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny
and Fond de Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. _bur._ in churchyard of
Newton, Cambs. 3 Dec. _I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p._ 336 _portrait_,
_10 Jany. 1874 p._ 44, _view of monument_; _Times 10 Sept 1870
p._ 6, _11 Oct p._ 6, _2 Dec. p._ 7, _5 Dec. p._ 11.

PEMBERTON, EDWARD LEIGH (2 son of Robert Pemberton, barrister
of Bispham hall, Lancs. and brother of 1 baron Kingsdown
1793–1867). _b._ 18 Feb. 1795; admitted solicitor 1816;
practised in London 1816–69; member of council of Incorporated
law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1856–7,
president 1857–8. _d._ Torry hill, near Sittingbourne, Kent 12
March 1877. _Solicitors’ Journal 24 March 1877 p._ 399.

PEMBERTON, EDWARD LOINES. _b._ U.S. of America 1844; educ. in
England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps
1859; author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to
detect them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5;
author of The philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp
collector’s handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps
at Southampton to decease. _d._ Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. _The
Philatelic Record i_ 2 (1879–80) _with portrait_.

PEMBERTON, GEORGE (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll.
Oxf. 1743–1831). _b._ 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March
1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold
out 22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. _d._ Bainbridge, Holme,
Durham 6 April 1851.

PEMBERTON, GEORGE RICHARD. _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1805;
ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain
56 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut.
col. of 67 N.I. 1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel
19 March 1849 to death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. _d._ York house,
Chertsey 28 April 1866.

PEMBERTON, HENRY LEIGH (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton
1795–1877). _b._ 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of
Pemberton, Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London;
solicitor to the Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec.
1871; official solicitor to chancery division of the supreme
court 1875, and to supreme court of judicature 1876 to death;
solicitor to honourable society of Lincoln’s Inn to death. _d._
20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 29 March 1895. _Law
Journal 6 April 1895 p._ 238.

PEMBERTON, JOHN. L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical
superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. _d._ Droitwich 4 May
1854.

PEMBERTON, MORDAUNT (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St.
Kitts, West Indies). _b._ 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ.
Brighton college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868,
practised in Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of
Nevis July 1870; deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward
islands 1880, and acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887;
barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1886. _d._ Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec.
1887. _Law Times 31 Dec. 1887 p._ 162.

PEMBERTON, SHOLTO THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis,
West Indies). _b._ Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis
about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis
1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua
1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of
Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death;
acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of
British Honduras and of the Bahamas. _d._ Queen’s house, Nevis
29 June 1889. _Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p._ 359.

PEMBROKE, GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, 13 Earl of (1 son of
Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). _b._ 5 Carlton
gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron
Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl
of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of
state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley
travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result
being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and
the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for
tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he
also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40
(Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll.
Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers
2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for
Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover
1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. _d._ Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort,
Germany 3 May 1895. _bur._ at Wilton. _Waagen’s Treasures of art
iii_ 142–65 (1854); _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 249 (1875) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p._ 570 _portrait_; _The new budget 9 May
1895 p._ 3 _portrait_; _Times 4 May 1895 p._ 11.

PENDARVES, EDWARD WILLIAM WYNNE (2 son of John Stackhouse of
Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). _b._ 6 April
1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796,
sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32;
M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed
additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that
of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815.
_d._ Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.

PENDER, DANIEL. _b._ 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff
commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the
Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station
in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic
department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant,
and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb.
1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ 20 Oxford
gardens, London 12 March 1891.

PENDLEBURY, SIR RALPH (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport,
bleacher). _b._ Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at
Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of
chartist disturbances of 1839. _d._ Mersey bank house, Heaton
Mersey, near Manchester 1861.

PENDLETON, FREDERICK HENRY SNOW. _b._ 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ.
of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s,
Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey
Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May
1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives
of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by
French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic
of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31
Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C.
of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882
to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. _d._ St. Sampson’s
rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. _Times 19 Sept. 1888 p._ 4.

PENFOLD, CHARLES. _b._ 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author
of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of
rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc.
1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863;
A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads,
printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful
knowledge 1840). _d._ Twickenham 23 May 1864.

PENGELLY, WILLIAM (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting
vessel 1788–1861). _b._ Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany.
1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped
to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay
Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a
founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of
literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught
mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various
parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which
was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of
the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at
Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay
1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863;
president of geological section of British Association meeting
1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with
a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait
in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of
the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in
the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by
M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four
parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity
of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is
attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian
periodicals. _d._ Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. _bur._ Torquay
cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to
Torquay natural history society. _Quarterly journal of Geol.
soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii_; _Geol. Mag._ (1894) 192, 238–9;
_Natural science May 1894_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.

PENGILLY, RICHARD. _b._ Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a
Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in
the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7;
minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first
nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new
testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on
baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed.
1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle
and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. _d._ Newcastle 22 March 1865.
_S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men_ (1884) 224–5.

PENLEAZE, JOHN STORY. _b._ 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17
Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832
and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants.
_d._ Hereford 12 April 1855.

PENLEY, AARON EDWIN. _b._ 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and
landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70;
member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856,
reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and
queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe
college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861;
master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy
to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The
English school of painting in water colours, in theory and
practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869;
A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. _d._ 5
Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. _H. M. Vibart’s
Addiscombe_ (1894) 210–2 _portrait_.

NOTE.--His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and teacher of painting, he became paralysed and _d_. 1866.

PENLEY, BELVILLE (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor,
Drury Lane, _d._ Paris April 1832). _b._ 1809; manager of Drury
Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle;
with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general
superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the
Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley,
an actress at the Bath theatre, _d._ Budleigh Salterton, Devon
1879 aged 82; he _d._ 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. _B. S.
Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 118.

PENN, ALFRED. _b._ Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful
slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from
1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. _d._ 18
Oct. 1889.

PENN, JOHN (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). _b._
Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his
partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins
1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then
exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed;
fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s
oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made
engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878;
patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors
with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of
council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers
1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business
1875. _d._ The Cedars, Lee, Kent 23 Sept. 1878. _bur._ St.
Margaret’s ch. Lee 29 Sept., personalty sworn under £1,000,000,
26 Oct. 1878. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 298–308
(1880); _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 325–6 (1878) _portrait_.

PENN, JOHN (son of farrier major Penn). _b._ in 14 regt. of
dragoons; in the service of lady John Bethell; private in 3
light dragoons to 1853; served in Afghanistan campaign 1842,
Cabul medal; in Sutlej campaign, wounded at Modkee 18 Dec.
1845, lay on the field all night, despite his wounds present
at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; with the army at Lahore, in action
of Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849, at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849;
volunteered into 17 lancers June 1854, at the Alma and at
Balaklava 1854, medal, in gallant style cut down a Russian
officer; in battle of Inkerman, received a clasp, invalided home
July 1855. _E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i_ 552–3 (1857)
_portrait_.

PENN, LEWIS WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1847;
lieut. col. 1 April 1872 to death; brevet colonel 23 Jany. 1875;
aide-de-camp to the queen 23 Jany. 1875 to death; C.B. 14 Aug.
1868. _d._ Kirkee, near Poona 14 Dec. 1877.

PENN, RICHARD (younger son of Richard Penn 1736–1811, M.P.
Lancaster 1796–1802). _b._ 1784; served in the colonial office
under lord Hobart, viscount Castlereagh, and earls Camden and
Bathurst; arranged a cipher for use in despatches which is
illustrated in his pamphlet On a new mode of secret writing
1829; F.R.S. 18 Nov. 1824; author of Maxims and hints for an
angler and miseries of fishing, illustrated by sir Francis
Chantry, to which is added Maxims and hints for a chess player,
with portrait caricatures of Penn and Chantry 1833, enlarged ed.
1839, and another ed. containing Maxims and hints on shooting
1855. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 21 April 1863, portrait by E. W.
Eddis engraved by M. Ganci 1884.

PENNA, CATHERINE (dau. of the succeeding). Pupil of sir George
Smart; concert vocalist, a soprano. _d._ 25 Victoria road,
Kilburn, London 15 June 1894.

PENNA, CATHERINE LOUISA (niece and goddaughter of Catherine
Stephens, countess of Essex, who _d._ 1882). Soprano of the duet
singers called the “Misses Smith” who toured chiefly in Scotland
and Ireland; _m._ Frederic Penna, who was living in 1879; mother
of William Penna, known as W. W. Whitlock. _d._ 44 Westbourne
park road, Bayswater, London 27 Dec. 1879.

PENNEFATHER, _Catherine_ (eld. dau. of James Wm. King,
rear-admiral, _d._ 1848, 7 child of second earl of Kingston).
_b._ about 1825; _m._ 16 Sept 1847 rev. Wm. Pennefather 1816–73;
greatly aided her husband in his evangelical work at Mellifont,
Walton and Barnet; carried on religious work at the conference
hall, Mildmay park, Islington 1873 to death; author of Follow
thou me, discipleship 1881; Follow thou me, service 1881; Songs
of the pilgrim land 1886; That nothing be lost 1892; author with
others of The homeward journey 1888, a selection of poems. _d._
68 Mildmay park, Islington, London 12 Jany. 1893. _Christian
portrait gallery_ (1889) 287; _The Record 13 Jany. 1893 p._ 39;
_Times 17 Jany. 1893 p._ 10.

PENNEFATHER, EDWARD (1 son of Edward Pennefather 1774–1847, lord
chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland). _b._ 1809; called to
the Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s inns,
Dublin 1863 to death. _d._ 6 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Feb.
1895. _Law Times 2 March 1895 p._ 432.

PENNEFATHER, JOHN (2 son of Richard Pennefather 1773–1859). _b._
1814 or 1815; entered Harrow school Feb. 1830, in the cricket
eleven 1832–3; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 25 May 1833 B.A.
1837; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 17 June
1836 from Westminster to Putney; a student of Inner Temple
1835; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1838; crown prosecutor at
Tipperary assizes to death; chairman of Killarney junction
railway to death. _d._ 7 April 1855.

PENNEFATHER, Sir John Lysaght (3 son of rev. John Pennefather of
New Park, co. Tipperary). _b._ 1800; cornet 7 dragoon guards 14
Jany. 1818, lieut. 1823–5; captain 22 foot 8 April 1826, lieut.
col. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. col. 28 foot 2 Dec. 1847, placed on
h.p. 21 July 1848; commanded the infantry brigade at battle of
Meanee, India 17 Feb. 1843 when he was shot through the body;
A.D.C. to the queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; assistant
Q.M.G. in the Cork district 1849–54; commanded the first brigade
of second division in the army sent to Russia 1854; at the
battle of the Alma; commanded the second division at battle of
Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 when with less than 3,000 men he defeated
35,000 Russians who lost nearly 12,000 men; commanded the second
division again Nov. 1854 to July 1855; colonel of 46 foot
19 Nov. 1854 to 13 Feb. 1860; commanded the troops at Malta
1855–60, in the northern district 1860, and at Aldershot 1860–5;
col. of 22 foot 13 Feb. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1860,
general 9 May 1868; governor of Chelsea hospital 27 Aug. 1870 to
death; C.B. 4 July 1843, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 May 1867;
grand officer of Legion of Honour; commander of Sardinian order
of St. Maurice and St. Lazare; bailiff ad honores of order of
St. John of Jerusalem 16 Feb 1858. _d._ Chelsea hospital 9 May
1872. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 15 May. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of
the Crimea_ (1855) 97–100.

PENNEFATHER, RICHARD (eld. son of major Wm. Pennefather of 13
light dragoon, M.P. Cashel). _b._ Knockeven, Tipperary 1773;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, and King’s inns, Dublin;
called to Irish bar 1795; practised in court of chancery and
on the Munster circuit; king’s counsel; chief baron of Irish
court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1821, resigned Feb. 1859. _d._ at his
residence, near Clonmel 7 Aug. 1859. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish
bar_ (1879) 288–92; _Dublin univ. mag. liv_ 532–5 (1859).

PENNEFATHER, WILLIAM (youngest son of preceding). _b._ Merrion
sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin Feb. 1832
to 1840, B.A. 1840; C. of Ballymacugh, Kilmore 1841–4; V. of
Mellifont, near Drogheda 1844–8; V. of Holy Trinity, Walton,
near Aylesbury 1848–52; V. of Ch. Ch. Barnet, Herts. 1852–64;
held conferences on missionary enterprise at Barnet and then at
Mildmay 1855 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Mildmay park, Islington
1864 to death; known as a mission preacher all over England;
author of The church of the first-born 1865; The bridegroom
king 1875; Hymns, original and selected 1875, of these he wrote
25; Original hymns and thoughts in verse 1875, a collection
of 71 pieces. _d._ Melford lodge, Muswell hill, Middlesex 30
April 1873. _bur._ Ridge, near Barnet, next to his friend Capt.
Trotter 6 May. _R. Braithwaite’s Life of W. Pennefather_ (1878)
_portrait_; _Julian’s Dict. of hymnology_ (1892) 888–9; _Woman’s
work ii_ 161–70 (1873).

PENNELL, EDMUND BURKE. _b._ 1840; clerk in office of sec. of
state for the colonies April 1859, third class clerk April
1863; private sec. to W. E. Forster, under sec. to 6 July 1866,
to sir C. Adderley to 1 Oct. 1866, and to lord Blachford from
1 Oct. 1866; assist. clerk 20 May 1867, first class clerk 30
Sept. 1872; sent to Paris on a special mission 1874; principal
clerk 1 May 1879; British comr. on Anglo-French commission on
Newfoundland fisheries, in Paris 1884–5, in Newfoundland 1884–5,
again in Paris 1886; C.M.G. 1 Feb. 1886. _d._ at his brother’s
residence, The cottage, East Moulsey, Surrey 16 March 1895.
_bur._ West Moulsey.

PENNELL, FOLLETT WALROND (6 son of Wm. Pennell, consul at Rio
de Janeiro). _b._ 4 Feb. 1804; entered navy Feb. 1818; captain
14 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 2 May 1855; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept.
1865. _d._ Ravenside, near Carlisle 30 July 1876.

PENNETHORNE, SIR JAMES (son of Thomas Pennethorne of Worcester).
_b._ Worcester 4 June 1801; pupil of John Nash and Augustus
Pugin 1820–4; studied in France and Italy 1824–6; elected a
member of the academy of St. Luke; principal assistant of
John Nash 1826; directed the West Strand improvement 1829,
and the King Wm. st. opening 1831; employed by the comrs. of
the woods and forests to prepare plans for improvements in
London 1832; four streets New Oxford st. opened 1847, Endell
st. 1846, Cranbourne st. 1843, and Commercial st. 1870, were
made by him at a cost of one million pounds, also Garrick st.
1864, Southwark st. 1864, and Old st. 1855; built Crockford’s
bazaar in St. James’s st. 1832, and Christ church in Albany st.
1836; his design for rebuilding the Royal exchange was one of
the five selected in the competition 1838; joint surveyor of
houses in London in the land revenue department June 1840; sole
surveyor and architect of the office of woods 1843–70; a comr.
to inquire into construction of work-houses in Ireland 1843;
designed and laid out Victoria park at cost of £115,000, 1842
etc., and Battersea park 1846–58; cleared away the houses from
the walls of Windsor Castle 1851–3; architect of the Museum
of economic geology in Jermyn st. opened in 1851; removed the
colonnade of the Quadrant, Regent st. and designed the balcony
1848; completed the west wing of Somerset House 1852–6, for
which he received a gold medal from the R.I.B.A. 18 May 1857;
built the ball-room at Buckingham palace, completed 1856, the
duchy of Cornwall office, and district post office 1852, the
Record office 1856–70, the stables at Marlborough house 1863,
the Patent office library, opened 1855, and the new stationery
office 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, royal gold medallist 1865;
designed the University of London in Burlington Gardens 1866–8;
knighted at Windsor castle 29 June 1870. _d._ Worcester park
house, Wimbledon, Surrey 1 Sept. 1871. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Transactions of the R.I.B.A._ (1871–2) 53–69; _The Builder_
(1866) 877–98.

PENNETHORNE, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ Worcester 4
Jany. 1808; pupil of John Nash in London; studied in France,
Italy, Greece, and Egypt 1830–5; made an elaborate study of the
Parthenon at Athens 1832, 1834 and 1837; author of The elements
and arithmetical principles of the Greek architects and artists,
recovered by study of the remaining works of architecture
designed and erected in the age of Pericles 1844; and with
J. Robinson The geometry and optics of ancient architecture,
illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome 1878;
contributed to the Transactions of the R.I.B.A. a paper on
The connection between ancient art and the ancient geometry
as illustrated by works of the age of Pericles Feb. 1879 pp.
105–36. _d._ Hamstead, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 20 Jany. 1888.
_Dictionary of architecture_, _vol. vi p._ 18 (1881).

PENNEY, JOHN. Cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 25 April 1824,
lieut. col. 7 Dec. 1850 to 1852, and 24 April 1854 to death;
lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1852 to 24 April 1854;
changed his name from Penny to Penney 1845. _d._ of heat
apoplexy in the retreat from Nasírábád 28 May 1857.

PENNEY, WILLIAM, lord Kinloch (eld. son of Wm. Penney,
merchant). _b._ Glasgow 1801; educ. Glasgow univ. where he took
honours; advocate 1824, had a large practice; judge of court of
session 7 May 1858, took courtesy title of lord Kinloch; judge
of the first division court Oct. 1868 to death; author of The
circle of Christian doctrine 1861, 3 ed. 1865; Time’s treasure
or devout thoughts for every day of the year, expressed in verse
1863, 5 ed. 1865; Studies for Sunday evening 1866; Faith’s
jewels presented in verse 1869; Thoughts of Christ for every day
in the year 1871; Readings in holy writ 1871; Hymns to Christ
1872. _d._ Hartrigge house, near Jedburgh 31 Oct. 1872. _Journal
of jurisprudence xvi_, 650, 664 (1872); _Law mag. and law review
i_ 1075–7 (1872); _I.L.N. lxi_ 452 (1872) _portrait_.

PENNINGTON, JAMES (son of Wm. Pennington, bookseller). _b._
Kendal, Westmoreland 23 Feb. 1777; educ. Kendal gr. sch.; pupil
of John Dalton, chemist in Manchester; in business in London;
appointed to investigate the accounts of the East India company
1831, appointment cancelled 1832; member of Political economy
club 1828; framed the measures adopted by the treasury for
regulating the currency of the West Indies 1833; a leading
authority on currency and finance, was frequently consulted by
the government; author of A letter to Kirkman Finlay, esq., on
the importation of foreign corn and the value of the precious
metals in different countries 1840; The currency of the British
colonies 1848. _d._ 2 Nelson terrace, Clapham Common, Surrey 23
March 1862. _A. R. Pennington’s Recollections of persons and
events_ (1895) 109–11.

PENNY, CHARLES (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 1810;
educ. Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B. and D.D. 1850;
C. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1832–4; C. of Sutton Courtney, Berks.
1834–6; C. of Dorchester 1836–7; C. of West Ilsley, Berks.
1837–8; head master of Crewkerne gr. sch. 1838 to death; R. of
Chaffcombe, Somerset 1848 to death; author of A sermon preached
before the university of Oxford 1851. _d._ Greenham house,
Beaminster, Dorset 15 Dec. 1875.

PENNY, FREDERICK (3 son of Charles Penny, wholesale stationer,
Cheapside, London). _b._ London 10 April 1816; studied under
Henry Hennel, chemical operator to the soc. of apothecaries
1830–6; professor of chemistry Anderson’s institution, Glasgow
1839 to death, where he had a large number of pupils; retained
by the crown in criminal cases; doctor of philosophy of Giessen
univ.; F.R.S. Edinb.; wrote On the conversion of chlorates
and nitrates into chlorides and of chlorides into nitrates,
_Philos. Trans. 1839 pp._ 13–33; author of On the composition
and phosphorescence of plate-sulphate of potash 1855; with J.
Adams On the detection of aconite, in reference to trial of E.
W. Pritchard 1865; with W. Wallace Notes on chloride of arsenic
1852. _d._ 44 Windsor terrace, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1869. _Glasgow
Medical Journal ii_ 258–70 (1870); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of
Edinb. vii_ 25 (1872).

PENNY, JOHN (3 son of Elias Penny of Sherborne). _b._ 16 Feb.
1803; educ. King’s school, Sherborne; proprietor and editor of
the Sherborne Journal by purchase from Chiswick and co. 1 May
1828, retired 1858; head stamp distributor for Dorset, residing
at Dorchester, about 1833, and at Leeds shortly afterwards,
retired on a superannuation; author of Dorsetshire emancipated
from Tory dominion 1832; Practical retrenchment the object of
reform 1833; Stephen, king of England, or the Danish usurpation
1851, a drama produced at the Leeds theatre; resided Chetnole,
Dorset. _d._ 27 Pulteney st. Bath 7 Feb. 1885. _bur._ in the
catacombs at Exeter 12 Feb. _Mayo’s Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis_
(1885) 33, 79; _Sherborne Journal 12 Feb. 1885 p._ 8, _16 Feb.
p._ 3.

PENNY, NICHOLAS (son of Robert Penny of Weymouth). _b._ Nov.
1790; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1830, lieut. 19 Dec. 1812;
captain 69 Bengal N.I. 1829, lieut. col. 29 July 1848 to 1849;
served at the siege of Bhurtpore 1825; brigade-major on the
Muttra and Agra frontier 1826–8; assistant adjutant general of
a division 9 July 1832; commanded the Nusseree battalion 2 June
1841 to 7 Oct. 1848; commanded the second infantry brigade in
the first Sikh war 1846; lieut. col. of 2 European fusiliers
1849–51, of 40 Bengal N.I. 1851–2, of 61 Bengal N.I. 1852 to 16
Jany. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 5 June 1849 to 20 June 1854;
commanded the Jullunder field force 2 Feb. 1852, the Sirhind
division 28 Aug. 1852, the Lind-Sangor district 22 Feb. 1853,
and the Sialkot district 19 Jany. 1854; commanded the Cawnpore
division May 1855; commanded the Meerut division 30 June 1857
to death, and the Delhi field force 30 Sept. 1857 to death;
_killed_ by the rebels at Kakràtá, near Bareilly 30 April 1858.
_Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny iv_ 73–6, 349–351 (1889).

PENNY, WILLIAM CARPENTER (eld. son of William Ponsford Penny,
bookseller, Frome, _d._ 1856). _b._ Frome 2 May 1822; in his
father’s business, Bath st. Frome; clerk to Whittaker and co.
London; with his brother James Penny succeeded to the business
in Frome 1856; established and edited the Frome Times 1859,
ultimately purchased by Frome newspaper co. and became The
Somerset Standard; published W. J. E. Bennett’s The old church
porch 1854–62; a witness in the case of Sheppard _v._ Bennett.
_d._ Church-slope, Frome 15 May 1887. _bur._ the parish cemetery
18 May. _Bookseller June 1887 p._ 546; _The Somerset and Wilts.
journal 21 May 1887 p._ 5.

PENNYCUICK, JAMES FARRELL (eld. son of John Pennycuick,
brigadier-general, _killed_ near Chillianwalla 13 Jany. 1849).
_b._ 10 Aug. 1829; educ. royal military academy 1844–7; 2 lieut.
R.A. 2 May 1847, colonel 1 May 1880, placed on retired list with
hon. rank of general 4 Jany. 1886; served in the Crimean war,
the Indian mutiny 1857–8, and the expedition to China 1860; M.G.
8 Nov. 1880, L.G. 1 July 1885; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Bedford 6
July 1888. _bur._ Bedford cemet. 10 July.

PENON, JULES FRANCOIS CHARLES. _b._ France 1814; instructor
in French at royal naval college, Greenwich 1874 to death;
naturalised in England 17 Feb. 1876. _d._ 2 Dovercourt villas,
Lee, Kent 13 May 1881.

PENRHYN, EDWARD GORDON DOUGLAS-PENNANT, 1 Baron (3 son of
colonel the hon. John Douglas 1786–1818, and brother of 17 earl
of Morton 1789–1858). _b._ 20 June 1800; ensign grenadier guards
31 Aug. 1815, lieut. 13 May 1824, captain 18 April 1834, placed
on h.p. 25 April 1834; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; captain
Scots fusilier guards 10 Dec. 1847, sold out same day; one of a
crew of 6 officers of the guards who for a bet of 600 guineas
undertook to row in a wherry from Oxford to Westminster bridge
within 16 hours 24 April 1824, the distance, 118 miles, was
rowed in 15¾ hours; proprietor of the Penrhyn slate quarries,
Wales; _m._ 6 Aug. 1833 Juliana, co-heiress of George Hay
Dawkins-Pennant and took by R.L. name of Pennant 12 Jany. 1841,
was given precedence as the son of an earl, by royal warrant
26 Aug. 1835; M.P. Carnarvonshire 1841–66; cr. baron Penrhyn
of Llandegai, co. Carnarvon 3 Aug. 1866; lord lieutenant of
Carnarvonshire 14 Sept. 1866; hon. col. Carnarvon militia 30
Aug. 1852 to death. _d._ Penrhyn castle, Llandegai 31 March
1886. _Annual Register_ (1824) 59–60; _Practical Mag. ii_ 161
(1873) _portrait_.

PENROSE, CHARLES THOMAS (2 son of John Penrose 1778–1859,
vicar of Bracebridge, Lincoln). _b._ Bracebridge 15 July 1816;
educ. Rugby 1828–36; Bell scholar Trin. coll. Camb. 1836, B.A.
1839, M.A. 1842; rowed in the first and second races against
the Leander eight oared boat 1837 and 1838; rowed No. 5 in the
Cambridge boat against Oxford from Westminster to Putney 3 April
1839; head master of Grosvenor college, Bath 1843–5; head master
of Sherborne gr. sch. 1845–55; C. of North Hykeham, Lincs. 1856;
P.C. of North Hykeham 1859 to death; edited Select private
orations of Demosthenes with notes 1843, 2 ed. 1853; author of
Eight village sermons, Lincoln 1857. _d._ North Hykeham 5 May
1868. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 453 (1878).

PENROSE, JOHN (eld. son of John Penrose 1754–1829, rector of
Fledborough, Notts.). _b._ Cardinham, near Bodmin 15 Dec. 1778;
educ. Tiverton school 1794–5; matric. from Exeter coll. Oxf. 3
July 1795; migrated to C.C. coll. 26 Nov. 1795; B.A. 1799, M.A.
1802; Bampton lecturer 1808; V. of Langton-by-Wragby, Lincs.
Dec. 1802 to death; V. of Poundstock, Cornwall 1803–9; V. of
Bracebridge, Lincs. 1809–38; P.C. of North Hykeham, Lincs.
Nov. 1837 to death; author of An attempt to prove the truth of
christianity, Bampton lecture 1808; An inquiry into the nature
and discipline of human motives 1820; Of the use of miracles in
proving the truth of a revelation 1824; Familiar introduction to
the Christian religion. By a Senior 1831; Explanatory lectures
on the gospel of St. Matthew 1832; On the moral principle of the
atonement 1843, 2 ed. 1846; Lives of vice-admiral sir Charles
Vinicombe Penrose and captain James Trevenen. By their nephew
1850; Fifty-four sermons for Sunday reading in families 1851,
2 ed. 1859; _m._ 1814 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Edmund Cartwright,
rector of Goadby-Marwood, Leics., she was _b._ 3 Aug. 1780,
wrote many school histories under pseudonym of Mrs. Markham,
and _d._ Lincoln 24 Jany. 1837; he _d._ Langton 9 Aug. 1859.
_J. Penrose’s Life of rev. J. Penrose of Fledborough_ (1880);
_Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 454–8 (1874–8); _Boase’s
Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 712, 1084.

PENSON, JAMES (son of a dockyard artizan). _b._ Devonport 1814;
a teacher of drawing; studied in Sass’ academy, Bloomsbury,
London; a water colour painter; exhibited at Royal academy,
London 1850. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 104.

PENTLAND, JOSEPH BARCLAY. _b._ Ireland 1797; educ. Armagh and
univ. of Paris; secretary to British consulate in Peru 1827;
consul-general in republic of Bolivia 1 Aug. 1836 until 1839;
surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes 1826–7, and was
the first to measure height of the mountains; travelled in the
southern province of ancient Peru 1838; spent his winters in
Rome from 1845, acted as guide to the prince of Wales twice;
edited for John Murray A handbook of Rome and its environs,
9 ed. 1860, 10 ed. 1871, and 11 ed. 1872; A handbook for
travellers in Southern Italy, 6 ed. 1868; and A handbook for
travellers in Northern Italy, 11 ed. 1869. _d._ 3 Motcomb st.,
London 12 July 1873. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Athenæum 6 Sept.
1873 p._ 309.

PEPLOE, ANNIE (2 dau. of John Molyneux of Gavel Hill, Salop,
captain R.N.) _b._ Ludlow 21 Feb. 1805; _m._ 3 Jany. 1828 John
Birch Webb, vicar of Weobly, Herefordshire, who took name of
Peploe 1866, he was _b._ Court lodge, Kent 9 Sept. 1801 and _d._
Garnstone, Herefordshire 26 Jany. 1869; author of Naomi, or the
last days of Jerusalem 1841, 20 ed. 1895; A tale of the Vaudois
1842, 2 ed. 1854; Julamerk, a tale of the Nestorians, 3 vols.
1849, 3 ed. 1854; The martyrs of Carthage, 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed.
1857; Alypius of Tagaste 1865, 2 ed. 1891; Benaiah, a tale of
the captivity 1865; Oliver Wyndham 1867; Pomponia, or the gospel
in Cæsar’s household 1867; I know, or the verities of the Bible
1879; her name is attached to upwards of 25 works 1841–79. _d._
25 Onslow gardens, London, the residence of her son rev. Hanmer
Wm. Webb Peploe 13 Jany. 1880. _Reg. and mag. of biog. March
1869 p._ 253.

PEPLOE, DANIEL PEPLOE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 15 Feb.
1829; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; cornet 4
royal Irish dragoon guards 14 May 1852, captain 11 Dec. 1857,
sold out 3 July 1860; assumed name of Peploe 16 July 1866; M.P.
Herefordshire 1874–80; contested Herefordshire 6 April 1880.
_d._ 4 Nov. 1887.

PEPOLI, COUNT CARLO. _b._ 1800; joined in attempts to overthrow
the Papal government and was head of provisional government in
Bologna 1831; lived in England 1831–59; naturalised in England
18 Feb. 1847; held an appointment in Glasgow univ.; brought with
him from Italy a collection of pictures by the old masters which
was sold in London 1850; rector of Bologna univ. 1859; Rosa M.
Kettle in her novel My home in the shires 1876 introduced him
under the name of The Marchese di Petralva; author of I puritani
e cavalieri, a serious opera in 3 acts 1835; Malek-Adel, a drama
1837; On the language and literature of Italy, an inaugural
lecture in University college London 1838; he also published
various works in Bologna, Ginevra, Milan, and Pinerolo 1827–81.
_d._ Palazzo Pepoli, giá Albergati, Bologna 6 Dec. 1881.
_Colburn’s New monthly mag. Dec. 1882 pp._ 29–35; _Art Journal
ii_ 127 (1850).

PEPYS, HENRY (younger brother of 1 earl of Cottenham 1781–1851).
_b._ Wimpole st. London 18 April 1783; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1840; fellow of St. John’s
coll. 1804; R. of Aspeden, Herts. 1818–27; R. of Moreton,
Essex 1822–40; prebendary of Wells 3 Feb. 1826 to 1840; R. of
Westmill, Herts. 1827–40; bishop of Sodor and Man 27 Jany.
1840, consecrated at Whitehall 1 March, installed at St. Mary’s
Castleton 8 May; bishop of Worcester 4 May 1841 to death; author
of The remains of the lord viscount Royston, with a memoir
of his life 1838; Six charges and two single sermons. _d._
Hartlebury castle, Stourport, Worcs. 13 Nov. 1860. _G.M. Dec.
1860 p._ 674.

PEPYS, PHILIP HENRY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 14 Nov.
1824; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister
L.I. 8 June 1849; sec. of presentations to lord chancellor
1846–51, and 1852–62, principal sec. 1862–4; chancellor of
diocese of Worcester 1855 to death; one of the registrars of
court of bankruptcy London about 1 June 1864 to death; author
of Constance Tyrell, or the half-sister, 3 vols. 1852. _d._
Brighton 6 Feb. 1886. _Law Times 6 March 1886 p._ 330.

PEPYS, WILLIAM HASLEDINE or HASELDINE (son of W. H. Pepys of
24 The Poultry, London, cutler). _b._ London 23 March 1775; a
founder of Askesian society March 1796, which led to foundation
of British mineralogical and geological societies, and the
London institution of which he was an original manager and
honorary secretary 1821–4; treasurer of Geological society
1811, then vice-president; succeeded his father as a cutler and
carried on the business to his death; worked with Desvignes on
soda-water apparatus 1798; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1808; president of
the Royal Institution 1816; F.L.S. 1821; invented the mercury
gasometer and water gasholder, both still in use; one of the
first to use mercury contacts for electrical apparatus and
tubes coated with indiarubber for conveying gases; invented an
eudiometer which he calibrated by a method still used for the
purpose 1807; author of many papers in Tilloch’s Philosophical
magazine, the Philosophical transactions of the Royal society,
and the Journal of science and the arts. _d._ 11 Earls terrace,
Kensington road, London 17 Aug. 1856. _Life of Wm. Allen_, 3
_vols._ (1846–7) _passim_; _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs ii_ 101
(1872).

PERCEVAL, ALEXANDER (2 son of rev. Philip Perceval of Temple
house, Ballymote, co. Sligo). _b._ Temple house 10 Feb. 1787;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. colonel of Sligo militia 12
April 1809 to 16 June 1855; M.P. co. Sligo 17 May 1831 to
Sept. 1841; created D.C.L. Oxford 13 June 1834; treasurer of
the ordnance Dec. 1834 to April 1835; treasurer of the Orange
association of Ireland, dissolved 1835; sergeant-at-arms of the
house of lords Sept. 1841 to death; one of the 6 comrs. for
executing the office of treasurer of the exchequer of Great
Britain 6 to 16 Sept. 1841. _d._ 28 Chester st. London 9 Dec.
1858. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd series_ (1846)
_portrait xi_; _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.

PERCEVAL, ARTHUR PHILIP (youngest son of 2 baron Arden
1756–1840). _b._ at the Admiralty, London 22 Nov. 1799; educ.
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, B.C.L. 1824; fellow of All
Soul’s coll. 1821–5; R. of East Horsley, Surrey 18 June 1824
to 1846; chaplain to the sovereign 7 March 1826 to death;
author of The Roman schism illustrated from the records of the
Catholic church 1836; The origin of church rates 1837; Sermons
preached chiefly at the chapel royal, St. James’s 1839; An
apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession 1839, 2
ed. 1841; A vindication of the principles of the authors of
the Tracts for the times 1841, of which he wrote Nos. 23, 35,
36, and perhaps 17; A collection of papers connected with the
theological movement of 1833, 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Results of an
ecclesiastical tour in Holland and Northern Germany 1846; Plain
lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 1846; Origines
Hibernicæ. By A. P. P. Dublin 1849; his name is attached to
upwards of 40 works. _d._ Little Bookham, Surrey 11 June 1853
after taking laudanum, verdict temporary insanity. _Liddon’s
Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 247, 264, _ii_ 178 (1893–4); _E.
Sheppard’s St. James’s Palace ii_ 341–2 (1894); _G.M. Aug. 1853
p._ 208.

PERCEVAL, CHARLES SPENCER (only son of succeeding). _b._ 11 Feb.
1829; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1853, LL.D. 1858; fellow
of his college 1855–67; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; principal
secretary to lords chancellors Chelmsford and Cairns 1866–8;
secretary to comrs. in lunacy May 1872 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany.
1860, director 1847–72, treasurer 1874 to death, catalogued the
collection of impressions and matrices of seals belonging to the
society; edited Catalogue of a collection of works on pageantry
bequeathed to the Society of antiquaries by F. W. Fairholt 1869;
and with W. S. Walford Three rolls of arms of the thirteenth
century 1864. _d._ 64 Eccleston sq. London 29 Jany. 1889. _bur._
Norwood cemet. 2 Feb. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 383–4
(1889); _Law Times 2 March 1889 p._ 340.

PERCEVAL, DUDLEY MONTAGUE (4 son of Spencer Perceval 1762–1812,
prime minister). _b._ 22 Oct. 1800; educ. Harrow Oct. 1811 to
Dec. 1815, and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1822; student of Lincoln’s Inn
1823; clerk of the council at Cape of Good Hope 1825–8; first
clerk and deputy teller of the exchequer in London 1828–34,
when the tellerships were abolished; contested Finsbury 26
July 1837 and univ. of Oxford 20 Jany. 1852; wrote a series of
letters signed Philalethes in the Standard on the Irish church
temporalties bill; author of Quietus optabilissimus, or the
nature and necessity of real securities for the United church
with a settlement of the catholic question 1829; Remarks on the
character ascribed by colonel Napier, in the History of the war
in the Peninsula, to the rt. hon. S. Perceval 1835, 2 ed. 1835.
_d._ 16 Wilton st. London 2 Sept. 1856. _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._
649–52.

PERCEVAL, FREDERICA. Attended the Mildmay conference Islington,
London 1874; the chief means of establishing a protestant
preacher at Spa, Belgium. _d._ Bruges, Belgium July 1875.
_Women’s Work iv_ 299–301 (1875).

PERCEVAL, SPENCER (brother of D. M. Perceval 1800–56). _b._ 57
Lincoln’s inn fields, London 11 Sept. 1795; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., M.A. 1816; received a grant from parliament on the
assassination of his father 1812; one of the four tellers of
the exchequer by patent 15 Feb. 1813, office abolished 10 Oct.
1834; M.P. Ennis 1818–20; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1827–31;
M.P. Tiverton 1831–2; attended Henry Drummond’s meetings at
Albury park 1826–30; called to be an apostle of the Irvingite
or Catholic apostolic church 18 Dec. 1833, representing the
tribe of Manasseh and taking Italy as his sphere; a compiler
of The Testimony which he delivered to William IV and all the
privy councillors 1836; with H. Drummond delivered a testimony
to the Pope July 1838; the rev. Hugh M’Neile addressed him in
“Letters to a Friend who has felt it his duty to secede from the
church of England” 1834; resided 31 Portman sq. London. _d._
of apoplexy, Weymouth 16 Sept. 1859. _Spencer Walpole’s Life
of S. Perceval i_ 26, _ii_ 303 (1874); _E. Miller’s History of
Irvingism i_ 41, 98, 139, 178, 180, 191, 285–6 (1878); _Weymouth
Journal 23 Sept. 1859 p._ 2.

PERCEVAL, SPENCER. _b._ 1817; ensign Coldstream guards 13 Jany.
1837, lieut. col. 2 July 1861 to 9 Nov. 1862; M.G. 9 Nov. 1862;
L.G. 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 6 Down st. Piccadilly, London 5 July
1877.

PERCIVAL, CHARLES. _b._ England; lived in France 1789 to death;
rode at Sablonville for comte d’Artois, afterwards Charles X, in
the first race ever publicly run in France. _d._ Chantilly, near
Paris Feb. 1865.

PERCY, CHARLES GREATHEED BERTIE (youngest son of Algernon,
2 earl Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Portman sq. London 4 March
1794; educ. Eton 1805–9, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; M.P. Newport, Cornwall 1826–30; _m._ 20 March 1822 Anne
Caroline, heiress of Bertie Bertie Greatheed, with whom he
acquired the historic mansion Guy’s cliff, near Leamington, and
assumed by R.L. the surname of Greatheed Bertie 1 April 1826;
obtained precedence of a duke’s youngest son 16 March 1865.
_d._ Alnwick castle, at the residence of his nephew the duke of
Northumberland 11 Oct. 1870. _I.L.N. 22 Oct. 1870 p._ 435.

PERCY, SIR HENRY HUGH MANVERS (3 son of 5 duke of Northumberland
1778–1867). _b._ Burwood house, Cobham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1817;
educ. Eton 1832–5; ensign grenadier guards 1 July 1836,
major 19 June 1860 to 3 Oct. 1862; served during Canadian
insurrection 1838, and the Crimean war 1854–5; wounded at
battles of Alma and Inkerman; brigadier general in command of
the British-Italian legion in the Crimea 31 Aug. 1855; A.D.C.
to the queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Feb. 1865; V.C. 5 May 1857
for bravery at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; sent to New Brunswick in
command of first battalion of Grenadier guards Dec. 1861; col.
of 89 foot 28 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. North
Northumberland 19 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; K.C.B. 24 May 1873;
author of Explanation of the manœuvres of a brigade of infantry
1852; Caution for company and battalion drill 1855; _found
dead_ in his bed at 40 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1877. _bur._
in Northumberland vault, Westminster abbey 7 Dec. _O’Byrne’s
Victoria Cross_ (1880) 31, 79.

PERCY, HUGH (brother of C. G. B. Percy 1794–1870). _b._ London
29 Jany. 1784, twin with Josceline Percy; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825; migrated to St. John’s coll. Camb.;
D.D. Oxf. 1834; R. of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent 1809;
chancellor of Exeter 30 Jany. 1810 and prebendary 16 April 1810
to 1816; chancellor of Salisbury cathedral 21 Dec. 1811 to
death; prebendary of Canterbury 16 May 1816 to 1825; prebendary
of St. Paul’s 12 July 1816 to death; archdeacon of Canterbury 26
April 1822, dean 20 June 1825; bishop of Rochester 21 June 1827,
consecrated at Lambeth palace 15 July 1827; bishop of Carlisle
17 Sept. 1827 to death; established a Clergy aid society 1838
and a diocesan education society 1855; restored Rose castle the
episcopal residence and spent £40,000 of his own money on the
gardens and grounds. _d._ Rose castle, Carlisle 5 Feb. 1856.
_bur._ Dalston churchyard. _R. S. Ferguson’s Diocesan history of
Carlisle_ (1889) 2, 242; _G.M. April 1856 p._ 421.

PERCY, JOHN (3 son of Henry Percy, solicitor). _b._ Nottingham
23 March 1817; studied medicine in Paris and Edinb.; M.D. Edinb.
1838; physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1839; F.R.S. 22
April 1847, member of council 1857–9; F.G.S. 1851; lecturer on
metallurgy at Metropolitan school of science in London 1851,
which became the Royal school of mines where he was professor to
Dec. 1879; invented the silver process and discovered aluminium
bronze; lecturer on metallurgy to artillery officers at Woolwich
about 1864 to death; superintendent of ventilation of houses of
parliament 6 Feb. 1865; member of commission on application of
iron for defensive purposes 1861, and on Gibraltar shields 1867;
member of royal commissions on coal 1871 and on spontaneous
combustion of coal in ships 1875; awarded Bessemer medal of
the Iron and steel institute 1876, president 1885–6; wrote many
letters to The Times signed Y; author of An experimental enquiry
concerning the presence of alcohol in the ventricles of the
brain after poisoning by that liquid 1839; On the importance
of scientific knowledge to the practical metallurgist 1852; On
the metallurgical treatment and assaying of gold ores 1852, 2
ed. 1853; Metallurgy, the art of extracting metals from their
ores and adapting them to the purposes of manufacture, 4 vols.
1861–70, 2 ed. 1875; The manufacture of Russian sheet iron
1871; awarded Albert medal of Society of arts 18 June 1889.
_d._ 1 Gloucester crescent, Hyde park, London 19 June 1889, his
metallurgical specimens went to South Kensington museum, his
other collections were sold. _Temple Bar July 1890 pp._ 354–74;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi pp. xxxv–xl_ (1890); _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xcix_ 343–6 (1890); _Nature 27 June 1889 p._
206; _Spon’s Industrial arts i_ 320 (1879).

PERCY, JOSCELINE (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). _b._
London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept.
1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus
1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal
to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841;
commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845;
V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851
to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26
Sept. 1831. _d._ at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts.
19 Oct. 1856.

PERCY, JOSCELINE WILLIAM (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland
1778–1867). _b._ Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton
and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston
1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in
inscriptions and documents 1847. _d._ Pembroke lodge, Sonning
hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881.

PERCY, SIDNEY RICHARD (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape
painter). _b._ about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard
Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the
name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at
B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted
chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views
on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’
_d._ Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and
sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. _Athenæum i_ 592
(1886).

PERCY, WILLIAM HENRY (younger brother of Josceline Percy
1784–1856). _b._ 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801;
commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the
Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set
his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the
Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on
Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846;
M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany.
1849. _d._ at the residence of his brother the earl of Beverley
8 Portman sq. London 5 Oct. 1855.