Chapter LXXV: Part 75

PRIDEAUX, FREDERICK (5 son of Walter Prideaux of Plymouth,
banker). _b._ 1 Portland sq. Plymouth 27 April 1817; educ.
Plymouth gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1840; practised at
Bristol 1840–64, and in London 1864–75; reader in real and
personal property to the inns of court 1866–75; a conveyancer at
Torquay 1875–80, at Totnes 1880–6, and at Taunton 1886 to death;
originally a quaker, then a member of church of England, finally
a Baptist; author of Judgments as they affect real property
1842, 4 ed. 1854; The handbook of precedents in conveyancing
1852, 2 ed. under title of Precedents in conveyancing with
dissertations on its law and practice 1856, 16 ed. 2 vols. 1895.
_d._ Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 21 Nov. 1891. _bur._ Trull
church 26 Nov. _In memoriam, F. P. by Mrs. Prideaux_ (1891);
_Taunton Courier 2 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.

PRIDEAUX, WALTER (brother of preceding). _b._ Bearscombe, near
Kingsbridge, Devon 15 April 1806; educ. Plymouth gram. sch.;
admitted a solicitor 1829, partner with John Lane, Foster lane,
City of London 1835–51; a founder of the Assam tea co. 1840,
secretary, director, deputy chairman, and chairman to 1888;
clerk and solicitor of Goldsmiths’ co. 1851–82; a member of the
Garrick club and intimate with Thackeray; author of Poems of
chivalry, faery and the olden times 1840; resided Faircrouch,
Wadhurst, Sussex, _d._ 30 March 1889. _bur._ Great Stanmore,
Middlesex. _W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 375.

PRIDHAM, RICHARD. _b._ 1779; entered navy Aug. 1790; adjutant
to the naval brigade at the reduction of Minorca Nov. 1798;
wrecked in the Hussar and a prisoner in France 8 Feb. 1804 to
May 1814; commander 15 June 1814; on the water guard service in
Lincolnshire 1819–24; captain 22 July 1830; retired V.A. 4 Oct.
1862. _d._ West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 3 May 1864. _O’Byrne’s
Naval biography 1849 p._ 929.

PRIDHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Plymouth 1795; one of the 4 original
projectors of the Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald
1820, editor for sometime. _d._ Plymouth Oct. 1870.

PRIESTLEY, EDWARD RAMSDEN (eld. son of major Priestley, K.H.)
_b._ 1819; ensign 45 foot 27 Nov. 1835; captain 25 foot 20 Oct.
1843; major 42 foot 17 July 1857, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1858 to
death; served against the insurgent Boers 1842, and in the
Indian mutiny 1857–8; brevet colonel 10 Aug. 1863. _d._ Stirling
25 March 1868.

PRIESTLEY, FREDERICK J. B. _b._ 1819; ensign 82 foot 2 March
1838; ensign 25 foot 11 May 1838, lieut. 8 April 1842; captain
74 foot 22 July 1854; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861,
lieut. col. 2 March 1864; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. _d._ 22 Park st. Bath
17 Jany. 1894.

PRIESTLY, RICHARD. _b._ 1771; bookseller in High Holborn, London
many years, his stock mainly consisting of classical works;
was worth upwards of £30,000 in 1815; printed many editions
of classical works, employing editors of great ability; he
eventually failed in business and became bankrupt 3 Aug. 1827.
_d._ the Charterhouse, London 4 Feb. 1852. _Willis’s Current
notes Aug. 1854 p._ 68.

PRIESTMAN, JOHN (son of Joshua Priestman of Thornton, near
Pickering, Yorkshire). _b._ Thornton 1805; educ. Ackworth,
Yorkshire; joined his brother-in-law James Ellis in the Old corn
mill, Bradford 1824, they founded the first ragged school in
Bradford 1846; a founder of the Friends’ Provident institution
1832; represented Bradford at many of the conferences called
by the anti-corn-law league; refused to pay church rates which
were found to be illegal, and abolished in Bradford 1835;
manufacturer of worsted goods 1838, removed to larger premises
1845; gave up corn-milling 1855; a total abstainer from 1834;
supported Cobden in opposing the Crimean war 1854. _d._ Whetley
Hill, Bradford 29 Oct. 1866. _H. Thompson’s Ackworth scholars_
(1879) _p. xix_; _Biographical catalogue of portraits at
Devonshire house_ (1888) 527–32.

PRIM, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS (son of John N. Prim, solicitor,
Kilkenny). _b._ Kilkenny 1821; connected with The Moderator,
Kilkenny as editor, reporter and proof reader, and afterwards
the proprietor to his death; hon. sec. of Royal historical and
archæological association of Ireland, and a contributor to the
Transactions; author of Memorials of the family of Langton
of Kilkenny 1864, and with James Graves The history of the
cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. _d._ Dunbell on
the Hudson river 2 Nov. 1875. _The Kilkenny Journal 29 Dec. 1875
p._ 3.

PRIMROSE, ARCHIBALD (elder son of 4 earl of Rosebery 1783–1868).
_b._ Bixley hall, Norfolk 2 Oct. 1809; styled lord Dalmeny from
1814; M.P. Stirling district of burghs 1832–47; one of lords
of admiralty 25 April 1835 to 8 Sept. 1841; vice lieut. of co.
Linlithgow 1844. _d._ Dalmeny park, co. Linlithgow 23 Jany.
1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 433 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 75 (1851).

PRIMROSE, JAMES MAURICE. _b._ 19 Feb. 1819; ensign 43 foot 6
Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 20 March 1857, placed on h.p. 12 Oct.
1863; served with 43 regt. in Kaffir war 1851–3, medal; in
expedition to Orange river and present at the action of the
Berea; lieut. col. of 43 regt. in march to Calpee 1858, was
in the operations in Bundelcund and commanded 1 division of
Candahar field force in Afghanistan 1879, and then the whole
force in 1880; took part in battle of 1st Sept. 1880; commanded
one of the seven columns under brigadier Wheeler against rebel
chiefs; in the Indian mutiny, at surrender of Kirwee, the action
of Sahew and the attack on Gopalpore 1858; D.A.G. Madras 1861–3;
adjutant general Madras 1863–8; C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; lieut.
general 4 March 1880; retired as general 1 April 1882. _d._ 9
Herbert st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1892.

PRINCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1848; with his brother James Prince trained
horses at Astley house, Lewes for Capt. Bayley and others. _d._
Astley house, Lewes 21 July 1889. _bur._ Lewes cemetery 25 July.
_The Sportsman 22 July 1889 p._ 2, _23 July p._ 2, _26 July p._
2.

PRINCE, JAMES. Proprietor with his brother George Prince of a
cigar divan at 14 Regent st. London; they started the Ottoman
club 1855, from which sprang the Raleigh club; they were
proprietors of Prince’s racquet and tennis club Hans place,
Chelsea 1856–71, and of Prince’s cricket club at same address
1871–86; courts were made for tennis, badminton and other games,
and a skating rink with artificial ice was constructed, became
very select and exclusive, the prices of admission were raised
and the grounds were closed 1886, the houses in the Pavilion
road now cover the site. _d._ Frathay house, Albert road,
Battersea park, London 2 April 1886.

PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY (son of a reed-maker for weavers). _b._
Wigan, Lancs. 21 June 1808; worked with his father at Wigan, at
Manchester and at Hyde in Cheshire 1820–30; a factory operative
at Hyde; a postman at 15/-a week at Southampton 1842; kept a
small shop in Long Millgate, Manchester; a reed-maker; reed
maker and heald knitter, Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne 1851;
edited the Ancient shepherds’ quarterly magazine published at
Ashton-under-Lyne 1845–51; author of Hours with the muses,
Manchester 1840, 6 ed. 1857; Dreams and realities 1847; The
poetic rosary 1850; Autumn leaves, Hyde 1856, 2 ed. 1866;
Miscellaneous poems 1861; Poetical works of J. C. Prince, 2
vols. 1880. _d._ Hyde 5 May 1866. _R. W. Procter’s Memorials
of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 146, 172–92, 395 _portrait_;
_Procter’s Literary reminiscenses_ (1860) 117–21 _portrait_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 208–12.

PRINCE-SMITH, JOHN. _b._ England; a teacher of English in
Germany; naturalised there; an active politician; author of
J. P. Smith’s Uber censur Königsberg 1843; J. P. Smith’s Uber
den politischen Fortschnill Preussens, Zurich 1844; Ueber die
quellen der Massenarmuth, Redecte, Leipzig 1861; Der staat und
der volkshaushalt, eine skizze, Berlin 1874; translated C. H.
Hagen’s System of political economy 1844. _d._ about 8 Feb. 1874.

PRING, DANIEL. _b._ Taunton 5 June 1789; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1811;
M.D. St. Andrew’s 1822; an eminent surgeon and physician at Bath
1811–40; resided at Taunton from 1840; author of A view of the
relations of the nervous system in health and in disease 1815;
General indications which relate to the laws of the organic
life 1819; An exposition of the principles of pathology 1823;
Sketches of intellectual and moral relations 1829. _d._ of
paralysis, Middle st. Taunton 3 June 1859. _Lancet 9 July 1859
p._ 51.

PRING, RATCLIFFE (2 son of Thomas B. Pring of Crediton,
solicitor). _b._ Crediton 17 Oct. 1825; educ. Crediton gr. sch.
and at Shrewsbury; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; went to Sydney
1853; crown prosecutor Brisbane 1857; member of legislative
assembly Queensland from 1860; attorney general Dec. 1859
to Aug. 1865, July to Aug. 1866, Nov. 1869 to May 1870, and
May 1879 to June 1880; Q.C. Queensland 1866; puisne judge of
Queensland June 1880 to death; edited Statutes in force in the
colony of Queensland 1862. _d._ Brisbane 22 March 1885.

PRINSEP, CHARLES CAMPBELL. _b._ 1824; educ. Warfield and
Wimbledon; with a mercantile firm in Calcutta 1843–6; assistant
traffic manager Great western railway 1846–9; a writer
H.E.I.C.S. 16 Jany. 1853; junior clerk treasury department 1850,
assistant secretary 1857; statistical reporter and keeper of
the records 1879; compiler of the annual statistical abstract
1867–74 and 1880, and of the navigation statement for India
1869–70; author of The moral and material progress report of
India 1866–67 and 1867–68; Records of services of the honourable
East India company’s civil servants in the Madras presidency
1741–1858, 1885. _d._ 2 Frascati, Claremont road, Surbiton,
Surrey about 23 April 1887. _Times 27 April 1887 p._ 9.

PRINSEP, CHARLES ROBERT (son of John Prinsep, merchant,
afterwards M.P. Queenborough). _b._ 1789; pensioner of St.
John’s coll. Camb. 23 May 1806; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, LL.D.
1824; barrister I.T. 20 June 1817; advocate general of Bengal;
standing counsel to H.E.I.Co. Calcutta; author of An essay on
money 1818; translated J. B. Say’s A treatise on Political
economy, with notes, 2 vols. 1821; edited H. T. Prinsep’s
A narrative of the transactions in British India under the
marquess of Hastings 1820. _d._ Chiswick 8 June 1864.

PRINSEP, HENRY THOBY (4 son of John Prinsep, merchant, M.P. for
Queenborough). _b._ Thoby priory, Essex 15 July 1793; educ.
at Knox’s school at Tunbridge; entered Bengal civil service
1809; assistant to the magistrate at Murshidáhad, Bengal 1811;
superintendent and remembrancer of legal affairs; Persian
secretary to the government 16 Dec. 1820; member of council of
India 1835 and 1840–3; retired from the service 1843; contested
Kilmarnock burghs 29 May 1844, Dartmouth 3 July 1845, and Dover
30 July 1847; M.P. Hawick 5 March 1851, but election void as he
could not prove his qualification May 1851; contested Hawick 28
May 1851; contested Colchester 10 July 1852 and Barnstaple 30
March 1857; a director of the East India company 31 July 1850 to
1858; one of the 7 directors of the council of India 21 Sept.
1858, retired 1874; author of A narrative of the political and
military transactions of British India under the administration
of the Marquess of Hastings 1820, 2 ed. enlarged, 2 vols. 1825;
Origin of the Sikh power in the Punjab 1834; Tibet, Tartary and
Mongolia, their social and political condition 1851; The code of
criminal procedure in the criminal courts of British India 1868,
7 ed. 1884; translated Memoirs of the Puthan soldier of fortune,
the Nuwab Amer-ood-Doulah Mohummud Ameer Khan 1832. _d._ at
house of G. F. Watts, R.A., Freshwater, Isle of Wight 11 Feb.
1878. _Royal Asiatic Society report 1878 p._ 11.

PRIOR, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 13 April 1824;
colonel Bengal infantry 17 Sept. 1871; general 20 Aug. 1878.
_d._ 21 April 1881.

PRIOR, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1821, cornet 27 April 1822;
lieut. 23 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 12 March 1846
to 1847; lieut. col. of 15 N.I. 1847–8, of 47 N.I. 1848–9; of
46 N.I. 1849–51, of 23 N.I. 1851–3, and of 37 N.I. 1853–7;
commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 14 March 1856 to 1859; col.
of 19 N.I. 30 Dec. 1859 to 1863, and of 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 2
Dec. 1857. _d._ Cotteshall, Norfolk 10 Jany. 1870.

PRIOR, SIR JAMES (son of Matthew Prior of Lisburn, co. Antrim).
_b._ Lisburn 1787; sailed from Plymouth as surgeon of the
Nisus frigate 22 June 1810, served on coast of Africa, the
East Indies and Brazil; flag surgeon; present at the surrender
of Heligoland, and at the surrender of Napoleon 15 July 1815;
staff surgeon to Chatham division of royal marines and to
three of the royal yachts; assistant to director general of
medical department of the navy; deputy inspector general of
hospitals and fleets 1 Aug. 1843; M.R.I.A. 1830; F.S.A. 25 Nov.
1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 June 1858; member of
British Archæol. assoc. 1845; author of Memoirs of the life
and character of Edmund Burke 1824, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1854 (Bohn’s
British classics 1854); Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vols. 1837;
The county house and other poems 1846; Life of Edmond Malone
1860; edited The miscellaneous works of Goldsmith, 4 vols. 1837;
resided 20 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London. _d._ Brighton 14
Nov. 1869. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvi_ 268 (1870);
_Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 304 (1869).

PRIOR, THOMAS ABIEL. _b._ 5 Nov. 1809; engraved the following
plates from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Heidelberg castle and
town 1846, Zurich 1852, Dido building Carthage 1863, Apollo
and the Sybyl 1873, The sun rising in a mist 1874, and The
fighting Temeraire 1886; engraved plates after Richard Wilson,
James Ward, and John Linnell; engraved Crossing the bridge after
sir Edwin Landseer; and for the Art Journal The Windmill after
Ruysdael, The village fête after David Teniers, and four other
pictures in the royal collection; exhibited two pictures at the
R.A. 1864 and 1874; taught drawing at Calais. _d._ Calais 8 Nov.
1886.

PRITCHARD, ANDREW (eld. son of John Pritchard of Hackney). _b._
London 14 Dec. 1804; apprenticed to his cousin Cornelius Varley,
patent agent; an optician at 18 Picket st., at 312 Strand, and
at 162 Fleet st. London; brought up an Independent but became a
Unitarian about 1840; a microscopist, fashioned a single lens
out of a diamond 1826, also fashioned single lenses of sapphire
and of ruby; F.R.S. Edinb. 1873; author of A practical treatise
on optical instruments 1828; The microscopic cabinet 1832; The
natural history of animalcules 1834, issued as A history of
Infusoria, living and fossil 1842, 3 ed. 1861; A list of all
patents for inventions in the arts, manufactures, etc. during
the present century 1841. _d._ 87 St. Paul’s road, Highbury,
Middlesex 24 Nov. 1882.

PRITCHARD, CHARLES (4 son of Wm. Pritchard, manufacturer). _b._
Alberbury, Shropshire 29 Feb. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’
school, Christ’s hospital, and St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow
March 1832; fourth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; head
master of a school at Stockwell 1833–4, and of Clapham gr. sch.
1834–62; ordained deacon 1834; delivered addresses at church
congresses and preached before the British Association; Hulsean
lecturer at Cambridge 1867; select preacher at Cambridge 1869
and 1881, and at Oxford 1876 and 1877; had a small observatory
at Clapham; F.R.A.S. 13 April 1849, member of council 1856–77
and 1883–7, president 1866, gold medallist Feb. 1886; Savilian
professor of astronomy at Oxford 10 Feb. 1870 to death, designed
the new observatory in the Parks, Oxford, completed 1875;
invented the wedge-photometer for determining the magnitude
of stars; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1840, member of council 1885–7, royal
medallist 1892; F.G.S. 1852; M.A. Oxford 1870, D.D. 1880; fellow
of New coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; hon. fellow of St. John’s coll.
Camb. 1886 to death; member of the Solar physics committee
1885; issued 4 numbers of Astronomical observations made at
the university observatory, Oxford 1878–92; wrote many popular
essays including a series in Good Words; author of A treatise on
the theory of couples 1831; Occasional thoughts of an astronomer
on nature and revelation 1889, and of 50 papers in transactions
of learned societies 1873–93. _d._ 8 Keble terrace, Oxford
28 May 1893. _bur._ Holywell cemet. Oxford. _Proc. of Royal
soc. liv pp. iii–xii_ (1894); _Daily Graphic 31 May 1893 p._ 4
_portrait_; _Observatory xvi_ 256 (1893) _portrait_; _Journal of
British Astronom. Assoc. iii_ 434 (1893) _portrait_.

PRITCHARD, EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John White Pritchard, captain
R.N.). _b._ Southsea, Hampshire 1825; studied surgery at
King’s college, London 1843–6; M.R.C.S. 29 May 1846; assistant
surgeon on board steam-sloop Hecate, 4 guns 1846–7; L.S.A.
1847; purchased degree of M.D. from univ. of Erlangen, Germany;
practised at Hunmanby, Yorkshire 1851–4, at Filey, Yorkshire
1854–9, at Edinburgh 1859, and at Glasgow 1860 to death;
suspected of murdering his servant Elizabeth McGirn, who was
found burnt to death in her bedroom at 11 Berkeley terrace,
Glasgow 5 May 1863; purchased the practice of Dr. Corbertt
with his house in Clarence place, Sauchiehall st. Glasgow May
1864; his mother-in-law Jane Cowper Taylor _d._ 25 Feb. 1865,
and his wife Mary Jane Pritchard _d._ 17 March 1865; tried
for the murder of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Pritchard 3 to 7 July
1865, sentenced to death 7 July 1865, confessed his guilt,
_hanged_ in front of Glasgow gaol 28 July 1865, the last public
execution in Glasgow; author of A visit to Pitcairn Island
1847; Observations on Filey as a watering place 1853; Guide to
Filey and its antiquities 1854; Coast lodgings for the poorer
cities 1854. _Brown and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883)
397–448; _A.R._ (1865) 107, 221–7; _Illust. times 15 July 1865
p._ 24 _portrait_; _A complete report of the trial of Dr. E. W.
Pritchard_ (1865).

PRITCHARD, GEORGE (son of a journeyman brassfounder). _b._
Birmingham 1 Aug. 1796; went to Tahiti as a missionary 27 July
1824; British consul for the Leeward, Navigator’s and Tonga
islands April 1837; adviser of Pomare, queen of the Society
Islands during her quarrel with French government 1836–43;
went to England to advocate the queen’s case 1841, returned
Feb. 1843, seized by the French authorities on the pretence
he encouraged disaffection among the natives 5 March 1844,
released on condition that he should leave the islands and never
return; consul in the Navigator’s islands March 1844, resigned
14 Sept. 1857; author of The missionary’s reward or the success
of the gospel in the South Pacific 1844; Queen Pomare and her
country 1878. _d._ Hove, near Brighton May 1883. _Foreign office
list_ (1885) 214; _I.L.N. v_ 68, 82, 84 (1844) 2 _portraits_.

PRITCHARD, HENRY. _b._ 1 Jany. 1810; ensign Madras army 8
Jany. 1826; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 23 Aug. 1826, major 23 Sept.
1857; lieut. col. Madras infantry 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col.
Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 6 March 1868; general
20 Aug. 1878; placed on retired list 1 Jany. 1880; took part
in the Goomsoor and Kolapore campaigns of 1835 and 1845. _d._
14 Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 20 June 1893.
_Graphic 8 July 1893 p._ 38 _portrait_.

PRITCHARD, HENRY BADEN (3 son of Andrew Pritchard 1804–82). _b._
Canonbury, London 30 Nov. 1841; educ. at Eisenach and Univ.
college school, London; employed in the chemical department
at royal arsenal, Woolwich 1861, conducted the photographic
department there to his death; proprietor and editor of the
Photographic News 1878–84; author of A peep in the Pyrenees
1867, anon.; Tramps in the Tyrol 1874; Beauty spots on the
continent 1875; Dangerfield, 3 vols. 1878; Old Charlton, 3 vols.
1879; George Vanbrugh’s Mistake, 3 vols. 1880; The doctor’s
daughter, 3 vols. 1883; The photographic studios of Europe 1882;
A trip to Sahara with the camera 1884. _d._ 1 Kidbrook grove,
Blackheath, Kent 11 May 1884. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 16 May.
_The British journal of photography May 1884 p._ 325 _portrait_;
_The year book of photography_ (1885) _p._ 26 _portrait_.

PRITCHARD, JOHN (2 son of John Pritchard, banker, Bridgnorth,
_d._ 1837). _b._ 24 Sept. 1796; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841;
banker at Bridgnorth and Broseley; M.P. Bridgnorth 1853–68. _d._
Stanmore, Shropshire 19 Aug. 1891.

PRITCHARD, THOMAS SIRRELL (son of Thomas Pritchard, surgeon,
Hereford). _b._ Nov. 1834; educ. Hereford coll. sch., King’s
coll. sch., and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858;
barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1858, went the Oxford circuit; recorder
of Wenlock 10 March 1871 to death; common law editor of Law
Journal reports 1879 to death; author of A handy-book for
executors 1861; The jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in
judicial matters 1875; edited R. Burn’s Justice of the peace,
13 ed. 1869; J. Stone’s Practice for justices, 8 ed. 1877. _d._
44 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 8 Aug. 1879. _Law Journal
lxvii p._ 307 (1879).

PRITCHARD-RAYNER, GEORGE (1 son of Henry Pritchard of Trescawen,
Anglesea, _d._ 1881). _b._ 1843; cornet 5 dragoon guards 7 Nov.
1862, capt. 28 Oct. 1871, sold out 24 April 1872; sheriff of
Anglesea 1879; contested Anglesey April 1880; won horse races in
Ireland and England; a pigeon shooter; master of the Anglesey
harriers 1876; a good all round man in all sports; _m._ 1871
Mary Brady, dau. of John B. Rayner, assumed name of Rayner. _d._
Aug. 1893. _Baily’s Mag. May 1882 pp._ 1–3 _portrait_, _Sept.
1893 p._ 206.

PRITCHETT, JAMES PIGOTT (4 son of Charles Pigott Pritchett
1743–1813, rector of St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire from 1781).
_b._ St. Petrox 14 Oct. 1789; architect in London 1812, and at
York 1813 to death in partnership with Mr. Watson; built the
deanery, St. Peter’s school, the Saving’s bank, Lady Hawley’s
hospital, and Lendal and Salem chapels at York; built the asylum
at Wakefield, and the court-house and gaol at Beverley; surveyor
and architect on the estates of three earls Fitzwilliam. _d._
York 23 May 1868. _Pedigree of Pritchett by G. M. G. Cullum and
J. P. Pritchett_ (1892) _pp._ 5, 6.

PRITT, LONSDALE. _b._ 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844;
minister of St. Mark, Auckland, New Zealand; incumbent of
Reumera, Auckland 1870 to death; archdeacon of Waikato 1873 to
death. _d._ St. Mark’s parsonage, Reumera 31 Oct. 1885.

PRITT, THOMAS EVAN. Manager of London and Yorkshire bank;
manager of Leeds joint stock bank; founder of Yorkshire angling
association, and of the Headingley golf club near Leeds; author
of Yorkshire trout flies 1885, 2 ed. 1886; The book of the
grayling 1888; resided Lyntonville, near Leeds. _d._ Torquay 11
Sept. 1895.

PROBERT, CHARLES KENTISH (4 son of Thomas Probert of Newport,
Essex). _b._ Newport 1820; solicitor at Newport 1845 to death;
partner with C. M. Wade of Walden 1850, they opened an office
in St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 1867; member of Essex
Archæological soc.; wrote in Notes and Queries, East Anglian
Mag., Antiquarian Mag., and other journals; author of Arms and
Epitaphs of Essex, etc., 11 vols. quarto of illuminated MSS.
which he bequeathed to the British Museum library, they are
catalogued as Additional MSS. No. 33,520–33,530. _d._ Saffron
Walden, Essex 30 Nov. 1888. _bur._ Newport 4 Dec.

PROBERT, MARTHA. _b._ 1774; wife of Wm. Probert, one of the
murderers of Wm. Weare at Gills lane near Elstree, Herts. 24
Oct. 1823, he turned king’s evidence but was hanged at Newgate
for horse stealing 9 April 1825; she then called herself Heath;
from that time to her death she lived at Cheltenham; _found
drowned_ in the river Chelt, near Barrette’s mill Oct. or Nov.
1857.

PROBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Painscastle, Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1790;
Wesleyan local preacher at Bolton, Leeds, Liverpool, and in
Staffordshire; stationed at Alnwick, Northumberland where
he became a unitarian 1815; minister of unitarian chapel at
Walmsley, near Bolton, Lancs. 1821 to death; Walmsley chapel
is generally called ‘Old Probert’s chapel’; wrote A history
of Walmsley chapel in the Christian Reformer 1834; author of
Calvanism and Arminianism 1815; The Godolin and the odes of the
month, being translations from the Welsh 1820; The ancient laws
of Cambria 1823; The elements of Hebrew and Chaldee grammar
1832; Hebrew and English concordance 1838; Hebrew and English
lexicon grammar 1850; Laws of Hebrew poetry 1860. _d._ Dimple,
Turton 1 April 1870. _bur._ in graveyard attached to Walmsley
chapel.

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (eld. child of Bryan Waller Procter
1787–1874). _b._ 25 Bedford sq. London 30 Oct. 1825; contributed
poems to the Book of beauty 1843; joined the Church of Rome
about 1851; wrote poems in Household Words under name of Mary
Berwick 1853–4; all her poems except two in Cornhill mag. and
two in Good Words were first published in Household Words or All
the year round; appointed by the council of National association
for promotion of social science, member of a committee to
consider fresh ways of providing employment for women 1859;
edited a volume of miscellaneous verse and prose set up in type
by women compositors and entitled Victoria Regia 1861; wrote
eight hymns, the best known are I do not ask O Lord, that life
may be, and I thank thee, O my God, who made 1858–62; Legends
and lyrics, a book of verses, 2 vols. 1858–61, 10 ed. with
an introduction by C. Dickens and a portrait 1866; A chaplet
of verses 1862. d. 32 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 2
Feb. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _C. J. Hamilton’s Women
writers_, _2 series_ (1893) 268–96 _portrait_; _Bessie R.
Belloe’s In a walled garden_ (1895) 164–78; _C. Bruce’s Book
of noble Englishwomen_ (1875) 445–52; _Julian’s Dictionary of
hymnology_ (1892) 913; _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii_
359–64 (1891); _Atlantic monthly Dec. 1865 pp._ 739–43 _by C.
Dickens_; _Eclectic Mag. lxxxviii_ 759 (1877) _portrait_.

PROCTER, ANNE BENSON (dau. of Thomas Skepper, lawyer, York, by
Miss Benson, a lady who afterwards married Basil Montagu). _b._
York 11 Sept. 1799; saw much of society in Basil Montagu’s house
in Bedford square; _m._ 7 Oct. 1824 Bryan Waller Procter, who
_d._ 1874, they lived for some years in Basil Montagu’s house;
an acquaintance of Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Browning; very
well known in London society, her Sunday receptions were crowded
with visitors; befriended Mrs. Anna B. Jameson in 1854; edited
Letters addressed to Mrs. Basil Montagu and B. W. Procter 1881.
_d._ 19 Albert hall mansions, Kensington Gore, London 5 March
1888. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_ 249–51 (1891); _Academy 17
March 1888 pp._ 187–8; _Times 7 March 1888 p._ 9, _8 March p._ 8.

PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (son of Nicholas Procter, _d._ 1816). _b._
Leeds 21 Nov. 1787; educ. at Finchley and Harrow under the name
of William Bryan Procter 1801 etc. in company with sir R. Peel
and Byron; articled to Nathaniel Atherton of Calne, Wiltshire,
a solicitor; in a conveyancer’s office in London; resided in
London from 1807; solicitor in partnership with Wm. Henry Slaney
1817–23; contributed about 200 poems to the Literary Gazette
under name of Barry Cornwall from 1815; a friend of Leigh Hunt
and Charles Lamb; his tragedy of Mirandola produced at Covent
Garden theatre 9 Jany 1821, ran 16 nights; barrister G.I. 4 May
1831, had many pupils in conveyancing; a metropolitan comr. in
lunacy 12 Sept. 1832, retired on pension Feb. 1861, honorary
comr. Feb. 1861 to death; edited The works of Ben Jonson, with
memoir 1838; The works of Shakespeare, with memoir and essay on
his genius 1840; edited with John Forster Selections from the
poetical works of R. Browning 1873; author under pseudonym of
Barry Cornwall of Dramatic scenes and other poems 1819, 2 ed.
1820; Marcian Colonna, a tale 1820; A Sicilian story 1820, 3 ed.
1821; Poetical works, 3 vols. 1822; The flood of Thessaly 1823;
Effigies poeticæ or the portraits of the British poets 1824;
English songs 1832, 3 ed. 1851; The life of Edmund Kean 1835;
Charles Lamb, a memoir 1866. _d._ 32 Weymouth st. London 4 Oct.
1874. _bur._ Finchley cemetery. _Bryan Waller Procter_ (_Barry
Cornwall_), _an autobiographical fragment_ (1877) _preface
signed C. P.[atmore]_; _T. H. Wade’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_
489–94 (1883); _Wm. Howitt’s Homes and Haunts ii_ 447–51 (1847);
_The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) _ii_ 539–62; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (_4 ed._ 1876) 475–87; _A.
H. Miles’ Poets i_ 351–62 (1891); _I.L.N. lxv_ 353 (1874)
_portrait_; _Graphic x_ 367 (1874) _portrait_.

NOTE. He is referred to by Lord Byron in Don Juan, canto xi, verse lix,

“Then there’s my gentle Euphues, who they say,
Sets up for being a sort of moral me,
He’ll find it rather difficult some day
To turn out both, or either, it may be.”

His only son Montagu Mitchell Procter, lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 31 Aug. 1878, retired with honorary rank of M.G. 24 Feb. 1885, _d._ Dinan, France 6 Oct. 1885.

PROCTER, RICHARD WRIGHT. _b._ Paradise Vale, Salford, Lancs.
19 Dec. 1816; a barber in Long-Millgate, Manchester to his
death; established a circulating library in his house 1840; sent
verses to the Manchester and Salford Advertiser under name of
Sylvan; author of Gems of thought and flowers of fancy 1855;
The barber’s shop 1856, 2 ed. 1883; Literary reminiscenses
and gleanings 1860; Our turf, our stage, and our ring 1862;
Manchester in holiday dress 1866; Memorials of Manchester
streets 1874; Memorials of bygone Manchester 1880. _d._ 133
Long-Millgate, Manchester 11 Sept. 1881. _R. W. Procter’s
Barber’s shop_, _2 ed._ (1883) _memoir and portrait_; _Palatine
note-book i_ 165–7 (1881) _portrait_.

PROCTOR, HARRY (the stage name of Rowline Philp, cousin of
Elizabeth Philp). An actor at the Adelphi theatre, London 1878;
played colonel Muldoon in Boucicault’s The O’Dowd 21 Oct. 1880,
Joe Gallon in Pettitt’s Taken from life 31 Dec. 1881, and Johnie
Downs in Buchanan’s Storm-beaten 14 March 1883; had considerable
literary ability and his imitative powers were remarkable. _d._
55 Crowndale road, Oakley square, London 19 Nov. 1887.

PROCTOR, HENRY ADOLPHUS. _b._ 1784; cornet 2 life guards 14
Jany. 1801; captain 82 foot 16 May 1805, major 30 April 1812 to
26 Nov. 1818, when placed on h.p.; C.B. 19 July 1838; granted
distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; colonel of 97 foot 29
Nov. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Aberhafesp hall,
Montgomeryshire 13 May 1859.

PROCTOR, RICHARD ANTHONY (youngest child of Wm. Proctor,
solicitor, _d._ 1850). _b._ Chelsea 23 March 1837; entered Univ.
coll. London 1855, and St. John’s coll. Camb. 1856, scholar
1856–60, captain of his college boating club; 23rd wrangler
1860, B.A. 1860; read for the bar; taught mathematics in a
private military school at Woolwich; hon. secretary of Royal
astronomical society to 1873; lectured in U.S. of America 1873,
and in Australasia 1879–80; founded Knowledge, an illustrated
magazine of science, No. 1 Nov. 4 1881, converted into a monthly
1885; charted 324,198 stars from Argelander’s Survey of the
northern heavens, on an equal surface projection; author of
Saturn and his system 1865; The handbook of the stars 1866;
Half-hours with a telescope 1868, 20 ed. 1889; Essays on
astronomy 1872; The sun 1871, 3 ed. 1876; The moon 1873, 3 ed.
1876; Transits of Venus 1874, 4 ed. 1882; The universe of stars
1878; The great Pyramid 1883; Other suns than ours 1887; Old and
new astronomy 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works;
his widow Sallie Duffield Proctor granted civil list pension
of £100, 11 Feb. 1889. _d._ Willard Parker hospital, New York
12 Sept. 1888. _Eclectic Mag. lxxxii_ 371 (1874) _portrait_;
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlix_ 164–8 (1889);
_Knowledge Oct. 1888 pp._ 265–6 _portrait_; _Illust. Review Aug.
1873 pp._ 189–92 _portrait_.

PROCTOR, SIR WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas
Proctor, 2 baronet, 1756–1827). _b._ Langley park near Acle,
Norfolk 14 Oct. 1781; entered navy 4 Sept. 1794; served in the
expedition to Egypt; was at bombardment of Havre 1804; served in
East Indies 1808; captain R.N. 5 Sept. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841,
V.A. 2 Sept. 1850; admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Langley
park, Norfolk 14 March 1861. _O’Byrne Naval Biog. Dict. 1849 p._
985.

PROCTOR-BEAUCHAMP, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM BROGRAVE, 4 Baronet (1
son of sir W. B. Proctor, 3 baronet 1781–1861). _b._ Broome
place, Norfolk 2 July 1815; cornet royal horse guards 16 Oct.
1835, lieut. 1 June 1838, sold out 22 Sept. 1843; major Suffolk
artillery militia 18 April 1854 to 9 Nov. 1855; succeeded
14 March 1861; lieut. col. 2nd battalion of Norfolk rifle
volunteers 25 March 1861 to June 1872; sheriff of Norfolk 1869;
he transposed his names Beauchamp Proctor by R.L. 9 July 1862.
_d._ Langley park, near Acle, Norfolk 7 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_
379 (1874).

PRODGERS, CAROLINE GIACOMETTI (dau. of Mr. Prodgers). _b._
1830; readmitted to British nationality 18 Aug. 1875; the
cabmen’s terror, she had an exact and minute knowledge of London
and frequently had herself conveyed to within a few feet of
the distance covered by a shilling fare; she was continually
summoned by the cabmen, but was generally found to be correct,
as to the distances; corresponded with the public analysts; was
wealthy and lived in good style; she was burnt in effigy as a
Guy on the 5th November about the year 1876; the divorced wife
of Giovani Battista Giacometti, a captain of the Austrian navy
who was naturalised in England 15 June 1876. _d._ 54 Queen’s
road, Marylebone, London 29 April 1890.

PROPERT, JOHN (only son of Thomas Propert Bluenpistill,
Cardigan). _b._ 19 July 1793; a pupil of John Abernethy 30 Oct.
1811; M.R.C.S. 1814; a surgeon in London, where he had a large
practice; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1857; founder of the Royal
Medical benevolent college at Epsom for medical men and their
widows, including a school for sons of surgeons 1855, chapel
opened 1857. _d._ 6 New Cavendish st. London 8 Sept. 1867.
_Medical circular i_ 9 (1852) _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs
of medical men i_ 39–42 (1865) _portrait_; _Medical Times ii_
334–5 (1867); _Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vi_ 62
(1871); _In memoriam, J. P. by the rev. R. Thornton_ (1867).

PROSSER, GEORGE WALTER. _b._ 1795; ensign 2 foot 6 Oct. 1812,
lieut. 16 Sept. 1813; captain 7 dragoon guards 8 Aug. 1822,
placed on h.p. with rank of major 10 June 1826; major and
superintendent of studies at royal military college 13 May 1842,
lieut. governor 9 Jany. 1854 to 17 April 1857; colonel 20 June
1854. _d._ Windsor 12 April 1859.

PROSSER, JAMES. _b._ 1789 or 1790; educ. St. Cath. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Thame, Oxfordshire and chaplain of
Thame union 1841–71; author of A key to the Hebrew scriptures
1838, 3 ed. 1854; Examples of the philosophical accuracy of the
Hebrew text when literally translated without points; The book
of Genesis without points; J. Parkhurst’s Hebrew and Chaldee
grammar without points 1840; Family prayers 1851. _d._ The Elms,
Thame 15 July 1877.

PROSSER, RICHARD. _b._ Birmingham 3 April 1800; employed by
Penn and Williams of Birmingham, brassfounders; civil engineer;
took out patents for a bullion nail of iron 1831, for casting
nails 1835, for nail and screw making machinery 1839, for
boiler stoves 1839, for rollers in calico printing, for welded
tubes 1840, for a new principle of making iron tubes 1845, for
anti-welded tubes 1850, on which he spent £20,000, these tubes
are still in use; produced buttons, tiles, tesseræ and articles
of pottery from clay in a powdered state 1840; with Job Cutler
had a patent for engraved grooved rollers 1843; suggested the
Indices of Patents which were compiled by Bennet Woodcraft
1857–89; gave evidence before the Small arms committee 1854.
_d._ King’s Norton, Worcestershire 21 May 1854. _R. B. Prosser’s
Birmingham inventors_ (1881) 5, 245; _Regina v. Prosser 1847 to
set aside patents and works of Caledonian tube company_.

PROSSER, SOPHIE AMELIA (daughter of Charles Dibdin 1768–1833).
_b._ London 17 May 1807; _m._ 1 Jany. 1830 William Prosser,
vicar of Ashby Folville, Leicester, who _d._ 28 June 1884 aged
85; wrote in Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home for about 20 years
to her death; author of Original fables and sketches 1864; The
Awdries and their friends 1868, 2 ed. 1889; Cicely Brown’s
trials 1871, 3 ed. 1885; The cheery chime of Garth 1874, 2
ed. 1888; The day after tomorrow 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Amos Fayle
1878; Frog alley and what came out of it 1879; Ludovic or the
boy’s victory 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Lined with gold 1884; Michael
Airdree’s freehold 1888; Uncle Christie the strange lodger
1889; The face in the shutter 1890; The Crinkles of Crinklewood
hall 1892; her name as Mrs. Prosser is attached to upwards
of 30 books, almost all of them published by the Religious
Tract Society. _d._ St. Luke’s vicarage, the residence of her
son, Wolverhampton road, Bilston 14 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Bilston
cemetery 17 Feb. _The Bilston Herald 18 Feb. 1882 p._ 4.

PROTHERO, GEORGE (4 son of Thomas Prothero of St. Woolos
and Malpas court, Newport, Monmouth 1780–1853). _b._ 1819;
educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1866; V. of
Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire 1847–53; C. of Whippingham,
Isle of Wight 1853–7, and rector 1857 to death; hon. chaplain
in ordinary to the queen 6 July 1865, and chief chaplain in
ordinary 22 June 1869; canon of Westminster 1869, and sub-dean
1883 to death; rural dean of East Medina, Isle of Wight 1872;
proctor for dean and chapter of Westminster in convocation 1880
and 1886; enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the royal family
for many years; author of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, a sermon 1881;
The armour of light and other sermons preached before the queen
1888. _d._ Whippingham rectory 16 Nov. 1894. _Graphic 24 Nov.
1894 p._ 598 _portrait_.

PROTHERO, GEORGIANA MARY (only dau. of Matthew Marsh, chancellor
of Salisbury, _d._ 1846). With her father visited at Holland
house and saw Samuel Rogers, the poet Bowles, Coxe and others;
appeared at a commemoration ball at Oxford and was the beauty of
the day; was an admirable Latin scholar and a student in natural
history and botany; _m._ 2 Feb. 1837 rev. Thomas Prothero, who
_d._ in 1870, when she took up her residence at Malpas court,
Newport and managed the estate. _d._ Malpas court 11 Oct. 1895.

PROTHERO, THOMAS (brother of George Prothero 1819–94). _b._ 14
Aug. 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1823 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of Malpas 1843–6; C. of Whippingham,
Isle of Wight 1846–53; chaplain to prince Albert at Osborne 26
Dec. 1848 to 1853; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 16 Nov.
1853 to death; author of A sermon preached at the parish church
of Whippingham 1847. _d._ Malpas court 11 June 1870. _I.L.N.
lvi_ 667 (1870); _Times 14 June 1870 p._ 5, _col._ 3.

PROUDMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1833; a choir trainer; an advocate
of the Tonic Sol-fa system; had great alertness in conducting
large bodies of children; conducted concerts of the Ragged
school, the Reformatory union and Dr. Barnado’s homes at Exeter
hall; took a choir to the Paris exhibition 1867; taught many
thousands of pupils in schools and public classes; composer
of Part songs and choruses 1870, three parts; and with A. I.
Stapleton Voice training exercises 1878, 2 ed. 1883; author of
Musical lectures and sketches 1869; Musical jottings, useful and
humorous 1872, with a portrait; and with W. A. Essery The London
chants 1870. _d._ 48 Jenner road, Stoke Newington, London 21
April 1891. _J. Proudman’s Musical jottings_ (1872) _portrait_;
_Musical Times 1 May 1891 p._ 284.

PROUT, JOHN (son of Wm. Prout, farmer). _b._ South Petherwin,
near Launceston 1 Oct. 1810; emigrated to Canada and farmed land
at Pickering, Ontario 1832–42; partner with his uncle Thomas
Prout as a patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand, London 1842,
carried on the business alone 1859 to death; bought Blount’s
farm, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 1861, which he cultivated till
June 1894 with success; he demonstrated that successive crops
of cereals could be raised on heavy clay-land, if drained and
deeply ploughed and dressed with properly prepared chemical
manures; author of Profitable clay farming under a just system
of tenant right 1881, translated into French and German. _d._
at his daughter’s house, Wimbish vicarage, Saffron Walden, Essex
7 Dec. 1894. _The Cable Aug. 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_.

PROUT, JOHN SKINNER (nephew of Samuel Prout). _b._ Plymouth
1806; resided in Bristol about 1830–4, in Sydney, N.S.W. and
in Tasmania 1840–50; and in London 1850 to death; member of
Institute of painters in water-colours; author of Antiquities
of Chester 1838; The castles and abbeys of Monmouthshire 1838;
Australia by E. C. Booth, illustrated by S. Prout 1873; some
of his Bristol drawings were republished with letterpress
descriptions under title of Picturesque antiquities of Bristol
1893; there are several of his drawings at South Kensington
Museum. _d._ 4 Leighton crescent, Kentish town, London 29 Aug.
1876. _J. L. Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 406, _ii_ 87
(1891); _I.L.N. lxix_ 218, 253, 255 (1876) _portrait_.

PROUT, SAMUEL. _b._ Plymouth 17 Sept. 1783; educ. Plymouth
gram. school; a water-colour painter in London from 1802;
contributed 23 drawings to John Britton’s Beauties of England
and Wales 1803–13; sold his water-colour drawings to Mr. Palser,
Westminster bridge road 1804; member of Associated artists in
water-colours 1810, exhibited 30 works in their gallery 1810–12;
etched designs for Rudiments of landscape with progressive
studies 1813 anon., and other educational books published by
R. Ackerman of 101 Strand, who also published many detached
etchings by Prout; member of the Oil and water colour society
1819; went abroad in 1820 and succeeding years and made drawings
of churches, streets, etc.; painter in water-colours in ordinary
to the queen 1829; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I.
1803–27; in a loan collection at the Fine arts society gallery
148 New Bond st. 119 of his drawings were exhibited 1879–80;
published S. Prout’s New drawing book 1819; Facsimiles of S.
Prout’s Views in the North of England 1821; Sketches made
in France and Germany 1833; Interiors and exteriors 1834;
Hints on light and shade, composition, &c. 1838, republished
1848; Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy 1839; Prout’s
Microcosm 1841; Sketches at home and abroad 1844; the sketches
he left were disposed of in a 4 days’ sale at Sotheby and
Wilkinson’s, producing £1788 11s. 6d., May 19–22, 1852. _d._ 5
De Crespigny terrace, Denmark hill, Camberwell 10 Feb. 1852.
_bur._ Norwood cemet., monument St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.
_J. Ruskin’s Notes on S. Prout and W. Hunt_ (1879); _J. L.
Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 340, _ii_ 50, 459 (1891);
_G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106–17; _Redgrave’s
Century of painters ii_ 487–93 (1866); _Art Journal March 1849
pp._ 76–7 _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 419–20 (1852).

PROUT, THOMAS. _b._ 1785; patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand
1816 to death; a member of the Ballot Society to death; a most
influential elector of city of Westminster 1832 to death. _d._
East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey 25 July 1859, memorial tablet
erected in St. Clement Danes church by sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.B.
about 1867. _Diprose’s St. Clements i_ 63, 146 (1868).

PROVAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Stonehaven 1799; entered Aberdeen univ.
1811, M.A. 1815; had a literary engagement on the Continent;
parliamentary reporter on Morning chronicle, London; edited the
Macclesfield Courier 1835 to death. _d._ Macclesfield 11 Dec.
1867. _Macclesfield Courier 21 Dec. 1867 p._ 5.

PROVIS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Provis, a carpenter at
Warminster). Educ. Winchester school; called himself Dr. Smith
and became a public lecturer; sentenced to death for stealing a
gelding, but sentence commuted to 18 months’ imprisonment 1811;
called himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth and said he was _b._ Bath
2 Sept. 1797, claimed to be the son and heir of sir Hugh Smyth,
bart., who _d._ 28 Jany. 1824, by his first and secret marriage
in 1796 with Jane, daughter of count John Samuel Vandenbergh;
brought an action of ejectment to recover Ashton court, near
Bristol and certain estates valued at £30,000 a year at
Gloucester summer Assizes 8 to 10 Aug. 1853, his story entirely
broke down on his cross examination; tried for forgery and
perjury at Gloucester 6 to 7 April 1854, condemned to 20 years’
transportation; the case cost the Smyth family £6,000; confined
in Millbank penitentiary 1854. _d._ Dartmoor prison infirmary
27 May 1855. _Annual Register xcv_ 308–30 (1853), _xcvii_ 94
(1855); _Law magazine l_ 294–317 (1851), _li_ 371; _Celebrated
claimants_ (1873) 209–19; _W. O. Woodall’s celebrated trials_
(1873) 115–46; _Impudent impostors_ (1876) 209–18; _E. Austin’s
Anecdotage_ (1872) 129–41; _Sir B. Burke’s Vicissitudes of
families ii_ 300–27 (1869); _G.M. Feb. 1872 pp._ 334–41; _The
victim of fatality, the life of the plaintiff in the trial Smyth
versus Smyth_ (1854) _portrait_.

PROVIS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of Henry Provis, engineer).
_b._ Wimpole, Cambs. 5 May 1792; pupil of his father to 1814;
assistant to T. Telford 1814–34; resident engineer of the
suspension bridge over the Menai strait 1819–26, laid the
first stone 10 Aug. 1819; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1819; author of An
historical account of the suspension bridge over the Menai
strait 1828. _d._ The Grange, near Ellesmere, Salop 29 Sept.
1870. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Oct. _Minutes of proc. of
instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 225–30 (1871).

PROWETT, CHARLES GIPPS (eld. son of Charles Prowett, rector of
Stapleford, Herts.) _b._ Topcroft, Norfolk 1818; educ. Richmond
and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his
college 1841 to death; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; editor of
“John Bull” newspaper to 1865; contributor to Gentleman’s and
Fraser’s magazines and Quarterly review; author of Trifolium
Caianum in adventum reginæ 1843; Translations and original
pieces 1881. _d._ Northumberland st. Strand 28 June 1874. _bur._
Stapleford, near Hertford. _Law Times lvii_ 237 (1874).

PROWSE, WILLIAM JEFFERY (son of Isaac Prowse, _d._ 1844).
_b._ Torquay 6 May 1836; adopted by his uncle John Sparke
Prowse, notary, Greenwich; educ. under Nicholas Wanostrocht
at Greenwich; contributed to Chambers’ Journal, the Ladies’
Companion, and the National Mag. 1851 etc.; wrote in the
Aylesbury News 1855; engaged on the Daily Telegraph, his first
article being on the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1861, his
last on the death of Tom Lockyer, cricketer 1870; contributed
to Fun the Old Man’s sporting articles, etc. under signature
of Nicholas; he wrote The key of the Study pp. 199–237 in A
Bunch of keys, ed. by T. Hood 1865, and Like to like, a story
told by the water-rate pp. 63–94 in Rates and taxes, ed. by
T. Hood 1866; he also contributed with G. L. M. Strauss to
England’s Workshops 1864. _d._ Nice or Cimies 17 April 1870.
_bur._ Cimies. _Nicholas’ Notes and Sporting prophecies by W. J.
Prowse_, _ed. by Tom Hood_ (1870) _memoir pp._ 3–12 _portrait_;
_Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 57–64 (1882); _W. H. K.
Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 377; _Newspaper Press iv_
130 (1870).

PRYDE, JAMES. _b._ 1802; teacher of mathematics and lecturer
on mathematics in the School of arts, Edinburgh; in Chambers’s
Educational Course he wrote Exercises and problems in Algebra
1855; Treatise on practical mathematics 1855; Algebra,
theoretical and practical 1860; Euclid’s Elements of plane
geometry 1860; Navigation 1867; and Mathematical tables,
logarithms 1878, 2 ed. 1885; he was also author of Tables
for calculating interest 1857; A treatise on mathematics
1868; resided 17 Newton st. Glasgow. _d._ of heart disease in
Sauchiehall st. Glasgow 10 Feb. 1879.

PRYER, HARRY. _b._ 1850; a merchant; fellow of Entomological
soc. of London; went to Japan 1870; a recognised authority on
Japanese natural history, helped to establish and maintain the
museum at Tokio; made researches on the parasites of silk worms;
C.M.Z.S.; author of Rhopalocera Nihonica, the butterflies of
Japan, Yokohama, 1886. _d._ Yokohama, Japan 17 Feb. 1888.

PRYME, GEORGE (only child of Christopher Pryme of Hull, merchant
1739–84). _b._ Cottingham, Yorkshire 4 Aug. 1781; entered Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1799, scholar 25 April 1800, fellow 2 Oct.
1805 to Aug. 1813; sixth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806;
called Prize Pryme on account of the number of the prizes which
he gained; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806, leader of the Norfolk
circuit; returned to Cambridge Oct. 1808, resided at Barnwell
abbey, Cambridge from 1813; lecturer in the university on
political economy March 1816, professor 27 May 1828, resigned 29
Oct. 1863; contested borough of Cambridge 1820 and 1826; M.P.
Cambridge 13 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, was frequently in the
chair in committees of the house on bills introduced by private
members; bought an estate at Wistow, Hunts. 1847; a founder of
the Reform club 1836; author of Poematia numismatibus annis
dignata A.D. 1801–1802, Cambridge 1802; Syllabus of a course of
Lectures on political economy 1816, 4 ed. 1859; Memoir of the
life of D. Sykes, Wakefield 1834; Jephthah and other poems 1838.
_d._ Wistow 2 Dec. 1868. _Autobiographic recollections of G.
Pryme_, _edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alicia Bayne_ (1870); _R.
W. Corlass’ Sketches of Hull authors_ (1879) 83–90; _Register
and Mag. of biography Jany. 1869 pp._ 48–50.

PRYOR, ALFRED REGINALD (eld. son of Alfred Pryor). _b._
Hatfield, Herts. 24 April 1839; educ. Tunbridge sch. and Univ.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862; joined the R.C. church 1858; wrote many
papers on botany in the Journal of botany 1873–81; left his
herbarium, books, manuscript flora and £100 to the Hertfordshire
Natural history society; author of A flora of Hertfordshire,
edited by B. D. Jackson 1887. _d._ Baldock, Herts. 18 Feb. 1881.
_bur._ Baldock 24 Feb. _A. R. Pryor’s Flora_ (1887) _memoir pp.
v, xliv–xlvi_; _Journal of botany_ (1881) 276–8.

PRYCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; an accountant at Bristol; city
librarian April 1856 to death; F.S.A. 30 April 1857; author of
Notes on the ecclesiastical and monumental architecture and
sculpture of the middle ages in Bristol 1850; Memorials of
the Canynges family and their times 1854; Westbury college,
Redcliffe church and Chatterton about 1856; Fact _versus_
fiction, a descent among writers on Bristol history and
biography 1858; A popular history of Bristol 1861. _d._ Bristol
15 March 1868, portrait in reference room of Bristol free
library.

PRYSE, EDWARD LEWIS (2 son of Pryse Pryse, M.P. of Gogerddan,
Cardiganshire). _b._ 1817; cornet 6 dragoon guards 17 March
1837, captain 2 Aug. 1844; captain 3 foot 12 June 1846, sold
out 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. Cardigan 1857–68; president of Cardigan
liberal association; lord lieut. of co. Cardigan 27 Aug. 1857;
hon. col. royal Cardigan militia 11 July 1877 to death; master
of Peithyll fox hounds. _d._ Peithyll, Aberystwith 29 May 1888.

PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1810; known as Gweirydd ap Rhys; took
an active part in the Eisteddfods; author of An English and
Welsh pronouncing dictionary, in which the pronunciation is
given in Welsh letters, Dinbych 1857; Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r
Cymry, two parts, Llundain 1873–6, and other works in the Welsh
language 1841–78. _d._ Bethesda, Bangor Sept. 1889. _Times 3
Oct. 1889 p._ 9.

PUCKLE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Smith). _bapt._ Eastwick, Herts.
13 Sept. 1767; a nursemaid; _m._ Timothy Puckle of Stapleford 23
April 1793. _d._ High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 9 Dec. 1872,
said to be aged 106. _Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 280–5.

PUCKLE, JOHN (only son of John Puckle of Pentonville, London).
_b._ 1812; Somerset scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1832–5;
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover 1842 to
death; rural dean of Dover 1846 to death; surrogate of diocese
of Canterbury 1846 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury 1869 to
death; proctor diocese of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of
Ecclesiastical sketches of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury 1849;
Parochial sermons, 4 vols. 1847–61; Church and fortress of Dover
castle, illustrated from his own drawings 1864; John’s governor
visits dame Europa’s school 1870, which circulated 40,000
copies. _d._ Dover 26 Feb. 1894.

PUDNEY, JAMES. _b._ Lambeth 13 May 1830; beat Dawkins ½ mile
at the Old Cope 12 Nov. 1850; beat T. Cook 10 miles at Barking
2 May 1853; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 and belt at Halifax
13 March 1854; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 at Wandsworth 17
Nov. 1856; beat C. Cooke 10 miles £50 at Hackney 12 Sept. 1859;
won the 10 mile cup and £6 at Hackney 10 June 1861; winner of
upwards of 70 races and handicaps; champion of England. _Illust.
sporting news 24 May 1862 p._ 81 _portrait_.

PUGH, DAVID (son of Charles Pugh, _d._ 21 Dec. 1796). _b._
Perry hill, Kent 14 Aug. 1789; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 29
April 1809; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry about 1840; recorder
of Welshpool many years; M.P. Montgomery burghs 10 Dec. 1832,
unseated on petition March 1833; M.P. again 29 July 1847 to
death. _d._ Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire 20 April 1861.

PUGH, DAVID (eld. son of colonel David Heron Pugh of Manoravon,
Llandilo). _b._ 23 March 1806; educ. Rugby and Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; chairman of quarter
sessions for Carmarthenshire 1843–52; M.P. Carmarthenshire
1857–68; contested Carmarthenshire 26 Nov. 1868; M.P. Eastern
division of the county 1885 to death; sheriff of Carmarthen
1874; owner of nearly 10,000 acres of land. _d._ London 12 July
1890.