Chapter LXXII: Part 72

POLLOCK, SIR JONATHAN FREDERICK, 1 Baronet (brother of sir
George Pollock 1786–1872). _b._ Piccadilly, London 23 Sept.
1783; educ. St. Paul’s school 1800, Perry exhibitioner to
Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1803, scholar 1804, fellow 1807, senior
wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809;
barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1807, went northern circuit, became
leader; K.C. 13 June 1827; bencher of I.T. 1827–44, reader
1836–7, treasurer 1837; commissary of univ. of Camb. 1824–35;
F.R.S. 1816, F.G.S. 1818; attorney general for county palatine
of Lancaster 1834–5; M.P. Huntingdon 2 May 1831 to April 1844; a
comr. for inquiry into practice of courts of law 1831; attorney
general 17 Dec. 1834 to 9 April 1835, and 6 Sept. 1841 to 15
April 1844; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 29 Dec. 1834;
sergeant-at-law 15 April 1844; lord chief baron of court of
court of exchequer 15 April 1844, retired 12 July 1866; P.C.
17 April 1844; created baronet 24 July 1866. _d._ at his seat
Hatton, Middlesex 23 Aug. 1870. _bur._ Hanwell cemet. 29 Aug.
_Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet_, 2
_vols._ (1887); _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_ (1895) 76–81;
_Law mag. and law review xxx_ 200–16 (1871); _Portraits of
eminent conservatives_ (_1 series 1836_) _portrait xxx_; _I.L.N.
i_ 304 (1842) _portrait_, _xlix_ 424 (1866) _portrait_, _lvii_
283 (1870); _Law Journal v_ 479–81 (1870).

POLLOCK, JOSEPH (eld. son of Edward Pollock of co. Down,
Ireland, barrister). _b._ co. Down, Ireland 1818; educ. Armagh
college and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1834;
barrister G.I. 11 June 1842, went northern circuit; practised in
Manchester; judge of Salford court of record to Nov. 1851; judge
of county court of Liverpool Nov. 1851, retired on pension of
£1,000, Oct. 1857. _d._ 2 Dorset st. Manchester sq. London 26
May 1858. _Law Times 5 June 1858 p._ 146.

POLLOCK, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 22 Sept. 1812;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1841,
B.D. and D.D. 1868; V. of St. Thomas, Stockport to 1840; C. of
Ch. Ch. Macclesfield 1841; V. of St. Helens, Lancs. 1841–6; P.C.
of St. Mark’s, Liverpool 1846–56; V. of Bowden, near Altrincham
1856 to death; archdeacon of Chester and hon. canon of Chester
cathedral 1867, resigned 1870; author of Foundations, being a
series of essays on fundamental truths 1856; Fourteen reasons
for responding and singing in church 1866; The temptation of
our blessed Lord, and other poems 1873. _d._ Devonshire place,
Claughton, Birkenhead 11 Oct. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).

POLLOCK, SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK, 2 Baronet (son of sir Jonathan
Frederick Pollock, 1 baronet 1783–1870). _b._ 23 Bernard st.
Russell sq. London 3 April 1815; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1825–33,
and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1835; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840;
barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838; revising barrister northern
circuit 1840; master in court of exchequer Aug. 1846; queen’s
remembrancer 18 Dec. 1874; resigned Sept. 1886; president of
Equitable assurance society; member of Royal toxophilite soc. 15
July 1858, which he assisted financially and gave to it prizes
for competition; succeeded as 2 baronet 23 Aug. 1870; author of
The divine comedy, or the inferno, purgatory and paradise of
Dante rendered into English 1854; Personal remembrances 1887;
edited Reminiscences of W. C. Macready, 2 vols. 1876; _m._ 1844
Juliet, dau. of rev. Henry Creed, vicar of Corse, Gloucs., she
was a well known toxophilite. _d._ 59 Montagu sq. London 24
Dec. 1888. _Follett’s Archer’s register_ (1889) 67–9; _Personal
remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet_, 2 _vols._
(1887).

POLLOK, ARTHUR (son of Thomas Pollok). _b._ Faside 1781; with
his brother John entered grocery business of Allan Pollok,
Glasgow; they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804,
the firm being Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed
the branch at Grangemouth, then the branch houses at St. John
and Miramichi 1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and
acquired forests and saw mills; the largest ship owners in
the United Kingdom; retired from business 1853; John Pollock
_b._ Faside 1778, _d._ 1858; he _d._ Broom, Faside 1870. _J.
Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 263–4 (1886) _portrait_.

POLLOK, ROBERT. _b._ Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in
Ayrshire; entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united
secession presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven,
Fifeshire 1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death;
author of Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8.
_d._ 1879. _Our Scottish clergy_, _2 series_ 266–71 (1849).

POLTIMORE, GEORGE WARWICK BAMPFYLDE, 1 Baron Poltimore (only
child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823).
_b._ 23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823;
created baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord
in waiting to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841;
colonel of North Devon militia. _d._ Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858.

POLWARTH, HENRY FRANCIS HEPBURNE-SCOTT, 7 Baron (eld. son of
5 baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname
of Hepburne). _b._ Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire
1826–32; succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for
Scotland June or July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of
Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to death; a lord in waiting to the
queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June 1859, and July 1866 to his
death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle volunteers 9 Nov. 1861
to death. _d._ Merton house, co. Berwick 16 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_
533 (1867).

POLWHELE, THOMAS (5 son of rev. Richard Polwhele, author
1760–1838). _b._ Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal
army 1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb.
1818; captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850
to 1851; lieut. col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7,
and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4 May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March
1856 to 1857; general 13 Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816,
in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah 1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan
1839–42, in the Sutlej campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R.
G. Polwhele at Polwhele, near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. _d._ Tivoli
lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885. _J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials
of Afghanistan_ (1843) 141 _et seq._; _G. C. Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 746.

POND, CHARLES ALEXANDER MACLEAN (eld. son of B. C. Pond of
102 Brixton Hill, Surrey). _b._ 1864; educ. St. John’s coll.
Camb., fellow 1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890;
Prendergast Greek student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics
at Auckland, New Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. _d_. Auckland 28
Oct. 1893.

POND, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ England 1826; with Felix Spiers
proprietors of the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia;
connected with bringing the first English team of cricketers
to Australia 23 Dec. 1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion
restaurant and theatre 218–223 Piccadilly, London 1873, at
cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened 21 March 1874; wine
and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels and refreshment
rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and Metropolitan railways,
also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343 Strand, and of the
Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne hill, Surrey.
_d._ Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. _bur._ Norwood 5 Aug.,
will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty £215,000,
bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand staircase
of the Criterion Oct. 1886. _Morning Advertiser 1 Aug. 1881 p._
4, _6 Aug. p._ 2.

POND, RICHARD RADCLIFFE. _b._ 1824; advertising agent at 17
Upper Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at
1 Exeter Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury
Lane theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers;
connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally
descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary
enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. _d._
1 Albert villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. _G. L. M.
Strauss, Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 113–24 (1882).

PONIATOWSKI, _Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann_ (son of
Stanislas Poniatowski 1754–1833). _b._ Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a
musician, tenor singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in
Tuscany 1848; minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris
1848–70; naturalised in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to
death; his opera Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872;
among his compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song
1871; The flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico
in tre atti 1872; The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen,
song 1875; Mass in F for four voices and chorus 1876. _d._ at
his residence, London 3 July 1873. _bur._ Chislehurst 8 July.
_Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii_ 1391 (1874).

PONSFORD, JOHN. _b._ Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome;
painted portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter
of his day in Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I.,
and 5 at Suffolk st. 1823–57. _d._ London 1870. _G. Pycroft’s
Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106.

PONSONBY, JOHN PONSONBY, 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron
Ponsonby 1744–1806). _b._ 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P.
Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as
2 baron Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time;
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres
28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special
mission to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8
June to 9 Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832
to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850;
G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co.
Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern
question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. _d._
Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. _Lamington’s Days of the dandies_ (1890)
75–9; _Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii_ 369–70
(1868); _Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord
Ponsonby at Brussels_ 1831.

PONSONBY, EMILY CHARLOTTE MARY (3 dau. of 4 earl of Bessborough
1781–1847). _b._ Margaret st. London 17 Feb. 1817; author of the
following novels, most of them originally published anonymously,
The discipline of life, 3 vols. 1848. 2 ed. 1848; Pride and
irresolution, 3 vols. 1850, a new series of the former book;
Clare abbey, or the trials of youth, 2 vols. 1851; Mary Gray and
other tales and verses 1852; Edward Willoughby, a tale, 2 vols.
1854; The young lord, 2 vols. 1856; Sunday readings 1857; The
two brothers, 3 vols. 1858; A mother’s trial 1859; Katherine
and her sisters 1861, 2 ed. 1863; Mary Lyndsay, 3 vols. 1863;
Violet Osborne, 3 vols. 1865; Sir Owen Fairfax, 3 vols. 1866; A
story of two cousins 1868; Nora, 3 vols. 1870; Oliver Beaumont
and lord Latimer, 3 vols. 1873. _d._ 3 Feb. 1877. _D. J.
O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_, _part iii_, _p._ 206 (1892).

PONSONBY, FREDERICK JOHN (3 son of sir Frederick Cavendish
Ponsonby 1783–1837). _b._ 21 March 1837; educ. Harrow 1850–5,
and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; champion tennis
player at Oxford; C. of St. Giles, Reading 1862–7; chaplain of
Hampton court palace 1867–8; R. of Brington, Northants 1868–77;
V. of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1877 to death; rural
dean of St. Pancras 1877; a member of the English church union;
took a great interest in devotional retreats. _d._ 3 Cambridge
place, Regent’s park, London 3 Feb. 1894. _Church portrait
journal v_ 41 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Feb. 1894 p._ 163
_portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4 _portrait_.

PONSONBY, SIR HENRY FREDERICK (eld. son of sir Frederic
Cavendish Ponsonby, major general 1783–1837). _b._ Corfu 10
Dec. 1825; ensign 49 foot 27 Dec. 1842; lieut. grenadier guards
16 Feb. 1844, major 27 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 April 1870;
A.D.C. to lords Clarendon and St. Germans, lord lieutenants of
Ireland 1847–58; served in Crimean war 1855–6; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1880;
equerry to prince Albert 1856–61; private secretary and extra
equerry to the queen 8 April 1870 to May 1895, and keeper of the
privy purse 8 Oct. 1878 to May 1895; C.B. 26 Aug. 1872, K.C.B.
12 March 1879, G.C.B. 21 June 1887; P.C. 20 April 1880; a hard
worker and a faithful servant in the service of the queen. _d._
East Cowes, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Whippingham. _St.
James’s Budget 29 Nov. 1895 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Strand mag. Dec.
1892 p._ 588, 5 _portraits_; _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 7; _Graphic
30 Nov. 1895 p._ 672 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 Nov. 1895 p._ 671
_portrait_.

PONSONBY, RICHARD (3 son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806).
_b._ Dublin 1772; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 3 July 1817,
installed 8 July; bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1828;
translated to Derry patent dated 21 Sept. 1831, enthroned 2
Oct., the bishopric of Raphoe was united to Derry in pursuance
of the Church temporalities act Sept. 1834; president of Church
education society; author of A sermon 1834. _d._ the Palace,
Derry 27 Oct. 1853. _G.M. xl_ 630 (1853).

PONTON, MUNGO (only son of John Ponton, farmer). _b._ Balgreen,
near Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1802; admitted writer to the signet 8
Dec. 1825; a founder of National bank of Scotland 21 March
1825, secretary 1825–46; communicated to the Society of arts
for Scotland 29 May 1839 a simple method of preparing paper for
photographic drawing in which the use of any salt of silver
is dispensed with, in this paper he announced the discovery
that the action of sunlight renders bichromate of potassium
insoluble, a discovery which forms the basis of nearly all the
photo-mechanical processes now in use; F.R.S. Edinb. 1834;
author of The sanctuary, its lessons and worship 1849; The
material universe, its vastness and durability 1863; Earthquakes
and volcanoes 1868, 2 ed. 1888; The beginning, its when and
its how 1871; Glimpses of the future life 1873; Songs of the
soul 1877; The freedom of the truth 1878. _d._ Clifton 3 Aug.
1880. _H. B. Pritchard’s Year book of photography for 1882_,
_portrait_; _Photographic News 20 Aug. 1880 pp._ 402–3.

PONTON, THOMAS (son of Thomas Ponton of Battersea, Surrey).
_b._ 1781; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., created M.A. 28
March 1800; barrister L.I. 26 April 1804; a governor of Christ’s
hospital; one of the founders of the Roxburghe club 1812, and
edited for it La Morte d’ Arthur 1819. _d._ 4 Hill st. Berkeley
sq. London 13 April 1853. _G.M. xli_ 92 (1854).

POOK, EDMUND WALTER (son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook of 2 London
st. Greenwich, bookseller and stationer). _b._ 1850; a singer;
tried at central criminal court 13 July 1871 for murder of Jane
Maria Clousen, a servant to his father, who was found nearly
dead in Kidbrook lane, near Eltham, Kent 26 April and _d._ in
Guy’s hospital 30 April 1871, aged 17; he _d._ Salisbury st.
London 23 April 1882. _A.R._ (1871) 229–34; _Central criminal
court session paper_, _minutes of evidence lxxiv_ 245–309
(1871); _The Eltham tragedy reviewed by C._ [_i.e. Newton
Crosland_] 1871, _4 ed._ 1871; _A report of the speeches at the
Blackheath meeting on the Pook v. Farrah libel case 1871_.

POOLE, ANNIE. A singer at concerts in Bristol; appeared at
theatre royal, Bristol as Jessy in the Crimson scarf Sept. 1876;
played Patience in Sullivan’s Henry VIII at Manchester and
Liverpool; was seen as Cinderella at Glasgow; played Madame Vere
de Vere in Tantalus at Folly theatre 14 Oct. 1878; played Jelly
in W. S. Gilbert’s Princess Toto at Opera Comique 15 Oct. 1881;
was seen in many provincial pantomimes at Bristol, etc.; _m._
Russell Craufurd, actor. _d._ St. Saviour’s hospital, Osnaburgh
st. Regent’s park, London 15 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemet.
_Illust. sp. and dr. news xii_ 121, 151 (1879) _portrait_.

POOLE, ARTHUR WILLIAM (son of Thomas Francis Poole). _b._
Shrewsbury 6 Aug. 1852; educ. Shrewsbury school and Worcester
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, D.D. 1883; C. of St. Aldate’s,
Oxford 1876; master of the high school at Masulipatam, Madras
1878–81; a missionary at Telugu in South India 1881–3;
missionary bishop of Japan May 1883 to 1885, consecrated in the
chapel, Lambeth palace 18 Oct. 1883; spent winter of 1884–5
in California. _d._ at his father’s residence, Fairfield,
Shrewsbury 14 July 1885. _Times 20 July 1885 p._ 6.

POOLE, EDWARD STANLEY (elder son of rev. Edward Richard Poole,
barrister and book collector, and of Sophia Poole 1804–91). _b._
1830; chief clerk of the science and art department, London 1857
to death; an Arabic scholar; wrote many articles for W. Smith’s
Dictionary of the bible, 4 vols. 1868; contributed to 8th ed.
of Encyclopædia Britannica; edited Edward Wm. Lane’s Thousand
and one nights, new ed. 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1883, and his
Account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1860,
2 ed. 1871. _d._ St. Nicholas road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 12
March 1867.

POOLE, ELLEN. _b._ 1846; known on the music hall stage as Nellie
Desmond; _m._ John Joshua Poole, and helped in the management
of the South London music hall, London road, Surrey from 1872,
carried it on alone from 1882; Harry Ulph, junior was a partner
with her for a short time in 1882; aided by her eldest son Jules
Joshua Poole later on (he _d._ Cape Town 21 Dec. 1895 aged 22),
sold the hall to a company 1893, remaining the manager; she
became bankrupt 12 June 1895; her daughters Violet and Evelyn
are on the music hall stage. _d._ London 1 Nov. 1895. _bur._
Abney park cemetery.

POOLE, GEORGE AYLIFFE. _b._ 1809; scholar of Emmanuel coll.
Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1838; C. of Twickenham 1831–4; C. of
St. John the Evangelist, Edinburgh 1834–7; C. of St. Chad,
Shrewsbury 1837–9; P.C. of St. James’s, Leeds 1839–43; V. of
Welford, Northamptonshire 1843–76; R. of Winwick near Rugby
June 1876 to death; rural dean of Haddon 1876; promoted the
revival of Gothic architecture; contributed 35 papers to
Architectural soc. of archdeaconry of Northampton 1846–77;
author of The exile’s return, or a cat’s journey from Glasgow
to Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1837; The testimony of St. Cyprian
against Rome 1838; The life and times of St. Cyprian, Oxford
1840; The appropriate character of church architecture, Leeds
1842, reissued as Churches, their structure, arrangement, and
decoration 1845; A history of England from the invasion by the
Romans to the accession of queen Victoria, 2 vols. 1844–5, 2 ed.
1855; A history of ecclesiastical architecture in England 1848;
Peterborough 1881 in Diocesan histories; his name is attached
to upwards of 30 works 1834–83. _d._ Winwick rectory 25 Sept.
1883. _Northamptonshire Notes and queries i_ 15–17, 73 (1886);
_Academy xxiv_ 229 (1883).

POOLE, HENRY. _b._ 1785; a Sunday school teacher under rev.
J. J. Biddulph at Bristol; C. of Ossett, near Wakefield 1811;
in part charge of Corsham, Wilts. 1814; P.C. of chapelries of
Coleford and Bream in Newland parish Aug. 1818; rebuilt Coleford
chapel and Bream chapel and erected a church at Park End; P.C.
of St. Paul’s, Dean, Gloucs. 1822 to death; devoted himself
to the welfare of the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean. _d._
Park End, near Lydney, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1857. _H. G. Nicholl’s
Personalities of the forest of Dean_ (1863) 152–60.

POOLE, HENRY GEORGE (son of James Poole of 171 Regent st.
London, tailor, _d._ 1847). _b._ Everett st. Russell sq.
London 8 Nov. 1814; entered his father’s business about 1830;
tailor 32 Savile row, London 1847 to death; firm became H.
Poole and co. 36–39 Savile row; tailor by appointment to most
of the crowned heads of Europe; regularly made clothes for
Napoleon iii; the best known tailoring establishment in the
world; employed 7 coat cutters, 4 trousers and vest cutters, 2
trimmers, and 2 cutters of liveries; began making clothes for
the Prince of Wales 1860, received a warrant of appointment
from him 20 March 1863; resided at Dorset cottage, Fulham about
1860–70, and at Marine parade, Brighton about 1870 to death.
_d._ 118 Marine parade, Brighton 4 May 1876. _bur._ Highgate
cemetery 10 May, personalty sworn under £120,000, 15 June 1876,
left a widow and a sister. His business went to his cousin
Samuel Cundey, his niece Fanny Cutler and his executor Charles
Bentley Bingley. _The Tailor 11 May 1876 p._ 304, _6 July p._
376.

POOLE, JOHN. Ensign 22 foot 24 March 1814, major 18 Oct. 1839 to
30 Nov. 1846, when placed on retired full pay; C.B. 4 July 1843.
_d._ 6 West Mall. Clifton 1 July 1871.

POOLE, JOHN. _b._ 1786; his best known dramas were, produced at
Drury Lane, Hamlet travestie 17 June 1813; Who’s who, or the
double imposture 15 Nov. 1815; Deaf as a post 15 Feb. 1823;
My wife, what wife 2 April 1829; produced at Covent Garden A
short reign and a merry one 19 Nov. 1819; The two pages of
Frederick the Great 1 Dec. 1821; The Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825;
The wife’s stratagem 13 March 1827; produced at the Haymarket
Match making 25 Aug. 1821; Married and single 16 July 1824;
Paul Pry 13 Sept. 1825; Twixt the cup and the lip 12 June
1826; Lodgings for single gentlemen 15 June 1829; resided in
Paris many years; a brother of the Charterhouse, but resigned
his appointment; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Feb.
1851; author of Crotchets in the air, or a balloon trip 1838;
Christmas festivities 1845–8, four specimens; Comic miscellany
1845; Little Pedlington, 2 vols. 1839; Phineas Quiddy, or sheer
industry, 3 vols. 1843. _d._ Highgate road, Kentish Town, London
5 Feb. 1872. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 10 Feb. _J. Poole’s Sketches
and recollections_, 2 _vols._ (1835) _portrait_; _J. Poole’s
Christmas festivities_ (1845) _portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Book of
memories_, _2 ed._ (1877) 160–2; _Era 18 Feb. 1872 p._ 9; _New
Monthly Mag. xxxi_ 271–81 (1831) _portrait_.

POOLE, JOHN JOSHUA (son of a hatter). _b._ King st. Southwark,
London 1826; member of orchestra of theatre royal, Birmingham;
musical director and manager of Holden’s music hall,
Birmingham; manager of Metropolitan music hall, Edgware road,
London; with Henry Speedy proprietor of South London music
hall 1872–9, sole proprietor 1879 to death; he much encouraged
his pianist Walter Slaughter, who wrote his first ballet at
the South London. _d._ Connaught house, St. Michael’s road,
Stockwell, Surrey 6 Oct. 1882. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 11 Oct.
_The Era 7 Oct. 1882 p._ 5, _14 Oct. p._ 5.

POOLE, JOSEPH. _b._ Portsmouth 1802; educ. in France; local
Wesleyan preacher at Honiton; a bookseller at Poole, Dorset;
second hand bookseller in London road, London about 1852; at 15,
16 and 39 Holywell st. Strand 1854 to death. _d._ Holywell st.
18 Dec. 1883.

POOLE, MATTHEW. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 5 Madras N.I.
20 June 1822, captain 27 May 1834, major 29 Sept. 1842, lieut.
col. 22 March 1849 to death. _d._ Itchapore 10 July 1855.

POOLE, PAUL FALCONER (4 son of James Paul Poole, grocer). _b._
43 College st. Bristol 28 Dec. 1807; baptised by names of Paul
Fawkner 22 July 1810; historical painter; exhibited 65 pictures
at R.A., 13 at B.I., and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–79; awarded
the Heywood gold medal of the royal Manchester institution
1845 for his picture Solomon Eagle exhorting the people to
repentance during the plague, exhibited at the R.A. 1843; sent a
cartoon The death of King Lear to Westminster Hall competition
1843, and gained a prize of £300 in same competition 1847 for
Edward’s generosity to the people of Calais during the siege;
A.R.A. 1846, R.A. 1861; member of Institute of painters in
water colours 1878; 26 of his works were exhibited at winter
exhibition of the R.A. 1884, with a portrait sketch by Frank
Holl, R.A. _d._ Uplands, Green Hill, Hampstead 22 Sept. 1779.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. _Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_
311–13 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1879) 263, 278; _I.L.N. xxxviii_
175, 176 (1861) _portrait_; _Graphic xx_ 376 (1879) _portrait_.

POOLE, REGINALD STUART (younger brother of Edward Stanley Poole
1830–67). _b._ London 27 Feb. 1832; lived with his mother at
Cairo 1842–9; ascended the Nile twice to study the monuments;
contributed a series of articles to the Literary gazette 1849,
republished in 1851 under title of Horæ Ægyptiacæ or the
chronology of ancient Egypt; an assistant in the department
of antiquities in the British Museum 26 Feb. 1852, assistant
keeper in department of coins and medals July 1866, keeper 29
Oct. 1870, retired 1893; edited and collated 35 volumes of
catalogues, chiefly of coins and medals, four of which and
part of a fifth he wrote himself; sent by trustees of British
Museum to report on antiquities at Cyprus and Alexandria 1869;
lectured on Greek, Egyptian and medallic art to students of the
Royal academy 1883–5; Yates professor of Archæology at univ.
coll. London 1889, resigned 1894; founded with Amelia Betham
Edwards the Egypt exploration fund 1882, honorary secretary to
his death; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1880; founded with Alphonso
Legros the Society of English medallists 1884; author of The
cities of Egypt 1882; and with Sophia Poole, Cairo, Sinai, sixty
views 1860; Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, twenty views 1860. _d._
2 Gladstone’s road. West Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1895. _S.
Lane-Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane_ (1877) 111–121; _Times 9 Feb.
1895 p._ 5.

POOLE, SOPHIA (youngest child of Theophilus Lane, prebendary of
Hereford, _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 16 Jany. 1804; _m._ 1829
rev. Edward Richard Poole, book collector and bibliographer;
lived with her brother Edward Wm. Lane at Cairo 1842–9; author
of The Englishwoman in Egypt, published in Knight’s weekly
volumes, 2 vols. 1844, and a second series forming vol. iii
1846; wrote with her younger son R. S. Poole the descriptive
letterpress of Frith’s Photographic views of Egypt, Sinai and
Jerusalem 1860–1. _d._ at her son’s house, British Museum,
London 6 May 1891. _Academy xxxix_ 466 (1891).

POOLE, WILLIAM HOWELL. _b._ 1856; a sailor 1873; appeared at
the Standard theatre, London under John Douglass about 1874; at
the Surrey as Johnny Lamb in New Babylon; acted in a series of
Shakesperian dramas at Drury Lane; at the Adelphi and at the
Princess’; played Gilbert Vaughan in Called Back at Prince’s
1884; went on tour with his own dramas and his own company;
his dramas were The miracle, Surrey theatre 24 March 1883;
My queen, Gaiety 20 March 1884; Adam Bede, Royal Holborn 2
June 1884; Wronged, Olympic 29 July 1885; Holding the mirror,
Tyne theatre, Newcastle 26 Oct. 1885; Boys together, Prince
of Wales’, Liverpool 28 March 1887; The game of life, Royal
Court, Liverpool 15 Aug. 1887; A people’s hero, Vaudeville
12 June 1890; The wheel of fortune, Sadler’s Wells 12 Jany.
1891; Gertie, Royal Park theatre 26 March 1891; he also wrote
the following novels On golden wings; New Babylon; The hidden
million; A gilded shame, by Owl, 2 vols. 1881; Her wedding
morn; _m._ Alice Raynor. _d._ 27 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Abney park
cemetery 1 Feb.

POOLEY, ALFRED. _b._ 1839 or 1840; organist of Liverpool
cathedral about 1863–74; organist of St. Matthew’s, Sydney,
Australia to death. _d._ Sydney 7 March 1896.

POOLEY, HENRY. _b._ West Derby, near Liverpool 4 Jany. 1803;
partner with his father Henry Pooley (who _d._ 1841) as H.
Pooley and son at Albion foundry, Liverpool, 89 Fleet st.
London, Wellington st. Gateshead, and Commercial st. Newport,
Monmouth 1830, makers of scales, weighbridges, and weighing
tables, took out numerous patents; their platform weighing
machines are seen in railway stations throughout the world;
retired 1872; gave a school to village of Seacombe 1876;
A.I.C.E. 21 Jany. 1851. _d._ Home Cross, Liscard, Cheshire 1
Sept. 1878. _G. L. M. Strauss’s England’s workshops_ (1864)
26–9; _Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lv_ 331–33 (1879);
_Pooley’s Patent weighing apparatus_ (1859).

POOLEY, JOHN HENRY (only son of Henry Pooley of Kelvedon,
Essex). _b._ 17 Oct. 1803; educ. Dedham and St. John’s coll.
Camb., 2 senior optime, 3 in first class of classical tripos and
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, B.D. 1837; Norrisian prizeman 1828; fellow
of his college 1826–35; C. of St. James’, Piccadilly, London
1832–3; R, of Scotter, near Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1833 to death;
rural dean of Corringham 1839; hon. canon of Lincoln 1845 to
death; author of The nature and use of parables 1828, Norrisian
medal essay: The case of the rev. W. T. Humphreys, missionary at
Myaveram 1843. _d._ Scotter rectory 29 April 1895.

POPE, HENRY MONTAGUE RANDALL (eld. son of Peter M. Pope,
physician, West Malling, Kent). _b._ 21 May 1849; educ. Merchant
Taylor’s school 1859–67; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf.
1867–72; B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; Craven scholar 1872; fellow of
Lincoln coll. 1872–4; pupil of George Sweet the conveyancer;
barrister L.I. 7 June 1873; equity draftsman and conveyancer;
one of the originators and the first chairman of the Coffee
tavern company limited 1877; published A treatise on the law
and practice of lunacy 1877, 2 ed. 1890; The bills of sale act,
with notes 1878. _d._ on board the Rodney at sea on his way to
Australia 18 Nov. 1880. _Law Times lxx_ 250 (1881).

POPE, JOSEPH JOHN (son of Samuel Pope of London, merchant).
_b._ 1836; L.S.A. 1857; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.M. 1857; senior
house surgeon Liverpool south hospital; assist. surgeon in
royal artillery 1 April 1861, retired as a surgeon 1 Dec. 1873;
professor of hygiene Birkbeck institute; lecturer to National
health association, lectured throughout England and Scotland;
secretary to William Holland, the peoples’ caterer; contributed
to sporting and social periodicals, wrote in The Sporting Times
under the signature of Jope, and was the author of many of the
best jokes in that paper; he wrote Clothing, simple lessons for
home use 1877; Number one and how to take care of him, a series
of popular talks 1883; Health, its friends and foes. _d._ 4
South crescent, Bedford sq. London 6 April 1885. _Sporting Times
11 April 1885 p._ 1; _Medical Times i_ 499 (1885), _14 March
1891 p._ 2.

POPE, MRS. _b._ Settle, Yorkshire 1809; first appeared on stage
at Hastings as Mrs. Haller in the Stranger; leading actress at
Birmingham, Bristol and other places; went to America 1846,
appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as Margaret Elmore 2 Nov.
1846; made a tour in southern and western states; acted Mrs.
Haller at the Arch theatre, Philadelphia 14 Jany, 1847; the Lady
Macbeth at Astor place opera house at time of Macready-Forrest
riots in New York 7 May 1849; acted Romeo at Academy of
music, New York 1852; reappeared at a benefit tendered her
at Indianapolis, Indiana 25 May 1878; _m._ William Coleman
Pope, he went mad and committed suicide 1 June 1868; she _d._
Indianapolis 16 March 1880.

POPE-HENNESSY, SIR JOHN (3 son of John Hennessy of
Ballyhennessy, co. Kerry). _b._ Cork 1834; educ. Queen’s coll.
Cork; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1861; M.P. King s county 1859–65,
being the first Roman catholic conservative member; governor of
Labuan and consul general in Borneo 21 Nov. 1867, returned to
England 2 Oct. 1871; acting governor of the Gold Coast 27 Feb.
1872 to 16 Feb. 1873; governor of the Bahamas 27 May 1873, came
home on leave 22 June 1874 and never returned; governor of the
Windward islands and Barbados 1875–6, was very popular with the
negroes but unpopular with the planters, who passed a motion to
address the queen for his recall 17 May 1876; governor of Hong
Kong Nov. 1876, arrived there 23 April 1877, quarrelled with
the commander-in-chief and was censured by the colonial office,
retired from office 7 March 1882; presented with freedom of
city of Cork 3 March 1877; chairman of the repression of crime
section at the Social science congress at Nottingham Sept.
1882; governor of the Mauritius 26 Dec. 1882, very popular with
the French creoles but unpopular with the English, was suspended
by the royal commissioner sir Hercules Robinson 16 Dec. 1886,
went to London Jany. 1887 where lord Knutsford the colonial
secretary decided 12 July 1887 that sufficient cause had not
been shown for his removal, returned to Mauritius 1887, retired
on pension 16 Dec. 1889; bought Rostellan castle, near Cork
1890; M.P. North Kilkenny Dec. 1890 to death; author of Raleigh
in Ireland 1883. _d._ Rostellan castle 7 Oct. 1891.

POPHAM, BRUNSWICK (2 son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B.
1762–1820). _b._ 1805; entered navy 11 Dec. 1817, present in the
battle of Navarino 1827; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on half
pay 10 Sept. 1869. _d._ Cardean Meigle, Forfarshire 6 Feb. 1878.

POPHAM, FRANCIS LEYBOURNE- (2 son of lieut. general Edward
William Popham of Littlecote, Wilts. 1764–1843). _b._ 14 Oct.
1809; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of
All Souls’ 1831–43; barrister LL. 21 Nov. 1837; kept some mares
at Littlecote, his horse Wild Dayrell won the Derby 1855. _d._
1880. _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 109–12 (1864) _portrait_.

POPHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B.
1762–1820). _b._ April 1791; entered navy May 1805; captain 19
May 1819; retired admiral 23 March 1863. _d._ Stourfield house,
Christchurch 23 Aug. 1864.

POPOFF, BASIL (son of Eugene Popoff, chaplain to Russian
embassy, London). _b._ 1839; chaplain to Russian embassy in
London 1875 to death; private chaplain to duchess of Edinburgh 2
March 1875 to death. _d._ 32 Welbeck st. London 19 March 1877.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 23 March.

POPPLEWELL, GEORGE OTWAY. Entered navy 14 Feb 1832; captain 15
April 1862, retired 12 Oct. 1868; retired admiral 1 May 1888.
_d._ Ramsgate 12 Sept. 1889. _Times 16 Sept. 1889 p._ 6.

PORRETT, ROBERT (son of Robert Porrett). _b._ London 22 Sept.
1783; assistant to his father, the ordnance storekeeper at the
Tower of London 1795, chief of the department, retired on a
pension 1850; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1840; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.A.S.;
an original fellow of Chemical society 1841; contributed several
papers on armour to Archæologia and Proceedings of Soc. of
Antiquaries; awarded a medal by Society of Arts for discovery
of prussous acid 1808, which he termed sulphuretted chyazic acid
in 1814; discovered ferrocyanic acid, which he named ferruretted
chyazic acid; discovered electric endosmosis 1816; author of 13
scientific papers. _d._ 49 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 25
Nov. 1868. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii p. iv_ (1870).

PORTAL, GEORGE RAYMOND (4 son of John Portal of Whitchurch,
Hampshire). _b._ 28 Feb. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841, and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; C. of Wilton, 1850–2; C. of St.
Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1852–7; R. of Albury, Surrey 1858–71;
R. of Burghclere with Newtown, Hampshire 1871 to death; honorary
canon of Winchester Jany. 1882 to death; author of On some of
the prevalent objections to ritual observances, a sermon 1854;
Personal faith the only source of peace, a sermon 1855; Short
prayers, &c. for those who have little time to pray 1867; Hymns
for the use of the parish of Albury 1864. _d._ Burghclere
rectory 5 April 1889.

PORTAL, SIR GERALD HERBERT (2 son of Melville Portal). _b._
Laverstoke, Hampshire 13 March 1858; educ. Eton 1871–9, played
in the cricket eleven 1886, 1887, editor of the Eton chronicle;
clerk in the foreign office 12 July 1879; sent to Rome 29 June
1880, third secretary of legation there 22 July 1881; sent to
Cairo 24 June 1882, present at bombardment of Alexandria 11 July
1882, third secretary at Cairo 1 April 1884, second secretary 1
April 1885; went to Massowah to procure a reconciliation between
the king of Abyssinia and the Italian government 17 Oct. 1887;
acting consul general at Zanzibar 30 April to 14 Nov. 1889,
agent at Zanzibar 10 March 1891; consul general for German East
Africa 2 June 1891, and for the British sphere 11 Feb. 1892;
sent to Uganda to report whether that part of Africa should
be retained by the British or evacuated 10 Dec. 1892; arrived
at the coast again 21 Oct. 1893 and reached London Nov. 1893;
C.B. 3 Feb. 1888; K.C.M.G. 4 Aug. 1892; author of My mission to
Abyssinia 1888, 2 ed. 1892; _m._ 1 Feb. 1890 Alice Josephine, 2
dau. of 7 earl of Abingdon, she was granted civil list pension
of £150, 12 March 1894; he _d._ 5B Mount st. Grosvenor sq.
London 25 Jany. 1894. _bur._ mortuary chapel, Laverstoke, Hants.
30 Jany. _Sir G. H. Portal’s The British mission to Uganda_
(1894), _memoir pp. xxv–xlvi portrait_; _Pall Mall Budget 1
Feb. 1894 p._ 5, _two portraits_, _and 14 June 1894 p._ 10
_portrait_; _Times 26 Jany. 1894 p._ 3.

PORTARLINGTON, _Lionel Seymour William Dawson Damer_, 4 Earl of
(only son of colonel George Lionel Dawson Damer of Came, Dorset,
_d._ 14 April 1856, younger son of first earl of Portarlington).
_b._ 7 April 1832; educ. Eton 1847–9; ensign Scots fusilier
guards 23 Nov. 1849. lieut. 14 July 1854, served in the Crimea,
sold out 15 Jany. 1856; lieut. Dorset yeomanry cavalry 20 April
1858; M.P. Portarlington 1857–65 and 1868–80; succeeded his
cousin as 4 earl of Portarlington 1 March 1889; resided Emo
park, Portarlington. _d._ Portman lodge, Bournemouth 17 Dec.
1892. _bur._ Came 21 Dec. _Times 19 Dec. 1892 p._ 6; _Graphic 24
Dec. 1892 p._ 762 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 20 Dec. 1892 p._ 9
_portrait_.

PORTER, CLASSON EMMETT (half brother of John Scott Porter
1801–80). _b._ Artikelly, co. Derry 1814; educ. Manchester
college, York 1828–34; minister of the first presbyterian
church, Larne, co. Antrim 2 July 1834 to death; wrote many
papers on Irish presbyterian church history and biography in
the Northern Whig, Larne reporter, Christian Unitarian and
Disciple; author of Irish presbyterian biographical sketches,
Belfast 1893, reprinted from the Northern Whig. _d._ Ballygally
castle, co. Antrim 27 May 1885. _bur._ in parish churchyard of
Cairncastle, co. Antrim.

PORTER, FRANK THORPE (youngest son of Wm. Porter of Willmount,
near Rathfarnham, co. Dublin 1757–1841). _b._ 19 Dec. 1801;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; barrister in
Ireland 1827; went the Leinster circuit 1827–40; magistrate
at the head office of the Dublin police 1840–60; author of An
act to consolidate the laws relating to the presentment of
public monies by grand juries in Ireland 1840; Gleanings and
reminiscences, 2 ed. 1875. _d._ 15 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 24
Nov. 1882. _Irish law times 2 Dec. 1882 p._ 589.

PORTER, SIR GEORGE HORNIDGE, 1 Baronet (only son of Wm. Henry
Porter, surgeon 1790–1861). _b._ 15 Kildare st. Dublin 24 Nov.
1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.B. 1848, M.D.
1865, M.S. 1873; at Meath hospital, Dublin, surgeon 1849; F.
and L.R.C.S.I. 1844, member of council, president 1868–9;
surgeon to Simpson’s hospital 1866; consulting surgeon to the
Coombe hospital 1861, to St. Mark’s Ophthalmic hospital 1876,
to National children’s hospital 1876, and to Stevens’ hospital
1881; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Ireland 6 Dec. 1869 to
death; sheriff of Wexford 1887; knighted at Windsor castle 19
July 1883; one of the most skilful operators in Ireland; had a
large and lucrative practice; purchased an estate in Wexford;
hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1888; with E. Hamilton and H. Ormsby examined
the bodies of lord Frederick Cavendish and T. H. Burke who were
murdered in the Phœnix park 6 May 1882; created a baronet June
1889; regius professor of surgery univ. of Dublin 1891 to death;
contributed many papers to Dublin Journal of medical science.
_d._ 3 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 16 June 1895. _L. H. Ormsby’s
History of Meath hospital_ (1888) 209–11, 391 _portrait_; _C. A.
Cameron’s Royal college of surgeons, Ireland_ (1886) 44, 229,
394, 749; _I.L.N. 22 June 1895 p._ 766 _portrait_.

PORTER, GEORGE RICHARDSON. _b._ London 29 June 1793; agent at
Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 1813–5; merchant at 23 Finch
lane, Cornhill 1815–7; wine merchant at 1 Old Broad st. 1817–31;
superintendent of statistical department of board of trade 1832,
head of the office 1834; senior member of railway department
of board of trade 1840, joint secretary of board of trade 6
Aug. 1847 to death; a founder of the Statistical society 1834,
treasurer 1841 to death; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838, member of council
1847–8; author of The progress of the nation in its social and
economical relations, 3 vols. 1836–43, 3 ed. 1851; The nature
and properties of the sugar cane, 2 ed. 1843; The tropical
agriculturalist 1833; A manual of statistics in sir J. F. W.
Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry (1849) pp. 465–88. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 3 Sept. 1852, portrait in rooms of Statistical
society, Adelphi terrace, London. _G.M. Oct. 1852 pp._ 427–9;
_I.L.N. 11 Sept. 1852 p._ 202.

PORTER, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 1801; cornet 9 lancers 3 July 1817,
major 4 Oct. 1831 to 1 Feb. 1833, when placed on h.p.; general 5
Sept. 1869. _d._ Hambury fort, Honiton 8 April 1871.

PORTER, JOHN. _b._ 1771; surgeon R.N. 1798; M.D. St. Andrews;
medical superintendent of the convict hulks, Portsmouth harbour
29 years; a founder of the Portsmouth and Portsea literary
philosophical society. _d._ Portsea 3 March 1855. _Medical
directory 1856 p._ 748.

PORTER, JOHN SCOTT (eld. son of Wm. Porter 1774–1843,
presbyterian minister of Newtownlimavady, co. Derry 1799–1843).
_b._ Newtownlimavady 31 Dec. 1801; licensed by Bangor presbytery
Oct. 1825; minister of Carter lane chapel, Doctors’ commons,
London 2 March 1826; kept a school with David Davidson at
Rosoman house, Islington; minister of the first presbyterian
church of Belfast 2 Feb. 1832; professor of theology to the
association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July
1838; professor of Hebrew and cognate languages, Belfast 6 July
1851; led a secession from the Antrim presbytery and founded 21
Feb. 1862 the northern presbytery of Antrim with the purpose of
emphasising a recognition of Christ and of divine revelation;
formed the Ulster unitarian Christian association Dec. 1876;
edited the Bible Christian, Belfast 1830–6; author of Authentic
report of the discussion of the unitarian controversy, Belfast
1834, 3 ed. 1834; Twelve lectures in illustration of Christian
Unitarianism, Belfast 1841, 2 ed. London 1853; Principles of
textual criticism with their application to the old and new
testaments, &c. 1848; Servetus and Calvin, three lectures 1854;
Bible revision, three lectures 1857; The national system and
the national board 1864 anon. and 32 other books. _d._ Lennox
Vale, Belfast 5 July 1880. _Memorial of rev. John Scott Porter_
(1880); _Nightingale’s Lancashire nonconformity iv_ 225 (1892);
_Historical sketch of first presbyterian congregation, Larne_
(1889) 20 _et seq._

PORTER, JOSHUA HENRY (eld. son of Joshua Porter of Dublin).
_b._ 24 May 1831; L.R.C.S.I. 1852; assist. surgeon 97 foot 24
March 1854; served in the Crimea, medal and clasp; in India
during mutiny 1857–8, mutiny medal and clasp; with the British
ambulance in Franco German war 1870; hon. associate of soc. of
St. John of Jerusalem; assist. professor of military surgery
at Netley hospital 1873–8; in charge of field hospitals in
Bengal 1879, with Sir Samuel Brownes’ division in the Kyber
pass; deputy surgeon general of the Allahabad division 1879;
with general Roberts’ force in the march to Cabul; author of
The surgeon’s pocket-book, an essay on the best treatment of
the wounded in war 1875, 4 ed. 1891. _d._ in the Sherpur camp
Afghanistan 9 Jany. 1880; memorial brass in Netley hospital
chapel. _Lancet i_ 111, 224 (1880); _S. H. Shadbolts’ Afghan
campaigns_ (1882) 161–5 _portrait_; _Medical Times 17 Jany. 1880
p._ 79.

PORTER, JOSIAS LESLIE (youngest son of Wm. Porter of Carrowan
parish of Burt, co. Donegal, farmer). _b._ 4 Oct. 1823; matric.
in univ. of Glasgow 1839, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, LL.D. 1864;
D.D. Edinb. 1864; studied theology in univ. of Edinb. and the
New college 1842–4; licensed to preach by presbytery of Derry
20 Nov. 1844; minister of presbyterian chapel High Bridge,
Newcastle 25 Feb. 1846 to 1849; a missionary of the Irish
presbyterian church to the Jews in Syria Dec. 1849 to 1859;
professor of biblical criticism in the presbyterian college
Belfast July 1860 to 1878, and secretary of the college faculty
1867–78; moderator of the general assembly 1875; assistant
comr. of board of intermediate education for Ireland 1878–9;
president of Queen’s college, Belfast and member of senate of
royal univ. of Ireland 1879 to death; D. lit. royal univ. of
Ireland 1881; author of Five years in Damascus, 2 vols. 1855;
A handbook for travellers in Syria and Palestine 1858, 3 ed.
1875; The Pentateuch and the Gospels 1864; The giant cities of
Bashan and Syria’s holy places 1865; The life and times of Henry
Cooke, D.D. 1871, 4 ed. 1877; Pew and study bible 1875; Galilee
and the Jordan 1885; Jerusalem, Bethany and Bethlehem 1887; _m._
1849 Margaret Rainey youngest dau. of rev. Dr. Henry Cooke of
Belfast, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 29 May 1889.
_d._ Belfast 16 March 1889. _bur._ Malone cemetery near Belfast,
portrait in examination hall of Queen’s college Belfast.

PORTER, SARAH (dau. of Abraham Ricardo). _b._ 1791; _m._ about
1820 George Richardson Porter who _d._ 3 Sept. 1852; author of
Conversations on arithmetic 1885, new ed. entitled National
arithmetic 1852; On infant schools for the upper and middle
classes 1838; The expediency and the means of elevating the
profession of the educator in public estimation 1839. _d._ West
Hill, Wandsworth London 13 Sept. 1862. _G.M. Oct. 1862 p._ 509.

PORTER, SEYMOUR TEULON. _b._ London; minister at Darwin, Lancs.
1836–48; minister of West George st. congregational church,
Glasgow 1848–9, when he had a disagreement with Dr. Robert
Wardlaw; minister of the independent church, West Bath st.
Glasgow 1849–73; author of Lectures on the ecclesiastical system
of the independents 1856; Christian prophecy, lectures on the
Revelation 1858; The specific object of sunday schools 1858; The
last sermons in a forty-one years ministry, Glasgow 1873. _Our
Scottish clergy_ (1849) 117–22.

PORTER, WHITWORTH (2 son of Henry Porter). _b._ Winslade house,
near Exeter 25 Sept. 1827; educ. R.M. academy, Woolwich 1842–5;
2 lieut. R.E. 18 Dec. 1845, lieut. col. 14 Dec. 1868; served in
the trenches at siege of Sebastopol Feb. to June 1855; employed
at the war office under inspector-general of fortifications
April 1859 to Sept. 1862; instructor in fortifications at
Sandhurst 1862–8; executive officer at Malta March 1870,
supervised construction of defences of new dockyard; designed
and erected observatories at Catania and Syracuse; commander
of royal engineers at Barbados 1874–6, and at Plymouth 16 Oct.
1877, retired on pension with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1881;
chairman of metropolitan district of St. John’s ambulance
association; knight commander of order of St. John of Jerusalem
8 July 1859; author of Life in the trenches before Sebastopol
1856; A history of the knights of Malta, 2 vols. 1858, 3 ed.
1884; History of the corps of royal engineers, 2 vols. 1889.
_d._ Guildford 27 May 1892. _bur._ St. Michael’s church, York
Town, Surrey. _Royal engineers’ journal_, _No._ 261, _Aug. 1892_.

PORTER, WILLIAM (brother of John Scott Porter 1801–80). _b._
Artikelly, near Newtownlimavady 15 Sept. 1805; called to Irish
bar 1831; attorney general at Cape of Good Hope Jany. 1839,
retired on full salary 31 Aug. 1865; gave more than half his
salary to endowment of univ. of Cape of Good Hope, elected the
first chancellor 1873; declined the posts of chief justice
and prime minister at Cape of Good Hope; C.M.G. 30 Nov. 1872;
wrote twelve articles on preachers and preaching in the Bible
Christian 1834–5. _d._ Lennox Vale, Belfast 13 July 1880.
_Memorial of rev. J. S. Porter and the hon. W. Porter_ (1880).

PORTER, WILLIAM (4 son of Thomas Porter of London, _d._
1848). _b._ Oct. 1816; educ. Paris; in office of Mr. Hamlet,
London; a colonial broker and founder of the firm; retired
1870 and purchased Thingwall hall, Birkenhead; a founder of
the Birkenhead park archery club 1858, hon. treasurer to 1870,
club reconstituted as the Wirrel archers 1870, sec. and first
champion 1871; for many years shot nearly every day, winter and
summer; a member of the Mersey bowmen, of the Royal British
bowmen, and of the Montgomeryshire archers; won prizes at the
Grand National 1874, 1876, 1887, and 1888. _d._ Thingwall hall
5 Sept. 1892. _F. T. Follett’s Archer’s register for 1892–3_
(1893) 49–50.

PORTER, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of Frank Thorpe Porter 1801–82).
_b._ 5 March 1791; scholar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1808, B.A.
1810, M.A. 1814, M.D. 1842; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1817, and professor
of theory and practice of surgery to the college Oct. 1836 to
death, president 1838; surgeon to Meath hospital and county
Dublin infirmary 1820 to death; member of general medical
council 13 July 1860 to death; author of Observations on the
surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea 1826. _d._ 21
Kildare st. Dublin 28 April 1861.

PORTLAND, WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH SCOTT BENTINCK, 4 Duke of (1
son of 3 duke of Portland 1738–1809). _b._ London 24 June 1768;
styled marquis of Titchfield 1768–1809; educ. Westminster 1783;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 25 Jany. 1785, D.C.L. 1793; M.P.
Petersfield 29 Dec. 1790 to April 1791; M.P. Bucks 18 April
1791 to 30 Oct. 1809, when he succeeded his father as 4 duke;
lord lieutenant of Middlesex 1794–1842; took name of Scott by
R.L. 5 Sept. 1795; a junior lord of the treasury 31 March to 16
Sept. 1807; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 April to 16 July
1827; P.C. 30 April 1827; lord president of the council 17 Aug.
1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; a family trustee of the British Museum
1809–29; spent large sums in draining and improving the Welbeck
estates, making plantations and transplanted large oak trees,
would himself work in the trenches with his men; kept many mares
and race horses, with Tiresias won the Derby 1819; proprietor of
Newmarket heath, which he much improved; author of Advantages of
Russia in the present contest with France 1807; Work on draining
by Josiah Parkes, with observations by the duke of Portland
1847. _d._ Welbeck abbey, Notts. 27 March 1854. _bur._ Bolsover
church, Derbyshire 4 April, personalty sworn under £900,000
July 1854. _Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp._ 387–95; _W. Day’s
Reminiscenses_ (1886) 132–8; _Waagen’s Galleries of Art_ (1857)
511–16; _G.M. xli_ 523–4 (1854).

PORTLAND, _William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck_, 5 Duke of
(2 son of 4 duke of Portland). _b._ London 17 Sept. 1800;
styled lord John Bentinck 1809–24; ensign and lieut. grenadier
guards 16 July 1818; cornet 10 hussars 26 Nov. 1818; capt. 7
hussars 24 Oct. 1821; capt. 2 life guards 25 Jany. 1823; styled
marquess of Titchfield 1824–54; M.P. King’s Lynn 1824–6; lieut.
and capt. grenadier guards 15 June 1830; succeeded his father
as 5 duke of Portland 27 March 1854; constructed a mile and a
half of underground tunnels at Welbeck to connect the various
parts; erected a peach house 1,000 feet long; made a tan gallop
a quarter of a mile long, covered with glass; erected a riding
school 385 feet long; kept many mares and race horses; employed
1,500 workmen during many years at Welbeck and expended upwards
of 4 millions. _d._ Harcourt house, 19 Cavendish sq. London 6
Dec. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green 12 Dec., personalty sworn under
£1,500,000 March 1880. _Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp._ 387–95;
_London Figaro 15 Sept 1875 pp._ 5–6 _portrait_, _reprinted 13
Dec. 1879 pp._ 10–11 _portrait_.

PORTLOCK, JOSEPH ELLISON (only son of Nathaniel Portlock,
captain in the navy, _d._ 12 Sept. 1816). _b._ Gosport,
Hampshire 30 Sept. 1794; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; commander
of R.E. of the Cork district 1849–51, and of the south-eastern
district 1856–7; inspector of studies at R.M. academy, Woolwich
1851–6; colonel 1 April 1855, retired on full pay with rank of
M.G. 25 Nov. 1857; employed in the trigonometrical branch of
the ordnance survey in Ireland 1825–43, where he completed the
great triangulation; a founder of the Geological society of
Dublin 1831, president 1838, 1839, 1851, and 1852; a founder of
the Zoological society 1826, president; president of geological
section of British association at Belfast 1852; member of
council of military education May 1857 to 1862; hon. LL.D.
Dublin 1857; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 8 June 1837; author of Report on
the geology of Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, Dublin 1843;
A rudimentary treatise on geology 1849, 2 ed. 1852; Memoir of
the life of major general T. Colby 1869. _d._ Blackrock, near
Dublin 14 Feb. 1864. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xiv_ 13–17 (1865);
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi_ 40–5 (1865).

PORTMAN, EDWARD BERKELEY PORTMAN, 1 Viscount (son of Edward
Berkeley Portman _d._ 19 Jany. 1823). _b._ Bryanston, Dorset 9
July 1799; educ. Eton 1814 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A.
1826; M.P. Dorset 1823–32; M.P. Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to March
1833; major 1 Somerset regt. of militia 13 March 1839; cr. baron
Portman of Orchard Portman, Dorset 27 Jany. 1837, and viscount
Portman of Bryanston, Dorset 28 March 1873; lord lieutenant
of Somerset 22 May 1839 to June 1864; a comr. and councillor
of duchy of Cornwall 19 Aug. 1840; a councillor of duchy of
Lancaster 13 Feb. 1847; a councillor of duchy of Cornwall 27
Jany. 1863; lord warden of the stannaries and high steward of
the duchy of Cornwall 20 Jany. 1865 to death; a breeder of
Devon cattle and Alderney cows; president of royal agricultural
society 1846, 1856, and 1862; author of Family Prayers 1859,
4 ed. 1868. _d._ Bryanston 19 Nov. 1888, will proved for
£244,092. _Journal of royal agricultural soc._ (1889) _p. vi_;
_I.L.N. 12 July 1862 p._ 57 _portrait_, _11 April 1863 p._ 400
_portrait_.

NOTE.--The following works refer to lord Portman, Statement by marquis of Hastings of the case of lady Flora Hastings and correspondence with lord Portman 1839; A warning letter to the baroness Lehzen with observations on letter of lord Portman 1839; Lady Flora Hastings by J. F. Murray, with observations on the statements of ladies Portman and Tavistock 1839.

PORTMAN, WYNDHAM BERKELEY (eld. son of capt. Wyndham B. Portman,
R.N. 1804–83). _b._ 15 May 1831; attended all race meetings and
had great knowledge of horse breeding; founder and proprietor
of Horse and hound 30 Wellington st. Strand, London March 1884
to death. _d._ Alipose house, Worcester road, Sutton, Surrey 18
Sept. 1890. _bur._ Brookwood cemetery 20 Sept. _Horse and hound
20 Sept. 1890 p._ 573, _27 Sept. p._ 585; _Baily’s Mag. Oct.
1890 p._ 281.