Chapter LXX: Part 70

PIGOT, ELIZABETH BRIDGET (dau. of J. Pigot, M.D. of Derby). _b._
probably in Derbyshire 1783; lived at Southwell, Northampton
nearly all her life, where she made the acquaintance of lord
Byron about 1803; corresponded with him 1804–11; Byron addressed
to her his poem beginning ‘Eliza what fools are the Mussulman
sect’ 1806; much of her correspondence with Byron is printed in
T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 32, 52–8, 731; a manuscript
parody by her entitled ‘The wonderful history of Lord Byron and
his dog Bosen’ was sold by a London bookseller to professor
Kolbing of Breslau 1892. _d._ Easthorpe, Southwell 11 Dec. 1866.
_Poetical works of lord Byron_ (1859) 400; _Russell’s Memoirs of
T. Moore v_ 249 (1854).

PIGOTT, FRANCIS (1 son of Paynton Pigott, who in 1835 took
the name of Stainsby Conant 1780–1862). _b._ Trunkwell house,
Berkshire 1809; educ. Eton, matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf.
7 March 1826; lieut. Hants yeomanry cavalry 31 Dec. 1838,
resigned 5 July 1861; contested Winchester 29 June 1841; M.P.
Reading 1847–60; lieut. governor of Isle of Man Oct. 1860 to
death, entered Douglas 14 Feb. 1861. _d._ Heckfield Heath, near
Winchester 21 Jany. 1863. _Illustrated Times 23 Feb. 1861 p._
111, _view of his reception at Douglas_.

PIGOTT, GEORGE GRANADO GRAHAM FOSTER (1 son of the rev. George
G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). _b._ Abington Pigotts,
Cambs. 16 May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge
militia 1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of
Sebastopol, served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made
meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865.
_d._ Abington 14 May 1878. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix_ 237
(1879).

PIGOTT, SIR GILLERY (4 son of Paynton Pigott, who _d._ Sept.
1862). _b._ Oxford 1813; barrister M.T. 3 May 1839, went
Oxford circuit; counsel to Ireland revenue department May
1854; serjeant-at-law Feb. or March 1856; received a patent of
precedence 1857; M.P. Reading Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1863; recorder
of Hereford Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; baron of court of exchequer
2 Oct. 1863 to death; knighted by patent 1 Nov. 1863; author
with B. B. Hunter Rodwell of Reports of cases in the court of
common pleas, on appeal from the decisions of the revising
barristers 1844–6. _d._ Sherfield Hill house, Basingstoke 28
April 1875. _I.L.N. 31 Oct. 1863 p._ 433 _portrait and lxvi_
451, 571 (1875); _Graphic xi_ 483, 486, 492 (1875) _portrait_.

PIGOTT, HENRY DE RENZY (2 son of Henry Pigott of Eagle hill, co.
Galway). _b._ 18 May 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844;
ensign 83 foot 23 July 1845, major 19 Dec. 1862; major 19 foot
30 June 1863, lieut. col. 25 Aug. 1871; lieut. col. 70 foot 14
Aug. 1872, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Indian
mutiny and in the Afghan war of 1878; brevet colonel 25 Aug.
1876; commanded the regimental district of Warrington 1 April
1881 to 8 Feb. 1882, when he retired with honorary rank of M.G.
_d._ Elkhorn, Manitoba 14 Nov. 1889.

PIGOT, SIR HUGH. Entered navy 1 May 1788; captain 8 May 1804;
took possession of the island of Mariegalante 2 March 1808;
commanded the squadron off Guadaloupe 1809, employed on the
American station; commander-in-chief on Cork station 16 May 1844
to 1 July 1847; admiral 4 July 1853; C.B. 26 Sept. 1841, K.C.B.
10 July 1847; K.C.H. 18 June 1832. _d._ 96 Ebury street, London
29 July 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 905–6.

PIGOT, HUGH (2 son of Creswell Pigot of Drayton, Salop). _b._
1820. educ. Brasn. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of
Hadleigh, Suffolk 1843–63; V. of Wisbeck St. Mary 1863–9; R.
of Stretham, Cambs. 1869 to death; author of The blessed life,
a course of sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Hadleigh, the town, the
church, and the great men born in or connected with the parish
1860, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 22 Sept. 1884.

PIGOT, RICHARD. _b._ 1774; captain of a new independent company
of foot 21 Dec. 1793; captain 58 foot 21 April 1795; captain 14
dragoons 13 Sept. 1798, major 4 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 21 light
dragoons 1 May 1806 to 30 July 1820, when placed on h.p.; col. 4
dragoon guards 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. _d._
Chievely, near Newbury, Berks. 21 Nov. 1868.

PIGOTT, RICHARD (son of George Pigott, clerk to Peter Purcell,
coach proprietor, Dublin). _b._ county Meath about 1828; clerk
in office of The Ulsterman newspaper, Belfast, edited by Denis
Holland, who transferred the paper to Dublin July 1858 and
changed its name to The Irishman, manager of the paper and
practically controlled it, in June 1865 the proprietor Patrick
James Smith gave the paper to Pigott; started a weekly magazine
entitled The Shamrock 1866, and another entitled The flag of
Ireland; condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for publishing
seditious matter 1867, and imprisoned for six months for
contempt of court 1871; contested Limerick as a Fenian 20
Nov. 1868; sold his three publications to the Irish national
newspaper and publishing company 1879; author of Personal
recollections of an Irish national journalist 1882, 2 ed. 1883;
sold to the Irish loyal and patriotic union in 1886 papers
accusing Parnell of complicity in the murders of the Land
league, The Times purchased these papers and published a series
of articles on Parnellism and crime 1887, including a letter
signed by Parnell condoning the Phœnix Park murders of 18 April
1887, a commission of three judges sat July 1888 onward to
inquire into the allegations made by The Times against Parnell;
Pigott was examined as a witness 21 and 22 Feb. 1889, confessed
to Henry Labouchere, M.P. that he had forged the papers 23 Feb.,
fled from England same day, _shot himself dead_ in the Hotel de
los Embajadores, Madrid 12 March 1889. _Report of trial of A. M.
Sullivan and R. Pigott_ (1868); _James O’Connor’s Recollections
of R. Pigott_ (1889); _J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections
ii_ 198–9 (1892); _Vanity Fair 9 March 1889 p._ 177 _portrait_.

PIGOT, SIR ROBERT, 4 Baronet (2 son of general sir George Pigot,
bart. 1766–1841). _b._ Patshull, co. Stafford 1801; succeeded 24
June 1841; M.P. Bridgnorth 1832 to 1837 and 1838 to 1 July 1852;
M.P. Bridgnorth 8 July 1852 to March 1853 when unseated for
bribery; contested Bridgnorth 26 July 1837; owner of racehorses,
Conyngham won the 2,000 guineas 1847 and the Royal hunt cup.
_d._ Hillside, Bracknell 1 June 1891.

PIKE, JOHN DEODATUS GREGORY (eld. son of John Baxter Pike,
schoolmaster 1745–1811). _b._ Edmonton 6 April 1784; educ.
Wymondley college Herts. 1802–6; became a particular baptist
Aug. 1804; classical assistant in the school of his uncles G.
and R. Gregory at Lower Edmonton 1806–9; pastor of the baptist
church Brook st. Derby 1810, a new chapel was opened for him
1815, enlarged 1819, and rebuilt on a new site 1842, pastor to
his death; kept a boarding school at Derby about 1810–8; the
first secretary of the General Baptist missionary society June
1816; trained young missionaries in his family; edited The
general baptist repository and missionary observer Jany. 1822
to death; author of A catechism of scriptural instruction for
young persons 1816; The consolations of gospel truth 1817, 2
ed. Derby 1818, vol. ii Derby 1820; Persuasives to early piety,
7 ed. 1865; Swedenborgianism depicted 1820; A guide for young
disciples of the Holy Saviour 1823, 2 ed. 1880; Religion and
eternal life 1834; Christian liberality in the distribution of
property 1836. _d._ Derby 4 Sept. 1854. _A memoir of J. D. G.
Pike_, _edited by his sons_ (1855) _portrait_; _Amos Sutton’s
Mission to Orissa_ (1833) _vii and_ 1–10; _Repository and
missionary observer_ (1854) 463–8; _The works of J. G. Pike_
(1862–3), _memoir pp._ 11–24.

PIKE, WARBURTON (youngest son of Wm. Pike of Bucknowle, Church
Knowle, Dorset). _b._ Bucknowle 1818; educ. Univ. coll.
London; student of Middle Temple 7 June 1837; certificated
special pleader 1840 to death; published Translations from
Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo, and Vittoria Colonna 1879; A
translation of Dante’s Divine comedy, Inferno 1881. _d._ the
Grove, Highgate 29 Jany. 1882. _bur._ at Church Knowle.

PILCH, FULLER (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). _b._ Horningtoft,
near Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played
his first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club
24 July 1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30;
played for England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he
made the highest score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand
bowling; resided at Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket
Thomas Marsden the Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833
and again at Sheffield before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one
of the Kent eleven with salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member
of Clarke’s All England eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in
England 1825–50; landlord of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent
1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept a shop for sale of cricket
implements at Canterbury 1842 to death; landlord of Saracen’s
head inn Canterbury 1860. _d._ Canterbury 1 May 1870. _bur._
St. Gregory’s churchyard. _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_ 270–9 (1875);
_Denison’s Sketches of the players_ (1846) 64–9; _Pycroft’s
Cricket field_, _3 ed._ (1859) 135 _portrait_; _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores i_ 434 (1862), _v page xiii_ (1876); _F. Gale’s
Game of cricket_ (1887) 11–26; _Illust. London life 16 July
1843 p._ 236 _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 24
_portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 26 _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iii_ 45 (1843) _portrait_.

PILCH, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Horningtoft,
Norfolk 4 Nov. 1794; a tailor and bat maker; first match at
Lord’s, Marylebone v. Norfolk 24 July 1820; a slow bowler with
a delivery between underhand and round; resided successively at
Holt in Norfolk, London, and Norwich; went to King’s Lynn in
1860. _d._ Sheffield 4 Sept. 1866. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores
i_ 434 (1862).

PILCHER, GEORGE (son of Jeremiah Pilcher of Winkfield,
Berkshire). _b._ 30 April 1801; M.R.C.S. 2 April 1824, hon.
F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1849 to death; surgeon in
Dean st. Soho, London 1824; lecturer on anatomy, physiology,
and surgery at the Webb st. school of medicine Snow’s Fields,
Bermondsey; consulting surgeon to the Surrey dispensary many
years; president of Medical society of London 1842, received the
Fothergill gold medal; lecturer upon surgery at St. George’s
hospital 6 July 1843; one of the best aural surgeons in England;
author of Essay on the physiology of the excito-motory system
1835; A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the
ear 1838, 2 ed. 1842; On some points in the physiology of the
tympanum 1854. _d._ 2 Harley st. London 7 Nov. 1855. _bur._
Kensal Green cemet. 14 Nov. _G.M. Jany. 1856 p._ 92; _Medical
times and gazette ii_ 510 (1855).

PILCHER, JOHN MONTRESOR. Second lieut. R.M. 15 Jany. 1801,
lieut. col. 11 May 1841, col. commandant 3 Nov. 1851 to 9 June
1854, when placed on retired full pay; hon. M.G. 20 June 1855.
_d._ at his residence near Worcester 18 Nov. 1873.

PILGRIM, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; associated with Francis Petit
Smith and the introduction of the screw propeller 1836 to
death; engineer of the Archimedes, the first ship ever sent to
sea propelled by the screw 1838. _d._ at his son’s residence
Plumstead, Kent 6 Oct. 1871. _The Times 11 Oct. 1871 p._ 7.

PILKINGTON, SIR ANDREW. _b._ about 1767; ensign Elford’s corps
7 March 1783, placed on h.p. 1783; lieut. independent company
24 Jany. 1791, placed on h.p.; lieut. 2 foot 19 Feb. 1793,
captain 2 March 1795; lieut. 3 foot guards 11 Jany. 1800, placed
on h.p. 1802; captain 48 foot 9 July 1803; commanded the light
company on board Royal George in lord Howe’s action 1 June 1794;
employed in the West Indies, present at capture of Trinidad
1795–7; served in suppression of the Irish rebellion 1798;
served in the expeditions to the Helder 1799 and 1805; assistant
A.G. at the horse guards 1807–8, and D.A.G. in Nova Scotia
1809–15; col. of 82 foot 10 May 1841 and of 20 foot 25 Nov. 1850
to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 23 Nov.
1841; purchased Catsfield place, Battle, Sussex, from James
Eversfield. _d._ Catsfield place 23 Feb. 1853. _Royal military
calendar iv_ 261 (1820); _G.M. xxxix_ 436 (1850).

PILKINGTON, LIONEL SCOTT (only son of Redmond Wm. Pilkington,
architect, London 1789–1844). _b._ Kensington, London 5 May
1831; educ. Rugby 1844; resided at Hatfield, Ash Hill, near
Doncaster 1844 to death; served sir Joseph Henry Hawley as groom
1851, and was known as Jack Hawley for the rest of his life;
clever in disguising himself; served as a sailor, as a butcher,
and as a groom to several trainers; a Roman catholic, went
to Rome and presented 2 horses to the Pope and received from
him a cross; always dressed himself as a groom and refused to
associate in any good society, although he owned much property.
_d._ Hatfield 25 Dec. 1875. _bur._ in his hunting costume in his
paddock in the midst of the graves of his horses and cattle,
left his Hatfield property to his groom John Harris, and his
London property to Wiggins, the son of an old servant. _Life and
eccentricities of Lionel Scott Pilkington alias Jack Hawley_
(1876) _portrait_; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_ 126–8 (1882).

PILLANS, JAMES (son of James Pillans, printer). _b._ Edinburgh
April 1778; educ. Edinb. high school and univ., M.A. 30 Jany.
1801, LL.D. 22 April 1863; a private tutor at Eton college;
rector of the high school Edinb. Jany. 1810 to Aug. 1820;
introduced a monitorial system and attracted pupils from all
parts of the world; professor of humanity and laws in univ.
of Edinb. 17 Aug. 1820, resigned 11 April 1863; made tours to
inspect the educational systems of France, Ireland, Prussia,
and Switzerland; gave evidence before the committee of house
of commons on education 1834; an early advocate for compulsory
education; edited Eclogæ Ciceronianæ 1845; Excerpta ex Taciti
annalibus 1848; The five latter books of the first decade of
Livy 1849; author of Outlines of geography, principally ancient,
Edinb. 1847; First steps in the physical and classical geography
of the ancient world, Edinb. 1853, 13 ed. 1882; Elements of
physical and classical geography 1854; Contributions to the
cause of education 1856; Educational papers, Edinb. 1862. _d._
41 Inverleith row, Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _bur._ in graveyard
of St. Cuthbert’s church, Edinb. 1 April. _Memoir of James
Pillans By an old student_ (1869); _Grant’s Story of the univ.
of Edinb. ii_ 80, 84, 320–2 (1884); _Proc. of Royal soc. of
Edinb. v_ 303 (1866).

PILLING, RICHARD. _b._ Bedford 5 July 1855; played in a match
Sussex _v._ Lancashire at Old Trafford 1877; wicket keeper for
Lancashire 1877–89; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players at Lord’s
1879, and in Lancashire _v._ Surrey at Liverpool 1885; had a
benefit under the Lancashire cricket club auspices which gave
him £1,700, 1889; went to Australia with Shaw and Shrewsbury’s
first combination 1881–82, when he had a sun stroke from which
he never quite recovered, went to Australia with the fourth
combination 1887–88; caught cold in a football match 1890; the
Lancashire club sent him to Australia for his health 1890;
with the exception of Blackham the best wicket keeper of his
day. _d._ at his house in Manchester 28 March 1891. _Wisden’s
Cricketers’ almanack_ (1891) _p. xxxiii portrait_, (1892) _p.
xxxii_; _Times 30 March 1891 p._ 7; _Graphic 4 April 1891 p._
386 _portrait_.

PIM, BEDFORD CLAPPERTON TREVELYAN (only son of Edward Bedford
Pim, lieut. R.N., _d._ 1830). _b._ Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826;
entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald
1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in
the western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21
April 1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6,
and the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon
1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route across
the Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now
known as Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861;
captain 16 April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5
July 1885; made three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his
traffic transit scheme March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the
Nicaraguan railway company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was
dissolved July 1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister
G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went the western circuit; contested Totnes
12 July 1865; contested Gravesend 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Gravesend
1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of
Anthropological institute 1871 to death, member of council
1871–4; author of An earnest appeal on behalf of the missing
Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857; The gate of the Pacific
1863; An essay on feudal tenures 1871; War chronicle, with
memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king William I 1873;
The Eastern question, past, present and future 1877; Gems from
Greenwich hospital 1881; author with Beethold Seeman of Dottings
on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito 1869. _d._
Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial brass tablet and window at west
end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii_ 448–54 (1887).

PIM, JONATHAN (son of Thomas Pim, merchant, Dublin). _b._ 1806;
partner in firm of Pim Brothers & Co. poplin manufacturers,
cotton spinners, linen weavers, and flour millers 22 William
st. Dublin; M.P. Dublin city 17 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874;
contested Dublin 7 Feb. 1874; author of The condition and
prospects of Ireland 1848; Ireland and the imperial parliament
1871. _d._ Greenbank, Monkstown, co. Dublin 6 July 1885.

PIM, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim
Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and
of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market,
Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of
Royal yacht club. _d._ Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.

PINCHIN, ROBERT. _b._ 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph
Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa
1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death;
partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H.
L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by
private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L.
Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ Port
Elizabeth 9 May 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv_ 388
(1889).

PINCKARD, GEORGE HENRY (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court
Barton, Devon, _d._ 1839). _b._ Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary
and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance
co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court,
Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous
as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at
Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church
restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. _d._ Combe court 23
July 1892. _The Times 26 July 1892 p._ 9.

PINCKNEY, FREDERICK GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 73 foot 8 April
1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858.
_d._ off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.

PINCOFFS, PETER. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840,
where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841;
in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond.
1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female
penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari
1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord
Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec.
1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction
of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences
of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. _d._ Munich 17
July 1872. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 165–6 (1872).

PINDER, FRANCIS FORD (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa,
Bath). _b._ 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857,
went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of
inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the
principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth
ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. _d._ 129 Mount st.
Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.

PINDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut.
col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. _d._ Clifton 14 Jany.
1881.

PINDER, JOHN HOTHERSALL (son of Francis Ford Pinder of
Barbadoes). _b._ 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington
college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological
college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to
death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to
death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2
ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures
1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the
ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. _d._
West Malvern 16 April 1868. _bur._ in West Malvern churchyard.
_G.M. May 1868 p._ 783.

PINE, SIR BENJAMIN CHILLEY CAMPBELL (eld. son of Benjamin
Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). _b._ 1813; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831,
barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer
1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting
governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war
in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849
to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855,
governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at
Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher,
West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor
of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the
Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31
May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G.
29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the
Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16,
and others. _d._ Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. _The Times 2
March 1891 p._ 7.

PINE, RICHARD. Employed on important missions to native kings
and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk
of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia
1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866;
registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870.
_d._ 6 Feb. 1878.

PINHEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26
Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army
15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending
surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1
May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board
1843–6. _d._ Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.

PINK, CHARLES RICHARD (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester).
_b._ Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled
to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London
1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the
Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an
associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886;
designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly
in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural
association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on
heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. _d._ Hyde, near
Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church.
_Pink memorial_ (1889) _portrait_; _Journal of proc. of royal
instit. of British architects v_ 172, 314 (1889).

PINKERTON, ALLAN. _b._ Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped
to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established
Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the
escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service
division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its
first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps
of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had
branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire
and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of
the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other
books. _d._ Chicago 1 July 1884. _Appleton’s American biography
v_ 25 (1888); _Harper’s Mag. xlvii_ 720–7 (1873).

PINKETT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of
Barnstaple). _b._ about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany.
1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the
Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T.
19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of
Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement
June 1880, administered government of the West African
settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883;
acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative
councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements
31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical
index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. _d._ Freetown,
Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. _Law Times 11 June 1887 p._ 108.

PINKS, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29
Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde,
bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in
London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries,
the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals;
a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now
the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a
History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition
appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country
trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of
Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country
trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i,
no more published. _d._ at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville
sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 19 Nov.,
memorial stone erected by subscription. _Memoirs of W. J. Pinks_
(1861); _W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell_, _2 ed._
(1881) _memoir pp. v–viii portrait_.

PINNEY, CHARLES (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed
surname of Pinney 1762). _b._ 29 April 1793; partner with E.
Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received
£3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833;
mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the
mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion
house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military
fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the
captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol
Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried
in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the
riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol
1836. _d._ Camp house, Clifton 17 July 1867. _W. C. Townsend’s
Modern state trials ii_ 273–355 (1850); _Trial of Charles
Pinney_ (1833); _Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 146–79,
188, 212; _Nicholls and Taylor’s Bristol iii_ 325–38 (1882);
_P. C. Scarlett’s Memoir of James, first lord Abinger_ (1877)
350–402.

PINNOCK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Pinnock, publisher and author
1782–1843). _b._ 1813; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1850, LL.D.
1855; admitted LL.D. at Oxford 1859; C. of Somersham, Hunts.
1846–70; English chaplain at Chantilly, France 1870–6; C. in
charge of All Saints, Dalston, London 1876–7; V. of Pinner,
Herts. 1879 to death; edited W. Pinnock’s History of England
made easy, new ed. 1847; wrote a continuation of Pinnock’s
Abridgment of Goldsmith’s History of England, 46 ed. 1858;
edited Clerical papers on church and parishioners, 6 vols.
1852–63; author of The laws and usages of the church and clergy,
the unbeneficed clerk, 2 ed. 1854; Rubrics for communicants
explanatory of the holy communion office 1863; The law of the
rubric and the transition period of the church of England 1866;
The church key, belfry key and organ key 1870; The Bible and
contemporary history: an epitome of the history of the world
from the creation to the end of the old testament, edited by E.
M. B., 2 vols. 1887. _d._ Pinner vicarage 30 Nov. 1885. _The
Times 5 Dec. 1885 p._ 9.

PINSENT, SIR ROBERT JOHN (son of Robert John Pinsent, a judge
in Newfoundland). _b._ Newfoundland 1834; called to the bar of
Newfoundland 1856; Q.C. 1865; member of legislative council
1859; acting attorney general 1869; solicitor general 1873;
judge of the supreme court 1880 to death; knighted by patent 12
June 1890; D.C.L. from the archbishop of Canterbury Feb. 1881;
author of Newfoundland, our oldest colony in Proceedings of
Royal Colonial institution 1884–85, pp. 215–72, and of articles
in magazines upon the French treaty question 1889. _d._ Bintry
rectory, Norfolk 27 April 1893.

PINSON, ALBERT. Entered Madras army 1817; lieut. 21 Madras N.I.
29 Oct. 1818; captain 46 N.I. 3 June 1826, major 31 Dec. 1844
to 20 April 1853; lieut. col. 17 N.I. 20 April 1853 to 1854, of
2 N.I. 1854–6, of 32 N.I. 1856–7, of 39 N.I. 1857–8, and of 37
N.I. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861, when he retired with rank of M.G.
_d._ 12 Nov. 1865.

PINSUTI, CIRO ERCOLE. _b._ Sinalunga, near Siena 9 May 1829;
educ. in Rome, where he gave a concert when aged 11; Henry
Drummond, M.P. brought him to London and placed him under the
tuition of Cipriani Potter at Royal academy of music; pianist;
studied at Bologna conservatoire 1845; returned to England 1848;
professor at Royal academy of music, London 1856–85; wrote 3
operas Il merccante de Venezia 1873, Mattia Corvino 1877, and
Margherita; composer of There is a reaper 1844; Excelsior,
a romance 1850; Te Deum 1860; The sea hath its pearls, part
song 1865; After the rain, two part song 1867; Tell me not in
mournful numbers 1869; Dreams only dreams, song 1873; I fear
no foe, a song 1876; Tell me where is fancy bred, a part song
1884; author of Hints to teachers on singing 1880; his name is
attached to upwards of 500 pieces of music. _d._ of cerebral
apoplexy while playing the piano at Florence 10 March 1888. _The
Times 15 March 1888 p._ 6.

PINTI, RAFFAELLE. _b._ near Rome 1826; came to London when a
young man; dealer in Italian works of art 46 Berners st. London
1860 to death; his knowledge of Italian pictures, sculptures,
etc. and his connection with Italy enabled him to bring many
important works of art to England; picture restorer. _d._ 28
Langham st. London 30 July 1881. _Academy ii_ 128 (1881); _Times
11 Aug. 1881 p._ 10, _col._ 3.

PINWELL, GEORGE JOHN. _b._ London 26 Dec. 1842; worked for
the brothers Dalziel as a designer and drawer on wood 1863;
illustrated the Sunday magazine, Good words, Once a week,
and other periodicals; associate of Society of painters in
water-colours 1869, member 1870; exhibited at Dudley gallery
1865; an honorary member of Belgian society of painters in
water-colours; his picture entitled Strolling players was
engraved by Charles Cousen for the Art Journal 1873, and The
elixir of love was etched by R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. 1885;
he illustrated H. Lushington’s The happy home 1864; R. W.
Buchanan’s Ballad stories of the affection 1866; and Jean
Ingelow’s Poems 1867. _d._ Adelaide road, Haverstock hill,
London 8 Sept. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 11 Sept. _A
catalogue of pictures by G. Mason and G. Pinwell exhibited at
Birmingham March 1895_, _with an essay by H. Quilter_ 1895;
_Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii_ 396–9
(1891); _Good words xxix_ 814 (1888); _I.L.N. 18 Sept. 1875 p._
285 _portrait_; _Graphic xii_ 328 (1875) _portrait_.

PIOZZI-SALUSBURY, SIR JOHN SALUSBURY (2 son of Giambattista
Piozzi of Brescia, Lombardy, merchant). _b._ Brescia 1793;
assumed additional surname of Salusbury 4 Dec. 1813; sheriff of
Flintshire 1816; knighted at Carlton house 21 April 1817, on
presenting an address to the Prince Regent. _d._ Cheltenham 18
Dec. 1858. _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.

PIPER, ROBERT SLOPER. _b._ 1790 or 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 10 Jany.
1809, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841, retired on full pay 2 Feb. 1848;
served six campaigns in the Peninsula, France, and Flanders
March 1810 to Jany. 1816; commanding engineer in the Kandian
provinces during insurrection of 1817–18; general 1 Jany. 1868;
he wrote A memorandum of the manner in which the repairs of the
chain pier at Brighton have been executed, in _Papers of Corps
of Royal engineers ii_ 122–7 (1844). _d._ 7 New Steine, Brighton
26 Dec. 1873.

PIPER, STEPHEN EDWARD. _b._ Ipswich 1813; educ. Univ. coll.
London; L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1853; joined the
army medical staff 1836; served against Don Carlos in Spain,
where he was shot in the chest 1836; settled at Darlington
1841; consulting surgeon Darlington hospital; president North
of England British medical association. _d._ Orwell house,
Darlington 24 Aug. 1894. _The Lancet 8 Sept. 1894 p._ 601.

PIPON, JAMES KENNARD. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 94 foot 3 Aug.
1826, captain 6 March 1835; captain 85 foot 15 July 1836, placed
on h.p. 31 March 1843; major on h.p. 8 April 1859; brevet
colonel 20 June 1857; inspector general of militia 8 May 1863
to death; officiating judge advocate at the court martial on
colonel Thomas Robert Crawley, held at Aldershot camp 17 Nov.
to 23 Dec. 1863; author with John Francis Collier of Manual of
military law for all ranks of the army, militia, and volunteer
services 1860, 3 ed. 1863. _d._ Alne vicarage, Yorkshire 7 June
1868. _Illust. times 28 Nov. 1863 p._ 345 _portrait_.

PIRIE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse,
Berwickshire). _b._ Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept.
1781; merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley,
London 1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman
of ward of Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841;
created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a
prince of Wales during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s
hospital, London 1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June
1841. _d._ Champion hill, Camberwell 26 Feb. 1851. _G.M. xxxv_
551 (1851); _I.L.N. 8 March 1851 p._ 200.

PIRIE, WILLIAM ROBINSON (2 son of George Pirie, D.D. minister
of Slains, Aberdeenshire). _b._ manse of Slains 26 July 1804;
studied at Univ. and King’s college, Aberdeen 1817–21, and
1821–5, D.D. 1844; licensed to preach by presbytery of Ellon
1825; minister of parish of Dyce 1830; minister of Greyfriars
church, Aberdeen 1846–7; professor of divinity in Marischal
college and univ. of Aberdeen 30 Dec. 1843 to 1860; hon.
professor of divinity and biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 15
Sept. 1860 to 1876, and principal Dec. 1876 to death; moderator
of the general assembly 19 May 1864; the chief advocate for the
abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland, which was
abolished by act of parliament 1874; author of The independent
jurisdiction of the church vindicated 1838; Some notice of the
rev. Andrew Gray 1840; An inquiry into the constitution, power,
and processes of the human mind 1858; The position, principles
and duties of the church of Scotland 1864; Natural theology, an
inquiry into the fundamental principles of religions, moral and
political science 1867. _d._ Aberdeen 3 Nov. 1885. _In memoriam,
W. R. Pirie_ (1888); _Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ iii_, _part ii_,
_p._ 501, 516, 898.

PIRRIE, WILLIAM (son of George Pirrie, farmer). _b._ near
Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1807; educ. Marischal coll. and univ.
Aberdeen, and univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.A. Aberdeen 1825;
M.D. Edinb. 1829, hon. LL.D. 1875; lecturer on anatomy and
physiology in the joint medical schools of King’s and Marischal
colleges, Aberdeen 1830–9; regius professor of surgery in
Marischal college 1839–60; professor of surgery in univ. of
Aberdeen 1860–82; the leading surgeon in north Scotland for 20
years; known by sobriquet of The Baron; author of The principles
and practice of surgery 1852, 3 ed. 1873; On hay asthma and hay
fever 1867; author with Wm. Keith of Acupressure an excellent
method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage 1867. _d._ 253 Union st.
Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1882. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 681 (1882).

PISTRUCCI, BENEDETTO (2 son of Federico Pistrucci, judge of
the high criminal court of Rome). _b._ Rome 29 May 1784; a
gem-engraver at Rome 1800; went to Paris Dec. 1814, and to
London 1815; designed the St. George and the dragon on the
reverse of the gold coinage 1817, which is still in use; an
outside assistant at the mint 1816, acted as chief engraver
from 22 Sept. 1817, chief medallist 1828; engraved part of
the coinage at end of reign of George III, and all the coins
of early part of George IV; engraved the coronation medal of
George IV 1820–1, and of Victoria 1838; made the silver seal
of the duchy of Lancaster in 15 days by a new process of his
invention 1838; resided at the Mint 1817–49; made cameos and
intaglios for which he obtained high prices; made busts of the
duke of Wellington and of Pozzo di Borgo; was paid £3,500 for
the famous Waterloo medallion 1850. _d._ Flora lodge, Englefield
Green, near Windsor 16 Sept. 1855. _A. Billing’s Science of
gems_ (1875) 3, 224; _F. P. Weber’s Medals by foreign artists_
(1894) 62–7; _N. Carlisle’s Memoir of W. Wyon_ (1837) 43 _etc._;
_G.M. Oct. 1856 pp._ 653–6.

NOTE.--In the British museum with the shelf mark 10825 d. 28 is A collection of letters, etc. from newspapers and magazines on B. Pistrucci and W. Wyon as medallists.

PITCAIRN, DAVID. _b._ 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian
minister of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May
1830 to 29 Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867;
resided at Torquay from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his
parishioners 1840, 2 ed. 1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial
of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed. 1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s
king, the second Psalm expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a
memoir of E. H. M. Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862;
The ages of the earth 1868. _d._ 4 Jany. 1870. _Scott’s Fasti
Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 3 _part_ 1 _p._ 382.

PITCAIRN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of
Englishcombe, Somerset). _b._ Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776;
F.R.C.S. 7 June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and
in Egypt 1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in
Ireland 1803, and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852,
when he retired on half pay; knighted 1837. _d._ 3 Haddington
road, Dublin 12 Jany. 1859.

PITCAIRN, ROBERT (2 son of Robert Pitcairn, writer to the signet
and principal keeper of the register of deeds). _b._ Edinburgh
1793; a writer to the signet 21 Nov. 1815; assistant to the
deputy clerk register in H.M.’s register house a long time,
one of the four official searchers of records for incumbrances
in the register house 1853 to death; employed in making an
Abridgment of the register of the great seal of Scotland
1824, for the Record commission; edited for the Abbotsford
club Historical memoirs of Mary, queen of Scots 1836; for the
Bannatyne club Criminal trials in Scotland 1833, and 3 other
works; for the Wodrow society The autobiography of J. Melvill
1842; he also edited Collections relating to the funeralls of
Mary, queen of Scots 1822; Historical account of the principal
families of Kennedy 1830. _d._ 9 Northumberland st. Edinburgh
16 July 1855. _Record commission, the case of Robert Pitcairn_
(1835).

PITCAIRN, THOMAS (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). _b._
Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant
presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister
1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk
of Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church
at Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general
assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. _d._ Bonnyrig 21 Dec.
1854. _Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 438–48 _portrait_;
_Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ i_, _part_ 1, _p._ 274.

PITMAN, FREDERICK. _b._ Trowbridge, Wilts. 1828; bookseller,
phonetic shorthand writer and reporter at 1 Queen’s Head
passage, Paternoster row, London 1847, and at 20 Paternoster row
1850 to death; edited The shorthand magazine 1866 to his death;
The phonographic student 1867–76, ten volumes; The phonographic
pulpit 1869–76, seven volumes, and The phonographic lecturer
1871 etc.; and was the author of Second book in phonetic reading
for adults 1850; Pitman’s Reporters’ reading book 1867; Learning
to report 1883; How to get speed in shorthand 1884; Pitman’s
Shorthand library, Tom Brown’s school days 1884. _d._ Oak lawn,
Avenue road, Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex 21 Nov. 1886.

PITMAN, JOHN ROGERS. _b._ 1782; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A.
1804, M.A. 1815; P.C. of Berden and V. of Ugley, Essex 18 Feb.
1817, resigned 1846; preached at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels,
London, also at Foundling and Magdalene hospitals; P.C. of St.
Barnabas, Kensington 1833–48; domestic chaplain to duchess of
Kent 1848–61; author of Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis 1808,
2 ed. 1817; Practical lectures upon the ten first chapters
of the gospel of St. John 1821, Supplement 1822; The school
Shakespeare with notes 1822, 2 ed. 1851; Sophoclis Ajax, Greek
and Latin, with notes 1830; A practical commentary on our Lord’s
sermon on the mount 1852. _d._ 8 Green park buildings, Bath 27
Aug. 1861.

PITMAN, JOSEPH (brother of sir Isaac Pitman, _b._ 1815). _b._
1818; engaged with Thomas Allen Reid in lecturing in Great
Britain on Pitman’s system of shorthand many years; lived in
retirement at Worthing 1885 to death. _d._ Worthing about 1
April 1895.

PITMAN, MRS. Became proprietor of The Sporting review on her
husband’s death in 1827, and conducted it with much skill until
the four sporting serials, The Sporting review, The Sporting
magazine, The New sporting magazine, and The Sportsman, were
united in July 1846. _d._ Feb. 1858. _Sporting Review xxxix_ 153
(1858).

PITMAN, SAMUEL (son of rev. Samuel Pitman of Oulton hall,
Norfolk, _d._ 1854). _b._ 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.;
captain West Somerset yeomanry cavalry; master of the Taunton
harriers, hunting on alternate days with the Blackmoor vale
foxhounds; hunted his own harriers in the Langport and Martock
districts; master of South Berkshire fox hounds 1873, for 3
seasons he hunted both packs; at last his health gave way under
the strain of hunting five and even six days a week; with sir
T. Acland instrumental in reviving the Bath and west of England
agricultural society 1850; resided Bishop’s Hull manor, Taunton.
_d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 April 1886. _The Times 19 April 1886 p._
5.

PITMAN, THOMAS (2 son of Thomas Dix Pitman, solicitor, London).
_b._ 1801; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of
Brightwell, Oxfordshire 1826–8; V. of Eastbourne, Sussex 1828
to death; prebendary of Chichester 27 Aug. 1841 to death. _d._
Eastbourne 11 May 1890. _I.L.N. 24 May 1890 p._ 646 _portrait_.

PITTMAN, JOSIAH. _b._ 3 Sept. 1816; organist of Sydenham parish
church 1831; organist of Tooting parish church 1833–5; organist
at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1835–47; organist at Lincoln’s Inn
1852–64; accompanist at Her Majesty’s opera 1865–8 and at Covent
Garden 1868 to death; a regular frequenter of the Albion tavern,
Russell st. Covent garden, where he always sat in the same box;
author of The people in church 1858; The people in the cathedral
1859; author with Colin Brown of Songs of Scotland 1873; edited
Hymns and canticles 1858; Six easy preludes by J. S. Bach 1858;
The musical antiquarian magazine 1863–5, fifteen numbers; The
contralto album, 50 songs 1878; The prima donna’s album, 40
songs 1878; The tenor album, 50 songs 1878; The baritone album,
45 songs 1879; Songs from the operas, 2 vols. 1880; A series
of studies for pianoforte, organ, or harmonium 1882; Album of
40 duets 1885; Diversions for students, 2 books 1889; he also
edited a large number of single operas 1865–80; his name is
attached to upwards of 100 works. _d._ 228 Piccadilly, London 23
April 1886. _London Figaro 1 May 1886 p._ 12.

PITT, CHARLES DIBDIN (1 son of George Dibdin Pitt). _b._ 1819;
acted in the provinces; first appeared in London as Ferdinand in
the Tempest at Covent Garden 1843; acted in the provinces; with
his wife played in the United States and Canada, first appearing
at Park st. theatre, New York as Hamlet on 8 Nov. 1847, produced
The Cavalier or England in 1640 on 10 Nov.; last appeared in New
York 1851; appeared as Lear at City of London theatre 15 March
1852; in John Wilkins’ The Egyptian, March 1853; as Bottom in
Midsummer night’s dream 5 June 1854; in the Spanish girl March
1857; lessee of theatre royal, Sheffield at his death; _m._
1839 Ellen Coveney, actress. _d._ 87 Norfolk st. Sheffield 21
Feb. 1866. _bur._ Sheffield general cemetery 23 Feb. _Tallis’
Drawing-room table book_ 1851, _Part_ 20 _portrait_; _M.
Williams’ Some London theatres_ (1883) 61–9; _The Era 25 Feb.
1866 p._ 11, _4 March p._ 10; _Illust. Sporting News 16 March
1866 pp._ 129, 142; _Ireland’s New York stage ii_ 486 (1867).

PITT, GEORGE DEAN-. Lieut. Royal West India rangers as George
Dean 5 Dec. 1805, captain 10 Aug. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814;
took additional name of Pitt 1819; major 80 foot 19 Aug. 1819,
lieut. col. 18 April 1822 to 24 March 1837; superintendent of
recruiting department in London Jany. 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G.
9 Nov. 1846; commanded the troops in New Zealand Jany. 1847 to
death, granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; K.H.
1836. _d._ New Zealand 8 Jany. or 21 Feb. 1851. _G.M. Sept. 1851
p._ 328.

NOTE.--The monthly army list July 1851 says he died 8 Jany., but according to Hart’s quarterly army list of July 1851 he died 21 Feb.

PITT, GEORGE DEAN- (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 14 June 1823;
ensign 48 foot 11 Oct. 1839; lieut. 80 foot 1844, captain 4
May 1849, placed on h.p. 30 Dec. 1864; A.D.C. to major general
in New Zealand 1848–51; captain instructor at Hythe 1855–8;
district inspector of musketry, Australia 1858–64; assistant
military secretary, New Zealand 1864–70; D.A. and Q.M.G. Cape of
Good Hope 1872–7; lieut. col. brigade depôt at Guildford 1877 to
1880; M.G. 7 June 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
L.G. 30 Aug. 1882; C.B. 10 Aug. 1866; keeper of the Regalia in
Tower of London 25 Aug. 1882 to death. _d._ Tower of London 4
April 1883.

PITT, GEORGE DIBDIN. _b._ 1799; first appeared under R. W.
Elliston at the Surrey theatre as Sir Archy M’Sarcasm 1827, and
remained at the Surrey many years as a most successful actor;
acting and stage manager at the Pavilion, Coburg and Surrey
theatres, a severe malady obliged him to retire from the stage;
wrote the following dramas The whistler or the fate of the lily
of St. Leonard’s, Victoria theatre 18 Jany. 1833, Reprinted as
The lily of St. Leonard’s; The last man or the miser of Eltham,
Surrey theatre 20 June 1833; The Eddystone elf, Sadler’s Wells
1833; The prisoner of Rochelle, Surrey 23 Jany. 1834; Simon
Lee, City of London theatre 1 April 1839; Susan Hopley or the
vicissitudes of a servant girl, Victoria 31 May 1841; The
beggar’s petition, City theatre 18 Oct. 1841; Sweeney Todd, the
barber of Fleet street, Britannia 1842, founded on T. Prest’s
story The string of pearls, which he wrote in the Penny Sunday
Times 1841; The twins, Adelphi 1844; The Jersey girl, Surrey
theatre; Marianne or the child of charity, Victoria theatre;
Rookwood, Victoria 27 Oct. 1845; also The last nail; The lord
mayor’s fool; The maid, the mill, and the ferry; The devil’s
bridge; The bride of Aldgate; and The devil’s punch bowl; he
wrote upwards of 700 pieces for the stage; author of The wreck
of the heart or the story of Agnes Primrose 1842; The sea-fiend
or the abbot of St. Mark’s 1846. _d._ Bethnal green, London 16
Feb. 1855. _The Era 25 Feb. 1855 p._ 10.

PITT-BYRNE, JULIA CLARA (2 dau. of Hans Busk 1772–1862). _b._
about 1820; _m._ 28 April 1842 William Pitt-Byrne, proprietor
of Morning Post, _d._ 8 April 1861; contributed to Fraser’s
Magazine, Once a week, and other periodicals; author of A glance
behind the grilles of religious houses in France 1855; Flemish
interiors 1856; Realities of Paris life 1859; Undercurrents
overlooked 1860; Red, white, and blue 1862; Cosas de Espana
1866; The Beggynhoff 1869; Feudal castles of France 1869; Gheel
the city of the simple 1869; Pictures of Hungarian life 1869;
Curiosities of the search room 1880; Gossip of the century 1892.
_d._ 16 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 29 March 1894. _Men of
the Time 1887 p._ 188.

PITTIS, SIR FRANCIS. _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 1812; member of
first Newport school board; mayor of Newport 1852, and for the
eighth time 1887; presented with an address and a painting by
George Cole 14 March 1880; chief promoter and subscriber to the
Jubilee clock tower, Newport 1887; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug.
1887; received the jubilee decoration 1887. _d._ Newport house,
Newport 3 Nov. 1889. _bur._ St. Thomas’ churchyard 8 Nov. _The
Isle of Wight County press 9 Nov. 1889 p._ 5.

PLACE, FRANCIS (son of Simon Place, keeper of a sponging
house in Vinegar yard, Drury lane, London). _b._ 3 Nov. 1771;
apprenticed to a leather-breeches maker 1785–9; worked at his
trade from 1789; joined the London Corresponding society 1794;
opened a tailor’s shop with another man at 29 Charing Cross
1799; a tailor alone at 16 Charing Cross 1800 to 1833; resided
at 21 Brompton sq. 1833 to 1852; member of committee of British
and foreign school society to 1815; stayed some months with
Jeremy Bentham and James Mill at Ford Abbey 1817; collected
much of the materials for Joseph Hume’s parliamentary work
1812 etc.; issued from his shop James Mill’s Essays from the
supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and many tracts by
himself and others; agitated against the sinking fund 1816–23;
got the laws against combinations of workmen repealed after ten
years’ work 1824, and prevented their being reenacted 1825;
made preparations for civil war during the crisis of May 1832,
when he drew up a placard with the words ‘Go for gold and stop
the Duke,’ which caused a run upon the bank of England; drafted
for Wm. Lovett the Peoples’ charter 1838; wrote history of the
Reform bill 1836–9, the manuscript of which is at the British
Museum; author of Illustrations and proofs of the principles
of population 1822; A letter to a minister of state respecting
taxes on knowledge 1831, 3 ed. 1835; kept and indexed his
political correspondence 1814 to death; 71 volumes of his
manuscripts are in the British Museum. _d._ at his daughter’s
house, Foxley terrace, Hammersmith 1 Jany. 1854. _W. Bates’s
Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 344–50 _portrait_; _Fortnightly
Review Dec. 1892 pp._ 767–79; _Fraser’s Mag. xiii_ 427 (1836)
_portrait_.

PLACE, LOUISA (dau. of Mr. Simeon). _b._ 16 Oct. 1797; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre as Harriet in Is he jealous
9 July 1816; played Julia in the Rivals at opening of the
Haymarket theatre 4 July 1821; played at Covent Garden as Miss
Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer Nov. 1821; retired from the
stage; played again at the Olympic and Adelphi theatres; acted
in Born to good luck at Adelphi 22 July 1856; and in Morton’s
French Lady’s maid 22 May 1858; _m._ (1) about 1816 William
Chatterly, comedian, _b._ 21 March 1787, _d._ 20 April 1821; she
_m._ secondly 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place, who _d._ before his wife;
she _d._ 37 Brompton square, London 4 Nov. 1866. _The Era 18
Nov. 1866 p._ 81; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 161, 197–8,
331.