Chapter LXXIV: Part 74

PRATT, ANNE (2 dau. of Robert Pratt of Strood, Kent, grocer).
_b._ Strood 5 Dec. 1806; educ. Eastgate house school, Rochester;
studied botany under Dr. Dods; formed an extensive herbarium and
made sketches of the specimens, which formed illustrations for
her books; author of The field, the garden, and the woodland. By
a Lady 1838, 3 ed. 1847; Flowers and their associations 1840,
2 ed. 1846; The excellent woman as described in the Book of
Proverbs 1846, anon.; Wild flowers, 2 vols. 1852, 2 ed. 1892;
Our native songsters 1852; The flowering plants and ferns of
Great Britain, 5 vols. 1855, 3 ed. 1873; The ferns of Great
Britain and their allies 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Haunts of the wild
flowers 1863; edited By daylight, a translation of Ottilie
Wildermuth’s Im tageslicht 1865; _m._ 4 Dec. 1866 John Pearless
of East Grinstead, Sussex. _d._ Rylett road, Shepherd’s Bush,
London 27 July 1893. _Journal of botany_ (1894) 205–7; _Women’s
Penny paper 9 Nov. 1889 p._ 25 _portrait_.

PRATT, CHARLES COMPTON. _b._ 1790; 2 lieut. R.M. 14 Oct. 1805,
colonel 19 April 1854 to 20 June 1855, when he retired on full
pay as major general. _d._ Vicars close, Wells, Somerset 16 June
1871.

PRATT, FREDERICK THOMAS (3 son of John Pratt of Lambeth,
Surrey). _b._ 1799; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb. 1820, B.A.
1821, M.A. 1825; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Oxf. 8 Dec.
1836; B.C.L. 1836, D.C.L. 1837; advocate at Doctor’s Commons 2
Nov. 1837, stewart 1840–2, librarian 1842–4, treasurer 1847–50;
author of The law relating to ship lights and signals at sea
1858. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1868.

PRATT, JERMYN (3 son of Edward Roger Pratt of Ryston Hall
1756–1838). _b._ 6 Feb. 1798; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of Campsey Ashe, Suff. 1836 to death;
author of Records of the college of Christ Church in Brecon
1847. _d._ 15 May 1867.

PRATT, JOHN (son of Jonas Pratt, music seller and teacher of
music). _b._ Cambridge 1772; chorister of King’s coll. Camb.
1780, organist to the college 1799; organist to univ. of
Camb. 1800; organist to St. Peter’s coll. 1813; published A
selection of ancient and modern psalm tunes for two trebles or
tenors and a bass 1810, republished under title of Psalmodia
Cantabrigiensis 1820; A collection of anthems in score selected
from the works of Handel and others 1825; Plead thou my cause
from twelfth mass of Mozart, and Praise the Lord O my soul, an
anthem, Printed in Novello’s Collection of Anthems, vol. iv, No.
81 and vol. x, No. 208 (1876). _d._ Cambridge 9 March 1855.

PRATT, JOHN BURNETT. _b._ Cairnbanno, New Deer 1799; educ.
Aberdeen univ., M.A., hon. LL.D. 1865; episcopal minister of
Stuartfield 1821–5; minister of St. James’s church, Cruden 1825
to death; domestic chaplain to Earl of Errol; examining chaplain
to bishop of Aberdeen; edited the Scottish episcopal communion
service 1866; author of The old paths, where is the good way, 3
ed. Oxford 1840; Buchan, Aberdeen 1858, 3 ed. 1870; The Druids
1861; Letters on the Scandinavian churches, their doctrine,
worship and polity 1865. _d._ St. James’s parsonage, Cruden 20
March 1869. _J. P. Pratt’s Buchan_, _3 ed._ (1870), _memoir pp.
vii–ix portrait_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. May 1869 p._ 398.

PRATT, JOHN HENRY (2 son of Josiah Pratt, secretary of the
Church missionary society 1768–1844). Educ. Caius coll. Camb.,
fellow 1836; third wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; chaplain
H.E.I.Co. 1838; domestic chaplain to bishop Wilson 1839;
archdeacon of Calcutta 1850 to death; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; author
of The mathematical principles of mechanical philosophy 1836,
republished under title of A treatise on attractions, Laplace’s
functions and the figure of the earth 1860, 4 ed. 1871;
Scripture and science not at variance 1856, 7 ed. 1872; edited
his father’s Eclective notes or notes of discussion on religious
topics at the meetings of the Eclectic society, London during
the years 1798–1814, 1865. _d._ Ghazeepore 28 Dec. 1871.

PRATT, JOHN HENRY (younger son of Josiah Pratt, vicar of St.
Stephen’s, Coleman st. London). _b._ 1849; educ. Haileybury
college, where he became head boy, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1872; won the Bell 1869 and Browne scholarship 1871, senior
classic 1872; assistant master at Harrow 1872 to death; fellow
of his college 1873 to death; member of the Alpine club, made
many difficult ascents; edited The story of Achilles 1880;
_drowned_ while bathing in the lake of Como, near Tremezzo 31
Aug. 1878, the body never found.

PRATT, JOHN TIDD (2 son of John Pratt of Kennington, Surrey,
surgeon). _b._ London 13 Dec. 1797; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824;
consulting barrister to comrs. for reduction of the national
debt 1828 to death; counsel to certify the rules of savings’
banks and friendly societies 1834–46, and registrar of friendly
societies 1846 to death; edited J. B. Bosanquet and C. Puller’s
New reports of cases argued in the court of common pleas and
other courts 1826; E. Bott’s Laws relating to the poor, 6 ed.
1827; W. Woodfall’s Law of landlord and tenant 1829; author of
An abstract of the acts of parliament for the establishment of
courts of request 1824; A digested index to the term reports,
analytically arranged 1826; The law relating to friendly
societies 1829; History of the savings’ banks in England and
Wales 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The law relating to highways 1835, 13
ed. 1893; A collection of all the statutes in force respecting
the relief of the poor, 2 vols. 1835–64, 2 ed. 1843; The law
relating to watching and lighting parishes 1850, 5 ed. 1891.
_d._ 29 Abingdon st. Westminster 9 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 107,
152 (1870) _portrait_; _Law Times 15 Jany. 1870 p._ 214, _12
Feb. p._ 305.

PRATT, JOSEPH. _b._ Manchester; printer in Bridge st.
Manchester; printed The Catholic Phœnix 1822; the Manchester
Advertiser, No. 1, 2 July 1825, this paper was given away, its
revenue being derived solely from advertisements; editor of
The Scrap book, The Protestant witness, and other periodicals;
author of pamphlets. _d._ Nov. 1859.

PRATT, ROBERT (son of rev. Robert Pratt, prebendary of
Desertmore, Cork). _b._ 21 Jany. 1815; ensign 41 foot 16 June
1837; lieut. col. 9 Sept. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856;
lieut. col. 23 foot 27 March 1857, placed on h.p. 3 Sept. 1870;
L.G. 12 Dec. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 May 1859. _d._ Madeira 27 Dec. 1886.

PRATT, SAMUEL PEACE. _b._ 6 Nov. 1789; educ. at Enfield; lived
at Bath 1823 to about 1839; F.L.S. 1829; F.G.S. 1829; F.R.S.
27 Jany. 1842, withdrew 1859. _d._ Mellone villa, Fulham road,
London 22 Sept. 1863.

PRATT, SIR THOMAS SIMSON (son of captain James Pratt). _b._
1797; educ. St. Andrew’s univ.; ensign 26 foot 2 Feb. 1814,
lieut. col. 28 Aug. 1841, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1843; commanded
his regiment in the attacks on Canton 24 May to 1 June 1841;
deputy adjutant general at Madras 5 Sept. 1843 to 23 Oct. 1855;
commanded the forces in Australia 1856–61; conducted the war
against the Maories in New Zealand 1860–1; commanded the forces
in Victoria 8 Jany. 1860 to May 1862; colonel of 37 foot May
1862 to death; retired from active service Oct. 1877; general
26 May 1873; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 16 July 1861, invested
with the ribbon and badge of the order by sir Henry Barkly at
Melbourne 15 April 1862, the first ceremony of the kind in
Australia. _d._ England 2 Feb. 1879. _Times 6 Feb. 1879 p._ 10.

PRATTEN, CATHARINA JOSEPHA (daughter of M. Pelzer). _b._
Mulheim on the Rhine; appeared at the King’s theatre, London
as a guitar player at eight years of age; taught the guitar in
London; _m._ 24 Sept. 1854 Robert Sidney Pratten 1824–68; author
of Instruction for the guitar, 3 ed. 1861, 10 ed. 1882; Four
Italian songs for the guitar 1861; Repertoire for the concertina
1861; Repertoire for the guitar, vocal 1861–91, one hundred
and twenty numbers; Repertoire for the guitar, instrumental
1861; Guitar tutor 1881; Learning the guitar simplified 1881;
The scale and pieces for the gigelera, learning the gigelera
simplified 1882; Twelve easy songs for the guitar 1888; Sketches
for the mandoline with guitar or pianoforte accompanyment 1891;
her name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces 1860–91. _d._
London 10 Oct. 1895.

PRATTEN, ROBERT SIDNEY (2 son of Mr. Pratten, flautist at
Bristol theatre). _b._ Bristol 23 Jany. 1824; first appeared as
a flautist at Clifton 25 March 1835; first flute at the T.R.
Dublin; came to London 1846; studied composition in Germany, his
piece for the flute entitled L’Espérance published at Leipzig
1847; returned to London 1848 and became the leading player;
played first flute at Royal Italian opera 1846, English opera,
Sacred harmonic, Philharmonic, and other concerts; composer
of A complete series of studies for the patent diatonic flute
1848: Concert-Stück for the flute and orchestra and piano 1852;
Christmas song 1853; Complete instruction for the concertina
1856; A complete series of scales and exercises for R. S.
Pratten’s perfected flute 1857; Recreations for the flute,
melodies for flute and piano 1858; Tutor for the flute with a
selection of melodies 1856; Francesca romance for concertina
and piano 1859; Boosey’s One hundred dances for the flute 1859;
Give me the harp, a song 1862; The merry beggars, a song 1879;
his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1847–90;
_m._ Catherina Josepha Pelzer; he _d._ Ramsgate 10 Feb. 1868.
_Grove’s Dictionary of music iii_ 27 (1883).

NOTE.--His brother Frederick Sydney Pratten, a contrabassist in the orchestra of the Royal Italian opera _d._ London 3 March 1873.

PREEDY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Robert Preedy of Hampton,
Worcestershire). _b._ 1817; entered the royal navy 12 Nov. 1828;
served in West Indies 1828–34; commander 10 Feb. 1853; served in
Duke of Wellington in the Baltic 1854–5, and commanded gun boats
in bombardment of Sveaborg; captain 29 Sept. 1855; commanded the
Agamemnon and was concerned in laying the first transatlantic
cable 1857–8; C.B. civil 22 Sept. 1858, C.B. military 2 June
1869; received captain’s good service pension 1867; put on
retired list 1 April 1870; vice-admiral 30 Jany. 1879. _d._ Park
house, Budleigh Salterton 30 May 1894. _The Times 6 June 1894
p._ 10.

PRENDERGAST, HARRIS (eld. son of general sir Jeffrey Prendergast
of Newcastle Prendergast, Tipperary 1769–1856). _b._ Madras
1805; educ. East Sheen, Harrow 1816, and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1826, LL.B. 1829; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1829, bencher 11
Jany. 1867 to death; equity draftsman and conveyancer; edited
Court Circular, started 1856; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; author of The
law relating to officers in the army 1849, 2 ed. 1855; and with
J. Stewart The practice of conveyancing 1846. _d._ Brighton 30
Sept. 1878. _Law Times lxv_ 424 (1878).

PRENDERGAST, SIR JEFFREY (son of Thomas Prendergast of Dublin).
_b._ Clonmel 1769; entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 18 Madras
N.I. 17 June 1800, major 4 Aug. 1812; military auditor general
Madras army 3 Oct. 1812; lieut. col. 7 Madras N.I. 7 Nov. 1818
to 1819; lieut. col. 8 N.I. 1819; lieut. col. 39 N.I. 3 Jany.
1825, and col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854;
knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Brighton 4
July 1856.

PRENDERGAST, JOHN PATRICK (eld. son of Francis Prendergast
1768–1846, registrar of Irish court of chancery). _b._ 37
Dawson st. Dublin 7 March 1808; educ. Reading school and Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1830; agent of lord Clifden’s
estates 1836; a comr. for selecting papers relating to Ireland,
which papers with rev. C. W. Russell he edited as Calendar of
state papers, Ireland 1603–25, 5 vols. Record publications
1872–80; replied in the Nation newspaper 1872–4 to Froude’s
lectures in America on Irish history; opposed Parnell’s general
policy from 1878; edited C. Haliday’s The Scandinavian kingdom
of Dublin 1884; author of The history of the Cromwellian
settlement of Ireland 1863, 2 ed. 1870; The Tory war in Ulster,
Dublin 1868; Ireland from the restoration to the revolution
1887. _d._ 127 Strand road, Sandymount, Dublin 6 Feb. 1894.
_Times 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4.

PRENDERGAST, MICHAEL (son of Michael Prendergast). _b._ Cloth
Fair, London 10 Aug. 1795; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school
1806, Parkins’ exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1821;
barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1820, bencher 1850 to death, went Norfolk
circuit; recorder of Bedford 1846–8; recorder of Norwich Dec.
1848 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; judge of city of London,
sheriff’s court April 1856 to death; revising barrister to 1856.
_d._ Highgate rise 20 March 1859. _Law Times xxxiii_ 19, 45, 78
(1859).

PRENDERGAST, THOMAS (son of sir Jeffrey Prendergast 1769–1856).
_b._ 1806; a writer in service of H.E.I. Co. 23 June 1826;
acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore 1831;
acting assistant judge at Guntoor 1833; assistant judge of
Tinnevelly 8 Aug. 1834 to 1838; collector and magistrate at
Rajahmundry, retired on the annuity fund 1859; resided at
Cheltenham 1859 to death; became totally blind about 1861;
invented the mastery system of learning languages based upon
the process pursued by children in learning to speak; author
of The mastery of languages, or the art of speaking foreign
tongues idiomatically 1864, 3 ed. 1872; Handbook to the mastery
series 1868, 5 ed. 1882; The mastery series, French 1868, 12 ed.
1879; The mastery series, Spanish 1869, 4 ed. 1875; The mastery
series, German 1868, 8 ed. 1874; The mastery series, Hebrew
1871, 3 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Latin 1872, 5 ed. 1884.
_d._ Meldon cottage, The Park, Cheltenham 14 Nov. 1886.

PRENTICE, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Prentice of Covington
Mains, in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, farmer). _b._ Covington
Mains 17 Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame,
Glasgow 1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner
in the business on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a
weekly paper entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed,
published, and edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824,
bankrupt 1826, the Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester
Times 17 Oct. 1828, of which he was sole manager to 1847, when
he sold the paper; chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at
York hotel, Manchester 24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the
Manchester gas office 1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester
temperance league 1857; edited The life of Alexander Reid,
a Scottish covenanter 1822; author of A tour in the United
States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-law league 1853. _d._ Park
view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24 Dec. 1857. _A. Prentice’s
Historical sketches of Manchester_ (1851); _Macmillan’s Mag.
Oct. 1889 pp._ 435–43; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850)
204–8.

PRENTICE, SAMUEL (4 son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh,
Essex). _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843, bencher 20 Nov.
1866, and treasurer 1881; Q.C. 24 July 1866; county court
judge of circuit No. 40, Bow and Shoreditch 14 Jany. 1884,
resigned July 1892; a commissioner for municipal election
enquiries; common law examiner in the inns of court 1879;
recorder of Maidstone March 1879, resigned June 1892; edited
J. F. Archibald’s Practice of the court of queen’s bench, 9
ed. 1855 to 13 ed. 1879; J. W. Smith’s An elementary view of
the proceedings in an action at law 1857, and the editions
to 1873; H. Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence 1858; Sir
W. O. Russell’s A treatise on crime, 5 ed. 1877; C. Abbott’s
A treatise of the law relating to merchant shipping, 12 ed.
1881; J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways, 12 ed. 1881; author of
Proceedings in an action in the queen’s bench, etc. 1877, 2 ed.
1880; Procedure and evidence relating to indictable offences
1882. _d._ Greystoke, Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1893.

PRENTICE, THOMAS RIDLEY. _b._ Paslow hall Ongar, Essex 6 July
1842; associate of royal academy of music; started the Monthly
popular concerts at Brixton 1869, and the Kensington twopenny
concerts 1880; organist of Ch. Ch. Lee; principal of Beckenham
and Wimbledon schools of music: professor of pianoforte at
Guildhall school of music Sept. 1880 to death; composer of
The day is done, four part song 1866; Christmas, four part
song 1869; Hear our prayer 0 heavenly father, an anthem 1874;
Absence, reverie for the piano 1876; Linda, cantata for treble
voices 1878; Short voluntary for a time of sorrow, organ 1882;
edited W. Mason’s Touch and technic; J. C. Fillmore’s A history
of pianoforte-music 1885; author of The musician, a guide for
pianoforte students 1883–7, 2 ed. 1885–7. _d._ Wedderburn house,
Wedderburn road, Hampstead 15 July 1895.

PRENTIS, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; exhibited two pictures at the R.A.
1823, and 3 pictures at first exhibition of Society of British
artists 1825, member of the society 1826; his pictures entitled
The wife and The daughter 1836, and A day’s pleasure 1841 were
engraved; executed for trustees of British museum a series
of drawings of the ivory objects found at Nimroud, these were
engraved on wood by J. Thompson and published in Layard’s
Monuments of Nineveh 1849. _d._ 11 Upper Phillimore place,
Kensington, London 22 Dec. 1854. _Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855 p._ 221,
_June p._ 656.

PRENTIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1801; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1824, M.A. 1830; resided Dinan, France many years, where he
privately printed some small books 1843–58; author of An apology
for lord Byron, with miscellaneous poems 1836; The wreck of the
Roscommon 1844, a poem; Winter flowers 1849; The debtor’s dodge,
or the miller and the bailiff 1852; Opuscala 1853; Æsop on the
Danube 1853, a translation; Jeux d’esprit on the Russian war
1854–5. _d._ Dinan 12 June 1862.

PRESCOTT, ARTHUR. Cornet 2 Bombay light cavalry 1 Jany. 1833,
lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1858 to 5 Sept. 1861; colonel 1 Bombay light
cavalry 5 Sept. 1861 to 1865; major general. _d._ near London 23
May 1866.

PRESCOTT, SIR HENRY (son of admiral Isaac Prescott 1737–1830).
_b._ Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796;
commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on
west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron
in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats
at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the
Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of
South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July
1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23
Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec.
1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May
1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde
park, London 18 Nov. 1874. _Prowse’s History of Newfoundland_
(1895) 448 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 252 (1874), _lxvi_ 23 (1875).

PRESCOTT, HENRY JAMES (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott,
banker 1776–1836). _b._ 5 July 1802; banker London; director
of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor
1849–50. _d._ Brighton 13 Aug. 1856.

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras
N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut.
col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3
N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept.
1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col.
of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. _d._
Genoa 2 Dec. 1876.

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott,
banker 1776–1836). _b._ 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott,
Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat
with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April
1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under
£250,000, 3 June 1865. _Times 3 May 1865 p._ 5, _4 May p._ 11.

PRESS, EDWARD (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) _b._ Barnham
Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56,
and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death,
_d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. _Norwich Mercury 18 May
1878 p._ 5.

PRESSLY, SIR CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pressly). _b._
Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex;
sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board
of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849;
deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to
1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 1 Avenue road,
Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880.

PREST, CHARLES. _b._ Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist
minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at
Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull
1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary
reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death;
president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home
work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home
work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit
1864. _d._ Lee, Kent 25 Aug. 1875. _Illust. Times 23 Aug. 1862
p._ 269 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xli_ 204 (1862) _portrait_.

PREST, EDWARD (eld. son of John Prest). _b._ 1824; educ. St.
John’s coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; chaplain to
Sherburn hospital 1851–7, and master 1857–61; hon. canon of
Durham cath. Dec. 1860 to 1863; R. of St. Mary’s, Gateshead, and
master of King James’ hospital 6 May 1862 to 1881; official
of the dean and chapter of Durham 1880; resident canon and
archdeacon of Durham 1863 to death; member of Gateshead sch.
board 28 Nov. 1870, then vice-chairman; R. of Ryton-on-Tyne 1881
to death. _d._ Ryton rectory 26 Oct. 1882.

PREST, EDWARD HENRY. Educ. Durham sch. and Jesus coll. Camb.,
rowed stroke oar in the Cambridge boat against Oxford 1878, and
bow oar 1879 and 1880; won the university pairs with H. R. Jones
1880; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1884; assistant master of Repton sch.
1880–7; head master of Barnard Castle sch. Durham 1887 to death.
_d._ Barnard Castle 18 Oct. 1893.

PREST, THOMAS PECKETT. Author of a romance entitled The string
of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt
wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it
Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the
Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at
other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard
theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the
village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited
The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most
authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May
26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey
1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine
de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a
father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844;
The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846;
The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins
1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker
or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the
secret robbers of Bohemia 1852.

PRESTON, BENJAMIN (son of a hand loom weaver). _b._ Bradford
10 Aug. 1819; a wool sorter and comber; a publican at Bingley
common May 1865; called the Burns of Bradford; author of The
dialect poems of Benjamin Preston, Saltaire 1872 with a memoir
and portrait; Dialect and other poems 1881. _S. Baring Gould’s
Yorkshire oddities i_ 267–79 (1874).

PRESTON, CHARLES JAMES (4 son of Richard T. Preston of
Liverpool). _b._ Rodney st. Liverpool 1818; educ. Downing coll.
Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1843;
practised in Liverpool many years, also acting as deputy
stipendiary magistrate; stipendiary magistrate for Birkenhead
18 May 1866, resigned 1893. _d._ 9 Southwick place, Hyde park,
London 9 May 1896. _Law Times 16 May 1896 p._ 73.

PRESTON, SIR GEORGE (son of W. Preston, first comr. of court of
appeals in Ireland). _b._ Gloucester st. Dublin 1800; sheriff of
Dublin 1833; knighted by the marquess Wellesley in Dublin 1833;
captain 4 Lancashire militia 1855–9. _d._ 37 Lower Gardiner st.
Dublin May 1870.

PRESTON, JAMES BLAIR. Assistant surgeon Madras army 1821,
surgeon 27 Sept. 1833; inspector general of hospitals 14 Feb.
1854; surgeon general Madras 1 Jany. 1855, physician general 12
Feb. 1856 to death. _d._ near Southampton 28 June 1858.

PRESTON, SIR JOHN (son of Alexander Preston of Dunyrewn,
Loughgall, Belfast). _b._ 12 Jany. 1817; educ. Loughgall school;
linen and yarn merchant 20 Callender st. Belfast as J. Preston
and Co.; president of Belfast chamber of commerce; mayor of
Belfast 1877 and 1878; knighted 8 Jany. 1878. _d._ Dunmore,
Belfast 4 Aug. 1890.

PRESTON, JOSEPH M. _b._ 22 Aug. 1864; a professional cricketer;
played in the Yorkshire eleven for several seasons; a member
of the Shrewsbury team which visited Australia 1887–8; a good
batsman and a fast bowler. _d._ Bradford 26 Nov. 1890.

PRESTON, MATTHEW MORRIS. _b._ 1781 or 1782; fellow of Trin.
coll. Camb. to 1826, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; kept a school at
Aspenden hall, Herts. 1813–25, where lord Macaulay, Henry Maiden
and other eminent men were his pupils; V. of Cheshunt, Herts.
14 April 1826 to death: author of The benefit of scriptural
instruction, illustrated in the case of two beloved sons 1837;
Sermons addressed chiefly to young persons 1837, 2 ed. 1860;
Memoranda of Charles Simeon 1840; Parochial lectures on the book
of Josiah 1840; Cheshunt collection of psalms and hymns 1850;
Sermons 1859. _d._ 18 April 1858. _bur._ in Cheshunt churchyard,
the five-light east window in the church was erected to his
memory.

PRESTON, ROBERT BERTHON. _b._ Liverpool 25 June 1820; educ.
Geneva; principal partner in firm of Fawcett, Preston &
Co., mechanical engineers, Liverpool, made engines for many
steamboats, sugar machinery, and rifled guns; M.I.C.E. 1855;
member of Royal southern and Mersey yacht clubs; a patron of
art; made a collection of modern and antique art; J. Gibson’s
tinted Venus was executed expressly for him 1850–5. _d._
Gloucester 9 April 1860. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_
157 (1861).

PRESTON, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ 1 Oct. 1808; ensign 87 foot 24
Sept. 1829, lieut. 22 Feb. 1833; lieut. 22 foot 1834–9; captain
45 foot 5 Jany. 1841, lieut. col. 1 May 1861, retired on full
pay 31 July 1867; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1
Oct. 1878; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel of the Queen’s
Own (royal West Kent regiment) 28 Feb. 1888 to 5 Oct. 1890;
colonel of the Royal Munster fusiliers 5 Oct. 1890 to death.
_d._ 6 The Esplanade, Plymouth 6 April 1892.

PRESTWICH, SIR JOSEPH (son of Joseph Prestwich of London). _b._
Pensbury, Clapham, near London 12 March 1812; educ. in Paris and
Univ. coll. London; wine merchant in city of London to 1872;
F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1849, president 1870–2; F.R.S. 2
June 1853, royal medallist 1865, vice-president 1870–1; served
on the royal coal commission 1866, and on the royal commission
on water supply 1867; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. 1874;
name placed in Ch. Ch. Oxf. matriculation register 3 Nov. 1874;
M.A. by decree 11 Nov. 1874; professor of geology at Oxford 29
June 1874 to death; presented with freedom and livery of the
Turners’ company 4 April 1878; corresponding member of French
academy of sciences 1885; honorary D.C.L. Oxford 1888; president
of the Congrès géologique international, which held its fourth
session in London Sept. 1888; knighted by patent 20 January
1896; author of The geology of the water-bearing strata around
London 1851; The geology of Clapham and neighbourhood of London
1858; and of Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphical, 2
vols. Oxford 1886–8. _d._ Shoreham, Kent 23 June 1896. _Times 24
June 1896 p._ 7; _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870)
_portrait xiv_; _I.L.N. 11 Jany. 1896 p._ 52 _portrait_.

PRETTEJOHN, RICHARD BUCKLEY. _b._ 10 March 1815; cornet 4 light
dragoons 23 Feb. 1838; lieut. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. 14 light
dragoons 3 April 1841, captain 17 Sept. 1850; served in the
South Mahratta campaign 1844, the war in the Punjab 1848–9, the
Persian war 1857, and the Indian mutiny 1857–8; major 18 hussars
5 July 1864, lieut. col. 14 June 1873, retired on full pay 1
April 1876; M.G. 20 March 1878; placed on retired list with
hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; colonel 13 hussars 1 July 1890 to
death; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Exmouth 4 Jany. 1891.

PRETTY, EDWARD. _b._ Hollingbourne, Kent 5 March 1792; drawing
master Rugby school 1809–29; a miniature painter at Northampton
1829–58; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. London 1811–37; curator
of the Charles’ museum, Chillington house, Maidstone 1858 to
death; assist. sec. Kent, archæological soc.; F.S.A. 31 May
1859; member of British archæol. assoc. 1843; author of A guide
to Northampton. _d._ Chillington house 4 Aug. 1865. _bur._
Maidstone cemetery, left his books and paintings to the Charles’
museum, and his coins to the rev. Beale Poste. _G.M. Oct. 1865
p._ 516; _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea vi_ 311–14 (1868); _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxii_ 325–6 (1866).

PRETYMAN, GEORGE THOMAS (2 son of George Pretyman, bishop of
Lincoln and Winchester, who assumed in 1803 additional surname
of Tomline 1750–1827). _b._ the deanery house, Dean’s court,
St. Paul’s churchyard, London 5 April 1790; educ. Eton and
Trin. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814; chancellor of cathedral church
of Lincoln 15 April 1814 to death; R. of Wheathampstead with
Harpenden, Herts. 1814 to death; prebend. of Lincoln 11 April
1814 to death; P.C. of Nettleton, Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1817 to death; canon residentiary
of Winchester cath. 1 Sept. 1825 to death; his income from
ecclesiastical sources seems to have been upwards of £6,250.
_d._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 190
(1859).

PREVOST, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost
1767–1816, governor general of Canada). _b._ Roseau, Dominica
20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ.
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs.
1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death;
rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester
and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death;
archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84
of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have
morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the
Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for
Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited
The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of
daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Stinchcombe 18 March 1893.
_H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii_ 37, 280 (1894); _Daily
Graphic 22 March 1893 p._ 9 _portrait_.

PREVOST, GEORGE PHIPPS (eld. son of sir George Prevost, 2
baronet 1804–93). _b._ 10 Nov. 1830; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1852; ensign 85 foot 26 Aug. 1853; lieut. 25 foot 26 Jany.
1855, adjutant 9 Oct. 1855 to 21 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Sept.
1870, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Crimean war and
Indian mutiny; brevet colonel 3 Sept. 1875; assistant adjutant
and quartermaster-general home district 7 Aug. 1880 to death.
_d._ Chart lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 March 1885.

PREVOST, JAMES CHARLES (only son of James Prevost, rear-admiral
1771–1855). _b._ 31 July 1810; entered navy 1829; lieut. 10 Dec.
1835; captain 17 April 1854, R.A. 16 Sept. 1869, retired 1 April
1870, admiral 9 Jany. 1880; first comr. for marking boundary
between Vancouver island and Oregon 1856–62; superintendent
of naval establishment at Gibraltar 1864–9; employed on the
San Juan boundary question 1871–3; granted Greenwich hospital
pension of £150 a year 6 Sept. 1877. _d._ 133 Ebury st. London
28 Jany. 1891.

PREVOST, JOHN LEWIS (son of professor Prevost, _d._ Geneva
27 June 1796). Came to England 1814; vice-consul of Swiss
confederation in London 1818, and consul general at 24a Gresham
st. city of London from 1830; F.G.S., treasurer 1843 to death;
resided at 3 Suffolk place, Pall Mall East, London. _d._ Geneva
4 Nov. 1852. _Quarterly journal of geological society ix_ 25
(1853).

PREVOST, LOUIS AUGUSTINE. _b._ Troyes, Champagne 6 June 1796;
educ. at a college in Versailles; came to England and became
tutor in the family of Wm. Young Ottley 1823; taught languages
in London 1823–43; learnt 40 languages, including most of the
European languages and many Asiatic; employed at the British
Museum cataloguing the Chinese books 1843–55. _d._ Great Russell
st. Bloomsbury, London 25 April 1858. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 30
April. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 358–62;
_G.M. July 1858 p._ 87.

PREVOST-PARADOL, LUCIEN ANATOLE (only son of Madame Lucinde
Prevost-Paradol 1798–1843, actress). _b._ Paris 8 July 1829;
eminent littérateur; lectured in English in Edinburgh 1869;
sent letters to The Times on French politics from A Parisian
Correspondent to 1869; French minister at Washington 12 June
1870; author of many works including, Jonathan Swift, sa vie et
ses œuvres 1856; France, an address, Edinb. 1869; _shot himself_
at Washington 11 Aug. 1870. _Newspaper Press iv_ 194 (1870);
_Appleton’s American biography v_ 116 (1888).

PRIAULX, OR DE PREAUX, OSMOND DE BEAUVOIR (2 son of Antony de
Preaux). _b._ Guernsey 5 March 1805; educ. Catherine hall,
Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 19 April 1832; the
last survivor of the original members of the Reform club, an
active member of committee; author of Outlines of a system of
national education 1834; National education 1837; Quaestiones
Mosaicae, or the first book of Moses compared with the remains
of ancient religions, 2 ed. 1854; The Indian travels of
Apollonius of Tyana and the Indian embassies to Rome 1873. _d._
8 Cavendish sq. London 15 Jany. 1891, left his library to the
college at Guernsey with money for its continued support.

PRICE, ANDREW (son of Roger Price of Leigh, Essex). _b._ Lee,
Kent 23 July 1754; educ. Magd. coll. Oxf., chorister 1767–72,
usher of the school 1772–88; B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778; ordained
deacon 22 Sept. 1776, priest 20 Dec. 1778; chaplain of Ch. Ch.
Oxf. and of bishop Warner’s coll. at Bromley 1778–1800; R. of
Britwell Salome, Gloucs. 1782 to death; V. of Down Ampney,
Gloucs. 1778 to death. _d._ Britwell Salome 7 June 1851.

PRICE, ANNIE, her maiden name was Annie Allen. _b._ County
Tyrone, Ireland 1842; weighed 245 lbs. in 1856, afterwards
scaled 525 lbs., fell to 400 before her death; travelled with
Adam Forepaugh’s circus in U.S. of America; exhibited in the
museums about Gotham, New York; _m._ (1) Mr. Pettit, who died
leaving her with 2 children; _m._ (2) at 210 Bowery, New York an
Albino. _d._ New York Nov. 1889, lay in state in an ice box at
19 Bayard st. New York. _bur._ Greenwood cemetery.

PRICE, ASTLEY PASTON (3 son of Dr. Price of Margate). _b._ 1826;
studied chemistry at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and took
the Ph.D. degree; studied in Paris under Théopile J. Pelouze;
assistant to Dr. August W. Hofman at Royal college of chemistry,
London 1845; held an appointment in the School of mines; chemist
in the silver works of Dillwyn and Co. Swansea 1851–7; a
consulting chemist in London from 1857; had much practice in
chemical patent cases, conducted the case Young _v._ Fernie in
which the validity of Young’s patent for making parafine oil
was maintained; took out patents for manufacture of sugar, the
treatment of metals and ores, the distillation of carbonaceous
materials and the treatment of sewage; F.C.S.; A.I.C.E. 23 May
1865. _d._ Margate 3 April 1886. _Report on Forbes and Price’s
patent process for deodorizing sewage of towns_ (1871); _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_ 458–60 (1886).

PRICE, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Isaac Price of Builth). _b._ Wales
1804; in a business house in Worcester to 1822; a presbyterian
minister 1830; minister of a Free church, Christ church,
Ilfracombe 1845 to death; the various Free churches of England
united in 1863 and he was elected the first bishop president and
consecrated in London Aug. 1876 by bishop Cridge of the Reformed
episcopal church in America. _d._ Horne villa, Ilfracombe 6
Jany. 1896.

PRICE, BONAMY (eld. son of Frederick Price of St. Peter’s Port,
Guernsey). _b._ St. Peter’s Port 22 May 1807; educ. Worcester
coll. Oxf., scholar 1828–35, double first class 1829; B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1832; mathematical master at Rugby 1830, classical master
1832–8, in charge of the form known as The Twenty 1838–50;
served on the commissions on Scottish fisheries, the queen’s
colleges in Ireland, agriculture and the depression of trade;
Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 6 Feb. 1868
to death; president of economical section of Social science
congress at Cheltenham 1878 and Nottingham 1882; honorary fellow
of Worcester coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; author of Suggestions
for the extension of professorial teaching in the university of
Oxford 1850; The principles of currency, six lectures delivered
at Oxford 1869; Currency and banking 1876; Chapters on practical
political economy 1878, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ London 8 Jany. 1888.
_Temple Bar Aug. 1888 pp._ 494–508; _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 p._ 58
_portrait_.

PRICE, CHARLES (eld. son of Thomas Price, vicar of Merriott,
near Crewkerne, Somerset). _b._ Merriott 1776; educ. Ilminster
and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, M.B. 1802, M.D.
1804; fellow of his college to 1821; admitted candidate of coll.
of physicians 1 Oct. 1804, fellow 30 Sept. 1805, censor 1807,
delivered the Harveian oration 1820; physician to Middlesex
hospital 19 June 1807 to 16 May 1815, practised at Brighton 1815
to death; physician extraordinary to William 4, 23 Aug. 1832.
_d._ Brighton 8 Sept. 1853. _Munk’s Roll of coll. of Physicians
iii_ 25 (1878).

PRICE, DAVID. _b._ 1790; entered navy 1 Jany. 1801; present
at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; captain 13 June 1815;
commanded the Portland in the Mediterranean 1834–8; granted the
order of the Redeemer of Greece; superintendent of Sheerness
dockyard 1846–50; R.A. 6 Nov. 1850; commander-in-chief in the
Pacific 17 Aug. 1853 to death; _shot himself_ on board the
President, 50 guns, off Petropaulovski in Kamchatka 30 Aug.
1854. _bur._ on shore on the opposite side of the bay 1 Sept.
_A.R._ (1854) 403, _Part ii pp._ 199, 540.

PRICE, EDWARD. _b._ 10 June 1816; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1834,
colonel 31 Aug. 1865, col. commandant 27 June 1883 to death;
inspector and purchaser of horses for the remounts of the R.A.
4 April 1865 to 31 March 1876; M.G. 28 June 1868, L.G. 27
May 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1
July 1881; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ 13 Gledhow gardens, South
Kensington, London 13 Aug. 1887.

PRICE, EDWARD. _b._ 1840; a printer in Birmingham; a member of
Mrs. Jessie Pollock’s stock company in Aberdeen where he became
a favourite; a member of Chatterton’s company at Drury Lane;
_m._ Emma Ryder, dau. of Mrs. Pollock by her first husband
Corbet Ryder; with his wife lessees of the old theatre Marischal
st. Aberdeen 1869–73, where he produced Little Em’ly (in which
he acted with success Micawber). The Rivals, and The Prompter’s
box; travelled with Isabel Batemen’s company; acted at Greenock
John Grist in Jane Shore, Cheal in The Profligate, and David
Deans in Jeanie Deans. _d._ from a fracture of his ankle
Greenock infirmary 8 Feb. 1895. _bur._ Greenock. _J. K. Angus’ A
Scotch play-house,_ Aberdeen (1878) 49; _Life of E. L. Blanchard
i_ 272, 340, _ii_ 490, 722 (1891).

PRICE, GEORGE UVEDALE. _b._ 3 April 1821; ensign 1 Bombay N.I.
2 May 1840, captain 5 July 1849; captain 3 Bombay European
regiment 15 Nov. 1853, major 16 July 1864; lieut. col. Bombay
staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. _d._ St.
Leonard’s 7 Dec. 1891.

PRICE, JAMES. _b_. 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; from an early
age a contributor to the Dublin evening packet, with which he
was officially connected, for many years as editor, 1838 to
death. _d._ Dublin 14 Jany. 1853. _The Evening Packet 15 Jany.
1853 p._ 3.

PRICE, JAMES (son of Robert Price, vicar of Shoreham, Kent).
_b._ 1804; landscape painter; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 7 at
B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1842–76. _d._ 14 Woodland villas,
Blackheath, Kent 23 June 1879.

PRICE, JAMES. Formed a collection of pictures at his residence,
Barcombe, Paignton, Devon chiefly of the early English school,
these 91 pictures were sold at Christie’s 15 June 1895 and
produced £87,143 15s., Gainsborough’s portrait of Lady Mulgrave
brought 10,000 guineas, Turner’s Helvoetsluys made 6,400
guineas, and Reynold’s Lady Melbourne fetched 2,300 guineas; the
dispersion of this, the finest collection of the kind ever in
the market, excited great interest and the bidding was so rapid
that the sale occupied only three hours; his books were sold by
auction on 25–28 June 1895. _d._ 25 Berkeley sq. London 23 Jany.
1895, will proved for £149,382. _Times 15 June 1895 p._ 11;
_Athenæum 22 June 1895 p._ 813–4; _Catalogue of collection of
pictures formed by J. Price_ (1895) _with_ 60 _illustrations_.

PRICE, JAMES (2 son of James Price of Newton park, Monkstown).
_b._ 18 Jany. 1831; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851;
engineer in chief of the Midland great western railway of
Ireland 1862–77; one of three engineers to report on the
purification of the Liffey 1874; an engineer in Dublin from 1877
to death; reported to government on light railways and tramways
in Ireland; deputy professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin
1887; president of Institution of civil engineers, Ireland 1895;
M.I.C.E. England 1 March 1870, Telford medal and premium for a
paper On the testing of rails 1871, and a second Telford medal
for a paper on Movable bridges 1879; introduced the bascule
bridge into Ireland. _d._ Dublin 4 April 1895. _Min. of Proc. of
Instit. C.E. cxxi_ 327–9 (1895).

PRICE, JOHN (4 son of sir Rose Price, 1 baronet of Trengwainton,
near Penzance 1768–1834). _b._ 20 Oct. 1808; a settler on the
Huon river in Van Diemen’s land 1835; an adept in recapturing
bushrangers; police magistrate at Hobart Town 1838–46; presented
with a service of plate value £300; chief superintendent of the
convict settlement at Norfolk Island 1846–53; inspector general
of penal establishments and hulks in Victoria 5 June 1854 to
death; struck down with a shovel and struck with stones by the
convicts employed on the jetty at Williamstown, near Melbourne
26 March 1857. _d._ in Dr. Wilkin’s house 27 March 1857, seven
of the convicts were executed for taking part in this murder.
_Biographical memoir of the late Mr. John Price_ (1857).

PRICE, JOHN EDWARD. In business in Cowcross st. City of London
some years; well known archæologist, especially interested in
the Roman occupation of London; F.S.A. 25 May 1871; author of
A descriptive account of the Guildhall of the city of London
1886; and with F. G. Hilton Price A description of the remains
of Roman buildings at Morton near Brading in the Isle of Wight
1881; resided 27 Bedford place, London. _d._ Harvey road,
Leytonstone about 25 Jany. 1892. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries
xiv_ 135 (1891–3).

PRICE, MORTON, (stage name of Horton Rhys). _b._ 1823 or 1824;
an amateur actor; went to America with his wife Catherine
Lucette 1859; appeared at the Metropolitan, New York 23 May
1859 as Citizen Sangfroid in Delicate Ground, and Pierre Chase
in All’s fair in love and war, when he failed to please his
audience; concluded his theatrical tour through Canada 15 Dec.
1859; played in the English provinces 1860–8; gave, with his
wife, a musical entertainment called A double courtship at
Sadler’s Wells 27 Sept. 1862; lessee of a small hall, called a
theatre, in Brooklyn, New York 1868; attacked the actors and
managers of America in an English journal over the nom de plume
of “Imported Sparrow”; author of A theatrical trip for a wager,
through Canada and the United States 1861. _d._ Birmingham 8 May
1876.

PRICE, PETER (brother of Benjamin Price). _b._ Builth,
Breconshire 16 Feb. 1824; with a builder at Tredegar; a builder
at Builth; head of firm of Price and Dicksee, builders and
contractors, Cardiff; an advocate of the Free public library
act 1853; hon. sec. of the Free library, Cardiff, the first
in Wales 1861–74; member of the town council 1886; sec. of
Cardiff building soc., the cashier made away with £10,000 of the
money, Price gave up nearly the whole of his property to meet
the deficiency; a member of the school board 5 years. _d._ 12
Windsor place, Cardiff 4 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Cardiff cemetery 7
Oct. _The Accountant 15 Oct. 1892 p._ 776; _South Wales Daily
News 5 Oct. 1892 p._ 6 _portrait_, _8 Oct. p._ 6.

PRICE, PETER CHARLES (son of David Price of Margate, surgeon and
M.D.) _b._ Margate 29 Dec. 1832; educ. Chatham house, Ramsgate;
entered at royal college of chemistry, London 1849; studied
medicine at King’s college 1850; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant
to William Fergusson 1854; a consulting surgeon 7 Green st.
Grosvenor sq. London from 1858; surgeon to Blenheim free
dispensary, to the Great northern hospital, and to infirmary for
Sick children at Margate; assistant surgeon at King’s college
hospital 1860 to death; made a special study of excision of
the knee joint; competed for the Jacksonian prize essay of the
college of surgeons on A description of the diseased conditions
of the knee which requires amputation of the limb, his essay
refused by three ignorant surgeons; author of Contributions to
the surgery of diseased joints 1859, No. 1 only; On scrofulous
diseases of the external lymphatic glands 1861; The winter
climate of Mentone, with hints to invalids 1862. _d._ Ventnor,
Isle of Wight 13 Nov. 1864. _A description of the diseased
condition of the knee joint which requires amputation_ (1865),
_memoir pp. xiii–xix portrait_; _Medical times and gazette ii_
608–10 (1864).

PRICE, RALPH. _b._ 8 Feb. 1780; master of Ironmongers’ co. 1834
and 1837. _d._ Sydenham 3 April 1860.

PRICE, SIR RICHARD GREEN-, 1 Baronet (son of George Green
1769–1819). _b._ Cannon bridge, Madely, Herefordshire 18 Oct.
1803; practised as solicitor 34 years; assumed the name of Price
28 Feb. 1861; treasurer of Radnorshire 1850–61; M.P. Radnor
boroughs April 1863 to Feb. 1869; contested Radnorshire 13 Feb.
1874; M.P. co. Radnor 1880–5; created a baronet 23 March 1874;
sheriff of Radnorshire 1876. _d._ Norton manor, Presteign,
Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1887. _bur._ Norton 14 Aug.

PRICE, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Uvedale Price,
1 baronet 1747–1829). _b._ Foxley, co. Hereford 3 Aug. 1786;
M.P. co. Hereford 1818–41; M.P. city of Hereford 1845 to Jany.
1857; succeeded his father 14 Sept. 1829. _d._ 11 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 5 Nov. 1857.

PRICE, WALTER. _b._ Ruddington, Notts. 9 Oct. 1834; played in
the Notts’ cricket eleven 1869–70; member of the ground staff at
Lords’ 1868–76; cricket coach at Rugby 1876; one of the regular
umpires of the Marylebone cricket club latterly. _d._ 4 Sept.
1894.

PRICE, WILLIAM. _b._ near Rhydri, near Caerphilly,
Glamorganshire 4 March 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and the
London hospitals; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1821; in practice at
Treforest and then at Llantrissant, near Cardiff; joined the
Chartist agitation of Nov. 1839, after the defeat of John
Frost escaped to France disguised as a woman; studied ancient
Welsh literature so assiduously that his mind became weakened,
imagined that he was the archdruid in direct descent from
Treharne Brydydd, who flourished in 1300; on his head he wore a
whole fox skin, the head ears and tail included, he had light
green trousers, a scarlet vest with gold buttons, and a light
green cloak deeply scolloped around the border; took Gwenllian
Llewellyn to be his housekeeper and wife 1882, named his son
Iesus Grist, the son dying he attempted to cremate the body at
the High Green fields near Llantrissant, the police interfered
and took him into custody, tried at Cardiff assizes where Mr.
Justice Stephen ruled that he had not violated any law and he
was discharged; spent much money in litigation; had two other
children Iesus Grist and Penelopen Elizabeth. _d._ Ty Cletar,
near Llantrissant 23 Jany. 1893, his body cremated at Cae’r Llan
hill 31 Jany. in presence of many people, the ashes distributed
over the ground, personal estate sworn under £100. _Western
Mail, Cardiff 24 Jany. 1893 p._ 6 _portrait_, _25 Jany. p._
6, _27 Jany. p._ 7, _1 Feb. p._ 6 _two views of cremation,
likenesses of widow and 2 children_; _Graphic xxix_ 100 (1884)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 138 _portrait_; _Black and
White 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 154 _portrait_; _Times 25 Jany. 1893 p._
6, _1 Feb. p._ 10; _Law Reports, Queen’s bench division xii_
247–56 (1884).

PRICE, WILLIAM EDWIN (only son of William Philip Price, railway
commissioner). _b._ 10 Jany. 1841; educ. Eton 1850–6; matric.
from univ. of London 1857, B.A. 1859; at royal military academy
Woolwich; lieut. 36 regt., retired Feb. 1865; capt. Royal south
Gloucester militia 27 Dec. 1867, major 21 June 1880 to death;
M.P. Tewkesbury 1868–80; M.P. Tewkesbury April 1880 but election
declared void. _d._ Tibberton, near Gloucester 10 Feb. 1886.
_Times 11 Feb. 1886 p._ 12.

PRICE, WILLIAM PHILIP (son of William Price of Gloucester). _b._
1817; a timber merchant of Gloucester and Grimsby, the firm
being Price, Walker and Co. limited; sheriff of Gloucester 1848;
M.P. city of Gloucester 1852–9; M.P. Gloucester 30 April 1859,
unseated on petition; M.P. Gloucester 1865–73; deputy chairman
of Midland railway 1864–70, chairman 1870, resigned May 1873; a
railway commissioner 2 Aug. 1873 to death. _d._ Tibberton court,
near Gloucester 31 March 1891.

PRICHARD, HENRY (son of George Prichard of Clapham, Surrey,
solicitor). _b._ 1811; educ. Dr. Burney’s school, Greenwich;
admitted solicitor 1834; secretary to Society for suppression
of vice, London 1836–69; chief clerk to V.C. sir Richard Malins
1869 to death. _d._ 14 Stanley gardens, Kensington park, London
5 March 1873. _Law Times liv_ 409 (1873).

PRICHARD, ILTUDUS THOMAS (5 son of James Cowles Prichard, M.D.
of Bristol). _b._ 16 Dec. 1826; educ. Rugby 1843; ensign 15
Bengal N.I. 16 April 1846, lieut. 15 Nov. 1848 to 1859; edited
the Delhi gazette with great success; a pleader in the high
court at Agra; barrister G.I. 9 June 1865; author of How to
manage it, a novel, 3 vols. 1864; The mutinies in Rajpootana,
being personal narrative of the mutiny at Nusseerabad, with
residence at Jodhpore 1860; The administration of India from
1859 to 1868, 2 vols. 1869; The chronicles of Budgepore, or
sketches of life in Upper India, 2 vols. 1870; translated and
supplemented J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871.
_d._ Dera Doon, Himalayas 23 Dec. 1874.

PRICKETT, LANCELOT GEORGE (son of Thomas Prickett of
Bridlington, Yorkshire). _b._ 15 Dec. 1856; educ. Engineering
coll. at Cooper’s hill 1875, fellow 1878; assistant engineer in
public works department, India 1879; his service lent to the
Indian midland railway co. 1887; assistant sec. to government in
the railway branch of public works department May 1892 to death;
executive engineer Nov. 1892; a member of Calcutta light horse;
hon. sec. to Simla Fine arts club; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1883. _d._
Calcutta 27 Feb. 1895. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxii_
399–400 (1895).

PRIDEAUX, CHARLES GREVILE (son of Neast Grevile Prideaux,
solicitor, Bristol). _b._ 19 Dec. 1810; educ. Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. and M.T. 2 May 1836;
Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 11 Jany. 1867 to
death, and treasurer 1884; recorder of Helston June 1868 to Nov.
1876; recorder of Exeter 15 Nov. 1876 to Dec. 1879; recorder
of Bristol Dec. 1879, with a salary of £500 a year, to death;
author of A practical guide to the duties of church-wardens
1841, 16 ed. 1895; The act to amend the law for the registration
of voters 1843, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Holland lodge, Portland
terrace, Regent park, London 18 June 1892.

PRIDEAUX, FANNY ASH (2 dau. of Richard Ball, of Portland House,
Kingsdown, Gloucestershire). _m._ at Clifton 14 April 1853
Frederick Prideaux; author of Claudia, a poem 1865; The nine
days’ queen, a dramatic poem 1869; Philip Molesworth and other
poems 1886; Basil the Iconoclast, a drama of modern Russia
1892. _d._ Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 2 Sept. 1894.

PRIDEAUX, FRANCES HELEN. _b._ 1858; educ. Queen’s coll.
London; matriculated at univ. of London 1878, honor division;
educ. at London sch. of medicine for women, demonstrator of
anatomy there; gained exhibition and gold medal of anatomy at
intermediate M.B. exam. of London univ. 1881; took honours in
each subject in final M.B. exam. 1884; B.S. 1884; L.K.Q.C.P.I.
1883; for sometime at the Royal free hospital; assist. physician
to the New hospital for women, Marylebone road, London; house
surgeon at the Paddington hospital for children Oct. 1885 to her
death. _d._ of diphtheria 22 Woburn sq. London 29 Nov. 1885, a
sum of money raised to found a Prideaux prize. _Lancet 5 Dec.
1885 p._ 1063, _19 Dec. p._ 1174.