Chapter LXVII: Part 67

PEREIRA, JONATHAN (son of an underwriter at Lloyd’s). _b._
Shoreditch, London 22 May 1804; educ. Aldersgate st. general
dispensary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 6 March 1823;
M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1845; apothecary to the dispensary
1823–32, lecturer on chemistry 1826–8, lecturer on materia
medica 1828–41; F.L.S. 1828; professor of materia medica
in new medical school in Aldersgate st. 1832; lecturer on
chemistry at the London hospital 1833–51, assistant physician
1841–51, physician 1851 to death; F.R.S. 3 May 1838, member of
council 1843; examiner in materia medica to univ. of London
1839; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845, curator of the museum to
death; M.D. Erlangen 1840; professor of materia medica to
Pharmaceutical society 1843–52; author of A translation of the
pharmacopæia of 1824, 1824; A selection of prescriptions for
students 1824, 18 ed. 1890; Manual for medical students 1826;
General table of atomic numbers 1827; The elements of materia
medica, 2 parts 1839–40, 6 ed. 1874; A treatise on food and diet
1843; Lectures on polarised light 1843, 2 ed. 1854. _d._ 47
Finsbury sq. London 21 Jany. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.,
bust by McDowall executed for London hospital. _Pharmaceutical
Journal March 1853 p._ 409 _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc.
ii_ 237–9 (1855); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880)
224; _G.M. xxxix_ 320–2 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_ 77, 78 (1853)
_portrait_.

PEREIRA, MENASSAH LOPEZ. _b._ 1776; entered Madras army 1796;
lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, major 6 April 1810 to 19
July 1817; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 19 July 1817 to 1820, and of 18
N.I. 1820–4; lieut. col. commandant 34 N.I. 1 May 1824 to 5 June
1829; col. of 16 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 29 June 1842, of 30 N.I. 29
June 1842 to 11 May 1848, and of 28 N.I. 11 May 1848 to death;
L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Brighton 20 April 1853.

PERFECT, ROBERT (only son of Wm. Perfect, M.D. of Wincanton,
Somerset). _b._ 1799; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1825; founded East Somerset registration soc. 1841; M.P. Lewes
1847–52. _d._ Woolstone house, Castle Cary, Somerset 29 July
1875.

PERIGAL, ARTHUR (son of Arthur Perigal, historical painter
1784–1847). _b._ London Aug. 1816; a drawing-master in Edinburgh
then a landscape painter; travelled in Switzerland, Italy, and
Norway; A.R.S.A. 1841, R.S.A. 1868, treasurer 8 March 1880
to death; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 1 at
Suffolk st. 1861–76; his picture ‘Moorland, near Kinlochee,
Rossshire,’ is in National gallery of Scotland. _d._ 7 Oxford
terrace, Edinburgh 5 June 1884. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery.

PERKINS, ANGIER MARCH (2 son of Jacob Perkins, civil engineer).
_b._ Newbury Port, Massachusetts 1799; came to England 1827;
assisted his father to perfect his method of engraving
bank-notes and of using steam under very high pressure;
introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water
circulating through small closed pipes, carried on a large
business with his son in Harpur st. and then at 43 Regent’s sq.
Gray’s inn road, London; took out a patent for the manufacture
of iron by the use of superheated steam 1843; took out a patent
for heating bakers’ ovens 1851, and another for railway axles
and boxes 1851; A.I.C.E. May 1840; author with G. W. Fitch of A
manual of geographical names 1852. _d._ 22 April 1881. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii_ 417–9 (1882).

PERKINS, FREDERICK. _b._ 1780; F.L.S. 13 March 1816; F.G.S.;
head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark,
London; collected books 1820–60, they were sold by Sotheby’s in
a 7 days sale for £8,500, July 1889; his Shakespeare collection,
47 vols. fetched £2,400. _d._ Chipstead place, Kent 10 Oct.
1860. _Quaritch’s Contributions to a Dictionary of English book
collectors_, _Part v_, _Feb. 1894_.

PERKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1778; partner in firm of Barclay, Perkins
and co. brewers, Southwark, London; began collecting books at
his residence Springfield, near Tooting, Surrey 1823; left his
library to his relative, Algernon Perkins of Hanworth park,
Middlesex, who _d._ 15 Nov. 1872 and whose personalty was sworn
under £250,000, 4 Jany. 1873; the books were sold by Gadsden,
Ellis and co. at Hanworth park 3–6 June 1873, the 865 lots
produced £26,000, being an average of more than £30 each, ten of
the volumes sold for £10,500, the Mazarin bible 2 vols. printed
on vellum sold for £3,400, Biblia sacra Latina 2 vols. 1462
sold for £780, and the manuscript of John Lydgate’s Siege of
Troy sold for £1,370. _d._ Dover 15 April 1855. _A dictionary of
English book collectors_, _part ii_, _September 1892_; _Athenæum
1 March 1873 pp._ 279–80, _14 June 1873 pp._ 762–3; _Chambers’s
Journal l_ 709 (1873).

PERKINS, JULIUS E. _b._ Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S. of America
1845; studied in Paris and in Italy; called himself Giulio
Perkins; came out as a singer in Italy 1868; a bass singer;
joined Mapleson opera co. 1874; acted Baldassare in La Favorita,
Drury Lane 11 April 1874, and Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic flute
4 July 1874; _m._ 1874 Marie Roze, soprano vocalist, she _m._
(2) 1877 Henry Mapleson. _d._ after a few days’ illness Queen’s
hotel, Manchester 25 Feb. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 Feb.

PERKINS, LOFTUS (son of Angier March Perkins 1799–1881). _b._
21 Coram st. London 8 May 1834; employed by his father to 1853
and 1854–62; an engineer in New York 1853–4; an engineer in
Hamburg and Berlin 1862–6, designing and executing installations
for warming buildings; partner with his father as engineers in
Francis st. now Seaford st., Gray’s inn road, London 1866–81;
took out many patents from 1859; experimented on the use of very
high pressure steam as a motive power and on the production of
artificial cold; invented the Arktos, a cold chamber suitable
for preserving food; M.I.M.E. 1861, M.I.C.E. 1881. _d._ 148
Abbey road, Kilburn, London 27 April 1891. _bur._ Kensal green
cemetery 1 May. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cv_ 311–4
(1891); _The Engineer 1 May 1891 p._ 349.

PERKINS, SHIRLEY FARMER STEELE (son of Samuel Steele Perkins
of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.) _b._ 17 April 1768; matric. from
Trin. coll. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1784; barrister L.I. 16 June 1792, went
Midland circuit; comr. of bankrupts for Birmingham 1794 to March
1847. _d._ Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham 15 Jany. 1852.
_G.M. June 1852 p._ 621.

PERKS, GEORGE, stage name of George William Reed. _b._ 1831;
equestrian performer; father of the Perks family equestrian
performers, performing at Agricultural hall, Christmas 1863–4.
_d._ Ernest villa, Hornsey park road, Hornsey 10 June 1893.
_bur._ New Southgate cemetery 17 June. _Illust. Sporting News
2 Jany. 1864 p._ 378, _20 Feb. 1864 p._ 441, _portrait of Mr.
Perks and Son_.

PERKS, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Madeley, Salop 29 Aug. 1819; educ.
Theological instit. Hoxton; Wesleyan methodist minister at
Edinburgh 1843–5, at Manchester 1850–6, at Bristol 1859–62, in
London 1862; visited Africa in connection with the missionaries;
sec. to the committee of privileges; sec. of Didsbury and
Richmond theological institutions; general sec. of Wesleyan
foreign mission 1867 to death; sec. of the conference 1872, and
president 30 July 1873; author of Sermons on standard questions
1882; while preaching taken ill in the pulpit 27 May and _d._
at residence of H. Wigfield, St. Leonard’s house, Rotherham 29
May 1877. _I.L.N. 16 Aug. 1873 p._ 149 _portrait_; _Times 30 May
1877 p._ 6; _Minutes of the conference 1877 pp._ 37–9.

PERRIER, SIR ANTHONY GEORGE (son of George Perrier, merchant).
_b._ Cork 1792; served in the commissariat department in
Peninsular war; British consul at Brest 7 Oct. 1824 to death;
knighted by patent 22 Nov. 1843; delegate to European sanitary
conference assembled at Paris 1851–2, and 25 Feb. 1859 to 25
April 1860; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Brest 8 July 1867. _bur._ in
the cemetery.

PERRIN, LOUIS (son of Jean Baptiste Perrin, teacher of French
in Dublin). _b._ Waterford 15 Feb. 1782; educ. diocesan school
Armagh and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1799, B.A. 1801; called
to Irish bar Jany. 1806; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1832;
M.P. Dublin 6 May 1831, unseated Aug. 1831; M.P. Monaghan 24
Dec. 1832 to 1834; M.P. Cashel 14 Jany. 1835 to Aug. 1835; third
sergeant-at-law 7 Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1835, first sergeant-at-law
Feb. to April 1835; attorney general 29 April 1835 to 31 Aug.
1835; judge of court of king’s bench 31 Aug. 1835, retired
on a pension Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1835. _d._ Knockdromin,
near Rush, co. Dublin 7 Dec. 1864. _bur._ Rush 10 Dec. _J. R.
O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 307–15; _G.M. Jany. 1865 pp._
123–4.

PERRING, JAMES ERNEST. _b._ London 1822; led the soprano chorus
at Her Majesty’s theatre about 1835; studied under sir Julius
Benedict; an intimate friend of Sims Reeves; went to U.S. of
America with Maria Piccolomini in 1858; a singer in oratorios;
composer of The fairy ring, comic ballad, London 1840; I’d be a
gipsy, ballad 1847; I’ll keep thee in remembrance 1854; Life’s
rosy morning, sacred song 1864; Beware, cavatina, New York 1864;
The home of my youth, duet 1870; The wishing gate 1867; his name
is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1840–74. _d._ New
York, U.S. of America 12 Jany, 1889.

PERRING, JOHN SHAE. _b._ Boston, Lincs. 24 Jany. 1813; employed
as an engineer in London 1833; assistant engineer to Galloway
Bey, manager of public works for the viceroy of Egypt March
1836, became a member of the board of public works; helped to
make a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh Jany. to Aug. 1837;
explored and surveyed the pyramids at Abou Roash 1838–9; and
made a trigonometrical survey of the 53 miles of country near
the pyramids; engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway
docks and harbour 1 March 1841 to 1844; resident engineer of the
East Lancashire railway 1846–59; engineer of the Ribblesdale
railway, constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn;
one of the engineers of the Manchester city railway; M.I.C.E.
6 Dec. 1853; M.I.M.E. 1856; author of On the engineering of
the ancient Egyptians 6 numbers 1835; The pyramids of Gizeh
from actual survey and admeasurement 1839; _d._ 104 King st.
Manchester 16 Jany. 1869. _R. W. H. H. Vyse’s Operations at the
pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with a survey by J. S. Perring of the
pyramids of Abou Roash_ 3 _vols._ (1840–3) _portrait_; _C. C.
J. Bunsen’s Egypt’s place in universal history ii_ 28–9, 635–45
(1854); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 455–6 (1870);
_Proc. of instit. of mining engineering_ (1878) 15.

PERRING, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; edited The Carlisle Patriot from
1815, and again from 1848 to 1868; editor and proprietor of
The Intelligencer at Leeds; sub-editor of the Morning Herald;
he encouraged Robert Anderson “The Cumberland bard” who in his
Poetical Works 2 vols. 1820 acknowledges the help given him vol.
i p. xxxiv. _d._ Carlisle 4 Oct. 1869, _bur._ Embleton 7 Oct.
_Newspaper Press iii_ 249 (1869).

PERROT, JULES JOSEPH. _b._ 1800; pupil of Auguste Vestris;
dancer and ballet master at Grand opera Paris 1828; the teacher
of Carlotta Grisi, whom he married and from whom he was
afterwards separated, she was _b._ Visinida 1821; one of the
most famous dancers of his day, well known at the King’s theatre
London; the inventor of the successful ballets Zingari at the
Renaissance 1841 La fille du Bandit 1857. _d._ Sept. 1892.

PERRY, ALFRED JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1853; C. of Plaistow Essex 1853–6; C. of Stanningfield, Suffolk
1856–8; C. of Lackford, Suffolk 1860–2; chaplain to hospital
Bury St. Edmunds 1862–9; C. of St. Augustine, Wisbech 1869 to
death; 3rd classical master of Royal Naval sch. New Cross;
author of The old year and the new 1864; A few plain words on
the real presence 1865. _d._ St. Augustine’s vicarage 10 July
1876.

PERRY, CHARLES (youngest son of John Perry of Moor hall, Essex,
proprietor of Blackwell dockyard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Hackney 17
Feb. 1807; educ. Harrow Feb. 1819 to June 1823, played in the
eleven against Eton; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, senior
wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and seventh classic 1828; aided
in establishing the first eight oared boat on the Cam 1825;
B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1847; fellow of Trinity 1837–41,
tutor 1837–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Barnwell, Cambridge 1842–7;
bishop of Melbourne 25 June 1847 to May 1876, consecrated in
Westminster abbey 29 June 1847; reached Melbourne 23 Jany. 1848;
resided at Jolimont 1848–53 and in the palace of Bishop’s court
1853–74; obtained passing of the Church assembly act 1854;
left Victoria 26 Feb. 1874, resigned May 1876; select preacher
at Cambridge 1863–4; attended and addressed all the church
congresses 1874–88; prelate of the order of St. Michael and
St. George 1878 to death; canon of Llandaff 1878–89; author of
Five sermons preached before the university of Cambridge 1856;
Foundation truths, four sermons 1864; The Galatian lapse, six
lectures 1885. _d._ 32 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 Dec.
1891. _bur._ Harlow, Essex, portrait by Weigall at Ridley hall,
Cambridge, and a memorial in St. Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne.
_G. Goodman’s Church in Victoria during the episcopate of
bishop Perry_ (1892) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 12 Dec. 1861 p._ 758
_portrait_.

PERRY, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Salisbury; a turf commissioner with
a large business in connection with city of London 40 years; in
Blink Bonny, Beadsman and Musjid’s years his settlings were very
heavy; ruined by the failure of Overend, Gurney and co. 1866;
trained and ran some horses under name of E. Hall; chairman of
Victoria club, Wellington st. Strand many years. _d._ 23 Sept.
1890.

PERRY, FREDERICK C. With his son sang and conducted at the
King’s head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night;
a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house;
I’d a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William
Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny
tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes
were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick
French 1867; The charming young girl. In the arcade one evening,
music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette’s my name,
music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876.

NOTE.--He also wrote Daddy’s Knock, a parody on The Postman’s knock, We’ve taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from the Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King’s head music hall.

PERRY, GEORGE. _b._ Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C.
Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at
theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of
Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and
repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845;
his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed
in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket
theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was
produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of
Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old
Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn
road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic
society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast,
a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a
festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio
Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the
princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred
harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of
Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores.
_d._ 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 11 March. _T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism_ (1872)
197–289.

PERRY, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb.,
fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825;
principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr.
in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death;
author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833.
_d._ New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. _Law Journal iv_
330 (1869).

PERRY, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25
Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and
lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second
European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841
to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to
death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20
Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. _d._ 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17
March 1863.

PERRY, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s
hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843;
surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James
st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling
Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical
and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings;
a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of
Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of
Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch
telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some
observations at Burgos. _d._ 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park
gardens, London, Jany. 1870. _Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p._
107; _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p._ 102.

PERRY, RICHARD DAVIS. _b._ 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through
and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year
by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of
fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; _shot himself_ at Phœnix coffee
house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892.

PERRY, STEPHEN JOSEPH (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq.
London, steel-pen manufacturer). _b._ London 26 Aug. 1833; educ.
Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied
theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society
of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied
philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London
1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of
the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866;
made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and
of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society
to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse
of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island
to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a
coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882;
took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in
the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed
the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of
very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register,
Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut
Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. _d._ on board her majesty’s
ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Georgetown, Demerara. _Father
Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed._
(1890) _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv_
(1890); _The Month lxviii_ 305–23, 474–88 (1890); _Nature xli_
279–80, 301 (1890); _Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota)
ix_ 197 (1890) _portrait_; _Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 55, _25
Jany. pp._ 128, 137; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 67 _portrait_.

PERRY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821,
proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). _b._ Wandlebank
house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827
to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary
secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded
the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested
Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832,
student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov.
1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of
supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10
April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852;
knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian
board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was
established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the
natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July
1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug.
1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative
committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author
with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates
determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases
argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry
Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41,
4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life
decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of
India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848.
_d._ 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. _Biograph iii_ 129–37
(1880); _New monthly mag. cxvii_ 382–91 (1880) _portrait_; _Law
Times lxxiii_ 34 (1882).

PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and
insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to
1856. _d._ St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton
22 Dec. 1868.

PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1815; educ. Chichester college
1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London
1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael,
Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon.
canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on
ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments
before the judicial committee in Ridsdale _v._ Clifton 1878;
Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful
church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton _v._
Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of
non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical
considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863;
Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert _v._ Purchas 1877.
_d._ Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.

PERRY, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of James Perry). _b._ 1801; educ.
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent
there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts
of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1
April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided
at Venice 1860 to death. _d._ Venice 24 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lv_
236, 547 (1874).

PERRY, WILLIAM. _b._ Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a
navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher
from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles
Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec.
1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought
him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38
rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman
was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of
consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years
and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67
rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the
police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in
152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side,
23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846;
presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847;
beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking
17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the
champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a
side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall
29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again
1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom
Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in
102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857
when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s
novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments
at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old
leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. _d._
Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_
157–205 _portrait_, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); _John Hannan’s British
boxing_ (1850) 26–9; _Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p._ 9.

PERSIANI, FANNY (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and
teacher of music, _d._ 1859). _b._ Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her
father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; _m._ at Florence
1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da
Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia
di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12
Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina
1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18
notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris
alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847;
sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda,
Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death.
_d._ Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. _Grove’s Dict.
of music ii_ 693–4 (1880); _C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera_
(1845) 17 _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii_ 257–73
(1863); _I.L.N. ii_ 438 (1843) _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s The
prima donna ii_ 191–6 (1888).

PERSIANI, or PERSIANO GIUSEPPE. _b._ Recanati in the Papal
States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed
several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo
come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera
Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana
savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against
Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one
of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent
Garden on lease in 1847. _d._ Paris 14 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag.
of biog. ii_ 151 (1869); _Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii_
3 (1864), _ii_ 325 (1880); _H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii_
196–204 (1888).

PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, DUC DE (son of M. Fialin,
_killed_ at Salamanca 1812). _b._ St. Germain-Lespinasse,
Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a
journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de
Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s
Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account
entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis,
London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten
knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839;
sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis
Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848;
minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860
to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and
May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16
June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in
England 1871. _d._ Nice 12 Jany. 1872. _H. Castille’s Portraits
politiques_ (1857) _pp._ 1–60 _portrait_, _No._ 20; _Weekly
Reporter xi_ 146 (1863).

PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). _b._ Plymouth 1841; clown
and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre,
London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London
and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in
partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. _d._ of cancer of
the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Edgbaston old church, Birmingham
5 Feb. _Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p._ 689 _portrait_.

PERSSE, BURTON ROBERT PARSONS (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode
castle, Galway, _d._ 1859). _b._ 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway
1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway
hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. _d._ Moyode
castle, Galway July 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xliv_ 295 (1885).

PESTER, HENRY. _b._ 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28
Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept.
1864. _d._ 8 Great Quebec st. London 23 Oct. 1870.

PETER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Henry Peter, _d._ 1821). _b._
Harlyn, St. Merryn, Cornwall 22 March 1788; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 28 May 1813; M.P. Bodmin
11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; British consul in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey 13 March 1841 to death; author or editor of
Thoughts on the present crisis in a letter from a constituent
to his representative 1815; Speeches of sir Samuel Romilly
in the house of commons, 2 vols. 1820; Sacred songs being an
attempted paraphrase of some portions of the psalms by W. Peter
1828, new ed. with other poems by a Layman 1834; Poems by Ralph
Ferrars (i.e. Wm. Peter) new ed. 1833; William Tell from the
German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1839, 2 ed. Lucerne 1867; Mary
Stuart from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1841; Maid of
Orleans, Cambridge 1843; Agamemnon of Æschylus, Philadelphia
1852; Specimens of the poets of Greece and Rome by various
translators, Philadelphia 1847. _d._ Philadelphia 6 Feb. 1853.
_bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard, where is monument.

PETERKIN, ALEXANDER (elder son of Alexander Peterkin of
Edinburgh, lawyer and author of many works 1780–1846). _b._
1814; editor of the Berwick Advertiser; shorthand reporter and
sub-editor of the Edinburgh Advertiser; on the staff of The
Times, retired about 1853; author of The study of art 1870, a
poem. _d._ 1889.

PETERMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH. _b._ Bleichrode near Nordhausen,
Saxony 18 April 1822; a pupil of Dr. Heinrich Berghaus at
the Potsdam cartographic institution 1839; came to Edinburgh
1845 to assist Dr. Keith Johnstone in an English edition of
Berghaus’ Atlas of physical geography 1847; came to London 1847;
physical geographer royal; returned to Germany 1854; professor
of geography Gotha university, and in charge of Perthes’
Geographic institution at Gotha to his death; all the German
expeditions to Africa and to the Poles he planned, described and
mapped; contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the English
Cyclopædia, and the Athenæum; author of The search for Franklin,
a suggestion 1852; An account of the expedition to Central
Africa by Richardson, Barth, Over and Vogel 1854; and other
works published at Gotha and Vratislaviæ; _committed suicide_
at Gotha 25 Sept. 1878. _The Times 28 Sept. 1878 p._ 5; _The
Athenæum 5 Oct. 1878 p._ 437.

PETERS, MARY (dau. of Richard Bowly). _b._ Cirencester,
Gloucs. 17 April 1813; _m._ John McWilliam Peters, rector
of Quennington, Gloucs. and afterwards vicar of Langford,
Oxfordshire, _d._ 1834; contributed hymns to the Plymouth
Brethrens’ Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs 1842; author of
Hymns intended to help the communion of saints 1847, selections
from this book were printed in various hymnals 1855–72;
Universal history, or the world’s history from the creation to
the accession of queen Victoria, London, S. Bagster and Sons,
7 vols. 1862, anon., this work is also known as Bagster’s
Universal history. _d._ Clifton 29 July 1856. _Julian’s
Hymnology_ (1892) 891–2.

PETERS, WILLIAM CUMMING. _b._ Woodbury, near Exmouth, Devon 10
March 1805; opened a music store in Louisville, Kentucky 1829;
established branch houses in Cincinnati 1839 and in Baltimore
1849; a leader of concerts and choirs; revised and enlarged J.
F. Burrowes’ Pianoforte primer 1849; wrote Mass in G for soprano
and bass voices 1863, and other music published in Baltimore,
New York and Cincinnati 1841–71; compiled The Catholic harmonist
1850; The eclectic piano instructor 1855; and The Catholic harp
1862. _d._ Cincinnati 20 April 1866.

PETERSDORFF, CHARLES ERDMAN (3 son of Christian Frederick
Petersdorff of 14 Gough sq. Fleet st. London, furrier). _b._
London 4 Nov. 1800; student of Inner Temple 24 Sept. 1818;
barrister I.T. 25 Jany. 1833; one of the counsel to the
admiralty; serjeant-at-law 20 May 1858; judge of county courts,
circuit 57, North Devon and Somerset 1 Jany. 1865, resigned
Dec. 1885; author of A general index to the precedents in civil
and criminal pleadings 1822; A practical treatise on the law of
bail 1824; A practical abridgment of cases in the king’s bench,
common pleas, exchequer and nisi prius from the restoration,
15 vols. 1825–30; A practical abridgment of the common law, 5
vols. 1841–4, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1861–4, supplement 1870, 2 ed. 1871;
The principles and practice of the law of bankruptcy 1861, 2
ed. 1862; Law students and practitioners’ commonplace book of
law and equity. By A Barrister 1871; A practical compendium of
the law of master and servant 1876; _killed_ by falling into
the area of his house 23 Harley st. London 29 July 1886. _Law
Journal 7 Aug. 1886 p._ 467.

PETHERAM, JOHN. _b._ Oldmixon, near Weston-super-mare 1809;
spent some years in U.S. of America in the wholesale drug
trade; secondhand bookseller at 71 Chancery lane, London Sept.
1841, then at 94 High Holborn 1847 to death; compiled and
issued 207 catalogues; issued between 1843 and 1847 Puritan
discipline tracts, being reprints of 6 tracts on the Martin
Mar-Prelate controversy of 1589–92, their titles are An epitome,
An epistle, Pappe with a hatchet, Hay any worke for cooper, An
almond for a parrot, and Bishop Cooper’s admonition; edited
A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfort 1575,
1846, and a Bibliographical miscellany, 5 parts 1859; author
of An historical sketch of the progress and present state of
Anglo-Saxon literature in England 1840; Reasons for establishing
an Authors’ publication society 1863. _d._ 94 High Holborn
18 Dec. 1858. _Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate
controversy_ (1845); _Publishers’ Circular 31 Dec. 1858 p._ 639;
_Bookseller Feb. 1859 p._ 727.

PETHERICK, JOHN (son of John Petherick, _d._ 1861). _b._
Penydarran iron works, Merthyr Tydvil 9 May 1813; resident
in Wales 1813–27 and 1832–4; educ. Brieg, Silesia 1827–32;
engaged in mining in Waterford and Wexford 1834–8; manager of
German mining co.’s mines, Dittenburg 1838–43; mining engineer
to viceroy of Egypt 1845–9; resident at Kordofan in the ivory
and gum trade 1849–59; consul for the Soudan 1850–63; envoy
from Royal geographical soc. to succour captains Speke and
Grant 1861–2, capt. Speke quarrelled with Petherick and he
was deprived of his consulship, his mercantile affairs fell
into disorder and he had to live on a pension given him by the
Egyptian government; author of Egypt, the Soudan, and Central
Africa, with explorations from Khartoum, sketches of sixteen
years’ travels 1861; with J. P. Clemes Report on the silver
mines of Almada and Kurnapa in Mexico 1868; with Mrs. K. H.
Petherick Travels in Central Africa, 2 vols. 1869. _d._ 54
Lancaster road, Westbourne park, London 15 July 1882. _Proc. of
Royal Geog. Soc. iv_ 700 (1882).

NOTE.--He _m._ Katherine Harriet, dau. of Sigismund Edlman. She was _b._ Malvern July 1827, accompanied her husband in his travels and _d._ St. Gorran Haven 12 Jany. 1877.

PETIT, JOHN LOUIS (eld. son of John Hayes Petit, P.C. of
Shareshall, Staffs., _d._ 1822). _b._ Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs.
31 May 1801; educ. Eton, where he contributed to the Etonian,
and at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826;
M.A. Oxford 1850; ordained deacon 1824; spent his time chiefly
in visiting and sketching old churches in England and abroad
from 1839; C. of Bradfield, near Manningtree, Essex 1840–8; a
founder of the British archæological institute at Cambridge
1844, and a contributor to the Journal; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1850;
an oil painter and etcher on copper; author and illustrator
of Remarks on church architecture, 2 vols. 1841; Remarks on
architectural character 1846; The abbey church of Tewkesbury
1848; Architectural studies in France 1854, 2 ed. 1890; his poem
The lesser and the greater light was printed by his sister 1869;
resided Uplands Shiffnal, Salop 1848–64, and at Lichfield 1867
to decease. _d._ Lichfield 1 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Greenhill church,
Lichfield. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxv_ 318–20
(1869); _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 220–2, 525 (1869); _Architect
2 Jany. 1869 p._ 10.

PETIT, PETER JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1807; ensign
22 foot 19 May 1825; lieut. 50 foot 27 March 1828, lieut. col.
19 Sept. 1848 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ Lichfield 13
Feb. 1852. _G.M. April 1852 p._ 407.

PETO, SIR SAMUEL MORTON, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Wm. Peto of
Cookham, Berkshire 1768–1849). _b._ Whitmoor house, Woking,
Surrey, 4 Aug. 1809; apprenticed to his uncle Henry Peto,
builder, who _d._ 1830 leaving his business to his nephews,
Thomas Grissell and S. M. Peto, they dissolved partnership 2
March 1846, having constructed the Hungerford market 1832–3,
Lyceum theatre 1834, St. James’s theatre 1835, Reform club
1836, Conservative club 1840, Great Western railway works
between Hanwell and Langley 1840, the Nelson column 1843, and
a large part of the South Eastern railway 1844; partner with
Edward Ladd Betts 1846–72, they constructed the loop line of
the Great Northern railway from Peterborough to Doncaster, the
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway 1852, the Oxford and
Birmingham railway, the Victoria docks, London 1852–5, and the
Norwegian Grand Trunk railway; constructed with Thomas Brassey
and E. L. Betts railway lines in Australia 1858–63, the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada, the Jutland and Schleswig lines 1852,
and the London, Tilbury and Southend railway 1852; paid for the
building of Bloomsbury baptist chapel; purchased the Diorama in
Regent’s park 1855 and converted it into a baptist chapel; M.P.
Norwich 1847–54, M.P. Finsbury 1859–65, and M.P. Bristol 1865–8;
obtained passing of Peto’s act 13 and 14 Vict. cap. 28, 1850,
which simplified titles by which religious bodies hold property;
A.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1839; deputy chairman of metropolitan comrs. of
sewers 1 Sept. 1851; constructed a railway line, 39 miles long,
between Balaklava and the entrenchments 1854–5; created baronet
14 Feb. 1855; presented with a service of plate for making
East Suffolk railway 18 July 1860; Peto and Betts suspended
payment 11 May 1866 with liabilities of four millions and assets
estimated at five millions; author of Divine support in death
1842; Observations on the report of the defence commissioners
1862; Taxation, its levy and expenditure, past and future 1863;
The resources and prospects of America, ascertained during a
visit to the states 1866. _d._ Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells 13
Nov. 1889. _bur._ Pembury. _Sir Morton Peto, a memorial sketch_
(1893) 2 _portraits_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix_
400–3 (1890); _I.L.N. xviii_ 105–6 (1851) _portrait_, _xxx_ 24–6
(1857) _three views of his residence, Somerleyton,_ _Suffolk_,
_xxxvii_ 147 (1860) _view of service of plate_; _Eclectic mag.
lxvi_ 381 (1878) _portrait_.

PETRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH PETRE, 13 Baron (eld. son of 12 baron
Petre 1817–84). _b._ Leamington 26 Feb. 1847; in holy orders of
the church of Rome; domestic prelate at court of the Vatican to
death; succeeded to the peerage 4 July 1884; author of Remarks
on the condition of catholic liberal education 1877; At Antiock
again, a sermon 1886. _d._ 21 Hyde Park gardens, Paddington,
London 8 May 1893. _bur._ in private burial ground at Thorndon
park. _Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p._ 9 _portrait_.

PETRE, HENRY WILLIAM (younger son of 11 baron Petre 1793–1850).
_b._ Thorndon hall, near Brentwood, Essex 23 Jany. 1820; an
original colonist of New Zealand, where he introduced well bred
horses; postmaster general 1853; member of legislative council
1854; master, with a committee, of the Isle of Wight fox hounds;
master of the Roothing stag hounds, Essex; author of An account
of the settlement of the New Zealand company 1841, 5 ed. 1842;
Half a century of British colonization 1889. _d._ the Manor
house, Writtle, Chelmsford 3 Dec. 1889. _Baily’s Mag. xxiv_ 63–4
(1874) _portrait_.

PETRIE, GEORGE (only child of James Petrie, portrait painter).
_b._ Dublin 1 Jany. 1790; studied in the Dublin society’s art
school 1802; painted landscapes of Irish scenery 1808 etc.;
contributed 96 illustrations to Thomas Kitson’s Cromwell’s
Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. 1820; exhibited 2 landscapes
at R.A. London 1818; A.R.H.A. 1828, librarian 1830, president
resigned 1859; wrote many antiquarian articles in the Dublin
examiner 1816, and in the Dublin Penny journal 1832–3; edited
the Irish Penny journal 1840–41; M.R.I.A. 1828, where he read 27
papers, member of council 1829, gold medallist 3 times; attached
to the ordnance survey of Ireland 1833–46; LL.D. Dublin 1847;
granted civil list pension of £100, 13 Oct. 1849 and another
pension of £100, 2 Jany. 1851; president of the Old Irish music
soc. 1851; author of On the history of Tara hill 1839; A letter
to sir W. R. Hamilton on charges made against the author by
sir W. Betham 1840; The ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland
1845; he illustrated G. N. Wright’s Ireland 1831; G. N. Wright’s
An historical guide to Dublin 1821; G. N. Wright’s A guide to
the county of Wicklow 1822, and Picturesque sketches of the
landscapes and coast scenery of Ireland 1835. _d._ 7 Charlemont
place, Dublin 17 Jany. 1866. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, near
Dublin. _W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie_ (1868); _Graves’s
Eloge on the late George Petrie_ (1866); _W. Allingham’s
Varieties in pose iii_ 161–73 (1893); _I.L.N. xlviii_ 201, 202
(1866) _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. xiv_ 638 _portrait_.

PETRIE, JOHN GORDON. _b._ 1822; second lieut. Bombay artillery
11 June 1841, colonel 26 April 1866, retired 31 Dec. 1878;
M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, hon. L.G. 31 Dec. 1878; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868;
served in the Scinde campaign 1843, and the Indian mutiny 1857;
commanded artillery in Abyssinia campaign from 1 Jany. 1868.
_d._ 9 Cranbury terrace, Southampton 31 Dec. 1890.

PETRIE, MARTIN (2 son of commissary-general Wm. Petrie, _d._
1842). _b._ the Manor house, King’s Langley, Herts. 1 June 1823;
ensign royal Newfoundland companies 14 April 1846, captain 5
May 1854; captain 14 foot 26 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov.
1856; captain 14 foot again 9 Jany. 1857, major 13 July 1867;
assistant in topographical department of the war office 14 Jany.
1859 to 30 June 1864; major 97 foot 18 Dec. 1867, placed on
h.p. 31 Aug. 1872; examiner in military education at the staff
college 1864–82, and at the royal military college to 1882;
author of The strength, composition, and organisation of the
armies of Europe 1860; Organisation, composition and strength
of the army of Great Britain 1863, 5 ed. 1867; Equipment of
infantry 1865; Hospital equipment 1866. _d._ Hanover lodge, 14
Hanover terrace, Kensington park, London 19 Nov. 1892. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery.

PETRIE, SAMUEL. _b._ 1797; deputy assistant commissary general
25 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 13 June 1828; C.B. 22 Nov. 1858.
_d._ 113 Ebury st. Belgravia, London 2 March 1871.

PETTER, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Barnstaple 1824; printer 3 Crane
court, Fleet st. London 1848, removed to Playhouse yard 1852
where Thomas Dixon Galpin joined him, then to La Belle Sauvage
yard, Ludgate hill 1857; purchased John Cassell’s publications
1858 and took him in as a partner; started Cassell’s Illustrated
family bible 1860 and The popular natural history 1859; J.
Cassell _d._ 1865; started The Echo, the first halfpenny daily
paper in London 8 Dec. 1868, sold it to baron Grant 1868; firm
converted into a Limited co. 1883 when he retired from active
work; author of Some objections to the repeal of the paper duty
considered, in reply to Mr. H. G. Bonn’s pamphlet upon the
question 1860. _d._ Leeholme, Bournemouth 16 Sept. 1888, his
personal estate was valued at £520,560. _Bookseller 9 Oct. 1888
p._ 1021–22.

PETTIE, JOHN (son of Alexander Pettie, tradesman). _b._ East
Linton, Haddingtonshire 17 March 1839; studied at the Trustees’
academy Edinburgh June 1856; first exhibited at Scottish academy
1859 and at the R.A. London 1860; exhibited 58 pictures at R.A.,
3 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1860–80; shared a studio with W.
Q. Orchardson in Pimlico, London 1862 and later at 37 Fitzroy
sq. to 1865; A.R.A. 8 May 1866, R.A. Oct. 1873; resided at 21
St. John’s Wood road 1869–81 and at 2 Fitzjohn’s avenue 1881 to
death; he illustrated J. De Liefde’s The postman’s bag 1862, 2
ed. 1867; Wordsworth’s Poems for the young 1863, 2 ed. 1866;
C. Camden’s The boys of Axleford 1869; W. D. S. Moncrieff’s
The abdication 1881; L. G. Seguin’s Rural England 1881; an
exhibition of his works was held at Burlington house in winter
of 1894. _d._ Hastings 21 Feb. 1893. _bur._ Paddington cemet.
27 Feb. _I.L.N. xlviii_ 637, 638 (1866) _portrait_; _Graphic
lx_ 442, 456 (1874) _portrait_, _and 25 Feb. 1893 p._ 199
_portrait_; _Art Journal xxi_ 265.

PETTIFER, MARY ANN (dau. of Henry Pettifer of 224 Holborn,
London, cheese monger). _b._ Holborn July 1822; appeared at
Olympic theatre as Cupid in burlesque of The Paphian bower 26
Dec. 1832; at Adelphi in Frankenstein; in the burletta The
Frolics of the fairies, Victoria 1833; first walking lady at
Strand theatre 1837; at Drury Lane in A night in the Bastille
4 Dec. 1839, and in Mary Stuart 22 Jany. 1840; played at the
Garrick theatre, Leman st. Whitechapel as Virginius in Rogers’
burlesque Virginius the Rum-Un 1840; by her performance of
William in Black-eyed Susan she established herself as a first
class East-end favourite; _m._ 1841 John Bond Ratcliffe, lessee
of Victoria theatre from 2 Sept. 1840, who _d._ about 1848; she
acted at Victoria theatre in The Yew tree ruins 11 Jany. 1841;
played again at the Garrick until it was burnt down 3 Nov. 1846;
acted at the Effingham and the Pavilion; first appeared at the
Britannia 21 Nov. 1853; latterly she played old women; was a
very handsome woman with a Grecian cast of features. _d._ 290
Cambridge road, Hackney 25 Dec. 1892. _The Era 11 Feb. 1893 p._
7.

PETTIGREW, SAMUEL THOMAS (youngest son of succeeding). _b._
1824 or 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C.
of Norton-Mandeville, Essex 1848–9; fellow of St. Augustine’s
college, Canterbury 1853–5, hon. fellow 1873 to death;
chaplain Madras ecclesiastical establishment 1855–78; C. in
charge of Pudleston, near Leominster 1878–80; V. of Hatfield,
Herefordshire 1880 to death; author of Daily office for my
schools 1867; Episodes in the life of an Indian chaplain 1882.
_d._ Leominster 19 May 1889.

PETTIGREW, THOMAS JOSEPH (son of Wm. Pettigrew, surgeon in the
navy, _d._ 1825). _b._ Fleet st. London 28 Oct 1791; studied
at the Borough hospitals; member of Medical society of London
1808, secretary 1810, registrar 1813; M.R.C.S. 1812, F.R.C.S.
1843; a founder of City philosophical society 1808, and of
Philosophical society of London 1810; secretary of Royal humane
society 1813–20; surgeon extraordinary to duke of Kent, then
surgeon in ordinary, also surgeon to duchess of Kent; vaccinated
the present queen, Victoria 1819; surgeon to duke of Sussex,
compiled a catalogue of his library in Kensington palace in two
vols. entitled Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827–39, the library was
sold 1844–5; surgeon to Dispensary for treatment of diseases
of children 1816–9; surgeon to Asylum for female orphans 1819;
surgeon to Charing Cross hospital on its foundation 1832 to
1835; practised in Savile row 1835–54; Ph. Doc. Göttingen 7 Nov.
1826; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1827; treasurer of British archæological
association 1843; author of Views of the base of the brain and
cranium 1809; Memoirs of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. 3 vols.
1817; Observations on cholera 1831; A history of Egyptian
mummies 1834; Medical portrait gallery, 4 vols. 1840; Memoirs of
the life of lord Nelson, 2 vols. 1849. _d._ 16 Onslow crescent,
South Kensington 23 Nov. 1865. _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical
portrait gallery iv pp._ 1–40 (1840) _portrait_ 9; _Journal of
British archæol. assoc._ (1866) 327–35; _Physic and physicians
ii_ 386 (1839).

PETTINGALL, EDWARD. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 19 Bengal
N.I. 1 Feb. 1807; captain 39 N.I. 21 Oct. 1821, major 25 July
1839, lieut. col. 18 March 1845 to 1846; commandant 5 irregular
cavalry 1 Nov. 1832 to 18 March 1845; lieut. col. of 26 N.I.
1846–50, of 38 N.I. 1850–1, of 60 N.I. 1851–2, of 55 N.I.
1852–4, and of 12 N.I. 1854; col. of 12 N.I. 25 Feb. 1855 to
death; M.G. 4 Nov. 1856. _d._ 134 Regent st. London 17 Nov. 1860.

PETTITT, GEORGE. Educ. Church missionary college, Islington;
ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832; missionary to Church
missionary society in South India and Ceylon 1833–55; chaplain
to general hospital at Birmingham 1855–6; V. of St. Jude’s,
Birmingham 1856 to death; author of A history of the church
missionary society’s mission in Tinnevally, South India 1850;
Sermons on the creed, in the Tamil language. _d._ 1873.

PETTITT, HENRY ALFRED (son of Edwin Pettitt, civil engineer,
author under name of Herbert Glyn of The cotton lord, 2 vols.
1862, 2 ed. 1864, and Uncle Crotty’s relations, 2 vols. 1863,
2 ed. 1866). _b._ Smethwick, near Birmingham 7 April 1848;
appeared at Sadler’s Wells in The Rose of Blarney, a pantomime;
clerk in office of Pickford & co. carriers London 1860–2;
junior English master in North London collegiate school, High
st. Camden Town about 1869, then secretary; wrote for Boy’s
miscellany and other periodicals; treasurer, secretary, and
author with J. H. Clynds, lessee of Gloucester theatre; wrote
with Paul Merritt, British born, Grecian theatre 17 Oct. 1872;
treasurer of Grecian theatre; his drama Golden fruit, produced
at East London theatre 14 July 1873, for which he received £5;
wrote with George Conquest for Grecian theatre Dead to the world
12 July 1875, Sentenced to death 14 Oct. 1875, Snatched from
the grave 13 March 1876, Queen’s evidence 5 June 1876, Neck or
nothing 3 Aug. 1876, Sole survivor 5 Oct. 1876, Schifter, the
one-eyed pilot 2 April 1877, During her majesty’s pleasure 21
May 1877, and five other pieces; his pantomime Harlequin king
Frolic, produced at Grecian theatre 24 Dec. 1880, played to
April 1881 the longest run on record; wrote with Paul Merritt
and Augustus Harris The World, Drury Lane 31 July 1880; visited
America 1880–1; wrote a version of Le voyage en Suisse for the
Hanlon-Lee troupe; his Taken from life produced at Adelphi 31
Dec. 1881; Love and money by Pettitt and Charles Reade produced
there 18 Nov. 1882, In the ranks by Pettitt and G. R. Sims 6
Oct. 1883, and Harbour lights by the same 23 Oct. 1885; Human
nature by Pettitt and A. Harris produced at Drury Lane 12 Sept.
1885, they also wrote A run of luck 28 Aug. 1886 (which brought
in £25,000 in 12 weeks), and A million of money 6 Sept. 1890;
wrote with Sydney Grundy for the Adelphi The bells of Haslemere
28 July 1887, and The Union Jack 19 July 1888; wrote with G. R.
Sims The silver falls, Adelphi 22 Dec. 1888, and London, day by
day, Adelphi 14 Sept. 1889, also Faust up to date, Gaiety 30
Oct. 1888, and Carmen up to date, Gaiety 4 Oct. 1890; wrote with
sir A. Harris The prodigal daughter, Drury Lane 17 Sept. 1892,
and A life of pleasure 21 Sept. 1893, transferred to Princess’s
Dec. 1893; wrote A sailor’s knot Drury Lane 5 Sept. 1891; A
woman’s revenge Adelphi 1 July 1893. _d._ of typhoid fever
352 Goldhawk road, Hammersmith 24 Dec. 1893. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery 29 Dec., personalty declared at £48,477. _The little
journal i_ 103–9 (1884); _Theatre xiii_ 15 (1889) _portrait_;
_W. Archer’s Theatrical world_ (1893) 187; _Entr’acte annual_
(1893) 34 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 30 Dec. 1892 p._
562 _portrait_; _The Era 30 Dec. 1893 p._ 11.

NOTE.--At one time 22 companies were on tour in England and 6 in America playing his pieces. In Australia 6 of his plays were before the public and his name was on the bills of two London theatres. Six dramas in which he had collaborated were on in London the same evening.

PETTITT, JOSEPH PAUL. _b._ Birmingham; landscape painter at
Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.;
exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph
Gillott of Birmingham. _d._ Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9
Sept. 1882. _Architect xxvii_ 182 (1882).

PETTIT, WALTER. _b._ London 14 March 1835; studied at royal
academy of music; violoncellist in the orchestra of Her
Majesty’s theatre 1851, remained there many years; succeeded
Charles Lucas as principal violoncello in Philharmonic orchestra
1861; took place of Guillaume Paque in Her Majesty’s private
band 1876. _d._ London 11 Dec. 1882. _Grove’s Dictionary of
music ii_ 696 (1880).

PEVERELL, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Callow). _b._ London 17 July
1792; _m._ in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April
1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near
Edmonton. _d._ Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. _bur._
Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. _Times 10 Jany. 1896 p._ 4.

PEW, JAMES. _b._ Leith, Scotland 1793; clerk in the stores
department Tower of London 1807; auditor to the vestry of
Camberwell 1827, overseer of the poor 1829, vicar’s warden
1839–63, hon. sec. of the cholera committee 1839; a governor of
Dulwich college; member for Camberwell of Metropolitan board of
works 1858–69; chairman of Camberwell vestry, his portrait was
placed in Camberwell vestry hall April 1860. _d._ Asiago, in the
Italian Tyrol Sept. 1876. _bur._ Padua. _W. H. Blanch’s Parish
of Camberwell_ (1877) 186–8 _portrait_.

PEW, JOHN. Choirmaster to the Carl Rosa opera company 1873,
brought the choir to a high state of efficiency, assistant
conductor to the opera co.; conducted English opera in London
and the provinces. _d._ Feb. 1890.

PEYTON, SIR ALGERNON WILLIAM, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry
Peyton 1804–66). _b._ Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton
1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb.
1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3;
succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach;
sheriff of Oxon. 1871. _d._ Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25
March 1872. _Baily’s Mag. xvi_ 51 (1869) _portrait_.