PEACOCKE, George John. b. 3 April 1825; ensign 16 foot 8 July 1842, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1859, placed on h.p. 2 July 1870; A.A.G. North Britain 15 July 1871 to 31 Jany. 1876; lieut. col. brigade depôt 12 April 1876, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. 23 Lowndes sq. London 15 Dec. 1895.

PEAKE, Thomas Ladd (son of sir Henry Peake, surveyor of the navy). b. 1785; entered navy 1798; served in Walcheren expedition 1809; as first lieut. in the Victorious took part in action with the Rivoli 21 Feb. 1812; special magistrate at Cape of Good Hope 4 years; inspecting commander of coastguard 31 Aug. 1820 to 1825; captain 1 March 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846, rear-admiral 7 Oct. 1852, vice-admiral 28 Nov. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. d. Cumberland st. London 19 Jany. 1865.

PEARCE, Elizabeth. A popular serio-comic singer and dancer at the principal London and provincial music halls many years; created the famous songs Betsy Gay, Buy a broom, and When the family are from home; retired some years before her death; m. Richard Arnold Burnett, map mounter; she d. 146 York road, Waterloo road, London 24 Dec. 1890.

PEARCE, Paulin Huggett (son of Edward Pearce of Ramsgate, d. 25 Sept. 1851, aged 81, by Susannah his wife, who d. 19 May 1869, aged 92). b. Ramsgate 1809; a well known swimmer; saved many lives and had medals from Royal humane soc. 1818 etc.; instrumental in saving lives of crew of the Colonist at Barbadoes 1826; gave swimming exhibitions off Ramsgate pier; author of The funeral of lord Nelson 1850; The duke of Wellington’s grand funeral ode 1854; King Edward IV, a play 1868; King Richard I, a play 1868; Lord Nelson’s battles 1868; A treatise and poem on swimming 1868; P. H. Pearce’s Tragedy of the battle of Waterloo 1869; The infallible art of swimming 1869; The warrior’s swimming book 1869; Alexander the Great, a play 1872; Godwin island, a play 1872; King Darius of Persia, a play 1872; King Petri and the Black prince, a tragedy 1874; Tippo Sahib, the sultan of Mysore, a poem 1876. d. 10 Harbour st, Ramsgate 23 Nov. 1888. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard.

PEARCE, Thomas (youngest son of Francis Pearce, rector of Hatford, Berks.) b. 1820; educ. Lincoln coll. Oxf, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1848; C. of Golden hill, Staffs. 1845–7; C. of Highcliffe, Hants. 1847–9; C. of Waterperry, Oxon. 1850–2; C. of Sparsholt, Berks. 1852–3; V. of Morden, Wilts. 1853 to death; author of The dog, with directions for his treatment and notices of the best dogs of the day, by Idstone 1872; The Idstone papers, by Idstone of the Field 1872, 2 ed. 1874; he wrote a considerable portion of The dogs of the British islands edited by Stonehenge [John Henry Walsh] 1867. d. Kempstone, Westcliffe, Bournemouth 24 Sept. 1885.

PEARCE, Walter. b. 1854; educ. St. Mary’s hospital, Univ. coll. London, and Rotunda hospital, Dublin; studied at school of mines; B.Sc. univ of London 1874, M.R.C.S. 1881, M.B. and B.S. 1885, M.D. 1886; L.R.C.P. 1886. M.R.C.P. 1886; took diploma in Sanitary science 1887; took diploma in Mental medicine of Medico-Psychological assoc. 1886; medical superintendent, then assist. surgeon St. Mary’s hospital, London; acting surgeon of the 20th Middlesex volunteers (Artists’ corps) 23 Aug. 1884; resided 63 Montagu square, London. shot himself in medical staff room St. Mary’s hospital 15 May 1890. Lancet 24 May 1890 p. 1156.

PEARCE, William. b. 1789; quartermaster 4 West India foot 26 Dec. 1805; lieut. 44 foot 21 Sept. 1810; captain 60 foot 15 Aug. 1813, major 25 Dec. 1825; placed on h.p. as lieut. col. 29 Aug. 1826; K.H. 1835. d. Ffowdgrech, Brecknockshire 5 Feb. 1871.

PEARCE, Sir William, 1 Baronet (son of Joseph George Pearce of Brompton, near Chatham). b. Brompton 8 Jany. 1833; apprenticed in Chatham dockyard; superintended the building of the Achilles, the first ironclad built in a royal yard 1861; surveyor of Lloyd’s registry for the Clyde district 1863; general manager of the works of Robert Napier and son 1864; shipbuilder with Ure and Jameson, under style of John Elder and Co. 1869, his partners retired in 1878; the business was turned into a limited company under name of the Fairfield shipbuilding and engineering company of which he was chairman 1885; built all the steamers for the North German Lloyd’s and for the New Zealand shipping company; built 11 stern-wheel vessels for service on the Nile in 28 days 1884; chairman of the Guion steamship company and of the Scottish oriental steamship company; M.P. Govan division of Lanarkshire Dec. 1885 to death; created baronet 25 July 1887. d. 119 Piccadilly, London 18 Dec. 1888. bur. Gillingham, Kent 22 Dec., personal estate declared at £1,069,669. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry ii 409 (1884) portrait; D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding (1884) 30.

PEARCEY, Mary Eleanor, taken name of Mary Eleanor Wheeler (dau. of James Whitford Wheeler, a marine, d. 17 Aug. 1882). b. Ightham, Kent 26 March 1866; worked as a furrier in Cannon st. Stepney; lived with Charles Pearcey about Nov. 1885 to Nov. 1888, and took his name; invited Phœbe Hogg to visit her at 2 Priory st. Kentish town 24 Oct. 1890, and then quarrelled with her and fractured her head and cut her throat, conveyed the body in a perambulator to Crossfield road, Eton avenue, South Hampstead, where it was found on 25 Oct. as well as the dead body of her young child; executed Newgate 22 Dec. 1890. Central criminal court minutes of evidence cxiii 44–72 (1891); Times 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Oct. 1890, 1, 3, 18 Nov., 6, 18, 20, 23, 24 Dec.; Western Morning News 14 Nov. 1890 p. 3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Dec. 1890, many portraits.

PEARD, John Whitehead (2 son of vice-admiral Shuldham Peard 1761–1832). b. Fowey, Cornwall, July 1811; educ. King’s school, Ottery St. Mary, and Exeter college, Oxford, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, stroke of his college boat; student Inner Temple 16 Nov. 1832, barrister 17 Nov. 1837; captain in Duke of Cornwall’s Rangers 4 June 1853, displaced 24 Dec. 1861; joined the forces of Garibaldi and organized and commanded a company of revolving-rifle soldiers 1860, distinguished himself at battle of Melazzo in Sicily 20 July 1860, raised to rank of colonel; commanded the English legion in the advance to Naples, received cross of the order of Valour from Victor Emmanuel; generally known as Garibaldi’s Englishman; was visited by Garibaldi at his seat Penquite on the Fowey river 25–7 April 1864; sheriff of Cornwall 1869. d. Trenython, Par, Cornwall 21 Nov. 1880. bur. Fowey cemet. 24 Nov. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 439, iii 1456 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 690, 1018; Sir C. Forbe’s Campaign of Garibaldi (1861) 94–9, 143, 200, 217–31; Trollope’s What I remember ii 222–1 (1887–9); Pycroft’s Oxford memories i 48–9, ii 71 (1886); Sir F. H. Doyle’s Reminiscences (1886) 222–3; I.L.N. 11 Aug. 1860 p. 135 portrait; Illust. times 9 Feb. 1861 p. 83 portrait.

PEARL, Cora, assumed name of Emma Elizabeth Crouch (one of the 16 children of Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, b. 31 July 1808, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen, who went to America in 1845). b. Caroline place, East Stonehouse, Devon 23 Feb. 1842; educ. at Boulogne to 1855; seduced by an admirer in London and thenceforth led a life of dissipation under the name of Cora Pearl 1856; went to France with the returning Persigny embassy March 1858; had a series of liaisons with persons connected with the imperial court; large sums of money, diamonds and jewellery passed through her hands; maintained an establishment in the Rue de Chaillot, which was known as Les Petits Tuileries; kept the finest horses and carriages of any one in Paris, crowds assembled daily to see her in the Bois de Boulogne and ladies imitated her dress and manners; appeared for 12 nights at Les Bouffes Parisiens as Cupid in Offenbach’s opera Orphée aux Enfers 1869; refused admission at the Grosvenor hotel, London 1870; converted her Paris residence into an ambulance during the war and spent 25,000 francs on the wounded 1870; a son of Pierre Louis Duval, founder of the Duval restaurants, spent seventeen million francs on her 1870–1, after which she deserted him and he attempted suicide; expelled by the police at various times from France, Baden, Monte Carlo, Nice, Vichy and Rome; blackmailed her acquaintances, to keep their names out of her printed memoirs; often called La lune rousse in allusion to her round face and red hair; her figure in marble was modelled by M. Gallois in 1880. d. of cancer in squalid poverty in a small room in the Rue de Bassano, Paris 8 July 1886. Memoirs de Cora Pearl, Paris (1886); The memoirs of Cora Pearl, London (1886); Folly’s Queens, New York (1882) 23–7; Truth 15 July 1886 pp. 105–6; London Figaro 24 July 1886 p. 6 portrait; Daily News 10 July 1886 p. 5.

PEARS, Steuart Adolphus (7 son of rev. James Pears, head-master of Bath gram. sch.) b. Pirbright, Surrey 20 Nov. 1815; scholar of C. C. coll. Oxf. 1832–6, fellow 1836, dean 1844–6; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846; tutor to lord Goderich 1838–42; sent abroad by the Parker society to search the libraries of Zurich and other places for correspondence relating to the English reformation 1843; fellow and tutor of univ. of Durham 1846–7; assistant master at Harrow 1847–54; head-master of Repton school July 1854, resigned March 1874, raised the school from a local grammar school of fifty boys to a first-grade public school of nearly 300; R. of Childrey, Berkshire 1874 to death; translated from the Latin The correspondence of sir Philip Sidney and H. Languet 1845; author of Sermons 1851; Three lectures on education 1859; Short sermons on the elements of christian truth 1861; Sundays at school, sermons in Repton school chapel 1870; Sermons 1877. d. Childrey rectory 15 Dec. 1875.

PEARS, Sir Thomas Townsend (brother of preceding). b. 9 May 1809; lieut. Madras engineers 17 June 1825; commandant of the Madras sappers and miners 1836; chief engineer with the field force in Karnul 1839; commanding engineer with the army in China under sir Hugh Gough 1841–2, was present at nearly every action; consulting engineer for railways to government of Madras 1851–7; lieut.-col. 20 June 1854, col. 16 Feb. 1856; chief engineer in the public works’ department for Mysore 1857, retired on a pension with honorary rank of M.G. 8 Feb. 1861; military secretary at the India office, London 1861; organised the arrangements for the Abyssinian expedition, retired 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 June 1871. d. Eton lodge, Upper Richmond road, Putney 7 Oct. 1892. bur. Mortlake cemet. H. M. Vibart’s Madras engineers ii 133 et seq. (1883); J. Ouchterlony’s Chinese war (1844) 47 et seq.; Daily Graphic 12 Oct. 1892 p. 8 portrait.

PEARSALL, Robert Lucas (son of Richard Pearsall). b. Clifton 14 March 1795; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821, went the western circuit 4 years; contributed to Blackwood’s and other magazines; wrote a cantata Saul and the witch of Endor 1808; studied music at Mayence 1825–9, and at Carlsruhe, Munich and Vienna 1830–6; a member of Bristol madrigal society 1837; sold Willsbridge house, Gloucs. 1837; purchased castle of Wartensee on the lake of Constance 1837, resided there to his death; received into the R.C. church and became known as R. L. de Pearsall; composed many settings of psalms, madrigals, a requiem, etc.; composer of Great God of love, an eight part madrigal 1840; The hardy Norseman’s house of yore 1840; O, who will o’er the downs so free 1853; The bishop of Mentz, a four part song 1863; 24 Choral songs 1864; Sir Patrick Spens, a ballad dialogue in ten parts 1880; The sacred compositions of R. L. de Pearsall 1880; Lay a garland, a madrigal 1883; his name is attached to upwards of 80 musical compositions 1840–83; published translations in English verse of Faust and Wilhelm Tell. d. Wartensee castle 5 Aug. 1856. G.M. Oct. 1856 pp. 511–2; Musical Times 1882 p. 376; Grove’s Dict. of music ii 678 (1880).

PEARSALL, Thomas J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). b. at the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London 10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution, London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution, Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association 1853. d. London May 1883. Catalogue of Scientific papers iv 794 (1870).

PEARSE, George. b. 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals, Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861; hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. d. Cheltenham 28 March 1885. Times 2 April 1885 p. 7.

PEARSE, George. b. Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852; solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon 1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made highest aggregate score. d. Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894.

PEARSE, John. b. 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval architecture, Plymouth 1835. d. 1864. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. (1849) 882.

PEARSE, Richard Bulkeley (son of B. Pearse of Munkham, Woodford). b. 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in 1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war 1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. d. 9 Hyde park st. London 19 Nov. 1895. Times 22 Nov. 1895 p. 10.

PEARSE, Thomas. b. 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death, 68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address, the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning 1848. d. Westoning 14 June 1891.

PEARSON, Alfred. b. 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. d. Oldham 29 Dec. 1868. bur. Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. The Era 3 Jany. 1869 p. 14.

PEARSON, Charles (son of Thomas Pearson, merchant). b. London 1794; educ. Eastbourne, Sussex; admitted solicitor 1816; solicitor to the Irish society 1839 to death; city solicitor 1839 to death; solicitor to city comrs. of sewers July 1859 to death; M.P. Lambeth 31 July 1847 to July 1850; the original promoter of Metropolitan underground railway 1859; author of The subject of an address, a brief history of the corporation of London as an asylum of English freedom in past ages 1844; Are the citizens of London to have better gas 1849; An address on the Fleet valley improvements 1852; City improvements 1853; A letter in favour of the Metropolitan railway and city station 1859. d. Oxford lodge, West hill, Wandsworth 14 Sept. 1862. Law Times xxxvii 577, 590 (1862).

PEARSON, Charles Buchanan (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson 1767–1856). b. Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832 to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct. 1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853; contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862; Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations 1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. d. 2 Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.

PEARSON, Charles Henry (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson 1787–1865). b. 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept. 1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863; lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’ Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education 18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861; History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols. 1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873; National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H. Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; m. 6 Dec. 1872 Edith Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he d. at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 June. Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894 p. 4 portrait.

PEARSON, Sir Edwin (son of John Pearson, F.R.S. of Yorkshire). b. 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 13 Feb. 1836, resigned April 1842; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 May 1836; vice-president of the French Institut d’Afrique. d. Rozel, Sunnyside, Wimbledon 18 April 1883.

PEARSON, Emma Maria (1 dau. of capt. Charles Pearson, R.N. of Great Yarmouth). Sent out as a volunteer by the Red Cross soc. under the auspices of the Order of St. John to nurse the sick at Sedan, at Paris, and at Orleans 1870; nursed the wounded in Servia 1877; had medals and decorations from Germany, France, and Servia; wrote for the St. James’ Mag. and other periodicals; author of From Rome to Mentana 1868; One love in a life, 3 vols. 1874; His little cousin, a tale, 3 vols. 1875; with Louisa Elizabeth Maclaughlin she wrote Our adventures during the war 1870; Under the red cross 1872; Service in Servia under the red cross 1877. d. Florence 3 June 1893, aged 65. Times 12 June 1893 p. 6.

PEARSON, Hugh (4 son of succeeding). b. 25 June 1817; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1841; V. of Sonning, Berkshire 1841 to death, restored the church; rural dean of Henley-on-Thames 1864–74, and of Sonning 1874–6; chaplain to bishop of Manchester 1870; canon of St. George’s, Windsor 26 Feb. 1876; deputy clerk of the closet to the queen 2 Aug. 1881 to death; great friend of dean A. P. Stanley 1836–81, frequently went abroad with him; declined the deanery of Westminster 1881. d. Sonning vicarage 13 April 1882. bur. Sonning church 18 April. Times 19 April 1882 p. 12.

PEARSON, Hugh Nicholas (only son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington, Hants.). b. Lymington 1777; educ. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803, B. and D.D. 1821; proctor 1813; gained the prize of £500 offered by Claudius Buchanan for the best essay on Missions in Asia 1807, printed under title of A dissertation on the propagation of christianity in Asia, Oxford 1808; V. of St. Helen’s, Abingdon 1822–3; R. of Chiddingfold, Surrey 1826–31; R. of Guildford, St. Nicholas, Surrey 18 June 1832 to 1837, laid first stone of the new church 7 June 1836, finished Aug. 1837; dean of Salisbury 9 April 1823, resigned June 1846; domestic chaplain to George IV at Brighton 4 Feb. 1823 to 1830; author of Memoirs of the life and writings of the rev. Claudius Buchanan, 2 vols. Oxford 1827; Memoirs of the life of the rev. Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a sketch of the history of Christianity in India, 2 vols, 1834, 3 ed. 1839. d. Sonning, Berkshire 17 Nov. 1856. W. H. Jones’s Fasti Sarisburiensis (1879) 325; Brayley’s Surrey i 355–60 (1850).

PEARSON, Sir John (son of rev. John Norman Pearson of Bower hall, Essex 1787–1865). b. 5 Aug. 1819; educ. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June 1844, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1884–5; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; judge in chancery division of high court of justice 24 Oct. 1882 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Nov. 1882; member of councils of legal education and law reporting; author of The duty of laymen in the church of England 1856. d. 75 Onslow sq. South Kensington, London 13 May 1886. bur. Brompton cemetery. Law quarterly review ii 373–8 (1886); Law Times 22 May 1886 p. 69.

PEARSON, John Armitage. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1856; surgeon of Woolton dispensary, Liverpool 25 years; surgeon of Devonshire hospital and Bath charity, Buxton to death; author of Reports of cases treated at the Buxton bath charity and Devonshire hospital 1861. d. St. Anne’s hotel, Buxton 6 June 1863. bur. St. John’s church 11 June.

PEARSON, John Henry (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). b. Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers, Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East, London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st. Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s, Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. d. Southport 1 July 1887. bur. Southport cemet. Era 10 July 1887.

PEARSON, John Norman (son of John Pearson, surgeon 1758–1826). b. 7 Dec. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., Hulsean prizeman 1807; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; chaplain to marquess of Wellesley; the first principal of the Church Missionary society’s college at Islington 1826–39; V. of Holy Trinity church Tunbridge Wells 1839–53; author of A critical essay on the ninth book of Warburton’s Divine legation of Moses, Cambridge 1808; Christ crucified: or some passages of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, devotionally and practically considered 1826; The candle of the Lord uncovered, or the bible rescued from papal thraldom by the Reformation 1835; The days in paradise 1854. d. Bower hall, near Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 4 Oct. 1865. G.M. ii 792 (1865).

PEARSON, Josiah Brown (son of Benjamin Pearson). b. Chesterfield 1841; educ. Chesterfield gram. sch.; scholar St. John’s coll. Camb.; a first in the moral science tripos 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, LL.M. 1871, LL.D. 1874, D.D. 1880; fellow of St. John’s 1864–80, lecturer 1864–71; C. of St. Michael, Camb. 1865–7; C. of St. Andrew the great, Camb. 1867–9; V. of Horningsea, Cambs. 1871–4; Whitehall preacher 1872–4; Hulsean lecturer and Ramsden preacher 1872; V. of Newark 1874–80; commissioner to bishop of Melbourne 1876–80; bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales 1880, consecrated in St. Paul’s cathedral 1 May 1880, resigned Nov. 1890; V. of Leck Kirkby, Lonsdale 1893 to death; author of The divine personality, the Burney prize essay 1865; Creed or no creed, three sermons 1871; Disciples in doubt, five sermons 1879. d. Leck vicarage 10 March 1895.

PEARSON, Julius Alexander. b. 1839; educ. King’s coll. London; LL.D.; admitted solicitor 1862; practised at 46 Hyde park sq. London 1864; junior partner in Cope, Rose, and Pearson 26 Great George st. Westminster 1867 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., and Notes and Queries, chiefly upon heraldic matters; F.S.A. 7 June 1866. d. Surbiton, Surrey 29 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 511 (1871).

PEARSON, Richard Lyons Otway (son of Henry Shepherd Pearson). b. 1831; educ. Eton and at Sandhurst; ensign 95 foot 10 Dec. 1847; captain 7 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. grenadier guards 20 July 1855, captain 27 Dec. 1864, sold out 2 Jany. 1869; aide-de-camp to sir George Brown during Crimean war 1854–5, present at Alma, Inkerman, the expedition to Kertch, and the siege of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; assistant commissioner of metropolitan police 1 July 1881 to death; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. 57 Warwick sq. London 30 May 1890.

PEARSON, Thomas Hooke (son of John Pearson, advocate-general of India). b. June 1806; educ. Eton; cornet 11 light dragoons 14 March 1825; served at siege of Bhurtpore Nov. 1825; captain 59 foot 23 Aug. 1831; captain 16 lancers 9 Dec. 1831, major 23 April 1847, placed on h.p. 7 April 1848; served at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843 and in the first Sikh war; commanded his regiment during latter part of battle of Aliwal (and saved the battle by a spirited cavalry charge) 28 Jany. 1846, and at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; on retired list as L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel 12 lancers 4 Feb. 1879 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869; won the One thousand guineas, Great Yorkshire stakes, St. Leger and Doncaster cup with Achievement 1867, her foals did not live and she died in 1872. d. The Hasells, Sandy, Beds. 29 April 1892. Times 3 May 1892 p. 10.

PEARSON, William (son of capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N.) b. Hilton, Kilmany, Fifeshire 20 Sept. 1818; a squatter in Gippsland, Australia 1841, owning Lindenow and Kilmany park stations; member for North Gippsland to legislative assembly 1868 and 1871; member for the Eastern province in legislative council; largest shareholder in Long tunnel gold mine, Walhalla; a breeder of race horses from 1842; a winner of several hundred races; great supporter of the turf in Victoria; an exceedingly wealthy man. d. Melbourne Sept. 1893.

PEARSON-GEE, Arthur Beilby (elder son of Wm. Pearson, Q.C., b. 1824). b. 2 Nov. 1855; educ. Rugby and Trin. hall, Camb., B.A. 1877; barrister I.T. 25 June 1879; went north eastern circuit; member of joint legal board of examiners 1881 to death; assumed additional surname of Gee by R.L. 15 Jany. 1885; edited J. P. Benjamin’s Treatise on the law of sale of personal property, 3 ed. 1883, and 4 ed. 1888; author with H. F. Boyd of Factors acts 1823 to 1877, 1884, and alone of The new factors acts annotated 1890. d. 19 Portland place, London 9 Jany. 1896. Times 11 Jany. 1896 p. 6.

PEASE, Edward (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27 Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death. d. Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. Annual Monitor (1859) 123–64; S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R. Stephenson (1874) 123–32, 385 portrait; I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858 p. 121; Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 487–95.

PEASE, Edward (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). b. 24 June 1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’ institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly; chief promoter of British and foreign training college for female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. d. Lucerne 13 June 1880. bur. Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25 Sept. 1880. First Report of E. Pease public library (1887).

PEASE, Henry (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. 4 May 1807; helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in 1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England, the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war 10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society 1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871; the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. d. while attending the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May 1881. bur. at Darlington, personalty sworn at £360,489, 13 Aug. 1881. Fortunes made in business i 331–78 (1884); I.L.N. xxiv 201 (1854) portrait; J. Sturge’s Some account of a deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia (1854); London Society (1881) 431–46.

PEASE, John (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. Darlington 1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S. of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825; a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great Ayton, Yorks. 1841. d. Darlington 29 July 1868. Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends (1888) 495–500.

PEASE, Joseph (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member, objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.; assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books; had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy 1841. d. Southend, Darlington 8 Feb. 1872, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington unveiled 1875. J. H. Bell’s British folks and British India (1891) 39, 42, 131; Joseph Pease, a memoir (1872); Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 503–7; I.L.N. lx 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) portrait; Leisure Hour xxi 375 portrait; J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway system (1875); Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp. 321, 328, view of statue.

PEASE, Joseph Walker (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866). b. Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1 East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull 7 Feb. 1874. d. Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.

PEAT, David. b. Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy 2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29 July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard 1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug. 1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. end of Dec. 1880.

PEBODY, Charles (son of Charles Pebody). b. Watford or Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882; wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post. d. Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. bur. Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p. 5, 4 Nov. p. 4.

PECHELL, Sir George Richard Brooke, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). b. London 30 June 1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820; commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822; gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton 13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852, and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820. d. 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.

PECHELL, Horace Robert (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone, London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). b. 12 May 1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.

PECHEY, William Crisp. b. Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838; educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868 to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji islands 1871. d. at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st. Walthamstow 22 June 1871. Medical times and gazette ii 236 (1871).

PECK, Charles. b. Beverley 1801; a jockey; horse trainer at Highfield, near Malton in succession to William Perren for 6 years; had some breeding mares of his own; a trainer at Grove house, Malton from 1842 for sir R. Bulkeley, lord Glasgow, Stanhope Hanke, Mr. Wentworth, major Yarburgh, and Mr. Pedley; for Mr. Wilkins trained Old Dan Tucker and Napoleon, which won the Great Yorkshire stakes 185- and 1859; trained Mr. Graham’s horses 1863. d. Malton 16 Jany. 1867. bur. Malton 21 Jany. Sporting Review Feb. 1867 pp. 85–6.

PECK, Lillian or Lydia Elizabeth (2 dau. of Wm. Priest Peck of Chelmsford, Wesleyan minister). b. 1850; under the pseudonym of Ruth Elliott she wrote Margery’s Christmas box 1875; Little Ray and her friends 1877; James Daryll 1877; Undeceived, Roman or Anglican, a story of English ritualism 1877; John Lyon 1879; My first class 1881; A voice from the sea 1881; Talks with the bairns 1882; Auriel 1883; Fought and won 1885; Archie and Nellie 1885; Twixt promise and vow 1886. d. New London road, Chelmsford 25 Oct. 1878.

PECKHAM-MICKLETHWAIT, Sir Sotheron Branthwayt, 1 Baronet (younger son of Nathaniel Micklethwait of Beeston, Norfolk 1760–86). b. 30 May 1786; cornet 3 dragoon guards 15 Jany. 1803, captain 5 Jany. 1807, sold out 15 Sept. 1808; assumed surname of Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet 27 July 1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty and the duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of Sussex 1848. d. Iridge place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.

PECKOVER, Algernon (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech, Cambridge, d. 1833). b. 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. d. 10 Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.

PEDDER, James. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went to U.S. of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture of sugar in Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an agricultural journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844 to death; author of a book of conversations entitled Frank, which ran to several editions; The yellow shoestrings, or obedience to parents 1814, 17 editions; Report made to the beet sugar society of Philadelphia on the culture in France of the beet root 1836; The farmer’s land measure, New York 1854. d. Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.

PEDDER, John. b. 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and tutor, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham Dec. 1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of North Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. d. 13 Somerset place, Walcot, Bath 12 July 1890.

PEDDER, Sir John Lewes (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle Temple, barrister). b. 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1822; barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van Diemen’s Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a dispute with sir William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s Land in 1848; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8 Bedford square, Brighton. d. 24 March 1859.

PEDDIE, John. Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept. 1813; captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827; lieut. col. 31 foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April 1832; lieut. col. 90 foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840; K.H. 1832. d. 1873.

PEDDIE, John Crofton. b. 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814, major 5 Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March 1849, sold out 27 Dec. 1850. d. Douglas, Isle of Man during a service in St. Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.

PEDDIE, John Dick (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years; architect 1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn st. Edinb., the Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank, Glasgow; A.R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of council; M.P. Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock burghs 1885; a leader in the disestablishment movement 1880. d. 33 Buckingham terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. Scotsman 13 March 1891 p. 5.

PEDDIE, William (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister 1758–1845). b. 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ. of Edinb. and Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to preach May 1827; colleague to his father at the Bristo street secession chapel, Edinb. Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel 11 Oct. 1845 to death; moderator of the United Presbyterian synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania 1843; edited the United Presbyterian magazine several years; edited Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a memoir 1846. d. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1893. United Presbyterian Magazine April 1893.

PEDLEY, Charles. b. Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. Independent college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street 1848; pastor of Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1857; pastor at Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to death; author of The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest times to the end of 1860, 1863. d. Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872. H. J. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 304.

PEDLEY, Mr. b. Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses which he trained at Danebury; m. a daughter of John Gully and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner; won the Derby with Cossack 1847. d. about 1872. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 76–8.

PEEBLES, Alexander Marshall. b. 1837; an architect at Highbury hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London; member of common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook 1882–5; F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London 1887 to death, built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and vegetable market. d. 23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood, London 21 May 1891. bur. Kensal green 25 May. I.L.N. 6 June 1891 p. 735 portrait; City Press 23 May 1891 p. 2.

PEEBLES, Allan Laing (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot). b. Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut. Devonshire regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death; adjutant of the first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894; inspector of small arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in charge of Maxim battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and other eastern languages; made improvements in the maxim gun; with the Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river Panjkora, Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.

PEEBLES, James. b. 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1858. d. 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.

PEEBLES, Philip Cadell. b. 23 April 1842; head of the firm of A. M. Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire, paper manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for illustrated journals; made improvements in dry printing; member of hon. artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name of Mr. Renfrew from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two years’ old plate at Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great Lancashire handicap in 1888. d. 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park, London 26 Nov. 1895. bur. Kensal green 30 Nov. I.L.N. 7 Dec. 1895 p. 694 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895 p. 467 portrait.

PEED, Thomas Thorpe. b. 1825; educ. Royal academy of music under Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis to D. F. M. Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a singing class at the academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic institution; conducted a lecture on the music of the Beggars’ opera; lessee of the Alexandra theatre, Camden Town, opened 31 May 1873 with his own operetta Marguerite and Robert Reece’s 3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s debt; produced The magic pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball, music by himself 29 Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto by R. Reece, music by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon quadrilles 1843; Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not gold, a song 1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a song 1880. d. Margate 9 Nov. 1888. I.L.N. xxxv 243 (1859) portrait.

PEEK, James (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). b. 8 June 1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London, the firm being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the firm of Peek, Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead, St. Saviours, London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir Henry Peek, 1 baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. d. Watcombe, Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 13–17 (1865).

PEEL, Arthur (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham, Lincs.) b. 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of islands of Antigua and Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. d. 15 Oct. 1873.

PEEL, John. b. Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with Miss White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole expense a pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide reputation by a song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the old Cumberland tune of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to music by Metcalfe; Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John Peel and At the grave of John Peel. d. Ruthwaite, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1854. bur. Caldbeck churchyard. S. Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 106; West Cumberland Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886.

PEEL, John (5 son of Thomas Peel of Peelfold, Lancashire, calico printer). b. 4 Feb. 1804; educ. Manchester gram. sch.; a merchant; M.P. Tamworth 1863–8, and 28 March 1871 to death; contested Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868. d. Middleton hall, Tamworth 2 April 1872, personalty under £300,000, 27 July 1872.

PEEL, John (4 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart., d. 1830). b. 22 Aug. 1798; educ. Rugby 1812–7, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, B.D. and D.D. 1845; V. of Stone, Worcs. 1828 to death; canon residentiary of Canterbury cathedral 1829–45; dean of Worcester 9 Dec. 1845 to death. d. Waresley house, Worcester 18 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 211, 403 (1875).

PEEL, John (4 son of succeeding). b. 11 April 1829; ensign 34 foot 22 June 1847, captain 25 Nov. 1853; served in Crimean war, severely wounded; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 23 Oct. 1857; assistant military secretary at Malta 1864–7; A.A.G. S.W. district 1867–72; A.A. and Q.M.G. home district 1 May 1876 to 10 July 1880; M.G. 11 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 11 July 1885. d. at his residence near Herne Bay 17 Nov. 1892.

PEEL, Jonathan (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ. Rugby 1811–5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71 foot 18 Feb. 1819 to 13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7 Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825; major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June 1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June 1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug. 1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P. Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–68; surveyor general of the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for war 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March 1867; began racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with Archibald 1832, ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando and Ionian 1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851; kept race horses again 1869 to death. d. Marble hall, Twickenham 13 Feb. 1879. bur. Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 120–4; Rice’s British Turf ii 323–7 (1879); Baily’s Mag. iii 273–8 (1861) portrait; New sporting mag. xv 371 (1838) portrait; Sporting Times 13 Feb. 1875 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 201, 202 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 224 (1879) portrait.

PEEL, Jonathan (eld. son of Robert Peel of Accrington house, Lancs., d. 16 April 1839). b. 1 May 1806; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 3 May 1833; contested Cheltenham 24 July 1837 and Clitheroe Lancs. 23 Aug. 1853; resided at Knowlmere manor, near Clitheroe, where he kept a large flock of Lonk sheep, his ram Mountain King won 40 first prizes and died 12 Nov. 1864; bred short horn cattle 1851 to death, lost all his first herd by murrain 1856. d. Knowlmere manor 6 March 1885. H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 358–65.

PEEL, Sir Lawrence (3 son of Joseph Peel of Bowes farm, Middlesex, d. 1821). b. 10 Aug. 1799; educ. Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 7 May 1824, bencher 8 May 1856 to death, treasurer 3 Dec. 1866; advocate general at Calcutta 1840–2; chief justice of supreme court at Calcutta 11 Feb. 1842, retired Nov. 1855; knighted by patent 18 May 1842; vice-president of legislative council at Calcutta 1854–5; gave away in charity his official income of £8,000, was voted a statue at Calcutta Nov. 1855; P.C. and paid member of the judicial committee 4 April 1856; a director of the East India company 1857; D.C.L. Oxford 1858; president of Guy’s hospital Jany. 1864; author of Horæ Nauseæ 1841, and of A sketch of the life and character of Sir R. Peel 1860. d. Garden Reach, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 22 July 1884.

PEEL, Laurence (brother of Jonathan Peel 1799–1879). b. 28 June 1801; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1819; one of the secretaries of the India board; M.P. Cockermouth 1827–30. d. 32 Sussex sq. Brighton 10 Dec. 1888.

PEEL, Sir Robert, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. London 4 May 1822; educ. Harrow 1835–41; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 May 1841; attaché to British legation at Madrid 18 June 1844; secretary of legation in Switzerland 2 May 1846, chargé d’affaires there Nov. 1846, resigned on his father’s death 2 July 1850; M.P. Tamworth 20 July 1850 to 24 March 1880; shipwrecked off the coast of Genoa in the steamboat Ercolano 24 April 1854; captain in Staffordshire yeomanry 1854–9; a junior lord of the admiralty March 1855 to May 1857; secretary to lord Granville’s special mission to Russia at coronation of Alexander II. July 1856; chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland 26 July 1861, resigned Nov. 1865; P.C. 25 July 1861; G.C.B. 5 Jany. 1866; contested Gravesend 1 July 1880; M.P. Huntingdon 21 March 1884, the borough was disfranchised 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. Blackburn 24 Nov. 1885 to 26 June 1886; contested the Inverness burghs 9 July 1886 and Brighton 25 Oct. 1889; raced on the turf under name of Mr. F. Robinson from about 1856, bred horses at Bonehill, near Tamworth; sold his father’s collection of 77 pictures and 18 drawings, including Ruben’s Chapeau de Poil, to the National gallery for £75,000, March 1871; found dead in his bedroom at 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 9 May 1895. bur. Drayton-Bassett parish church 16 May. St. Stephen’s Review 9 May 1891 pp. 13–4 portrait; Sporting Times 1 May 1875 pp. 297, 300 portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1851 p. 254 portrait, and 18 May 1895 p. 606 portrait.

PEEL, Sir William (3 son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. 2 Nov. 1824; midshipman R.N. 7 April 1838; commander 27 June 1846; commanded the Daring on the North American and West Indies’ station 1847–8; captain 10 Jany. 1849; captain of the Diamond frigate in the Mediterranean Oct. 1853; served with the naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5, threw a live shell over the parapet of his battery 18 Oct. 1854; led the ladder party at the assault on the Redan 18 June 1855; one of the first recipients of the Victoria cross 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858; captain of the Shannon, 50 guns, 13 Sept. 1856; formed a naval brigade at Calcutta July 1857, and served at all the chief operations during Sepoy mutiny; severely wounded in the thigh in the second relief of Lucknow 9 March 1858; A.D.C. to the queen 21 Jany. 1858 to death; author of A ride through the Nubian desert 1852. d. Cawnpore 27 April 1858, statues in Eden gardens at Calcutta and in painted hall, Greenwich, and portrait by John Lucas in painted hall at Greenwich. I.L.N. xxxviii 68 (1861) view of statue at Greenwich; E. H. Verney’s The Shannon brigade in India, account of Peel’s naval brigade in the Indian campaign (1862) portrait.

PEEL, William Yates (2 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart. 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, Bury 3 Aug. 1789; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M. A. 1815; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1816; M.P. Bossiny 1817–8; M.P. Tamworth 1818–30; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1830; M.P. univ. of Cambridge 1831–5; M.P. Tamworth again 1835–47; comr. of board of control 2 June 1826 to 4 June 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 April 1828 to 5 Aug. 1830; a lord of the treasury 31 July 1830 to 24 Nov. 1830, and 31 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 20 Dec. 1834. d. Bagington hall, Warwickshire 1 June 1858. G.M. Aug. 1858 p. 191.

PEELE, Edward. b. 1838; educ. for musical profession; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland and L.M. 1872; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1873; on staff of hospital for diseases of the throat, Dublin; physician to hospital for incurables; demonstrator of anatomy royal coll. of surgeons’ medical school; visiting physician to Coombe lying-in hospital. d. of typhus fever 41 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1881. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 21 Feb. Medical times and gazette i 416 (1881).

PEENE, William Gurden. b. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1833; in practice at Maidstone, Kent. d. Maidstone 20 June 1853, left £1,700 for purchase of books for the library of University college, London.

PEER, John. Drove the Southampton Telegraph team, being the crack whip of his day, dressed in a surtout olive coat, white waistcoat, buckskin breeches and top boots; always stood in a leaning position when driving; patronised by the marquis of Worcester, afterwards duke of Beaufort; started a coach from London to Southampton and lost his money. d. in poverty Fetter lane, London at an advanced age. Sporting Review lii 113 (1864); Driving, by the duke of Beaufort (1889) 245.

PEERS, Charles (only son of Robert Peers of Chislehampton lodge, Wallingford, Oxon.) b. 1774; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1804; gained Seatonian prize for Christ’s lamentation over Jerusalem 1805; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1802; recorder of Henley-upon-Thames; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 14 June 1820; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1821; F.S.A.; author of The siege of Jerusalem, a poem 1823. d. Chislehampton lodge, Oxfordshire 6 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 551 (1853).

PEET, John. Educ. Univ. college, London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1841; M.D. Aberdeen 1866; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1858, F.R.C.P. 1860; assistant surgeon Bombay army 2 May 1842, surgeon 23 June 1858; professor of anatomy and of surgery Grant Medical coll. Bombay Oct. 1845; acting principal of the college 1854–6, principal 1858, retired 1865; surgeon Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital 1858–65; member of Medical and physical soc. of Bombay, sec. 1849–53, president 1863 and 1864, contributed many papers to the Transactions; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1864, translated into 3 vernacular languages; resided at Shanklin from 1865. d. Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 18 Jany. 1874. Medical times and gazette 7 Feb. 1874 p. 168.

PEET, Thomas. b. Wigan 24 March 1788; educ. Wigan gram. sch.; capt. Wigan local militia; local sec. of British archæological assoc. at Manchester 1851; a calico printer at Manchester; director of Union bank of Manchester; received present of plate from Salford market committee for his researches which enabled them to establish their right to the ancient market Feb. 1844. d. Manchester 14 Jany. 1862. Journal of British Archæol. assoc. xix 155 (1863).

PEILE, Thomas Williamson (eld. son of John Peile of Whitehaven). b. 10 Nov. 1806; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, Davies’ scholar 1824; 18 wrangler 1828; B.A 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1 Oct. 1829 to 1831; head master of Liverpool collegiate school 1829; P.C. of St Catherine’s, Liverpool 1831; tutor in univ. of Durham 1834; P.C. of Croxdale, near Durham 1836; head master of Repton school 1841–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1857–60; V. of St. Paul, South Hampstead Oct. 1860, resigned 1873; edited the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1839, and The Cheophoræ 1840; author of Annotations on the apostolical epistles, 4 vols. 1847–52; Sermons, doctrinal and didactic 1866; Three sermons on the holy communion 1871; his name is attached to upward of 35 works. d. 37 St. John’s Wood park, London 29 Nov. 1882. bur. Buckhurst Hill churchyard 2 Dec., portrait in hall of Repton school. The Guardian 6 Dec. 1882 p. 1716.

PEILL, John Newton. b. Liverpool 14 Dec. 1808; educ. royal institution, Liverpool and Queen’s coll. Camb., 7th wrangler and B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1832–53, bursar 1843–50, dean 1850–1 and tutor 1850–3; R. of St. Botolph’s, Camb. 1843–53; R. of Newton Toney, Wilts. 1853 to death; rural dean of Amesbury; diocesan inspector of schools; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1869; with his own astronomical instruments made observations at Newton Toney. d. Newton Toney 12 June 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Society xl 204 (1880).

PEITHMAN, Edward (son of major Peithman, who fell at Jena). b. Osnabruck, Hanover 1804; educ. Bonn, Halle and Berlin; L.L.D.; came to England June 1824; lectured on education in Oxford and Cambridge; tutor to sons of baron Cloncurry at Lyons, near Dublin 1835, dismissed for refusing to take part against a girl seduced by one of his pupils; confined in Kilmainham gaol as a lunatic to prevent his giving evidence in the law courts 1835, transferred to Dublin house of industry, then to Swift’s hospital; lectured before university of Dublin and the Royal society; tutor to earl Fortescue’s sons at Dublin castle to 1840; called twice at Buckingham palace to obtain situation of librarian to prince Albert 1840, confined in Bethlehem hospital 1840–54; made calls at Buckingham palace 1854, confined in Hanwell asylum; went to Prussia where his case was commented on by count Arnim in the Upper chamber; awarded £100 a year, paid by the British embassy at Berlin. Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 38–47.

PELHAM, Dudley Anderson Worsley (younger son of Charles, 1 earl of Yarborough 1781–1846). b. Stratford place, London 20 April 1812; entered R.N. 4 Aug. 1825, captain 26 Oct. 1840; M.P. Boston 2 Aug. 1849 to death. d. Motcombe st. Belgrave sq. London 13 April 1851. G.M. xxxv 664 (1851).

PELHAM, Frederick Thomas (2 son of Thomas, 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 2 Aug. 1808; entered navy 27 June 1823; served on the coast of Spain 1835; commanded the Tweed, 20 guns, on Lisbon station 1837–8; captain 3 July 1840; commanded Odin steam frigate in Mediterranean 1847; R.A. 6 March 1858; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.S.F. of Spain; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to June 1861. d. Brighton 21 June 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.

PELHAM, John Thomas (3 son of 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 21 June 1811; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. and D.D. 1857; C. of Eastergate, Sussex 1834–7; R. of Bergh Apton, Norfolk 1837–52; honorary canon of Norwich cathedral 1847–57; chaplain to the queen 18 June 1847 to 1857; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hampstead 1852–5; R. of St. Marylebone, London 27 Dec. 1854 to 1857; bishop of Norwich 30 April 1857, resigned early in 1893, consecrated in Marylebone church 11 June 1857; founded a diocesan church association for building churches and in 1879 a diocesan conference; published Hymns for public worship 1855, and printed 7 charges and sermons. d. Sunnyhill, Thorpe, Norwich 1 May 1894. bur. Berghampton 5 May. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 45 portrait; Black and White 12 May 1894 p. 571 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 365 (1865) portrait; Daily Graphic 1 Feb. 1893 p. 14 portrait.