PITCAIRN, David. b. 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian minister of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May 1830 to 29 Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867; resided at Torquay from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his parishioners 1840, 2 ed. 1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed. 1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s king, the second Psalm expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a memoir of E. H. M. Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862; The ages of the earth 1868. d. 4 Jany. 1870. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ, vol. 3 part 1 p. 382.

PITCAIRN, Sir James (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of Englishcombe, Somerset). b. Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776; F.R.C.S. 7 June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and in Egypt 1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in Ireland 1803, and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852, when he retired on half pay; knighted 1837. d. 3 Haddington road, Dublin 12 Jany. 1859.

PITCAIRN, Robert (2 son of Robert Pitcairn, writer to the signet and principal keeper of the register of deeds). b. Edinburgh 1793; a writer to the signet 21 Nov. 1815; assistant to the deputy clerk register in H.M.’s register house a long time, one of the four official searchers of records for incumbrances in the register house 1853 to death; employed in making an Abridgment of the register of the great seal of Scotland 1824, for the Record commission; edited for the Abbotsford club Historical memoirs of Mary, queen of Scots 1836; for the Bannatyne club Criminal trials in Scotland 1833, and 3 other works; for the Wodrow society The autobiography of J. Melvill 1842; he also edited Collections relating to the funeralls of Mary, queen of Scots 1822; Historical account of the principal families of Kennedy 1830. d. 9 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 16 July 1855. Record commission, the case of Robert Pitcairn (1835).

PITCAIRN, Thomas (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister 1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk of Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church at Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. d. Bonnyrig 21 Dec. 1854. Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 438–48 portrait; Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ i, part 1, p. 274.

PITMAN, Frederick. b. Trowbridge, Wilts. 1828; bookseller, phonetic shorthand writer and reporter at 1 Queen’s Head passage, Paternoster row, London 1847, and at 20 Paternoster row 1850 to death; edited The shorthand magazine 1866 to his death; The phonographic student 1867–76, ten volumes; The phonographic pulpit 1869–76, seven volumes, and The phonographic lecturer 1871 etc.; and was the author of Second book in phonetic reading for adults 1850; Pitman’s Reporters’ reading book 1867; Learning to report 1883; How to get speed in shorthand 1884; Pitman’s Shorthand library, Tom Brown’s school days 1884. d. Oak lawn, Avenue road, Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex 21 Nov. 1886.

PITMAN, John Rogers. b. 1782; educ. Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1815; P.C. of Berden and V. of Ugley, Essex 18 Feb. 1817, resigned 1846; preached at Berkeley and Belgrave chapels, London, also at Foundling and Magdalene hospitals; P.C. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1833–48; domestic chaplain to duchess of Kent 1848–61; author of Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis 1808, 2 ed. 1817; Practical lectures upon the ten first chapters of the gospel of St. John 1821, Supplement 1822; The school Shakespeare with notes 1822, 2 ed. 1851; Sophoclis Ajax, Greek and Latin, with notes 1830; A practical commentary on our Lord’s sermon on the mount 1852. d. 8 Green park buildings, Bath 27 Aug. 1861.

PITMAN, Joseph (brother of sir Isaac Pitman, b. 1815). b. 1818; engaged with Thomas Allen Reid in lecturing in Great Britain on Pitman’s system of shorthand many years; lived in retirement at Worthing 1885 to death. d. Worthing about 1 April 1895.

PITMAN, Mrs. Became proprietor of The Sporting review on her husband’s death in 1827, and conducted it with much skill until the four sporting serials, The Sporting review, The Sporting magazine, The New sporting magazine, and The Sportsman, were united in July 1846. d. Feb. 1858. Sporting Review xxxix 153 (1858).

PITMAN, Samuel (son of rev. Samuel Pitman of Oulton hall, Norfolk, d. 1854). b. 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; captain West Somerset yeomanry cavalry; master of the Taunton harriers, hunting on alternate days with the Blackmoor vale foxhounds; hunted his own harriers in the Langport and Martock districts; master of South Berkshire fox hounds 1873, for 3 seasons he hunted both packs; at last his health gave way under the strain of hunting five and even six days a week; with sir T. Acland instrumental in reviving the Bath and west of England agricultural society 1850; resided Bishop’s Hull manor, Taunton. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 April 1886. The Times 19 April 1886 p. 5.

PITMAN, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Dix Pitman, solicitor, London). b. 1801; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1827; C. of Brightwell, Oxfordshire 1826–8; V. of Eastbourne, Sussex 1828 to death; prebendary of Chichester 27 Aug. 1841 to death. d. Eastbourne 11 May 1890. I.L.N. 24 May 1890 p. 646 portrait.

PITTMAN, Josiah. b. 3 Sept. 1816; organist of Sydenham parish church 1831; organist of Tooting parish church 1833–5; organist at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1835–47; organist at Lincoln’s Inn 1852–64; accompanist at Her Majesty’s opera 1865–8 and at Covent Garden 1868 to death; a regular frequenter of the Albion tavern, Russell st. Covent garden, where he always sat in the same box; author of The people in church 1858; The people in the cathedral 1859; author with Colin Brown of Songs of Scotland 1873; edited Hymns and canticles 1858; Six easy preludes by J. S. Bach 1858; The musical antiquarian magazine 1863–5, fifteen numbers; The contralto album, 50 songs 1878; The prima donna’s album, 40 songs 1878; The tenor album, 50 songs 1878; The baritone album, 45 songs 1879; Songs from the operas, 2 vols. 1880; A series of studies for pianoforte, organ, or harmonium 1882; Album of 40 duets 1885; Diversions for students, 2 books 1889; he also edited a large number of single operas 1865–80; his name is attached to upwards of 100 works. d. 228 Piccadilly, London 23 April 1886. London Figaro 1 May 1886 p. 12.

PITT, Charles Dibdin (1 son of George Dibdin Pitt). b. 1819; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London as Ferdinand in the Tempest at Covent Garden 1843; acted in the provinces; with his wife played in the United States and Canada, first appearing at Park st. theatre, New York as Hamlet on 8 Nov. 1847, produced The Cavalier or England in 1640 on 10 Nov.; last appeared in New York 1851; appeared as Lear at City of London theatre 15 March 1852; in John Wilkins’ The Egyptian, March 1853; as Bottom in Midsummer night’s dream 5 June 1854; in the Spanish girl March 1857; lessee of theatre royal, Sheffield at his death; m. 1839 Ellen Coveney, actress. d. 87 Norfolk st. Sheffield 21 Feb. 1866. bur. Sheffield general cemetery 23 Feb. Tallis’ Drawing-room table book 1851, Part 20 portrait; M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 61–9; The Era 25 Feb. 1866 p. 11, 4 March p. 10; Illust. Sporting News 16 March 1866 pp. 129, 142; Ireland’s New York stage ii 486 (1867).

PITT, George Dean-. Lieut. Royal West India rangers as George Dean 5 Dec. 1805, captain 10 Aug. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814; took additional name of Pitt 1819; major 80 foot 19 Aug. 1819, lieut. col. 18 April 1822 to 24 March 1837; superintendent of recruiting department in London Jany. 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the troops in New Zealand Jany. 1847 to death, granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; K.H. 1836. d. New Zealand 8 Jany. or 21 Feb. 1851. G.M. Sept. 1851 p. 328.

PITT, George Dean- (eld. son of preceding). b. 14 June 1823; ensign 48 foot 11 Oct. 1839; lieut. 80 foot 1844, captain 4 May 1849, placed on h.p. 30 Dec. 1864; A.D.C. to major general in New Zealand 1848–51; captain instructor at Hythe 1855–8; district inspector of musketry, Australia 1858–64; assistant military secretary, New Zealand 1864–70; D.A. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 1872–7; lieut. col. brigade depôt at Guildford 1877 to 1880; M.G. 7 June 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 30 Aug. 1882; C.B. 10 Aug. 1866; keeper of the Regalia in Tower of London 25 Aug. 1882 to death. d. Tower of London 4 April 1883.

PITT, George Dibdin. b. 1799; first appeared under R. W. Elliston at the Surrey theatre as Sir Archy M’Sarcasm 1827, and remained at the Surrey many years as a most successful actor; acting and stage manager at the Pavilion, Coburg and Surrey theatres, a severe malady obliged him to retire from the stage; wrote the following dramas The whistler or the fate of the lily of St. Leonard’s, Victoria theatre 18 Jany. 1833, Reprinted as The lily of St. Leonard’s; The last man or the miser of Eltham, Surrey theatre 20 June 1833; The Eddystone elf, Sadler’s Wells 1833; The prisoner of Rochelle, Surrey 23 Jany. 1834; Simon Lee, City of London theatre 1 April 1839; Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl, Victoria 31 May 1841; The beggar’s petition, City theatre 18 Oct. 1841; Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet street, Britannia 1842, founded on T. Prest’s story The string of pearls, which he wrote in the Penny Sunday Times 1841; The twins, Adelphi 1844; The Jersey girl, Surrey theatre; Marianne or the child of charity, Victoria theatre; Rookwood, Victoria 27 Oct. 1845; also The last nail; The lord mayor’s fool; The maid, the mill, and the ferry; The devil’s bridge; The bride of Aldgate; and The devil’s punch bowl; he wrote upwards of 700 pieces for the stage; author of The wreck of the heart or the story of Agnes Primrose 1842; The sea-fiend or the abbot of St. Mark’s 1846. d. Bethnal green, London 16 Feb. 1855. The Era 25 Feb. 1855 p. 10.

PITT-BYRNE, Julia Clara (2 dau. of Hans Busk 1772–1862). b. about 1820; m. 28 April 1842 William Pitt-Byrne, proprietor of Morning Post, d. 8 April 1861; contributed to Fraser’s Magazine, Once a week, and other periodicals; author of A glance behind the grilles of religious houses in France 1855; Flemish interiors 1856; Realities of Paris life 1859; Undercurrents overlooked 1860; Red, white, and blue 1862; Cosas de Espana 1866; The Beggynhoff 1869; Feudal castles of France 1869; Gheel the city of the simple 1869; Pictures of Hungarian life 1869; Curiosities of the search room 1880; Gossip of the century 1892. d. 16 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 29 March 1894. Men of the Time 1887 p. 188.

PITTIS, Sir Francis. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 1812; member of first Newport school board; mayor of Newport 1852, and for the eighth time 1887; presented with an address and a painting by George Cole 14 March 1880; chief promoter and subscriber to the Jubilee clock tower, Newport 1887; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; received the jubilee decoration 1887. d. Newport house, Newport 3 Nov. 1889. bur. St. Thomas’ churchyard 8 Nov. The Isle of Wight County press 9 Nov. 1889 p. 5.

PLACE, Francis (son of Simon Place, keeper of a sponging house in Vinegar yard, Drury lane, London). b. 3 Nov. 1771; apprenticed to a leather-breeches maker 1785–9; worked at his trade from 1789; joined the London Corresponding society 1794; opened a tailor’s shop with another man at 29 Charing Cross 1799; a tailor alone at 16 Charing Cross 1800 to 1833; resided at 21 Brompton sq. 1833 to 1852; member of committee of British and foreign school society to 1815; stayed some months with Jeremy Bentham and James Mill at Ford Abbey 1817; collected much of the materials for Joseph Hume’s parliamentary work 1812 etc.; issued from his shop James Mill’s Essays from the supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and many tracts by himself and others; agitated against the sinking fund 1816–23; got the laws against combinations of workmen repealed after ten years’ work 1824, and prevented their being reenacted 1825; made preparations for civil war during the crisis of May 1832, when he drew up a placard with the words ‘Go for gold and stop the Duke,’ which caused a run upon the bank of England; drafted for Wm. Lovett the Peoples’ charter 1838; wrote history of the Reform bill 1836–9, the manuscript of which is at the British Museum; author of Illustrations and proofs of the principles of population 1822; A letter to a minister of state respecting taxes on knowledge 1831, 3 ed. 1835; kept and indexed his political correspondence 1814 to death; 71 volumes of his manuscripts are in the British Museum. d. at his daughter’s house, Foxley terrace, Hammersmith 1 Jany. 1854. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 344–50 portrait; Fortnightly Review Dec. 1892 pp. 767–79; Fraser’s Mag. xiii 427 (1836) portrait.

PLACE, Louisa (dau. of Mr. Simeon). b. 16 Oct. 1797; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre as Harriet in Is he jealous 9 July 1816; played Julia in the Rivals at opening of the Haymarket theatre 4 July 1821; played at Covent Garden as Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer Nov. 1821; retired from the stage; played again at the Olympic and Adelphi theatres; acted in Born to good luck at Adelphi 22 July 1856; and in Morton’s French Lady’s maid 22 May 1858; m. (1) about 1816 William Chatterly, comedian, b. 21 March 1787, d. 20 April 1821; she m. secondly 13 Feb. 1830 Mr. Place, who d. before his wife; she d. 37 Brompton square, London 4 Nov. 1866. The Era 18 Nov. 1866 p. 81; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 161, 197–8, 331.

PLANCHÉ, James Robinson (son of Jacques Planché, watchmaker 1734–1816). b. Old Burlington st. Piccadilly, London 27 Feb. 1796; articled to a bookseller 1810; wrote Amoroso, king of Little Britain for Drury Lane 21 April 1818, and Rodolph the wolf Olympic Pavilion 21 Dec. 1818; The Vampire or the bride of the isles, English opera house 9 Aug. 1820, when the vampire trap was first used; wrote ten pieces for Adelphi theatre 1820–1; his opera Maid Marian was produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; present at coronation of Charles X in Paris 29 May 1825; wrote the libretto to Weber’s Oberon, Covent Garden 12 April 1826; managed the musical arrangements at Vauxhall gardens 1826–7; produced at Covent Garden Charles XIIth, a drama 11 Nov. 1828, and his version of Scribe and Auber’s opera Gustave Trois 13 Nov. 1833; managed the Adelphi theatre for S. J. Arnold 1830; author with Charles Dance of Olympic Revels, Olympic 3 Jany. 1831, and Riquet with the tuft Dec. 1836; managed the Olympic July to Dec. 1838; director of costume and reader of the plays at Covent Garden 1839; wrote plays for the Haymarket 1843–7; superintended the decorations at the Lyceum for Madame Vestris Oct. 1847, and wrote for her The pride of the market 18 Oct. 1847, The island of jewels 26 Dec. 1849, and other burlesques; his Mr. Buckstone’s Ascent of Mount Parnassus produced at Haymarket 28 March 1853, and Love and fortune, a comedy, Princess’s 24 Sept. 1859; My lord and my lady, Haymarket 12 July 1861 ran 50 nights; Orpheus in the Haymarket Dec. 1866 ran till Easter 1867; King Christmas masque at Gallery of illustration 26 Dec. 1871; F.S.A. 24 Dec. 1829, resigned 1852; a founder of British archæological association Dec. 1843; rouge croix pursuivant of arms 13 Feb. 1854, and Somerset herald 7 June 1866 to death; arranged col. Augustus Meyrick’s collection of armour for exhibition at Manchester 1857, and at South Kensington Dec. 1868; rearranged the armour at Tower of London 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 June 1871; author of The descent of the Danube from Ratisbon to Vienna 1828; The history of British costumes 1834, 3 ed. 1874; The pursuivant of arms or heraldry founded upon facts 1852, 3 ed. 1874; The conqueror and his companions, 2 vols. 1874; A cyclopædia of costumes, 2 vols. 1876–9; Extravaganzas, 5 vols. 1879, with portrait; wrote 72 original pieces, also 96 translations and adaptations. d. 10 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 30 May 1880. Planché’s Recollections and reflections, 2 vols. (1872); Biograph iii 225–38 (1880); Journal of British Archæol. Association xxxvi 261–5 (1880); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i 257–76 (1883); Illustrated Review, ii 353–55 (1870); Cartoon portraits (1873) 102–103; Illust. news of the world vii 273 (1861) portrait; The Critic xix 444 (1859) portrait; Theatre ii 95–99 (1880) portrait.

PLANK, William (son of James Plank). b. Wandsworth, Surrey 7 Nov. 1767; educ. under W. Franks at Clapham to 1781; apprenticed to his brother James Plank, a calico printer, London 28 May 1782; took up his freedom in the Salters’ Co. 20 Oct. 1789, the father of the Salters’ Co.; resided at Harrow from 1811; had a dinner party on 7 Nov. 1867, and d. Harrow 19 Nov. 1867, being 100 years and 12 days old. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man (1879) 252–5; G.M. iv 783, 833 (1867).

PLANT, James (son of Robert Fisher Plant, stationer, Leicester). b. Leicester 1818; a well known geologist; F.G.S.; an authority on questions respecting coal and water supply; a frequent attendant at meetings of the British association. d. Leicester 8 Nov. 1892.

PLANT, John (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester Oct. 1819; educ. at the national school and at the mechanics’ institution; articled to T. Paget, surgeon, Leicester; an assistant in his father’s business; hon. sec. of Leicester naturalists’ club 1844; curator of the Literary and philosophical society’s museum; discovered fossiliferous keuper sandstone near Leicester 1844; sec. and librarian of the library, Leicester 1846, where he arranged and catalogued 10,000 books; librarian and curator of the Museum and public library, Peel park, Salford Oct. 1849 to April 1892, it became one of the chief attractions in Manchester and the most popular holiday resort in Lancashire, the library containing 60,000 volumes; F.G.S. 1864; lieut. 56 Salford rifle volunteers 12 April 1873, captain 8 Jany. 1876 to April 1885; made a special study of the coal measure fishes near Manchester, and of the Cambrian fossils near Dolgelly; a selection of his fossils is in the British museum, including the olenus planti named after him; author of Guide to the general collections in the Salford museum 1860; Catalogue of the library of the Manchester geological society 1875; Descriptive catalogue of pictures in the Salford art gallery and museum 1883. d. Rhosnegir, near Holyhead 18 Jany. 1894, portrait placed on walls of Salford free library 1893. Geological magazine June 1892 pp. 286–8 portrait; The Times 10 Jany. 1894 p. 5; The Library vi 93 (1894).

PLANT, Nathaniel (brother of the preceding). b. Leicester 1832; curator of museum of Leicester philosophical and literary society 5 years; spent 16 years in Brazil mining and exploring 1851–67; F.G.S. 1867, F.R.G.S. d. London Aug. 1875.

PLANT, Thomas Livesley (son of George Halewood Plant, iron merchant). b. Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire 1819; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, near Durham; representative in Birmingham of W. H. Smith and Son, the advertising contractors 1849–81; kept systematic records of meteorology 1837 to death, furnished meteorological information to The Times and contributed to the local press; author of Meteorology: its study important for our good, Birmingham 1862. found dead in the train at New st. station, Birmingham 31 Aug. 1883. Athenæum 8 Sept. 1883 p. 310.

PLATT, James (son of Henry Platt of Dobcross, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, maker of woollen machinery, removed to Oldham 1821, d. 1842). b. 1823 or 1824; partner in Hibbert, Platt and Sons, Oldham 1845; member of Oldham town council; M.P. Oldham 31 March 1857 to death; accidentally shot by Josiah Radcliffe when shooting on the moors at Greenfield 27 Aug. 1857, d. Ashway Gap, near Oldham 27 Aug. 1857. Fortunes made in business iii 426–7 (1887).

PLATT, John T. (brother of James Platt, d. 1857). b. Dobcross 15 Sept. 1817; member of firm of Hibbert, Platt and Sons of Oldham 1837, Joseph Platt d. 1845, Mr. Hibbert d. 1846; firm employed 2,500 men, business converted into a limited liability company 1 Jany. 1868, chairman of the company to his death; sheriff of Carnarvon 1863; helped to obtain incorporation of Oldham 1849; mayor 1854, 1855, and a third time; gave large sums to the Oldham lyceum 1847–65; M.P. Oldham 13 July 1865 to death. d. Hotel Maurice, Paris 18 May 1872. bur. Oldham, statue unveiled at Oldham Sept. 1878. I.L.N. lx 537 (1872) portrait; Fortunes made in business iii 419–85 (1887) portrait.

PLATT, Thomas (4 son of Samuel Platt, clerk of the papers of court of king’s bench). b. Blackfriars, London 14 Sept. 1800; educ. St. Paul’s school 1812–16; barrister L.I. 9 June 1826; author of A practical treatise on the law of covenants 1829; A treatise on the law of leases, 2 vols. 1847. d. Brockley lodge, Finchley, Middlesex 14 Dec. 1886.

PLATT, Sir Thomas Joshua (eld. son of Thomas Platt of Brunswick sq. London, solicitor). b. 1789; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1816, bencher 1835–45; became a leader on the home circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834; baron of court of exchequer 27 Jany. 1845, retired 2 Nov. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 April 1845. d. 59 Portland place, London 10 Feb. 1862. bur. Highgate cemet. Ballantine’s Some experiences, 8 ed. (1883) 46–47; Foss’s Judges ix 244–5 (1864).

PLATT, Thomas Pell (son of Thomas Platt). b. London 1798; pensioner of Trin. coll. Camb. 25 Nov. 1815, scholar 3 April 1818, minor fellow 2 Oct. 1820, major fellow 2 July 1823; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; librarian of the British and foreign bible society some years and a defender of the society in 1827 from an attack made on their publications in the Quarterly Review June 1827 pp. 1–28; an early member of Royal Asiatic society and acted as one of its oriental translation committee many years; F.S.A.; author of A catalogue of the Æthiopic biblical MSS. in the royal library of Paris and in the library of the British and foreign bible society 1823; edited Evangelia sancta in linguam Amharicam 1824; Evangelia sancta Æthiopice 1826; The Gospels in Syriac 1829; The Ethiopic Didascalia 1834; The books of the Old Testament in Amharic 1871; author of Facts respecting versions of scripture published by the Bible Society in reply to the Quarterly Review 1827, 3 ed. 1828; The literal interpretation of scripture enforced 1831. d. Dulwich hill, Surrey 31 Oct. 1852. T. H. Horne’s Introduction to critical study of the holy scriptures, 10 ed. iv 317–20, 733 (1856); G.M. Dec. 1852 p. 660.

PLAYER, John. b. Elberton, Gloucs. 1808; manager of Gwendraeth iron works 1838; introduced anthracite as a fuel for blast furnaces and steam boilers; a steamer called the Anthracite ran for some time on the Thames below London bridge 1839, which attracted much notice; built many blast furnaces; settled at Philadelphia 1868; invented ‘mineral wool’ from iron slag. d. Philadelphia 11 March 1870.

PLAYFAIR, George Ranken (son of George Playfair). Educ. at Edinburgh univ.; M.D. 1838; surgeon in navy of H.E.I.C.S. and saw service in the Phlegthan during the first China war 1840; assistant surgeon Bengal 3 Nov. 1844; civil surgeon at Jaharunpore, where he gained experience as a lithotomist; on the Agra circle, present at siege of Lucknow 1857; inspector general 29 March 1871; retired surgeon general Bengal 31 March 1872; wrote on Continued fever. d. Longridge road, South Kensington, London 4 Oct. 1881. Lancet 8 Oct. 1881 p. 651, 15 Oct. p. 689.

PLAYFAIR, Sir Hugh Lyon (3 son of James Playfair 1738–1819, principal of St. Andrew’s univ.) b. Meigle, East Perthshire 17 Nov. 1786; educ. Dundee gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ.; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 May 1805; adjutant and quartermaster of the horse artillery 15 Nov. 1809, at siege of fortress of Ralunga Nov. 1814, captain 5 Oct. 1815; granted freedom of city of St. Andrew’s 1820; superintendent of the great military road, telegraph towers and post office department between Calcutta and Benares 1820–7; major in command of the fourth battalion of artillery at Dum-Dum June 1827 to 4 July 1831, resigned the service 10 Feb. 1834; provost of St. Andrew’s 1842 to death; established a public library and revived the celebrated St. Andrew’s golf club 1834; his portrait by sir J. W. Gordon placed in the old town hall 1847; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; author of First catechism of the principles of religion 1853. d. St. Leonard’s, St. Andrew’s 21 Jany. 1861. D. Louden’s Biographical sketch of sir H. L. Playfair (1874); Memoirs of sir H. L. Playfair (1861) portrait; I.L.N. x 176 (1847) portrait, xxxviii 103 (1861).

PLAYFAIR, William Henry (son of James Playfair of London, architect). b. Russel sq. London July 1789; pupil of Wm. Starke of Glasgow, architect; architect in Edinburgh 1812 to death; laid out part of the new town 1815; rebuilt and enlarged the university buildings 1817–24; designed the Royal and Regent terraces 1829; designed the observatory 1814–18, advocates’ library 1819, royal institution 1822–36, college of surgeons 1830, St. Stephen’s church 1826–8, and the Free church college 1846–50; constructed Donaldson’s hospital in the Tudor style 1842–8; designed the monument to his uncle professor John Playfair 1820, and that to Dugald Stewart on the Calton hill 1830; designed the National gallery of Scotland in the classical style, first stone laid 30 Aug. 1850, and the unfinished national monument on the Calton Hill 1822–6; his classical buildings have gained for Edinburgh the sobriquet of the ‘Modern Athens’; built many country houses and mansions; author of Report concerning completion of the college of Edinburgh 1816; Report on laying out the new town between Edinburgh and Leith 1819. d. 17 Great Stuart street, Edinburgh 19 March 1857. Dictionary of architecture vi 134 (1881); Building News iii 359–60 (1857).

PLENDERLEATH, Charles. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49 foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney creek in America. d. Florence 1 Jany. 1854.

PLEON, Tom, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. b. 1862; appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane 1887–91. d. Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April 1892.

PLEWS, John Mackay. b. 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect 1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale. d. Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. A. Barnard’s Noted breweries iv 410–35 (1891); The Brewers’ Journal 15 June 1890 p. 385.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Edward (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869). b. 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24 Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July 1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3 April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July 1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov. 1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and other countries; director of the Great Western railway company and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters in The Times over the initials E. B. P. d. 44 Wilton crescent, London 16 Dec. 1889. Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp. 10, 11.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Philip (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828). b. Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth 1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65; sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. d. Clyffe hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872.

PLINT, Thomas. b. 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist; was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec. to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years; a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies 1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent 1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851. d. Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 471.

PLINT, Thomas Edward. b. 1823; stock and share broker Leeds, suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost £25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas, and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising £18,391. d. Leeds 11 July 1861. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 497; Art Journal Aug. 1861 p. 255, April 1862 p. 105.

PLOW, Anthony John (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94, rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863 to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs. Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he d. of his wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. Annual register (1868) 22–4.

PLOWDEN, Charles Joseph. b. 1804; head of firm of Plowden and Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. d. the Palazetto, Rome 28 Feb. 1884.

PLOWDEN, Florence. b. 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W. S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No Escape company to 1881; m. Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. d. 3 Royal terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890.

PLOWDEN, Trevor John Chichele. b. 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879; adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr. first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge; C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W. C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. d. Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887.

PLOWDEN, Walter Chichele (youngest son of Trevor Chichele Plowden of the Bengal civil service). b. 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England 1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for 1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he d. 13 March 1860. W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country (1868), memoir pp. vii–x; Foreign office list July 1860 p. 146.

PLOWDEN, William Henry Chichele (4 son of Richard Chichele Plowden, a director of the H.E.I. Co., d. Jany. 1830). b. 1790; educ. Westminster; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1805; president of British factory in China; superintendent of British trade there 1833; a director of East India company 1841–54; contested Nottingham 24 July 1837; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1847–52; contested Newport 9 July 1852; F.R.S. 15 April 1847. d. Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, Hants. 29 March 1880.

PLOWMAN, Joseph. b. Oxford 1811; reporter for the Oxford journal 1829–62; started the Oxford times 1862, which he transferred to a company 1867; university correspondent of the Morning post to death; opened the first reading room in Oxford; a singer and a speaker at public dinners. d. Oxford 9 Nov. 1867. Newspaper Press 2 Dec. 1867 p. 8.

PLUMPTRE, Charles John (eld. son of Edward Hallows Plumptre of London, solicitor 1785–1851). b. London 28 March 1818; educ. King’s college, London; barrister G.I. 5 June 1844; established with Edward Wm. Cox and others The Public reading society and gave the first penny readings for the people 1858–60; lectured on elocution, especially at the universities and theological colleges; lecturer on elocution at Oxford 1860–5; professor of elocution at King’s college, London 1866; lectured on elocution at Downing coll. Camb. 1878; professor of rhetoric in Hyde park college and at Crystal Palace school of literature and art; edited with George Harris The county courts chronicle, vols. xi and xii 1860–61; author of The principles and practice of elocution 1861, 5 ed. 18—; King’s college lectures on elocution 1870, 4 ed. 1883; The culture of voice and speech 1874; The right mode of respiration in regard to speech, song, and health 1886. d. 36 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 15 June 1887. C. J. Plumptre’s King’s college lectures on elocution (1882) portrait; Law Times 16 July 1887 p. 212; Victoria Mag. Oct. 1879 pp. 557–60 portrait.

PLUMPTRE, Edward Hayes (brother of preceding). b. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. King’s coll. London 1839–40; scholar of Univ. coll. Oxf. 1841–4; double first class 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1844–8; chaplain of King’s coll. London 1847, resigned May 1868, professor of pastoral theology 1853–63, professor of exegesis of Holy scriptures 1864–81; select preacher at Oxford 1851–3, 1864–6, and 1872–3; dean of Queen’s coll. Harley st. London 1855–75, principal of the college 1875–7, founded a scholarship in the college; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1851–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1863–81; R. of Pluckley, Kent 1869–73; V. of Bickley. Kent 1873–81; Boyle lecturer Oxford 1866–7; a member of the Old Testament revision committee 1869–74 and translator and editor of several portions of the Bible; Grinfield lecturer and examiner in school of theology at Oxford 1872–4; dean of Wells 6 Dec. 1881 to death; author of Lazarus and other poems 1864, 4 ed. 1884; Master and scholar 1866, poems; Biblical studies 1870, 3 ed. 1885; Theology and life 1884; The spirits in prison and other studies on life after death 1884; The divine commedia and canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, with biographical introduction, notes, and essays, 2 vols. 1886–7; Wells cathedral and its deans 1888; The life of Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells 1888; translated The tragedies of Sophocles 1865 and of Æschylus 1868; his name appears on upwards of 60 publications 1849–90. d. the deanery, Wells 1 Feb. 1891. bur. cathedral cemet. Church portrait journal iii 9 (1882) portrait; Good Words April 1891 pp. 233–37 portrait; I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1881 p. 536 portrait and 7 Sept. 1891 p. 167 portrait.

PLUMPTRE, Frederick Charles (3 son of Charles Plumptre of Long Newton, Durham). b. 17 Aug. 1796; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college 1817–36, tutor 1820, dean and bursar 1821, master Dec. 1836 to his death; vice-chancellor 1848–51; took an active part in university business, delegate of estates and privileges in the university. d. University college 21 Nov. 1870. bur. in college chapel 25 Nov. I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1870 p. 578; Times 22 Nov. 1870 p. 6, 26 Nov. p. 6.

PLUMRIDGE, Sir James Hanway (son of James Plumridge of London, architect). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 1787; entered navy 6 Sept. 1799; commander 7 June 1814; commanded the Sappho brig at St. Helena and on the Irish station 1818–21; captain 9 Oct. 1822; captain of the Magicienne frigate in the East Indies 1831–5; superintendent of the Falmouth packets 7 April 1837 to 1841; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1841–7; storekeeper of the ordnance 23 June 1842 to 1847; second in command on the East Indies station 1847–50; R.A. 7 Oct. 1852; commanded the flying squadron in the Baltic 7 March 1854 to Feb. 1855; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 19 Feb. 1855 to 4 Dec. 1857; member of order of St. John of Jerusalem 12 Dec. 1857; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; V.A. 28 Nov. 1857; admiral of the blue 27 April 1863. d. Hopton hall, near Lowestoft 29 Nov. 1863. G. B. Earp’s History of the Baltic campaign from documents furnished by sir C. Napier (1857) 45, 620.

PLUNKET, William Conyngham Plunket, 1 Baron (youngest son of Thomas Plunket, presbyterian minister, Enniskillen, d. Dublin; 1778). b. Enniskillen 1 July 1764; matric. in univ. of Dublin 1779; scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1781; B.A. 1784; LL.B 1787, LL.D. 1799; called to Irish bar Jany. 1787; K.C. 1797; M.P. Charlemont, co. Armagh, in Irish parliament 1798–1800; appeared for the prosecution on the trial of Robert Emmett for rebellion Sept. 1803; solicitor general for Ireland 5 Nov. 1803 to 1805; attorney general 23 Oct. 1805 to 15 May 1807, and 15 Jany. 1822 to 18 June 1827; M.P. Midhurst 26 Jany. to 29 April 1807; M.P. Trinity college, Dublin univ. 1812–27; succeeded Henry Grattan as champion of the Roman Catholic claims 1820; P.C. 10 May 1827 and 23 March 1831; chief justice of Irish court of common pleas 18 June 1827 to 23 Dec. 1830; created baron Plunket of Newton, co. Cork 1 May 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland 23 Dec. 1830 to Nov. 1834, and 30 April 1835 to 17 June 1841. d. Old Connaught, co. Wicklow 4 Jany. 1854. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. Dublin 7 Jany. D. Plunket’s Life of lord Plunket, 2 vols. (1867) portrait; W. H. Curran’s Sketches of the Irish bar i 127–53 (1855); O’Flanagan’s Lord chancellors of Ireland ii 403–621 (1870); R. L. Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish bar i 98, 119, ii 377 (1854); Dublin Univ. mag. xv 258–66 (1840) portrait; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 157–210; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 210–45; Law Review xix 225–48 (1854); Law mag. and review xix 44–9 (1865); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv 80 (1848) portrait; I.L.N. xxiv 38, 58 (1854) portrait; J. C. Hoey’s Speeches of lord Plunket (1856).

PLUNKET, Thomas Span Plunket, 2 Baron (eld. son of preceding). b. Dublin 1792; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, and at Trin. Dublin, M.A. 1822, B.D. and D.D. 1840; dean of Down 8 Oct. 1831; bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 1839 to death, consecrated at Ch. Ch. Dublin; P.C. Ireland 1846; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1851 to death; succeeded as 2 baron 5 Jany. 1854. d. Lommakeady lodge, co. Galway 19 Oct. 1866.

PLUNKET, John Span Plunket, 3 Baron (brother of preceding). b. 10 July 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1822; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 1 July 1837; leading counsel for the crown in Dublin and on the Munster circuit; assistant barrister for co. Meath; bencher of King’s Inns 1849; succeeded as 3 baron Plunket 19 Oct. 1866. d. St. Valarey, Bray, co. Dublin 16 April 1871. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery. Irish Law times v 200 (1871); I.L.N. lviii 427 (1871).

PLUNKETT, Charles Dawson (3 son of 11 baron Louth 1757–1823). b. 1813; ensign 1 foot 11 Oct. 1833, lieut. col. 26 June 1866, retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. 18 Nov. 1868; served in Crimean war 1855; knight of the legion of honour 1857. d. Killiney, co. Dublin 19 May 1886.

PLUNKETT, James. Called to Irish bar 1826, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. 47 Mountjoy square, Dublin 5 Aug. 1872.

PLUNKETT, John Hubert (younger twin son of George Plunkett of Roscommon). b. Mount Plunkett, co. Roscommon June 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1826, went Connaught circuit; solicitor general of New South Wales Oct. 1831 to 1836, attorney general 1836–56; member of legislative council 1831–56; chairman of National school board 1848–56; retired on a pension 1856; member for Argyle in legislative assembly 1856; member of legislative council 1857–8, and president Jany. 1857 to Feb. 1858; president of the board of education to Feb. 1858; minister without a portfolio of the Martin government Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865; author of The Australian magistrate, or a guide to the duties of a justice of the peace, Sydney 1840, 4 ed. 1866; The magistrate’s pocket book 1859; On the evidence of accomplices 1863. d. Burlington terrace, East Melbourne 9 May 1869. bur. Sydney 15 May. Heads of the people, Sydney, i 93 (1847) portrait; P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 374.

PLUNKETT, Patrick. Called to Irish bar 1824; bencher of King’s Inns 1851 to death; judge of court of bankrupts and insolvents 1 Nov. 1857 to death. d. Kingstown, Dublin 31 July 1859.

PLUNKETT, Randal Edward Sherborne (1 son of 16 baron Dunsany 1808–89). b. Sherborne, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1848; educ. Eton 1862–5, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1872; took honours 3 class Mods 1869 and second law and history 1871; captain Gloucestershire rifle volunteers 8 July 1874; M.P. West Gloucestershire 1874–80. d. Madeira 25 Dec. 1883.

PLUNKETT, Thomas Oliver Westenra (2 son of 12 baron Louth 1809–49). b. 1 April 1838; ensign 1 foot 5 Jany. 1855, captain 20 May 1864, sold out 27 July 1866; served at siege of Sebastopol from 29 Aug. 1855, and in campaign in China 1860; resident magistrate at Cork 1866, divisional magistrate in charge of Cork, Kerry and Limerick 1881–6; assisted sir Redvers Buller in reorganising the constabulary patrols and the methods of criminal investigation; magistrate and divisional commissioner in Cork, Limerick and part of Kerry, the Ponsonby and Kingston estates were in Kerry, had much to do with evictions of tenants and the affair at Mitchelstown 1887; quelled disturbances at Youghall, Midleton and Cork; struck on the head while opposing a Plan of campaign meeting on the Ponsonby estate. d. Cork 6 Dec. 1880. bur. Louth 9 Dec. Times 7 Dec. 1889 p. 10, 10 Dec. p. 7, 11 Dec. p. 5.

POCHIN, Henry Davis (eld. son of William Pochin of Wigston, Leicester). b. 1824; studied chemistry at Pharmaceutical society’s laboratory London; head of firm of H. D. Pochin and Co. Salford; mayor of Salford 1866–8; contested Stafford 11 July 1865; M.P. Stafford 10 Nov. 1868 to March 1869, when unseated on petition; contested Stafford 3 Feb. 1874; contested Monmouth 6 Feb. 1874; member of Stafford school board March 1871; his process of decomposing silicate of alumina produced aluminous cake used by paper makers; discovered a method of distilling resin with steam at a high temperature, used for making yellow and fancy soaps; purchased coal, iron and steel industries, which he converted into limited liability companies; held large shares in Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., John Brown and Co., the Armour-plate makers of Sheffield, the Tredegar iron and coal Co., Palmer’s Shipbuilding and iron Co., and the Staveley iron and coal Co.; with sir Edward Watkin redeemed Metropolitan railway Co. from insolvency; a director of Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway Co.; m. 1852 Agnes, dau. of George Gretton Heap, she wrote The right of women to exercise the elective franchise 1855, 2 ed. 1873. d. Bodnant hall, Conway, Denbighshire 28 Oct. 1895. Times 2 Nov. 1895 p. 6.

POCKLINGTON, Evelyn Henry Frederick (3 son of Roger Pocklington of Carlton house, Notts. 1775–1847). b. 18 Jany. 1811; ensign 52 foot 10 Feb. 1829, captain 24 May 1839, placed on h.p. 13 July 1847; assistant Q.M.G. at headquarters 21 Sept. 1860 to 1 Jany. 1865; member of council of military education 1 Jany. 1865 to 1870; director general 1874 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 28 Rutland gate, London 10 Aug. 1879.

POCOCK, Alfred. b. 1821 or 1822; vice-president of liberal registration Southwark, assisted in formation of Southwark liberal association 1877, treasurer 1877, president 1878–88; first president of West Southwark liberal and radical association; a member of the St. George the martyr vestry 1861 to death; member of Metropolitan board of works for St. George the martyr, Southwark 1875 to death; claimed to be the inventor of the fire plug system and helped to secure the adoption of portable fire stations. d. Chairsholme, Palace road, Streatham 13 May 1887.

POCOCK, Frederick Pearce (youngest son of rev. George Pocock). b. 1819; educ. King’s coll. London, associate 1837; at St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of All Saints, Mile end, London 1842–4; chaplain of city of London union 1844–60; C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Great Portland st. London 1865–72; C. of St. Paul’s, Haggerston 1874–7; C. of Bartholomew the Great, London 1877–81; edited Bishop Burnet’s Pastoral care 1839; Dr. T. Bisse’s The Beauty of holiness in the common prayer 1842; John Bowdler’s Theological essays 1844. d. The Limes, St. Mark’s road, North Kensington 6 April 1889.

POCOCK, Sir George Bartholomew (son of Thomas Pocock, of Langley, Berks.) b. 1779; standard bearer to Band of gentleman pensioners 5 Sept. 1820 to May 1836; knighted at Whitehall 27 July 1821. d. 1 York st. Portman sq. London 11 Aug 1868. I.L.N. liii 187 (1868).

POCOCK, Isaac John Innes (only son of Isaac Pocock, painter and dramatist, of Ray lodge, Maidenhead 1782–1835) b. 28 July 1819; educ. Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; J.P. for Berks.; printed privately Franklin and other poems 1872. d. Curtisfield, Maidenhead 28 May 1886.

POCOCK, Lewis (youngest son of Thomas Pocock). b. South London 17 Jany. 1808; chief founder of Art union of London 1837, one of the honorary secretaries 1837 to death; contributed a bibliographical chapter to an edition of the Pilgrim’s progress, edited by himself and George Godwin 1844; a director of the Argus life assurance office many years; patented a scheme for electric lighting 1852; collected Johnsoniana, which were sold before his death; treasurer of the Graphic soc. some time; author of A familiar explanation of the nature of assurances upon lives, with an extensive bibliographical catalogue of works on the subject 1842. d. 70 Gower st. London 17 Oct. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. Graphic 23 Dec. 1882 p. 693 portrait.

PODMORE, Richard. b. 1780; entered Madras army 1793; lieut. 10 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, lieut. col. 1816–20; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 1820; lieut. col. commandant 44 N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1869; general 20 June 1854. d. Osborne house, Cheltenham 24 July 1870.

POGGI, Dominic Joseph. b. Tuscany 1811; ordained deacon in Church of England 1833; priest 1834; D.D. univ. of Florence 1838; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852; principal of Seacombe house school, near Liverpool 1852–3; principal of New Brighton college, Cheshire 1853–64; head master of Audlem endowed gr. sch. Cheshire 1870 to death; author of The various branches of the Catholic church 1868; Roman catechism, accompanied by a Catholic reply 1868; Reflections on the religious state of Italy 1868; The Roman council judged by the English bishops 1870; On the abrogation of concordats 1872; The old Catholics and the Anglican bishops 1872. d. Audlem 15 Oct. 1880.

POGSON, Norman Robert (son of George Owen Pogson of Nottingham, hosiery manufacturer). b. Nottingham 23 March 1829; calculated the orbits of two comets 1847; an assistant at the South Villa observatory, London 1851–2; assistant at Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 1852, where he discovered four minor planets, Amphitrite 2 March 1854, Isis 23 May 1856, Ariadne 15 April 1857, and Hestra 16 Aug. 1857; awarded Lalande medal of French academy for the discovery of Isis; assisted sir George Airy in his experiments for determining the mean density of the earth at the Horton colliery, Shields 1854; director of John Lee’s observatory at Hartwell 1859–60; government astronomer at Madras Oct. 1860 to death; discovered Asia and 4 other minor planets 1861–8, and 8 variable stars 1862–77; prepared a catalogue of stars for which 51,101 observations were made 1862–87; observed the total eclipse of the sun on 18 Aug. 1868 at Masulipatam and was the first to observe the bright line spectrum of the cornea; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Report of the government astronomers on the total eclipse of the sun, Madras 1868; Result of observations of the fixed stars made at Madras observatory, 2 vols. 1887–8. d. Madras 23 June 1891. Monthly notices Royal Astronomical soc. lii 235–8 (1892); Nature 2 July 1891 pp. 205–6.

POGSON, Wredenhall Queiros. b. 9 Dec. 1816; ensign Bengal army 1836; ensign 43 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, major 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 6 March 1868, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 23 Aug. 1884, general 22 Oct. 1889; served in Spain in the Anglo-Spanish legion 1836; served in the first Afghan war 1840–2, the Sutlej campaign 1846, and the Bhootan expedition 1864–6. d. St. Margaret’s place, Brighton 9 Sept. 1891.

POITEVIN, Monsieur. Went up sitting on a pony attached to a balloon; his wife posing as Europa went up on the back of a bull Aug. 1852; went up from Cremorne gardens in a balloon with 21 persons 20 Sept. 1852, the balloon came down and was blown along the ground for two miles, much hurting many of the passengers; ascended on a horse near Paris 1852; nearly drowned in the sea near Malaga while descending from his balloon 1858. d. 1858. Annual Register 1852 pp. 128, 147.

POLACK, Joel Samuel. b. London 28 March 1807; emigrated to New Zealand 1831; a ship chandler in the Bay of Islands 1832, purchased about 1,100 acres of land; returned to London May 1837; gave evidence before select committee of house of lords on New Zealand 1838; a member of the Colonial society of London 1838; lived latterly at San Francisco; author of New Zealand, a narrative of travels and adventures, 2 vols. 1838; Manners and customs of the New Zealanders, 2 vols. 1840. d. San Francisco 17 April 1882.

POLAND, Alfred (2 son of succeeding). b. London Aug. 1822; educ. at Highgate gram. sch.; at Guy’s hospital; articled pupil of Aston Key, paying £500; M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1845, assist. surgeon 1849, surgeon 1861, a most expert operator; gained Fothergill prize of Med. soc. of London 1853 and Jacksonian prize 1857; surgeon ophthalmic hospital, Moorfields, London; in practice at 42 Finsbury circus, London; F.M. and C. Soc. 1850; with G. H. Barlow edited Guy’s hospital reports sometime; contributed to T. Holmes’ System of surgery 1860 the articles Tetanus i 299–322, Animal poisons i 618–49, Injuries of the chest ii 340–87, and Urinary calculi and lithotomy iv 424–77. d. 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 21 Aug. 1872. Medical times and gazette ii 338–9 (1872); Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc. vii 135–6 (1875); Lancet 31 Aug. 1872 p. 318.

POLAND, Sir William Henry (son of Peter Raymond Poland of Highgate, Middlesex). b. 7 March 1797; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831, and as such knighted at St. James’s palace 9 March 1831. d. 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 17 Jany. 1884.

POLDING, John Bede. b. Liverpool 18 Nov. 1794; educ. St. Gregory’s coll. Downside, near Bath, and at Acton Burnell 1805–10; joined the Benedictine order 16 July 1810, ordained a priest 4 March 1819; tutor at St. Gregory’s college, March 1819; declined bishopric of Madras 1833; bishop of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land 2 May 1834, being consecrated bishop of Hiero-Cæserea 29 June 1834; arrived in Sydney 13 Sept. 1835, inaugurated 20 Sept.; employed on a special mission to Malta, made a count of the holy Roman empire and a bishop-assistant to the papal throne 20 July 1842; archbishop of Sydney 20 July 1842 to death; visited Europe 1841, 1846–8, 1854–6, and 1865–6; consecrated Dr. Murphy, bishop of Adelaide, the first bishop consecrated in Australia 8 Sept. 1844. d. the Sacred heart presbytery, Darlinghurst, Sydney 16 March 1877, twenty thousand people attended his funeral. Australian portrait gallery (1885) 79–84 portrait.

POLE, Arthur Cunliffe Van Notten (5 son of Charles Van Notten Pole 1772–1864, resumed name of Van Notten by R.L. 19 July 1853). b. 3 July 1806; ensign 63 foot 7 Nov. 1826, lieut. colonel 2 Sept. 1844 to 23 Dec. 1853; inspecting field officer of recruiting districts 23 Dec. 1853 to 13 Dec. 1859; colonel 63 foot 27 March 1868 to death; L.G. 9 April 1868. d. 66 Oxford terrace, Edgware road, London 21 Aug. 1873.

POLE, Edward (4 son of sir Peter Pole, 2 baronet 1770–1850). b. 26 Aug. 1805; cornet 12 lancers 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 30 March 1847, placed on h.p. 5 March 1861; colonel 5 lancers 22 Nov. 1868 to 1 Jany. 1872; colonel 12 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; commanded the cavalry and artillery in general Somerset’s expedition over the Kei 1851, and the 12 lancers in Kaffir war 1851–3; served in the Crimea from 9 May 1855. d. Poyle park, Tongham, Surrey 3 Feb. 1879.

POLE, Edward Sacheverell Chandos (1 son of Sacheverell Pole 1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807). b. 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college; ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The Squire. d. Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx 167 (1864); G.M. March 1863 p. 387.

POLE, William (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). b. 6 July 1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll. Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams 1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist 1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist 1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London 1866 to death. d. 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884. W. P. Courtney’s English whist (1894) 224, 398.

POLE-CAREW, William Henry (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P., d. 1835). b. St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854; recorder of East Looe 1857–86. d. Villa Poralto, Cannes 20 Jany. 1888.

POLEHAMPTON, Henry Stedman (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector of Great Greenford, Middlesex). b. Great Greenford rectory 1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb. coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to 30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849; an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the siege 8 July 1857. d. Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. bur. in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch. Shrewsbury. A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton, 3 ed. (1859).

POLES, Stefan. b. Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria; took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau, Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S. Poles v. The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum, a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63 High Holborn 1875. d. Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov. 1875. Times 26 Nov. 1875 p. 7.