Chapter LXIX: Part 69

PHILLIPS, PHILIP. _b._ 1802 or 1803; pupil of Clarkson
Stanfield; painted dioramas for Surrey theatre 1833–40;
exhibited 17 landscapes at R.A., 24 at B. I., and 42 at Suffolk
st. gallery 1826–65; purchased Duke’s Arms tavern, Upper Lambeth
Marsh, Surrey, where he built the Bower saloon, opened for
musical performances June 1839, from which he retired 1841;
principal scenic artist to Lyceum, Haymarket, and Adelphi
theatres; went with the queen to Ireland 1–12 Aug. 1849,
exhibited a moving diorama of this tour at Chinese gallery,
Hyde Park corner 18 March 1850 to Aug. 1850; painted for Albert
Smith part of the scenery for his entertainment China 1859. _d._
Gloucester house, Larkhall lane, Clapham 29 May 1864. _Era 5
June 1864 p._ 10; _Sunday Times 24 March 1850 p._ 3.

PHILLIPS, RICHARD (son of James Phillips of George yard, Lombard
st. London, printer and bookseller). _b._ London 1778; educ.
as a chemist and druggist under Wm. Allen of Plough court; a
founder of the Askesian soc. 1796, and of Geological soc. 1807;
lecturer on chemistry at London hospital 1817; professor of
chemistry at royal military college, Sandhurst 1818; lecturer
on chemistry at Grainger’s school of medicine, Southwark 1818;
F.R.S. 14 March 1822; chemist and curator of Museum of practical
geology, Jermyn st. London 1839 to death; F.C.S. 1841,
president 1849–50; discovered the true nature of uranite 1823;
edited with E. W. Brayley The annals of philosophy 1821–6; one
of the editors of The philosophical magazine 1827–50; author of
An analysis of the Bath water 1806; An experimental examination
of the last edition of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1811;
Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis
1816; wrote all the chemical articles in the Penny cyclopædia,
and about 70 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 2 Champion
place, Grove lane, Camberwell, London 11 May 1851. _bur._
Norwood cemetery 16 May. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_
(1880) 206; _I.L.N. 14 June 1851 pp._ 547, 548 _portrait_.

PHILLIPS, RICHARD EMPSON (son of a livery stable keeper). _b._
Great Ormond st. Queen sq. London 2 April 1820; in a wine
merchant’s offices 1835; played Edmund Esdale in the Charcoal
burner, Pantheon theatre, Catherine st. May 1840; acted with
Henderson’s company at Ludlow 1840, and in other provincial
towns to 1842; appeared as a negro singer and dancer at theatre
royal, Ipswich Jany. 1843; stage manager Manchester theatre July
1843, played Henry Bertram to Miss Cushman’s Meg Merrilies;
manager of theatres at Sheffield and Chester; acted Iago at
Aberdeen with great success; actor and stage manager Grecian
theatre, London 3 May 1847, where he acted to Sept. 1858 when
he received a testimonial; aided J. W. Anson in establishing
Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 1855; manager for E.
T. Smith of Her Majesty’s theatre Dec. 1860. _Theatrical times 4
Sept. 1847 pp._ 273–4 _portrait_; _The Players 5 Jany. 1861 p._
207–8 _portrait_.

PHILLIPS, ROBERT NEWTON. _b._ 24 June 1815; ensign 53 foot 27
May 1836, captain 12 Jany. 1844; capt. 43 foot 5 Jany. 1844,
lieut. col. 29 July 1853; lieut. col. 94 foot 21 April 1854;
lieut. col. provisional battalion, Chatham 26 Sept. 1854, placed
on h.p. 6 Feb. 1863; col. 65 foot 13 July 1876 to death; general
1 Oct. 1877; served in Caffre war 1851–3, medal. _d._ Pipe
Grange, Lichfield 21 Dec. 1888.

PHILLIPS, SAMUEL (3 son of Philip Phillips of 71 St. James’s
st. London, glass manufacturer, _d._ 1837). _b._ 28 Dec. 1814;
recited before duke of Sussex who became his patron; declaimed
Collins’s Ode to the passions at Haymarket theatre; played in
Richard the third at Covent Garden theatre 23 June 1829; studied
at univ. of Gottingen 1835–6; pensioner at Sidney Sussex coll.
Camb. 12 Sept. 1836, left on death of his father early in 1837;
lamp manufacturer with his brother Ralph Phillips at 190 and
223 Regent st. London 1837, they became bankrupt 20 Nov. 1840;
tutor to lord Francis Bruce 1843; wrote two leaders a week for
the Morning Herald 1845–6; wrote literary reviews for the Times
about 1845 to death; secretary to the Richmond association for
support of the farmers who had been injured through fiscal
changes 1845; proprietor and editor of John Bull weekly paper
1845–6; contributed to the Literary gazette 1851–4; LL.D.
Gottingen 1852; literary director of the Crystal palace co. 1853
to death, and treasurer for a time; suggested formation of a
society for promoting Assyrian archæological exploration Aug.
1853; author of Caleb Stukely, 3 vols. 1844 anon. (reprinted
from Blackwood’s Mag.) published with his name 1862; The
literature of the rail 1851; Essays from the Times 1851 anon.;
A second series of essays from the Times 1854 anon.; both
volumes were republished in 1871 as by Samuel Phillips, B.A.
with his portrait; Guide to the Crystal palace and park 1854, 3
ed. 1854; We’re all low people there 1854; Memoir of the duke
of Wellington 1856. _d._ of a rupture of a vessel on the lungs
Brighton 14 Oct. 1854. _bur._ Sydenham church 21 Oct. left about
£11,000. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxxviii_ 129–36 (1855); _Tait’s
Mag. Jany. 1855 pp._ 41–2; _Literary Gazette_ (1854) 906–7;
_G.M. Dec. 1854 pp._ 635–6.

PHILLIPS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Phillips of the excise
department). _b._ London 6 July 1760; apprenticed to an
apothecary at Hay in Breconshire; pupil of John Hunter;
M.R.C.S.; surgeon’s mate of the Danae frigate 1780, and
then surgeon of the Hind; entered service of East India co.
1782; inspector of hospitals in colony of Botany Bay 1796–8;
superintendent surgeon Bengal 1802–17; member of Calcutta
medical board to 1817; presented upwards of 20,000 volumes to
St. David’s college, Lampeter, established 6 scholarships at
the college and left by his will £7,000 to found a Phillips’
professorship in natural science; founded the Welsh educational
institution at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire 1847, endowed the
library with £140 a year, gave 7,000 books and left it about
£11,000. _d._ 5 Brunswick sq. London 13 June 1851. _bur._ in
catacombs of St. Pancras church 20 June. _G.M. June 1851 pp._
655–6.

NOTE.--He left £1,000 to Balliol coll. Oxf. and £1,000 to Jesus coll. to found scholarships for the pupils of the Institution at Llandovery.

PHILLIPS, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Phillips of Llanellan
house, Monmouthshire). _b._ Llanelly, Breconshire 1801;
solicitor in partnership with Thomas Prothero at Newport,
Monmouthshire June 1824 to Jany. 1840; mayor of Newport 1838–9,
read the riot act from the Westgate inn when John Frost entered
the town at the head of 7,000 chartists 4 Nov. 1839, when he
was wounded with slugs in the arm and hip; knighted free of
expense at Windsor castle 9 Dec. 1839; voted freedom of city
of London 26 Feb. 1840, admitted 7 April 1840; barrister I.T.
10 June 1842, bencher 5 May 1865 to death; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1865;
the arbitrator in many law suits; built a church and schools at
Court-y-hella, near Newport for the use of his colliers; member
of the National society 1848; president of council of Society
of arts; author of Wales, the language, social condition, moral
character, and religious opinions of the people considered in
their relation to education 1849; The life of James Davies, a
village schoolmaster 1850, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 77 Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 26 May 1867. _bur._ Llanellan. _J. Morgan’s
Four biographical sketches_ (1892), _Sir T. Phillips pp._
159–79; _A.R._ (1839) 314–6, _and_ (1840) 203–19; _Law Times
xliii_ 48, 110 (1867); _G.M. July 1867 p._ 107.

PHILLIPS, WATTS. _b._ Nov. 1825; the only pupil of George
Cruikshank 1844; resided in Paris 1845–66, with occasional
visits to London; drew the cartoons for Diogenes comic weekly
paper Jany. 1853 to June 1854, and wrote in it under signature
of The ragged philosopher; his book The wild tribes of London
1855 was dramatised by Wm. Travers and produced at City of
London theatre; illustrated several works; wrote for the Daily
news and London journal; author of the following plays, Joseph
Chavigny, Adelphi theatre May 1857; The poor strollers, Adelphi
1858; The dead heart, Adelphi 10 Nov. 1859, revived by Henry
Irving at Lyceum 1893; Paper wings, Adelphi 29 Feb. 1860,
revived at Olympic 15 Feb. 1869; A story of the Forty five,
Drury Lane 12 Nov. 1860; His last victory, St. James’s 21 June
1862; Camilla’s husband, Olympic 14 Dec. 1862, the last piece
in which Robson appeared; Paul’s return, Princess’s 15 Feb.
1864; A woman in mauve, Haymarket 18 March 1865; Theodora,
actress and empress, Surrey 9 April 1866; The Huguenot captain,
Princess’s 2 July 1866; Lost in London, Adelphi 16 March 1867;
Nobody’s child, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867; Maud’s peril, Adelphi 23
Oct. 1867; Land rats and water rats, Surrey 5 Sept. 1868; Not
guilty, Queens 13 Feb. 1869; Fettered, Holborn 17 Feb. 1869;
On the jury, Princess’s 16 Dec. 1871; Amos Clark, Queen’s 19
Oct. 1872; wrote in Town talk a novel entitled The honour of
the family, published under title of Amos Clark or the poor
dependent 1862; wrote many novels in the Family herald and
other periodicals; author of An accommodation bill 1850; The
hooded snake, a story of the secret police 1860; Ida Lee, or
the child of the wreck by Fairfax Balfour 1864; Who will save
her, 3 vols. 1874. _d._ 45 Redcliffe road, West Brompton,
London 3 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 8 Dec. _Watt’s
Phillips, artist and playwright._ _By E. Watts Phillips_ (1891)
_portrait_; _J. Coleman’s Truth about the Dead heart_ (1890);
_Dutton Cook’s Nights at the play_ (1883) 159–62; _Illust.
sporting news vi_ 161 (1867) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 534, 558,
585 (1874) _portrait_; _Saturday Review lxxii_ 728 (1891); _M.
H. Spielman’s History of Punch_ (1895) 56, 589.

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1808; civil engineer; inventor
of Phillips’s fire annihilator patented 4 June 1844, 16 April
1849, and 5 Oct. 1865; discovered numerous important scientific
problems; wrote On aërial locomotion by machinery without
gaseous buoyancy, Report of Aëronautical soc. vi 53–4 (1871).
_d._ 119 Linden Grove, Nunhead, Surrey 28 Nov. 1884.

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM LOVELL. _b._ Bristol 26 Dec. 1816; chorister
Bristol cathedral 1822–31; pupil at Royal academy of music,
London 1831–8, learning singing from Gaetano Crivelli and the
violoncello and harmony from Charles Lucas; sub-professor of
piano, harmony, and violoncello, professor 1831, associate
honorary member; musical director at Olympic theatre, and at
Princess’s; member of orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre,
Philharmonic soc. and Sacred harmonic soc.; organist St.
Catherine’s collegiate church, Regent’s park; author of New and
complete instruction for the violoncello 1846; composer of The
bridge England, song 1840; As you a nutting go, song 1844; The
ivy green, a song 1844; Soft be thy slumbers, serenade 1846; I’m
a little laughing gipsy 1857; The two rosebuds 1859; his name is
attached to upwards of 70 compositions; under the name of Philip
Lovell he wrote Songs of childhood 1843 and other songs; one
of the best violoncello players of his day. _d._ 67 Oakley sq.
Camden town, London 19 March 1860. _W. W. Cazalet’s History of
royal academy of music_ (1854) 311; _Era 25 March 1860 p._ 10.

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM PAGE (eld. son of Wm. Page Thomas Phillips
of Melton Grange, Woodbridge, Suffolk, _b._ 1833). _b._
Brent-bridge house, Hendon, Middlesex 5 Aug. 1858; educ. Eton
1871–7; rowed No. 6 in the Eton eight 1876 and was second
captain of the boats 1877; member of Kingston rowing club
stroked their eight and four at Henley regatta 1877; ran 150
yards in 15 seconds at Lillie Bridge and 120 yards twice in 12
seconds at Stamford Bridge 22 May 1880; ran 440 yards in 49
seconds at Aston ground 16 July 1881, 120 yards in 11 seconds
at Stamford bridge 25 March 1882, and 300 yards in 32 seconds
at Stamford bridge 20 May 1882, these five performances were
all bests on record; lieutenant West Suffolk militia 18 March
1882 to death. _d._ 26 March 1884. _bur._ Woodbridge 1 April.
_Sporting Mirror Oct. 1881 pp._ 85–8 portrait; _Illust. sp. and
dr. news 5 April 1884 p._ 72, _19 April pp._ 113, 120 _portrait_.

PHILLOTT, CHARLES GEORGE RODNEY. _b._ 1782; entered navy
27 Jany. 1794; served on board the Amphion 32 guns in the
Mediterranean 1802–10, shewing great gallantry in many attacks
on the enemy; in command of the Primrose 18 guns, served in the
Mediterranean, the North sea, and America 1810–18, retired 1
Oct. 1846; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862.
_d._ 39 Hans place, Chelsea 11 March 1863.

PHILLOTT, FRANCIS (youngest son of James Phillott 1749–1815,
rector of Stanton Priors, Somerset). _b._ Stanton Priors 29 Oct.
1821; educ. Winchester and St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844,
M.A. 1861; C. of Saltford, Cambs. 1845–52; domestic chaplain to
earl of Normanton 1853–9; C. of Huntley, Gloucs. 1865–6; C. of
Lolworth, Cambs. 1872–7. author of A litany hymn for the use
of church schools 1862; The textual witness to the truth and
divine authority of the Pentateuch 1863; Sacred memories, the
Athanasian creed metrically pharaphrased 1870. _d._ 9 Pierpont
place, Dawlish 4 Sept. 1878.

PHILLOTT, HENRY WRIGHT (3 son of Johnson Phillott of Whitcombe,
Gloucs. _b._ 1816; educ. Charterhouse 1827–33, and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., student 1835–51; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; assistant master
Charterhouse; R. of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire 1850–87;
rural dean of Weobly 1854–87; prebendary of Hereford 1864;
chancellor of choir of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death;
resident canon of Hereford 1887 to death; wrote the beautiful
Carmen Carthusianum, which was set to music by Wm. Horsley;
author with W. L. Bevan of Mediæval geography, an essay in
illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi 1873; author of
Selections from English prose writers 1849; Hereford 1888 in
Diocesan histories. _d._ The precincts, Hereford 4 Dec. 1895.
_Guardian 11 Dec. 1895 p._ 1908.

PHILLPOTTS, ARTHUR THOMAS (son of succeeding). _b._ 23 May
1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834, colonel 15 Dec. 1864, col.
commandant 26 Nov. 1880 to death; commanded the R.A. at
Aldershot 1 March 1865 to 6 June 1867 and 1 July 1871 to 18
April 1873; inspector general of artillery at head quarters 1
April 1877 to 31 Aug. 1880; M.G. 6 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 23 May 1882.
_d._ Lawhitton rectory, near Launceston 2 Sept. 1890.

PHILLPOTTS, HENRY (2 son of John Phillpotts, brick factor at
Bridgwater, afterwards landlord of the Bell inn, Gloucester
1744–1814). _b._ Bridgwater 6 May 1778; educ. Gloucester college
school; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 7 Nov. 1791; B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1778, B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of Magdalen coll. 25
July 1795 to 27 Oct. 1804, hon. fellow 2 Feb. 1862 to death;
prælector of moral philosophy 25 July 1800; one of the examiners
for honours 1802 and 1803; select preacher before the univ.
Nov. 1804; V. of Kilmarsdon, near Bath 1 Sept. 1804 to April
1806; R. of Stainton-le-Street, Durham 24 Dec. 1805; chaplain
to bishop of Durham 1806–26; V. of Bishop Middleham, Durham
24 July 1805 to 1808; R. of Gateshead 10 May 1808, master of
Gateshead hospital 12 May 1808; held ninth prebendal stall in
Durham cathedral 24 July 1809, the second stall 30 Dec. 1815
to 20 Sept. 1820, and the sixth stall 22 Jany. 1831 to death;
chaplain of St. Margaret, Durham 28 Sept. 1810; rector of
Stanhope-on-the-Wear, Durham 20 Sept. 1820 to Jany. 1831, with
an income of £4,000, built a parsonage at cost of £12,000; dean
of Chester 13 May 1828; bishop of Exeter 22 Nov. 1830 to death,
consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 2 Jany. 1831, installed 14
Jany.; visitor of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1831 to death; treasurer of
Exeter cathedral 27 Jany. 1831; prebendary of Exeter 27 Feb.
1831; carried on successful lawsuits against rev. John Shore
1843, and rev. H. E. Head 1838; refused to institute rev. G.
C. Gorham to living of Brampford Speke 1847, Gorham appealed
to the privy council and was instituted 8 March 1850, this
matter was discussed in 35 publications; spent about £25,000 in
litigation; gave £10,000 to found a theological coll. at Exeter;
supported Miss Sellon’s sisterhood at Devonport 1852; presented
his library to the clergy of Cornwall, library opened Truro
1871; executed the resignation of his see 9 Sept. 1869, which
did not take effect on account of his death; author of Letters
to C. Butler on his Book of the Roman catholic church 1822; A
letter to G. Canning on catholic emancipation 1827, 6 ed. 1827;
A letter to an English layman on the coronation oath 1828; A
letter to the archbishop of Canterbury 1850, this letter, in
which he excommunicates the archbishop, refers chiefly to the
Gorham case; A pastoral letter on the present state of the
church 1851, 8 ed. 1851; Correspondence with T. B. Macaulay on
statements in his History of England 1860; his name is attached
to upwards of 75 publications to many of which replies were
printed. _d._ at Bishopstowe palace, Torquay 18 Sept. 1869.
_bur._ St. Mary’s, Torquay. _R. N. Shutte’s Life of right rev.
Henry Phillpotts_, _vol._ 1 (1863) _portrait_; _Annual register_
(1869) 162–4; _Edinburgh Rev. Jany. 1852 pp._ 59–94; _Portraits
of eminent conservatives_ 1834 _portrait xx_; _Church of England
photograph portrait gallery_ 1859 _portrait xii_; _Illust. News
of the world_ 1861, _vol. viii_, _portrait xxvii_; _F. Arnold’s
Our bishops and deans i_ 180–206 (1875); _I.L.N. ii_ 191 (1843)
_portrait_, _lv_ 300, 302 (1869) _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s by
Mask_ (1839) 173–82; _The Church goer_, _Bristol_ (1847) 242–52.

PHILLPOTTS, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Bishop
Middleham, Durham 27 Jany. 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A.
1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Uny Lelant with Towednack, Cornwall 4
Nov. 1831 to Sept. 1832; V. of Grimley, Worcs. Sept. 1832 to
1845; prebendary of Exeter 21 Nov. 1840; archdeacon of Cornwall
6 Jany. 1845 to death; V. of Gluvias with Budock, Cornwall 25
March 1845 to death; chancellor of diocese of Exeter Oct. 1860
to death; precentor of Exeter cathedral 1870; author of An
answer to the infidels, a charge to the clergy 1864; Reply to
canon Farrar’s Eternal hope 1878. _d._ St. Gluvias vicarage 10
July 1888.

PHILP, ELIZABETH (elder dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Falmouth
17 Jany. 1825; studied singing under Manuel Garcia and Madame
Marchesi, and composition under Dr. Ferdinand Hiller of Cologne;
a teacher of singing in London; author of How to sing an English
ballad 1869, 4 ed. 1870; composer of O, had I the voice of a
bird 1855; I once had a sweet little doll 1867; Lillie’s good
night 1870; At rest 1884; her name is attached to 150 pieces
of music. _d._ 67 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London
26 Nov. 1885. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1878–82)
487–91, 1313; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 735, 1808; _F.
Hays’ Women of the day_ (1885) 159.

PHILP, JAMES (son of Robert Kemp Philp, unitarian minister
1769–1850). _b._ Falmouth 4 Oct. 1800; printer and publisher
Falmouth to 1836, and at Bristol 1836–46; compiled A Panorama of
Falmouth 1827, printed it himself and bound a copy with his own
hands, which he presented to the duke of Clarence 1827; edited
The christian child’s faithful friend 1829, which ran for some
years; printed The selector or Cornish magazine, 4 vols. 1826–9,
and The Falmouth packet 1829 etc. which he for sometime edited;
celebrated his golden wedding 24 May 1874. _d._ 164 Tuffnell
park road, London 23 April 1887. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub._ (1878–82) 491, 1313.

PHILP, ROBERT KEMP (son of Henry Philp of Falmouth 1793–1836).
_b._ Falmouth 14 June 1819; employed by a printer at Bristol
1835; a newsvendor at Bath; placed in the stocks for selling
a Sunday newspaper; edited with Henry Vincent The national
vindicator, a Bath weekly paper 1838–42; a Chartist lecturer
1839; member of executive committee of the Chartists 1841–3; a
delegate to the conference called by Joseph Sturge at Birmingham
27 Dec. 1842; a member of the national convention which sat
in London from 12 April 1842, drew up the monster petition
signed by 3,300,000 persons in favour of the confirmation of
the charter, which was presented 2 May 1842; contributed to The
Sentinel from its commencement 7 Jany. 1843; publisher at Great
New st. Fetter lane, London 1845; sub-editor of The People’s
journal 1846–8; edited The Family friend, a monthly periodical,
afterwards fortnightly and weekly 1850–5; The family tutor
1851–3, Home companion 1852–6, and The Family treasury 1853–4;
Diogenes, a weekly comic paper 1853–4; author of Enquire within
upon everything 1856 etc. of which more than a million copies
were sold; Notices to correspondents 1856; The reason why
1856; wrote The successful candidate, a two-act comedy 1852;
The mountain rill 1850, and four other songs by him were set
to music; his name as author and editor is attached to upwards
of 40 publications. _d._ 21 Claremont sq. Islington 30 Nov.
1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca
Cornubiensis_ (1874–82) 492–5 _and_ 1313; _The family treasury
vol._ 1 (1853) _portrait_.

PHILPOT, BENJAMIN. _b._ Laxfield, Suffolk 9 Jany. 1791; educ.
Christ’s coll. Camb.; senior optime and B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815;
fellow of Christ’s 1814; C. of Walpole, Suffolk 1815; archdeacon
and vicar-general of Isle of Man 22 May 1832 to 1839; R. of
Great Cressingham with Bodney, Norfolk 1839–59; V. of Lydney,
Gloucs. 1859–71; R. of Dennington, Suffolk 1871–3; author of
Ruth, six lectures 1854; Orpah and Ruth or nature and grace
1855; Nine lectures on the second advent of Christ 1866. _d._
Mona lodge, Oak hill, Surbiton 28 May 1889. _bur._ Lydney.
_Times 3 June 1889 p._ 12.

PHILPOTT, HENRY (younger son of Richard Philpott of Chichester).
_b._ Chichester 17 Nov. 1807; educ. Chichester cathedral school
and St. Catherine’s hall Cambridge, fellow 1829, assistant
tutor, tutor, master 1845–60, hon. fellow 1887 to death; senior
wrangler and 14th classic 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839,
D.D. 1847; second Smith’s prizeman 1830; junior proctor 1834–5;
Whitehall preacher 1837–9; examining chaplain to bishop of Ely
1844; canon of Norwich 1845–60; vice-chancellor of Cambridge
1846–7 and 1856–8; chaplain to prince Albert, chancellor of
Cambridge 1848–60; bishop of Worcester 7 Jany. 1861, consecrated
25 March 1861, resigned Aug. 1890; vice-chairman of Cambridge
univ. commission 1877, chairman 1878; provincial chaplain
of Canterbury; clerk of closet in ordinary to the queen 26
June 1865 to death; admitted to honorary freedom and livery
of Salter’s company 13 Dec. 1876; prosecuted R. W. Enraght,
vicar of Holy Trinity, Birmingham for ritualistic practices
1879; edited Documents relating to St. Catherine’s college
1861; author of ten triennial charges 1862–89. _d._ The Elms,
Cambridge 10 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s church, Hartlebury,
Worcs. 15 Jany. _Church portrait journal iv_ 65 (1883)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxviii_ 303, 322 (1861) _portrait_, _and
16 Jany. 1892 p._ 70 _portrait_; _Graphic 6 Sept. 1890 p._ 271
_portrait_; _Times 11 Jany. 1892 p._ 7.

PHIN, KENNETH MACLEAY (son of the minister of Wick). _b._
Wick 1816; educ. Edinb. univ., D.D. 1869; parish minister
of Galashiel 1841–69; a strong supporter of the Established
church, opposed Dr. Robert Lee’s alterations in the forms and
services of the church; convenor of the army and navy chaplains’
committee 1863, and of the home mission committee 1869 to death;
took up his residence in Edinb. 1871; assessor in the university
court 1867; moderator in the general assembly of the church
1877; author of Scottish episcopacy the pioneer of popery 1856.
_d._ 13 Chalmers st. Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1888. _The Times 13
Jany. 1888 p._ 6; _Scotsman 13 Jany. 1888 pp._ 4, 5.

PHINN, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Phinn, surgeon). _b._ Bath
1814; educ. Eton, captain of the school, and Exeter coll. Oxf.,
scholar 1836; B.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840, bencher
1854 to death; Q.C. with patent of precedence July 1854;
recorder of Portsmouth July 1848 to Jany. 1852; recorder of
Devonport Jany. 1852 to May 1855; a commissioner to investigate
the St. Alban’s bribery case 1851; M.P. Bath 1852–5; contested
Bath 2 May 1859; contested Devonport 12 July 1865; presented
with a silver tea and coffee service by the working men at the
guildhall, Bath 29 Nov. 1859; counsel to board of stamps and
taxes in the exchequer Feb. 1852; counsel to admiralty and
advocate of the fleet April or May 1854; second secretary to
admiralty May 1855, resigned April 1857; reappointed counsel to
admiralty Nov. 1863. _d._ 50 Pall Mall, London 31 Oct. 1866.
_Law Times xlii_ 157 (1866); _I.L.N. 19 Feb. 1853 p._ 152
_portrait_.

PHIPPEN, JAMES. _b._ 1785 or 1786; author of An account of the
planting of the Royal Victoria grove at Tunbridge Wells 1835;
The road guide from London to Tunbridge Wells 1836; Colbran’s
New guide to Tunbridge Wells 1840; Descriptive sketch of
Rochester, Chatham and their vicinities 1862. _d._ 29 July 1862.

PHIPPS, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (4 son of first earl Mulgrave
1755–1831). _b._ The Admiralty, London 18 Oct. 1809; educ.
Harrow 1820–7 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1831; R. of
Halesworth, Suffolk 1834–9; R. of Boxford 1839–53; R. of Euston
with Fakenham Parva and Barnham 1851–82, all in Suffolk; rural
dean of Blackburne 1862–83; chaplain in ordinary to the queen
18 June 1847 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1875 to death. _d._ 27
Eaton square, London 27 Jany. 1896.

PHIPPS, SIR CHARLES BEAUMONT (2 son of 1 earl Mulgrave
1755–1831). _b._ Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 27 Dec. 1801; educ.
Harrow 1813–18; ensign Scots fusilier guards 17 Aug. 1820,
lieut. col. 26 May 1837, placed on h.p. 22 Jany. 1847; brevet
colonel 11 Nov. 1851; secretary to his brother, first marquess
of Normanby, when governor of Jamaica 1832–4; steward of his
brother’s household when lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9;
secretary to master general of the ordnance; equerry to the
queen 1 Aug. 1846; private secretary to prince consort 1 Jany.
1847, and treasurer; keeper of the queen’s privy purse 10 Oct.
1849; treasurer and cofferer to prince of Wales 10 Oct 1849;
receiver-general of duchy of Cornwall 26 May 1862 to death; one
of the council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863 to death; secretary
to prince of Wales as steward of Scotland 8 Feb. 1864; C.B. 6
Sept. 1853, K.C.B. 19 Jany. 1858; _m._ 25 June 1835 Margaret
Anne, 2 dau. of Henry Bathurst, archdeacon of York, she was
granted civil list pension of £150, 23 March 1866, and _d._ 13
April 1874. _d._ Ambassador’s court, St. James’s palace 24 Feb.
1866. _bur._ in catacombs of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 2
March. _Full account of the presentation of a service of plate
to the hon. col. C. B. Phipps in the town hall Scarbro’ Nov. 12,
1841, containing col. Phipps’ speech Scarbro’_ 1841; _G.M. April
1866 pp._ 587–8; _I.L.N. xlii_ 399, 400 (1862) _portrait_.

PHIPPS, CHARLES PAUL (youngest son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps
1771–1841). _b._ Leighton house, near Westbury, Wilts. 26 Sept.
1815; a merchant at Liverpool; M.P. Westbury 27 Feb. 1869 to 26
Jany. 1874; contested Westbury 3 Feb. 1874; sheriff of Wiltshire
1875. _d._ Chalcott, near Westbury 8 June 1880.

PHIPPS, EDMUND (brother of sir C. B. Phipps 1801–66). _b._
the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and
Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June
1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to
death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered
estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection
of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary
crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety
in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin
reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into
English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and
acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words
on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason
1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850;
A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies
between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. _d._ 43 Wilton
crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. _Waagen’s Treasures
of art ii_ 226–29 (1854); _G.M. iii_ 687 (1857).

PHIPPS, EDWARD JAMES (brother of Charles Paul Phipps 1815–80).
_b._ 1806; educ. Exeter coll. Oxf.,B.A. 1828; R. of Devizes
1833–53; R. of Stansfield, Suffolk 1853 to death; author of
Short and easy answers, or a Sunday school catechism of the
history and doctrines of the Old Testament 1832; A catechism
on the Holy Scriptures 1850, 2 ed. 1860; The real question
as to altar lights 1865. _d._ Stansfield 22 May 1884. _bur._
Stansfield 27 May.

PHIPPS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ 27 March 1807; with R. Stephenson and
co. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1828; with R. Stephenson chalked out the
sketch of the Rocket on the floor; employed at the Eyre Arms
tavern, London on the drawings of London and Birmingham railway,
made the Roade and Kilsby section; assistant to I. K. Brunel 2
years; manager for Alexander, Gordon and Co. in construction of
beacons and lighthouses; again connected with R. Stephenson in
examining wells in Liverpool and on works in Egypt; engineer of
Western railway of Switzerland 1852; remodelled bridge over the
Wear, Sunderland 1872; delivered a series of lectures at Chatham
military school on practical engineering; M.I.C.E. 14 April
1840, Telford medal and premium 1864. _d._ 39 Stockwell park
road, Surrey 11 Dec. 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xcvi_ 330–3 (1889).

PHIPPS, PAUL (3 son of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton house,
Wiltshire). _b._ 18 Jany. 1789; cornet 1 dragoons 9 June 1804,
major 19 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 27 Oct. 1829; served in the
Peninsular war and at Waterloo; brevet lieut. col. 27 Oct. 1829;
lieut. col. 3 dragoon guards 15 Sept. 1838, but sold out same
day; K.H. 1836. _d._ Berrywood, Hampshire 22 Nov. 1858.

PHIPPS, PICKERING (son of Edward Phipps, brewer, _d._ 1830).
_b._ Bridge st. Northampton 14 March 1827; apprentice to a
draper; senior partner in P. and R. Phipps, brewers, Northampton
and Towcester, afterwards formed into a limited liability co.;
member of Northampton town council 1834; mayor of Northampton
1858 and 1866; chairman of Northampton school board; M.P.
Northampton 7 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Northampton
5 April 1880; M.P. Northamptonshire South 15 Feb. 1881 to 18
Nov. 1885; contested Northamptonshire, Midland division 2
Dec. 1885; purchased the Horton estate for £49,000 in 1887;
president of the Farmers’ alliance. _d._ Collingtree Grange,
Northamptonshire 14 Sept. 1890. _bur._ Collingtree 17 Sept.
_I.L.N. 27 Sept 1890 p._ 390 _portrait_; _Northampton Mercury 19
Sept. 1890 p._ 6.

NOTE.--A church erected by his family at cost of £40,000 in Kingsley park, Northampton, was dedicated by the bishop of Peterborough as a memorial to him 21 Sept. 1893.

PHIPSON, THOMAS WEATHERLEY. _b._ 1807; practised as special
pleader; barrister L.I. 10 June 1845, bencher 1862 to death;
went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862. _d._ Southampton 15 Jany.
1875. _Solicitors’ Journal xix_ 239 (1875).

PHIPSON, WILSON WEATHERLEY (3 son of Samuel Ryland Phipson
of the Cedars, Putney). _b._ Ladywood, near Birmingham 31
Aug. 1838; educ. Brussels 1847, and at Ecole des Ponts et
chaussées, Paris 1857; assisted Van Hecke of Brussels to warm
and ventilate the hospitals Neckar and Beaujon, Paris; an
engineer London 1859, warmed and ventilated baron Rothschild’s
residence Piccadilly and his offices in St. Swithin’s lane, the
Albert hall, the Natural history museum, Exeter hall, Criterion
theatre, etc.; ventilated Birmingham town hall 1891; A.I.C.E.
12 Jany. 1869, M.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1878; engineer at 14 John st.
Adelphi, resided at Long Clawson, Leicester. _d._ Putney 21 Oct.
1891. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cviii_ 406–8 (1892); _W.
W. Phipson, a memoir_ (1892).

PICCOPE, GEORGE JOHN (1 son of John Piccope, P.C. of St. Paul’s,
Manchester). _b._ Manchester 1818; educ. Manchester free gr.
sch. 1831 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; Hulme exhibitioner 1841;
B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Brindle near Chorley 1849–64; C. of
Yarwell, Northants 1864 to death; he edited for the Chetham soc.
Lancashire and Cheshire wills, 3 vols. 1857–61, and transcribed
Lancashire and Cheshire wills, new series, vol. 3, 1884; for the
Record Society with J. Piccope he edited An index to the wills
and inventories at Chester, vol. 2, 1879. _d._ Yarwell 22 Feb.
1872. _Admission register_, _Manchester school iii_ 239 (1874).

PICKARD, ARTHUR FREDERICK (3 son of J. H. W. Pickard of
Southampton). _b._ 12 April 1841; lieut. R.A. 22 June 1858,
major 16 Oct. 1878 to death; served in New Zealand during wars
of 1860–1 and 1863–4, V.C. 22 Sept. 1864 for gallant conduct
during assault on Rangiriri 20 Nov. 1863 in rendering assistance
to the wounded while under fire; C.B. 15 March 1879; equerry to
prince Arthur. _d._ Cannes 1 March 1880. _bur._ Cannes 4 March.
_R. W. O’Byrne’s The Victoria Cross_ (1880) 40, 71.

PICKARD, BENJAMIN SPENCER (son of James Pickard, captain R.N.).
_b._ 1821; sub-lieutenant R.N. 3 Nov. 1837, captain 12 Dec.
1863, retired 7 March 1875; retired R.A. 2 Aug. 1879, retired
V.A. 1 July 1885; served during operations in river Plate
1845–6, and in Russian war 1854–5. _d._ 34 Blessington road,
Lee, Kent 12 Aug. 1890.

PICKERING, BASIL MONTAGU (only son of Wm. Pickering 1796–1854).
_b._ 1835; a godson of Basil Montagu the author; employed by
James Toovey the bookseller; publisher and dealer in rare books
at 196 Piccadilly, London 1858 to death; published Swinburne’s
Queen Mother and Rosamund 1860; Locker’s London lyrics 1862; J.
H. Frere’s Works 1872; Cardinal Newman’s Miscellaneous writings
1875–7; and a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Milton’s
Paradise Lost collated by B. M. Pickering 1873; author of Lord
Selborne’s letter to The Times on the Public worship regulation
bill and an answer by A Layman 1874. _d._ 196 Piccadilly, London
8 Feb. 1878. _Bookseller March 1878 p._ 210; _Athenæum i_ 221
(1878).

PICKERING, EDWARD HAYES (eld. son of Edward Rowland Pickering).
_b._ 1809; educ. Eton 1817–26, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830,
M.A. 1833, fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833; assistant master
Eton Jany. 1830 to death; was ordained in 1830; played at Lord’s
in Harrow _v._ Eton 30 July 1824, also in 1825 and 1826; an
elegant batsman; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players 1844 etc. _d._
Eton 19 May 1852. _bur._ in the school chapel. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores i_ 500 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _G.M. July
1852 pp._ 97–8.

PICKERING, EDWARD ROWLAND. _b._ 1778; solicitor in London in
partnership with George Andree 1800, practised alone 1801–11,
in partnership with George Smith 1811–32, and with George Smith
and Edward Tompson at 4 Stone buildings, Lincoln’s inn 1832 to
death; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June
1845 to death, vice-president 1845–6, president 1846–7. _d._
Clapham old town, Clapham 29 Nov. 1859.

PICKERING, GEORGE. _b._ Yorkshire 1794 or 1795; succeeded George
Cuitt junior as a drawing-master in Chester; non-resident
member of the Liverpool academy 1827, where he exhibited many
water-colour pictures; drew the landscapes that are engraved
by E. F. Finden in Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire 2 series
1829–31, and many of the landscapes engraved in Ormerod’s
History of Cheshire 1819, and in Baines’s History of the county
palatine of Lancaster 1824; an artist and teacher of drawing at
Birkenhead; exhibited 4 landscapes at Suffolk st. London 1827–8.
_d._ Grange Mount, Birkenhead 8 March 1857.

PICKERING, PERCIVAL ANDREE (2 son of Edward Rowland Pickering
1778–1859). _b._ London 1811; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A., 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833–41;
barrister I.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 1855 to death; went northern
circuit; recorder of Pontefract March 1853 to March 1865;
Q.C. July 1855; judge of Passage court at Liverpool 1867 to
death; queen’s attorney and serjeant within county palatine of
Lancaster 1868 to death; author of Remarks on a report of the
house of commons on the publication of printed papers 1838;
Remarks on treating and matters relating to the election of
members of parliament 1849; An essay of friendship 1875; he also
wrote in the Eton miscellany in 1827. _d._ suddenly while riding
in a carriage at Dover 7 Aug. 1876. _bur._ in Kensal green
cemetery. _Law Times lxi_ 301 (1876); _Solicitors’ Journal xx_
807 (1876).

PICKERING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; apprentice to John and Arthur
Arch, booksellers, Cornhill 1810–18; assistant to Longmans
Jany. to June 1818; assistant to John Cuthell 4 Middle Row,
Holborn June 1818 to 1820; bookseller 29½ Lincoln’s inn fields
1820–3; commenced publishing his Diamond classics printed by
Charles Corrall in 24 volumes 1821–31; brought out the Greek
testament 1828 and Homer’s works 1830 in diamond Greek type;
adopted the Aldine emblem with the motto Aldi discip Anglus
about 1830, removed to 57 Chancery Lane 1823; brought out
reprints of English poets; published Basil Montagu’s Bacon,
Nicolas’s Walton and the Bridgewater Treatises; had books bound
in red cloth in place of red paper boards which revolutionised
bookbinding about 1825; publisher at 177 Piccadilly 1842 to
death; published books for S. T. Coleridge, Alexander Dyce,
Joseph Hunter, J. M. Kemble, and sir Harris Nicolas; issued
reprints of the various versions of the Prayer book between 1549
and 1662 in 6 vols. 1844, which are remarkably fine specimens
of typography; published Catalogue of biblical, classical, and
historical manuscripts and of rare and curious books 1834; the
Aldine edition of the English poets in 53 vols. 1835–53, and
Christian classics 12 vols. 1849; became involved in debt. _d._
5 Wellington place, Turnham Green, Middlesex 27 April 1854,
left his family destitute. _Cowtan’s_ _Memories of the British
museum_ (1872) 325–6; _Willis’s Current notes_ (1855) 43; _N.
and Q. 2 Feb. 1895 p._ 83.

PICKERING, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816,
colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired
full pay as M.G. _d._ Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863.

PICKERSGILL, _Henry Hall_ (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1812;
studied abroad some years; a painter in London, afterwards in
the north of England; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 8 at
B.I. 1834–62; his picture The right of sanctuary is in the South
Kensington museum. _d._ 20 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London
7 Jany. 1861.

PICKERSGILL, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Dec. 1782; adopted
by Mr. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who placed
him in his own business 1799; pupil of George Arnald, A.R.A.
1802–5; a student in the R.A. 1805, A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1826,
retired R.A. 1873, librarian 1856 to death; exhibited 384
pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1806–72; many of his portraits
and subject-pictures were engraved; painted portraits of nearly
all the most celebrated people of his time; his portraits of
Bentham, Godwin, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, George Stephenson,
sir Thomas Talfourd, and Wordsworth are in the National portrait
gallery. _d._ Barnes, Surrey 21 April 1875. _J. Sherer’s Gallery
of British artists ii_ 42–44 (1880); _Sandby’s History of Royal
Academy ii_ 47 (1862); _I.L.N. lxvi_ 456, 547 (1875) _portrait_;
_Graphic xi_, 436, 450 (1875) _portrait_.

PICKERSGILL, JEANNETTE CAROLINE. _b._ 1814; _m._ H. H.
Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in
literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation
society. _d._ 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20
March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first
person cremated there 26 March 1885. _Transactions of Cremation
soc._ (1885) 49; _Times 27 March 1885 p._ 10.

PICKFORD, THOMAS. _b._ 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13;
attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the
Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5
July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy
30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832;
consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a
Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath
in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn]
2 vols. 1864. _d._ Paris 24 June 1865. _Times 24 June 1865 p._
9, _26 June p._ 6; _Foreign office list_, _second ed. 1865 p._
168.

PICKNELL, GEORGE. _b._ Green farm, Chalvington, 13 miles from
Brighton 29 Nov. 1813; a farmer at Chalvington; played in Sussex
_v._ Nottingham 1835; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._
Sussex 19 June 1837; for 20 years a member of the Sussex eleven;
a hard hitter, playing back, bowled fast and ripping, raising
his hand to near his ear; in 2 matches in July 1850 carried
out his bat in all four innings, in the last innings went in
first and saw his whole side out; a match the United _v._ the
Gentlemen of Sussex was played for his benefit 21 Aug. 1856.
_d._ Chalvington 26 Feb. 1863. _W. Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 64;
_Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862).

PICKNELL, ROBERT. _b._ Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the
Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Sussex
19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb
hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852.
_d._ Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Chalvington. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862).

PICTON, SIR JAMES ALLANSON (son of Wm. Pickton, timber
merchant). _b._ Highfield st. Liverpool 2 Dec. 1805; employed
by Daniel Stewart architect and surveyor 1826, a partner
1830, succeeded him 1 Jany. 1835, retired 1866; executed some
important buildings in and near Liverpool; a leading authority
on land arbitration; a local preacher among the Wesleyans to
1848; member of Liverpool town council 1849 to death; member of
Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 Jany. 1849; obtained
a public library for Liverpool 1852, the first chairman of
the library and museum committee 1851 to death, the Picton
reading room was started by the corporation 1879; a member of
the Wavertree local board 1851, chairman of the board 1852;
originated the YZ club at Liverpool 12 members only 1870;
kept his golden wedding 28 April 1878; knighted at Osborne 18
Aug. 1881; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; edited The Watchman’s Lantern,
intended to throw light on the proceedings of the Wesleyan
Methodist conference 17 Dec. 1834 to 18 Nov. 1835, twenty eight
numbers; Selections from the Liverpool municipal archives and
records, 2 vols. 1883–6; author of The architectural history
of Liverpool 1858; Baronies of Forth and Bargey, Wexford, the
antique dialect of the district 1866; Memorials of Liverpool,
2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1875; and of about 60 papers in the
transactions of learned societies. _d._ Sandyknowe, Wavertree,
near Liverpool 15 July 1889. _bur._ Toxteth park cemet., bust
by McBride in Liverpool free library. _Sir J. A. Picton by J.
A. Picton, M.P._ (1891) 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq.
xiii_ 137 (1889–91); _Biograph Oct. 1880 pp._ 380–5.

PIDDING, HENRY JAMES (son of Mr. Pidding of 1 Cornhill, London,
stationer and lottery-office keeper). _b._ London 1797; painted
humorous subjects from domestic life; exhibited 21 pictures at
R.A., 42 at B.I., and 177 at Suffolk street 1818–64; member of
Society of British artists 1843; painted a large picture of
The gaming rooms at Homburg 1860; some of his pictures were
engraved, several of them by himself in mezzotint; etched a
series of six illustrations to The rival demons, an anonymous
poem 1836. _d._ Greenwich 13 June 1864.

PIDDINGTON, HENRY (2 son of James Piddington of Uckfield). _b._
1797; commanded a ship in the mercantile marine; curator of the
museum of economic geology in Calcutta about 1830; sub-secretary
of the Asiatic soc. of Bengal about 1830; president of marine
court of inquiry at Calcutta about 1845; coroner of Calcutta
about 1849 to death; author of The horn-book of storms for the
Indian and China seas 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The sailor’s horn-book
for the law of storms 1848, 6 ed. 1876, in which he proposed the
word cyclone as a name for whirling storms which was accepted
by meteorologists; Conversations about hurricanes for the use
of plain sailors 1852. _d._ Calcutta 7 April 1858. _Journal of
Asiatic society of Bengal_ (1839) 559, (1859) 64.

PIDGEON, HENRY CLARKE. _b._ March 1807; an artist and teacher
of drawing in London to 1847, and 1851 to death, also at
Liverpool 1847–51; professor of school of drawing at the
Liverpool institute a short time; member of Liverpool academy
1847, non-resident member 1850–65, secretary 1850; exhibited
4 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., 15 at Suffolk st. 1838–53, and
about 50 at Liverpool academy; founded with Joseph Mayer and
Abraham Hume the Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire
1848, an honorary member 7 May 1851, joint secretary with Hume
till Jany. 1851, contributed many lithographs and etchings to
the society’s publications; associate of Institute of painters
in water-colours 1846, member 1861; president of the Sketching
club, _d._ 39 Fitroy road, Regent’s park, London 6 Aug. 1880.
_Journal of British archæol. assoc. xxxvi_ 355 (1880).

PIERCE OR PEIRCE, EARL HORTON. _b._ New York 1823; appeared with
Raymond’s circus at Philadelphia; joined Dan Emmet’s minstrel
party at Franklin theatre, New York 1842; joined E. P. Christy’s
minstrels; came to England in 1856; member of the Christy
minstrels St. James’s hall, London, where he became well known
by singing a song entitled Hoop de-dooden-do. _d._ suddenly in
the Holloway road, London from effusion of serum on the brain 5
June 1859, inquest 7 June.

PIERCE, EVAN. _b._ 1808; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1836; L.S.A. London
1836; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews
1844; mayor of Denbigh; coroner for county of Denbigh about 1831
to death; during the cholera in 1832 he was most active in his
exertions; a column with a statue raised in his honor at Denbigh
23 Nov. 1876. _d._ Salusbury place, Denbigh 15 March 1895. _Y
Darlunydd, Carnarvon Dec. 1876 pp._ 1–2 _portrait and view of
column_; _Lancet 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 821.

PIERCE, JAMES HART, stage name of James Hart Glen. _b._ Leith,
near Edinburgh 1856; a clerk; a gymnast, had a serious fall at
South of England music hall, Portsmouth; partner with. Mike
Mac as a gymnastic clown and pantomimist; music hall comedian;
partner with George Monaghan to 1889; went to South Africa with
Luscombe Searelle’s No. 6 company 1893; _m._ 1892 as his 2 wife
Fanny Robina, widow of Frederick Stanislaus, musical composer.
_d._ Walcot sq. Kennington, Surrey 5 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Tooting
cemetery 10 Jany.

PIERCY, BENJAMIN (3 son of Robert Piercy, surveyor). _b._
Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire 16 March 1827; in his father’s
office to 1847; chief assistant to Charles Mickleburgh,
surveyor, Montgomery 1847–51; with Henry Robert made survey for
Shrewsbury and Chester railway 1851; engineer of Red Valley
railway bill 1852; engaged on the Cambrian system and on most
of the railway schemes in Wales; made the railway bridge at
Barmouth and the bridge near Portmadoc; engaged in surveying and
making 300 miles of railways in Sardinia 1862–81, and a harbour
at the Golfo de Aranci; a commendatore of the Crown of Italy
1881; acquired large estates in Sardinia and bred cattle, horses
and sheep; a great friend of Garibaldi; made railway lines in
Italy, France and India; purchased Marchwiel hall and estate
near Wrexham 1881, where he had a cricket ground; M.I.C.E. 8
Jany. 1860; a candidate for Peterborough 1883. _d._ 15 Portman
square, London 24 March 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xcvi_ 333–9 (1889).

PIERREPONT, HENRY MANVERS (3 son of Charles Pierrepont, 1
earl Manvers 1737–1816). _b._ 18 March 1780; educ. Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1800, D.C.L. 1834; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Sweden 20 April 1804 to 19 Jany. 1807; P.C.
20 May 1807; member of the Dandy club of which he was the last
survivor. _d._ Thoresby park, Ollerton, Notts. 10 Nov. 1851.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 184 (1852).

PIERSON, HENRY HUGH (son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of
Salisbury). _b._ Oxford 14 April 1815; educ. Harrow 1829, and
Trin. coll. Camb.; studied music in Germany from 1839; Reid
professor of music in univ. of Edinb. 1 June 1844, but never
officiated as professor; resided in Germany 1844 to death; wrote
music under pseudonym of Edgar Mannsfeldt-Pierson; produced
an opera The elves and the earth king at Brunn, and another
opera Leila at Hamburg 1848; his oratorio Jerusalem, produced
at the Norwich festival 1852, was performed by the Harmonic
union at Exeter hall 18 May 1853 and at Wurzburg 1862; composed
incidental music to the second part of Goethe’s Faust produced
at Stadt-theater, Hamburg 1854, printed at Mayence 1856, for
which Leopold I of Belgium gave him the gold medal for art
and science; his unfinished oratorio Hezekiah was performed
at Norwich festival 1869; his opera Contarini in five acts
was produced at Hamburg April 1872; three of his orchestral
overtures Macbeth 1860, Romeo and Juliet 1870, and As you like
it, have been given at Crystal palace concerts; wrote All my
heart’s thine own, song 1844; Salve eternum, a Roman dirge 1853;
The office for holy communion 1870; Thirty hymn tunes 1870,
Second series 1872; Ye mariners of England, a part song 1880;
Hurrah for merry England 1885. _d._ Leipzig 28 Jany. 1873.
bur. Sonning, Berkshire 6 Feb. _Robin Legge’s History of the
Norwich festivals_, _with portrait_; _H. H. Pearson’s Collected
songs_, _Leipzig with portrait_; _Graphic vii_ 215, 220 (1873)
_portrait_; _Grove’s Dictionary of music ii_ 752 (1880).

PIERSON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1782; entered navy
27 May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he
was wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by
marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland, on the occasion of
his visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836;
captain 28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. 1857. _d._
Langstone, near Havant 25 March 1858. _G.M. May 1858 p._ 553.

PIERSON, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Charles Pierson of
Cheltenham). _b._ Havre, France 23 Nov. 1839; educ. Cheltenham
college 1853–6, head of the college; won the British
Association’s gold medal 1856; gained the Pollock medal Dec.
1858, and six prizes at Addiscombe college 1858; a performer on
the piano, cornet and concertina; a chess player; an actor, and
a Sanscrit scholar; lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec, 1858, major
25 Nov. 1880 to death; designed and constructed the new palace
of the British legation at Teheran; director of the Persian
telegraph Oct. 1871 to Oct. 1873; secretary to the Indian
defence committee July 1877; military secretary to lord Ripon,
governor general of India, Sept. 1880; commanding engineer of
the field force proceeding against the Mahsoud Waziri tribe
March 1881. _d._ at Bunnoo 2 June 1881, marble tablet with
medallion relief of his head in Cheltenham college chapel. _H.
M. Vibart’s Addiscombe_ (1894) 185, 643–6, 726.

PIESSE, GEORGE WILLIAM SEPTIMUS (7 child of Charles A. J.
Piesse, chief clerk in war office). _b._ 30 May 1820; a
practical optician; studied chemistry under professor Graham
at University college, London; an analytical chemist; in the
employment of J. and E. Atkinson, perfumers, and then with
Francis Henry Breidenbach; in partnership with Wilhelm Lubin,
as perfumers at 2 New Bond st. London with large cellars under
the street 1855, flower farmers near Nice, lavender gardeners
at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in the London docks where
the perfumed spirits for exportation were made; introduced
frangipani, kiss-me-quick, the trump card, and other mixed
perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of ribbon of
Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early associate of
Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful
column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium
a true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of
obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical,
natural and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical
wonders 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of
obtaining the odours of plants 1865. _d._ Hughendon house,
Grove park, Chiswick 23 Oct. 1882. _G. L. M. Strauss’ England’s
Workshops_ (1864) 170–8; _Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p._
496 _portrait_; _Journal of Chemical Soc. xliii_ 255 (1883).

PIGEON, RICHARD HOTHAM. _b._ 22 May 1789; educ. Dr. Willett’s
academy Brixton; apprentice to Fynmore and Palmer, wholesale
druggists 31 Throgmorton st. London 1805, became a partner
1812; a member of the Wholesale druggists’ club; treasurer
of Pharmaceutical soc. from its commencement 1841 to 1850;
treasurer of Christ’s hospital 1835 when he made great
improvements in the administration, his portrait by J. P.
Knight, R.A. presented to the hospital in 1845. _d._ London 10
June 1851. _Pharmaceutical Journal xi_ 46–7 (1852); _J. Bell and
T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 212.

PIGOT, DAVID RICHARD (eld. son of David Pigot, M.D. of Kilworth,
co. Cork, physician). _b._ 1796; educ. Fermoy and Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1870; in the office
of a conveyancer 1819–26; called to Irish bar 1826; K.C. 1835;
bencher of King’s Inns 1839; solicitor general for Ireland 11
Feb. 1839, attorney general 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sept. 1841; M.P.
Clonmel 1839–46; P.C. Ireland 1840; one of the visitors of
Maynooth college 1845; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 1
Sept. 1846 to death; a violin player. _d._ 8 Merrion sq. Dublin
22 Dec. 1873. _bur._ Kilworth. _J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_
(1879) 383–5; _Dublin univ. mag. Feb. 1874 pp._ 176–9 _portrait_.

PIGOTT, EDWARD FREDERICK SMYTH (3 son of John Hugh Smyth Pigott
of Brockley hall, Somerset). _b._ Somerset 1824; educ. Eton and
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1850; lived for sometime
in France; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; took an active part in
The Leader, No. 1 March 30 1850, which as The Saturday analyst
and leader came to an end 24 Nov. 1860, acted as G. H. Lewes’s
deputy in dealing with theatrical and musical matters in The
Leader and writing under pseudonym of Le Chat Huant from 19 July
1851; a member of the staff of the Daily News; examiner of plays
in lord chamberlain’s department 25 Aug. 1874 to death; wrote
for the Saturday review. _d._ 150 Oxford st. London 23 Feb.
1895, cremated at Woking 27 Feb. _Vanity Fair 11 Jany. 1890 p._
33 _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review Feb. 1896 p._ 222.