PROCTER, Richard Wright. b. Paradise Vale, Salford, Lancs. 19 Dec. 1816; a barber in Long-Millgate, Manchester to his death; established a circulating library in his house 1840; sent verses to the Manchester and Salford Advertiser under name of Sylvan; author of Gems of thought and flowers of fancy 1855; The barber’s shop 1856, 2 ed. 1883; Literary reminiscenses and gleanings 1860; Our turf, our stage, and our ring 1862; Manchester in holiday dress 1866; Memorials of Manchester streets 1874; Memorials of bygone Manchester 1880. d. 133 Long-Millgate, Manchester 11 Sept. 1881. R. W. Procter’s Barber’s shop, 2 ed. (1883) memoir and portrait; Palatine note-book i 165–7 (1881) portrait.

PROCTOR, Harry (the stage name of Rowline Philp, cousin of Elizabeth Philp). An actor at the Adelphi theatre, London 1878; played colonel Muldoon in Boucicault’s The O’Dowd 21 Oct. 1880, Joe Gallon in Pettitt’s Taken from life 31 Dec. 1881, and Johnie Downs in Buchanan’s Storm-beaten 14 March 1883; had considerable literary ability and his imitative powers were remarkable. d. 55 Crowndale road, Oakley square, London 19 Nov. 1887.

PROCTOR, Henry Adolphus. b. 1784; cornet 2 life guards 14 Jany. 1801; captain 82 foot 16 May 1805, major 30 April 1812 to 26 Nov. 1818, when placed on h.p.; C.B. 19 July 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; colonel of 97 foot 29 Nov. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Aberhafesp hall, Montgomeryshire 13 May 1859.

PROCTOR, Richard Anthony (youngest child of Wm. Proctor, solicitor, d. 1850). b. Chelsea 23 March 1837; entered Univ. coll. London 1855, and St. John’s coll. Camb. 1856, scholar 1856–60, captain of his college boating club; 23rd wrangler 1860, B.A. 1860; read for the bar; taught mathematics in a private military school at Woolwich; hon. secretary of Royal astronomical society to 1873; lectured in U.S. of America 1873, and in Australasia 1879–80; founded Knowledge, an illustrated magazine of science, No. 1 Nov. 4 1881, converted into a monthly 1885; charted 324,198 stars from Argelander’s Survey of the northern heavens, on an equal surface projection; author of Saturn and his system 1865; The handbook of the stars 1866; Half-hours with a telescope 1868, 20 ed. 1889; Essays on astronomy 1872; The sun 1871, 3 ed. 1876; The moon 1873, 3 ed. 1876; Transits of Venus 1874, 4 ed. 1882; The universe of stars 1878; The great Pyramid 1883; Other suns than ours 1887; Old and new astronomy 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works; his widow Sallie Duffield Proctor granted civil list pension of £100, 11 Feb. 1889. d. Willard Parker hospital, New York 12 Sept. 1888. Eclectic Mag. lxxxii 371 (1874) portrait; Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlix 164–8 (1889); Knowledge Oct. 1888 pp. 265–6 portrait; Illust. Review Aug. 1873 pp. 189–92 portrait.

PROCTOR, Sir William Beauchamp, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Proctor, 2 baronet, 1756–1827). b. Langley park near Acle, Norfolk 14 Oct. 1781; entered navy 4 Sept. 1794; served in the expedition to Egypt; was at bombardment of Havre 1804; served in East Indies 1808; captain R.N. 5 Sept. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841, V.A. 2 Sept. 1850; admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. d. Langley park, Norfolk 14 March 1861. O’Byrne Naval Biog. Dict. 1849 p. 985.

PROCTOR-BEAUCHAMP, Sir Thomas William Brograve, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir W. B. Proctor, 3 baronet 1781–1861). b. Broome place, Norfolk 2 July 1815; cornet royal horse guards 16 Oct. 1835, lieut. 1 June 1838, sold out 22 Sept. 1843; major Suffolk artillery militia 18 April 1854 to 9 Nov. 1855; succeeded 14 March 1861; lieut. col. 2nd battalion of Norfolk rifle volunteers 25 March 1861 to June 1872; sheriff of Norfolk 1869; he transposed his names Beauchamp Proctor by R.L. 9 July 1862. d. Langley park, near Acle, Norfolk 7 Oct. 1874. I.L.N. lxv 379 (1874).

PRODGERS, Caroline Giacometti (dau. of Mr. Prodgers). b. 1830; readmitted to British nationality 18 Aug. 1875; the cabmen’s terror, she had an exact and minute knowledge of London and frequently had herself conveyed to within a few feet of the distance covered by a shilling fare; she was continually summoned by the cabmen, but was generally found to be correct, as to the distances; corresponded with the public analysts; was wealthy and lived in good style; she was burnt in effigy as a Guy on the 5th November about the year 1876; the divorced wife of Giovani Battista Giacometti, a captain of the Austrian navy who was naturalised in England 15 June 1876. d. 54 Queen’s road, Marylebone, London 29 April 1890.

PROPERT, John (only son of Thomas Propert Bluenpistill, Cardigan). b. 19 July 1793; a pupil of John Abernethy 30 Oct. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1814; a surgeon in London, where he had a large practice; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1857; founder of the Royal Medical benevolent college at Epsom for medical men and their widows, including a school for sons of surgeons 1855, chapel opened 1857. d. 6 New Cavendish st. London 8 Sept. 1867. Medical circular i 9 (1852) portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men i 39–42 (1865) portrait; Medical Times ii 334–5 (1867); Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vi 62 (1871); In memoriam, J. P. by the rev. R. Thornton (1867).

PROSSER, George Walter. b. 1795; ensign 2 foot 6 Oct. 1812, lieut. 16 Sept. 1813; captain 7 dragoon guards 8 Aug. 1822, placed on h.p. with rank of major 10 June 1826; major and superintendent of studies at royal military college 13 May 1842, lieut. governor 9 Jany. 1854 to 17 April 1857; colonel 20 June 1854. d. Windsor 12 April 1859.

PROSSER, James. b. 1789 or 1790; educ. St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Thame, Oxfordshire and chaplain of Thame union 1841–71; author of A key to the Hebrew scriptures 1838, 3 ed. 1854; Examples of the philosophical accuracy of the Hebrew text when literally translated without points; The book of Genesis without points; J. Parkhurst’s Hebrew and Chaldee grammar without points 1840; Family prayers 1851. d. The Elms, Thame 15 July 1877.

PROSSER, Richard. b. Birmingham 3 April 1800; employed by Penn and Williams of Birmingham, brassfounders; civil engineer; took out patents for a bullion nail of iron 1831, for casting nails 1835, for nail and screw making machinery 1839, for boiler stoves 1839, for rollers in calico printing, for welded tubes 1840, for a new principle of making iron tubes 1845, for anti-welded tubes 1850, on which he spent £20,000, these tubes are still in use; produced buttons, tiles, tesseræ and articles of pottery from clay in a powdered state 1840; with Job Cutler had a patent for engraved grooved rollers 1843; suggested the Indices of Patents which were compiled by Bennet Woodcraft 1857–89; gave evidence before the Small arms committee 1854. d. King’s Norton, Worcestershire 21 May 1854. R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham inventors (1881) 5, 245; Regina v. Prosser 1847 to set aside patents and works of Caledonian tube company.

PROSSER, Sophie Amelia (daughter of Charles Dibdin 1768–1833). b. London 17 May 1807; m. 1 Jany. 1830 William Prosser, vicar of Ashby Folville, Leicester, who d. 28 June 1884 aged 85; wrote in Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home for about 20 years to her death; author of Original fables and sketches 1864; The Awdries and their friends 1868, 2 ed. 1889; Cicely Brown’s trials 1871, 3 ed. 1885; The cheery chime of Garth 1874, 2 ed. 1888; The day after tomorrow 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Amos Fayle 1878; Frog alley and what came out of it 1879; Ludovic or the boy’s victory 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Lined with gold 1884; Michael Airdree’s freehold 1888; Uncle Christie the strange lodger 1889; The face in the shutter 1890; The Crinkles of Crinklewood hall 1892; her name as Mrs. Prosser is attached to upwards of 30 books, almost all of them published by the Religious Tract Society. d. St. Luke’s vicarage, the residence of her son, Wolverhampton road, Bilston 14 Feb. 1882. bur. Bilston cemetery 17 Feb. The Bilston Herald 18 Feb. 1882 p. 4.

PROTHERO, George (4 son of Thomas Prothero of St. Woolos and Malpas court, Newport, Monmouth 1780–1853). b. 1819; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1866; V. of Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire 1847–53; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1853–7, and rector 1857 to death; hon. chaplain in ordinary to the queen 6 July 1865, and chief chaplain in ordinary 22 June 1869; canon of Westminster 1869, and sub-dean 1883 to death; rural dean of East Medina, Isle of Wight 1872; proctor for dean and chapter of Westminster in convocation 1880 and 1886; enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the royal family for many years; author of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, a sermon 1881; The armour of light and other sermons preached before the queen 1888. d. Whippingham rectory 16 Nov. 1894. Graphic 24 Nov. 1894 p. 598 portrait.

PROTHERO, Georgiana Mary (only dau. of Matthew Marsh, chancellor of Salisbury, d. 1846). With her father visited at Holland house and saw Samuel Rogers, the poet Bowles, Coxe and others; appeared at a commemoration ball at Oxford and was the beauty of the day; was an admirable Latin scholar and a student in natural history and botany; m. 2 Feb. 1837 rev. Thomas Prothero, who d. in 1870, when she took up her residence at Malpas court, Newport and managed the estate. d. Malpas court 11 Oct. 1895.

PROTHERO, Thomas (brother of George Prothero 1819–94). b. 14 Aug. 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1823 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of Malpas 1843–6; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1846–53; chaplain to prince Albert at Osborne 26 Dec. 1848 to 1853; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 16 Nov. 1853 to death; author of A sermon preached at the parish church of Whippingham 1847. d. Malpas court 11 June 1870. I.L.N. lvi 667 (1870); Times 14 June 1870 p. 5, col. 3.

PROUDMAN, Joseph. b. London 1833; a choir trainer; an advocate of the Tonic Sol-fa system; had great alertness in conducting large bodies of children; conducted concerts of the Ragged school, the Reformatory union and Dr. Barnado’s homes at Exeter hall; took a choir to the Paris exhibition 1867; taught many thousands of pupils in schools and public classes; composer of Part songs and choruses 1870, three parts; and with A. I. Stapleton Voice training exercises 1878, 2 ed. 1883; author of Musical lectures and sketches 1869; Musical jottings, useful and humorous 1872, with a portrait; and with W. A. Essery The London chants 1870. d. 48 Jenner road, Stoke Newington, London 21 April 1891. J. Proudman’s Musical jottings (1872) portrait; Musical Times 1 May 1891 p. 284.

PROUT, John (son of Wm. Prout, farmer). b. South Petherwin, near Launceston 1 Oct. 1810; emigrated to Canada and farmed land at Pickering, Ontario 1832–42; partner with his uncle Thomas Prout as a patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand, London 1842, carried on the business alone 1859 to death; bought Blount’s farm, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 1861, which he cultivated till June 1894 with success; he demonstrated that successive crops of cereals could be raised on heavy clay-land, if drained and deeply ploughed and dressed with properly prepared chemical manures; author of Profitable clay farming under a just system of tenant right 1881, translated into French and German. d. at his daughter’s house, Wimbish vicarage, Saffron Walden, Essex 7 Dec. 1894. The Cable Aug. 1893 p. 313 portrait.

PROUT, John Skinner (nephew of Samuel Prout). b. Plymouth 1806; resided in Bristol about 1830–4, in Sydney, N.S.W. and in Tasmania 1840–50; and in London 1850 to death; member of Institute of painters in water-colours; author of Antiquities of Chester 1838; The castles and abbeys of Monmouthshire 1838; Australia by E. C. Booth, illustrated by S. Prout 1873; some of his Bristol drawings were republished with letterpress descriptions under title of Picturesque antiquities of Bristol 1893; there are several of his drawings at South Kensington Museum. d. 4 Leighton crescent, Kentish town, London 29 Aug. 1876. J. L. Roget’s Old water-colour society i 406, ii 87 (1891); I.L.N. lxix 218, 253, 255 (1876) portrait.

PROUT, Samuel. b. Plymouth 17 Sept. 1783; educ. Plymouth gram. school; a water-colour painter in London from 1802; contributed 23 drawings to John Britton’s Beauties of England and Wales 1803–13; sold his water-colour drawings to Mr. Palser, Westminster bridge road 1804; member of Associated artists in water-colours 1810, exhibited 30 works in their gallery 1810–12; etched designs for Rudiments of landscape with progressive studies 1813 anon., and other educational books published by R. Ackerman of 101 Strand, who also published many detached etchings by Prout; member of the Oil and water colour society 1819; went abroad in 1820 and succeeding years and made drawings of churches, streets, etc.; painter in water-colours in ordinary to the queen 1829; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1803–27; in a loan collection at the Fine arts society gallery 148 New Bond st. 119 of his drawings were exhibited 1879–80; published S. Prout’s New drawing book 1819; Facsimiles of S. Prout’s Views in the North of England 1821; Sketches made in France and Germany 1833; Interiors and exteriors 1834; Hints on light and shade, composition, &c. 1838, republished 1848; Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy 1839; Prout’s Microcosm 1841; Sketches at home and abroad 1844; the sketches he left were disposed of in a 4 days’ sale at Sotheby and Wilkinson’s, producing £1788 11s. 6d., May 19–22, 1852. d. 5 De Crespigny terrace, Denmark hill, Camberwell 10 Feb. 1852. bur. Norwood cemet., monument St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth. J. Ruskin’s Notes on S. Prout and W. Hunt (1879); J. L. Roget’s Old water-colour society i 340, ii 50, 459 (1891); G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 106–17; Redgrave’s Century of painters ii 487–93 (1866); Art Journal March 1849 pp. 76–7 portrait; G.M. xxxvii 419–20 (1852).

PROUT, Thomas. b. 1785; patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand 1816 to death; a member of the Ballot Society to death; a most influential elector of city of Westminster 1832 to death. d. East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey 25 July 1859, memorial tablet erected in St. Clement Danes church by sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.B. about 1867. Diprose’s St. Clements i 63, 146 (1868).

PROVAN, Joseph. b. Stonehaven 1799; entered Aberdeen univ. 1811, M.A. 1815; had a literary engagement on the Continent; parliamentary reporter on Morning chronicle, London; edited the Macclesfield Courier 1835 to death. d. Macclesfield 11 Dec. 1867. Macclesfield Courier 21 Dec. 1867 p. 5.

PROVIS, Thomas (son of Thomas Provis, a carpenter at Warminster). Educ. Winchester school; called himself Dr. Smith and became a public lecturer; sentenced to death for stealing a gelding, but sentence commuted to 18 months’ imprisonment 1811; called himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth and said he was b. Bath 2 Sept. 1797, claimed to be the son and heir of sir Hugh Smyth, bart., who d. 28 Jany. 1824, by his first and secret marriage in 1796 with Jane, daughter of count John Samuel Vandenbergh; brought an action of ejectment to recover Ashton court, near Bristol and certain estates valued at £30,000 a year at Gloucester summer Assizes 8 to 10 Aug. 1853, his story entirely broke down on his cross examination; tried for forgery and perjury at Gloucester 6 to 7 April 1854, condemned to 20 years’ transportation; the case cost the Smyth family £6,000; confined in Millbank penitentiary 1854. d. Dartmoor prison infirmary 27 May 1855. Annual Register xcv 308–30 (1853), xcvii 94 (1855); Law magazine l 294–317 (1851), li 371; Celebrated claimants (1873) 209–19; W. O. Woodall’s celebrated trials (1873) 115–46; Impudent impostors (1876) 209–18; E. Austin’s Anecdotage (1872) 129–41; Sir B. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families ii 300–27 (1869); G.M. Feb. 1872 pp. 334–41; The victim of fatality, the life of the plaintiff in the trial Smyth versus Smyth (1854) portrait.

PROVIS, William Alexander (son of Henry Provis, engineer). b. Wimpole, Cambs. 5 May 1792; pupil of his father to 1814; assistant to T. Telford 1814–34; resident engineer of the suspension bridge over the Menai strait 1819–26, laid the first stone 10 Aug. 1819; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1819; author of An historical account of the suspension bridge over the Menai strait 1828. d. The Grange, near Ellesmere, Salop 29 Sept. 1870. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 5 Oct. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. xxxi 225–30 (1871).

PROWETT, Charles Gipps (eld. son of Charles Prowett, rector of Stapleford, Herts.) b. Topcroft, Norfolk 1818; educ. Richmond and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his college 1841 to death; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; editor of “John Bull” newspaper to 1865; contributor to Gentleman’s and Fraser’s magazines and Quarterly review; author of Trifolium Caianum in adventum reginæ 1843; Translations and original pieces 1881. d. Northumberland st. Strand 28 June 1874. bur. Stapleford, near Hertford. Law Times lvii 237 (1874).

PROWSE, William Jeffery (son of Isaac Prowse, d. 1844). b. Torquay 6 May 1836; adopted by his uncle John Sparke Prowse, notary, Greenwich; educ. under Nicholas Wanostrocht at Greenwich; contributed to Chambers’ Journal, the Ladies’ Companion, and the National Mag. 1851 etc.; wrote in the Aylesbury News 1855; engaged on the Daily Telegraph, his first article being on the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1861, his last on the death of Tom Lockyer, cricketer 1870; contributed to Fun the Old Man’s sporting articles, etc. under signature of Nicholas; he wrote The key of the Study pp. 199–237 in A Bunch of keys, ed. by T. Hood 1865, and Like to like, a story told by the water-rate pp. 63–94 in Rates and taxes, ed. by T. Hood 1866; he also contributed with G. L. M. Strauss to England’s Workshops 1864. d. Nice or Cimies 17 April 1870. bur. Cimies. Nicholas’ Notes and Sporting prophecies by W. J. Prowse, ed. by Tom Hood (1870) memoir pp. 3–12 portrait; Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii 57–64 (1882); W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets (1896) 377; Newspaper Press iv 130 (1870).

PRYDE, James. b. 1802; teacher of mathematics and lecturer on mathematics in the School of arts, Edinburgh; in Chambers’s Educational Course he wrote Exercises and problems in Algebra 1855; Treatise on practical mathematics 1855; Algebra, theoretical and practical 1860; Euclid’s Elements of plane geometry 1860; Navigation 1867; and Mathematical tables, logarithms 1878, 2 ed. 1885; he was also author of Tables for calculating interest 1857; A treatise on mathematics 1868; resided 17 Newton st. Glasgow. d. of heart disease in Sauchiehall st. Glasgow 10 Feb. 1879.

PRYER, Harry. b. 1850; a merchant; fellow of Entomological soc. of London; went to Japan 1870; a recognised authority on Japanese natural history, helped to establish and maintain the museum at Tokio; made researches on the parasites of silk worms; C.M.Z.S.; author of Rhopalocera Nihonica, the butterflies of Japan, Yokohama, 1886. d. Yokohama, Japan 17 Feb. 1888.

PRYME, George (only child of Christopher Pryme of Hull, merchant 1739–84). b. Cottingham, Yorkshire 4 Aug. 1781; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1799, scholar 25 April 1800, fellow 2 Oct. 1805 to Aug. 1813; sixth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; called Prize Pryme on account of the number of the prizes which he gained; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806, leader of the Norfolk circuit; returned to Cambridge Oct. 1808, resided at Barnwell abbey, Cambridge from 1813; lecturer in the university on political economy March 1816, professor 27 May 1828, resigned 29 Oct. 1863; contested borough of Cambridge 1820 and 1826; M.P. Cambridge 13 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, was frequently in the chair in committees of the house on bills introduced by private members; bought an estate at Wistow, Hunts. 1847; a founder of the Reform club 1836; author of Poematia numismatibus annis dignata A.D. 1801–1802, Cambridge 1802; Syllabus of a course of Lectures on political economy 1816, 4 ed. 1859; Memoir of the life of D. Sykes, Wakefield 1834; Jephthah and other poems 1838. d. Wistow 2 Dec. 1868. Autobiographic recollections of G. Pryme, edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alicia Bayne (1870); R. W. Corlass’ Sketches of Hull authors (1879) 83–90; Register and Mag. of biography Jany. 1869 pp. 48–50.

PRYOR, Alfred Reginald (eld. son of Alfred Pryor). b. Hatfield, Herts. 24 April 1839; educ. Tunbridge sch. and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862; joined the R.C. church 1858; wrote many papers on botany in the Journal of botany 1873–81; left his herbarium, books, manuscript flora and £100 to the Hertfordshire Natural history society; author of A flora of Hertfordshire, edited by B. D. Jackson 1887. d. Baldock, Herts. 18 Feb. 1881. bur. Baldock 24 Feb. A. R. Pryor’s Flora (1887) memoir pp. v, xliv–xlvi; Journal of botany (1881) 276–8.

PRYCE, George. b. 1801; an accountant at Bristol; city librarian April 1856 to death; F.S.A. 30 April 1857; author of Notes on the ecclesiastical and monumental architecture and sculpture of the middle ages in Bristol 1850; Memorials of the Canynges family and their times 1854; Westbury college, Redcliffe church and Chatterton about 1856; Fact versus fiction, a descent among writers on Bristol history and biography 1858; A popular history of Bristol 1861. d. Bristol 15 March 1868, portrait in reference room of Bristol free library.

PRYSE, Edward Lewis (2 son of Pryse Pryse, M.P. of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire). b. 1817; cornet 6 dragoon guards 17 March 1837, captain 2 Aug. 1844; captain 3 foot 12 June 1846, sold out 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. Cardigan 1857–68; president of Cardigan liberal association; lord lieut. of co. Cardigan 27 Aug. 1857; hon. col. royal Cardigan militia 11 July 1877 to death; master of Peithyll fox hounds. d. Peithyll, Aberystwith 29 May 1888.

PRYSE, Robert John. b. 1810; known as Gweirydd ap Rhys; took an active part in the Eisteddfods; author of An English and Welsh pronouncing dictionary, in which the pronunciation is given in Welsh letters, Dinbych 1857; Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r Cymry, two parts, Llundain 1873–6, and other works in the Welsh language 1841–78. d. Bethesda, Bangor Sept. 1889. Times 3 Oct. 1889 p. 9.

PUCKLE, Elizabeth (dau. of John Smith). bapt. Eastwick, Herts. 13 Sept. 1767; a nursemaid; m. Timothy Puckle of Stapleford 23 April 1793. d. High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 9 Dec. 1872, said to be aged 106. Thoms’s Human longevity (1879) 280–5.

PUCKLE, John (only son of John Puckle of Pentonville, London). b. 1812; Somerset scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1832–5; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover 1842 to death; rural dean of Dover 1846 to death; surrogate of diocese of Canterbury 1846 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury 1869 to death; proctor diocese of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of Ecclesiastical sketches of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury 1849; Parochial sermons, 4 vols. 1847–61; Church and fortress of Dover castle, illustrated from his own drawings 1864; John’s governor visits dame Europa’s school 1870, which circulated 40,000 copies. d. Dover 26 Feb. 1894.

PUDNEY, James. b. Lambeth 13 May 1830; beat Dawkins ½ mile at the Old Cope 12 Nov. 1850; beat T. Cook 10 miles at Barking 2 May 1853; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 and belt at Halifax 13 March 1854; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 at Wandsworth 17 Nov. 1856; beat C. Cooke 10 miles £50 at Hackney 12 Sept. 1859; won the 10 mile cup and £6 at Hackney 10 June 1861; winner of upwards of 70 races and handicaps; champion of England. Illust. sporting news 24 May 1862 p. 81 portrait.

PUGH, David (son of Charles Pugh, d. 21 Dec. 1796). b. Perry hill, Kent 14 Aug. 1789; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 29 April 1809; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry about 1840; recorder of Welshpool many years; M.P. Montgomery burghs 10 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition March 1833; M.P. again 29 July 1847 to death. d. Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire 20 April 1861.

PUGH, David (eld. son of colonel David Heron Pugh of Manoravon, Llandilo). b. 23 March 1806; educ. Rugby and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; chairman of quarter sessions for Carmarthenshire 1843–52; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1857–68; contested Carmarthenshire 26 Nov. 1868; M.P. Eastern division of the county 1885 to death; sheriff of Carmarthen 1874; owner of nearly 10,000 acres of land. d. London 12 July 1890.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PULLIN, Charles King. b. 3 Nov. 1838; umpire for the Gloucestershire county cricket club many years; one of the best umpires of his day; umpired in the match England v. Australia at the Oval 14–16 Aug. 1892. d. Redland, Bristol 2 April 1893.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PUMPHREY, Thomas (son of Stanley Pumphrey). b. Worcester 10 June 1802; educ. Ackworth school 1812–15; a glover in his father’s business at Worcester 1817; a minister among the Friends 1822 to death; superintendent of Ackworth school 1834–62, during which time great improvements were made in the school buildings, presented with £1400 and a collection of books; author of A brief view of the Society of Friends on prayer 1828. d. Ackworth 31 July 1862. bur. 5 Aug. Annual Monitor (1863) 123–46; Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends (1888) 532–6, 798–802; J. Ford’s Memoir of T. Pumphrey (1864) portrait.

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

PUNSHON, William Morley (only child of John Punshon, mercer, d. 1840). b. Doncaster 29 May 1824; educ. Doncaster gr. sch. to 1835; clerk to Mr. Morley, timber merchant, Hull 1837–40; joined the Methodist society in Hull Nov. 1838; minister at Whitehaven 1845, ordained 1849; minister at Newcastle 1849–52, at Sheffield 1852–5, at Leeds 1855–8; minister of Hinde st. circuit London 1858–61, of Islington circuit 1861–64; minister at Bristol 1864–7; presided over the annual conferences in Canada 1868; created LL.D. by Victoria univ. of Cobourg June 1872; superintendent of Kensington circuit, London 1873–5; one of the general secretaries of Wesleyan Methodist missionary society 1875 to death; elected president of Wesleyan conference 29 July 1874; author of Tabor on the class meeting, a plea and an appeal 1849; John Bunyan, lectures 1857; Pulpit orations 1861; Sabbath chimes, meditations in verse 1867; The prodigal son, four discourses 1868; Sermons 1882. d. Tranby, Brixton Hill, London 14 April 1881. bur. Norwood cemet. 19 April. F. W. Macdonald’s Life of W. M. Punshon (1887) portrait; T. MacCullagh’s Memorial sermon (1881); W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 138–41 (1890) portrait; Leisure hours. By A Journalist (1878) 79–80; C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1874) 261–9; Drawing room portrait gallery, third series (1860) portrait xv; Graphic x 150, 153 (1874) portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PURKISS, Henry John. b. 1842; educ. City of London school; obtained the first queen’s prize given at South Kensington; matric. at univ. of London 1860, where he took three mathematical scholarships, an M.A. degree, and the gold medal as the best mathematician of his year; scholar Trin. coll. Camb., senior wrangler, first Smith prizeman and B.A. 1864; vice-principal of College of naval architecture South Kensington 1864, principal 1865 to death; editor of The Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin messenger of mathematics to death; drowned while bathing in the river Cam 17 Sept. 1865. Times 19 Sept. 1865 p. 10, 21 Sept. p. 4, 22 Sept. p. 8; Cambridge Chronicle 23 Sept. 1865 pp. 4, 7.

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