PERRY, George. b. Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C. Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845; his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast, a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores. d. 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 11 March. T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism (1872) 197–289.

PERRY, Henry James. b. 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr. in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death; author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833. d. New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. Law Journal iv 330 (1869).

PERRY, James. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25 Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841 to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20 Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. d. 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17 March 1863.

PERRY, John George. b. 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843; surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings; a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some observations at Burgos. d. 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park gardens, London, Jany. 1870. Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p. 107; Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p. 102.

PERRY, Richard Davis. b. 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; shot himself at Phœnix coffee house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892.

PERRY, Stephen Joseph (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq. London, steel-pen manufacturer). b. London 26 Aug. 1833; educ. Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London 1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866; made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882; took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register, Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. d. on board her majesty’s ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. bur. Georgetown, Demerara. Father Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed. (1890) portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv (1890); The Month lxviii 305–23, 474–88 (1890); Nature xli 279–80, 301 (1890); Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota) ix 197 (1890) portrait; Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p. 55, 25 Jany. pp. 128, 137; I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p. 67 portrait.

PERRY, Sir Thomas Erskine (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821, proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). b. Wandlebank house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827 to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832, student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10 April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July 1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug. 1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41, 4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848. d. 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. Biograph iii 129–37 (1880); New monthly mag. cxvii 382–91 (1880) portrait; Law Times lxxiii 34 (1882).

PERRY, Thomas Walter. b. 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to 1856. d. St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton 22 Dec. 1868.

PERRY, Thomas Walter. b. 1815; educ. Chichester college 1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London 1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael, Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments before the judicial committee in Ridsdale v. Clifton 1878; Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton v. Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863; Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert v. Purchas 1877. d. Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.

PERRY, Sir William (eld. son of James Perry). b. 1801; educ. Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1 April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided at Venice 1860 to death. d. Venice 24 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lv 236, 547 (1874).

PERRY, William. b. Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec. 1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38 rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67 rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in 152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846; presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847; beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall 29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again 1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in 102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857 when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. d. Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 157–205 portrait, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); John Hannan’s British boxing (1850) 26–9; Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p. 9.

PERSIANI, Fanny (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and teacher of music, d. 1859). b. Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; m. at Florence 1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12 Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina 1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18 notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847; sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda, Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death. d. Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. Grove’s Dict. of music ii 693–4 (1880); C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera (1845) 17 portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii 257–73 (1863); I.L.N. ii 438 (1843) portrait; H. S. Edwards’s The prima donna ii 191–6 (1888).

PERSIANI, or Persiano Giuseppe. b. Recanati in the Papal States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent Garden on lease in 1847. d. Paris 14 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 151 (1869); Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii 3 (1864), ii 325 (1880); H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii 196–204 (1888).

PERSIGNY, Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de (son of M. Fialin, killed at Salamanca 1812). b. St. Germain-Lespinasse, Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis, London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848; minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860 to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16 June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in England 1871. d. Nice 12 Jany. 1872. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques (1857) pp. 1–60 portrait, No. 20; Weekly Reporter xi 146 (1863).

PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). b. Plymouth 1841; clown and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre, London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. d. of cancer of the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. bur. Edgbaston old church, Birmingham 5 Feb. Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p. 689 portrait.

PERSSE, Burton Robert Parsons (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode castle, Galway, d. 1859). b. 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway 1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. d. Moyode castle, Galway July 1885. Baily’s Mag. xliv 295 (1885).

PESTER, Henry. b. 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28 Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept. 1864. d. 8 Great Quebec st. London 23 Oct. 1870.

PETER, William (eld. son of Henry Peter, d. 1821). b. Harlyn, St. Merryn, Cornwall 22 March 1788; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 28 May 1813; M.P. Bodmin 11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; British consul in Pennsylvania and New Jersey 13 March 1841 to death; author or editor of Thoughts on the present crisis in a letter from a constituent to his representative 1815; Speeches of sir Samuel Romilly in the house of commons, 2 vols. 1820; Sacred songs being an attempted paraphrase of some portions of the psalms by W. Peter 1828, new ed. with other poems by a Layman 1834; Poems by Ralph Ferrars (i.e. Wm. Peter) new ed. 1833; William Tell from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1839, 2 ed. Lucerne 1867; Mary Stuart from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1841; Maid of Orleans, Cambridge 1843; Agamemnon of Æschylus, Philadelphia 1852; Specimens of the poets of Greece and Rome by various translators, Philadelphia 1847. d. Philadelphia 6 Feb. 1853. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard, where is monument.

PETERKIN, Alexander (elder son of Alexander Peterkin of Edinburgh, lawyer and author of many works 1780–1846). b. 1814; editor of the Berwick Advertiser; shorthand reporter and sub-editor of the Edinburgh Advertiser; on the staff of The Times, retired about 1853; author of The study of art 1870, a poem. d. 1889.

PETERMANN, August Heinrich. b. Bleichrode near Nordhausen, Saxony 18 April 1822; a pupil of Dr. Heinrich Berghaus at the Potsdam cartographic institution 1839; came to Edinburgh 1845 to assist Dr. Keith Johnstone in an English edition of Berghaus’ Atlas of physical geography 1847; came to London 1847; physical geographer royal; returned to Germany 1854; professor of geography Gotha university, and in charge of Perthes’ Geographic institution at Gotha to his death; all the German expeditions to Africa and to the Poles he planned, described and mapped; contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the English Cyclopædia, and the Athenæum; author of The search for Franklin, a suggestion 1852; An account of the expedition to Central Africa by Richardson, Barth, Over and Vogel 1854; and other works published at Gotha and Vratislaviæ; committed suicide at Gotha 25 Sept. 1878. The Times 28 Sept. 1878 p. 5; The Athenæum 5 Oct. 1878 p. 437.

PETERS, Mary (dau. of Richard Bowly). b. Cirencester, Gloucs. 17 April 1813; m. John McWilliam Peters, rector of Quennington, Gloucs. and afterwards vicar of Langford, Oxfordshire, d. 1834; contributed hymns to the Plymouth Brethrens’ Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs 1842; author of Hymns intended to help the communion of saints 1847, selections from this book were printed in various hymnals 1855–72; Universal history, or the world’s history from the creation to the accession of queen Victoria, London, S. Bagster and Sons, 7 vols. 1862, anon., this work is also known as Bagster’s Universal history. d. Clifton 29 July 1856. Julian’s Hymnology (1892) 891–2.

PETERS, William Cumming. b. Woodbury, near Exmouth, Devon 10 March 1805; opened a music store in Louisville, Kentucky 1829; established branch houses in Cincinnati 1839 and in Baltimore 1849; a leader of concerts and choirs; revised and enlarged J. F. Burrowes’ Pianoforte primer 1849; wrote Mass in G for soprano and bass voices 1863, and other music published in Baltimore, New York and Cincinnati 1841–71; compiled The Catholic harmonist 1850; The eclectic piano instructor 1855; and The Catholic harp 1862. d. Cincinnati 20 April 1866.

PETERSDORFF, Charles Erdman (3 son of Christian Frederick Petersdorff of 14 Gough sq. Fleet st. London, furrier). b. London 4 Nov. 1800; student of Inner Temple 24 Sept. 1818; barrister I.T. 25 Jany. 1833; one of the counsel to the admiralty; serjeant-at-law 20 May 1858; judge of county courts, circuit 57, North Devon and Somerset 1 Jany. 1865, resigned Dec. 1885; author of A general index to the precedents in civil and criminal pleadings 1822; A practical treatise on the law of bail 1824; A practical abridgment of cases in the king’s bench, common pleas, exchequer and nisi prius from the restoration, 15 vols. 1825–30; A practical abridgment of the common law, 5 vols. 1841–4, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1861–4, supplement 1870, 2 ed. 1871; The principles and practice of the law of bankruptcy 1861, 2 ed. 1862; Law students and practitioners’ commonplace book of law and equity. By A Barrister 1871; A practical compendium of the law of master and servant 1876; killed by falling into the area of his house 23 Harley st. London 29 July 1886. Law Journal 7 Aug. 1886 p. 467.

PETHERAM, John. b. Oldmixon, near Weston-super-mare 1809; spent some years in U.S. of America in the wholesale drug trade; secondhand bookseller at 71 Chancery lane, London Sept. 1841, then at 94 High Holborn 1847 to death; compiled and issued 207 catalogues; issued between 1843 and 1847 Puritan discipline tracts, being reprints of 6 tracts on the Martin Mar-Prelate controversy of 1589–92, their titles are An epitome, An epistle, Pappe with a hatchet, Hay any worke for cooper, An almond for a parrot, and Bishop Cooper’s admonition; edited A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfort 1575, 1846, and a Bibliographical miscellany, 5 parts 1859; author of An historical sketch of the progress and present state of Anglo-Saxon literature in England 1840; Reasons for establishing an Authors’ publication society 1863. d. 94 High Holborn 18 Dec. 1858. Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate controversy (1845); Publishers’ Circular 31 Dec. 1858 p. 639; Bookseller Feb. 1859 p. 727.

PETHERICK, John (son of John Petherick, d. 1861). b. Penydarran iron works, Merthyr Tydvil 9 May 1813; resident in Wales 1813–27 and 1832–4; educ. Brieg, Silesia 1827–32; engaged in mining in Waterford and Wexford 1834–8; manager of German mining co.’s mines, Dittenburg 1838–43; mining engineer to viceroy of Egypt 1845–9; resident at Kordofan in the ivory and gum trade 1849–59; consul for the Soudan 1850–63; envoy from Royal geographical soc. to succour captains Speke and Grant 1861–2, capt. Speke quarrelled with Petherick and he was deprived of his consulship, his mercantile affairs fell into disorder and he had to live on a pension given him by the Egyptian government; author of Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa, with explorations from Khartoum, sketches of sixteen years’ travels 1861; with J. P. Clemes Report on the silver mines of Almada and Kurnapa in Mexico 1868; with Mrs. K. H. Petherick Travels in Central Africa, 2 vols. 1869. d. 54 Lancaster road, Westbourne park, London 15 July 1882. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. iv 700 (1882).

PETIT, John Louis (eld. son of John Hayes Petit, P.C. of Shareshall, Staffs., d. 1822). b. Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. 31 May 1801; educ. Eton, where he contributed to the Etonian, and at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; M.A. Oxford 1850; ordained deacon 1824; spent his time chiefly in visiting and sketching old churches in England and abroad from 1839; C. of Bradfield, near Manningtree, Essex 1840–8; a founder of the British archæological institute at Cambridge 1844, and a contributor to the Journal; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1850; an oil painter and etcher on copper; author and illustrator of Remarks on church architecture, 2 vols. 1841; Remarks on architectural character 1846; The abbey church of Tewkesbury 1848; Architectural studies in France 1854, 2 ed. 1890; his poem The lesser and the greater light was printed by his sister 1869; resided Uplands Shiffnal, Salop 1848–64, and at Lichfield 1867 to decease. d. Lichfield 1 Dec. 1868. bur. Greenhill church, Lichfield. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxv 318–20 (1869); Reg. and mag. of biog. i 220–2, 525 (1869); Architect 2 Jany. 1869 p. 10.

PETIT, Peter John (brother of the preceding). b. 1807; ensign 22 foot 19 May 1825; lieut. 50 foot 27 March 1828, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1848 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Lichfield 13 Feb. 1852. G.M. April 1852 p. 407.

PETO, Sir Samuel Morton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Wm. Peto of Cookham, Berkshire 1768–1849). b. Whitmoor house, Woking, Surrey, 4 Aug. 1809; apprenticed to his uncle Henry Peto, builder, who d. 1830 leaving his business to his nephews, Thomas Grissell and S. M. Peto, they dissolved partnership 2 March 1846, having constructed the Hungerford market 1832–3, Lyceum theatre 1834, St. James’s theatre 1835, Reform club 1836, Conservative club 1840, Great Western railway works between Hanwell and Langley 1840, the Nelson column 1843, and a large part of the South Eastern railway 1844; partner with Edward Ladd Betts 1846–72, they constructed the loop line of the Great Northern railway from Peterborough to Doncaster, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway 1852, the Oxford and Birmingham railway, the Victoria docks, London 1852–5, and the Norwegian Grand Trunk railway; constructed with Thomas Brassey and E. L. Betts railway lines in Australia 1858–63, the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, the Jutland and Schleswig lines 1852, and the London, Tilbury and Southend railway 1852; paid for the building of Bloomsbury baptist chapel; purchased the Diorama in Regent’s park 1855 and converted it into a baptist chapel; M.P. Norwich 1847–54, M.P. Finsbury 1859–65, and M.P. Bristol 1865–8; obtained passing of Peto’s act 13 and 14 Vict. cap. 28, 1850, which simplified titles by which religious bodies hold property; A.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1839; deputy chairman of metropolitan comrs. of sewers 1 Sept. 1851; constructed a railway line, 39 miles long, between Balaklava and the entrenchments 1854–5; created baronet 14 Feb. 1855; presented with a service of plate for making East Suffolk railway 18 July 1860; Peto and Betts suspended payment 11 May 1866 with liabilities of four millions and assets estimated at five millions; author of Divine support in death 1842; Observations on the report of the defence commissioners 1862; Taxation, its levy and expenditure, past and future 1863; The resources and prospects of America, ascertained during a visit to the states 1866. d. Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells 13 Nov. 1889. bur. Pembury. Sir Morton Peto, a memorial sketch (1893) 2 portraits; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix 400–3 (1890); I.L.N. xviii 105–6 (1851) portrait, xxx 24–6 (1857) three views of his residence, Somerleyton, Suffolk, xxxvii 147 (1860) view of service of plate; Eclectic mag. lxvi 381 (1878) portrait.

PETRE, William Joseph Petre, 13 Baron (eld. son of 12 baron Petre 1817–84). b. Leamington 26 Feb. 1847; in holy orders of the church of Rome; domestic prelate at court of the Vatican to death; succeeded to the peerage 4 July 1884; author of Remarks on the condition of catholic liberal education 1877; At Antiock again, a sermon 1886. d. 21 Hyde Park gardens, Paddington, London 8 May 1893. bur. in private burial ground at Thorndon park. Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p. 9 portrait.

PETRE, Henry William (younger son of 11 baron Petre 1793–1850). b. Thorndon hall, near Brentwood, Essex 23 Jany. 1820; an original colonist of New Zealand, where he introduced well bred horses; postmaster general 1853; member of legislative council 1854; master, with a committee, of the Isle of Wight fox hounds; master of the Roothing stag hounds, Essex; author of An account of the settlement of the New Zealand company 1841, 5 ed. 1842; Half a century of British colonization 1889. d. the Manor house, Writtle, Chelmsford 3 Dec. 1889. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 63–4 (1874) portrait.

PETRIE, George (only child of James Petrie, portrait painter). b. Dublin 1 Jany. 1790; studied in the Dublin society’s art school 1802; painted landscapes of Irish scenery 1808 etc.; contributed 96 illustrations to Thomas Kitson’s Cromwell’s Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. 1820; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A. London 1818; A.R.H.A. 1828, librarian 1830, president resigned 1859; wrote many antiquarian articles in the Dublin examiner 1816, and in the Dublin Penny journal 1832–3; edited the Irish Penny journal 1840–41; M.R.I.A. 1828, where he read 27 papers, member of council 1829, gold medallist 3 times; attached to the ordnance survey of Ireland 1833–46; LL.D. Dublin 1847; granted civil list pension of £100, 13 Oct. 1849 and another pension of £100, 2 Jany. 1851; president of the Old Irish music soc. 1851; author of On the history of Tara hill 1839; A letter to sir W. R. Hamilton on charges made against the author by sir W. Betham 1840; The ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland 1845; he illustrated G. N. Wright’s Ireland 1831; G. N. Wright’s An historical guide to Dublin 1821; G. N. Wright’s A guide to the county of Wicklow 1822, and Picturesque sketches of the landscapes and coast scenery of Ireland 1835. d. 7 Charlemont place, Dublin 17 Jany. 1866. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, near Dublin. W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1868); Graves’s Eloge on the late George Petrie (1866); W. Allingham’s Varieties in pose iii 161–73 (1893); I.L.N. xlviii 201, 202 (1866) portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xiv 638 portrait.

PETRIE, John Gordon. b. 1822; second lieut. Bombay artillery 11 June 1841, colonel 26 April 1866, retired 31 Dec. 1878; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, hon. L.G. 31 Dec. 1878; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868; served in the Scinde campaign 1843, and the Indian mutiny 1857; commanded artillery in Abyssinia campaign from 1 Jany. 1868. d. 9 Cranbury terrace, Southampton 31 Dec. 1890.

PETRIE, Martin (2 son of commissary-general Wm. Petrie, d. 1842). b. the Manor house, King’s Langley, Herts. 1 June 1823; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 14 April 1846, captain 5 May 1854; captain 14 foot 26 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; captain 14 foot again 9 Jany. 1857, major 13 July 1867; assistant in topographical department of the war office 14 Jany. 1859 to 30 June 1864; major 97 foot 18 Dec. 1867, placed on h.p. 31 Aug. 1872; examiner in military education at the staff college 1864–82, and at the royal military college to 1882; author of The strength, composition, and organisation of the armies of Europe 1860; Organisation, composition and strength of the army of Great Britain 1863, 5 ed. 1867; Equipment of infantry 1865; Hospital equipment 1866. d. Hanover lodge, 14 Hanover terrace, Kensington park, London 19 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green cemetery.

PETRIE, Samuel. b. 1797; deputy assistant commissary general 25 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 13 June 1828; C.B. 22 Nov. 1858. d. 113 Ebury st. Belgravia, London 2 March 1871.

PETTER, George William. b. Barnstaple 1824; printer 3 Crane court, Fleet st. London 1848, removed to Playhouse yard 1852 where Thomas Dixon Galpin joined him, then to La Belle Sauvage yard, Ludgate hill 1857; purchased John Cassell’s publications 1858 and took him in as a partner; started Cassell’s Illustrated family bible 1860 and The popular natural history 1859; J. Cassell d. 1865; started The Echo, the first halfpenny daily paper in London 8 Dec. 1868, sold it to baron Grant 1868; firm converted into a Limited co. 1883 when he retired from active work; author of Some objections to the repeal of the paper duty considered, in reply to Mr. H. G. Bonn’s pamphlet upon the question 1860. d. Leeholme, Bournemouth 16 Sept. 1888, his personal estate was valued at £520,560. Bookseller 9 Oct. 1888 p. 1021–22.

PETTIE, John (son of Alexander Pettie, tradesman). b. East Linton, Haddingtonshire 17 March 1839; studied at the Trustees’ academy Edinburgh June 1856; first exhibited at Scottish academy 1859 and at the R.A. London 1860; exhibited 58 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1860–80; shared a studio with W. Q. Orchardson in Pimlico, London 1862 and later at 37 Fitzroy sq. to 1865; A.R.A. 8 May 1866, R.A. Oct. 1873; resided at 21 St. John’s Wood road 1869–81 and at 2 Fitzjohn’s avenue 1881 to death; he illustrated J. De Liefde’s The postman’s bag 1862, 2 ed. 1867; Wordsworth’s Poems for the young 1863, 2 ed. 1866; C. Camden’s The boys of Axleford 1869; W. D. S. Moncrieff’s The abdication 1881; L. G. Seguin’s Rural England 1881; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington house in winter of 1894. d. Hastings 21 Feb. 1893. bur. Paddington cemet. 27 Feb. I.L.N. xlviii 637, 638 (1866) portrait; Graphic lx 442, 456 (1874) portrait, and 25 Feb. 1893 p. 199 portrait; Art Journal xxi 265.

PETTIFER, Mary Ann (dau. of Henry Pettifer of 224 Holborn, London, cheese monger). b. Holborn July 1822; appeared at Olympic theatre as Cupid in burlesque of The Paphian bower 26 Dec. 1832; at Adelphi in Frankenstein; in the burletta The Frolics of the fairies, Victoria 1833; first walking lady at Strand theatre 1837; at Drury Lane in A night in the Bastille 4 Dec. 1839, and in Mary Stuart 22 Jany. 1840; played at the Garrick theatre, Leman st. Whitechapel as Virginius in Rogers’ burlesque Virginius the Rum-Un 1840; by her performance of William in Black-eyed Susan she established herself as a first class East-end favourite; m. 1841 John Bond Ratcliffe, lessee of Victoria theatre from 2 Sept. 1840, who d. about 1848; she acted at Victoria theatre in The Yew tree ruins 11 Jany. 1841; played again at the Garrick until it was burnt down 3 Nov. 1846; acted at the Effingham and the Pavilion; first appeared at the Britannia 21 Nov. 1853; latterly she played old women; was a very handsome woman with a Grecian cast of features. d. 290 Cambridge road, Hackney 25 Dec. 1892. The Era 11 Feb. 1893 p. 7.

PETTIGREW, Samuel Thomas (youngest son of succeeding). b. 1824 or 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Norton-Mandeville, Essex 1848–9; fellow of St. Augustine’s college, Canterbury 1853–5, hon. fellow 1873 to death; chaplain Madras ecclesiastical establishment 1855–78; C. in charge of Pudleston, near Leominster 1878–80; V. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1880 to death; author of Daily office for my schools 1867; Episodes in the life of an Indian chaplain 1882. d. Leominster 19 May 1889.

PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (son of Wm. Pettigrew, surgeon in the navy, d. 1825). b. Fleet st. London 28 Oct 1791; studied at the Borough hospitals; member of Medical society of London 1808, secretary 1810, registrar 1813; M.R.C.S. 1812, F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of City philosophical society 1808, and of Philosophical society of London 1810; secretary of Royal humane society 1813–20; surgeon extraordinary to duke of Kent, then surgeon in ordinary, also surgeon to duchess of Kent; vaccinated the present queen, Victoria 1819; surgeon to duke of Sussex, compiled a catalogue of his library in Kensington palace in two vols. entitled Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827–39, the library was sold 1844–5; surgeon to Dispensary for treatment of diseases of children 1816–9; surgeon to Asylum for female orphans 1819; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital on its foundation 1832 to 1835; practised in Savile row 1835–54; Ph. Doc. Göttingen 7 Nov. 1826; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1827; treasurer of British archæological association 1843; author of Views of the base of the brain and cranium 1809; Memoirs of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. 3 vols. 1817; Observations on cholera 1831; A history of Egyptian mummies 1834; Medical portrait gallery, 4 vols. 1840; Memoirs of the life of lord Nelson, 2 vols. 1849. d. 16 Onslow crescent, South Kensington 23 Nov. 1865. T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv pp. 1–40 (1840) portrait 9; Journal of British archæol. assoc. (1866) 327–35; Physic and physicians ii 386 (1839).

PETTINGALL, Edward. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 1 Feb. 1807; captain 39 N.I. 21 Oct. 1821, major 25 July 1839, lieut. col. 18 March 1845 to 1846; commandant 5 irregular cavalry 1 Nov. 1832 to 18 March 1845; lieut. col. of 26 N.I. 1846–50, of 38 N.I. 1850–1, of 60 N.I. 1851–2, of 55 N.I. 1852–4, and of 12 N.I. 1854; col. of 12 N.I. 25 Feb. 1855 to death; M.G. 4 Nov. 1856. d. 134 Regent st. London 17 Nov. 1860.

PETTITT, George. Educ. Church missionary college, Islington; ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832; missionary to Church missionary society in South India and Ceylon 1833–55; chaplain to general hospital at Birmingham 1855–6; V. of St. Jude’s, Birmingham 1856 to death; author of A history of the church missionary society’s mission in Tinnevally, South India 1850; Sermons on the creed, in the Tamil language. d. 1873.

PETTITT, Henry Alfred (son of Edwin Pettitt, civil engineer, author under name of Herbert Glyn of The cotton lord, 2 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1864, and Uncle Crotty’s relations, 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1866). b. Smethwick, near Birmingham 7 April 1848; appeared at Sadler’s Wells in The Rose of Blarney, a pantomime; clerk in office of Pickford & co. carriers London 1860–2; junior English master in North London collegiate school, High st. Camden Town about 1869, then secretary; wrote for Boy’s miscellany and other periodicals; treasurer, secretary, and author with J. H. Clynds, lessee of Gloucester theatre; wrote with Paul Merritt, British born, Grecian theatre 17 Oct. 1872; treasurer of Grecian theatre; his drama Golden fruit, produced at East London theatre 14 July 1873, for which he received £5; wrote with George Conquest for Grecian theatre Dead to the world 12 July 1875, Sentenced to death 14 Oct. 1875, Snatched from the grave 13 March 1876, Queen’s evidence 5 June 1876, Neck or nothing 3 Aug. 1876, Sole survivor 5 Oct. 1876, Schifter, the one-eyed pilot 2 April 1877, During her majesty’s pleasure 21 May 1877, and five other pieces; his pantomime Harlequin king Frolic, produced at Grecian theatre 24 Dec. 1880, played to April 1881 the longest run on record; wrote with Paul Merritt and Augustus Harris The World, Drury Lane 31 July 1880; visited America 1880–1; wrote a version of Le voyage en Suisse for the Hanlon-Lee troupe; his Taken from life produced at Adelphi 31 Dec. 1881; Love and money by Pettitt and Charles Reade produced there 18 Nov. 1882, In the ranks by Pettitt and G. R. Sims 6 Oct. 1883, and Harbour lights by the same 23 Oct. 1885; Human nature by Pettitt and A. Harris produced at Drury Lane 12 Sept. 1885, they also wrote A run of luck 28 Aug. 1886 (which brought in £25,000 in 12 weeks), and A million of money 6 Sept. 1890; wrote with Sydney Grundy for the Adelphi The bells of Haslemere 28 July 1887, and The Union Jack 19 July 1888; wrote with G. R. Sims The silver falls, Adelphi 22 Dec. 1888, and London, day by day, Adelphi 14 Sept. 1889, also Faust up to date, Gaiety 30 Oct. 1888, and Carmen up to date, Gaiety 4 Oct. 1890; wrote with sir A. Harris The prodigal daughter, Drury Lane 17 Sept. 1892, and A life of pleasure 21 Sept. 1893, transferred to Princess’s Dec. 1893; wrote A sailor’s knot Drury Lane 5 Sept. 1891; A woman’s revenge Adelphi 1 July 1893. d. of typhoid fever 352 Goldhawk road, Hammersmith 24 Dec. 1893. bur. Brompton cemetery 29 Dec., personalty declared at £48,477. The little journal i 103–9 (1884); Theatre xiii 15 (1889) portrait; W. Archer’s Theatrical world (1893) 187; Entr’acte annual (1893) 34 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 30 Dec. 1892 p. 562 portrait; The Era 30 Dec. 1893 p. 11.

PETTITT, Joseph Paul. b. Birmingham; landscape painter at Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph Gillott of Birmingham. d. Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9 Sept. 1882. Architect xxvii 182 (1882).

PETTIT, Walter. b. London 14 March 1835; studied at royal academy of music; violoncellist in the orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre 1851, remained there many years; succeeded Charles Lucas as principal violoncello in Philharmonic orchestra 1861; took place of Guillaume Paque in Her Majesty’s private band 1876. d. London 11 Dec. 1882. Grove’s Dictionary of music ii 696 (1880).

PEVERELL, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Callow). b. London 17 July 1792; m. in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April 1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near Edmonton. d. Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. bur. Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. Times 10 Jany. 1896 p. 4.

PEW, James. b. Leith, Scotland 1793; clerk in the stores department Tower of London 1807; auditor to the vestry of Camberwell 1827, overseer of the poor 1829, vicar’s warden 1839–63, hon. sec. of the cholera committee 1839; a governor of Dulwich college; member for Camberwell of Metropolitan board of works 1858–69; chairman of Camberwell vestry, his portrait was placed in Camberwell vestry hall April 1860. d. Asiago, in the Italian Tyrol Sept. 1876. bur. Padua. W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell (1877) 186–8 portrait.

PEW, John. Choirmaster to the Carl Rosa opera company 1873, brought the choir to a high state of efficiency, assistant conductor to the opera co.; conducted English opera in London and the provinces. d. Feb. 1890.

PEYTON, Sir Algernon William, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Peyton 1804–66). b. Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb. 1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3; succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach; sheriff of Oxon. 1871. d. Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25 March 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvi 51 (1869) portrait.

PEYTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Dashwood Peyton, d. 1789). b. Narborough hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk 1 July 1779; succeeded May 1789; M.P. Cambridgeshire 5 May to 26 June 1802; a member of the Four-in-hand club; always took part in the procession of mail coaches on 1 May, the last procession was in 1838; a member of the Bedford driving club, drove a yellow coach and grey horses; introduced the metal cap at the bottom of the whip stick and the thumb ferule at the top of the leather hand piece; the first amateur whip in England with the exception of another Cambridgeshire baronet. d. Swift’s house, near Bicester 24 Feb. 1854. bur. in the family vault at Doddington 3 March. G.M. xli 421 (1854); Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1869 p. 52; Driving by the Duke of Beaufort (Badminton library 1889) 189, 190, 236, 244, 274, 281, 282.

PEYTON, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet (son of sir H. Peyton, d. 1854). b. Grafton st. London 30 June 1804; educ. Harrow 1816; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 29 April 1822; cornet 1 life guards 1 Nov. 1824; lieut. on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; capt. Oxfordshire yeomanry; an accomplished whip; member of Four-in-hand club; M.P. Woodstock 1837–8; succeeded 24 Feb. 1854. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1866. G.M. i 585 (1866).

PEYTON, Sir Thomas, 5 Baronet (2 son of rev. Algernon Peyton 1786–1868, a driver of coaches, rector of Doddington). b. 1817; educ. Eton 1832–5, and at Cambridge to 1838; drove coaches at Cambridge; ensign 14 Madras N.I. 26 June 1839, major 28 Oct. 1864 to 1 Oct. 1867; assistant quarter master general of Pegu division 6 Dec. 1864 to 1868, and of Hyderabad subsidiary force 1868–71; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Dec. 1864; deputy Q.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871, retired as M.G. 3 Oct. 1872; succeeded his cousin sir Algernon Peyton 25 March 1872; a member of the Four-in-hand and Coaching clubs; a partner in the Windsor coach driving it five times a week; drove the Dorking coach two days a week. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1888. Baily’s Mag. xli 125–7 (1883) portrait; The Field 25 Feb. 1888 p. 275.

PFEIFFER, Emily Jane (dau. of R. Davis of Oxfordshire, an officer in the army). b. 26 Nov. 1827; travelled in Asia and America; m. 1853 Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer, merchant in city of London, who d. Jany. 1889; author of The holly branch, an album 1843; Valioneria 1857; Margaret or the motherless 1861; Gerard’s monument 1873, 2 ed. 1878; Poems 1876; Glan Alarch 1877; Quarterman’s grave 1879; Sonnets and songs 1880, 2 ed. 1886; Under the aspens 1882; The rhyme of the lady of the rock 1884; Flying leaves from east and west 1885; Woman and work 1888; Flowers of the night 1889; a writer in the Contemporary review and other periodicals; established an orphanage; designed the endowment of a school of dramatic art; left money to trustees for the promotion of women’s higher education, £2,000 from this fund was allotted towards erecting at Cardiff the Aberdare hall for women-students of the university of South Wales, opened 1895. d. Mayfield, West hill, Putney 23 Jany. 1890. A. H. Miles’s Poets and poetry of the century vii 555–72 (1891), where the birth and death are incorrect; Academy i 80–81 (1890).

PHAYRE, Sir Arthur Purves (son of Richard Phayre). b. Shrewsbury 7 May 1812; educ. Shrewsbury school; cadet Bengal army 13 Aug. 1828; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 10 Jany. 1855 to 1859; captain and comr. of Arakan 1849–52; comr. of Pegu in Lower Burma 1852–62; sent on a special mission to the king of Ava at Burma 1855; chief comr. of British Burma 1862–7; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 22 Jany. 1859; governor of Mauritius 14 Nov. 1874 to Dec. 1878; C.B. 31 March 1863; G.C.M.C. 24 Jany. 1878; author of Coins of Arakan, of Pegu, and of Burma 1882; History of Burma 1883. d. Bray, near Dublin 14 Dec. 1885. bur. Enniskerry, memorial statue in Rangoon and portrait by sir Thomas Jones in coffee-room of East India united service club, St. James’ sq. London. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. vii 103–12 (1886); H. Yule’s Narrative of the mission to the court of Ava, Calcutta (1856); A. Fytche’s Burma i 184, ii 220–3, 247 etc. (1878).

PHELAN, Michael. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 1816; an apprentice to a silversmith and jeweller in U.S. of America; became an accomplished billiard player; exhibited his playing in Ireland 1851; opened billiard rooms Broadway, New York 1852; went to San Francisco; returned to New York and became a billiard table manufacturer with Hugh W. Collender; also kept billiard rooms and took part in matches; author of The game of billiards 1850, 2 ed. New York 1857; The illustrated handbook of billiards, the American game 1863. d. New York city 21 Oct. 1871.

PHELAN, Patrick. b. near Kilkenny 1 Feb. 1795; educ. Montreal coll. Canada; a R.C. priest 26 Sept. 1825; a member of the Sulpicians 21 Nov. 1825 to 14 Sept. 1842; bishop of Carrha in partibus infidelium and co-adjutor to Dr. Gaulin, bishop of Kingston Feb. 1843, succeeded him as bishop 8 May 1857, was bishop of Kingston only 28 days, as he caught cold at Dr Gaulin’s funeral and d. Kingston 6 June 1857. Battersby’s Catholic Directory, Dublin (1858) 259.

PHELPS, Edmund (2 son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). b. Albany st. Regent’s park 17 March 1838; acted in the provinces; acted Ulrick in Werner, Sadler’s Wells 21 Sept. 1860. Leonardo Gonzago in The Wife 10 Dec. 1860, Faulconbridge in King John 16 Feb. 1861; at the Princess’ the Prince in King Henry IV 23 May 1861; at Sadler’s Wells St. Lo in Lovell’s Love’s Sacrifice 5 Nov. 1863, Sir Gerard Fane in Marston’s Pure gold 9 Nov. 1863; at Drury Lane Pisanio in Cymbeline 17 Oct. 1864, Eugene in Falconer’s Love’s ordeal 3 April 1865; Faust in Bayle Bernard’s version 20 Oct. 1866, and hon. Tom Shuffleton in Colman’s John Bull 31 Jany. 1867; m. 30 March 1863 Sarah Eliza, only dau. of John Hudspeth, she first appeared at the Lyceum in 1859. d. Edinburgh 1 April 1870. bur. Dean cemet. Edinb. 5 April. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 257–8.

PHELPS, John. b. 1805; an apprentice to a waterman at Fulham 1819; won the second prize in the race for Doggett’s coat and badge 1 Aug. 1827; a well known sculler who won several contests; a waterman at Fulham; one of the four champion scullers 1846; judge of the University boat race many years, lost the judging after the dead heat of 1877; his son H. J. M. Phelps won Doggett’s coat and badge 1860. d. Fulham 6 Dec. 1890. bur. All Saints, Fulham 11 Dec. Illust. sp. and dr. news 4 April 1874 pp. 137, 138 portrait, and 20 Dec. 1890 p. 463 portrait.

PHELPS, Joseph (brother of Wm. Phelps, known as Brighton Bill, who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight at Melbourne Heath, Cambs. 13 March 1838). b. 1823; beat Joseph Barnash, £25 a side, 45 rounds in 59 minutes near Horley 7 Oct. 1845; beat Sam Martin, £50 a side, 68 rounds in 3 hours at Hope Point 22 Sept. 1846, beat him again, £100 a side, 49 rounds in 97 minutes, at Purfleet 26 May 1847; beaten by Alec Keene, £100 a side, 119 rounds in 165 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sept. 1847; a clipper of poodle dogs at 66 Ship st. Brighton about 1876–84. d. Dorset gardens, Brighton 15 Oct. 1889. Sporting Life 16 Oct. 1889 p. 7.

PHELPS, Robert (brother of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). b. 1808; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1843, D.D. 1843; fellow and Taylor lecturer of Sidney Sussex coll. 1833–43, master and bursar 1843 to death; vice-chancellor 1844 and 1847, refused any information to the university commissioners 1872; R. of Willingham, near Newmarket March 1848 to death; author of An elementary treatise on optics, to elucidate the construction of telescopes 1835. d. the Master’s lodge, Sidney Sussex college 11 Jany. 1890. The Times 13 Jany. 1890 p. 7.

PHELPS, Samuel (2 son of Robert M. Phelps, outfitter, d. 1820). b. 1 St. Aubyn st. Plymouth Dock, now Devonport 13 Feb. 1804; educ. under Dr. Samuel Reece at Saltash; junior reader to the press in office of the Plymouth Herald for 3 months in 1820; reader to the Globe and Sun newspapers in London 1820; played as an amateur at the Rawston st. theatre and the Olympic 1825; acted on the York circuit at 18s. a week 1826; played in England, Ireland, and Scotland 1826–37; appeared at Haymarket, London 28 Aug. 1837 as Shylock; played at Covent Garden 1837–9; acted Othello and Iago at Haymarket Aug. 1839 to Jany. 1840; played at Drury Lane Jany. to March 1840 and 1841–3, the original Captain Channel in Jerrold’s Prisoners of war 8 Feb. 1842, Lord Lynterne in Marston’s Patrician’s daughter 10 Dec 1842, Lord Tresham in Browning’s Blot on the scutcheon 11 Feb. 1843, Lord Byerdale in Knowles’s Secretary 24 April 1843, and Dunstan in Smith’s Athelwold 18 May 1843; the first Almagro in Knowles’s The Rose of Arragon at Haymarket 4 June 1842; lessee with Mrs. Warner and Thomas Greenwood of Sadler’s Wells theatre 27 May 1844, Mrs. Warner retired from management in 1847, Greenwood in 1860, and Phelps 15 March 1862, produced all the plays of Shakespeare except Richard II, the three parts of Henry the Sixth, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida 1844–62; the original Henri IV in Sullivan’s King’s friend 21 May 1845, Walter Cochrane in White’s Feudal times 18 Feb. 1847, John Savile in White’s John Savile of Haysted 3 Nov. 1847, Calagnos in G. H. Boker’s tragedy Calagnos 10 May 1849; played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, the first time of performance for a century 22 Oct. 1849; the original Garcia in Tomlins’s Garcia or the noble error 12 Dec. 1849, Blackbourne in George Bennett’s Retribution 11 Feb. 1850, James VI in White’s James VI 6 March 1852; revived Pericles, not acted since the Restoration, 14 Oct. 1854; the original Bertuccio in Tom Taylor’s Fool’s Revenge 18 Oct. 1859, and Louis XI in Delavigne’s Louis XI 21 Sept. 1861; played in Berlin and Hamburg May 1859; at Princess’s theatre 1860; acted Richelieu at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1861; played at Drury Lane 1863–8 acting Manfred 14 Oct. 1863, Mephistopheles in Faust 20 Oct. 1866, the Doge in Byron’s Marino Faliero 2 Nov. 1867, and James I and Trapbois in Halliday’s King o’ Scots 26 Sept. 1868; acted at Astley’s amphitheatre March 1870; first appeared at Gaiety Dec. 1873 as Dr. Cantwell in the Hypocrite; acted Falstaff there Dec. 1874; acted at Aquarium theatre from 1877, making his last appearance as Wolsey in Henry VIII 1 March 1878; author of The Plays of William Shakespeare under the supervision of S. Phelps with illustrations by Nicholson, 2 vols. 1851–4, another ed. 2 vols. 1858, originally came out in parts; resided at 420 Camden road, Holloway, London to 1878. d. Anson’s farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex 6 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 13 Nov., portrait as Cardinal Wolsey at Garrick club. Phelps and Robertson’s Life of S. Phelps (1886) three portraits; J. Coleman’s Memoirs of S. Phelps (1886); M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 17–29; The theatre i 325–29, 338–44 (1878); Saturday Programme 27 Nov. 1875 pp. 8–10 portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 1–49 (1888); J. Coleman’s Players i 117–208 (1888); G.M. Sept. 1872 pp. 308–10; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 2nd series (1859) portrait; Theatrical times i 81 (1847) portrait; Tallis’ Drawing room table book, part 7 portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 258–65.

PHELPS, William (son of rev. John Phelps of Flax Bourton, Somerset). b. 1776; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 18 Nov. 1793, migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1797; V. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1811–51; V. of Meare, Somerset 1824–51; R. of Oxcombe, Lincs. 1851 to death; author of Calendarium botanicum, or a botanical calendar of all the British plants 1810; The history and antiquities of Somersetshire, 2 vols. 1836–9; Observations on the great marshes and turbaries of Somerset 1836; A mirror of the duchy of Nassau, or a guide to the Brunnens 1842; An historical guide to Frankfort-on-Maine 1844. d. Oxcombe 17 Aug. 1856.

PHELPS, William Robert (eld. son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78, actor). b. 1828; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; parliamentary reporter for The Times; connected with a Manchester paper; chief justice of supreme court of island of St. Helena 1 June 1863 to death. d. St. Helena 16 Nov. 1869, monument in Highgate cemetery.

PHELPS, William Whitmarsh (eld. child of John Phelps of Wilton, near Salisbury, master of the free school, d. 21 Nov. 1823 aged 57). b. Wilton 1 Oct. 1797; educ. Hyde abbey sch. Winchester 1810; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815 to 1822; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fellow of his college 10 Oct. 1822 to 1824; C. of Hindon, Wilts. 1822–6; assistant master Harrow April 1826 to 30 July 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading 1 March 1840; C. of Sonning 1 July 1841; C. of Sulhampstead 22 May 1842; Incumbent of Trinity church, Reading 1845–64; examining chaplain to bishop of Carlisle 10 Aug. 1860; archdeacon of Carlisle 1863 to death, collated 26 Feb. 1863; V. of Appleby 18 Jany. 1865 to death; author of Sermons and studies in scripture subjects 1876. d. Appleby vicarage 22 June 1867. bur. in Appleby churchyard 27 June. The life of W. W. Phelps by rev. Charles Hale, 2 vols. (1871–73) 2 portraits.

PHILIP, John (son of a schoolmaster). b. Kirkcaldy, Fife 14 April 1775; studied at Hoxton theological college three years; minister of the First Scottish congregational chapel in Great George st. Aberdeen 1804–18; conducted an inquiry into the state of the South African missions of the London missionary society 1819–22; superintendent of the society’s South African stations 1822; pastor of the new Union chapel at Cape Town, opened Dec. 1822; tried for libelling Wm. Mackay, landrost of Somerset, verdict for Mackay 16 July 1830; left for England 28 Feb. 1836, made several lecturing tours in Great Britain to rouse public opinion against the Cape government; unofficial adviser to governor sir G. T. Napier at Cape Town in all questions relating to the treatment of the natives Feb. 1838 to 1843; undertook tours in 1839 and 1842 to promote the establishment of a belt of native states to the north and east of the colony; known as The Wilberforce of the Hottentots; the most prominent politician in Cape Colony for 30 years; author of Memoir of Mrs. Matilda Smith 1824; Researches in South Africa, the religious condition of the native tribes, 2 vols. 1828. d. Hankey, Cape of Good Hope 27 Aug. 1851. Robert Philip’s The Elijah of South Africa, or the character of the late John Philip (1851); Ralph Wardlaw’s What is death, a sermon (1852); G. M. Theal’s History of South Africa iii 477 (1891), iv 605 (1893).

PHILIP, John Birnie (son of Wm. Philip). b. London 23 Nov. 1824; pupil of John Rogers Herbert, R.A.; exhibited 22 sculptures at R.A. 1858–75; executed the reredos of Ely cathedral 1857, the reredos of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 1863, eight statues of kings and queens for the royal gallery in houses of parliament, and the statues on the front of the Royal academy, Burlington house; executed the friezes on the podium on the north and west sides of the Albert memoria, representing 87 sculptors and architects 1864–72, he also modelled for the canopy of the memorial four bronze statues of geometry, geology, physiology, and philosophy, and the eight angels clustered at the base of the cross on the summit; executed the capitals of the columns on Blackfriars bridge 1869, and the statue of colonel Edward Akroyd, M.P., erected at Halifax; m. 1854 Frances Black, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1875; he d. Merton villa, 280a King’s road, Chelsea 2 March 1875. bur. Brompton cemet. J. Dafforne’s Albert memorial (1877) 40–1, 63–6, 69–70, three plates; I.L.N. lxvi 257, 258 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 296 (1875) portrait.

PHILIP, Michel Maxwell (eld. son of Michel Maxwell Philip of South Napanina, Trinidad). b. Cooper Grange estate, South Napanina 12 Oct. 1829; educ. St. Mary’s catholic college, Blairs, Scotland; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1854; acting inspector of schools, Trinidad 1856 and 1865; solicitor general, Trinidad March 1871 to death, acting attorney general 1873–4; author of Emmanuel Appadocca, a tale of the boucaneers. 2 vols. 1854. d. Loyola, Maraval, Trinidad 29 June 1888.

PHILIP, Robert. b. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1791; educ. Hoxton academy 1811–5; Independent minister at Liverpool 1815; minister of Maberley chapel, Ball’s end road, London 1 Jany. 1826, resigned 1855; advocated the claims of London missionary society; D.D. Dartmouth college, U.S. of America 1852; author of Christian experience, or a guide to the perplexed 1828, 10 ed. 1847; The life and times of the rev. George Whitfield 1837; The life, times, and characteristics of John Bunyan 1839; with G. Offor The works of John Bunyan 1853, 2 ed. 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 35 publications. d. 15 Gwlden terrace, Richmond road, Dalston, London 1 May 1858. J. M. Clintock and J. Strong’s Cyclopædia of biblical literature viii 91 (1879); Congregational year book (1859) 213–4.

PHILIPPART, John. b. London about 1784; private secretary to 1 baron Sheffield, president of the board of agriculture 1809–11; a clerk in the war office 1811; knight of St. John of Jerusalem 11 Nov. 1830, chevalier of justice 1831, bailiff ad honores 6 July 1847, chancellor of the order 1831 to death; knight of the Swedish orders of Gustavus Vasa and of the Polar star of Sweden 1832; helped to found the Fulham and Hammersmith general dispensary, now the West London hospital, 1856, honorary treasurer 1856–61; M.R.I.A.; owned and edited a journal called The military panorama, 4 vols. Oct. 1812 to Sept. 1814; author of Northern campaigns from 1812 to June 4, 1813, 2 vols. 1813; Memoirs of the prince royal of Sweden 1813; Memoirs of general Moreau 1814; The royal military calendar containing the services of every general officer in the British army, 3 vols. 1815–6, 3 ed. 5 vols. 1820; The East India military calendar 1823; General index to the first and second series of Hansard’s parliamentary debates 1834; Memoirs of prince Edward, duke of Kent and Strathearn 1819. d. College house, Church lane, Hammersmith 8 May 1875, will dated 3 May 1873, proved under £10,000, 19 July 1875, all left to his daughter Mrs. Bennett. I.L.N. 31 July 1875 p. 119.

PHILLIPPE, Monsieur, stage name of Phillippe Talon. b. Alais, near Nismes; a confectioner; in business in London, then in Aberdeen, disposed of his confectionery in a lottery at the Aberdeen theatre; travelled through England and Scotland as a conjuror under the name of Monsieur Phillippe; erected a temporary theatre in Glasgow 1840; while performing in Dublin learnt the gold fish trick and the ring puzzle from a Chinese juggler; played in Paris 1841 and in Vienna; at the St James’ theatre, London 1845, and at Strand theatre with his Soirées mysterieuses Oct. 1845; two of his most curious tricks were The hat of Fortunatus and The kitchen of Parafaragaramus; he always appeared in a fancy dress. T. Frost’s Lives of the conjurors (1876) 271–6; I.L.N. 4 Oct. 1845 p. 221 portrait; F. Volant’s Alexis Soyer (1859) 57–9.

PHILIPPS, Henry (3 son of Wm. Hollingworth Philipps, captain Notts. militia 1757–1839). b. 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; ordained 1842; author of Remarks on a bill respecting an alteration in the constitution of deans and chapters 1840; Litany and prayers for family worship 1856; composer of The Psalm of Life, words by Longfellow; Late, late, so late, song, words by Tennyson 1882; resided at 10 Pitville lawn, Cheltenham many years. d. The Mansion, Bisley 13 Dec. 1892.

PHILIPPS, Richard Nathaniel (eld. son of Nathaniel Philipps of Moor Lodge, near Sheffield, unitarian minister). b. 1807; educ. Sheffield and Christ’s coll. Camb., captain of the college boat; LL.B. 1849, LL.D. 1872; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, went northern circuit; presented with a testimonial at Stafford 17 Jany. 1853; president of Thames subscription club 1859; special pleader at central criminal court; recorder of Pontefract Aug. 1871 to death; chairman of committee of court of common council of city of London to 1865, and chairman of library committee Feb. 1872 to 1873; F.S.A. 1 March 1855; chairman of quarter sessions for west riding of Yorkshire. d. Broom hall, Sheffield 5 Sept. 1877. I.L.N. xxii 93 (1853) view of testimonial, xxxiv 475 (1859) view of testimonial, xlvii 148 (1865) view of testimonial, lxii 494 (1873) view of loving cup presented to him.

PHILIPS, Sir George Richard, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Philips 1766–1847). b. 23 Dec. 1789, educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1812. M.A. 1816; M.P. Steyning 1820–32; M.P. Kidderminster 1835–7; M.P. Poole 1837–52; sheriff of Warws. 1859. d. Weston house, Shipton-on-Stour 22 Feb. 1883.

PHILIPS, John Alexander. b. 1790; a midshipman at battle of Trafalgar; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Aug. 1806; lieut. col. R.M.A. 4 Sept. 1851, adjutant 1828–34; colonel of Woolwich division 28 March 1863 to death; L.G. 29 May 1863. d. York Tower, near Sandhurst 27 Nov. 1865.

PHILIPS, Mark (eld. son of Robert Philips of The Park, Prestwich, Manchester 1760–1844). b. The Park, near Manchester 4 Nov. 1800; educ. Manchester college York, and Glasgow universities; chairman of the New Quay company, Manchester 1825; M.P. Manchester 1832–47; sheriff of Warws. 1851. d. Welcombe, Snitherfield, near Stratford-on-Avon 23 Dec. 1873. W. E. A. Axon’s Annals of Manchester (1886) 339; I.L.N. lxiv 23 (1874).

PHILIPS, Nathaniel George. Ensign 47 foot 19 May 1846, captain 24 Nov. 1854, sold out 6 Nov. 1857; served in the Crimea, wounded at Alma, medal with clasp; raised in St. George’s lodge, Liverpool 1855; W.M. of lodge 311 Irish constitution at Templemore, Tipperary; prince mason of Ireland; received 33 degree in English masonry in London 1864, grand treasurer 1868, secretary, lieut. grand commander, and sovereign grand commander at No. 33 Golden sq. London, assisted greatly in the formation of the library; member of corps of gentlemen at arms 9 July 1858, sub-officer 6 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1874; groom of the privy chamber Feb. 1874 to 1886. d. 1886. J. G’s Masonic portraits (1876) 122–7.

PHILIPS, Robert Needham (brother of Mark Philips 1800–73). b. Manchester 20 June 1815; educ. Rugby 1829 etc. and at Manchester college; merchant and manufacturer Manchester; M.P. Bury 1857–9, 1865–85, when he was presented with a testimonial; sheriff of Lancashire 1856. d. Welcombe house, Stratford-on-Avon 28 Feb. 1890. I.L.N. xxxi 389 (1857) portrait, 22 March 1890 p. 366 portrait.

PHILLIMORE, Greville (5 son of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). b. London 5 Feb. 1821; educ. Westminster 1831, Charterhouse 1832–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf, canoneer student 1838, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1844; C. of Henley-on-Thames 1846–7, 1850–1; C. of Shiplake 1847; C. of Wargrave and Fawley 1848–9; V. of Downe-Ampney near Cricklade 1851–67; R. of Henley 1867–83; R. of Ewelme, Oxfordshire July 1883 to death; joint editor with H. W. Beadon and J. R. Woodford of The parish hymn book 1863, 2 ed. 1875, to which he contributed 11 original hymns; author of Parochial sermons 1856, 2 ed. 1885; Uncle Z [a story of Triberg in the Black forest] 1881; Only a black box, or a passage in the life of a curate 1883; preached at Ewelme on Sunday and d. the same night 20 Jany. 1884. bur. Shiplake churchyard 25 Jany. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 893; C. M. Phillimore’s In memoriam of G. Phillimore (1884) memoir pp. iii–vi.

PHILLIMORE, Henry Bourchier (younger son of captain sir John Phillimore, R.N. 1781–1840). b. 25 Oct. 1833; entered R.N. 5 May 1846; captain 14 July 1864; commanded the Curacao 23 guns in Australia 1863; transferred to the steamer Avon in which he twice attacked the Maori position at Rangariri 1863, New Zealand medal; C.B. 13 March 1867; R.A. 8 April 1880, V.A. 24 May 1887, retired 25 Oct. 1888, retired admiral 5 April 1892; alderman of Huntingdonshire county council 1889 to death. d. Stoneleigh, Lansdown road, Bath 3 July 1893. Times 8 July 1893 p. 10.

PHILLIMORE, John George (brother of Greville Phillimore 1821–84). b. 62 Gower st. London 5 Jany. 1808; educ. Westminster 1817–1824, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; clerk in the board of control for India 1827–32; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832, bencher Nov. 1851 to death; revising barrister 1837; reader on civil law and jurisprudence at Middle Temple Jany. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; reader in constitutional law and history to the Inns of Court June 1852; M.P. Leominster 1852–7; author of Letter to the lord chancellor on the reform of the law 1846; Thoughts on law reform 1847; Introduction to the study and history of the Roman law 1848; The history and principles of the law of evidence 1850; An inaugural lecture on jurisprudence and a lecture on canon law 1851; Principles and maxims of jurisprudence 1856; Private law among the Romans 1863; History of England during the reign of George the third, 1 vol. 1863, no more published. d. Shiplake house, near Reading 27 April 1865. Law Times xl 327 (1865).

PHILLIMORE, Joseph (eld. son of Joseph Phillimore 1750–1831, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.). b. 14 Sept. 1775; educ. Westminster 1789–93, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; member of College of advocates 21 Nov. 1804; regius professor of civil law at Oxford 31 Oct. 1809 to death; chancellor of diocese of Oxford 1809 to death; judge of court of admiralty of the Cinque ports 1809 to death; president of consistory courts of Oxford, Worcester, and Bristol about 1816; M.P. St. Mawes, Cornwall 1817–26; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1826–30; one of the original members of a short-lived third party formed in 1818; member of board of control for India 8 Feb. 1822 to Jany. 1828; principal comr. for final adjudication of French claims under treaties of 1815 and 1818, 23 Jany. 1833; presided over registration commission appointed 13 Sept. 1836 and drafted the report; king’s advocate in the court of admiralty 25 Oct. 1834, queen’s advocate 1837 to death; chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1834 to death; commissary of deanery of St. Paul’s 1834 to death; chancellor of diocese of Bristol 1842 to death; judge of consistory court of Gloucester 1846; hon. LL.D. Camb. 1834; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; edited Reports of cases argued in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors’ commons and in the high court of delegates, 3 vols. 1818–27; Reports of cases argued in the arches and prerogative court of Canterbury 2 vols. 1832–3. d. Shiplake house, near Reading 24 Jany. 1855. Law Review xxii 69–71 (1855).

PHILLIMORE, Sir Robert Joseph, 1 Baronet (brother of John George Phillimore 1808–65). b. Whitehall, London 5 Nov. 1810; educ. Westminster 1824–8, king’s scholar 1824; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1828, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834, B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1838; great friend of W. E. Gladstone, proposed him as candidate for representation of Oxford 1847; clerk in the office of board of control 1832–5; advocate at Doctors’ commons 2 Nov. 1839, steward 1847–50, librarian 1850–1 and 1853–4, treasurer 1851–3; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841, bencher 1 Feb. 1858 to death, treasurer 1870; commissary of the deans and chapters of St. Paul’s and Westminster to 1867; official of the archdeaconries of Middlesex and London 1840–62; chancellor of the dioceses of Chichester 1844–67, of Salisbury 1845–67, and of Oxford 1855–67; judge of the Cinque ports Feb. 1855 to 1875; admiralty advocate Feb. 1855; Q.C. Jany. 1858; queen’s advocate general 28 Aug. 1862 to 1867; knighted by patent 17 Sept. 1862; contested Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847, 28 April 1852 and 8 July 1852, and Coventry 27 March 1857; M.P. Tavistock 1853–7; dean of court of arches 1 Aug. 1867 to 20 Oct. 1875; judge of high court of admiralty 23 Aug. 1867, resigned 21 March 1883; P.C. 3 Aug. 1867; temporary judge-advocate-general 17 May 1871 to Aug. 1872; master of the faculties 6 Feb. 1873 to 1875; Swiney prizeman of society of arts Jany. 1874; created baronet 21 Dec. 1881; president of Association for reform and codification of law of nations 1879; member of royal commissions on neutrality 1868, on naturalisation 1868, on ritual 1867, the building of courts of justice 1859, and on the judicature and ecclesiastical courts 1867; edited Memoirs and correspondence of George, lord Littleton, 2 vols. 1845; author of The law of domicil 1847; Commentaries upon international law, 4 vols. 1854–61, 3 ed. 1878–89; Judgment delivered by sir R. Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson 1868; The ecclesiastical law of the church of England, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1895. d. The Coppice, near Henley-on-Thames 4 Feb. 1885. bur. Shiplake churchyard. E. Manson’s Builders of our law (1895) 163–8 portrait; A generation of judges (1886) 204–10; F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 527–9; I.L.N. lxxxvi 178 (1885) portrait.

PHILLIMORE, William (brother of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). b. 6 Feb. 1777; educ. Westminster; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1799; equity draftsman; a comr. of lunatics 1815 to 1842, a visitor of lunatics 1842 to death; chairman of the St. Alban’s quarter sessions. d. Deacon’s Hill, Herts. 28 Nov. 1860.

PHILLIP, John (son of a soldier). b. 13 Skene sq. Aberdeen 19 April 1817; apprenticed to Spark, a painter and glazier in Wallace Nook, Aberdeen 1832–6; studied painting in London 1836–40; subject and portrait painter; exhibited 55 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–67: A.R.A. Nov. 1857, R.A. Nov. 1859; painted for the queen The marriage of the princess royal with the crown prince of Germany 1858; studied and painted in Spain 1851–2, 1856–7, 1860; 200 of his pictures were in the London international exhibition of 1873. d. 1 South villas, Campden Hill, Kensington 27 Feb. 1867. W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 164–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 306–8 (1862); I.L.N. xxxv 543, 560 (1859) portrait, l 285 (1867) portrait; T. O. Barlow’s Catalogue of the works of J. Phillip 1873; J. Dafforne’s Pictures of J. Phillip 1877; Leisure Hour xvi 629 portrait; Illust. Times 9 March 1867 p. 149 portrait.

PHILLIPI, Monsieur, stage name of Harry Graham. A clown in Ginnett’s circus; came out at Ramsgate under management of Charles W. Montague as M. Phillipi the wizard about March 1859; performed at the chief towns on the south coast; appeared with success at the Cabinet theatre, King’s Cross, where he also played Richard the Third. d. a few days afterwards. bur. in Tower Hamlets cemetery about 1860. C. W. Montague’s Recollections of an equestrian manager (1881) 8–11.

PHILLIPPS, Adelaide. b. Stratford-on-Avon 26 Oct. 1833; taken to U.S. of America 1841; appeared on the stage at Tremont theatre, Boston Jany. 1842; sang at the Boston museum 1843–51; pupil of Manuel Garcia in London March 1852; made her début at Brescia as Arsace in Semiramide 1853; sang in Milan and other cities; sang in Italian opera in Philadelphia and New York; appeared in Paris as Azucena in Il Trovatore 1860; the Adelaide Phillipps opera company was organized 1876: sang with the Ideal opera company 1879–81; last appeared on the stage in Cincinnati 1881; her stage name in Europe was signorina Fillippi; her voice was a contralto with a compass of 2½ octaves; her best parts were Rosina, Leonora and Azucena. d. suddenly Carlsbad, Austria 3 Oct. 1882. A. C. Waterston’s Adelaide Phillipps, a record, Boston (1883); Appleton’s American biography iv 758 (1888) portrait.

PHILLIPPS, Charles March (eld. son of Thomas March of More Critchill, Dorset, who took additional name of Phillipps in 1796, d. March 1817). b. 28 May 1779; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; M.P. Leicestershire 1818–20 and 1831–2; M.P. North Leicestershire 1832–7; sheriff of Leics. 1825. d. Cheltenham 24 April 1862. G.M. June 1862 p. 788.

PHILLIPPS, Edward Thomas March (brother of preceding). b. 1784; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., 6 wrangler 1804, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Hathern, Leics. 29 Sept. 1808 to death; minister of Dishley with Thorp Acre 1816–43; chancellor of diocese of Gloucester 1820 to death; author of Four sermons on the inward life of the believer 1853; The ordnances of spiritual worship 1863. d. Hathern rectory 12 July 1859. Records of ministry of E. T. M. Phillipps (1862); G.M. vii 189 (1859).

PHILLIPPS, Samuel March (brother of preceding). b. Uttoxeter 14 July 1780; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., eighth wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; barrister I.T. 19 June 1806; an exchequer bill loan comr.; permanent under secretary for home affairs 16 July 1827 to May 1848; P.C. 27 June 1848; author of A treatise on the law of evidence 1814, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1868; edited State trials, or a collection of the most interesting trials prior to the revolution of 1688, 2 vols. 1826. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1862.

PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas, 1 baronet (son of Thomas Phillipps 1742–1818, of Middle hill, Broadway, Worcestershire). b. 32 Cannon st. Manchester 2 July 1792; educ. Rugby 1807 etc. and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; collected rare manuscripts especially those on vellum, resided in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland 1820–5; bought three quarters of the Meerman collection of manuscripts at The Hague 1824, the collection of professor Van Ess of Darmstadt 1824, and many of the Muschenbrock collection of Dutch charters, &c. 1827; bought more than 16,000 manuscripts from Thorpe the bookseller 1836: purchased the earl of Guilford’s collection of Italian manuscripts in upwards of 1,300 volumes; purchased more than 400 lots at the Heber sale 1836; bought about 60,000 manuscripts altogether; bought a series of incunabula in about a thousand volumes 1824; collected 100,000 volumes of printed books, also coins and pictures; established about 1822 a private printing press in a tower known as Broadway tower, on the Middle Hill estate, removed his printing press and library to Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 1862; F.R.S. 29 June 1819; F.S.A. 1 April 1819; F.G.S. 1830; created baronet 27 July 1821; sheriff of Worcs. 1825; contested Grimsby 9 Feb 1826; privately printed at Salisbury in 1819 Collections for Wiltshire, and at Evesham in 1820 Account of the family of sir Thomas Molyneux; Institutiones clericorum in comitatu Wiltoniæ 1297–1810, 2 vols. 1822–5: Monumental inscriptions in the county of Wilton 1822. d. Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 6 Feb 1872. bur. the old church, Broadway, Worcs., portrait by Thomas Phillips, R.A. at Thirlestane house. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s manual iii 1856–8 (1864), and Appendix pp. 225–37; Book Lore iv 141–3 (1886); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. v 310–11 (1870–73); Trubner’s Record vii 112 (1872); I.L.N. lx 163 (1872), lxi 22 (1872).