Chapter LXXVI: Part 76

PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE (only child of Augustus Charles
Pugin, architect 1762–1832). _b._ 34 Store st. Bedford sq.
London 1 March 1812; educ. Christ’s hospital; designed the
furniture for Windsor castle June 1827; executed the scenery
for the ballet of Kenilworth at Drury Lane 1831; architect
at Salisbury 1833–41, at Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1841, then at
Ramsgate to his death, where he built for himself a house with
a church adjoining on the West Cliff; joined the Church of
Rome 1834; designed for the earl of Shrewsbury the addition to
Alton Towers, the church at Cheadle, and the chapel and other
buildings at St. John’s hospital, Alton; prepared for Charles
Barry all the detail drawings for the new houses of parliament
1836–40; designed the cathedrals of Southwark, Killarney, and
Enniscorthy, and many churches, chiefly Roman Catholic; author
of Gothic furniture in the style of the fifteenth century 1835;
Contrasts, Salisbury 1836, 2 ed. 1841; Designs for gold and
silver smiths 1836; Designs for brass and iron work 1836; The
true principles of pointed or Christian architecture 1841; An
apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England
1843; Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume 1844,
3 ed. 1868; Some remarks on articles in the Rambler 1850; A
treatise on chancel screens 1851; Church and state, or christian
liberty 1875, 4 ed. 1875; a patient in a private asylum 1852,
removed to Bedlam; Jane Pugin, his wife, granted civil list
pension of £100, 2 Sept. 1852. _d._ St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate 14
Sept. 1852. _Ferrey’s Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin_ (1861)
_portrait_; _J. C. Colquhoun’s Scattered leaves of biography_
(1864) 317–60; _Metropolitan and provincial Catholic almanac_
(1853) 5–10 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_ 281, 282 (1852) _portrait_.

PUGIN, EDWARD WELBY (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 11 March
1834; managed his father’s practice from 1851; exhibited 16
designs at the R.A. 1854–79; partner with Mr. Ashlin; partner
with James Murray of Coventry, they designed Queenstown
cathedral; he designed the church of the Immaculate Conception
at Dadizeele, Belgium 1859, for which Pius IX gave him the
order of St. Sylvester; designed St. Michael’s priory, Belmont,
Herefordshire, the church of S.S. Peter and Paul, Cork, the
Augustinian church at Dublin, the college of St. Cuthbert and
the schools of St. Aloysius, Ushaw, and many churches; in five
years made £40,000; designed the Granville hotel at Ramsgate in
which he held a share and lost much money; claimed unjustly that
his father was the architect of the houses of parliament 1867;
edited some of his father’s works; author of Who was the art
architect of the houses of parliament 1867, there were several
pamphlets on this subject. _d._ 111 Victoria st. Westminster
4 June 1875. _bur._ St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate 10 June,
marble bust in the gardens on the cliff at Ramsgate. _Builder
12 June 1875 pp._ 522–3; _Building News 11 June 1875 p._ 670;
_I.L.N. lxvi_ 571 (1875) _portrait_.

PULESTON, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Richard
Puleston, 1 baronet 1765–1840). _b._ Emral, Flintshire 20 June
1789; succeeded 19 May 1840; colonel of Flint militia 24 Feb.
1846 to 14 May 1855. _d._ 19 Dec. 1860.

PULLAN, RICHARD POPPLEWELL (son of Samuel Popplewell Pullan,
solicitor). _b._ Knaresborough, Yorkshire 27 March 1825; educ.
Christ’s hospital; went to Sebastopol during the siege Oct.
1854, and made sketches and models of the district; exhibited
in London a model of the country and fortifications about
Sebastopol; appointed by the foreign office architect to the
expedition sent to survey the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in
Asia Minor in April 1857; employed by the Society of Dilettanti
on further investigations of a like kind; competed for Truro
and Lille cathedrals, the war and foreign offices, and natural
history museum; designed churches at Pontresina and Baveno;
completed all the unfinished works of Wm. Burges 1881; author
of The altar, its baldachin and reredos 1873; Eastern cities
and Italian towns 1879; Elementary lectures on Christian
architecture 1879; Studies in architectural style 1883; Studies
in cathedral design 1888; author with sir C. T. Newton of A
history of discoveries of Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidæ
1862; with C. F. M. Texier of Byzantine architecture 1864; he
edited The architectural designs of W. Burges 1883; The house of
W. Burges 1886. _d._ Brighton 30 April 1888. _Proc. of Soc. of
Antiq._, _n.s. xii_ 391 (1888); _Athenæum i_ 575 (1888).

PULLEINE, JAMES (2 son of Henry Percy Pulleine of Crake hall,
Bedale, Yorkshire 1770–1833). _b._ 31 Oct. 1804; educ. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832,
went northern circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for north
riding of Yorkshire 16 years; a director of North Eastern
railway company, chairman; sheriff of Yorkshire 1870; F.G.S.
_d._ Clifton castle, Bedale, Yorkshire 23 March 1879. _Law Times
lxvi_ 471 (1879).

PULLEN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1807; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., sixth
wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1841; fellow of his
college 1830–47, tutor 1842–6; V. of St. Benedict’s, Cambridge
1847–71; professor of astronomy in Gresham college, London
1834–75; author of A lecture on astronomy, read at Gresham
college 1843. _d._ 7 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 20 Jany.
1877.

PULLEN, THOMAS FRANCIS. _b._ Plymouth 1851; midshipman R.N. 27
July 1866; commander of the Sparrowhawk in a survey of Jamaica
1875–80; employed on the Red sea and Delagoa bay surveys 1881–2,
and on the second transit of Venus; senior British comr. to
determine boundary line between British and French possessions
near Assinie, West coast of Africa 1883; re-established the
protectorate of the king of Aowin on the border of Ashantee
1884; in charge of survey of New Guinea; commander of the Stork
in surveying east coast of Africa 1888. _d._ Bonny, Upper Guinea
3 Nov. 1889. _I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 p._ 651 _portrait_; _Times 7
Dec. 1889 p._ 10.

PULLEN, WILLIAM JOHN SAMUEL (son of W. Pullen, lieutenant R.N.)
_b._ 1813; entered navy as a cadet 15 June 1828; assistant
surveyor under South Australian company 1836; marine surveyor
of the colony; returned to the navy as a midshipman 1844;
commander 25 Jany. 1850; commanded the North star in the
Franklin search expedition Feb. 1852 to Oct. 1854; commanded the
Falcon in the Baltic fleet 1855; captain 10 May 1856; captain
of the Cyclops on the East Indian station Sept. 1857, bombarded
Jeddah 1858; captain of the Terror at Bermuda 1863–5; captain
of the Revenge coastguard ship at Pembroke 1867–9; placed on
retired list 1 April 1870; R.A. 11 June 1874; V.A. 1 Feb. 1879;
granted Greenwich hospital pension 19 Feb. 1886. _d._ 15 Jany.
1887.

PULLER, CHARLES GILES- (son of Christopher William Puller, M.P.
Herts. 1807–64). _b._ 22 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 6 Oct.
1834; educ. at Eton 1847–50, and Trin. coll. Camb., 14 wrangler
1857, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; fellow of Trin. coll. 1859–74; R.
of Standon, Herts. March 1862, resigned March 1868; renounced
his orders in Ch. of England 18 Sept. 1874; travelled in Brazil;
member of Royal Toxophilite soc. 1873–8; a first class amateur
chess player; succeeded to the family estate on death of his
brother; one of the first members of Herts. county council; had
a library of 7,000 volumes; F.S.A. _d._ Youngsbury, near Ware 3
May 1892. _F. T. Follett’s Archer’s Register_ (1892) 44–5.

PULLIN, CHARLES KING. _b._ 3 Nov. 1838; umpire for the
Gloucestershire county cricket club many years; one of the best
umpires of his day; umpired in the match England _v._ Australia
at the Oval 14–16 Aug. 1892. _d._ Redland, Bristol 2 April 1893.

PULLING, ALEXANDER (4 son of George Christopher Pulling, captain
in the navy 1765–1819). _b._ the Court house, St. Arvan’s
Monmouthshire 1 Dec. 1813; entered Merchant Taylor’s school
April 1829; barrister I.T. 9 June 1843; became a leader on the
South Wales circuit; gave evidence before royal commission on
state of corporation of London Nov. 1853; senior comr. under
Metropolitan management act of 1855; a promoter and original
member of Incorporated council of law reporting 1865; revising
barrister for Glamorgan 1857; serjeant-at-law 9 Feb. 1864;
author of A practical treatise on the laws, customs, and
regulations of the city and port of London 1842, 2 ed. 1849; A
practical compendium of the law and usage of mercantile accounts
1846; Observations on the disputes in the corporation of the
city of London on internal reform 1847; A summary of the law
of attorneys and solicitors 1849, 3 ed. 1862; The law of joint
stock companies account 1850; The order of the coif 1884. _d._
68 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Jany. 1895. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 19 Jany. _Law Times 26 Jany. 1895 p._ 313.

PULLING, FREDERICK SANDERS (1 son of Frederick William Pulling,
vicar of Pinhoe, Devon). _b._ Modbury, Devon 1854; educ.
Bradfield and Ex. coll. Oxf., Guernsey scholar 12 Dec. 1871;
B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878; professor of history Yorkshire coll.
Leeds 1877; edited Oxford study guides 1880, three parts; The
Constitutional magazine 1887; author of Sir Joshua Reynolds
1880; Life and speeches of the marquis of Salisbury, 2 vols.
1885; and with S. J. M. Low The dictionary of English history
1884, 2 ed. 1889. _d._ the vicarage, Pinhoe 6 July 1893.

PULLING, JAMES. _b._ 6 Dec. 1814; educ. Corpus Christi coll.
Camb., fellow 1838–50, master 1850–79; 11 wrangler and B.A.
1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1855; D.C.L. Oxford univ. 7
June 1853; C. of Grantchester, Cambridge 1842–4; V. of Belchamp
St. Paul’s, Essex 1863 to death. _d._ Cambridge 26 Feb. 1879.
_bur._ in the chapel of his college 4 March.

PULLING, WILLIAM. Educ. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., B.A. 1812,
M.A. 1817; R. of Blackmanston, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; R. of
Dymchurch, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; author of Select sermons,
with appropriate prayers translated from the original Danish of
N. E. Balle 1819; Sonnets in the Italian style with an essay
on sonnet writing 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Biographical sketch of M.
de Lamartine, with a translation of Meditations and Religious
harmonies 1849. _d._ 1860.

PULMAN, GEORGE PHILIP RIGNEY (son of Philip Pulman 1791–1871).
_b._ Axminster, Devon 21 Feb. 1819; printer and bookseller at
Crewkerne 1848; edited the Yeovil Times some years; founded at
Crewkerne Pulman’s Weekly news and advertiser 10 March 1857,
owner and editor of it to June 1878, when he sold it with his
bookselling business; obtained a bronze medal for his artificial
fishing flies at Great Exhibition 1851; published The western
agriculturist about 1843, and the United counties miscellany
1849 to July 1851; author of The book of the Axe 1841, 4 ed.
1875; The vade mecum of fly fishing for trout 1841, 3 ed. 1851;
Rustic sketches, being poems on angling in the dialect of East
Devon, Taunton 1842, 3 ed. 1871; Local nomenclature, a lecture
on the names of places, chiefly in the West of England 1857;
author with prince L. L. Bonaparte of The song of Solomon in
the East Devonshire dialect 1860. _d._ The Hermitage, Uplyme,
South Devon 3 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Axminster cemet. 7 Feb. _John
Trotandot’s [i.e. G. P. R. Pulman’s] Rambles, warnings, and
recollections_ (1870) _with portrait of G. P. R. Pulman_;
_Academy 14 Feb. 1880 p._ 120.

PULMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1783; portcullis pursuivant 30 May 1822;
yeoman usher of the black rod 1830 to death; Richmond herald 23
July 1838 to 1846; Norroy king of arms 18 April 1846 to 1848;
Clarenceux king of arms 14 June 1848 to death. _d._ East hill,
Wandsworth 29 Oct. 1859. _G.M. Dec. 1859 p._ 655.

PULMAN, JOHN (eld. son of Thomas Pulman of Lampford Brett,
Somerset). _b._ 1803; barrister M.T. 17 Jany. 1845; looked upon
as a pillar of the church; author of A letter of remonstrance
addressed to J. C. Barrow, by a Protestant Father 1859; The
extradition treaty, the church of the poor and church rates
1861; The Anti-state church association unmasked 1864; An
exposure of the fallacies in Mr. Spurgeon’s sermon on baptismal
regeneration 1864, 2 ed. 1864; A letter to the archbishops and
bishops on the civil and ecclesiastical courts 1867; A letter to
the queen on the coronation oath 1869; The subordinate clergy
and the bishops, which of them should bear rule 1870. _d._ 11
April 1888.

PULSFORD, ROBERT (youngest son of Wm. Pulsford of Wimpole st.
London). _b._ 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hereford 5
Oct. 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 6 Upper Belgrave st. London 12
June 1888.

PULVERMACHER, ISAAC LEWIS OR LOUIS (son of Meyer Pulvermacher,
_d._ Breslau, Prussia 1854). _b._ Kempen, Prussia 1815;
apprenticed to a jeweller; a jeweller in Vienna and Prague;
commenced studying and working in electricity in Prague;
invented a series of batteries in the form of a chain and
bands made from flexible zinc and copper wire, which give out
a continuous current of galvanism 1844, this is an improvement
of the voltaic pile, and is a producer of galvanism that can be
worn on the body; settled in Berlin 1846 and in Paris 1850; came
to London and opened a place of business at 118 Leadenhall st.
1849, removed to 194 Regent st. 1861, where he sold his galvanic
bands and electric belts; established depôts in Stockholm and
New York; naturalised in England 29 Jany. 1868; author of
Practical guide for the electro-medical treatment of diseases
by Pulvermacher’s hydro-electric chains 1856. _d._ Windmill
hill house, West Hampstead, London 12 Sept. 1884. _bur._ West
Hampstead cemetery 14 Sept. _London Figaro 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 6
_portrait_.

PUMPHREY, THOMAS (son of Stanley Pumphrey). _b._ Worcester
10 June 1802; educ. Ackworth school 1812–15; a glover in his
father’s business at Worcester 1817; a minister among the
Friends 1822 to death; superintendent of Ackworth school
1834–62, during which time great improvements were made in
the school buildings, presented with £1400 and a collection
of books; author of A brief view of the Society of Friends on
prayer 1828. _d._ Ackworth 31 July 1862. _bur._ 5 Aug. _Annual
Monitor_ (1863) 123–46; _Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends_ (1888)
532–6, 798–802; _J. Ford’s Memoir of T. Pumphrey_ (1864)
_portrait_.

PUNCHARD, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1835; of the firm of Punchard,
M’Taggart, Lowther and Co., engineers and contractors for public
works, 151 Cannon st. London; among the works he was interested
in constructing were the Bedford and Northampton railway,
the Great Marlow railway, and the West Lancashire railway;
railways in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Canada, Sweden, Spain,
Malta, Tasmania, South Australia, Uruguay, and Brazil; with
his partners he likewise made tramways in Buenos Ayres and the
harbour of La Guaira in Venezuela; in conjunction with Thomas
Brassey he made the Callao dock, Peru. _d._ 25 Dec. 1891. _Times
1 Jany. 1892 p._ 4.

PUNSHON, WILLIAM MORLEY (only child of John Punshon, mercer,
_d._ 1840). _b._ Doncaster 29 May 1824; educ. Doncaster gr. sch.
to 1835; clerk to Mr. Morley, timber merchant, Hull 1837–40;
joined the Methodist society in Hull Nov. 1838; minister at
Whitehaven 1845, ordained 1849; minister at Newcastle 1849–52,
at Sheffield 1852–5, at Leeds 1855–8; minister of Hinde st.
circuit London 1858–61, of Islington circuit 1861–64; minister
at Bristol 1864–7; presided over the annual conferences in
Canada 1868; created LL.D. by Victoria univ. of Cobourg June
1872; superintendent of Kensington circuit, London 1873–5; one
of the general secretaries of Wesleyan Methodist missionary
society 1875 to death; elected president of Wesleyan conference
29 July 1874; author of Tabor on the class meeting, a plea and
an appeal 1849; John Bunyan, lectures 1857; Pulpit orations
1861; Sabbath chimes, meditations in verse 1867; The prodigal
son, four discourses 1868; Sermons 1882. _d._ Tranby, Brixton
Hill, London 14 April 1881. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 19 April. _F.
W. Macdonald’s Life of W. M. Punshon_ (1887) _portrait_; _T.
MacCullagh’s Memorial sermon_ (1881); _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire
ii_ 138–41 (1890) _portrait_; _Leisure hours_. _By A Journalist_
(1878) 79–80; _C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1874) 261–9;
_Drawing room portrait gallery_, _third series_ (1860) _portrait
xv_; _Graphic x_ 150, 153 (1874) _portrait_.

PURCELL, EDWARD (youngest son of Tobias Purcell of Limogue
castle, Queen’s county). Entered navy 9 June 1804; captain 25
Aug. 1828; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. _d._ Bath 3 Dec. 1869.

PURCELL, JOHN BAPTIST. _b._ Mallow, co. Cork 26 Feb. 1800; educ.
Ashbury coll. Baltimore 1818, and Mount St. Mary, Emmettsburg
1820; ordained in Notre Dame, Paris 1826; professor of
philosophy at St. Mary’s coll. 1827, and president 1828; bishop
of Cincinnati, consecrated 13 Oct. 1833; archbishop 1850 with
4 suffragan bishops attached to his see; received the Pallium
from the Pope’s hands in Rome 1851; his later days were troubled
with great financial difficulties 1879 to death; author of A
debate on the Roman Catholic religion between A. Campbell and
the rev. J. B. Purcell 1837; The Vickers and Purcell controversy
1868; Marriage and family duties in general 1881. _d._ in Brown
county, Ohio 4 July 1883. _Appleton’s American biography v_ 136
(1888).

PURCELL, THEOBALD ANDREW. Called to the Irish bar 1840, junior
counsel 1865; county court judge and chairman of quarter
sessions of county of Limerick and Queen’s county 16 Oct. 1874;
Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of Kings Inns 1886; author of A
summary of the criminal law of Ireland 1848; A summary of the
principles of pleading and evidence 1849; A suburb of Yedo 1889.
_d._ 71 Harcourt st. Dublin 6 March 1894.

PURCHAS, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Jardine Purchas, captain in the
navy). _b._ Cambridge 14 July 1823; educ. Rugby and Christ’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; C. of Elsworth, Cambs.
1851–3; C. of Orwell, Cambs. 1856–9; C. of St. Paul’s, West st.
Brighton 1861–6; P.C. of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1866 to
death; charged before sir Robert Phillimore in the Arches court
by colonel Charles James Elphinstone with infringing the law of
the established church by using a cope and other ritualistic
practices, judgment given against him on eight points with costs
3 Feb. 1870, Elphinstone appealed to the queen in council for a
fuller condemnation of Purchas, but dying 30 March 1870, Henry
Hebbert of Brighton was permitted to take his place 4 June 1870;
the privy council decided against Purchas on practically all the
points raised 16 May 1871 and suspended him from the discharge
of his clerical office for 12 months 7 Feb. 1872, but he
continued his services as usual to his death; upward of 17 works
were printed on the Purchas case 1871–7; edited the Directorium
Anglicanum 1858; author of The miser’s daughter, or the lover’s
curse 1839, a comedy; Ode upon the death of the Marquis Camden
1841; The birth of the prince of Wales, a poem 1842; Poems and
ballads 1846; The book of feasts 1853; The priest’s dream: an
allegory 1856; The death of Ezekiel’s wife, three sermons 1866.
_d._ 7 Montpellier villas, Brighton 18 Oct. 1872. _bur._ in the
parochial cemet. 23 Oct. _Annual Register_ (1871) 187–210.

PURDAY, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1799; professor of music at 4
Hunter st. Brunswick sq, 1848–51; music publisher at 24 Madox
st. Regent st. 1854, at 15 Mill st. Hanover sq. to 1864, and
at 24 Great Marlborough st. to 1870; author of A catechism of
music 1854; One hundred and one popular psalm and hymn tunes
1860; edited Abyssinian captives, recent intelligence from H. A.
Stern 1866; composer of The denounced, a ballad 1830; Jehovah
Jireh, sacred song 1847; Elementary exercises on the art of
singing 1851; One hundred rounds for two-six voices 1852; A few
directions for chaunting 1855; Admiral Blake, a song 1859; For
the homes of our fathers, recitative and aria 1880; edited The
sacred musical offering 1830; Songs for the young 1851; One
hundred tunes for infants and juvenile schools 1855; A church
and home tune book 1857; Fifty three popular rounds 1858;
Routledge’s Church and home metrical psalter 1860; The royal
naval song book 1867; Sinclair & Co.’s Fifty songs for young
people 1867; The songs of Wales 1874; his name is attached to
upwards of 50 pieces of music 1828–85. _d._ 27 Portland place,
Notting Hill, London 23 April 1885.

PURDEY, JAMES. Founded the gunmaking business at 4 Princes st.
Leicester sq. London 1818, at 314½ Oxford st. 1827–60, removed
to South Audly street 1882; had Pigeon shooting grounds at
Willesden 1856; made the first express rifles 1857; invented the
expanding bullet; made the patent double bolt for breechloaders
1864; patented the rebounding hammerless gun 1881; a maker of
weapons of the finest quality. _Shooting, field and covert_
(_Badmington library_) 1886 _pp._ 52, 381; _Sporting Mirror
March 1882 pp._ 73–4; _Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858)
172.

PURDY, ELIZABETH (eld. child of Frederick and Elizabeth Purdy).
Studied under John Forster, signor Ciabatta and Madame Giacinta
Puzzi; first appeared at the Hanover sq. rooms, London 3 May
1871; studied singing at Milan 1876; appeared as Siebel in
Faust at Dublin 1877 and at Her Majesty’s, London 19 Nov. 1877
under the name of Lisa Perdi; played Maddalena in Rigoletto;
had a mezzo soprano voice with command of contralto and soprano
notes. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Kensington, London 29 April 1881.
_Musical World 21 May 1881 p._ 323; _Illust. Sp. and Dr. News 22
Dec. 1877 pp._ 327, 347 _portrait_.

PURDY, FREDERICK. _b._ 1812; principal of the Statistical
department of poor law board; fellow of Statistical soc. 1837 to
death; a member of the council, and one of honorary secretaries;
author of Summary digest, return to parliament of owners of
land, England and Wales 1876; wrote Suggestions on the printing
of parliamentary statistics, in Journal R. Statistical soc.
xxxiv 21–56 (1871), and ten other papers. _d._ 35 Victoria road,
Kensington, London 12 Oct. 1888.

PURDY, WELLINGTON. _b._ Killucan, co. Westmeath 24 May 1815;
employed under Mr. Vignoles on Manchester and Sheffield railway
1838–40, and under Joseph Locke 1840–5; resident engineer
Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford railway 1846–56; in India reporting
on Eastern Bengal railway 1856–7, made the railway 1858 etc.;
partner with W. B. Lewis as engineers, London 1864; reported on
the Dublin tramways 1871; retired from business 1880. _d._ 14
Feb. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii_ 408–13 (1889).

PURKESS, GEORGE (son of George Purkess of 59 Dean st. Soho,
London, publisher, _d._ 1862). _b._ Wardour st. Soho, London
1840; publisher and bookseller at 16 St Alban’s place, Edgware
road, London 1858–63; proprietor of The Family Doctor and
people’s medical adviser, a weekly publication, No. 1 March 7,
1885 to death; proprietor of The Illustrated Police news at 83
Fleet st. 1863–5, at 275 Strand 1865–8, at 286 Strand 1868–90,
and at 34 Catherine st. Strand 1890 to death; one of the
founders of the old Unity club. _d._ 25 Avenue road, Regent’s
park, London 10 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Highgate new cemetery 15 Dec.
_The Referee 18 Dec. 1892 p._ 7; _Illust. Police News 17 Dec.
1892 p._ 2.

PURKISS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1842; educ. City of London school;
obtained the first queen’s prize given at South Kensington;
matric. at univ. of London 1860, where he took three
mathematical scholarships, an M.A. degree, and the gold medal
as the best mathematician of his year; scholar Trin. coll.
Camb., senior wrangler, first Smith prizeman and B.A. 1864;
vice-principal of College of naval architecture South Kensington
1864, principal 1865 to death; editor of The Oxford, Cambridge
and Dublin messenger of mathematics to death; _drowned_ while
bathing in the river Cam 17 Sept. 1865. _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._
10, _21 Sept. p._ 4, _22 Sept. p._ 8; _Cambridge Chronicle 23
Sept. 1865 pp._ 4, 7.

PURLAND, THEODOSIUS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1805; surgeon dentist Wilson
st. Finsbury, London 1830, lived at 7 Mortimer st. Cavendish
sq. 1850 to death; M.A.; Ph.D.; his library, including his
own Recollections of Vauxhall 1814–59, was sold at Hodgson’s,
Chancery lane 16 March 1882; his Alsatian eccentricities,
cuttings and pictures relating to murders etc. 1700–1782, 2
vols. 1847, 4to is in the British Museum 1243 k. _d._ 7 Mortimer
st. London 16 Aug. 1881. _N. and Q. 6 s. v_ 168, 293, 317, _vi_
154 (1882).

NOTE.--In his rooms he had some curious mechanical toys, which served to distract the minds of his youthful patients while he drew their teeth.

PURNELL, THOMAS (son of Robert Purnell). _b._ Tenby 1834;
matric. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1852; assistant secretary and
librarian of Archæological institute of Great Britain and
Ireland 1862–6; contributed a series of dramatic criticisms
under the signature Q to the Athenæum 1870–1; founded a club
known as the Decemviri; invented the nickname tea-cup and saucer
comedy for the Robertsonian school of plays; edited James Hind’s
Historia quatuor regum Angliæ for the Roxburghe club 1868; and
The correspondence and works of C. Lamb, 4 vols. 1870; author of
Literature and its professors 1867; Dramatists of the present
day. By Q 1871; To London and elsewhere 1881; The Lady Drusilla,
a psychological romance 1887; Dust and diamonds, essays 1888.
_d._ Lloyd sq. Pentonville, London 17 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro
28 Dec. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_; _Athenæum 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 860.

PURNELL, WILLIAM PASTON (2 son of Purnell Bransby Cooper of
Stancombe park, Gloucs. 1791–1866, assumed name of Purnell).
_b._ 12 June 1821; ensign 90 foot 24 March 1838, lieut. col. 9
Oct. 1855 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in the Crimea and in India;
ensign of yeomen of the guard 2 Feb. 1866 to death; C.B. 24
March 1858. _d._ Cookham, Berks. 14 May 1869.

PURSER, JOHN. Farmer of Willington, Beds.; a breeder of dogs;
a member of the Cardington club; his bitch Pansey and his dog
Pilot won numerous stakes and cups at Cardington and Newmarket
1847–9; William Purser, the brother, was a farmer and racer.
_Sporting Review Dec. 1850 pp._ 435–7 _portrait_.

PURSER, RICHARD (a natural son of Mr. Loveridge, a builder).
Claimed to have been _b._ Redmarley d’Abitot, Worcs. 14 July
1756; a cowman at Hempstead; a day labourer at Cheltenham; the
Queen gave him £5 a year from 1863 on the erroneous statements
made to her; _m._ 12 Sept. 1808 Ann Rollings. _d._ Cheltenham
12 Oct. 1868, claiming to be 112 but probably about 80. _W.
J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 4, 139, 224–35; _G. H.
Townsend’s Handbook_ (1869) 127.

PURTON, WALTER ONIONS. _b._ 1833; educ. St. Catherine’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1859; C. of Petworth, Sussex 1859–65; C. of
Blackpool, Lancs. 1865–6; R. of Coombe, Sussex 1866–70; R.
of Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex 1870–88; R. of Poynings, Sussex
1888 to death; chaplain to 7 earl of Shaftesbury; a prominent
evangelical who exercised influence in the religious press; held
successively three editorships; editor of The Churchman 1879;
author of The Communicant 1881. _d._ Poynings rectory 14 Sept.
1892. _Times 21 Sept. 1892 p._ 4; _Guardian 21 Sept. 1892 p._
1391.

PURVES, DAVID LAING. _b._ 1838; had a Doctor’s degree; leader
writer on the Scotsman, then on Daily Telegraph; edited
The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene 1870; The English
circumnavigators, voyages round the world 1874; wrote The life
of Jonathan Swift in The works of J. Swift 1869. _d._ 214
Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1873.

PURVES, JOHN (1 son of William Purves of Edinburgh). _b._ 1840;
educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., exhibitioner 1860–5, B.A. 1864, M.A.
1867, fellow 1866; classical lecturer Wadham coll. 1864–6;
lecturer Balliol 1875, junior dean 1868, junior bursar 1872;
Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1862, Craven scholar 1864, and
Kennicott scholar 1865; edited Selections from the dialogues of
Plato 1883, 2 ed. 1891; The Iliad, translated into English prose
1891; assisted Dr. Jowett in his works on Plato and Thucydides.
_d._ Oxford 10 Jany. 1890. _Times 31 Jany. 1890 p._ 6.

PURVIS, CHARLES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1777; cornet 1 dragoons 3 June
1796; major 7 May 1812 to 11 June 1818, when placed on h.p. _d._
Royal crescent, Brighton 6 Nov. 1859.

PURVIS, JOHN BRETT (eld. son of John Child Purvis, admiral R
N. 1747–1825). _b._ 12 Aug. 1787; entered navy 5 Jany. 1799;
captain 16 Sept. 1809; in command of the Ganymede 23 guns Oct.
1801 on the coast of Spain; commander of the Magicienne in the
East Indies 1815–9; in command of the Alfred 50 guns on the
South American coast 1841–5; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 4 July 1853.
_d._ Bury lodge near Gosport 1 Oct. 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval
Biog._ (1849) 941–2.

PURVIS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Purvis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
tailor). _b._ Auchindinny near Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1784; a
drummer in the West York militia 1794; apprenticed to John
Chapman, carpenter at Newcastle 1800–1807; drummer at Newcastle
theatre, then call boy there under Stephen Kemble, and
afterwards carpenter; worked as a carpenter about six years
from 1807; a clown and an actor, became the clown and jester
of the North; proprietor of an itinerant theatre about 1819,
travelled the country from Durham to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in
Scotland to his death; paid J. P. Robson £20 for writing his
autobiography 1850. _d._ Hartlepool 16 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in
St. Hilda’s churchyard, Hartlepool. _The life of Billy Purvis,
Newcastle-on-Tyne_ (1875) _portrait_; _Life and adventures of
Billy Purvis_, _by J. P. Robson_ (1850); _Illustrated sp. and
dr. news ii_ 283 (1874).

PUSELEY, DANIEL (son of Henry Puseley, maltster). _b._ Bideford,
Devon 9 Feb. 1814; a commercial traveller; hosier and silk
merchant Gutter lane, city of London 1844–54, when he went to
Australia for his health; author of Harry Mustifer, or a few
years of the road, miscellaneous poems 1847 anon; The Saturday
early closing movement. By A Warehouseman 1854; The rise
and progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. By An
Englishman 1857, 5 ed. 1858; The commercial companion, a record
of eminent commercial houses and men of the day 1858, 3 ed.
1860; Five dramas 1860; New plays. By an old author 1876; author
under pseudonym of Frank Foster of Number one, or the way of the
world, a colonial directory including Sydney, Melbourne, and New
Zealand 1862, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1865; A journey of life in long and
short stages 1866; An old acquaintance 1866. _d._ 21 Rochester
road, Camden Town, London 18 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Frank Foster’s The age we live in_ (1863) _portrait_; _Academy
28 Jany. 1882 p._ 63.

PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE (2 son of Philip Bouverie 1745–1828,
who assumed the name of Pusey 3 April 1784). _b._ Pusey house,
near Great Farringdon, Berkshire 22 Aug. 1800; educ. Mitcham,
Surrey 1807–12, and at Eton 1812–9; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1819;
B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1836; fellow of Oriel coll. 2 April
1823; studied at Göttingen, Berlin, and Bonn 1825–7; regius
professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford 9 Nov.
1828 to death; founded with his brother Philip Pusey and Dr.
Ellerton the three Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships 1832;
the prime mover with John Keble and John Henry Newman in the
Oxford movement which was called Puseyism or Newmania 1833;
contributed to Tracts for the times 1833–41 and wrote seven
tracts; founded The Oxford library of fathers of the holy
catholic church, anterior to the division of east and west 1836,
of which 48 volumes were published 1838–85; preached on the Holy
Eucharist at Ch. Ch. 14 May 1843, condemned for heresy by the
vice-chancellor and suspended for two years from his office as
a preacher before the university 2 June 1843; founded at cost
of £6,000 St. Saviour’s church, Leeds, foundation stone laid 14
Sept. 1842, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845; established an Anglican
sisterhood in London 26 March 1845, and in Devonport 1849;
revived the practice of private confession and encouraged the
spread of ritualism 1846; member of the new hebdomadal council
at Oxford Oct. 1854; published 3 appeals in An Eirenicon in a
Letter to J. Keble 1865, and two Letters to J. H. Newman 1869
and 1870 on A possibility of reunion with the Church of Rome,
a book which gave rise to 18 replies; author of A letter to
the archbishop of Canterbury on circumstances connected with
the crisis in the church of England 1842, to which 7 replies
were made; The holy eucharist a comfort to the penitent 1843
to which 8 replies were published; Do all to the Lord Jesus,
a sermon 1849, 5 ed. 1855; The church of England leaves her
children free to open their griefs 1850; The presence of Christ
in the holy eucharist 1853; Daniel the prophet, nine lectures
1864, 2 ed. 1868; Eleven addresses during a retreat of the
Companions of the Love of Jesus, Plymouth 1868; Lenten sermons
to young men 1874; Hints for a first confession 1884, 2 ed.
1892; his name is attached to upwards of 110 works, and his
works and the literature connected with them consist of upwards
of 220 published volumes; his library was purchased for the
Pusey House, an institution at Oxford, founded in his memory
to carry on his work 1884. _d._ in the Convalescent hospital,
Ascot priory, Berkshire 16 Sept. 1882. _bur._ in the cathedral
at Oxford 21 Sept., portrait by George Richmond, R.A. at Ch. Ch.
Oxford. _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey_, 3 _vols._ (1893–4)
_two portraits_; _J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua_ (1873)
60 _et seq._; _T. Mozley’s Reminiscences of Oriel ii_ 146–9
(1882); _The church goer i_ 221–30 (1847); _R. H. Horne’s A new
spirit of the age i_ 199–212 (1844); _Fortnightly Review March
1883 pp._ 335–48; _Jackson’s Oxford Journal 23 Sept. 1882 p._ 5;
_I.L.N. ii_ 410 (1843) _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 328 (1882) _portrait_.

PUSEY, PHILIP (brother of preceding). _b._ Pusey, Berkshire 25
June 1799; educ. at Eton 1812; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22
Oct. 1817; M.P. Rye 1 March 1830, but unseated on petition 17
May 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to 23 April 1831; M.P.
Cashel 16 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Berkshire 21 Dec.
1832; M.P. Berkshire 1835–52; F.R.S. 27 May 1830; chairman of
select committee on compensation to tenants for unexhausted
improvements 1848; one of chief founders of Royal agricultural
society of England 1840, president 1840–1 and 1853–4, edited the
Journal of the society; a practical agriculturalist and breeder
of sheep at Pusey, Berkshire; McCormick’s reaping machine was
first introduced into this country at Pusey Aug. 1851; one
of the best whips in England, drove a four-in-hand over the
Alps; chairman of Agricultural implement department of Great
Exhibition 1851, wrote a report on the implement section; hon.
D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of An historical view of the sinking
fund 1828; The new constitution 1831; The improvement of farming
1851. _d._ at his brother’s house, Ch. Ch. Oxford 9 July 1855.
_Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii_ 527, _iii_ 168, 403, 413–5
(1893–4); _Farmers’ mag. 2 series_, _x_ 1–3 (1844) _portrait_;
_J. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_ 116 (1833), _portrait of his
wife Lady Emily Pusey, who d. 16 Nov. 1854_.

PUSEY, PHILIP EDWARD (only son of rev. E. B. Pusey 1800–82).
_b._ Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 June 1830; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1854,
M.A. 1857; edited Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli in xii Prophetas
1868; Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli, archiepiscopi Alexandrini
in D. Joannis Evangelium 1872; Sancti Cyrilli, Epistolæ tres
Œcumenicæ 1875; The three epistles of St. Cyril 1872; Sancti
Cyrilli de Recta fide, de Incarnatione Unigeniti 1877; In a
Library of the Fathers, vol i, he translated Commentary on the
gospel of St. John 1874–85. _d._ Christ Church, Oxford 15 Jany.
1880.

PUTTICK, JAMES FELL. _b._ about 1821; member of firm of
Puttick and Simpson, auctioneers, who moved from Piccadilly
to 47 Leicester sq. London Jany. or Feb. 1859; member of firm
of Debenham, Storr & Co.; secretary to the Sacred Harmonic
society in succession to Thomas Brewer Nov. 1870 to death. _d._
Canonbury, London 19 June 1873. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 24
June. _Musical Times 1 July 1873 p._ 138.

PUZZI, GIACINTA (dau. of signor Toso). _b._ Italy 1808; educ.
at the conservatoire of Milan; came to England 1826; _m._ 1827
Giovanni Puzzi; made her first appearance on any stage at the
King’s theatre, London as Agia in Rossini’s Pietro l’Eremita
March 1827; sang the parts of Zoraide in Rossini’s Ricciardo
e Zoraide, Pippo in Gazza Ladra, Queen Mary in Coccia’s Maria
Stuarda, and the title role in Mercadante’s Diodone; sang at the
private concerts of the nobility; quitted the stage and became a
teacher of music and singing 1828; a great authority on singers
and music. _d._ Harley st. London 18 Aug. 1889. _Musical Times 1
Sept. 1889 p._ 547; _Saturday Rev. 24 Aug. 1889 pp._ 211–2.

PUZZI, GIOVANNI. Came to England with two lady vocalists 1818;
solo horn player at the King’s theatre, London, under Pietro
Spagnoletti; attended all the nobility’s private concerts;
agent for John Ebers in making engagements for the King’s
theatre 1826, imported signora Giacinta Toso, who became his
wife in 1827; the earl of Lonsdale left him a legacy; his
phrasing of cantabile on the horn was perfect; director of the
Lyceum when opened by sir John Mitchell, with Julius Benedict
as conductor 1836; composer of Doglianze amorse, or sighs of
love, a canzonetta, London 1815; La scusa, a canzonetta 1815;
Io non avea ch’ un core 1825; he arranged G. F. Haendel’s Tu
fai la superbetta 1826; Tutto ho perduto al fin, a recitative
1864. _d._ London March 1876. _Athenæum 11 March 1876 p._ 371;
_Musical Times 1 April 1876 p._ 427.

PYCROFT, GEORGE. _b._ Corsham, Somerset 1819; M.R.C.S. Eng. and
F.S.A. 1842; a surgeon at Kenton, Exeter from 1844–90; one of
the starters of the volunteer movement 1852; hon. surgeon major
of the 1 Devon artillery volunteers 7 Dec. 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877,
surgeon major 1887; a promoter of the art department of the
Bath and West of England soc.; a popular lecturer; a founder
of the Devonshire Association 1862; F.G.S.; author of Art in
Devonshire, with the biographies of artists, Exeter 1883; Short
biographies of Devonshire artists 1885; Memoir of Samuel Cousins
1887; resided 2 Camborne terrace, Richmond, Surrey from 1890.
_d._ Willesley, Torquay 23 March 1894. _bur._ Mamhead 27 March.
_Report and Trans. Devonshire association_ (1894) 49–50.

PYCROFT, JAMES (2 son of Thomas Pycroft of Pickwick, Wiltshire,
barrister). _b._ Geyers House, Wiltshire 1813; educ. Trin. coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1836; played at Lord’s 23 and 24 June 1836 in the
third cricket match Oxford v. Cambridge; student of Lincoln’s
inn 1836; ordained deacon 1840; second master of collegiate
school at Leicester 1840; C. of Clardstock, Dorset 1845; P.C.
of St. Mary Magdalen, Barnstaple 1845–56; resided at Bathwick,
Bath; member of the Lansdown cricket club; edited Valpy’s
Virgil improved 1846; W. Enfield’s The Speaker 1851; author
of Principles of scientific batting 1835; A course of English
reading adapted to every taste and capacity 1844, 4 ed. 1861;
The collegian’s guide, or recollections of college days. By the
Rev. ****, ******, M.A.,---- college, Oxford 1845, 2 ed. 1858;
The cricket field, or the history and the science of cricket
1851, 9 ed. 1887; Twenty years in the church: an autobiography
1859, and a second part entitled Elkerton rectory 1860; Agony
point: or the groans of gentility, 2 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1862;
Dragon’s teeth, a novel, 2 vols. 1863; Oxford memoirs: a
retrospect after fifty years, 2 vols. 1886. _d._ Dudley mansion,
Lansdowne place, Brighton 10 March 1895. _Church of England
photographic portrait gallery_ (1860), _part xlvii_, _portrait_;
_Wisden’s Cricketers’ almanack_ (1892) _pp. xlix, l_; _Times 13
March 1895 p._ 10.

PYCROFT, SIR THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1807;
educ. Bath gr. sch.; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 13 May
1826, exhibitioner there 1826–8; hon. M.A. 1829; writer Madras
civil service 1828; sub-secretary to board of revenue 1843–4,
secretary 1845–50; secretary to the government in revenue
department 1850, chief secretary 1855–62; member of council of
the governor of Madras 1862, retired on annuity 25 Oct. 1867;
K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; was the first of the competition wallahs,
being the first man appointed to the Indian civil service on the
result of a competitive examination. _d._ Folkestone 29 Jany.
1892.

PYE, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pye of Birmingham, author of
works on provincial coins and tokens). _b._ 1777; pupil of James
Heath, the engraver; a good line engraver, chiefly of small book
illustrations; illustrated Mrs. Inchbald’s British theatre, 25
vols. 1806–9; Walker’s Effigies poetica 1822, and Physiognomical
portraits 1824; engraved a view of Brereton Hall after P. de
Wint 1818, a portrait of Robert Owen after M. Heming 1823, and a
Holy family after Michael Angelo 1825. _d._ Leamington 14 Dec.
1864.

PYE, JOHN (2 son of Charles Pye). _b._ Birmingham 7 Nov. 1782;
paid assistant to James Heath, the engraver, in London 1801;
engraved many plates after Turner, which placed him at the head
of his profession; engraved all the head pieces in the Royal
repository or picturesque pocket diary 1817–39, Le Souvian or
pocket tablet 1822–43, and Peacock’s polite repository 1813–58;
exhibited 4 engravings at Suffolk st. gallery 1824–9; published
a series of 29 engravings from pictures in the National Gallery,
three of these were by himself 1830–40; retired 1858; chief
founder of the Artists’ annuity fund, which received a royal
charter 1827; a corresponding member of the Académie des beaux
arts 1862; formed a fine collection of impression of Turner’s
Liber studiorum, which is in the print-room of the British
Museum; author of Patronage of British art, a sketch 1845; A
glance at the rise and constitution of the royal academy of
arts, London 1851; Notes respecting the Liber studiorum of J.
M. W. Turner 1879. _d._ 17 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park,
London 6 Feb. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 185, 186 (1874) _portrait_.

PYKE, HUGH. _b._ about 1774; law stationer at 87 Chancery
lane, London and proprietor of the Law and Clerical agency
establishment 1811–57. _d._ in a London workhouse 31 July 1858.

NOTE.--His only son Henry Hugh Pyke _b._ 1809, barrister G.I. 24 Jany. 1838, was disbarred and expelled by the benchers 11 Dec. 1844, this decision was affirmed by 11 of the judges 9 June 1845.

PYM, EDWARD LAWES. _b._ 23 March 1824; 2 lieut. R.M. 21 Aug.
1843, lieut. col. 24 Jany. 1873, col. commandant 25 Dec. 1877;
M.G. 4 June 1879, general 22 June 1887; placed on retired list
23 March 1889; served in China 1858–60, at capture of Canton 5
Jany. 1858, and subsequently commanded the English constabulary
in Canton. _d._ 44 Nevern sq. Earl’s Court, London 6 April 1892.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 9 April.

NOTE.--He was tried at Hampshire assizes 6 March 1846 for being accessory to the murder of James Alexander Seaton, late of the 11th Hussars, who fought a duel with lieut. H. C. M. Hawkey of the R.M. on the shore near Gosport 21 May 1845 and _died_ on 2 June. Pym was found not guilty.

PYM, HORATIO NOBLE. Solicitor at 6 Victoria st. Westminster
1867; member of firm of Tathams, Curling and Pym 3 Frederick’s
place, Old Jewry, London 1870 to death; had an extensive
practice as a confidential solicitor; possessed a fine library
at Brasted, near Sevenoaks; among his friends were Robert
Browning, Wilkie Collins, W. B. Richmond, R.A., James Payn,
Andrew Lang and Corney Grain; a very perfect raconteur; edited
Memories of old friends, being extracts from the journals and
letters of Caroline Fox of Pengerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to
1871, 1882; Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1889; author
of Odd and ends at Foxwold 1887; A tour round my bookshelves
1891. _d._ of Russian influenza at Brasted 5 May 1896. _Times 11
May 1896 p._ 8.

PYM, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1787; in Samuel Jerrold’s company at
Sheerness 1812; bag bearer to the registrars of the court of
chancery, with charge of the daily cause lists 1815–54; built
a private theatre at the rear of his residence in Wilson st.
Gray’s inn lane for the use of students for the stage, where he
himself with J. Reeve, Strickland, Marston, Selby, Bedford and
others often acted; acted Caleb Quotem in The Review 1846; gave
up the theatre 1847, but it was used to 1853; the house was also
known as the Gough st. amateur theatre, now Havelock hall and
used as a London city mission station 1896. _d._ 33 Holford sq.
Pentonville, London 16 Sept. 1866. _N. and Q. 8 s_, _vi_ 427,
476 (1894).

PYM, SIR SAMUEL (son of Joseph Pym of Pinley, Warwickshire).
_b._ 1778; entered navy June 1788; captain 29 April 1802;
captain of the Atlas, 74 guns, 29 June 1804 to 13 Oct. 1808;
served at battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806; sent to the
Mauritius as senior officer of a small squadron July 1810,
seized the Isle de la Passe 13 Aug., capitulated and became a
prisoner of war 27 Aug., obtained his release Dec. 1810 when the
island was captured by sir Albemarle Bertie, he was tried by
court martial but acquitted; commanded the Nieman on the West
Indian station 1812–5; commanded the Kent in the Mediterranean
1830–1; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; admiral superintendent at Devonport
16 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; commanded the experimental squadron
in the Channel Sept. and Oct. 1845; V.A. 12 Feb. 1847; admiral
17 Dec. 1852; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1839. _d._ Royal
hotel, Southampton 2 Oct. 1855. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._
(1849) 943.

PYM, SIR WILLIAM (elder brother of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh
1772; educ. univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of
the army 1792; present at the reduction of the islands of
Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadeloupe 1794; served with the
army in Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar 1796, medical attendant
of the duke of Kent, governor of Gibraltar, present during the
outbreaks of yellow fever there in 1804 and 1810; in charge at
St. Pierre in Martinique during an outbreak of yellow fever
1794–6, when nearly 16,000 troops died; shipwrecked in the
Athénienne on the Skerri shoals between Sicily and Africa 20
Oct. 1806, when 349 persons perished out of a crew of 476;
deputy inspector general of army hospitals 20 Dec. 1810;
superintendent of quarantine at Malta 1811–12; placed on h.p.
with rank of inspector general 25 Sept. 1816; superintendent
general of quarantine 1826–55; controlled quarantine
arrangements during yellow fever at Gibraltar 1828; K.C.H.
1830; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 21 July 1830; a
chairman of central board of health during cholera in England
1832; fellow of Medical and chirurgical soc. 1816; author of
Observations upon Bulam fever 1815, 2 ed. 1848. _d._ 38 Upper
Harley st. London 18 March 1861. _Proc. of royal med. and chir.
soc. iv_ 71–6 (1864).

PYNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1790; alto singer and musician. _d._ 87
Cambridge gardens west, Notting hill, London 15 March 1877.

PYNE, HENRY (eld. son of John Pyne of Somerton, Somerset). _b._
Martock, Somerset 1809; educ. Sherborne and Christ’s hospital;
barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1841; assistant comr. in tithe office
1841–81; edited A treatise proving that the pope never had any
right to supremacy in England 1850; France and England in the
fifteenth century 1870; author of Tithe commutation, table of
the corn rent in lieu of tithes 1837, 2 ed. continued by G.
Taylor 1876. _d._ Hillgrove house, Stroud, Somerset 9 Feb. 1885.

PYNE, JAMES BAKER. _b._ Bristol 5 Dec. 1800; a landscape painter
at Bristol to 1835, and in London 1835 to death; exhibited 7
pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 194 at Suffolk st. 1828–70;
member of Society of British artists 1842, vice-president some
years; there are pictures by him both in oil and water-colour
at South Kensington museum; published Views in the vicinity of
Kingston, Jamaica 1839; Windsor and its surrounding scenery
1840; The English lake district 1853; Lake scenery of England
1859; resided at 203 Camden road, London. _d._ 29 July 1870.
_bur._ Highgate cemet., bust at gallery of Society of British
artists. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii_ 55–7
(1880); _I.L.N. lvii_ 193 (1870) _portrait_.

PYNE, JAMES KENDRICK. _b._ 1785; tenor singer at Covent
Garden and Drury Lane many years; a member of the choir of
the Foundling hospital more than 40 years, and the musical
instructor of the children. _d._ Francis st. Regent’s sq. London
23 Sept. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

PYNE, SUSANNAH (dau. of George Pyne 1790–1877). Appeared with
great success as a singer with her sister Louisa Fanny Pyne
(afterwards wife of Frank Bodda) in 1842; sang in U.S. of
America 1854–7; sang Adalgisa in Norma at Lyceum theatre, London
3 Oct. 1857; _m._ about 1870 Frank H. Standing, baritone singer
known as Frank Celli. _d._ 18 Fitzroy st. London 5 Jany. 1886.

PYNN, SIR HENRY. Served as lieutenant with South Devon militia
in Ireland during rebellion of 1798; ensign 82 foot 1799,
captain 30 May 1805, brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814, placed
on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; attached to the Portuguese troops 15
Nov. 1809; commanded the 18 Portuguese regiment at Fuentes
d’Onor, Pyrenees and Orthes; K.T.S. 17 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June
1815; knighted by prince regent at Carlton house 23 Feb. 1815;
brigadier general in Portuguese army, then major general; lieut.
governor of town and fortress of Valencia 17 Dec. 1815. _d._
102A Pall Mall, London 25 April 1855. _G.M. xliv_ 95 (1855).

PYPER, WILLIAM. _b._ Rathen, Aberdeenshire 1797; educ. Marischal
coll. Aberdeen; parochial schoolmaster at Laurence Kirk 1815–7,
afterwards at Maybole; a teacher in Glasgow gr. sch. 1820; head
master of Edinburgh high school 1822–44; professor of humanity
at St. Andrew’s univ. 22 Oct. 1844 to death; LL.D. Aberdeen;
founded a bursary at St. Andrew’s by a bequest of £500; author
of Gradus ad Parnassum 1843, still used in schools; Horace with
quantities 1843; revised A. Adam’s The principles of Latin and
English grammar 1846. _d._ St. Andrew’s 7 Jany. 1861. _M. F.
Connolly’s Eminent men of Fife_ (1866) 371.

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QUAGLIENI, ANTONIO. _b._ Italy; served with the Brothers
Giulium, circus proprietors in Italy; had an equestrian company
in France; came to England with his talented equestrian family
in 1856; a circus director in Cardiff 1862; naturalised in
England 20 Feb. 1866; returned to Brescia, Italy with a fortune
1870; his wife Amalia Gasperini Quaglieni _d._ 22 Dec. 1882 aged
63; they had 10 children all in the profession, their son Luigi
Quaglieni was manager of a circus when aged only seventeen. _d._
Brescia July 1892.

QUAIN, SIR JOHN RICHARD (youngest son of Richard Quain of
Ratheahy, co. Cork). _b._ Ratheahy 1816; educ. Göttingen and
Univ. coll. London, fellow 1843; LL.B. London 1839, univ. law
scholar; examiner in law to univ. of London several years, and
member of the senate June 1860; practised as a special pleader
1841–51; barrister M.T. 30 May 1851, bencher Nov. 1866 to Jany.
1872; went northern circuit; Q.C. 23 July 1866; attorney general
for county palatine of Durham 2 Sept. 1868 to Dec. 1871; judge
of court of queen’s bench 5 Jany. 1872 to death; serjeant-at-law
9 Jany. 1872; knighted at Windsor castle 22 April 1872; his law
library was presented to Univ. college, London by his brother
Richard Quain 1876; author with Henry Holroyd of The new system
of common law procedure 1852. _d._ 22A Cavendish sq. London 12
Sept. 1876. _bur._ Marylebone cemet. Finchley 18 Sept., marble
bust of him placed in hall of Middle Temple Jany. 1888. _A
generation of judges._ _By their reporter_ (1886) 30–8; _Law
Times 23 Sept. 1876 p._ 357.

QUAIN, JONES (half-brother of preceding). _b._ in the south
of Ireland Nov. 1796; educ. Adair’s school Fermoy, and Trin.
coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1833;
anatomical teacher at Tyrrell’s school of medicine in Aldersgate
st. London 1825; professor of general anatomy and physiology
at Univ. coll. London 1831, resigned 1835; fellow of univ. of
London 1836–58; translated and edited Louis Martinet’s Manual of
pathology 1826, 4 ed. 1835; author of Elements of descriptive
and practical anatomy for the use of students 1828, 10 ed. 3
vols. 1890; and with Erasmus Wilson of A series of anatomical
plates in lithography with references and physiological
comments, 2 vols. folio 1836–42. _d._ London 31 Jany. 1865.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. _Lancet 4 Feb. 1865 p._ 136; _Proc. of
Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 49–50 (1867).

QUAIN, RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Fermoy July 1800;
studied medicine in London and Paris; assistant to Richard
Bennett, demonstrator of anatomy at London univ. 1828, senior
demonstrator of anatomy there 1830, and professor of descriptive
anatomy 1832–50; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843,
member of council 1854, president of the college 1868, Hunterian
orator 1869; assistant surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1834,
surgeon and special professor of clinical surgery 1848–66,
consulting surgeon and emeritus professor of clinical surgery
1866; represented royal college of surgeons in general council
of education 14 July 1870 to 14 June 1876; surgeon extraordinary
to the queen 25 Nov. 1862 to death; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844;
edited with W. Sharpey, Jones Quain’s Elements of anatomy, 5
ed. 2 vols. 1848; author of The anatomy of the arteries of the
human body with lithographic drawings 1844; The diseases of
the rectum 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Clinical lectures 1884. _d._ 32
Cavendish sq. London 15 Sept. 1887. _bur._ Finchley, portrait
by George Richmond, R.A. in secretary’s office at royal college
of surgeons and bust by Thomas Woolner in council room there.
_British medical journal ii_ 694 (1887); _Lancet ii_ 687 (1887).

QUARTLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Bath 5 July 1808; studied wood
engraving in Wales and Paris from 1824; went to New York 1852,
helped to illustrate Picturesque America 1872, and Picturesque
Europe 1875; painted Niagara falls, Buttermilk falls, and
Catskill falls. _d._ New York 5 April 1874. _Appleton’s American
Biog. v_ 147 (1888).

NOTE.--His son Arthur Quartley, _b._ Paris 24 May 1839, a well known artist, _d._ New York 19 May 1886.