PURNELL, Thomas (son of Robert Purnell). b. Tenby 1834; matric. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1852; assistant secretary and librarian of Archæological institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1862–6; contributed a series of dramatic criticisms under the signature Q to the Athenæum 1870–1; founded a club known as the Decemviri; invented the nickname tea-cup and saucer comedy for the Robertsonian school of plays; edited James Hind’s Historia quatuor regum Angliæ for the Roxburghe club 1868; and The correspondence and works of C. Lamb, 4 vols. 1870; author of Literature and its professors 1867; Dramatists of the present day. By Q 1871; To London and elsewhere 1881; The Lady Drusilla, a psychological romance 1887; Dust and diamonds, essays 1888. d. Lloyd sq. Pentonville, London 17 Dec. 1889. London Figaro 28 Dec. 1889 p. 11 portrait; Athenæum 21 Dec. 1889 p. 860.

PURNELL, William Paston (2 son of Purnell Bransby Cooper of Stancombe park, Gloucs. 1791–1866, assumed name of Purnell). b. 12 June 1821; ensign 90 foot 24 March 1838, lieut. col. 9 Oct. 1855 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in the Crimea and in India; ensign of yeomen of the guard 2 Feb. 1866 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. d. Cookham, Berks. 14 May 1869.

PURSER, John. Farmer of Willington, Beds.; a breeder of dogs; a member of the Cardington club; his bitch Pansey and his dog Pilot won numerous stakes and cups at Cardington and Newmarket 1847–9; William Purser, the brother, was a farmer and racer. Sporting Review Dec. 1850 pp. 435–7 portrait.

PURSER, Richard (a natural son of Mr. Loveridge, a builder). Claimed to have been b. Redmarley d’Abitot, Worcs. 14 July 1756; a cowman at Hempstead; a day labourer at Cheltenham; the Queen gave him £5 a year from 1863 on the erroneous statements made to her; m. 12 Sept. 1808 Ann Rollings. d. Cheltenham 12 Oct. 1868, claiming to be 112 but probably about 80. W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity (1879) 4, 139, 224–35; G. H. Townsend’s Handbook (1869) 127.

PURTON, Walter Onions. b. 1833; educ. St. Catherine’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; C. of Petworth, Sussex 1859–65; C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1865–6; R. of Coombe, Sussex 1866–70; R. of Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex 1870–88; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1888 to death; chaplain to 7 earl of Shaftesbury; a prominent evangelical who exercised influence in the religious press; held successively three editorships; editor of The Churchman 1879; author of The Communicant 1881. d. Poynings rectory 14 Sept. 1892. Times 21 Sept. 1892 p. 4; Guardian 21 Sept. 1892 p. 1391.

PURVES, David Laing. b. 1838; had a Doctor’s degree; leader writer on the Scotsman, then on Daily Telegraph; edited The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene 1870; The English circumnavigators, voyages round the world 1874; wrote The life of Jonathan Swift in The works of J. Swift 1869. d. 214 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1873.

PURVES, John (1 son of William Purves of Edinburgh). b. 1840; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., exhibitioner 1860–5, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, fellow 1866; classical lecturer Wadham coll. 1864–6; lecturer Balliol 1875, junior dean 1868, junior bursar 1872; Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1862, Craven scholar 1864, and Kennicott scholar 1865; edited Selections from the dialogues of Plato 1883, 2 ed. 1891; The Iliad, translated into English prose 1891; assisted Dr. Jowett in his works on Plato and Thucydides. d. Oxford 10 Jany. 1890. Times 31 Jany. 1890 p. 6.

PURVIS, Charles. b. 19 Feb. 1777; cornet 1 dragoons 3 June 1796; major 7 May 1812 to 11 June 1818, when placed on h.p. d. Royal crescent, Brighton 6 Nov. 1859.

PURVIS, John Brett (eld. son of John Child Purvis, admiral R N. 1747–1825). b. 12 Aug. 1787; entered navy 5 Jany. 1799; captain 16 Sept. 1809; in command of the Ganymede 23 guns Oct. 1801 on the coast of Spain; commander of the Magicienne in the East Indies 1815–9; in command of the Alfred 50 guns on the South American coast 1841–5; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 4 July 1853. d. Bury lodge near Gosport 1 Oct. 1857. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. (1849) 941–2.

PURVIS, William (son of Mr. Purvis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tailor). b. Auchindinny near Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1784; a drummer in the West York militia 1794; apprenticed to John Chapman, carpenter at Newcastle 1800–1807; drummer at Newcastle theatre, then call boy there under Stephen Kemble, and afterwards carpenter; worked as a carpenter about six years from 1807; a clown and an actor, became the clown and jester of the North; proprietor of an itinerant theatre about 1819, travelled the country from Durham to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in Scotland to his death; paid J. P. Robson £20 for writing his autobiography 1850. d. Hartlepool 16 Dec. 1853. bur. in St. Hilda’s churchyard, Hartlepool. The life of Billy Purvis, Newcastle-on-Tyne (1875) portrait; Life and adventures of Billy Purvis, by J. P. Robson (1850); Illustrated sp. and dr. news ii 283 (1874).

PUSELEY, Daniel (son of Henry Puseley, maltster). b. Bideford, Devon 9 Feb. 1814; a commercial traveller; hosier and silk merchant Gutter lane, city of London 1844–54, when he went to Australia for his health; author of Harry Mustifer, or a few years of the road, miscellaneous poems 1847 anon; The Saturday early closing movement. By A Warehouseman 1854; The rise and progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. By An Englishman 1857, 5 ed. 1858; The commercial companion, a record of eminent commercial houses and men of the day 1858, 3 ed. 1860; Five dramas 1860; New plays. By an old author 1876; author under pseudonym of Frank Foster of Number one, or the way of the world, a colonial directory including Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand 1862, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1865; A journey of life in long and short stages 1866; An old acquaintance 1866. d. 21 Rochester road, Camden Town, London 18 Jany. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. Frank Foster’s The age we live in (1863) portrait; Academy 28 Jany. 1882 p. 63.

PUSEY, Edward Bouverie (2 son of Philip Bouverie 1745–1828, who assumed the name of Pusey 3 April 1784). b. Pusey house, near Great Farringdon, Berkshire 22 Aug. 1800; educ. Mitcham, Surrey 1807–12, and at Eton 1812–9; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1819; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1836; fellow of Oriel coll. 2 April 1823; studied at Göttingen, Berlin, and Bonn 1825–7; regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford 9 Nov. 1828 to death; founded with his brother Philip Pusey and Dr. Ellerton the three Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships 1832; the prime mover with John Keble and John Henry Newman in the Oxford movement which was called Puseyism or Newmania 1833; contributed to Tracts for the times 1833–41 and wrote seven tracts; founded The Oxford library of fathers of the holy catholic church, anterior to the division of east and west 1836, of which 48 volumes were published 1838–85; preached on the Holy Eucharist at Ch. Ch. 14 May 1843, condemned for heresy by the vice-chancellor and suspended for two years from his office as a preacher before the university 2 June 1843; founded at cost of £6,000 St. Saviour’s church, Leeds, foundation stone laid 14 Sept. 1842, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845; established an Anglican sisterhood in London 26 March 1845, and in Devonport 1849; revived the practice of private confession and encouraged the spread of ritualism 1846; member of the new hebdomadal council at Oxford Oct. 1854; published 3 appeals in An Eirenicon in a Letter to J. Keble 1865, and two Letters to J. H. Newman 1869 and 1870 on A possibility of reunion with the Church of Rome, a book which gave rise to 18 replies; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on circumstances connected with the crisis in the church of England 1842, to which 7 replies were made; The holy eucharist a comfort to the penitent 1843 to which 8 replies were published; Do all to the Lord Jesus, a sermon 1849, 5 ed. 1855; The church of England leaves her children free to open their griefs 1850; The presence of Christ in the holy eucharist 1853; Daniel the prophet, nine lectures 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Eleven addresses during a retreat of the Companions of the Love of Jesus, Plymouth 1868; Lenten sermons to young men 1874; Hints for a first confession 1884, 2 ed. 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 110 works, and his works and the literature connected with them consist of upwards of 220 published volumes; his library was purchased for the Pusey House, an institution at Oxford, founded in his memory to carry on his work 1884. d. in the Convalescent hospital, Ascot priory, Berkshire 16 Sept. 1882. bur. in the cathedral at Oxford 21 Sept., portrait by George Richmond, R.A. at Ch. Ch. Oxford. H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey, 3 vols. (1893–4) two portraits; J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua (1873) 60 et seq.; T. Mozley’s Reminiscences of Oriel ii 146–9 (1882); The church goer i 221–30 (1847); R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i 199–212 (1844); Fortnightly Review March 1883 pp. 335–48; Jackson’s Oxford Journal 23 Sept. 1882 p. 5; I.L.N. ii 410 (1843) portrait, lxxxi 328 (1882) portrait.

PUSEY, Philip (brother of preceding). b. Pusey, Berkshire 25 June 1799; educ. at Eton 1812; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22 Oct. 1817; M.P. Rye 1 March 1830, but unseated on petition 17 May 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to 23 April 1831; M.P. Cashel 16 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Berkshire 21 Dec. 1832; M.P. Berkshire 1835–52; F.R.S. 27 May 1830; chairman of select committee on compensation to tenants for unexhausted improvements 1848; one of chief founders of Royal agricultural society of England 1840, president 1840–1 and 1853–4, edited the Journal of the society; a practical agriculturalist and breeder of sheep at Pusey, Berkshire; McCormick’s reaping machine was first introduced into this country at Pusey Aug. 1851; one of the best whips in England, drove a four-in-hand over the Alps; chairman of Agricultural implement department of Great Exhibition 1851, wrote a report on the implement section; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of An historical view of the sinking fund 1828; The new constitution 1831; The improvement of farming 1851. d. at his brother’s house, Ch. Ch. Oxford 9 July 1855. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii 527, iii 168, 403, 413–5 (1893–4); Farmers’ mag. 2 series, x 1–3 (1844) portrait; J. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii 116 (1833), portrait of his wife Lady Emily Pusey, who d. 16 Nov. 1854.

PUSEY, Philip Edward (only son of rev. E. B. Pusey 1800–82). b. Ch. Ch. Oxford 14 June 1830; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; edited Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli in xii Prophetas 1868; Sancti patris nostri Cyrilli, archiepiscopi Alexandrini in D. Joannis Evangelium 1872; Sancti Cyrilli, Epistolæ tres Œcumenicæ 1875; The three epistles of St. Cyril 1872; Sancti Cyrilli de Recta fide, de Incarnatione Unigeniti 1877; In a Library of the Fathers, vol i, he translated Commentary on the gospel of St. John 1874–85. d. Christ Church, Oxford 15 Jany. 1880.

PUTTICK, James Fell. b. about 1821; member of firm of Puttick and Simpson, auctioneers, who moved from Piccadilly to 47 Leicester sq. London Jany. or Feb. 1859; member of firm of Debenham, Storr & Co.; secretary to the Sacred Harmonic society in succession to Thomas Brewer Nov. 1870 to death. d. Canonbury, London 19 June 1873. bur. Highgate cemetery 24 June. Musical Times 1 July 1873 p. 138.

PUZZI, Giacinta (dau. of signor Toso). b. Italy 1808; educ. at the conservatoire of Milan; came to England 1826; m. 1827 Giovanni Puzzi; made her first appearance on any stage at the King’s theatre, London as Agia in Rossini’s Pietro l’Eremita March 1827; sang the parts of Zoraide in Rossini’s Ricciardo e Zoraide, Pippo in Gazza Ladra, Queen Mary in Coccia’s Maria Stuarda, and the title role in Mercadante’s Diodone; sang at the private concerts of the nobility; quitted the stage and became a teacher of music and singing 1828; a great authority on singers and music. d. Harley st. London 18 Aug. 1889. Musical Times 1 Sept. 1889 p. 547; Saturday Rev. 24 Aug. 1889 pp. 211–2.

PUZZI, Giovanni. Came to England with two lady vocalists 1818; solo horn player at the King’s theatre, London, under Pietro Spagnoletti; attended all the nobility’s private concerts; agent for John Ebers in making engagements for the King’s theatre 1826, imported signora Giacinta Toso, who became his wife in 1827; the earl of Lonsdale left him a legacy; his phrasing of cantabile on the horn was perfect; director of the Lyceum when opened by sir John Mitchell, with Julius Benedict as conductor 1836; composer of Doglianze amorse, or sighs of love, a canzonetta, London 1815; La scusa, a canzonetta 1815; Io non avea ch’ un core 1825; he arranged G. F. Haendel’s Tu fai la superbetta 1826; Tutto ho perduto al fin, a recitative 1864. d. London March 1876. Athenæum 11 March 1876 p. 371; Musical Times 1 April 1876 p. 427.

PYCROFT, George. b. Corsham, Somerset 1819; M.R.C.S. Eng. and F.S.A. 1842; a surgeon at Kenton, Exeter from 1844–90; one of the starters of the volunteer movement 1852; hon. surgeon major of the 1 Devon artillery volunteers 7 Dec. 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877, surgeon major 1887; a promoter of the art department of the Bath and West of England soc.; a popular lecturer; a founder of the Devonshire Association 1862; F.G.S.; author of Art in Devonshire, with the biographies of artists, Exeter 1883; Short biographies of Devonshire artists 1885; Memoir of Samuel Cousins 1887; resided 2 Camborne terrace, Richmond, Surrey from 1890. d. Willesley, Torquay 23 March 1894. bur. Mamhead 27 March. Report and Trans. Devonshire association (1894) 49–50.

PYCROFT, James (2 son of Thomas Pycroft of Pickwick, Wiltshire, barrister). b. Geyers House, Wiltshire 1813; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; played at Lord’s 23 and 24 June 1836 in the third cricket match Oxford v. Cambridge; student of Lincoln’s inn 1836; ordained deacon 1840; second master of collegiate school at Leicester 1840; C. of Clardstock, Dorset 1845; P.C. of St. Mary Magdalen, Barnstaple 1845–56; resided at Bathwick, Bath; member of the Lansdown cricket club; edited Valpy’s Virgil improved 1846; W. Enfield’s The Speaker 1851; author of Principles of scientific batting 1835; A course of English reading adapted to every taste and capacity 1844, 4 ed. 1861; The collegian’s guide, or recollections of college days. By the Rev. ****, ******, M.A.,—— college, Oxford 1845, 2 ed. 1858; The cricket field, or the history and the science of cricket 1851, 9 ed. 1887; Twenty years in the church: an autobiography 1859, and a second part entitled Elkerton rectory 1860; Agony point: or the groans of gentility, 2 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1862; Dragon’s teeth, a novel, 2 vols. 1863; Oxford memoirs: a retrospect after fifty years, 2 vols. 1886. d. Dudley mansion, Lansdowne place, Brighton 10 March 1895. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1860), part xlvii, portrait; Wisden’s Cricketers’ almanack (1892) pp. xlix, l; Times 13 March 1895 p. 10.

PYCROFT, Sir Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1807; educ. Bath gr. sch.; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 13 May 1826, exhibitioner there 1826–8; hon. M.A. 1829; writer Madras civil service 1828; sub-secretary to board of revenue 1843–4, secretary 1845–50; secretary to the government in revenue department 1850, chief secretary 1855–62; member of council of the governor of Madras 1862, retired on annuity 25 Oct. 1867; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; was the first of the competition wallahs, being the first man appointed to the Indian civil service on the result of a competitive examination. d. Folkestone 29 Jany. 1892.

PYE, Charles (eld. son of Charles Pye of Birmingham, author of works on provincial coins and tokens). b. 1777; pupil of James Heath, the engraver; a good line engraver, chiefly of small book illustrations; illustrated Mrs. Inchbald’s British theatre, 25 vols. 1806–9; Walker’s Effigies poetica 1822, and Physiognomical portraits 1824; engraved a view of Brereton Hall after P. de Wint 1818, a portrait of Robert Owen after M. Heming 1823, and a Holy family after Michael Angelo 1825. d. Leamington 14 Dec. 1864.

PYE, John (2 son of Charles Pye). b. Birmingham 7 Nov. 1782; paid assistant to James Heath, the engraver, in London 1801; engraved many plates after Turner, which placed him at the head of his profession; engraved all the head pieces in the Royal repository or picturesque pocket diary 1817–39, Le Souvian or pocket tablet 1822–43, and Peacock’s polite repository 1813–58; exhibited 4 engravings at Suffolk st. gallery 1824–9; published a series of 29 engravings from pictures in the National Gallery, three of these were by himself 1830–40; retired 1858; chief founder of the Artists’ annuity fund, which received a royal charter 1827; a corresponding member of the Académie des beaux arts 1862; formed a fine collection of impression of Turner’s Liber studiorum, which is in the print-room of the British Museum; author of Patronage of British art, a sketch 1845; A glance at the rise and constitution of the royal academy of arts, London 1851; Notes respecting the Liber studiorum of J. M. W. Turner 1879. d. 17 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 6 Feb. 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 185, 186 (1874) portrait.

PYKE, Hugh. b. about 1774; law stationer at 87 Chancery lane, London and proprietor of the Law and Clerical agency establishment 1811–57. d. in a London workhouse 31 July 1858.

PYM, Edward Lawes. b. 23 March 1824; 2 lieut. R.M. 21 Aug. 1843, lieut. col. 24 Jany. 1873, col. commandant 25 Dec. 1877; M.G. 4 June 1879, general 22 June 1887; placed on retired list 23 March 1889; served in China 1858–60, at capture of Canton 5 Jany. 1858, and subsequently commanded the English constabulary in Canton. d. 44 Nevern sq. Earl’s Court, London 6 April 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 9 April.

PYM, Horatio Noble. Solicitor at 6 Victoria st. Westminster 1867; member of firm of Tathams, Curling and Pym 3 Frederick’s place, Old Jewry, London 1870 to death; had an extensive practice as a confidential solicitor; possessed a fine library at Brasted, near Sevenoaks; among his friends were Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, W. B. Richmond, R.A., James Payn, Andrew Lang and Corney Grain; a very perfect raconteur; edited Memories of old friends, being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox of Pengerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871, 1882; Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1889; author of Odd and ends at Foxwold 1887; A tour round my bookshelves 1891. d. of Russian influenza at Brasted 5 May 1896. Times 11 May 1896 p. 8.

PYM, Robert John. b. 1787; in Samuel Jerrold’s company at Sheerness 1812; bag bearer to the registrars of the court of chancery, with charge of the daily cause lists 1815–54; built a private theatre at the rear of his residence in Wilson st. Gray’s inn lane for the use of students for the stage, where he himself with J. Reeve, Strickland, Marston, Selby, Bedford and others often acted; acted Caleb Quotem in The Review 1846; gave up the theatre 1847, but it was used to 1853; the house was also known as the Gough st. amateur theatre, now Havelock hall and used as a London city mission station 1896. d. 33 Holford sq. Pentonville, London 16 Sept. 1866. N. and Q. 8 s, vi 427, 476 (1894).

PYM, Sir Samuel (son of Joseph Pym of Pinley, Warwickshire). b. 1778; entered navy June 1788; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the Atlas, 74 guns, 29 June 1804 to 13 Oct. 1808; served at battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806; sent to the Mauritius as senior officer of a small squadron July 1810, seized the Isle de la Passe 13 Aug., capitulated and became a prisoner of war 27 Aug., obtained his release Dec. 1810 when the island was captured by sir Albemarle Bertie, he was tried by court martial but acquitted; commanded the Nieman on the West Indian station 1812–5; commanded the Kent in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; admiral superintendent at Devonport 16 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; commanded the experimental squadron in the Channel Sept. and Oct. 1845; V.A. 12 Feb. 1847; admiral 17 Dec. 1852; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1839. d. Royal hotel, Southampton 2 Oct. 1855. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 943.

PYM, Sir William (elder brother of preceding). b. Edinburgh 1772; educ. univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of the army 1792; present at the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadeloupe 1794; served with the army in Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar 1796, medical attendant of the duke of Kent, governor of Gibraltar, present during the outbreaks of yellow fever there in 1804 and 1810; in charge at St. Pierre in Martinique during an outbreak of yellow fever 1794–6, when nearly 16,000 troops died; shipwrecked in the Athénienne on the Skerri shoals between Sicily and Africa 20 Oct. 1806, when 349 persons perished out of a crew of 476; deputy inspector general of army hospitals 20 Dec. 1810; superintendent of quarantine at Malta 1811–12; placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general 25 Sept. 1816; superintendent general of quarantine 1826–55; controlled quarantine arrangements during yellow fever at Gibraltar 1828; K.C.H. 1830; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 21 July 1830; a chairman of central board of health during cholera in England 1832; fellow of Medical and chirurgical soc. 1816; author of Observations upon Bulam fever 1815, 2 ed. 1848. d. 38 Upper Harley st. London 18 March 1861. Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. iv 71–6 (1864).

PYNE, George. b. 1790; alto singer and musician. d. 87 Cambridge gardens west, Notting hill, London 15 March 1877.

PYNE, Henry (eld. son of John Pyne of Somerton, Somerset). b. Martock, Somerset 1809; educ. Sherborne and Christ’s hospital; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1841; assistant comr. in tithe office 1841–81; edited A treatise proving that the pope never had any right to supremacy in England 1850; France and England in the fifteenth century 1870; author of Tithe commutation, table of the corn rent in lieu of tithes 1837, 2 ed. continued by G. Taylor 1876. d. Hillgrove house, Stroud, Somerset 9 Feb. 1885.

PYNE, James Baker. b. Bristol 5 Dec. 1800; a landscape painter at Bristol to 1835, and in London 1835 to death; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 194 at Suffolk st. 1828–70; member of Society of British artists 1842, vice-president some years; there are pictures by him both in oil and water-colour at South Kensington museum; published Views in the vicinity of Kingston, Jamaica 1839; Windsor and its surrounding scenery 1840; The English lake district 1853; Lake scenery of England 1859; resided at 203 Camden road, London. d. 29 July 1870. bur. Highgate cemet., bust at gallery of Society of British artists. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii 55–7 (1880); I.L.N. lvii 193 (1870) portrait.

PYNE, James Kendrick. b. 1785; tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane many years; a member of the choir of the Foundling hospital more than 40 years, and the musical instructor of the children. d. Francis st. Regent’s sq. London 23 Sept. 1857. bur. Highgate cemet.

PYNE, Susannah (dau. of George Pyne 1790–1877). Appeared with great success as a singer with her sister Louisa Fanny Pyne (afterwards wife of Frank Bodda) in 1842; sang in U.S. of America 1854–7; sang Adalgisa in Norma at Lyceum theatre, London 3 Oct. 1857; m. about 1870 Frank H. Standing, baritone singer known as Frank Celli. d. 18 Fitzroy st. London 5 Jany. 1886.

PYNN, Sir Henry. Served as lieutenant with South Devon militia in Ireland during rebellion of 1798; ensign 82 foot 1799, captain 30 May 1805, brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; attached to the Portuguese troops 15 Nov. 1809; commanded the 18 Portuguese regiment at Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees and Orthes; K.T.S. 17 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted by prince regent at Carlton house 23 Feb. 1815; brigadier general in Portuguese army, then major general; lieut. governor of town and fortress of Valencia 17 Dec. 1815. d. 102A Pall Mall, London 25 April 1855. G.M. xliv 95 (1855).

PYPER, William. b. Rathen, Aberdeenshire 1797; educ. Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parochial schoolmaster at Laurence Kirk 1815–7, afterwards at Maybole; a teacher in Glasgow gr. sch. 1820; head master of Edinburgh high school 1822–44; professor of humanity at St. Andrew’s univ. 22 Oct. 1844 to death; LL.D. Aberdeen; founded a bursary at St. Andrew’s by a bequest of £500; author of Gradus ad Parnassum 1843, still used in schools; Horace with quantities 1843; revised A. Adam’s The principles of Latin and English grammar 1846. d. St. Andrew’s 7 Jany. 1861. M. F. Connolly’s Eminent men of Fife (1866) 371.

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QUAGLIENI, Antonio. b. Italy; served with the Brothers Giulium, circus proprietors in Italy; had an equestrian company in France; came to England with his talented equestrian family in 1856; a circus director in Cardiff 1862; naturalised in England 20 Feb. 1866; returned to Brescia, Italy with a fortune 1870; his wife Amalia Gasperini Quaglieni d. 22 Dec. 1882 aged 63; they had 10 children all in the profession, their son Luigi Quaglieni was manager of a circus when aged only seventeen. d. Brescia July 1892.

QUAIN, Sir John Richard (youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, co. Cork). b. Ratheahy 1816; educ. Göttingen and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1843; LL.B. London 1839, univ. law scholar; examiner in law to univ. of London several years, and member of the senate June 1860; practised as a special pleader 1841–51; barrister M.T. 30 May 1851, bencher Nov. 1866 to Jany. 1872; went northern circuit; Q.C. 23 July 1866; attorney general for county palatine of Durham 2 Sept. 1868 to Dec. 1871; judge of court of queen’s bench 5 Jany. 1872 to death; serjeant-at-law 9 Jany. 1872; knighted at Windsor castle 22 April 1872; his law library was presented to Univ. college, London by his brother Richard Quain 1876; author with Henry Holroyd of The new system of common law procedure 1852. d. 22A Cavendish sq. London 12 Sept. 1876. bur. Marylebone cemet. Finchley 18 Sept., marble bust of him placed in hall of Middle Temple Jany. 1888. A generation of judges. By their reporter (1886) 30–8; Law Times 23 Sept. 1876 p. 357.

QUAIN, Jones (half-brother of preceding). b. in the south of Ireland Nov. 1796; educ. Adair’s school Fermoy, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1833; anatomical teacher at Tyrrell’s school of medicine in Aldersgate st. London 1825; professor of general anatomy and physiology at Univ. coll. London 1831, resigned 1835; fellow of univ. of London 1836–58; translated and edited Louis Martinet’s Manual of pathology 1826, 4 ed. 1835; author of Elements of descriptive and practical anatomy for the use of students 1828, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1890; and with Erasmus Wilson of A series of anatomical plates in lithography with references and physiological comments, 2 vols. folio 1836–42. d. London 31 Jany. 1865. bur. Highgate cemet. Lancet 4 Feb. 1865 p. 136; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v 49–50 (1867).

QUAIN, Richard (brother of preceding). b. Fermoy July 1800; studied medicine in London and Paris; assistant to Richard Bennett, demonstrator of anatomy at London univ. 1828, senior demonstrator of anatomy there 1830, and professor of descriptive anatomy 1832–50; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843, member of council 1854, president of the college 1868, Hunterian orator 1869; assistant surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1834, surgeon and special professor of clinical surgery 1848–66, consulting surgeon and emeritus professor of clinical surgery 1866; represented royal college of surgeons in general council of education 14 July 1870 to 14 June 1876; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 25 Nov. 1862 to death; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; edited with W. Sharpey, Jones Quain’s Elements of anatomy, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1848; author of The anatomy of the arteries of the human body with lithographic drawings 1844; The diseases of the rectum 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Clinical lectures 1884. d. 32 Cavendish sq. London 15 Sept. 1887. bur. Finchley, portrait by George Richmond, R.A. in secretary’s office at royal college of surgeons and bust by Thomas Woolner in council room there. British medical journal ii 694 (1887); Lancet ii 687 (1887).

QUARTLEY, Frederick William. b. Bath 5 July 1808; studied wood engraving in Wales and Paris from 1824; went to New York 1852, helped to illustrate Picturesque America 1872, and Picturesque Europe 1875; painted Niagara falls, Buttermilk falls, and Catskill falls. d. New York 5 April 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. v 147 (1888).

QUARTLY, Francis (3 son of James Quartly, cattle breeder 1720–93). bapt. 26 Oct. 1764; a famous breeder of North Devon cattle 1794–1836, when he sold the herd and retired; visited by Arthur Young 1796; presented by Bath and West of England soc. with a silver teapot for ploughing 60 acres of land with the double furrow plough in a new district 1801; received from his friends his full length portrait (standing by the side of the cow Cherry) 1850. d. Great Champson estate, Molland-Botreaux, North Devon 23 July 1856. Journal Royal Agricultural soc. of England (1850) 680–1; Jas. Sinclair’s Devon breed of cattle (1893) 42–61, 386–8.

QUAYLE, Mark Hildesley (only child of Mark Hildesley Quayle, clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1770–1804). b. 4 July 1804; educ. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; called to Manx bar 1825; clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1847 to death. d. Castletown, Isle of Man 19 March 1879. Law Times lxvi 456 (1879).

QUEENSBERRY, Archibald William Douglas, 7 Marquess of (only son of 6 marquess of Queensberry 1779–1856). b. Edinburgh 18 April 1818; educ. Eton; styled viscount Drumlanrig 1837–56; cornet 2 life guards 27 July 1838, sold out 19 Jany. 1844; M.P. Dumfriesshire 1847–56; comptroller of H.M.’s household 4 Jany. 1853 to July 1856; P.C. 7 Feb. 1853; colonel of Dumfriesshire militia; lord lieut. of Dumfriesshire 28 Aug. 1856 to death; succeeded as 7 marquess 19 Dec. 1856; a huntsman, shooter, pugilist, horse racer, deer stalker, and fisher; a frequent otter hunter; a good swimmer, crossed the Thames below Greenwich; kept hounds at Kinmount; backed horses extensively but was very unfortunate, bet £10,000 to £500 on Saunterer for the Goodwood cup July 1858 which he lost; shot himself accidentally at Kinmount, co. Dumfries 6 Aug. 1858. Sporting Times 13 June 1885 p. 2; Sporting Review xl 158–59 (1858); G.M. v 309 (1858); Times 10 Aug. 1858 p. 10, 16 Aug. p. 10.

QUEKETT, John Thomas (youngest son of Wm. Quekett 1767–1842, master of Langport gr. sch. 1790–1842). b. Langport, Somerset 11 Aug. 1815; educ. at King’s coll. London and London hospital; L.S.A. 1840; assistant conservator of Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons Nov. 1843, conservator 1856 to death, demonstrator of minute anatomy 1844, professor of histology 1852 to death, his collections of 2,500 microscopic preparations were purchased by the college; secretary of the Microscopical society 1841–60, president 1860; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; the Quekett Microscopical club was established 1865; author of A practical treatise on the use of the microscope 1848, 3 ed. 1855; Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series in the museum of the royal college of surgeons, 2 vols. 1850–5; Lectures on histology, 2 vols. 1852–4; Catalogue of plants and invertebrates 1860; author with John Morris of Catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants in the museum of the royal college of surgeons 1859. d. Pangbourne, Berkshire 20 Aug. 1861. Proc. of Royal Soc. xii 25–7 (1863); Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iv 79 (1864); I.L.N. 31 Aug. 1861 p. 227 portrait.

QUEKETT, William (brother of preceding). b. Langport 3 Oct. 1802; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1831; C. of South Cadbury, Somerset 1825; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1830–41; incumbent of Ch. Ch. Watney st. London 1841–54; founded with Sidney Herbert the Female emigration society 1849; R. of Warrington, Lancs. June 1854 to death; his work in London is described by Charles Dickens in an article entitled What a London curate can do if he tries, in Household Words 16 Nov. 1850 pp. 172–6; he is also depicted as Dr. Lyman in Battledon rectory. d. Warrington rectory 30 March 1888. Wm. Quekett’s My sayings and doings (1888) 2 portraits.

QUENTIN, Sir George Augustus (eld. son of George Quentin of Göttingen). b. 1760; served in the Gards du Corps, Hanover 1786–93; cornet in 10 Hussars 25 Feb. 1793; lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1808 to 18 March 1824; aide-de-camp to Prince Regent and George 4 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; tried by a court martial at Whitehall 17–31 Oct. 1814 for neglect of duty and allowing relaxed discipline in his regiment and was reprimanded; equerry to the crown stables 1825 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 8 Dec. 1821. d. 11 Great Cumberland st. London 7 Dec. 1851. The trial of colonel Quentin (1814); G.M. xxxvii 190 (1852); Royal military calendar, 3 ed. iv 226–31 (1820).

QUICK, Henry. b. Zennor, Cornwall 4 Dec. 1792; related in verse all the local calamities and crimes from 1830 to his death; printed most of his poems as broadsides; author of A new copy of verses, an account of the accident at Pendeen cove 1830; A new copy of verses on the scarcity and famine in Ireland 1847; A new copy of verses on the church erecting at Pendeen 1850; The Brison shipwreck 1851. d. Mill Hill Down, Zennor 9 Oct. 1857. bur. Zennor 12 Oct. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 541, 1320 (1878–82); G. B. Millett’s Penzance, past and present (1880) 36 portrait; Life and progress of Henry Quick (1836).

QUICK, Robert Hebert (eld. son of James Carthew Quick, merchant). b. London 20 Sept. 1831; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; worked as an unpaid curate with rev. J. Llewellyn Davies, first at St. Mark’s, Whitechapel 1855, and afterwards in Marylebone; a master in Lancaster gr. sch. 1858, then at Guildford gr. sch., Hurstpierpoint, and Cranley; assistant master at Harrow Jany. 1870 to Dec. 1874; head of a preparatory school Orme square, London, and then at Guildford 1874–81; appointed by univ. of Camb. 1881 to give the first course of lectures on the history of education under the newly formed syndicate for training of teachers; V. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1883–7; author of Essays on educational reformers 1868, 2 ed. 1890; Essentials of German 1882; edited J. Locke’s Thoughts concerning education 1880; reprinted R. Mulcaster’s Positions 1888; his article on Frœbel in the 9th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1879) was published separately; resided Earlswood cottage, Redhill, Surrey. d. at the residence of John Robert Seeley at Cambridge 9 March 1891. Journal of education April 1891 pp. 188, 221–7, 257, 297; Education April 1891 portrait.

QUILLINAN, Edward (son of Edward Quillinan of Ireland, a wine merchant at Oporto). b. Oporto 12 Aug. 1791; educ. Sedgley park school, Staffs. 1800; a clerk to his father at Oporto 1805–7; cornet 2 dragoon guards 14 July 1808, present at Walcheren; lieut. 23 light dragoons 14 July 1810; lieut. 3 dragoon guards 24 June 1813, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut. 3 dragoon guards again 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 31 May 1821; served in Spain 1812; wrote a satirical poem The ball room votaries 1810; his connection with The whim, a magazine, Canterbury 1810–11 involved him in two duels; author of Dunluce castle, a poem 1814; The sacrifice of Isabel 1816; The conspirators, 3 vols. 1841; translated 5 books of Camoens’s Lusiad, published by John Adamson 1853. d. Loughrigg Holme, Ambleside 8 July 1851. bur. Grassmere churchyard 12 July. E. Quillinan’s Poems, edited by Wm. Johnston (1853); W. Knight’s Life of Wm. Wordsworth, iii 114, 380, 521 (1889); Irish monthly, xv 285–8 (1887).

QUILLINAN, Jemima K. (1 dau. of the preceding). b. near Dublin 1819; much beloved by William Wordsworth; a friend of all the Lake circle; attended by 3 of Wordsworth’s descendants and Dr. Arnold’s youngest daughter, she d. Loughrigg Holme 28 Jany. 1891. bur. Grassmere churchyard, her portrait by F. Stone hung in Wordsworth’s drawing room. I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p. 235 portrait.

QUILTER, William (4 son of Samuel Sacker Quilter of Walton, Suffolk). b. 1808; articled to P. H. Abbott, accountant, 14 Walbrook, London 1825, succeeded to the business with John Ball 1832, senior partner 50 years; the firm soon gained a leading position as accountants, prepared important reports for parliament on the railway accounts in the disasters of 1848–9; joint auditor with Messrs. Coleman and Turquand appointed by board of trade to audit accounts of public companies under Limited liability act Dec. 1856; raised the status of the profession; first president of Institution of accountants 1870; made a collection of water colour drawings, a portion of which he sold in 1875. d. 28 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 12 Nov. 1888. Times 14 Nov. 1888 p. 4, 16 Nov. p. 10.

QUIN, Frederic Hervey Foster. b. London 12 Feb. 1799; educ. Edinb. univ. 1817, M.D. 1 Aug. 1820; began practice at Naples July 1821, where he was a friend of Louisa, wife of Vittorio Alfieri and widow of Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender; physician to prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in England 1826–9; practised in Paris chiefly as a homœopath May 1829 to Sept. 1831; practised at 19 King st. St. James’s, London July 1832, and at 13 Stratford place 1833–63; introduced the homœopathic system into England 1832; blackballed at the Athenæum club Feb. 1838; medical attendant to duchess of Cambridge from 26 June 1845; established the St. James’s homœopathic dispensary 1843; founded the British homœopathic society 1844; chief founder of London homœopathic hospital 1850, professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school of the hospital 18 Oct. 1859; translated Hahnemann’s Materia medica pura, vol. i 1839, the complete edition was burnt at the printers before publication; he knew the princess Pauline Bonaparte, Talleyrand, Napoleon iii, and Disraeli; he was almost the last of the wits of London and no dinner was complete without his presence; in his manners and dress an imitator of count Dorsay; author of Du traitement homœopathic du choléra avec notes et appendice, Paris 1832; Pharmacopœia homœopathica 1834; edited The British homœopathic pharmacopœia, 2 ed. 1876. d. the Garden mansions, Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster 24 Nov. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Nov. E. Hamilton’s Memoir of F. H. F. Quin (1879) portrait; Madden’s Literary life of the countess of Blessington (1855) i 191, ii 26, 27, 111–4, 448–54, iii 201; Lord Ronald Gower’s My reminiscences ii 251–4 (1883).

QUIN, Michael. b. 1791; entered navy 2 Nov. 1804; commanded the boats of the Weasel in capturing St. Cataldo, Italy 21 Dec. 1812; with the boats of the Naiad destroyed a 16 gun brig near Bona 23 May 1824; captain 10 Jany. 1837; pensioned 27 March 1864; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Albion road, Holloway. London 5 Dec. 1870. O’Byrne’s Biog. Dict. (1849) p. 944.

QUIN, Thomas St. John. Minister of a chapel at Bordeaux, Easter 1821, British chaplain there 31 Oct. 1827 to April 1860 when he retired on a pension. d. Bordeaux 15 Feb. 1861.

QUINLAN, John. b. Cloyne, co. Cork 19 Oct. 1826; emigrated to U.S. of America 1844; educ. Mount St. Mary’s seminary, Emmettsburg; ordained 1853; assistant pastor St. Patrick’s ch. Cincinnati; president of Mount St. Mary’s coll. and professor of philosophy and theology; R.C. bishop of Mobile, Alabama 1859 to death; consecrated by archbishop Anthony Blanc of New Orleans on 4 Dec. d. New Orleans 9 March 1883. bur. in Mobile cath. 13 March. Appleton’s American Biog. v 153 (1888).

QUINN, James. b. Athy, co. Kildare 1820; educ. in Ireland and at the Jesuit’s college, Rome; ordained priest 1843; appointed the first R.C. bishop of Brisbane, Queensland June 1859, arrived in the colony 1861. d. Brisbane 30 Aug. 1880.

QUINN, Matthew (brother of preceding). b. co. Kildare 29 May 1821; studied at the Propaganda and Irish colleges, Rome 1837–47; ordained priest at St. John’s, Lateran, Rome May 1845; transferred to Ireland where he took great interest in promotion of Irish emigration to Queensland; consecrated first bishop of Bathurst, N.S.W. by cardinal Cullen in Dublin Nov. 1865. d. 16 Jany. 1884.

QUINN, Peter. b. 1814; agent for estates in Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Monaghan, Longford and Tipperary; an authority on land questions; was examined before several land commissions; vice-chairman of Newry board of guardians; M.P. Newry 1859–65. d. Drumbanagher Armagh 5 Oct. 1894.

QUINTIN, Louis Charles (son of Monsieur Quintin, chirurgeon-major in the French royal service). b. Brest, Brittany 24 July 1790; entered French navy 1800; served in the Diomeda in action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, wounded and captured after 656 out of the crew of 700 had been killed; a prisoner in England 1806–14; returned to France May 1814, imprisoned there, came back to England, formed one of the cortége of Louis xviii through the streets of London; taught French in Hereford, Monmouth and Shropshire; vice-consul of France at Gloucester 1852 to death; chief founder with E. Lawson of the Philosophical institution at Hereford; author of A general table of the regular and irregular French verbs, with an easy table of their terminations, Hereford 1820. d. Gloucester 20 March 1856. bur. Hampstead near Gloucester.

QUINTON, James Wallace (son of a wine merchant in Enniskillen). b. 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1853; served in the Bengal civil service in the North-West Provinces and Oudh 1856–75; judicial comr. in Burma 1875–7; magistrate and collector of the Allahabad district April 1877, and officiating civil and sessions judge April 1878; comr. in the Jhansi and Lucknow divisions; an additional member of governor-general’s council 1883, 1884, 1886, and 1889; comr. of the Agra division 1884, and member of the board of revenue 1885; member of public service commission 1886; C.S.I. 1887; chief comr. of Assam 22 Oct. 1889 to death; sent to Manipur to arrest the commander of the rebels March 1891; murdered by the rebels in the fort at Manipur 22 March 1891; pensions of £300 and £100 a year granted to his widow and mother. Mrs. Grinwood’s My three years in Manipur (1891); Graphic 18 April 1891 p. 428 portrait; London Figaro 18 April 1891 p. 8 portrait.

QUINTON, Mark, the stage name of Mark Keogh. b. 1859; commenced acting 1869; appeared at a morning performance at Adelphi theatre, London 1882; supported Ada Cavendish in leading characters, she produced and appeared with success in his drama In his power, Royal Alexandra theatre, Liverpool 20 Sept. 1884; supported Miss Adelaide Moore as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Comedy theatre, London 17 June 1890; appeared at Drury Lane as the rev. Mr. Eden in It is never too late to mend 11 April 1891, and as Compton Kerr in Formosa 26 May 1891; with Henry Hamilton he wrote Handfast, produced at the Prince of Wales’ 13 Dec. 1887, revived Shaftesbury theatre 16 May 1891, and Lord Anerley St. James’s 7 Nov. 1891. d. Hampstead 8 Oct. 1891. bur. R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 13 Oct.