Chapter LXXI: Part 71

PLANCHÉ, JAMES ROBINSON (son of Jacques Planché, watchmaker
1734–1816). _b._ Old Burlington st. Piccadilly, London 27 Feb.
1796; articled to a bookseller 1810; wrote Amoroso, king of
Little Britain for Drury Lane 21 April 1818, and Rodolph the
wolf Olympic Pavilion 21 Dec. 1818; The Vampire or the bride of
the isles, English opera house 9 Aug. 1820, when the vampire
trap was first used; wrote ten pieces for Adelphi theatre
1820–1; his opera Maid Marian was produced at Covent Garden 3
Dec. 1822; present at coronation of Charles X in Paris 29 May
1825; wrote the libretto to Weber’s Oberon, Covent Garden 12
April 1826; managed the musical arrangements at Vauxhall gardens
1826–7; produced at Covent Garden Charles XIIth, a drama 11 Nov.
1828, and his version of Scribe and Auber’s opera Gustave Trois
13 Nov. 1833; managed the Adelphi theatre for S. J. Arnold 1830;
author with Charles Dance of Olympic Revels, Olympic 3 Jany.
1831, and Riquet with the tuft Dec. 1836; managed the Olympic
July to Dec. 1838; director of costume and reader of the plays
at Covent Garden 1839; wrote plays for the Haymarket 1843–7;
superintended the decorations at the Lyceum for Madame Vestris
Oct. 1847, and wrote for her The pride of the market 18 Oct.
1847, The island of jewels 26 Dec. 1849, and other burlesques;
his Mr. Buckstone’s Ascent of Mount Parnassus produced at
Haymarket 28 March 1853, and Love and fortune, a comedy,
Princess’s 24 Sept. 1859; My lord and my lady, Haymarket 12 July
1861 ran 50 nights; Orpheus in the Haymarket Dec. 1866 ran till
Easter 1867; King Christmas masque at Gallery of illustration
26 Dec. 1871; F.S.A. 24 Dec. 1829, resigned 1852; a founder
of British archæological association Dec. 1843; rouge croix
pursuivant of arms 13 Feb. 1854, and Somerset herald 7 June 1866
to death; arranged col. Augustus Meyrick’s collection of armour
for exhibition at Manchester 1857, and at South Kensington Dec.
1868; rearranged the armour at Tower of London 1869; granted
civil list pension of £100, 21 June 1871; author of The descent
of the Danube from Ratisbon to Vienna 1828; The history of
British costumes 1834, 3 ed. 1874; The pursuivant of arms or
heraldry founded upon facts 1852, 3 ed. 1874; The conqueror
and his companions, 2 vols. 1874; A cyclopædia of costumes,
2 vols. 1876–9; Extravaganzas, 5 vols. 1879, with portrait;
wrote 72 original pieces, also 96 translations and adaptations.
_d._ 10 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 30 May 1880. _Planché’s
Recollections and reflections_, 2 _vols._ (1872); _Biograph iii_
225–38 (1880); _Journal of British Archæol. Association xxxvi_
261–5 (1880); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_ 257–76 (1883);
_Illustrated Review_, _ii_ 353–55 (1870); _Cartoon portraits_
(1873) 102–103; _Illust. news of the world vii_ 273 (1861)
_portrait_; _The Critic xix_ 444 (1859) _portrait_; _Theatre ii_
95–99 (1880) _portrait_.

PLANK, WILLIAM (son of James Plank). _b._ Wandsworth, Surrey 7
Nov. 1767; educ. under W. Franks at Clapham to 1781; apprenticed
to his brother James Plank, a calico printer, London 28 May
1782; took up his freedom in the Salters’ Co. 20 Oct. 1789, the
father of the Salters’ Co.; resided at Harrow from 1811; had
a dinner party on 7 Nov. 1867, and _d._ Harrow 19 Nov. 1867,
being 100 years and 12 days old. _W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man_
(1879) 252–5; _G.M. iv_ 783, 833 (1867).

PLANT, JAMES (son of Robert Fisher Plant, stationer, Leicester).
_b._ Leicester 1818; a well known geologist; F.G.S.; an
authority on questions respecting coal and water supply; a
frequent attendant at meetings of the British association. _d._
Leicester 8 Nov. 1892.

PLANT, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester Oct.
1819; educ. at the national school and at the mechanics’
institution; articled to T. Paget, surgeon, Leicester; an
assistant in his father’s business; hon. sec. of Leicester
naturalists’ club 1844; curator of the Literary and
philosophical society’s museum; discovered fossiliferous keuper
sandstone near Leicester 1844; sec. and librarian of the
library, Leicester 1846, where he arranged and catalogued 10,000
books; librarian and curator of the Museum and public library,
Peel park, Salford Oct. 1849 to April 1892, it became one of the
chief attractions in Manchester and the most popular holiday
resort in Lancashire, the library containing 60,000 volumes;
F.G.S. 1864; lieut. 56 Salford rifle volunteers 12 April 1873,
captain 8 Jany. 1876 to April 1885; made a special study of the
coal measure fishes near Manchester, and of the Cambrian fossils
near Dolgelly; a selection of his fossils is in the British
museum, including the olenus planti named after him; author of
Guide to the general collections in the Salford museum 1860;
Catalogue of the library of the Manchester geological society
1875; Descriptive catalogue of pictures in the Salford art
gallery and museum 1883. _d._ Rhosnegir, near Holyhead 18 Jany.
1894, portrait placed on walls of Salford free library 1893.
_Geological magazine June 1892 pp._ 286–8 _portrait_; _The Times
10 Jany. 1894 p._ 5; _The Library vi_ 93 (1894).

PLANT, NATHANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester
1832; curator of museum of Leicester philosophical and literary
society 5 years; spent 16 years in Brazil mining and exploring
1851–67; F.G.S. 1867, F.R.G.S. _d._ London Aug. 1875.

PLANT, THOMAS LIVESLEY (son of George Halewood Plant, iron
merchant). _b._ Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire 1819; educ. St.
Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, near Durham; representative in
Birmingham of W. H. Smith and Son, the advertising contractors
1849–81; kept systematic records of meteorology 1837 to
death, furnished meteorological information to The Times and
contributed to the local press; author of Meteorology: its study
important for our good, Birmingham 1862. _found dead_ in the
train at New st. station, Birmingham 31 Aug. 1883. _Athenæum 8
Sept. 1883 p._ 310.

PLATT, JAMES (son of Henry Platt of Dobcross, Saddleworth,
Yorkshire, maker of woollen machinery, removed to Oldham 1821,
_d._ 1842). _b._ 1823 or 1824; partner in Hibbert, Platt and
Sons, Oldham 1845; member of Oldham town council; M.P. Oldham 31
March 1857 to death; accidentally shot by Josiah Radcliffe when
shooting on the moors at Greenfield 27 Aug. 1857, _d._ Ashway
Gap, near Oldham 27 Aug. 1857. _Fortunes made in business iii_
426–7 (1887).

PLATT, JOHN T. (brother of James Platt, _d._ 1857). _b._
Dobcross 15 Sept. 1817; member of firm of Hibbert, Platt and
Sons of Oldham 1837, Joseph Platt _d._ 1845, Mr. Hibbert _d._
1846; firm employed 2,500 men, business converted into a limited
liability company 1 Jany. 1868, chairman of the company to his
death; sheriff of Carnarvon 1863; helped to obtain incorporation
of Oldham 1849; mayor 1854, 1855, and a third time; gave large
sums to the Oldham lyceum 1847–65; M.P. Oldham 13 July 1865 to
death. _d._ Hotel Maurice, Paris 18 May 1872. _bur._ Oldham,
statue unveiled at Oldham Sept. 1878. _I.L.N. lx_ 537 (1872)
_portrait_; _Fortunes made in business iii_ 419–85 (1887)
_portrait_.

NOTE.--The commercial prosperity of Oldham is mainly due to his influence as an engineer and a large employer of labour and to his untiring energy.

PLATT, THOMAS (4 son of Samuel Platt, clerk of the papers of
court of king’s bench). _b._ Blackfriars, London 14 Sept. 1800;
educ. St. Paul’s school 1812–16; barrister L.I. 9 June 1826;
author of A practical treatise on the law of covenants 1829;
A treatise on the law of leases, 2 vols. 1847. _d._ Brockley
lodge, Finchley, Middlesex 14 Dec. 1886.

PLATT, SIR THOMAS JOSHUA (eld. son of Thomas Platt of Brunswick
sq. London, solicitor). _b._ 1789; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher
1835–45; became a leader on the home circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834;
baron of court of exchequer 27 Jany. 1845, retired 2 Nov. 1856;
knighted at St. James’s palace 23 April 1845. _d._ 59 Portland
place, London 10 Feb. 1862. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Ballantine’s
Some experiences_, _8 ed._ (1883) 46–47; _Foss’s Judges ix_
244–5 (1864).

PLATT, THOMAS PELL (son of Thomas Platt). _b._ London 1798;
pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. 25 Nov. 1815, scholar 3 April
1818, minor fellow 2 Oct. 1820, major fellow 2 July 1823; B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823; librarian of the British and foreign bible
society some years and a defender of the society in 1827 from
an attack made on their publications in the Quarterly Review
June 1827 pp. 1–28; an early member of Royal Asiatic society and
acted as one of its oriental translation committee many years;
F.S.A.; author of A catalogue of the Æthiopic biblical MSS. in
the royal library of Paris and in the library of the British and
foreign bible society 1823; edited Evangelia sancta in linguam
Amharicam 1824; Evangelia sancta Æthiopice 1826; The Gospels in
Syriac 1829; The Ethiopic Didascalia 1834; The books of the Old
Testament in Amharic 1871; author of Facts respecting versions
of scripture published by the Bible Society in reply to the
Quarterly Review 1827, 3 ed. 1828; The literal interpretation
of scripture enforced 1831. _d._ Dulwich hill, Surrey 31 Oct.
1852. _T. H. Horne’s Introduction to critical study of the holy
scriptures_, _10 ed. iv_ 317–20, 733 (1856); _G.M. Dec. 1852 p._
660.

PLAYER, JOHN. _b._ Elberton, Gloucs. 1808; manager of Gwendraeth
iron works 1838; introduced anthracite as a fuel for blast
furnaces and steam boilers; a steamer called the Anthracite ran
for some time on the Thames below London bridge 1839, which
attracted much notice; built many blast furnaces; settled at
Philadelphia 1868; invented ‘mineral wool’ from iron slag. _d._
Philadelphia 11 March 1870.

PLAYFAIR, GEORGE RANKEN (son of George Playfair). Educ. at
Edinburgh univ.; M.D. 1838; surgeon in navy of H.E.I.C.S.
and saw service in the Phlegthan during the first China war
1840; assistant surgeon Bengal 3 Nov. 1844; civil surgeon at
Jaharunpore, where he gained experience as a lithotomist; on
the Agra circle, present at siege of Lucknow 1857; inspector
general 29 March 1871; retired surgeon general Bengal 31 March
1872; wrote on Continued fever. _d._ Longridge road, South
Kensington, London 4 Oct. 1881. _Lancet 8 Oct. 1881 p._ 651, _15
Oct. p._ 689.

PLAYFAIR, SIR HUGH LYON (3 son of James Playfair 1738–1819,
principal of St. Andrew’s univ.) _b._ Meigle, East Perthshire
17 Nov. 1786; educ. Dundee gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ.;
lieut. Bengal artillery 14 May 1805; adjutant and quartermaster
of the horse artillery 15 Nov. 1809, at siege of fortress of
Ralunga Nov. 1814, captain 5 Oct. 1815; granted freedom of city
of St. Andrew’s 1820; superintendent of the great military road,
telegraph towers and post office department between Calcutta
and Benares 1820–7; major in command of the fourth battalion
of artillery at Dum-Dum June 1827 to 4 July 1831, resigned the
service 10 Feb. 1834; provost of St. Andrew’s 1842 to death;
established a public library and revived the celebrated St.
Andrew’s golf club 1834; his portrait by sir J. W. Gordon placed
in the old town hall 1847; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1856; knighted
at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; author of First catechism
of the principles of religion 1853. _d._ St. Leonard’s, St.
Andrew’s 21 Jany. 1861. _D. Louden’s Biographical sketch of sir
H. L. Playfair_ (1874); _Memoirs of sir H. L. Playfair_ (1861)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. x_ 176 (1847) _portrait_, _xxxviii_ 103
(1861).

PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM HENRY (son of James Playfair of London,
architect). _b._ Russel sq. London July 1789; pupil of Wm.
Starke of Glasgow, architect; architect in Edinburgh 1812 to
death; laid out part of the new town 1815; rebuilt and enlarged
the university buildings 1817–24; designed the Royal and Regent
terraces 1829; designed the observatory 1814–18, advocates’
library 1819, royal institution 1822–36, college of surgeons
1830, St. Stephen’s church 1826–8, and the Free church college
1846–50; constructed Donaldson’s hospital in the Tudor style
1842–8; designed the monument to his uncle professor John
Playfair 1820, and that to Dugald Stewart on the Calton hill
1830; designed the National gallery of Scotland in the classical
style, first stone laid 30 Aug. 1850, and the unfinished
national monument on the Calton Hill 1822–6; his classical
buildings have gained for Edinburgh the sobriquet of the ‘Modern
Athens’; built many country houses and mansions; author of
Report concerning completion of the college of Edinburgh 1816;
Report on laying out the new town between Edinburgh and Leith
1819. _d._ 17 Great Stuart street, Edinburgh 19 March 1857.
_Dictionary of architecture vi_ 134 (1881); _Building News iii_
359–60 (1857).

PLENDERLEATH, CHARLES. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49
foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when
placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present
at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney
creek in America. _d._ Florence 1 Jany. 1854.

PLEON, TOM, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. _b._ 1862;
appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown
and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York
in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as
Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic
Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music
halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being
known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian
comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic
dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the
sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane
1887–91. _d._ Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April
1892.

PLEWS, JOHN MACKAY. _b._ 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray
brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new
brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect
1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was
a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten
varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale.
_d._ Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. _A. Barnard’s
Noted breweries iv_ 410–35 (1891); _The Brewers’ Journal 15 June
1890 p._ 385.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, EDWARD (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869).
_b._ 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840;
barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24
Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July
1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3
April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July
1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons
April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March
to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of
navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board
Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on
education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov.
1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member
of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the
corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and
other countries; director of the Great Western railway company
and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters
in The Times over the initials E. B. P. _d._ 44 Wilton crescent,
London 16 Dec. 1889. _Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp._ 10, 11.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, PHILIP (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828).
_b._ Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth
1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65;
sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman
for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. _d._ Clyffe
hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872.

PLINT, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist;
was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec.
to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years;
a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech
delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies
1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent
1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851.
_d._ Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. _R. V. Taylor’s
Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 471.

PLINT, THOMAS EDWARD. _b._ 1823; stock and share broker Leeds,
suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost
£25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas,
and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his
pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising
£18,391. _d._ Leeds 11 July 1861. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 497; _Art Journal Aug. 1861 p._ 255, _April
1862 p._ 105.

PLOW, ANTHONY JOHN (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94,
rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863
to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles
Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the
servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs.
Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he _d._ of his
wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. _Annual register_
(1868) 22–4.

PLOWDEN, CHARLES JOSEPH. _b._ 1804; head of firm of Plowden and
Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count
by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. _d._ the Palazetto, Rome 28
Feb. 1884.

PLOWDEN, FLORENCE. _b._ 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the
Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles
Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W.
S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at
Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the
Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during
Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No
Escape company to 1881; _m._ Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter
and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. _d._ 3 Royal
terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890.

PLOWDEN, TREVOR JOHN CHICHELE. _b._ 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal
N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879;
adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr.
first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and
political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge;
C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a
singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the
Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W.
C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The
Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. _d._ Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887.

PLOWDEN, WALTER CHICHELE (youngest son of Trevor Chichele
Plowden of the Bengal civil service). _b._ 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in
office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in
Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White
Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England
1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in
the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel
chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka
river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for
1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he
_d._ 13 March 1860. _W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and
the Galla country_ (1868), _memoir pp. vii–x_; _Foreign office
list July 1860 p._ 146.

PLOWDEN, WILLIAM HENRY CHICHELE (4 son of Richard Chichele
Plowden, a director of the H.E.I. Co., _d._ Jany. 1830). _b._
1790; educ. Westminster; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1805; president
of British factory in China; superintendent of British trade
there 1833; a director of East India company 1841–54; contested
Nottingham 24 July 1837; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1847–52;
contested Newport 9 July 1852; F.R.S. 15 April 1847. _d._
Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, Hants. 29 March 1880.

PLOWMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Oxford 1811; reporter for the Oxford
journal 1829–62; started the Oxford times 1862, which he
transferred to a company 1867; university correspondent of the
Morning post to death; opened the first reading room in Oxford;
a singer and a speaker at public dinners. _d._ Oxford 9 Nov.
1867. _Newspaper Press 2 Dec. 1867 p._ 8.

PLUMPTRE, CHARLES JOHN (eld. son of Edward Hallows Plumptre of
London, solicitor 1785–1851). _b._ London 28 March 1818; educ.
King’s college, London; barrister G.I. 5 June 1844; established
with Edward Wm. Cox and others The Public reading society and
gave the first penny readings for the people 1858–60; lectured
on elocution, especially at the universities and theological
colleges; lecturer on elocution at Oxford 1860–5; professor of
elocution at King’s college, London 1866; lectured on elocution
at Downing coll. Camb. 1878; professor of rhetoric in Hyde park
college and at Crystal Palace school of literature and art;
edited with George Harris The county courts chronicle, vols.
xi and xii 1860–61; author of The principles and practice of
elocution 1861, 5 ed. 18--; King’s college lectures on elocution
1870, 4 ed. 1883; The culture of voice and speech 1874; The
right mode of respiration in regard to speech, song, and health
1886. _d._ 36 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 15 June
1887. _C. J. Plumptre’s King’s college lectures on elocution_
(1882) _portrait_; _Law Times 16 July 1887 p._ 212; _Victoria
Mag. Oct. 1879 pp._ 557–60 _portrait_.

PLUMPTRE, EDWARD HAYES (brother of preceding). _b._ 6 Aug. 1821;
educ. King’s coll. London 1839–40; scholar of Univ. coll. Oxf.
1841–4; double first class 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; fellow of
Brasenose coll. 1844–8; chaplain of King’s coll. London 1847,
resigned May 1868, professor of pastoral theology 1853–63,
professor of exegesis of Holy scriptures 1864–81; select
preacher at Oxford 1851–3, 1864–6, and 1872–3; dean of Queen’s
coll. Harley st. London 1855–75, principal of the college
1875–7, founded a scholarship in the college; assistant preacher
at Lincoln’s Inn 1851–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1863–81; R.
of Pluckley, Kent 1869–73; V. of Bickley. Kent 1873–81; Boyle
lecturer Oxford 1866–7; a member of the Old Testament revision
committee 1869–74 and translator and editor of several portions
of the Bible; Grinfield lecturer and examiner in school of
theology at Oxford 1872–4; dean of Wells 6 Dec. 1881 to death;
author of Lazarus and other poems 1864, 4 ed. 1884; Master and
scholar 1866, poems; Biblical studies 1870, 3 ed. 1885; Theology
and life 1884; The spirits in prison and other studies on life
after death 1884; The divine commedia and canzoniere of Dante
Alighieri, with biographical introduction, notes, and essays,
2 vols. 1886–7; Wells cathedral and its deans 1888; The life
of Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells 1888; translated The
tragedies of Sophocles 1865 and of Æschylus 1868; his name
appears on upwards of 60 publications 1849–90. _d._ the deanery,
Wells 1 Feb. 1891. _bur._ cathedral cemet. _Church portrait
journal iii_ 9 (1882) _portrait_; _Good Words April 1891 pp._
233–37 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1881 p._ 536 _portrait and 7
Sept. 1891 p._ 167 _portrait_.

PLUMPTRE, FREDERICK CHARLES (3 son of Charles Plumptre of Long
Newton, Durham). _b._ 17 Aug. 1796; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A.
1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college
1817–36, tutor 1820, dean and bursar 1821, master Dec. 1836
to his death; vice-chancellor 1848–51; took an active part in
university business, delegate of estates and privileges in the
university. _d._ University college 21 Nov. 1870. _bur._ in
college chapel 25 Nov. _I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1870 p._ 578; _Times 22
Nov. 1870 p._ 6, _26 Nov. p._ 6.

PLUMRIDGE, SIR JAMES HANWAY (son of James Plumridge of London,
architect). _b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 1787; entered
navy 6 Sept. 1799; commander 7 June 1814; commanded the Sappho
brig at St. Helena and on the Irish station 1818–21; captain 9
Oct. 1822; captain of the Magicienne frigate in the East Indies
1831–5; superintendent of the Falmouth packets 7 April 1837
to 1841; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1841–7; storekeeper of the
ordnance 23 June 1842 to 1847; second in command on the East
Indies station 1847–50; R.A. 7 Oct. 1852; commanded the flying
squadron in the Baltic 7 March 1854 to Feb. 1855; superintendent
of Devonport dockyard 19 Feb. 1855 to 4 Dec. 1857; member of
order of St. John of Jerusalem 12 Dec. 1857; K.C.B. 5 July
1855; V.A. 28 Nov. 1857; admiral of the blue 27 April 1863.
_d._ Hopton hall, near Lowestoft 29 Nov. 1863. _G. B. Earp’s
History of the Baltic campaign from documents furnished by sir
C. Napier_ (1857) 45, 620.

PLUNKET, WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKET, 1 Baron (youngest son of
Thomas Plunket, presbyterian minister, Enniskillen, _d._ Dublin;
1778). _b._ Enniskillen 1 July 1764; matric. in univ. of Dublin
1779; scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1781; B.A. 1784; LL.B 1787,
LL.D. 1799; called to Irish bar Jany. 1787; K.C. 1797; M.P.
Charlemont, co. Armagh, in Irish parliament 1798–1800; appeared
for the prosecution on the trial of Robert Emmett for rebellion
Sept. 1803; solicitor general for Ireland 5 Nov. 1803 to 1805;
attorney general 23 Oct. 1805 to 15 May 1807, and 15 Jany. 1822
to 18 June 1827; M.P. Midhurst 26 Jany. to 29 April 1807; M.P.
Trinity college, Dublin univ. 1812–27; succeeded Henry Grattan
as champion of the Roman Catholic claims 1820; P.C. 10 May
1827 and 23 March 1831; chief justice of Irish court of common
pleas 18 June 1827 to 23 Dec. 1830; created baron Plunket of
Newton, co. Cork 1 May 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland 23 Dec.
1830 to Nov. 1834, and 30 April 1835 to 17 June 1841. _d._ Old
Connaught, co. Wicklow 4 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet.
Dublin 7 Jany. _D. Plunket’s Life of lord Plunket_, 2 _vols._
(1867) _portrait_; _W. H. Curran’s Sketches of the Irish bar i_
127–53 (1855); _O’Flanagan’s Lord chancellors of Ireland ii_
403–621 (1870); _R. L. Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish bar i_
98, 119, _ii_ 377 (1854); _Dublin Univ. mag. xv_ 258–66 (1840)
_portrait_; _J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons_
(1870) 157–210; _O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of
Ireland_ (1879) 210–45; _Law Review xix_ 225–48 (1854); _Law
mag. and review xix_ 44–9 (1865); _W. C. Taylor’s National
portrait gallery iv_ 80 (1848) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxiv_ 38,
58 (1854) _portrait_; _J. C. Hoey’s Speeches of lord Plunket_
(1856).

PLUNKET, THOMAS SPAN PLUNKET, 2 Baron (eld. son of preceding).
_b._ Dublin 1792; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1814,
and at Trin. Dublin, M.A. 1822, B.D. and D.D. 1840; dean of
Down 8 Oct. 1831; bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 1839 to
death, consecrated at Ch. Ch. Dublin; P.C. Ireland 1846; an
ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1851 to death; succeeded as 2
baron 5 Jany. 1854. _d._ Lommakeady lodge, co. Galway 19 Oct.
1866.

PLUNKET, JOHN SPAN PLUNKET, 3 Baron (brother of preceding). _b._
10 July 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1822;
called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 1 July 1837; leading counsel
for the crown in Dublin and on the Munster circuit; assistant
barrister for co. Meath; bencher of King’s Inns 1849; succeeded
as 3 baron Plunket 19 Oct. 1866. _d._ St. Valarey, Bray, co.
Dublin 16 April 1871. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery. _Irish Law
times v_ 200 (1871); _I.L.N. lviii_ 427 (1871).

PLUNKETT, CHARLES DAWSON (3 son of 11 baron Louth 1757–1823).
_b._ 1813; ensign 1 foot 11 Oct. 1833, lieut. col. 26 June 1866,
retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. 18 Nov. 1868; served
in Crimean war 1855; knight of the legion of honour 1857. _d._
Killiney, co. Dublin 19 May 1886.

PLUNKETT, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1826, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849.
_d._ 47 Mountjoy square, Dublin 5 Aug. 1872.

PLUNKETT, JOHN HUBERT (younger twin son of George Plunkett of
Roscommon). _b._ Mount Plunkett, co. Roscommon June 1802; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1826, went
Connaught circuit; solicitor general of New South Wales Oct.
1831 to 1836, attorney general 1836–56; member of legislative
council 1831–56; chairman of National school board 1848–56;
retired on a pension 1856; member for Argyle in legislative
assembly 1856; member of legislative council 1857–8, and
president Jany. 1857 to Feb. 1858; president of the board
of education to Feb. 1858; minister without a portfolio of
the Martin government Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865; author of The
Australian magistrate, or a guide to the duties of a justice
of the peace, Sydney 1840, 4 ed. 1866; The magistrate’s pocket
book 1859; On the evidence of accomplices 1863. _d._ Burlington
terrace, East Melbourne 9 May 1869. _bur._ Sydney 15 May.
_Heads of the people_, _Sydney_, _i_ 93 (1847) _portrait_; _P.
Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 374.

PLUNKETT, PATRICK. Called to Irish bar 1824; bencher of King’s
Inns 1851 to death; judge of court of bankrupts and insolvents 1
Nov. 1857 to death. _d._ Kingstown, Dublin 31 July 1859.

PLUNKETT, RANDAL EDWARD SHERBORNE (1 son of 16 baron Dunsany
1808–89). _b._ Sherborne, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1848; educ. Eton
1862–5, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1872; took honours 3 class Mods
1869 and second law and history 1871; captain Gloucestershire
rifle volunteers 8 July 1874; M.P. West Gloucestershire 1874–80.
_d._ Madeira 25 Dec. 1883.

PLUNKETT, THOMAS OLIVER WESTENRA (2 son of 12 baron Louth
1809–49). _b._ 1 April 1838; ensign 1 foot 5 Jany. 1855,
captain 20 May 1864, sold out 27 July 1866; served at siege
of Sebastopol from 29 Aug. 1855, and in campaign in China
1860; resident magistrate at Cork 1866, divisional magistrate
in charge of Cork, Kerry and Limerick 1881–6; assisted sir
Redvers Buller in reorganising the constabulary patrols and the
methods of criminal investigation; magistrate and divisional
commissioner in Cork, Limerick and part of Kerry, the Ponsonby
and Kingston estates were in Kerry, had much to do with
evictions of tenants and the affair at Mitchelstown 1887;
quelled disturbances at Youghall, Midleton and Cork; struck
on the head while opposing a Plan of campaign meeting on the
Ponsonby estate. _d._ Cork 6 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Louth 9 Dec.
_Times 7 Dec. 1889 p._ 10, _10 Dec. p._ 7, _11 Dec. p._ 5.

POCHIN, HENRY DAVIS (eld. son of William Pochin of Wigston,
Leicester). _b._ 1824; studied chemistry at Pharmaceutical
society’s laboratory London; head of firm of H. D. Pochin and
Co. Salford; mayor of Salford 1866–8; contested Stafford 11 July
1865; M.P. Stafford 10 Nov. 1868 to March 1869, when unseated
on petition; contested Stafford 3 Feb. 1874; contested Monmouth
6 Feb. 1874; member of Stafford school board March 1871; his
process of decomposing silicate of alumina produced aluminous
cake used by paper makers; discovered a method of distilling
resin with steam at a high temperature, used for making yellow
and fancy soaps; purchased coal, iron and steel industries,
which he converted into limited liability companies; held large
shares in Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., John Brown and Co., the
Armour-plate makers of Sheffield, the Tredegar iron and coal
Co., Palmer’s Shipbuilding and iron Co., and the Staveley iron
and coal Co.; with sir Edward Watkin redeemed Metropolitan
railway Co. from insolvency; a director of Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincolnshire railway Co.; _m._ 1852 Agnes, dau. of George
Gretton Heap, she wrote The right of women to exercise the
elective franchise 1855, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ Bodnant hall, Conway,
Denbighshire 28 Oct. 1895. _Times 2 Nov. 1895 p._ 6.

POCKLINGTON, EVELYN HENRY FREDERICK (3 son of Roger Pocklington
of Carlton house, Notts. 1775–1847). _b._ 18 Jany. 1811; ensign
52 foot 10 Feb. 1829, captain 24 May 1839, placed on h.p. 13
July 1847; assistant Q.M.G. at headquarters 21 Sept. 1860 to 1
Jany. 1865; member of council of military education 1 Jany. 1865
to 1870; director general 1874 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
28 Rutland gate, London 10 Aug. 1879.

POCOCK, ALFRED. _b._ 1821 or 1822; vice-president of liberal
registration Southwark, assisted in formation of Southwark
liberal association 1877, treasurer 1877, president 1878–88;
first president of West Southwark liberal and radical
association; a member of the St. George the martyr vestry 1861
to death; member of Metropolitan board of works for St. George
the martyr, Southwark 1875 to death; claimed to be the inventor
of the fire plug system and helped to secure the adoption of
portable fire stations. _d._ Chairsholme, Palace road, Streatham
13 May 1887.

POCOCK, FREDERICK PEARCE (youngest son of rev. George Pocock).
_b._ 1819; educ. King’s coll. London, associate 1837; at St.
Peter’s coll. Camb., B A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of All Saints,
Mile end, London 1842–4; chaplain of city of London union
1844–60; C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Great Portland st. London
1865–72; C. of St. Paul’s, Haggerston 1874–7; C. of Bartholomew
the Great, London 1877–81; edited Bishop Burnet’s Pastoral care
1839; Dr. T. Bisse’s The Beauty of holiness in the common prayer
1842; John Bowdler’s Theological essays 1844. _d._ The Limes,
St. Mark’s road, North Kensington 6 April 1889.

POCOCK, SIR GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW (son of Thomas Pocock, of
Langley, Berks.) _b._ 1779; standard bearer to Band of gentleman
pensioners 5 Sept. 1820 to May 1836; knighted at Whitehall 27
July 1821. _d._ 1 York st. Portman sq. London 11 Aug 1868.
_I.L.N. liii_ 187 (1868).

POCOCK, ISAAC JOHN INNES (only son of Isaac Pocock, painter and
dramatist, of Ray lodge, Maidenhead 1782–1835) _b._ 28 July
1819; educ. Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; barrister
I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; J.P. for Berks.; printed privately Franklin
and other poems 1872. _d._ Curtisfield, Maidenhead 28 May 1886.

POCOCK, LEWIS (youngest son of Thomas Pocock). _b._ South London
17 Jany. 1808; chief founder of Art union of London 1837,
one of the honorary secretaries 1837 to death; contributed a
bibliographical chapter to an edition of the Pilgrim’s progress,
edited by himself and George Godwin 1844; a director of the
Argus life assurance office many years; patented a scheme for
electric lighting 1852; collected Johnsoniana, which were sold
before his death; treasurer of the Graphic soc. some time;
author of A familiar explanation of the nature of assurances
upon lives, with an extensive bibliographical catalogue of works
on the subject 1842. _d._ 70 Gower st. London 17 Oct. 1882.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. _Graphic 23 Dec. 1882 p._ 693 _portrait_.

PODMORE, RICHARD. _b._ 1780; entered Madras army 1793; lieut.
10 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, lieut. col. 1816–20; lieut. col.
21 N.I. 1820; lieut. col. commandant 44 N.I. 1 May 1824, col.
5 June 1829 to 1869; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Osborne house,
Cheltenham 24 July 1870.

POGGI, DOMINIC JOSEPH. _b._ Tuscany 1811; ordained deacon in
Church of England 1833; priest 1834; D.D. univ. of Florence
1838; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852; principal of Seacombe
house school, near Liverpool 1852–3; principal of New Brighton
college, Cheshire 1853–64; head master of Audlem endowed gr.
sch. Cheshire 1870 to death; author of The various branches of
the Catholic church 1868; Roman catechism, accompanied by a
Catholic reply 1868; Reflections on the religious state of Italy
1868; The Roman council judged by the English bishops 1870; On
the abrogation of concordats 1872; The old Catholics and the
Anglican bishops 1872. _d._ Audlem 15 Oct. 1880.

POGSON, NORMAN ROBERT (son of George Owen Pogson of Nottingham,
hosiery manufacturer). _b._ Nottingham 23 March 1829; calculated
the orbits of two comets 1847; an assistant at the South Villa
observatory, London 1851–2; assistant at Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 1852, where he discovered four minor planets, Amphitrite
2 March 1854, Isis 23 May 1856, Ariadne 15 April 1857, and
Hestra 16 Aug. 1857; awarded Lalande medal of French academy
for the discovery of Isis; assisted sir George Airy in his
experiments for determining the mean density of the earth at
the Horton colliery, Shields 1854; director of John Lee’s
observatory at Hartwell 1859–60; government astronomer at Madras
Oct. 1860 to death; discovered Asia and 4 other minor planets
1861–8, and 8 variable stars 1862–77; prepared a catalogue of
stars for which 51,101 observations were made 1862–87; observed
the total eclipse of the sun on 18 Aug. 1868 at Masulipatam and
was the first to observe the bright line spectrum of the cornea;
F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Report of
the government astronomers on the total eclipse of the sun,
Madras 1868; Result of observations of the fixed stars made at
Madras observatory, 2 vols. 1887–8. _d._ Madras 23 June 1891.
_Monthly notices Royal Astronomical soc. lii_ 235–8 (1892);
_Nature 2 July 1891 pp._ 205–6.

POGSON, WREDENHALL QUEIROS. _b._ 9 Dec. 1816; ensign Bengal army
1836; ensign 43 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, major 12 Sept. 1866;
lieut. col. Bengal infantry 6 March 1868, placed on unemployed
supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 23 Aug. 1884, general 22
Oct. 1889; served in Spain in the Anglo-Spanish legion 1836;
served in the first Afghan war 1840–2, the Sutlej campaign 1846,
and the Bhootan expedition 1864–6. _d._ St. Margaret’s place,
Brighton 9 Sept. 1891.

POITEVIN, MONSIEUR. Went up sitting on a pony attached to a
balloon; his wife posing as Europa went up on the back of a bull
Aug. 1852; went up from Cremorne gardens in a balloon with 21
persons 20 Sept. 1852, the balloon came down and was blown along
the ground for two miles, much hurting many of the passengers;
ascended on a horse near Paris 1852; nearly drowned in the sea
near Malaga while descending from his balloon 1858. _d._ 1858.
_Annual Register 1852 pp._ 128, 147.

POLACK, JOEL SAMUEL. _b._ London 28 March 1807; emigrated to
New Zealand 1831; a ship chandler in the Bay of Islands 1832,
purchased about 1,100 acres of land; returned to London May
1837; gave evidence before select committee of house of lords
on New Zealand 1838; a member of the Colonial society of London
1838; lived latterly at San Francisco; author of New Zealand, a
narrative of travels and adventures, 2 vols. 1838; Manners and
customs of the New Zealanders, 2 vols. 1840. _d._ San Francisco
17 April 1882.

POLAND, ALFRED (2 son of succeeding). _b._ London Aug. 1822;
educ. at Highgate gram. sch.; at Guy’s hospital; articled
pupil of Aston Key, paying £500; M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1847;
demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1845, assist. surgeon 1849,
surgeon 1861, a most expert operator; gained Fothergill prize
of Med. soc. of London 1853 and Jacksonian prize 1857; surgeon
ophthalmic hospital, Moorfields, London; in practice at 42
Finsbury circus, London; F.M. and C. Soc. 1850; with G. H.
Barlow edited Guy’s hospital reports sometime; contributed to T.
Holmes’ System of surgery 1860 the articles Tetanus i 299–322,
Animal poisons i 618–49, Injuries of the chest ii 340–87, and
Urinary calculi and lithotomy iv 424–77. _d._ 2 Blackheath
villas, Blackheath, Kent 21 Aug. 1872. _Medical times and
gazette ii_ 338–9 (1872); _Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc.
vii_ 135–6 (1875); _Lancet 31 Aug. 1872 p._ 318.

POLAND, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Peter Raymond Poland of
Highgate, Middlesex). _b._ 7 March 1797; sheriff of London and
Middlesex 1831, and as such knighted at St. James’s palace 9
March 1831. _d._ 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 17 Jany.
1884.

POLDING, JOHN BEDE. _b._ Liverpool 18 Nov. 1794; educ. St.
Gregory’s coll. Downside, near Bath, and at Acton Burnell
1805–10; joined the Benedictine order 16 July 1810, ordained
a priest 4 March 1819; tutor at St. Gregory’s college, March
1819; declined bishopric of Madras 1833; bishop of Australia
and Van Diemen’s Land 2 May 1834, being consecrated bishop of
Hiero-Cæserea 29 June 1834; arrived in Sydney 13 Sept. 1835,
inaugurated 20 Sept.; employed on a special mission to Malta,
made a count of the holy Roman empire and a bishop-assistant
to the papal throne 20 July 1842; archbishop of Sydney 20 July
1842 to death; visited Europe 1841, 1846–8, 1854–6, and 1865–6;
consecrated Dr. Murphy, bishop of Adelaide, the first bishop
consecrated in Australia 8 Sept. 1844. _d._ the Sacred heart
presbytery, Darlinghurst, Sydney 16 March 1877, twenty thousand
people attended his funeral. _Australian portrait gallery_
(1885) 79–84 _portrait_.

POLE, ARTHUR CUNLIFFE VAN NOTTEN (5 son of Charles Van Notten
Pole 1772–1864, resumed name of Van Notten by R.L. 19 July
1853). _b._ 3 July 1806; ensign 63 foot 7 Nov. 1826, lieut.
colonel 2 Sept. 1844 to 23 Dec. 1853; inspecting field officer
of recruiting districts 23 Dec. 1853 to 13 Dec. 1859; colonel 63
foot 27 March 1868 to death; L.G. 9 April 1868. _d._ 66 Oxford
terrace, Edgware road, London 21 Aug. 1873.

POLE, EDWARD (4 son of sir Peter Pole, 2 baronet 1770–1850).
_b._ 26 Aug. 1805; cornet 12 lancers 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 30
March 1847, placed on h.p. 5 March 1861; colonel 5 lancers 22
Nov. 1868 to 1 Jany. 1872; colonel 12 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877; commanded the cavalry and artillery
in general Somerset’s expedition over the Kei 1851, and the 12
lancers in Kaffir war 1851–3; served in the Crimea from 9 May
1855. _d._ Poyle park, Tongham, Surrey 3 Feb. 1879.

POLE, EDWARD SACHEVERELL CHANDOS (1 son of Sacheverell Pole
1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807).
_b._ 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s
hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college;
ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren
expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the
family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of
yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate
of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The
Squire. _d._ Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. _Journal of
British Archæol. Assoc. xx_ 167 (1864); _G.M. March 1863 p._ 387.

POLE, WILLIAM (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). _b._ 6 July
1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824;
barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in
Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll.
Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the
best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life
of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the
Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on
the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams
1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist
1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The
philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist
1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The
evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London
1866 to death. _d._ 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884.
_W. P. Courtney’s English whist_ (1894) 224, 398.

POLE-CAREW, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P.,
_d._ 1835). _b._ St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811;
educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A.
1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854;
recorder of East Looe 1857–86. _d._ Villa Poralto, Cannes 20
Jany. 1888.

POLEHAMPTON, HENRY STEDMAN (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector
of Great Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ Great Greenford rectory
1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb.
coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of
his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A.
1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to
30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849;
an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the
Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the
siege 8 July 1857. _d._ Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. _bur._
in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch.
Shrewsbury. _A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton_,
_3 ed._ (1859).

POLES, STEFAN. _b._ Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria;
took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned
to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in
America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to
fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists
in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when
he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for
accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in
Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska
expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau,
Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S.
Poles _v._ The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of
M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum,
a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63
High Holborn 1875. _d._ Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov.
1875. _Times 26 Nov. 1875 p._ 7.

NOTE.--The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Russian spy, son to the chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was censor of the press there previous to the last uprising.

His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Russell st. in front of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet.

POLHILL-TURNER, FREDERICK CHARLES (son of Frederick Polhill
1798–1848, capt. king’s dragoon guards). _b._ Howbury hall,
Bedford 14 March 1826; educ. Dr. Burney’s sch. Gosport; cornet
6 dragoon guards 2 Aug. 1844, captain 24 Nov. 1848, sold out 10
Feb. 1852; took additional name of Turner by R.L. Feb. 1853;
sheriff of Beds. 1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first
mounted volunteers 1860; M.P. Bedford 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March
1880; contested Bedford 29 April 1859, 28 June 1859, 18 Nov.
1868, and 1 April 1880. _d._ Newcastle, co. Down 18 Aug. 1881.

POLLARD, JOHN (son of John Pollard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Kingsand,
Cornwall 27 July 1787; entered navy 1 Nov. 1797; signal
midshipman on board the Victory at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct.
1805, helped to arrange the signal England expects every man
will do his duty; shot the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson;
congratulated by sir Thomas Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14
Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast guard, Stranraer district 2
Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at Greenwich hospital 12
Jany. 1853 to death. _d._ Greenwich hospital 22 April 1868.
_G.M. May 1868 p._ 786; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1878) 504.

POLLARD, JOSHUA. _b._ Leeds 1815; in a mercantile house; removed
to Bradford where he was in business from 1837; the second
person who signed the pledge in Leeds; representative of Leeds
temperance soc. to conference of British temperance association
at Preston 1836; president of Bradford temperance soc. some
years; high chief ruler of Independent order of Rechabites;
member of Bradford town council 1852–66, alderman to 1868;
member of Bradford school board; removed to Nottingham 1877.
_d._ Ossington villas Nottingham 9 Dec. 1886. _bur._ Scholemoor
cemetery 13 Dec. _Bradford Observer 11 Dec. 1886 p._ 7.

POLLARD, WILLIAM (9 child of James Pollard). _b._ Horsham,
Sussex 10 June 1828; educ. Friends’ school, Croydon; a teacher
at Ackworth school, Yorkshire 1853–66; employed by Francis
Frith, photographer at Reigate 1866–72; secretary and lecturer
to Manchester peace and arbitration society, living at Sale,
Cheshire 1872–91; co-editor with W. E. Turner of the British
Friend, monthly periodical 1891; a minister among the Friends
from 1865; author of The Ackworth reading book 1865, 2 ed.
1872; The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history of that noble family
1868; Choice readings in English literature 1873; Old-fashioned
quakerism: its origin, results, and future, four lectures 1887;
contributed Primitive christianity revived and Congregational
worship to the Old Banner series of Quaker tracts 1864–6; author
with Francis Frith and W. E. Turner of A reasonable faith. By
Three Friends 1884 and 1886. _d._ Manchester 26 Sept. 1893.
_bur._ Friends’ burial ground, Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester.
_Annual Monitor_ (1894) 126–39.

POLLARD-URQUHART, WILLIAM (eld. child of Wm. Dalton Pollard
of Kintuck, Castle-Pollard, co. Westmeath 1789–1839). _b._
Kintuck 19 June 1815; educ. Harrow 1829 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
scholar; 18th wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838. M.A. 1843; student at
Inner Temple; sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of
Urquhart by R.L. 1846; M.P. Westmeath 1852–7 and 1859 to death;
author of Agricultural distress and its remedies, Aberdeen 1850;
Essays on subjects of political economy 1850; The substitution
of direct for indirect taxation necessary to carry out the
policy of free trade 1851; Life and times of Francesco Sforza,
duke of Milan, 2 vols. 1852; A short account of the Prussian
land credit companies, Dublin 1853; Dialogues on taxation, local
and imperial 1867. _d._ 19 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 1 June
1871.

POLLEN, SIR JOHN WALTER, 2 Baronet (son of sir John Pollen,
1 baronet, _d._ 1814). _b._ Redenham house, near Andover 6
April 1784; succeeded 17 Aug. 1814; M.P. Andover 1820–31 and
1835–41; contested Andover 29 June 1841; colonel of South Hants.
militia 25 June 1827 to 1854. _d._ Grosvenor hotel, 30 Park st.
Grosvenor sq. London 2 May 1863. _G.M. xiv_ 791 (1863).

POLLOCK, ALFRED ATKINSON (youngest son of sir David Pollock
1780–1847, chief justice of Bombay). _b._ 16 Feb. 1826; admitted
at Westminster school 26 Jany. 1835; solicitor at 31 New Broad
st. 1853–5; partner with Wm. Parke at 63 Lincoln’s inn fields
1855–64; practised alone 1864–72; partner with Arthur Pollock
1872 to death; composer of the songs O let the solid ground
1861; Remembrance 1861; O swallow, swallow, flying south 1880,
the words by A. Tennyson; resided Heathfield, Hilford road,
Hampstead. _drowned_ while bathing at Totland bay, Freshwater,
Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1873, personalty sworn under £400,000, 10
Sept. 1873. _Law Times 23 Aug. 1873 p._ 317; _Times 19 Sept.
1873 p._ 5.

POLLOCK, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (youngest son of David Pollock
of Charing Cross, London, saddler to George III). _b._ London 4
June 1786; educ. R.M.A. Woolwich 1801–3; lieut. Bengal artillery
14 Dec. 1803, brigade major 1815–20; assistant adjutant general
of artillery 1820–4; colonel commandant 3 March 1835 to death;
commanded Bengal artillery in Burmese war 1824; commander of
the armies west of the Indus Jany. 1842. forced the Kyber pass
5 April 1842, relieved sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad 16 April,
defeated the Afghans at Mamookail Aug., at Jugdulluk 8 Sept.,
and again on 13 Sept., entered Cabul 16 Sept., released the
prisoners 21 Sept., brought his army back in safety to India;
commanded the Danapur division 1842; the thanks of both houses
of parliament were voted to him 1843; acting resident at Lucknow
Dec. 1843 to 1844; military member of supreme council of India
20 Sept. 1844 to 1845; granted a pension of £1,000 by the
H.E.I. Co. 1846; voted freedom of city of London 6 April 1846,
admitted 17 Dec. 1847; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel of 1st Surrey
rifles (Camberwell) 6 July 1861 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826,
G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866;
a director of the East India company 12 April 1854 to April
1856; general 17 May 1859, field marshal 24 May 1870; constable
of the Tower of London and lieutenant and custos rotulorum of
the Tower Hamlets 14 Nov. 1871 to death; created baronet 26
March 1872. _d._ Walmer 6 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Westminster abbey
16 Oct., portrait by sir Francis Grant in the India office, and
marble bust by Joseph Durham in National portrait gallery. _C.
R. Lowe’s Life of sir G. Pollock_ (1873) _portrait_; _J. H.
Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan_ (1843) 201 _et seq._;
_A. Forbes’s The Afghan wars_ (1892) 30 _&c. portrait_; _I.L.N.
i_ 356 (1842) _portrait_, _lix_ 441, 442 (1871) _portrait_;
_Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 349–52.

POLLOCK, JAMES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Pollock, captain 43 foot).
_b._ Strathallan, Isle of Man 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; C. of Bowdon, Cheshire 1861; C. of St.
Paul’s, Birmingham 1861–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist,
Hammersmith 1864–5; C. of St. Alban’s, Birmingham 1865–71, and
P.C. of St. Alban’s 1871 to death; author of One hundred reasons
against auricular confession 1867; Resting-places, a manual
of christian doctrine 1870, 3 ed. 1877; Out of the body, a
scriptural inquiry 1875; The measure of faith 1877; author with
Thomas Benson Pollock of Gospel words 1876. _d._ St. Alban’s
clergy house, Birmingham 22 Dec. 1895.

POLLOCK, JESSIE (dau. of Mr. Fraser, actor). _b._ 1802;
connected with the theatre royal, Marischal st. Aberdeen
from 1817 to her death; _m._ (1) about 1830 Corbet Ryder,
theatrical manager, Aberdeen, _d._ 1843; _m._ (2) about 1847
Mr. Pollock, actor, _d._ 1853; actress, lessee, and manager of
the theatre, Aberdeen to 1862, on her final retirement from the
stage presented with her portrait, as Lady Macbeth, painted by
Innes 1874, the portrait is now in Her majesty’s opera house,
Aberdeen; she was good in Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Emelia,
Julia, Pauline, Lady Teazle, and Mrs. Simpson. _d._ Dalkeith 1
July 1875. _bur._ St. Peter’s cemetery, Aberdeen 5 July. _J. K.
Angus’ A Scotch play-house_ (1878) 26–8; _Era 11 July 1875 p._
9; _Aberdeen Journal 7 July 1875 p._ 6.