PREEDY, George William (son of Robert Preedy of Hampton, Worcestershire). b. 1817; entered the royal navy 12 Nov. 1828; served in West Indies 1828–34; commander 10 Feb. 1853; served in Duke of Wellington in the Baltic 1854–5, and commanded gun boats in bombardment of Sveaborg; captain 29 Sept. 1855; commanded the Agamemnon and was concerned in laying the first transatlantic cable 1857–8; C.B. civil 22 Sept. 1858, C.B. military 2 June 1869; received captain’s good service pension 1867; put on retired list 1 April 1870; vice-admiral 30 Jany. 1879. d. Park house, Budleigh Salterton 30 May 1894. The Times 6 June 1894 p. 10.

PRENDERGAST, Harris (eld. son of general sir Jeffrey Prendergast of Newcastle Prendergast, Tipperary 1769–1856). b. Madras 1805; educ. East Sheen, Harrow 1816, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, LL.B. 1829; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1829, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death; equity draftsman and conveyancer; edited Court Circular, started 1856; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; author of The law relating to officers in the army 1849, 2 ed. 1855; and with J. Stewart The practice of conveyancing 1846. d. Brighton 30 Sept. 1878. Law Times lxv 424 (1878).

PRENDERGAST, Sir Jeffrey (son of Thomas Prendergast of Dublin). b. Clonmel 1769; entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 18 Madras N.I. 17 June 1800, major 4 Aug. 1812; military auditor general Madras army 3 Oct. 1812; lieut. col. 7 Madras N.I. 7 Nov. 1818 to 1819; lieut. col. 8 N.I. 1819; lieut. col. 39 N.I. 3 Jany. 1825, and col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. d. Brighton 4 July 1856.

PRENDERGAST, John Patrick (eld. son of Francis Prendergast 1768–1846, registrar of Irish court of chancery). b. 37 Dawson st. Dublin 7 March 1808; educ. Reading school and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1830; agent of lord Clifden’s estates 1836; a comr. for selecting papers relating to Ireland, which papers with rev. C. W. Russell he edited as Calendar of state papers, Ireland 1603–25, 5 vols. Record publications 1872–80; replied in the Nation newspaper 1872–4 to Froude’s lectures in America on Irish history; opposed Parnell’s general policy from 1878; edited C. Haliday’s The Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin 1884; author of The history of the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland 1863, 2 ed. 1870; The Tory war in Ulster, Dublin 1868; Ireland from the restoration to the revolution 1887. d. 127 Strand road, Sandymount, Dublin 6 Feb. 1894. Times 8 Feb. 1894 p. 4.

PRENDERGAST, Michael (son of Michael Prendergast). b. Cloth Fair, London 10 Aug. 1795; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1806, Parkins’ exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1821; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1820, bencher 1850 to death, went Norfolk circuit; recorder of Bedford 1846–8; recorder of Norwich Dec. 1848 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; judge of city of London, sheriff’s court April 1856 to death; revising barrister to 1856. d. Highgate rise 20 March 1859. Law Times xxxiii 19, 45, 78 (1859).

PRENDERGAST, Thomas (son of sir Jeffrey Prendergast 1769–1856). b. 1806; a writer in service of H.E.I. Co. 23 June 1826; acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore 1831; acting assistant judge at Guntoor 1833; assistant judge of Tinnevelly 8 Aug. 1834 to 1838; collector and magistrate at Rajahmundry, retired on the annuity fund 1859; resided at Cheltenham 1859 to death; became totally blind about 1861; invented the mastery system of learning languages based upon the process pursued by children in learning to speak; author of The mastery of languages, or the art of speaking foreign tongues idiomatically 1864, 3 ed. 1872; Handbook to the mastery series 1868, 5 ed. 1882; The mastery series, French 1868, 12 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Spanish 1869, 4 ed. 1875; The mastery series, German 1868, 8 ed. 1874; The mastery series, Hebrew 1871, 3 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Latin 1872, 5 ed. 1884. d. Meldon cottage, The Park, Cheltenham 14 Nov. 1886.

PRENTICE, Archibald (son of Archibald Prentice of Covington Mains, in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, farmer). b. Covington Mains 17 Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, Glasgow 1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner in the business on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a weekly paper entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed, published, and edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824, bankrupt 1826, the Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester Times 17 Oct. 1828, of which he was sole manager to 1847, when he sold the paper; chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at York hotel, Manchester 24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the Manchester gas office 1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester temperance league 1857; edited The life of Alexander Reid, a Scottish covenanter 1822; author of A tour in the United States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-law league 1853. d. Park view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24 Dec. 1857. A. Prentice’s Historical sketches of Manchester (1851); Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1889 pp. 435–43; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 204–8.

PRENTICE, Samuel (4 son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh, Essex). b. 1819; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843, bencher 20 Nov. 1866, and treasurer 1881; Q.C. 24 July 1866; county court judge of circuit No. 40, Bow and Shoreditch 14 Jany. 1884, resigned July 1892; a commissioner for municipal election enquiries; common law examiner in the inns of court 1879; recorder of Maidstone March 1879, resigned June 1892; edited J. F. Archibald’s Practice of the court of queen’s bench, 9 ed. 1855 to 13 ed. 1879; J. W. Smith’s An elementary view of the proceedings in an action at law 1857, and the editions to 1873; H. Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence 1858; Sir W. O. Russell’s A treatise on crime, 5 ed. 1877; C. Abbott’s A treatise of the law relating to merchant shipping, 12 ed. 1881; J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways, 12 ed. 1881; author of Proceedings in an action in the queen’s bench, etc. 1877, 2 ed. 1880; Procedure and evidence relating to indictable offences 1882. d. Greystoke, Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1893.

PRENTICE, Thomas Ridley. b. Paslow hall Ongar, Essex 6 July 1842; associate of royal academy of music; started the Monthly popular concerts at Brixton 1869, and the Kensington twopenny concerts 1880; organist of Ch. Ch. Lee; principal of Beckenham and Wimbledon schools of music: professor of pianoforte at Guildhall school of music Sept. 1880 to death; composer of The day is done, four part song 1866; Christmas, four part song 1869; Hear our prayer 0 heavenly father, an anthem 1874; Absence, reverie for the piano 1876; Linda, cantata for treble voices 1878; Short voluntary for a time of sorrow, organ 1882; edited W. Mason’s Touch and technic; J. C. Fillmore’s A history of pianoforte-music 1885; author of The musician, a guide for pianoforte students 1883–7, 2 ed. 1885–7. d. Wedderburn house, Wedderburn road, Hampstead 15 July 1895.

PRENTIS, Edward. b. 1797; exhibited two pictures at the R.A. 1823, and 3 pictures at first exhibition of Society of British artists 1825, member of the society 1826; his pictures entitled The wife and The daughter 1836, and A day’s pleasure 1841 were engraved; executed for trustees of British museum a series of drawings of the ivory objects found at Nimroud, these were engraved on wood by J. Thompson and published in Layard’s Monuments of Nineveh 1849. d. 11 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 22 Dec. 1854. Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855 p. 221, June p. 656.

PRENTIS, Stephen. b. 1801; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1830; resided Dinan, France many years, where he privately printed some small books 1843–58; author of An apology for lord Byron, with miscellaneous poems 1836; The wreck of the Roscommon 1844, a poem; Winter flowers 1849; The debtor’s dodge, or the miller and the bailiff 1852; Opuscala 1853; Æsop on the Danube 1853, a translation; Jeux d’esprit on the Russian war 1854–5. d. Dinan 12 June 1862.

PRESCOTT, Arthur. Cornet 2 Bombay light cavalry 1 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1858 to 5 Sept. 1861; colonel 1 Bombay light cavalry 5 Sept. 1861 to 1865; major general. d. near London 23 May 1866.

PRESCOTT, Sir Henry (son of admiral Isaac Prescott 1737–1830). b. Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796; commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July 1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23 Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May 1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde park, London 18 Nov. 1874. Prowse’s History of Newfoundland (1895) 448 portrait; I.L.N. lxv 252 (1874), lxvi 23 (1875).

PRESCOTT, Henry James (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). b. 5 July 1802; banker London; director of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor 1849–50. d. Brighton 13 Aug. 1856.

PRESCOTT, William. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut. col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3 N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept. 1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col. of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. d. Genoa 2 Dec. 1876.

PRESCOTT, William George (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). b. 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott, Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April 1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under £250,000, 3 June 1865. Times 3 May 1865 p. 5, 4 May p. 11.

PRESS, Edward (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) b. Barnham Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56, and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death, d. Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. Norwich Mercury 18 May 1878 p. 5.

PRESSLY, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Pressly). b. Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex; sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849; deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to 1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. d. 1 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880.

PREST, Charles. b. Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull 1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death; president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit 1864. d. Lee, Kent 25 Aug. 1875. Illust. Times 23 Aug. 1862 p. 269 portrait; I.L.N. xli 204 (1862) portrait.

PREST, Edward (eld. son of John Prest). b. 1824; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; chaplain to Sherburn hospital 1851–7, and master 1857–61; hon. canon of Durham cath. Dec. 1860 to 1863; R. of St. Mary’s, Gateshead, and master of King James’ hospital 6 May 1862 to 1881; official of the dean and chapter of Durham 1880; resident canon and archdeacon of Durham 1863 to death; member of Gateshead sch. board 28 Nov. 1870, then vice-chairman; R. of Ryton-on-Tyne 1881 to death. d. Ryton rectory 26 Oct. 1882.

PREST, Edward Henry. Educ. Durham sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., rowed stroke oar in the Cambridge boat against Oxford 1878, and bow oar 1879 and 1880; won the university pairs with H. R. Jones 1880; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1884; assistant master of Repton sch. 1880–7; head master of Barnard Castle sch. Durham 1887 to death. d. Barnard Castle 18 Oct. 1893.

PREST, Thomas Peckett. Author of a romance entitled The string of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May 26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey 1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844; The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846; The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins 1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the secret robbers of Bohemia 1852.

PRESTON, Benjamin (son of a hand loom weaver). b. Bradford 10 Aug. 1819; a wool sorter and comber; a publican at Bingley common May 1865; called the Burns of Bradford; author of The dialect poems of Benjamin Preston, Saltaire 1872 with a memoir and portrait; Dialect and other poems 1881. S. Baring Gould’s Yorkshire oddities i 267–79 (1874).

PRESTON, Charles James (4 son of Richard T. Preston of Liverpool). b. Rodney st. Liverpool 1818; educ. Downing coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1843; practised in Liverpool many years, also acting as deputy stipendiary magistrate; stipendiary magistrate for Birkenhead 18 May 1866, resigned 1893. d. 9 Southwick place, Hyde park, London 9 May 1896. Law Times 16 May 1896 p. 73.

PRESTON, Sir George (son of W. Preston, first comr. of court of appeals in Ireland). b. Gloucester st. Dublin 1800; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by the marquess Wellesley in Dublin 1833; captain 4 Lancashire militia 1855–9. d. 37 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin May 1870.

PRESTON, James Blair. Assistant surgeon Madras army 1821, surgeon 27 Sept. 1833; inspector general of hospitals 14 Feb. 1854; surgeon general Madras 1 Jany. 1855, physician general 12 Feb. 1856 to death. d. near Southampton 28 June 1858.

PRESTON, Sir John (son of Alexander Preston of Dunyrewn, Loughgall, Belfast). b. 12 Jany. 1817; educ. Loughgall school; linen and yarn merchant 20 Callender st. Belfast as J. Preston and Co.; president of Belfast chamber of commerce; mayor of Belfast 1877 and 1878; knighted 8 Jany. 1878. d. Dunmore, Belfast 4 Aug. 1890.

PRESTON, Joseph M. b. 22 Aug. 1864; a professional cricketer; played in the Yorkshire eleven for several seasons; a member of the Shrewsbury team which visited Australia 1887–8; a good batsman and a fast bowler. d. Bradford 26 Nov. 1890.

PRESTON, Matthew Morris. b. 1781 or 1782; fellow of Trin. coll. Camb. to 1826, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; kept a school at Aspenden hall, Herts. 1813–25, where lord Macaulay, Henry Maiden and other eminent men were his pupils; V. of Cheshunt, Herts. 14 April 1826 to death: author of The benefit of scriptural instruction, illustrated in the case of two beloved sons 1837; Sermons addressed chiefly to young persons 1837, 2 ed. 1860; Memoranda of Charles Simeon 1840; Parochial lectures on the book of Josiah 1840; Cheshunt collection of psalms and hymns 1850; Sermons 1859. d. 18 April 1858. bur. in Cheshunt churchyard, the five-light east window in the church was erected to his memory.

PRESTON, Robert Berthon. b. Liverpool 25 June 1820; educ. Geneva; principal partner in firm of Fawcett, Preston & Co., mechanical engineers, Liverpool, made engines for many steamboats, sugar machinery, and rifled guns; M.I.C.E. 1855; member of Royal southern and Mersey yacht clubs; a patron of art; made a collection of modern and antique art; J. Gibson’s tinted Venus was executed expressly for him 1850–5. d. Gloucester 9 April 1860. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx 157 (1861).

PRESTON, William Richard. b. 1 Oct. 1808; ensign 87 foot 24 Sept. 1829, lieut. 22 Feb. 1833; lieut. 22 foot 1834–9; captain 45 foot 5 Jany. 1841, lieut. col. 1 May 1861, retired on full pay 31 July 1867; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1878; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel of the Queen’s Own (royal West Kent regiment) 28 Feb. 1888 to 5 Oct. 1890; colonel of the Royal Munster fusiliers 5 Oct. 1890 to death. d. 6 The Esplanade, Plymouth 6 April 1892.

PRESTWICH, Sir Joseph (son of Joseph Prestwich of London). b. Pensbury, Clapham, near London 12 March 1812; educ. in Paris and Univ. coll. London; wine merchant in city of London to 1872; F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1849, president 1870–2; F.R.S. 2 June 1853, royal medallist 1865, vice-president 1870–1; served on the royal coal commission 1866, and on the royal commission on water supply 1867; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. 1874; name placed in Ch. Ch. Oxf. matriculation register 3 Nov. 1874; M.A. by decree 11 Nov. 1874; professor of geology at Oxford 29 June 1874 to death; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’ company 4 April 1878; corresponding member of French academy of sciences 1885; honorary D.C.L. Oxford 1888; president of the Congrès géologique international, which held its fourth session in London Sept. 1888; knighted by patent 20 January 1896; author of The geology of the water-bearing strata around London 1851; The geology of Clapham and neighbourhood of London 1858; and of Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphical, 2 vols. Oxford 1886–8. d. Shoreham, Kent 23 June 1896. Times 24 June 1896 p. 7; G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870) portrait xiv; I.L.N. 11 Jany. 1896 p. 52 portrait.

PRETTEJOHN, Richard Buckley. b. 10 March 1815; cornet 4 light dragoons 23 Feb. 1838; lieut. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. 14 light dragoons 3 April 1841, captain 17 Sept. 1850; served in the South Mahratta campaign 1844, the war in the Punjab 1848–9, the Persian war 1857, and the Indian mutiny 1857–8; major 18 hussars 5 July 1864, lieut. col. 14 June 1873, retired on full pay 1 April 1876; M.G. 20 March 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; colonel 13 hussars 1 July 1890 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Exmouth 4 Jany. 1891.

PRETTY, Edward. b. Hollingbourne, Kent 5 March 1792; drawing master Rugby school 1809–29; a miniature painter at Northampton 1829–58; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. London 1811–37; curator of the Charles’ museum, Chillington house, Maidstone 1858 to death; assist. sec. Kent, archæological soc.; F.S.A. 31 May 1859; member of British archæol. assoc. 1843; author of A guide to Northampton. d. Chillington house 4 Aug. 1865. bur. Maidstone cemetery, left his books and paintings to the Charles’ museum, and his coins to the rev. Beale Poste. G.M. Oct. 1865 p. 516; C. R. Smith’s Collectanea vi 311–14 (1868); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxii 325–6 (1866).

PRETYMAN, George Thomas (2 son of George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln and Winchester, who assumed in 1803 additional surname of Tomline 1750–1827). b. the deanery house, Dean’s court, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 5 April 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814; chancellor of cathedral church of Lincoln 15 April 1814 to death; R. of Wheathampstead with Harpenden, Herts. 1814 to death; prebend. of Lincoln 11 April 1814 to death; P.C. of Nettleton, Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1817 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 1 Sept. 1825 to death; his income from ecclesiastical sources seems to have been upwards of £6,250. d. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 June 1859. G.M. vii 190 (1859).

PREVOST, Sir George, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost 1767–1816, governor general of Canada). b. Roseau, Dominica 20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death; rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death; archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84 of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. d. Stinchcombe 18 March 1893. H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii 37, 280 (1894); Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p. 9 portrait.

PREVOST, George Phipps (eld. son of sir George Prevost, 2 baronet 1804–93). b. 10 Nov. 1830; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852; ensign 85 foot 26 Aug. 1853; lieut. 25 foot 26 Jany. 1855, adjutant 9 Oct. 1855 to 21 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Sept. 1870, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; brevet colonel 3 Sept. 1875; assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general home district 7 Aug. 1880 to death. d. Chart lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 March 1885.

PREVOST, James Charles (only son of James Prevost, rear-admiral 1771–1855). b. 31 July 1810; entered navy 1829; lieut. 10 Dec. 1835; captain 17 April 1854, R.A. 16 Sept. 1869, retired 1 April 1870, admiral 9 Jany. 1880; first comr. for marking boundary between Vancouver island and Oregon 1856–62; superintendent of naval establishment at Gibraltar 1864–9; employed on the San Juan boundary question 1871–3; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 6 Sept. 1877. d. 133 Ebury st. London 28 Jany. 1891.

PREVOST, John Lewis (son of professor Prevost, d. Geneva 27 June 1796). Came to England 1814; vice-consul of Swiss confederation in London 1818, and consul general at 24a Gresham st. city of London from 1830; F.G.S., treasurer 1843 to death; resided at 3 Suffolk place, Pall Mall East, London. d. Geneva 4 Nov. 1852. Quarterly journal of geological society ix 25 (1853).

PREVOST, Louis Augustine. b. Troyes, Champagne 6 June 1796; educ. at a college in Versailles; came to England and became tutor in the family of Wm. Young Ottley 1823; taught languages in London 1823–43; learnt 40 languages, including most of the European languages and many Asiatic; employed at the British Museum cataloguing the Chinese books 1843–55. d. Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 25 April 1858. bur. Highgate cemet. 30 April. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 358–62; G.M. July 1858 p. 87.

PREVOST-PARADOL, Lucien Anatole (only son of Madame Lucinde Prevost-Paradol 1798–1843, actress). b. Paris 8 July 1829; eminent littérateur; lectured in English in Edinburgh 1869; sent letters to The Times on French politics from A Parisian Correspondent to 1869; French minister at Washington 12 June 1870; author of many works including, Jonathan Swift, sa vie et ses œuvres 1856; France, an address, Edinb. 1869; shot himself at Washington 11 Aug. 1870. Newspaper Press iv 194 (1870); Appleton’s American biography v 116 (1888).

PRIAULX, OR DE PREAUX, Osmond de Beauvoir (2 son of Antony de Preaux). b. Guernsey 5 March 1805; educ. Catherine hall, Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 19 April 1832; the last survivor of the original members of the Reform club, an active member of committee; author of Outlines of a system of national education 1834; National education 1837; Quaestiones Mosaicae, or the first book of Moses compared with the remains of ancient religions, 2 ed. 1854; The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana and the Indian embassies to Rome 1873. d. 8 Cavendish sq. London 15 Jany. 1891, left his library to the college at Guernsey with money for its continued support.

PRICE, Andrew (son of Roger Price of Leigh, Essex). b. Lee, Kent 23 July 1754; educ. Magd. coll. Oxf., chorister 1767–72, usher of the school 1772–88; B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778; ordained deacon 22 Sept. 1776, priest 20 Dec. 1778; chaplain of Ch. Ch. Oxf. and of bishop Warner’s coll. at Bromley 1778–1800; R. of Britwell Salome, Gloucs. 1782 to death; V. of Down Ampney, Gloucs. 1778 to death. d. Britwell Salome 7 June 1851.

PRICE, Annie, her maiden name was Annie Allen. b. County Tyrone, Ireland 1842; weighed 245 lbs. in 1856, afterwards scaled 525 lbs., fell to 400 before her death; travelled with Adam Forepaugh’s circus in U.S. of America; exhibited in the museums about Gotham, New York; m. (1) Mr. Pettit, who died leaving her with 2 children; m. (2) at 210 Bowery, New York an Albino. d. New York Nov. 1889, lay in state in an ice box at 19 Bayard st. New York. bur. Greenwood cemetery.

PRICE, Astley Paston (3 son of Dr. Price of Margate). b. 1826; studied chemistry at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and took the Ph.D. degree; studied in Paris under Théopile J. Pelouze; assistant to Dr. August W. Hofman at Royal college of chemistry, London 1845; held an appointment in the School of mines; chemist in the silver works of Dillwyn and Co. Swansea 1851–7; a consulting chemist in London from 1857; had much practice in chemical patent cases, conducted the case Young v. Fernie in which the validity of Young’s patent for making parafine oil was maintained; took out patents for manufacture of sugar, the treatment of metals and ores, the distillation of carbonaceous materials and the treatment of sewage; F.C.S.; A.I.C.E. 23 May 1865. d. Margate 3 April 1886. Report on Forbes and Price’s patent process for deodorizing sewage of towns (1871); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii 458–60 (1886).

PRICE, Benjamin (eld. son of Isaac Price of Builth). b. Wales 1804; in a business house in Worcester to 1822; a presbyterian minister 1830; minister of a Free church, Christ church, Ilfracombe 1845 to death; the various Free churches of England united in 1863 and he was elected the first bishop president and consecrated in London Aug. 1876 by bishop Cridge of the Reformed episcopal church in America. d. Horne villa, Ilfracombe 6 Jany. 1896.

PRICE, Bonamy (eld. son of Frederick Price of St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey). b. St. Peter’s Port 22 May 1807; educ. Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar 1828–35, double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; mathematical master at Rugby 1830, classical master 1832–8, in charge of the form known as The Twenty 1838–50; served on the commissions on Scottish fisheries, the queen’s colleges in Ireland, agriculture and the depression of trade; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 6 Feb. 1868 to death; president of economical section of Social science congress at Cheltenham 1878 and Nottingham 1882; honorary fellow of Worcester coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; author of Suggestions for the extension of professorial teaching in the university of Oxford 1850; The principles of currency, six lectures delivered at Oxford 1869; Currency and banking 1876; Chapters on practical political economy 1878, 2 ed. 1882. d. London 8 Jany. 1888. Temple Bar Aug. 1888 pp. 494–508; I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 p. 58 portrait.

PRICE, Charles (eld. son of Thomas Price, vicar of Merriott, near Crewkerne, Somerset). b. Merriott 1776; educ. Ilminster and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, M.B. 1802, M.D. 1804; fellow of his college to 1821; admitted candidate of coll. of physicians 1 Oct. 1804, fellow 30 Sept. 1805, censor 1807, delivered the Harveian oration 1820; physician to Middlesex hospital 19 June 1807 to 16 May 1815, practised at Brighton 1815 to death; physician extraordinary to William 4, 23 Aug. 1832. d. Brighton 8 Sept. 1853. Munk’s Roll of coll. of Physicians iii 25 (1878).

PRICE, David. b. 1790; entered navy 1 Jany. 1801; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; captain 13 June 1815; commanded the Portland in the Mediterranean 1834–8; granted the order of the Redeemer of Greece; superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 1846–50; R.A. 6 Nov. 1850; commander-in-chief in the Pacific 17 Aug. 1853 to death; shot himself on board the President, 50 guns, off Petropaulovski in Kamchatka 30 Aug. 1854. bur. on shore on the opposite side of the bay 1 Sept. A.R. (1854) 403, Part ii pp. 199, 540.

PRICE, Edward. b. 10 June 1816; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1834, colonel 31 Aug. 1865, col. commandant 27 June 1883 to death; inspector and purchaser of horses for the remounts of the R.A. 4 April 1865 to 31 March 1876; M.G. 28 June 1868, L.G. 27 May 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. 13 Gledhow gardens, South Kensington, London 13 Aug. 1887.

PRICE, Edward. b. 1840; a printer in Birmingham; a member of Mrs. Jessie Pollock’s stock company in Aberdeen where he became a favourite; a member of Chatterton’s company at Drury Lane; m. Emma Ryder, dau. of Mrs. Pollock by her first husband Corbet Ryder; with his wife lessees of the old theatre Marischal st. Aberdeen 1869–73, where he produced Little Em’ly (in which he acted with success Micawber). The Rivals, and The Prompter’s box; travelled with Isabel Batemen’s company; acted at Greenock John Grist in Jane Shore, Cheal in The Profligate, and David Deans in Jeanie Deans. d. from a fracture of his ankle Greenock infirmary 8 Feb. 1895. bur. Greenock. J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house, Aberdeen (1878) 49; Life of E. L. Blanchard i 272, 340, ii 490, 722 (1891).

PRICE, George Uvedale. b. 3 April 1821; ensign 1 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1840, captain 5 July 1849; captain 3 Bombay European regiment 15 Nov. 1853, major 16 July 1864; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. d. St. Leonard’s 7 Dec. 1891.

PRICE, James. b. 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; from an early age a contributor to the Dublin evening packet, with which he was officially connected, for many years as editor, 1838 to death. d. Dublin 14 Jany. 1853. The Evening Packet 15 Jany. 1853 p. 3.

PRICE, James (son of Robert Price, vicar of Shoreham, Kent). b. 1804; landscape painter; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 7 at B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1842–76. d. 14 Woodland villas, Blackheath, Kent 23 June 1879.

PRICE, James. Formed a collection of pictures at his residence, Barcombe, Paignton, Devon chiefly of the early English school, these 91 pictures were sold at Christie’s 15 June 1895 and produced £87,143 15s., Gainsborough’s portrait of Lady Mulgrave brought 10,000 guineas, Turner’s Helvoetsluys made 6,400 guineas, and Reynold’s Lady Melbourne fetched 2,300 guineas; the dispersion of this, the finest collection of the kind ever in the market, excited great interest and the bidding was so rapid that the sale occupied only three hours; his books were sold by auction on 25–28 June 1895. d. 25 Berkeley sq. London 23 Jany. 1895, will proved for £149,382. Times 15 June 1895 p. 11; Athenæum 22 June 1895 p. 813–4; Catalogue of collection of pictures formed by J. Price (1895) with 60 illustrations.

PRICE, James (2 son of James Price of Newton park, Monkstown). b. 18 Jany. 1831; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851; engineer in chief of the Midland great western railway of Ireland 1862–77; one of three engineers to report on the purification of the Liffey 1874; an engineer in Dublin from 1877 to death; reported to government on light railways and tramways in Ireland; deputy professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1887; president of Institution of civil engineers, Ireland 1895; M.I.C.E. England 1 March 1870, Telford medal and premium for a paper On the testing of rails 1871, and a second Telford medal for a paper on Movable bridges 1879; introduced the bascule bridge into Ireland. d. Dublin 4 April 1895. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxi 327–9 (1895).

PRICE, John (4 son of sir Rose Price, 1 baronet of Trengwainton, near Penzance 1768–1834). b. 20 Oct. 1808; a settler on the Huon river in Van Diemen’s land 1835; an adept in recapturing bushrangers; police magistrate at Hobart Town 1838–46; presented with a service of plate value £300; chief superintendent of the convict settlement at Norfolk Island 1846–53; inspector general of penal establishments and hulks in Victoria 5 June 1854 to death; struck down with a shovel and struck with stones by the convicts employed on the jetty at Williamstown, near Melbourne 26 March 1857. d. in Dr. Wilkin’s house 27 March 1857, seven of the convicts were executed for taking part in this murder. Biographical memoir of the late Mr. John Price (1857).

PRICE, John Edward. In business in Cowcross st. City of London some years; well known archæologist, especially interested in the Roman occupation of London; F.S.A. 25 May 1871; author of A descriptive account of the Guildhall of the city of London 1886; and with F. G. Hilton Price A description of the remains of Roman buildings at Morton near Brading in the Isle of Wight 1881; resided 27 Bedford place, London. d. Harvey road, Leytonstone about 25 Jany. 1892. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xiv 135 (1891–3).

PRICE, Morton, (stage name of Horton Rhys). b. 1823 or 1824; an amateur actor; went to America with his wife Catherine Lucette 1859; appeared at the Metropolitan, New York 23 May 1859 as Citizen Sangfroid in Delicate Ground, and Pierre Chase in All’s fair in love and war, when he failed to please his audience; concluded his theatrical tour through Canada 15 Dec. 1859; played in the English provinces 1860–8; gave, with his wife, a musical entertainment called A double courtship at Sadler’s Wells 27 Sept. 1862; lessee of a small hall, called a theatre, in Brooklyn, New York 1868; attacked the actors and managers of America in an English journal over the nom de plume of “Imported Sparrow”; author of A theatrical trip for a wager, through Canada and the United States 1861. d. Birmingham 8 May 1876.

PRICE, Peter (brother of Benjamin Price). b. Builth, Breconshire 16 Feb. 1824; with a builder at Tredegar; a builder at Builth; head of firm of Price and Dicksee, builders and contractors, Cardiff; an advocate of the Free public library act 1853; hon. sec. of the Free library, Cardiff, the first in Wales 1861–74; member of the town council 1886; sec. of Cardiff building soc., the cashier made away with £10,000 of the money, Price gave up nearly the whole of his property to meet the deficiency; a member of the school board 5 years. d. 12 Windsor place, Cardiff 4 Oct. 1892. bur. Cardiff cemetery 7 Oct. The Accountant 15 Oct. 1892 p. 776; South Wales Daily News 5 Oct. 1892 p. 6 portrait, 8 Oct. p. 6.

PRICE, Peter Charles (son of David Price of Margate, surgeon and M.D.) b. Margate 29 Dec. 1832; educ. Chatham house, Ramsgate; entered at royal college of chemistry, London 1849; studied medicine at King’s college 1850; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant to William Fergusson 1854; a consulting surgeon 7 Green st. Grosvenor sq. London from 1858; surgeon to Blenheim free dispensary, to the Great northern hospital, and to infirmary for Sick children at Margate; assistant surgeon at King’s college hospital 1860 to death; made a special study of excision of the knee joint; competed for the Jacksonian prize essay of the college of surgeons on A description of the diseased conditions of the knee which requires amputation of the limb, his essay refused by three ignorant surgeons; author of Contributions to the surgery of diseased joints 1859, No. 1 only; On scrofulous diseases of the external lymphatic glands 1861; The winter climate of Mentone, with hints to invalids 1862. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 13 Nov. 1864. A description of the diseased condition of the knee joint which requires amputation (1865), memoir pp. xiii–xix portrait; Medical times and gazette ii 608–10 (1864).

PRICE, Ralph. b. 8 Feb. 1780; master of Ironmongers’ co. 1834 and 1837. d. Sydenham 3 April 1860.

PRICE, Sir Richard Green-, 1 Baronet (son of George Green 1769–1819). b. Cannon bridge, Madely, Herefordshire 18 Oct. 1803; practised as solicitor 34 years; assumed the name of Price 28 Feb. 1861; treasurer of Radnorshire 1850–61; M.P. Radnor boroughs April 1863 to Feb. 1869; contested Radnorshire 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. co. Radnor 1880–5; created a baronet 23 March 1874; sheriff of Radnorshire 1876. d. Norton manor, Presteign, Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1887. bur. Norton 14 Aug.

PRICE, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Uvedale Price, 1 baronet 1747–1829). b. Foxley, co. Hereford 3 Aug. 1786; M.P. co. Hereford 1818–41; M.P. city of Hereford 1845 to Jany. 1857; succeeded his father 14 Sept. 1829. d. 11 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 5 Nov. 1857.

PRICE, Walter. b. Ruddington, Notts. 9 Oct. 1834; played in the Notts’ cricket eleven 1869–70; member of the ground staff at Lords’ 1868–76; cricket coach at Rugby 1876; one of the regular umpires of the Marylebone cricket club latterly. d. 4 Sept. 1894.

PRICE, William. b. near Rhydri, near Caerphilly, Glamorganshire 4 March 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and the London hospitals; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1821; in practice at Treforest and then at Llantrissant, near Cardiff; joined the Chartist agitation of Nov. 1839, after the defeat of John Frost escaped to France disguised as a woman; studied ancient Welsh literature so assiduously that his mind became weakened, imagined that he was the archdruid in direct descent from Treharne Brydydd, who flourished in 1300; on his head he wore a whole fox skin, the head ears and tail included, he had light green trousers, a scarlet vest with gold buttons, and a light green cloak deeply scolloped around the border; took Gwenllian Llewellyn to be his housekeeper and wife 1882, named his son Iesus Grist, the son dying he attempted to cremate the body at the High Green fields near Llantrissant, the police interfered and took him into custody, tried at Cardiff assizes where Mr. Justice Stephen ruled that he had not violated any law and he was discharged; spent much money in litigation; had two other children Iesus Grist and Penelopen Elizabeth. d. Ty Cletar, near Llantrissant 23 Jany. 1893, his body cremated at Cae’r Llan hill 31 Jany. in presence of many people, the ashes distributed over the ground, personal estate sworn under £100. Western Mail, Cardiff 24 Jany. 1893 p. 6 portrait, 25 Jany. p. 6, 27 Jany. p. 7, 1 Feb. p. 6 two views of cremation, likenesses of widow and 2 children; Graphic xxix 100 (1884) portrait; I.L.N. 4 Feb. 1893 p. 138 portrait; Black and White 4 Feb. 1893 p. 154 portrait; Times 25 Jany. 1893 p. 6, 1 Feb. p. 10; Law Reports, Queen’s bench division xii 247–56 (1884).

PRICE, William Edwin (only son of William Philip Price, railway commissioner). b. 10 Jany. 1841; educ. Eton 1850–6; matric. from univ. of London 1857, B.A. 1859; at royal military academy Woolwich; lieut. 36 regt., retired Feb. 1865; capt. Royal south Gloucester militia 27 Dec. 1867, major 21 June 1880 to death; M.P. Tewkesbury 1868–80; M.P. Tewkesbury April 1880 but election declared void. d. Tibberton, near Gloucester 10 Feb. 1886. Times 11 Feb. 1886 p. 12.

PRICE, William Philip (son of William Price of Gloucester). b. 1817; a timber merchant of Gloucester and Grimsby, the firm being Price, Walker and Co. limited; sheriff of Gloucester 1848; M.P. city of Gloucester 1852–9; M.P. Gloucester 30 April 1859, unseated on petition; M.P. Gloucester 1865–73; deputy chairman of Midland railway 1864–70, chairman 1870, resigned May 1873; a railway commissioner 2 Aug. 1873 to death. d. Tibberton court, near Gloucester 31 March 1891.

PRICHARD, Henry (son of George Prichard of Clapham, Surrey, solicitor). b. 1811; educ. Dr. Burney’s school, Greenwich; admitted solicitor 1834; secretary to Society for suppression of vice, London 1836–69; chief clerk to V.C. sir Richard Malins 1869 to death. d. 14 Stanley gardens, Kensington park, London 5 March 1873. Law Times liv 409 (1873).

PRICHARD, Iltudus Thomas (5 son of James Cowles Prichard, M.D. of Bristol). b. 16 Dec. 1826; educ. Rugby 1843; ensign 15 Bengal N.I. 16 April 1846, lieut. 15 Nov. 1848 to 1859; edited the Delhi gazette with great success; a pleader in the high court at Agra; barrister G.I. 9 June 1865; author of How to manage it, a novel, 3 vols. 1864; The mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the mutiny at Nusseerabad, with residence at Jodhpore 1860; The administration of India from 1859 to 1868, 2 vols. 1869; The chronicles of Budgepore, or sketches of life in Upper India, 2 vols. 1870; translated and supplemented J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871. d. Dera Doon, Himalayas 23 Dec. 1874.

PRICKETT, Lancelot George (son of Thomas Prickett of Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. 15 Dec. 1856; educ. Engineering coll. at Cooper’s hill 1875, fellow 1878; assistant engineer in public works department, India 1879; his service lent to the Indian midland railway co. 1887; assistant sec. to government in the railway branch of public works department May 1892 to death; executive engineer Nov. 1892; a member of Calcutta light horse; hon. sec. to Simla Fine arts club; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1883. d. Calcutta 27 Feb. 1895. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxii 399–400 (1895).

PRIDEAUX, Charles Grevile (son of Neast Grevile Prideaux, solicitor, Bristol). b. 19 Dec. 1810; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. and M.T. 2 May 1836; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 11 Jany. 1867 to death, and treasurer 1884; recorder of Helston June 1868 to Nov. 1876; recorder of Exeter 15 Nov. 1876 to Dec. 1879; recorder of Bristol Dec. 1879, with a salary of £500 a year, to death; author of A practical guide to the duties of church-wardens 1841, 16 ed. 1895; The act to amend the law for the registration of voters 1843, 2 ed. 1851. d. Holland lodge, Portland terrace, Regent park, London 18 June 1892.

PRIDEAUX, Fanny Ash (2 dau. of Richard Ball, of Portland House, Kingsdown, Gloucestershire). m. at Clifton 14 April 1853 Frederick Prideaux; author of Claudia, a poem 1865; The nine days’ queen, a dramatic poem 1869; Philip Molesworth and other poems 1886; Basil the Iconoclast, a drama of modern Russia 1892. d. Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 2 Sept. 1894.

PRIDEAUX, Frances Helen. b. 1858; educ. Queen’s coll. London; matriculated at univ. of London 1878, honor division; educ. at London sch. of medicine for women, demonstrator of anatomy there; gained exhibition and gold medal of anatomy at intermediate M.B. exam. of London univ. 1881; took honours in each subject in final M.B. exam. 1884; B.S. 1884; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1883; for sometime at the Royal free hospital; assist. physician to the New hospital for women, Marylebone road, London; house surgeon at the Paddington hospital for children Oct. 1885 to her death. d. of diphtheria 22 Woburn sq. London 29 Nov. 1885, a sum of money raised to found a Prideaux prize. Lancet 5 Dec. 1885 p. 1063, 19 Dec. p. 1174.

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

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

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

PRIDHAM, William. b. Plymouth 1795; one of the 4 original projectors of the Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald 1820, editor for sometime. d. Plymouth Oct. 1870.

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

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

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

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

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

PRIMROSE, Archibald (elder son of 4 earl of Rosebery 1783–1868). b. Bixley hall, Norfolk 2 Oct. 1809; styled lord Dalmeny from 1814; M.P. Stirling district of burghs 1832–47; one of lords of admiralty 25 April 1835 to 8 Sept. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Linlithgow 1844. d. Dalmeny park, co. Linlithgow 23 Jany. 1851. G.M. xxxv 433 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 75 (1851).

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

PRINCE, George. b. 1848; with his brother James Prince trained horses at Astley house, Lewes for Capt. Bayley and others. d. Astley house, Lewes 21 July 1889. bur. Lewes cemetery 25 July. The Sportsman 22 July 1889 p. 2, 23 July p. 2, 26 July p. 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PRIOR, Charles. b. 1805; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 13 April 1824; colonel Bengal infantry 17 Sept. 1871; general 20 Aug. 1878. d. 21 April 1881.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PROCTER, Bryan Waller (son of Nicholas Procter, d. 1816). b. Leeds 21 Nov. 1787; educ. at Finchley and Harrow under the name of William Bryan Procter 1801 etc. in company with sir R. Peel and Byron; articled to Nathaniel Atherton of Calne, Wiltshire, a solicitor; in a conveyancer’s office in London; resided in London from 1807; solicitor in partnership with Wm. Henry Slaney 1817–23; contributed about 200 poems to the Literary Gazette under name of Barry Cornwall from 1815; a friend of Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb; his tragedy of Mirandola produced at Covent Garden theatre 9 Jany 1821, ran 16 nights; barrister G.I. 4 May 1831, had many pupils in conveyancing; a metropolitan comr. in lunacy 12 Sept. 1832, retired on pension Feb. 1861, honorary comr. Feb. 1861 to death; edited The works of Ben Jonson, with memoir 1838; The works of Shakespeare, with memoir and essay on his genius 1840; edited with John Forster Selections from the poetical works of R. Browning 1873; author under pseudonym of Barry Cornwall of Dramatic scenes and other poems 1819, 2 ed. 1820; Marcian Colonna, a tale 1820; A Sicilian story 1820, 3 ed. 1821; Poetical works, 3 vols. 1822; The flood of Thessaly 1823; Effigies poeticæ or the portraits of the British poets 1824; English songs 1832, 3 ed. 1851; The life of Edmund Kean 1835; Charles Lamb, a memoir 1866. d. 32 Weymouth st. London 4 Oct. 1874. bur. Finchley cemetery. Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), an autobiographical fragment (1877) preface signed C. P.[atmore]; T. H. Wade’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 489–94 (1883); Wm. Howitt’s Homes and Haunts ii 447–51 (1847); The living poets of England (Paris 1827) ii 539–62; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (4 ed. 1876) 475–87; A. H. Miles’ Poets i 351–62 (1891); I.L.N. lxv 353 (1874) portrait; Graphic x 367 (1874) portrait.