Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 6 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 6 of 8)

NOWELL, JOHN. b. Farnley Wood, Yorkshire 1 March 1794; educ. Almondbury gram. sch.; gave lectures in Huddersfield on chemistry; engaged in the fancy trade; aided in founding Huddersfield college; an original member of Archæological soc.; made a copy of the first register book of Almondbury parish 1864; author of An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline 1844; Manual of field gardening or Belgian agriculture made easy 1845, 2 ed. 1846. d. Almondbury 4 March 1869. Hulbert’s Annals (1882) 63, 144, 256, 448–52.

NOWOSIELSKI, FELIX. b. Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. d. London 22 April 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery.

NOYES, THOMAS HERBERT (eld. son of rev. Thomas Herbert Noyes, V. of Bath-Easton, Somerset Dec. 1797 until his death 8 Aug. 1812). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; F.G.S.; author of Some notices of the family of Newton 1857; An Idyll of the Weald, with other lays and legends 1868; Hymns of modern man 1872; translated Lyrics and bucolics, the eclogues of Virgil, a selection of the odes of Horace, &c. 1868; author with G. de Mirelles Soares of Mind or more than matter, a spirit drama, by Pro and Con 1873. d. Craig-en-ross, Millport, Scotland 19 Dec. 1881.

NUGEE, GEORGE (youngest son of Francis James Nugee of St. James’s, London, tailor, d. 1844). b. London 24 July 1819; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., senior classical scholar, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; student at Inner Temple; curate to rev. W. J. E. Bennett at St. Paul’s, Wilton place, London 1845; warden of the House of mercy at Park house, Highgate 1846, a most successful penitentiary; principal of St. Paul’s mission college Dean st. Soho, London; sec. of London diocesan home mission; V. of Wymering and R. of Widley, Hants Jany. 1859–72; founded the order of St. Augustine at Wymering 1872; founded a May meeting at Wymering with a May Queen, and in London with a Rose Queen; founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin at Wymering, a nursing society partly paid by the English government; worked in conjunction with Father Ignatius; founded St. Austin’s priory New Kent road, London 1872, provost 1872 to death; author of The necessity for Christian education to elevate the native character in India 1846; Instruction on confirmation 1848; Emmaus or things in the way 1848; The holy women of the gospel, lectures 1856; A penitential. By G. N. 1857; The words from the cross as applied to our own deathbeds 1856; St. Austin’s mission handbook of prayer and praise 1875; England and the Jews, their destiny and her duty 1881. d. at residence of his brother-in-law, rev. A. J. Street, Talaton rectory, Devon 5 Oct. 1892. The very rev. provost Nugee, M.A., a retrospect reprinted from the South London gazette (1879); Biograph iv 344–50 (1880); Church portrait journal iii 111 (1879) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 626 (1885) portrait.

NUGENT, CHARLES LAVALLIN (son of colonel Andrew Nugent of Portaferry, co. Down). b. 4 Dec. 1815; ensign 58 foot 21 Aug. 1835, major 18 July 1851; major depôt battalion 28 Jany. 1859, placed on h.p. 1 June 1865; deputy judge advocate 1 April 1865 to 30 June 1875; L.G. 16 March 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; served in New Zealand war 1845–6; commanded the advance guard which penetrated the forest at Ruapekapeka, present at the capture of that pah. d. Southsea 3 Nov. 1884.

NUGENT, SIR EDMOND. Alderman of Dublin 15 Jany. 1820, lord mayor 1827–28; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1828; resided at Airfield, St. Dolough’s, co. Dublin. d. 1856.

NUGENT, GEORGE HODGES. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March 1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. d. Mollendo 25 March 1879. I.L.N. lxxv 505 (1879) portrait.

NUGENT, GEORGE WILLIAM. b. 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. d. at his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. bur. St. Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.

NUGENT, LAVALL, Count Nugent (elder son of John Nugent of Ballinacor, co. Wicklow). b. Ballinacor 3 or 30 Nov. 1777; a cadet in the Austrian engineer corps 1 Nov. 1793, captain in the corps to 1 March 1799 when transferred to the quartermaster general’s staff; served in the Italian campaign 1799, and the Marengo campaign 1800; won the cross of Maria Theresa for the battle of Monte Croce 10 April 1800; commandant of 61st infantry regiment 1807–9; served on the staff during campaign of 1809; placed again on active list of Austrian army 1 July 1813; persuaded the Croats to fight against the French on Austria declaring war 11 Aug. 1813; drove the French behind the Isongo after many fights, besieged Trieste castle 16–30 Oct. 1813 when it surrendered; fought actions at Ferrara, Forli and Ravenna, and blockaded Venice Dec. 1813; defeated the French at Reggio, Parma and Piacenza 1814; honorary K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; as commander of a division of Marshall Bianchi’s army entered Florence 15 April 1815; invested Rome early in May 1815; commanded the Austrian troops in Naples 1816; created a prince of the Holy Roman empire 1816; colonel proprietor of 30th infantry regiment 1816; commanded the Neapolitan army as captain-general 1817–20; created a magnate of Hungary 1826; commanded a division at Venice 1828; master of the ordnance and commander of the troops in Lower Austria, the Tyrol, &c. 1830–40; general 1838; commanded in the Banat 1841–2, and in Lower Austria 1843–8; marched into Hungary with a reserve corps which he had organized on breaking out of the revolution 11 Sept. 1848; effected capitulation of Essig 14 Feb. 1849; organised a second reserve corps in Styria, but was driven back towards Servia July 1849; field-marshal Nov. 1849; present as a volunteer at battle of Solferino 24 June 1859. d. Bosilgevo, near Karlstadt, Croatia 21 Aug. 1862.

NUGENT, SIR OLIVER (son of hon. Nicholas Nugent, M.D.) b. Antigua 1815; educ. Edinb. univ.; private sec. to sir Henry Light, governor of Antigua 1836; speaker of legislative assembly Antigua 1845; vice-president of legislative council 1867 and president 1869; commanded Antigua yeomanry cavalry 20 years; member of the executive council of Antigua and the Leeward islands to death; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; president of legislative council of the Leeward islands 1872–81. d. Millars, Antigua 28 Aug. 1894.

NUGENT, SIR PERCY FITZGERALD, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas Fitzgerald). b. Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ. Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831; created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. d. Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. I.L.N. lxv 23 (1874).

NUGENT, ST. GEORGE MERVYN (6 son of C. E. Nugent of Farran Connell house, co. Cavan). b. 19 Jany. 1825; ensign 29 foot 25 Oct. 1842, captain 15 March 1853; served in Sutlej campaign against the Sikhs 1845, present at Ferozeshah, Modkee, and Sobraon where wounded; captain 96 foot 26 Dec. 1854 to 18 Nov. 1859; D.A.A.G. Aldershot 1858–61; A.Q.M.G. Nova Scotia 1861–7, made arrangements for arrival in Halifax of 12,000 men and for sending them on to Rivièrè de Loup in winter; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters, Ireland 1870–5; D.Q.M.G. Malta 1877–8, where he received the Indian troops; A.A. and Q.M.G. North Britain 1878–80; lieut. col. 13 March 1880; hon. M.G. 21 July 1880. d. 29 May 1884. Times 4 June 1884 p. 10.

NUN, RICHARD. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. d. 1867.

NUNN, ANN (dau. of captain Boyle of the R.N.). b. Southampton 1811; first appeared Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. London as Young Norval in Douglas 1824; acted at the New Pavilion, the Queen’s, and Sadler’s Wells; made a provincial tour; acted at the Queen’s, London with Madame Vestris 1829; had the entire lead at Sadler’s Wells under Osbaldiston for one season; acted in Nottingham where she was the original Pauline in the Lady of Lyons in the provinces; acted in Nottingham, Worcester, Liverpool, Norwich, Preston, and Sheffield circuits; appeared at Bradford in West York circuit as Julia in the Hunchback 12 Aug. 1844, remained in the circuit 12 years, often took the parts of Othello, Romeo, Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, and William in Black eyed Susan; was good as Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Constance in the Love Chase, and Miami in the Green Bushes; often played 14 different characters in a week; m. John Nunn a comedian at Bradford; made her last appearance as Mrs. Haller in The stranger and William in Black eyed Susan at Bradford 1863. d. at the residence of her son John F. Nunn, Granville road, Frizinghall, Bradford 1 Nov. 1890. bur. Undercliff cemet. 4 Nov. The Era 8 Nov. 1890.

NUNNELEY, THOMAS (son of John Nunneley). b. Market Harborough, Leics. March 1809; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 12 July 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a surgeon at Leeds 1833 to death; surgeon to the Eye and ear hospital, Leeds, 20 years; lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery in Leeds school of medicine till 1866; surgeon to Leeds general infirmary 1864; gave evidence at the trials of the poisoners Wm. Palmer and Wm. Dove 1856; removed the whole tongue for cancer 1861; performed upwards of 1,000 operations for cataract; author of A treatise on erysipelas 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Anatomical tables 1838; On anæsthesia and anæsthetic substances generally, Worcester 1849; On the organs of vision, their anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 22 Park place, Leeds 1 June 1870. Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii 33 (1867) portrait; Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. vi 354 (1870); Lancet i 823 (1870).

NURSE, WILLIAM MOUNTFORD. b. 1789; a builder; erected some of the terraces which surround Regent’s park, London; resided at 5 Langham place; built the Polytechnic, Regent st. 1837, in Dec. 1838 he leased it to the Polytechnic Institution, which had been incorporated by charter Aug. 1838, erected a new theatre adjoining the building 1847, the Institution took a lease of the new theatre 1848. d. York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 7 Dec. 1855.

NUSSEY, JOHN. L.S.A. 1818; apothecary at 4 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London; apothecary to prince Albert to Dec. 1861; joint apothecary in ordinary to her majesty and the royal household to death; representative of the Apothecaries society of London in the general medical council 29 Oct. 1858, resigned 21 March 1862, treasurer of the council 25 Nov. 1858, resigned 23 June 1860. d. April 1862.

NUTT, DAVID (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). b. 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. d. 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. bur. at Norwood cemet. G.M. xvi 126 (1864).

NUTTALL, JOHN, known as Soldier. b. Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. d. Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. Illust. sporting news v 57 (1866) portrait; Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p. 4.

NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). b. Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii 75, &c. (1889); Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1860) 26–9; Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States (1891) pp. v–vii.

NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). b. London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. d. Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. A. Forbes’s Afghan wars (1892) 299.

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OAKELEY, FREDERICK (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). b. the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. d. 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. Reminiscences of Oxford, edited by L. M. Q. Couch (1892) 301–45; A.R. (1845) 95–6; C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley (1845).

OAKELEY, SOULDEN. b. 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. d. Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.

OAKES, CHARLES HENRY (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). b. 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. d. 16 May 1864.

OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT. b. Sproston house, near Middlewich, Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80; resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April 1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. d. Leam house, 34 Addison road, Kensington 8 July 1887. bur. Brompton cemet. I.L.N. lxviii 469 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiii 462, 476 (1876) portrait.

OAKES, THOMAS GEORGE ALEXANDER. b. 2 June 1827; cornet 12 lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March 1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1 April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Farnham 22 Aug. 1878.

OAKEY, JOHN. b. 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883, and the Crystal palace 1884. d. St. John’s, Victoria road, Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.

OAKLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) b. Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850; scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A. 1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden, London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince Albert Victor 1864. d. Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. G.M. xix 526, 651 (1865); Times 19 Sept. 1865 p. 7, 25 Sept. p. 12.

OAKLEY, HERBERT WILLIAM. b. Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9; distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea, hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). d. Cape Town 14 Nov. 1884.

OAKLEY, JOHN (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land agent). b. Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ. Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union 1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67; secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson, New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6 Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its history 1866. d. Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. bur. Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south aisle of Manchester cathedral. Health Journal (Manchester) June 1887 pp. 11–13 portrait; I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p. 774 portrait; Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p. 788 portrait.

OAKLEY, OCTAVIUS. b. Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley; exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. d. 7 Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. bur. Highgate cemet. Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii 268–71 (1891).

OAKLEY, WILLIAM. b. 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol, Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853. d. the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.

OASTLER, RICHARD (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds, steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, d. July 1820). b. St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled ‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage, Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax 1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation 1855. d. Harrogate 22 Aug. 1861. bur. Kirkstall churchyard, bronze statue by J. B. Philip at Bradford, unveiled 15 May 1869. Sketch of the life and opinions of R. Oastler, Leeds (1838) portrait; Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 499–503, 671; Spence’s Eminent men of Leeds pp. 53–9 with portrait; R. Oastler’s Fleet papers, vol. 1, number 12 portrait; Illust. news of the world viii 245 (1861) portrait; I.L.N. iv 156 (1844) portrait.

OATES, FRANCIS (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside, Yorkshire). b. Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America 1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873 and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river; started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi 31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. d. of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. Matabele land and the Victoria falls, a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F. Oates, ed. by C. J. Oates 1881, 2 ed. (1889) memoir pp. xix–xlii and portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv, p. clii (1875).

OATES, JAMES POOLE. b. 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797, captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. d. 6 Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.

OATES, WILLIAM WILFRID. b. 1828; publisher of Roman catholic books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st. Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and Oates to death. d. 28 Dec. 1876.

O’BRIEN, BARTHOLOMEW (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown, Canterbury). b. 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15 April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major 20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859, placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March 1885.

O’BRIEN, CORNELIUS (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co. Clare). b. Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. d. about 1857.

O’BRIEN, DOMINIC. b. Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome 1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855 to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. d. at the Episcopal residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. bur. in St. John’s cath. Munster Express 14 June 1873 p. 4; Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 76 (1876).

O’BRIEN, DONAT HENCHY (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon, co. Clare). b. Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec. 1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March 1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811; commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21; captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2 vols. 1839 portrait. d. Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857, memorial window in Broxbourne church.

O’BRIEN, FITZ JAMES (son of an attorney-at-law). b. Limerick 1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times, American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres; the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York; joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. d. Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a skirmish 26 Feb. bur. Greenwood cemetery. The Diamond Lens (1887) memoir pp. vii–xx; Appleton’s American Biography iv 549 (1888) portrait.

O’BRIEN, JAMES (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co. Longford, wine merchant). b. 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative, which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840 on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the ‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec. 1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. d. Hermes st. Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartist movement (1854) 114 et seq.

O’BRIEN, JAMES. b. 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863; P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s, or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p. 319 et seq. d. St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.

O’BRIEN, JAMES (3 son of James O’Brien of Limerick). b. Limerick 27 Feb. 1806; educ. at Belfast institution and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; third serjeant at law 1848–51; second serjeant at law 1851 to 25 Jany. 1858; bencher of Kings inns 1849; M.P. Limerick 1854–8; justice of court of queen’s bench 25 Jany. 1858 to death. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 29 Dec. 1881. Law mag. and law review iii 209 (1857); Law times lxxii 176 (1882).

O’BRIEN, JAMES THOMAS (son of Michael Burke O’Brien, corporation officer of New Ross, Westmeath, d. 1826). b. New Ross, Sept. 1792; educ. endowed school of New Ross; a pensioner at Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1810, scholar 1813, gold medalist 1815, fellow 1820–36, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1831; one of the six Dublin univ. preachers 1828–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 30 March 1833; voted freedom of borough of New Ross Sept. 1826; V. of Clondahorky, Raphoe 1836–7; V. of Arboe, Armagh 1837–41; dean of Cork 9 Nov. 1841, instituted 5 Jany. 1842; bishop of Ossory, Fearns, and Leighlin 9 March 1842 to death, consecrated in Trinity college chapel 20 March 1842; restored the use of the offertory in the cathedral; author of An attempt to explain the doctrine of justification by faith only, in ten sermons 1833, 3 ed. 1863; Sermons upon the nature and effects of faith 1833, 5 ed. 1891; Tractarianism, its present state and the only safeguard against it 1850; and 20 other books. d. 49 Thurlow sq. London 12 Dec. 1874. bur. in churchyard of St. Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny 19 Dec. W. G. Carroll’s Memoir of J. T. O’Brien (1875) portrait.

O’BRIEN, JOHN (brother of James O’Brien 1806–81). M.P. city of Limerick 1841–52; of Elmvale, co. Clare. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 5 Feb. 1855. Freeman’s Journal 7 Feb. 1855 p. 3.

O’BRIEN, JOHN (son of a solicitor by a Miss Nalder). b. Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1811; educ. Trinity college, Dublin to 1834; a sporting man residing at Limmer’s hotel, London 1844, and setting up for a leader of fashion; had horses trained by Thomas Dawson of Middleham; purchased Traverser colt 1843, with whom he won many races; purchased Grimston and Jonathan Wild, won Goodwood stakes with the latter and the Goodwood cup with Grimston 1846; said to be worth £25,000 after the Goodwood of 1846; lost all his money by 1848; pawned some paintings on which the Bishop of Bond st. (Wm. Bishop d. 1871) had made advances, sent to Newgate 1862; fined £100 for an assault on Dollar Smith 1862; became a broken down swell. d. Nenagh 29 Sept. 1869. Sporting Times 22 Aug. 1885 p. 2.

O’BRIEN, JOSEPH. b. 1793; entered navy 25 June 1807; lieut. in the Impregnable at bombardment of Algiers 1816; commander of the Beaver sloop 1826; captain 8 Aug. 1829, when he went on h.p; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Fareham 17 Nov. 1865.

O’BRIEN, MATTHEW (son of Matthew O’Brien, M.D.). b. Ennis 1814; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1834, junior fellow 1840–1; third wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; moderator in the mathematical tripos 1843–4; lecturer on practical astronomy at R.M.A. Woolwich 10 Jany. 1849 to death; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in King’s college, London 8 March 1844 to 17 Aug. 1854; author of Mathematical tracts, Part i on Laplace’s Coefficients 1840, no more published; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1842; The senate house problems for 1844, with solutions 1844; A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry 1844, part i; On a new notation for expressing conditions and equations in geometry 1847. d. Petit Ménage, Jersey 22 Aug. 1855.

O’BRIEN, MICHAEL WILLIAM (son of William O’Brien). b. 29 Sept. 1813; educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; barrister L.I. 5 May 1842; revising barrister 1854; serjeant at law 13 May 1862; recorder of Lincoln Jan. 1872 to death. d. 57 Brunswick road, Brighton 2 June 1873. Law times lv 209 (1873).

O’BRIEN, SIR PATRICK, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Timothy O’Brien, d. 1862). b. Dublin 1823; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847; called to the Irish bar 1844; M.P. King’s county 1852–85; succeeded to the baronetcy 4 Dec. 1862; refused to cooperate with the Parnellite party; at one time he complained to the speaker of the insolence of a member, whom he called ‘the young sea serpent from county Clare’; a well known member of the Reform club; author of Notes of interviews with the ministers of France in reference to the policy of Louis Napoleon 1852; The French and English in Rome, with notes of interviews with the Pope and cardinal Antonelli 1853; Journal of a residence in the Danubian principalities 1854; resided 10 Bryanstown square, London. d. 20 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 25 April 1895.

O’BRIENN, TERENCE. Lieut. 87 foot 7 Jany. 1819, major 18 April 1845 to 31 July 1846, when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1855 to 6 Nov. 1860; commanded the troops in Ceylon 6 Nov. 1860 to death; M.G. 13 Feb. 1861; granted service reward 10 Nov. 1856. d. on board P. and O. ship Golconda at Suez 27 July 1865, aged 66.

O’BRIEN, SIR TIMOTHY, 1 Baronet (son of Timothy O’Brien of Tinnekilly, co. Tipperary). b. co. Tipperary 1790; merchant; Spanish consul and consul for Parma and Placentia 50 Fleet st. Dublin; governor of the Hibernian bank; lord mayor of Dublin 1844 and 1849; M.P. Cashel 1846–59; created baronet 25 Aug. 1849 on occasion of the queen’s visit to Ireland. d. 14 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 4 Dec. 1862.

O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SHONEY. b. Abbeyleix, Ireland 1825; emigrated to New York, admitted a citizen 1845; worked in the mines in California 1849; with J. C. Flood kept the Auction lunch saloon, San Francisco 1854–66; a ship chandler; with J. C. Flood, J. S. Fair and John Mackey held the silver mine on the Comstock ledge, Nevada, called the big bonanza 1874, from which they gained immense wealth, and became known as the Bonanza Kings, he held one fifth part of the mine. d. San Rafael, California 2 May 1878, left from 15 million to 20 million dollars. Appleton’s American biography iv 551 (1888).

O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet 1773–1837). b. Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P. Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s ‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May; made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846; chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13 Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick 29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales 1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation 15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July 1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug., tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. d. Penrhyn arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. bur. Rathronan churchyard, co. Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. Cusack’s The liberator: his life and times (1872) 573–5; Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 469–533 (1850); Sullivan’s New Ireland i 163–8 (1877); Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii 465–96 (1851); T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the arrest of W. S. O’Brien 1846; J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial of W. S. O’Brien for high treason 1849; I.L.N. iv 424 (1844) portrait, viii 300 (1846) portrait, xiii 92, 220 (1848) portrait.

O’BRYAN, WILLIAM (2 son of Mr. Bryant). b. Gunwen, Luxulyan, Cornwall 6 Feb. 1778; converted 5 Nov. 1795; changed his name to O’Bryan; preached in East Cornwall and West Devon; resided for some years at Liskeard; expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist society Nov. 1810; formed a small sect constituted under name of Arminian Bible Christians, otherwise Bryanites, at Lake in Cornwall 1815; the greater part of his adherents seceded in 1829, and founded a separate society under the name of Bible Christians; emigrated to U.S. of America 1831, preached a great deal, but was not able to found a church; author of The rules of society, or a guide to conduct for those who desire to be Arminian Bible Christians, 2 ed. 1812; A collection of hymns for the use of the people called Arminian Bible Christians, Stoke Damerel 1825; Travels in the United States of America 1836. d. Brooklyn, New York 8 Jany. 1868. Thorne’s William O’Bryan (1888); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 406.

O’BRYEN, JAMES JOSEPH (son of Terence O’Bryen of Glancolumbhill, co. Clare). b. 1823; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 22 Nov. 1843, served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and was present in battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon, medal and two clasps; adjutant of the 16 N.I. till his regiment was disbanded in the mutiny 1857; barrack master at Moradabad and at Almorah; second in command of the 16 or Lucknow regt.; joined the staff corps on its formation, major 22 Nov. 1863, second in command of 22 Punjab N.I. 1864, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1869, served in Lushai expedition 1872, medal and clasp, colonel 1874, present in Jowaki campaign 1877, marched with his regt. into Afghanistan Dec. 1879. d. Safed Sang 22 Jany. 1880. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 150–1 portrait, plate xii.

O’CALLAGHAN, EDMUND BAILEY. b. Mallow near Cork 28 Feb. 1797; studied medicine in Paris 1820–2; emigrated to Canada 1823; practised at Quebec 1827–30; assisted in forming the association called The Friends of Ireland, in Quebec; removed to Montreal 1830; edited The Vindicator, the organ of the Canadian patriots 1834, the office of his paper was wrecked by members of the tory Doric club 6 Nov. 1835; member for Yamaska in the assembly of Upper Canada 1835; fought on the side of the revolutionists at battle of St. Denis 23 Nov. 1837, when the rising failed he fled to U.S. of America, a reward was offered for his apprehension as a traitor 29 Nov. 1837; practised as a doctor at Albany; edited The Northern Light, an industrial journal; hon. M.D. univ. of St. Louis 1846, and LL.D. St. John’s college, Fordham, Massachusetts; edited State records, or documentary history of the state of New York, 11 vols. 1849–51; author of The late session of the provincial parliament of Lower Canada, by An old countryman 1836; History of New Netherlands, or New York under the Dutch, 2 vols. 1846–8; Jesuit relations of discoveries in Canada and the northern and western states 1636–72, 1847; A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures printed in America 1861. d. 651 Lexington avenue, New York 29 May 1880. bur. Calvary cemetery 2 June. Magazine of American history July 1880 pp. 77–80.

O’CALLAGHAN, JOHN CORNELIUS (son of John O’Callaghan, attorney). b. Dublin 1805; educ. at Jesuit coll. at Clongowes Wood; called to Irish bar 1829, but did not practice; wrote for The Comet, Dublin weekly paper 1830–3, then for The Irish monthly magazine, his contributions to these two periodicals were published under title of The Green Book, or gleanings from the writing desk of a literary agitator 1841, 2 ed. 1845; was on the staff of The Nation newspaper 1842, using the signature of Gracchus, wrote The Exterminator’s song in the first number; edited Charles O’Kelly’s Macariæ Excidium, or the destruction of Cyprus 1846, being the secret history of the revolution in Ireland from 1688–91; author of The Irish in the English army and navy 1843; History of the Irish brigade in the service of France, Dublin 1854, vol. 1, another ed. Glasgow 1870. d. Fitzgibbon street, Dublin 24 April 1883. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland i, 18, 103 (1884); Irish Monthly xvii 503 (1889), xviii 411–21 (1890); Freeman’s Journal 25 April 1883 and 5 Feb. 1892.

O’CALLAGHAN, WILLIAM FREDERICK ORMONDE (2 son of 2 viscount Lismore, b. 1815). b. London 14 Nov. 1852; educ. Eton 1868 etc.; M.P. co. Tipperary Feb. 1874 to death. d. 20 April 1877. Times 23 April 1877 p. 6.

OCEANA, stage name of Oceana Renz (dau. of Ethardo the spiral ascensionist). b. at sea and christened Oceana 1858; a slack wire walker, first came out in Italy 1865; first appeared in England at the Canterbury music hall; played at the Cirque d’eté, Paris 1878; acted Leo in Les pirates de la Savane at the Théâtre des nations, Paris; was for some seasons at the Hippodrome, Paris; visited all the capitals of Europe; appeared with W. Holland’s circus at Covent Garden theatre, London Dec. 1884; m. Ernest Renz of the Circus Renz, Berlin, who is dead; last appeared in England at the Trocadero music hall 1883. d. of paralysis at Nice 17 April 1895. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii 412, 461 (1885) portrait.

O’CONNELL, CHARLES (son of Daniel O’Connell of Porthagee, co. Kerry). b. 1805; M.P. co. Kerry 1833–4; resident magistrate in Bantry 1847 to death. d. Ballynabloun, co. Kerry 20 Jany. 1877. Times 23 Jany. 1877 p. 6.

O’CONNELL, SIR JAMES, (1 Baronet) 4 son of Morgan O’Connell of Carhen, co. Kerry 1739–1809). b. Carhen house, co. Kerry 10 Jany. 1786; educ. Cork; created baronet 29 Oct. 1869. d. Lakeview, near Killarney 28 July 1872. I.L.N. lxi 143 (1872).

O’CONNELL, JOHN (3 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. Dublin 24 Dec. 1810; called to the Irish bar 1837; M.P. Youghall 15 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; M.P. Athlone 1837–41; M.P. Kilkenny 1841–7; M.P. Limerick 1847–51; M.P. Clonmel 21 Dec. 1853 to Feb. 1857; helped his father in the repeal agitation and prepared reports for the repeal association; tried with his father in the court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844, sentenced to 9 months imprisonment and to pay a fine of £50, 30 May, imprisoned in Richmond gaol 30 May, released 4 Sept., the house of lords having reversed the judgment of the queen’s bench; succeeded his father as head of the repeal association in Ireland, which was dissolved for want of funds 6 June 1848; carried on an agitation under popular name of the ‘Young Liberator’; clerk of the Hanaper office, Ireland Feb. 1857 to death; edited The life of Daniel O’Connell, 2 vols. 1846; The select speeches of D. O’Connell, 2 vols. 1854–5; author of An argument for Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1847; Recollections and experiences during a parliamentary career, 2 vols. 1849. d. Gowran hill, Kingstown, near Dublin 24 May 1858. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 28 May. Reports of state trials, n.s., vol. v (1893); Shaw’s Report of the Irish state trials (1844); I.L.N. iv, 88 (1844) portrait.

O’CONNELL, MAURICE (brother of preceding). b. 1803; called to Irish bar 1827; M.P. Clare 1831–2; M.P. borough of Tralee 1832 to death; wrote in Mrs. Johnstone’s Edinburgh Tales, 3 vols. 1845–6, The Legend of the Big fluke ii, 144–7, and The Ross Beh wrecker ii, 147–51. d. London 17 June 1853. I.L.N. xxii 507 (1853).

NOTE.--Daniel O’Connell, his 3 sons, and 2 of his sons-in-law were all members of the first reformed parliament.

O’CONNELL, SIR MAURICE CHARLES (elder son of general sir Maurice Charles Philip O’Connell, acting governor of N.S.W. 1846, d. Sydney 25 May 1848). b. Sydney Jany. 1812; educ. East Sheen 1819, and the high sch. Edinb.; ensign 73 foot 25 March 1828, lieut. 25 Nov. 1831, placed on h.p. 24 July 1835; lieut. col. of the 10 Munster light infantry 1835, which he had raised in Ireland for service under queen Isabella of Spain against Don Carlos; was present in several engagements between the Christinos and the Carlists; D.A.G. of the British legion in Spain, and then general of brigade 1836, the British legion was disbanded at San Sebastian 1837; created knight commander of Isabella the Catholic, knight of San Fernando, and knight extraordinary of Charles III.; lieut. 51 foot 25 Nov. 1837; captain 28 foot 22 June 1838, sold out 24 May 1844; military secretary to his father in N.S.W.; settled in N.S.W. as a breeder of horses 1844, a great authority on breeding; contested Sydney for the first legislative council 1843; member for Port Philip Aug. 1845 to 7 Nov. 1848; a comr. for crown lands in the Burnett district 7 Nov. 1848; government resident comr. of crown lands and police magistrate of Port Curtis Jany. 1854 to 10 Dec. 1859; member of the first legislative council of Queensland 29 May 1860, president of the council Aug. 1860 to death; administered the government of Queensland 4 Jany. to 14 Aug. 1868, 2 Jany. to 12 Aug. 1871, 12 Nov. 1874 to 23 Jany. 1875; knighted by patent 6 March 1871; colonel commandant of Queensland volunteers; provincial grand master of the freemasons of the Irish constitution. d. Brisbane 23 March 1879, bust in Queensland council chamber, presented to him by the council 1878. Heads of the people i 79 (1847) portrait, ii 113 (1848) portrait of his wife.

O’CONNELL, MORGAN (2 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. 30 Merrion sq. Dublin 31 Oct. 1804; an officer in the Irish South American legion which served under Bolivar in Bolivia about 1821–5; served in the Austrian army; M.P. Meath 19 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; first assistant registrar of deeds for Ireland, with £1200 a year, Jany. 1840 granted pension of £780, 22 Oct. 1869; fought a duel with 2 baron Alvanlay at Chalk Farm, London 4 May 1835, when neither was wounded; challenged by Benjamin Disraeli Dec. 1835, but declined to fight. d. 12 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Jany. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 23 Jany. Hitchman’s Public life of Earl of Beaconsfield (1881) 47–55; Irish Monthly xv 160–5 (1887).

O’CONNELL, MORGAN DAVID. Educ. Dublin univ. and Glasgow univ., M.D. 1838; L.M. Dublin lying-in-hospital 1833; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1835, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; a surgeon in British army; joined the British legation at Madrid 1830, helped to suppress rebellion against queen Isabella, served in several engagements, received gold medal and clasp of the legion of honour, bearing inscription ‘Spain intends to show her gratitude’; created a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand; settled at Kilmallock as a surgeon. d. Kilmallock 23 Jany. 1887.

O’CONNELL, MORGAN JOHN (1 son of John O’Connell of Grena, co. Kerry). b. 27 Aug. 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; student Gray’s Inn 4 May 1833, readmitted 11 June 1851, called 7 June 1852; M.P. co. Kerry 1835–52; one of the most popular Irish members; succeeded to the Coppinger estates, co. Cork. d. at the residence of his father-in-law Carlo Bianconi, Longfield, Tipperary 2 July 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).

O’CONNOR, ARTHUR (3 son of Roger Connor of Connerville). b. Mitchelstown, co. Cork 4 July 1765; fellow commoner of Trin. coll. Dublin 1779 under name of Arthur Connor, B.A. 1782; called to Irish bar Nov. 1788; member for Philipstown in the Irish parliament 1791, resigned his seat 4 May 1795; joined the United Irishmen 1796; formed with lord Edward Fitzgerald the first Leinster Directory 1796; arrested for seditious libel Feb. 1797, imprisoned in Dublin Castle six months; chief editor of The Press, the organ of the United Irishmen 1797; tried at Maidstone, Kent May 1798 for high treason, when acquitted, but detained as a state prisoner 1798–1803 for negotiating with the French general Hoche; confined at Fort George, Scotland April 1799, released and went to France June 1803; appointed by Bonaparte a general of division 29 Feb. 1804; m. 1807 Eliza de Condorcet, only dau. of Marquis de Condorcet, the mathematician; resided in Rue de Tournon, Paris 1818–34, and in the chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 1834 to death; became a naturalised Frenchman 1818 and took name of Arthur Condorcet O’Connor; author of The measures of ministry to prevent a revolution are the certain means of bringing it on. By a Stoic, Cork 1794; A letter to the earl of Carlisle 1795; Speech on the Catholic bill 1795, 3 ed. 1796; State of Ireland 1798; Etat actuel de la Grande Bretagne 1804; Monopoly the cause of all evil, 3 vols. 1848; edited with Arago The works of Condorcet, 12 vols. 1847–9. d. Chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 25 April 1852. Madden’s United Irishmen, 2nd series, ii 289–324 (1842); Biographical Anecdotes of the founders of the Irish rebellion. By A candid observer (1799) 38–43; Biographie Générale xxxviii 451–4 (1862).

O’CONNOR, FEARGUS (son of Roger O’Connor of Connorville, co. Cork, Irish nationalist 1762–1834). b. Dangan castle, co. Meath 18 July 1794; educ. at Portarlington gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar; took part in the reform agitation in co. Cork 1831; travelled through the country organising the registration of the new electorate 1832; M.P. co. Cork 29 Dec. 1832, re-elected 24 Jany. 1835 but unseated June 1835 not having the necessary property qualification; contested Oldham 8 July 1835, but received only 32 votes; founded the central committee of radical unions 1836, and the London democratic association 1837; established 18 Nov. 1837 the Northern Star, weekly radical paper published at Leeds, which became the official chartist paper 1838; took the chief part in the chartist convention which met in London 4 Feb. 1839, dissolved 14 Sept.; tried at York 17 March 1840 for seditious libels published in the Northern Star July 1839, sentenced 11 May 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment in York castle, released Sept. 1841; one of the 59 persons tried at Lancaster 1 March 1843, for taking part in the ‘Plug riots’ of Aug. 1842, he was convicted but never called up for judgment; with Mr. Grath held a public debate with Bright and Cobden 5 Aug. 1844; inaugurated the chartist co-operative land company 24 Oct. 1846, afterwards altered to the National land co.; edited with Ernest Jones The Labourer, a monthly magazine, vols. 1–4, 1847–8; purchased estates of W. B. Cliffe, 500 acres for £20,000, Feb. 1847; M.P. Nottingham 1847–52; moved for a committee on the union with Ireland 7 Dec. 1847, when defeated by 232 votes; presided at the chartist meeting on Kennington common 10 April 1848, and presented the chartist petition to the house of commons same evening; went to U.S. of America spring of 1852; grossly insulted Beckett Denison, M.P. in the house of commons 9 June 1852, when committed to custody of the sergeant-at-arms; pronounced to be insane by two medical men 10 June, confined in Dr. Tuke’s asylum at Chiswick June 1852 to 20 Aug. 1854; author of A state of Ireland showing the rise and progress of the present disaffection, Cork 1820; A series of letters to Daniel O’Connell on Catholic emancipation 1836; The trial of Feargus O’Connor, edited by himself, Manchester 1843; A practical work on the management of small farms 1846. d. at his sister’s house 18 Albert terrace, Notting hill, London 30 Aug. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 Sept. when 50,000 persons were present. Reports of state trials, n.s., iii 1299–1311 (1891), iv 935–1248, 1352–65 (1892); The Labourer, vol. 2 (1848) portrait; R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism 1854 p. 19 et seq.; J. Frost’s Forty years’ recollections (1880) 169–85; G.M. xliv 545–7 (1855); I.L.N. i 344 (1842) portrait, xii 243 (1848) portrait; Michael Mc Donagh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 83–6.

O’CONNOR, JOHN (son of Mr. O’Connor who emigrated from Kerry to Boston, U.S. 1823). b. Boston Jany. 1824; educ. in co. Essex, Ontario; a farm labourer, lost his leg by an accident; called to the bar in Ontario Jany. 1854; admitted to practise law in state of Michigan, and was thus an American citizen and a British subject at the same time, the point was tested in an election trial between him and Wm. M’Gregor 1874; reeve of Windsor and warden of Essex county; M.P. for Essex in Canadian legislature 1867–74, president of the council; minister of inland revenue and postmaster general successively 1872–3 and 1878–84; Q.C. 1873; M.P. Russell county 1878–84; puisne judge of queen’s bench division, Ontario 17 Sept. 1884 to death. d. Cobourg, Ontario 3 Nov. 1887. Law Journal 10 Dec. 1887 p. 661 col. 2.

O’CONNOR, JOHN (3 son of Francis O’Connor). b. co. Londonderry 12 Aug. 1830; call-boy at the T.R. Dublin 1842; painted scenery for sir E. Tierney 1844, and for earl of Bective 1847; a scene-painter at Drury Lane theatre April 1848, and at Haymarket theatre Oct. 1848, principal scene-painter there 1863–78; visited Ireland at time of the queen’s visit 1849, on return to London painted for Philip Phillips a diorama of The Queen’s visit to Ireland, which was exhibited in the Chinese gallery; A.R.H.A.; exhibited 20 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. 1853–80; drawing master to the London and south western literary and scientific institution 1855–8; painted scenery for Shakespeare tercentary performances at Stratford-on-Avon 1864; took a studio with lord Ronald Gower at 47 Leicester sq. 1872; painted act-drops for the new Sadler’s Wells theatre 1879, St. James’s theatre, and the Minuet act-drop at Haymarket theatre 1879; built a house at 28 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood 1877, and lived there to 1888; painted The marriage of princess Louise and the marquess of Lorne 1871, The thanksgiving service in St. Paul’s 1872, and The jubilee service in Westminster abbey 1887; designed and directed many of the tableaux vivants held at Cromwell house and elsewhere; a member of the Cambridge amateur dramatic club for which he painted scenery many years. d. Heathcroft, Blackwater, Hampshire 23 May 1889. bur. Finchley cemetery.

O’CONNOR, JOHN (son of Edward O’Connor of Mulgeeth house, co. Kildare). b. 1 May 1837; proprietor of many licensed houses in Dublin, and of a bacon curing establishment under the name of Donnelly & Co.; a representative of Inns-quay ward, Dublin 1880, alderman 1883, lord mayor of Dublin 1885; contested co. Kildare April 1880; M.P. South Kerry Dec. 1885, resigned Sept. 1887. d. 23 Rutland square, Dublin 12 Jany. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 15 Jany. Freeman’s Journal 13 Jany. 1891 p. 5, 15 Jany. p. 3.

O’CONNOR, LUKE SMYTHE. b. Dublin 15 April 1806; ensign 1 West India regiment 27 April 1827, lieut. col. 21 Sept. 1855 to 29 July 1862; governor of the Gambia and commander of the troops in West Africa Sept. 1852; stormed Sabbajee the stronghold of the Mohammedan rebels of Combo 1 June 1853, and acquired by treaty considerable’ territory; stormed their stockade in the pass of Boccow Kooka 4 Aug. 1855; brigadier general commanding the troops during the rebellion in Jamaica 1865; member of privy council and president of legislative council of Jamaica; acting governor; granted distinguished service reward 27 Nov. 1855; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; M.G. 24 April 1866. d. 7 Racknistrasse, Dresden 24 March 1873. A. B. Ellis’s History of First West India regiment (1885) 211, 365; A. B. Ellis’s The land of the Fetish (1883) p. 6 et seq.

O’CONNOR, MICHAEL. b. near Cork 27 Sept. 1810; ordained R.C. priest 1 June 1833; professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college, Rome 1833, vice-rector; pastor of Fermoy, Ireland 1834–9; professor in ecclesiastical seminary of St. Charles Boromeo, Philadelphia 1839, president about 1840; built the church of St. Francis Xavier in Fairmount, Philadelphia; vicar general of western part of diocese of Philadelphia 1841; bishop of Pittsburg 1843, consecrated 15 Aug. 1843; introduced the order of St. Benedict for the first time into the U.S. of America 1846; brought a colony of Passionists from Europe, to Pittsburg 1852; finished the Pittsburg cathedral 1855, resigned his see 1860; entered a Jesuit monastery in Germany 1860; professor of theology in Woodstock college, Maryland 1862; socius to the provincial of the Jesuits, and preacher and lecturer in most of the great cities. d. Woodstock 18 Oct. 1872. Appleton’s American Biography iv 553 (1888) portrait.

O’CONOR, DENIS MAURICE (2 son of Denis O’Conor of Belangare, called The O’Conor Don). b. 1840; educ. Downside coll. near Bath; M.A. univ. of London 1861, LL.D. 1866; sheriff of Roscommon 1865; barrister M.T. 30 April 1866; M.P. co. Sligo 2 Dec. 1868 to death. d. 110 Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London 26 July 1883.

O’CONOR, SIR RICHARD (2 son of sir Patrick O’Conor of Cork). b. Marble hill, co. Cork 1784; entered navy Sept. 1798; superintendent of the naval yards on the Canadian lakes 1813; commanded the boats at the capture of Oswego 1814; captain 16 Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired 1 Oct. 1846; a retired R.A. 2 Sept. 1850. d. 73 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1855.

O’CONOR, THOMAS. b. Dublin 1 Sept. 1770; went to U.S. of America 1801; established with Wm. Kernan a settlement on a tract of 40,000 acres in Steuben, co. New York; resided in New York many years before his death; edited various periodicals, including the Military monitor established 1812, the Shamrock and the Globe founded 1819; author of Selections from several literary works 1821; The Inquisition examined by An impartial observer 1825. d. New York 9 Feb. 1855.

O’CONOR, WILLIAM ANDERSON. b. Cork 1820; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1849, B.A. 1864; entered St. Aidan’s theological college at Birkenhead, and became lecturer on Latin; ordained to curacy of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool 1853; C. of St. Thomas’s, Liverpool 1854; C. of St. Michael with St. Olave, Chester 1855–8; R. of St. Simon and St. Jude, Manchester 1858 to death; wrote many papers for Manchester statistical society and Manchester literary club 1875 etc.; author of Miracles not antecedently incredible 1861; Faith and works 1868, 5 ed. 1885; The truth and the church 1869; A commentary on the epistle to the Romans 1871, 2 ed. 1886; The epistle to the Hebrews, with an introduction and notes 1872; A commentary on the gospel of St. John 1874; A commentary on Galatians with a revised text 1876; History of the Irish people, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1886; The Irish massacre of 1641, 1885. d. Torquay 22 March 1887. W. A. O’Conor’s Essays in literature and ethics, edited by W. E. A. Axon (1889) memoir pp. v–xvii portrait; The Manchester Quarterly Jany. 1891 pp. 1–26 portrait.

O’CURRY, or CURRY, EUGENE (son of Owen or Eugene O’Curry of Dunaha near Carrigaholt, co. Clare, farmer). b. Dunaha 1796; called Owen Oge or Young Owen; worked on a farm; an assistant in Limerick county lunatic asylum to 1834; employed in the topographical and historical section of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1834–7; copied, arranged, and examined Irish manuscripts in the royal Irish academy, Trin. coll. Dublin, and elsewhere 1847; member of council of Celtic society 1852, which in 1855 published a text and translation by O’Curry of two mediæval Irish tales: Cath Mhuighe Leana (The battle of the Plain of Leana) and Tochmarc Momera (The courtship of Momera); examined the Irish manuscripts in the British Museum 1849 and 1855, and wrote the manuscript catalogue of them for the library, a folio volume of 319 pages; professor of Irish history and archæology in the newly founded Catholic univ. of Ireland 1854 to death; delivered his first course of lectures 1855–6, 21 lectures by him were published at the university’s expense 1860; made facsimile copies of a genealogical manuscript of Duald Mac Firbis 1836, and of the Book of Lismore 1839 for the R.I.A., and of the Book of Lecan and the Leabhar Breac for Trin. coll. Dublin; copied eight large vols. of 2906 pages of the ancient Irish law tracts, and wrote out 13 vols. of a rough preliminary translation; edited A collection of ancient Irish law tracts, printed in facsimile 1860; Ancient laws of Ireland 1865; author of Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history 1861; On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish, 3 vols. 1873. d. 2 Portland st. north, Dublin 30 July 1862. bur. Glasnevin cemetery. Irish monthly mag. April 1874 pp. 191–210.

ODAMS, JAMES (son of a land steward). b. Wavenden, Bucks. 6 May 1815; apprentice to a chemist at Northampton; chemist and druggist Rye street, Bishops Stortford from 1837; one of the first to advocate use of artificial manure; assisted to send seeds to French farmers after Franco-German war 1871; erected cattle markets, on 10 acres, near Victoria dock, London, for foreign cattle to prevent contagion to English stock 1866; patented a manure made from blood and formed a company to manufacture it, called the Blood manure and nitro-phosphate co., of which he was managing director 1851; author of Why have a foreign cattle market on the Thames, and where 1866; Racks and troughs, remarks on transmission of cattle by rail 1873. d. The Grange, Bishops Stortford, Herts 6 Feb. 1881. bur. Bishops Stortford cemetery 11 Feb. Live stock journal 11 Feb. 1881 pp. 119–20; The Farmer 14 Feb. 1881 p. 253; I.L.N. 26 Feb. 1881 p. 216 portrait.

ODGER, GEORGE, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). b. Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International association; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international association of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger v. the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. d. 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March 1877. bur. Brompton cemetery 10 March. The life of George Odger (1877); London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait; W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 350–2; Graphic xv 270 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 257 (1877) portrait; Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 633–4; Littell’s Living age cxxxiii 2 (1877), a poem.

O’DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES. b. Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gondoline, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. d. the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. Art Journal (1861) 252, (1868) 73.

O’DONEL, SIR GEORGE CLENDINING, 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). b. Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. d. Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889.

O’DONNELL, SIR CHARLES ROUTLEDGE (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). b. 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hussars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hussars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. d. Donyland lodge, near Colchester 18 Nov. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 555 (1870).

O’DONNELL, JOHN FRANCIS (son of a shopkeeper). b. Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Franciscans 1871. d. London 7 May 1874. bur. Kensal Green cemet. J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems (1891) memoir pp. vii–xxi; M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 94–8 two portraits.

O’DONNELL, LAURENCE, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. d. Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. bur. 25 June. The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p. 2, 27 June p. 2.

O’DONNELL, MATTHEW (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). b. 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Westmeath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the assistant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords 1840. d. 36 Mountjoy square, Dublin 20 Jany. 1876. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. Law Times lx 279 (1876); Irish Law Times x 61 (1876).

O’DONNELL, PATRICK. b. Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witness in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, hanged at Newgate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. I.L.N. lxxxiii 300, 302, 545 (1883) two portraits.

O’DONOGHUE, DANIEL, known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, d. 1833). b. 1833; educ. Stonyhurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expression of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. d. Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p. 97, view of the O’Donoghue addressing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London.

O’DONOGHUE, JOHN. b. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty sessions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. d. 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893.

O’DONOGHUE, PATRICK. b. Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. d. New York Feb. 1854.

O’DONOVAN, EDMUND (son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and assistant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Carlist rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was killed 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; brass tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections (1892) 1–25; Graphic xxiv 609 (1881) portrait, xxviii 529 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 96 (1883) portrait, lxxxiii 532 (1883) portrait, lxxxv 576 (1884) portrait.

O’DONOVAN, JOHN (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, d. 29 July 1817). b. at farm of Attateemore, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commission for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior classes in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. d. 36 Upper Buckingham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan; J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi 2160–1 (1851); Dublin univ. mag. lix 85–8 (1862).

O’DOWD, JAMES KLYNE. b. 1802; called to Irish bar Michaelmas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; assistant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. d. 24 Nov. 1879. Law Times lxviii 140 (1879).

NOTE.--It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862.

O’DWYER, ANDREW CAREW (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Waterford, merchant). b. 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical press during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. d. 15 Nov. 1877. Law Times lxiv 91 (1877).

O’FARRELL, MICHAEL JOSEPH. b. Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; professor in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. d. Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894.

O’FERRALL, RICHARD MORE (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). b. Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Longford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. d. Kingstown, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i 394, ii 110, 558 (1880).

OFFICER, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Officer). b. Scotland 1800; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., B.A., M.A.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; went to Van Diemen’s Land; government medical officer for New Norfolk; practised at Hobart Town in partnership with James Wilson Agnew; assistant colonial surgeon in Van Diemen’s Land; member of the legislative council for Buckingham 1853; member of house of assembly for Glenorchy Sept. 1856 to April 1877, chairman of committees 1856–61; speaker of the house Aug. 1861 to April 1877; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Hall Green, near New Norfolk, Tasmania 8 July 1879.

OFFOR, GEORGE (son of George Offor). b. 1787; bookseller at 2 Postern row, Tower Hill, London, where he acquired a fortune; made a collection of early printed English bibles, psalters, and testaments, and a unique collection of Bunyan’s works, the greater part of his library was burnt in Sotheby’s auction rooms 29 June 1865; author of An easy introduction to reading the Hebrew language 1814; The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpation of the church 1846; edited The Hebrew psalter revised 1820; The New Testament by W. Tyndale 1836; The Pilgrim’s progress 1847 for Hanserd Knolly’s society; The Pilgrim’s progress 1856, 3 ed. 1884; The works of John Bunyan, 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1862; Profitable meditations being Christ and a sinner by J. Bunyan 1860; Little books by J. Bunyan 1873. d. Grove house, Grove st. South Hackney 4 Aug. 1864. bur. Abney Park cemet. G.M. Oct. 1864 p. 528.

O’FLAHERTY. RICHARD JAMES. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; assistant surgeon in the army 9 Jany. 1835, deputy inspector general 19 July 1859, surgeon general 19 Oct. 1872 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Malabar hill, Bombay 8 Dec. 1874.

OGBORNE, ELIZABETH (dau. of David Ogborne, artist). b. Chelmsford; bapt. 16 May 1759; author of The history of Essex, with notices of the most distinguished natives and engravings by Mr. Ogborne, the first volume was published in 1817, but the engraved title page is dated 1814, no more appeared; many of her manuscripts were used as waste paper, the remainder were purchased in March 1854 by Edward J. Sage, an Essex antiquary. d. Great Portland st. London 22 Dec. 1853.

OGDEN, CHARLES RICHARD (son of Isaac Ogden, judge of court of king’s bench at Montreal). b. Montreal 1791; called to bar at Montreal 1812; solicitor general of province of Lower Canada 1823, attorney general 17 Nov. 1832; barrister L.I. 22 April 1844; attorney general of Isle of Man 29 Jany. 1844 to death; registrar of Liverpool district probate court 1858 to death. d. Edge hill, near Liverpool 19 Feb. 1866.

OGDEN, J. H. b. Manchester 1829 or 1830; a singer of Irish comic songs at the Raglan and other London music halls, and in the provinces to 1861; appeared at the Canterbury music hall, and Lea’s Melodion, New York 1861; was singing in London 1862–4; returned to U.S. of America and sang at the Casino, Philadelphia, June 1864. d. 722 Sansom st. Philadelphia 11 Aug. 1864. Era 4 Sept. 1864 p. 6.

OGDEN, JOHN. b. 1790; author of Varieties in verse, including songs for the celebration of Shakspeare’s birthday 1823; The friendly observer, or remarks and suggestions on various subjects of public interest 1851. d. 15 Dec. 1853. bur. Highgate cemetery. F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs (1872) 146.

OGDEN, JOHN. b. Leeds 1829; apprentice to sir E. Baines, printer, Leeds; in employment of Woodfall and Kinder, printers, London 1851, manager of the works to 1866; a printer at Brewhouse yard, 172 St. John’s st. Clerkenwell, as John Ogden and co.; he worked long hours and was a proficient in all branches of his business; he printed Hart’s Army list, the A B C railway guide, the Argosy magazine, and at one time The Figaro and Whitaker’s Almanack. d. Ilkley, Yorkshire 18 July 1887. Bookseller, Aug. 1887 p. 764.

OGDEN, JONATHAN ROBERT (only son of Robert Ogden, merchant, d. 1816). b. Leeds 13 June 1806; became a unitarian; a piano and violin player, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and August Kollman in London; studied music in Paris, Munich, and Vienna 1827; resided at Lakefield, Sawrey, Lancs. 1834 to death; composed Holy songs and musical prayers for four voices, London 1843, in which he adapted pieces by Beethoven and others as hymn tunes, these adaptations were omitted from the seventh ed. of Holy songs 1873. d. Lakefield 26 March 1882. bur. Hawkshead churchyard 31 March. Inquirer 1 April 1882 p. 207, 22 April pp. 261–2.

OGILVIE, CHARLES ATMORE (son of John Ogilvie of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who d. 25 April 1839). b. Whitehaven 20 Nov. 1793; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1842; fellow of Balliol 1816–34, tutor 1819–30, bursar 1822, and senior dean 1842; R. of Wickford, Essex 4 Jany. 1822 to 1833; R. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1822–39; a select preacher before univ. of Oxf. 1825, 1832 and 1844; Bampton lecturer 1836; V. of Duloe, Cornwall 1833–40; R. and V. of Ross, Herefordshire 6 Dec. 1839 to death; regius professor of pastoral theology at Oxford 23 April 1842 to death; canon of Ch. Ch. 1849 to death; author of On the union of classical and mathematical studies, printed in the Oxford English prize essays, vol. iii 1836; The apostolical origin of the three orders of the christian ministry 1836; Considerations on subscription to the thirty nine articles 1845. d. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Feb. 1873. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies (1875) 43–52; Couch’s Reminiscences of Oxford (1892) 208, 422; Letters of J. B. Mozley (1885) 27, 33, 37, 142, 162, 184.

OGILVIE, GEORGE. Professor of institutes of medicine in Aberdeen univ. 1860–77; author of An introductory lecture at Marischal college and university of Aberdeen 1852; The master builders’ man, or the principles of organic architecture 1858; The genetic cycle in organic nature, or the succession of forms in the propagation of plants and animals 1859; On the forms and structure of fern stems 1859.

OGILVIE, JOHN (son of Wm. Ogilvie, farmer). b. parish of Marnoch, Banffshire 17 April 1797; worked as a ploughman till 1818, when he lost one of his legs; a schoolmaster; entered Marischal coll. Aberdeen Oct. 1824, M.A. 1828, LL.D. 1848; mathematical master in Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen 13 May 1831 to July 1859; contributed under the signature Iota, the imitations of Horace in the Scottish dialect to the Aberdeen Mag. 1831–2; edited The imperial dictionary, English, technical, and scientific, 2 vols. 1850, Supplement 1855, new ed. 4 vols. 1882–3; The comprehensive English dictionary 1864; The students’ English dictionary 1865; An English dictionary for the use of schools 1867. d. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1867. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 613–16.

OGILVIE, ROBERT ANNESLEY. b. 1807; educ. Eton; clerk in secretary’s office, custom house, London 27 July 1827, inspector general of the waterside department 27 Aug. 1857; surveyor general of customs 1863–76; assistant comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with France 23 Jany. 1860; joint comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with Austria 16 Dec. 1865; British delegate at conference on sugar convention in London 1–12 Aug. 1872; C.B. 28 Aug. 1872; his widow Robina Ogilvie was granted a civil list pension of £100 19 June 1879. d. 24 Mecklenburgh square, London 13 May 1879.

OGILVIE, WILLIAM. Cadet Bombay army 1804; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 20 June 1805, lieut. 20 Feb. 1809 to 1818; lieut. 10 N.I. 1818–20; lieut. 12 N.I. 1820; captain 26 N.I. 19 July 1821, major 26 Jany. 1838 to 27 Nov. 1844; judge advocate general 30 June 1836 to death; lieut. col. 20 N.I. 27 Nov. 1844 to 22 Dec. 1849; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 22 Dec. 1849 to death. d. Poonah 17 June 1851.

OGILVY, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. Sub-lieut. R.N. 18 March 1869; lieut. 8 April 1873, retired 13 Oct. 1876; naval knight of Windsor 6 May 1881 to death. d. 27 Aug. 1887.

OGILVY, DAVID STEUART. Unpaid vice-consul at Gallipoli, Dardanelles 9 May 1864 to 7 July 1868; captain on the staff of French army Oct. or Nov. 1870. killed by a bullet in the forehead while charging the Germans at battle of Beaune la Rolande 28 Nov. 1870.

OGILVY, GEORGE RAMSAY (son of James Ramsay). b. about 1820; assumed name of Ogilvy; member of faculty of advocates 1844; sheriff substitute of the Forfar district 25 May 1857; sheriff substitute of Dundee 16 Oct. 1860, resigned Sept. 1866. d. Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1866. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 276.

OGILVY, SIR JOHN, 9 Baronet (1 son of admiral sir Wm. Ogilvy, d. 1823). b. Edinburgh 17 March 1803; educ. Harrow 1817–21; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 5 Nov. 1821; lieut. 2 life guards 1826–31; succeeded 1823; convenor of Forfarshire 1828 to Dec. 1889; vice lieut. of Forfarshire 1860; contested Montrose 9 March 1855; M.P. Dundee 1857–74; hon. col. 1 Dundee rifle volunteers 1865 to death; major general Royal company of archers; resided Baldoven, near Dundee. d. Archerfield, Berwickshire, the residence of his son Henry Hamilton Ogilvy 29 March 1890.

OGLANDER, SIR WILLIAM, 6 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Oglander, d. 1806). b. Parnham, Dorset 13 Sept. 1769; succeeded 5 Jany. 1806; M.P. Bodmin 1807–12. d. Parnham 17 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 297 (1852); Hutchin’s Dorset i 445 (1796), iv 371 (1815).

OGLE, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (eld. son of admiral sir Chaloner Ogle, 1 baronet 1727–1816). b. 24 May 1775; entered navy 1787; captain of the Minerva in the Mediterranean 11 Jany. 1796; captain of the Princess Augusta yacht 1806–15; R.A. 12 Aug. 1819; commander-in-chief in North America 27 April 1827 to 14 July 1830; V.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 23 Nov. 1841; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 30 Sept. 1845 to 13 Sept. 1848; admiral of the fleet 8 Dec. 1857. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 June 1858.

OGLE, CHARLES CHALONER (4 son of John Ogle of St. Clare, near Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent). b. 16 April 1851; matric. at univ. of London June 1869; pupil of F. W. Roper the architect; an associate of the R.I.B.A. 1872; went to Athens Aug. 1875, where he worked in office of Her Ziller the royal architect; special correspondent of the Times in the war between Turkey and Montenegro 1878; wrote letters from Montenegro, the Herzegovina, Greece, Crete, and Thessaly; knight of the order of the Redeemer; was present at battle between Turkish troops and the insurgents occupying Mont Pelion and the town of Macrynitza 28 and 29 March 1878, slept at Katochori 29 and 30 March, found dead in a ravine 1 April. bur. the Piræus, Athens 10 April. Streit’s Mémoire concernant les détails du meutre de Charles Ogle (1878); Times 2, 10, 11, 25 April, 19 June 1878; Graphic xvii 401 (1878) portrait; I.L.N. 13 April 1878 pp. 329, 330 portrait.

OGLE, SIR EDMUND, 6 baronet (3 son of rev. James Ogle, V. of Crondale, Hants 1778–1833). b. 20 Sept. 1816; 2 lieut. R.E. 9 June 1834, colonel 6 July 1867, col. commandant 11 Feb. 1883 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; succeeded his cousin as 6 baronet 2 Dec. 1885. d. Schallbach 14 June 1887.

OGLE, HARMON CHALONER (1 son of Nathaniel Ogle of Orpington, Kent). b. 1843; educ. Magdalen coll. Oxf., demy 1861–5, fellow 1865–87, usher 1866–7, tutor 1868–71, junior dean of arts 1868, bursar 1870, schoolmaster 1876–86; B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868; took the Ireland 1863, Craven 1866, Denyer and Johnson 1868, scholarships; warden Queen’s coll. Birmingham Aug. 1873 to 1874; master Worcester cathedral school 1874–6; R. of Tubney, Berks. 1886 to death; with Thomas Clayton published Select pieces for translation into Latin prose 1879; offered to go as a missionary in the archbishop’s mission to Assyria, was studying Assyrian preparatory to sailing in Aug. 1887. d. Queen’s hotel, Leeds 25 June 1887.

OGLE, JAMES ADEY (son of Richard Ogle, general practitioner). b. Great Russell st. London 22 Oct. 1792; educ Eton 1808–10; commoner Trin. coll. Oxf. 1810, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, M.B. 1817, M.D. 1820; studied at Edinb. univ., at St. George’s hospital, and at Windmill st. school of medicine London 1813, and in France, Italy, and Germany from 1814; physician at Oxford about 1819 to death; mathematical tutor of Trin. coll. 1820; F.R.C.P. 1 April 1822, Harveian orator 1844; physician to Radcliffe infirmary and to Warneford lunatic asylum Oxford 1824; Aldrich professor of medicine in univ. of Oxf. 1824–57, and clinical professor of medicine 1830–57; regius professor of physic 28 Oct. 1851 to death; obtained the institution of a public examination for the degree of M.D. 1835; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1826; pres. of provincial medical assoc. at Oxford meeting 1852; examiner in new school of natural science 1854–5; author of A letter to the warden of Wadham college, on the system of education pursued at Oxford 1841; Oratio in collegii Regalis medicorum Londinensis ædibus novis habita 1844. d. Old Shoreham vicarage, residence of his son-in-law James Bowling Mozley 25 Sept. 1857. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemet. Oxford. Munk’s College of physicians iii 245 (1878); Medical circular i 281 (1852) portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ii 55 (1858).

OGLE, OCTAVIUS (4 son of James Adey Ogle 1792–1857). b. 1829; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1846–52; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1852–9, tutor and claviger 1853, Greek lecturer 1855, librarian 1854, sub-rector 1855, moderator 1854; public examiner 1879–80, master of the schools 1863; clerk of the market; a representative of the university in Oxford city council; chaplain of Warneford asylum, Oxford 1864; edited Copy-book of sir A. Paulet’s letters 1866 for Roxburgh club; with W. H. Bliss Calendar of the Clarendon state papers 1872, vol. i; author of Idylls of Ilium 1887; wrote The Oxford market in Oxford Hist. Soc. Collectanea, 2 series 1890. d. 19 Park crescent, Oxford 27 June 1894. The Times 30 June 1894 p. 14.

OGLE, THOMAS. b. 1794; entered R.N. 25 Jany. 1809; aide de camp to capt. lord Amelius Beauclerk in Walcheren expedition 1809; served in operations on coast of America 1812; captain 28 June 1838; while on the Southampton, 50 guns, forced the entrance into Port Natal, and by landing troops rescued a detachment surrounded by Africans 1842; admiral 10 Sept. 1869; knight of Brazilian order of the Southern cross. d. Beaumaris, North Wales 27 Dec. 1886. The Times 30 Dec. 1886 p. 5.

O’GORMAN, DANIEL. Educ. Belfast college; author of Intuitive arithmetic, Newcastle, 3 ed. 1849, 26 ed. 1885; The prince of Wales’s new table book 1859; A chronological record, containing the remarkable events from the creation of the world to the present time, Manchester 1860, 3 ed. 1865. drowned in the “London” in the bay of Biscay on his voyage to Melbourne 11 Jany. 1866.

O’GORMAN, JAMES MICHAEL. b. co. Limerick 1809; a Trappist monk 1828; founded Trappist monastery of New Milleray, near Dubuque, Iowa, of which he became prior; vicar apostolic of Nebraska 1859 to death; consecrated bishop of Raphanea in partibus infidelium 8 May; established a hospital and asylum, and founded academies and Indian missions. d. Cincinnati, Ohio 4 July 1874.

O’GORMAN, JUDGE RICHARD. Concerned in Smith O’Brien’s rising in Ireland 1848; fled to United States. d. New York about 28 Feb. 1895.

O’GORMAN, NICHOLAS PURCELL (only child of James O’Gorman of Ennis 1717–87). Called to Irish bar 1803; Q.C. 13 July 1835; chairman and assistant barrister, co. Kilkenny to death. d. Dublin 31 Dec. 1857.

O’GORMAN, PURCELL (2 son of the preceding). b. 1820; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840; 2 lieut. Ceylon regiment 3 Feb. 1843; lieut. 90 foot 9 Dec. 1845, captain 2 April 1852, sold out 17 Aug. 1855; served in Crimean war 1854–5; M.P. Waterford 1874–80. d. Springfield, co. Kilkenny 24 Nov. 1888.

O’GRADY, HAYES (son of Darby O’Grady of Mount Prospect, Limerick). b. 1787; entered navy 4 Dec. 1802; present at reduction of Cape of Good Hope, and in the expedition to the Rio de la Plata; captain 7 June 1814; R.A. 1 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1862. d. Erinagh house, co. Clare 8 July 1864.

O’GRADY, MICHAEL. b. Roscommon, Ireland 1821; resided in London; sent to Sydney, N.S.W. to establish a branch of the People’s provident soc. 1855; connected with an insurance office in Melbourne 1856; member for Villiers and Heytesbury in legislative assembly of Victoria from 1861; commissioner for public works 6 May to 11 July 1868, and from 19 June 1871 to 10 June 1872; created by the Pope a knight of St. Gregory 1871. d. Hawthorne, near Melbourne 1875.

O’GRADY, MICHAEL MARTIN. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. 1818; M.R.I.A.; in practice at Malahide, co. Dublin; member of botanical committee of Royal Dublin soc.; invented an instrument for removal of uterine polypi. d. La Mancha, Malahide 1858.

OGSTON, FRANCIS (3 son of Alexander Ogston an Aberdeen soap manufacturer). b. Aberdeen July 1803; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; graduated M.D. Edinb. univ. 1824; physician at Aberdeen; began to teach chemistry privately 1827; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Marischal coll. 1839, and professor of medical jurisprudence 1857–60; professor of medical jurisprudence univ. of Aberdeen 1860–83; police surgeon in Aberdeen from 1831; medical officer of health for the city 1862–81; dean of the faculty of medicine in Aberdeen; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1885; author of Lectures on medical jurisprudence 1878. d. 13 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sept. 1887. E. H. B. Rodgers’s Aberdeen Doctors (1893) 201, 301, 312.

O’HAGAN, THOMAS O’HAGAN, 1 Baron (only son of Edward O’Hagan of Belfast, merchant 1779–1836). b. Belfast 29 May 1812; educ. Belfast academical institution; student of King’s inns, Dublin Nov. 1831, and bencher 1859; student of Gray’s inn Jany 1834, and hon. bencher 21 Dec. 1883; pupil of Thomas Chitty, special pleader; called to Irish bar Jany. 1836, went north-east circuit; edited the Newry Examiner 1836–40; defended C. G. Duffy, one of the repeal leaders 1843–4; assistant barrister of co. Longford 1847–57, and of co. Dublin 1857; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; third serjeant-at-law 1859; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1860 to 1861; attorney general Feb. 1861 to 1865; P.C. Ireland 1861; member of board of national education 1858; M.P. Tralee May 1863 to Jany. 1865; judge of Irish court of common pleas Jany. 1865 to Dec. 1868; lord chancellor of Ireland Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, the first Roman catholic chancellor since the reign of James II, lord chancellor again May 1880, resigned Nov. 1881; created baron O’Hagan of Tullahogue, co. Tyrone 14 June 1870; an original member of the intermediate education board 1878, the first vice-chairman; a senator of royal univ. of Ireland 1880, and vice-chancellor 1880 to death; K.P. 17 Jany. 1882; author of Occasional papers and addresses 1884; Selected speeches and arguments, ed. by George Teeling 1885. d. Hereford house, Park st. London 1 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, statue by Farrell in the Four courts, Dublin. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 314–44 portrait; Pump court ii 126 (1884) portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 296 (1865) portrait, liv 385, 446 (1869) portrait; The Period 2 July 1870 p. 91 portrait; Illustrated Times 4 Feb. 1865 p. 68 portrait.

O’HAGAN, JOHN (2 son of John Arthur O’Hagan of Newry, co. Down). b. Newry 19 March 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1865; called to Irish bar 1842, went Munster circuit; a leader of the Young Ireland party; comr. of board of national education 1861; chairman of quarter sessions at Westmeath 1864–70, at Leitrim 1870–2, and at Clare 1872–8; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of King’s inns 1878; third serjeant 31 May 1881; county court judge; judicial comr. under the Land law (Ireland) act of 1881, with rank of justice of high court of justice Sept. 1881 to death; contributed many poems to The Nation newspaper, which are collected in The spirit of the nation, Dublin 1874; author of A lecture on Chaucer in Afternoon lectures on literature and art 1863; The song of Roland 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson 1887; The children’s ballad rosary 1890; Joan of Arc 1893. d. Howth, Dublin 12 Nov. 1890. D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1893) 188; Irish Law Times xxiv 578–9 (1890); Academy ii 476 (1890).

O’HALLORAN, HENRY DUNN. Ensign 69 foot 1 Nov. 1818, captain 1 Sept. 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Feb. 1853; major depôt battalion 2 March 1855; lieut. col. 1 West India foot 26 March 1858 to 16 March 1860, when he retired on full pay; M.G. 25 June 1866; author of Volunteer equipments in war 1861. d. Bath 30 Sept. 1871, aged 71.

O’HALLORAN, THOMAS SHULDHAM (2 son of sir Joseph O’Halloran, G.C.B. 1763–1843). b. Berhampore, Bengal 25 Oct. 1797; educ. Marlow 1808, and at Sandhurst; ensign Royal West Middlesex militia 1809; ensign 17 foot 2 Feb. 1813, lieut. 1817–22; served during Nepaul war 1814–6, and Deccan war 1817–8; lieut. 44 foot 1822–7; captain 99 foot 27 April 1827; captain 56 foot 6 March 1828; captain 6 foot 19 Feb. 1829; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Saugor, Central India June 1830 to Jany. 1831, placed on h.p. Oct. 1834; captain 97 foot 27 April 1837, sold out 9 March 1838; suppressed the riots in Yorkshire 1837; settled near Adelaide, South Australia 1838; a justice of the peace 2 Feb. 1839; major commandant of South Australia militia 26 Feb. 1840; comr. of police 8 June 1840, resigned 12 April 1843; commanded expeditions against the natives 1840 and 1841; senior non-official member of the nominee council 1843–51; contested Noarlunga district 1851, and Sturt 1855; lieut. col. of the volunteer military force 1854; member of legislative council 1857, resigned 1863. d. Lizard lodge, O’Halloran Hill, near Adelaide 16 Aug. 1870.

O’HARA, HENRY. Called to the Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The cotton plant and the countries adapted to its culture, Manchester 1862. d. 19 Nov. 1884.

O’HARA, ROBERT (only son of John O’Hara of Raheen, co. Galway). b. Dublin 1836; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; called to Irish bar 1860; parliamentary draftsman to Irish office in London several years; a member of statute law revision commission; author of a series of letters in The Times upon the Irish land question. d. Ostend 21 Sept. 1885. Law Times 7 Nov. 1885 p. 16.

O’HEA, JAMES (3 son of John O’Hea of Greenfield, Clonakilty, co. Cork). b. 1809; educ. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1831; called to bar 1838; crown prosecutor for co. of Limerick 1860 to death, and for county and city of Cork 1849 to death; a follower of D. O’Connell. d. Harcourt st. Dublin 27 May 1882. Law Times 17 June 1882 p. 129.

O’HEA, MICHAEL (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of Rosscarbery). b. Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon, deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50; parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death, consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. d. Ross August 1877. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 113 (1876).

O’HEA, MISS, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye rosebuds, song 1878. d. Southsea boarding house, West Cliff road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. Athenæum i 419 (1880).

OKE, GEORGE COLWELL (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859). b. St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London 1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’ book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893; The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. d. Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham, Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. bur. Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. Law Journal ix, 38 (1874); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 409, 1296 (1874–8); I.L.N. lxiv 80 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait.

O’KEEFE, ADELAIDE D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist 1747–1833). b. Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34 poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide; author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters 1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811, 6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley, 3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in April 1848. d. about 1855. Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p. 762; N. and Q. 7 May 1887 p. 361, 18 June p. 503.

O’KEEFE, EUGENE. b. Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college, and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar. d. New York 22 Sept. 1880.

O’KEEFE, JOHN (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). b. Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford 1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle, Cappoquin. d. Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877.

O’KEEFE, MATHIAS. b. 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75; examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll. Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. d. 17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. Medical Times 24 May 1884 p. 719.

O’KEEFE, ROBERT. b. Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory 1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan 1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried to make the National school at Callan a school for higher education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make French the normal language of the school; brought actions for libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. d. 2 Feb. 1881. The Callan case 1872; Cardinal Cullen and the P. P. Callan 1872; Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against cardinal Cullen 1874; Ultramontanism versus education, the case of Father O’Keefe 1875; The Dublin review July 1873 pp. 211–38; Irish reports Common law series vii 319–444 (1874).

O’KELLY, JOSEPH (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly, conchologist). b. Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death; wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A. 1866. d. 13 April 1883. Geological Mag. (1883) 288.

OKES, RICHARD (19 child of Thomas Verney Okes of Cambridge, surgeon). b. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1797; educ. Eton and King’s coll. Camb., scholar 1817, fellow 1820–6, Browne’s medallist 1819–21; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1848; master at Eton 1823–38, lower master 1838–50, member of the governing body; provost of King’s coll. Camb. Nov. 1850 to death, abandoned the old regulations and obtained for the college a high rank in the university; vice-chancellor 1851; gave with Dr. Hawtrey the heraldic window in the school museum at Eton; chairman of Cambridge water co. 1858–87; edited Musæ Etonenses, new series 1796–1833, 2 vols. 1859–69; author of Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata et in curia Cantabrigiensis recitata 1819, 1820 and 1820, 3 vols. d. The lodge, King’s coll. Cambridge 25 Nov. 1888. bur. King’s college chapel. Saturday Review lxvi 647–8 (1888).

OKEY, CHARLES HENRY (son of Henry Okey). b. 7 April 1797; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.; barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor; author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2 ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. d. 1876.

OKEY, ELIZABETH. b. 1824; she and her sister Jane, b. 1826, were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism; they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die, which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey (1842); The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp. 561–2, 590–7.

OLD, JOHN. b. Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder 1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett, and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79; he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. d. Reading 4 Feb. 1892.

OLDAKER, WILLIAM FITZHARDINGE (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman). b. Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838; managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle; retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. d. Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. W. Day’s Turf Celebrities (1891) 107–16; Baily’s Mag. xliii 121–2 (1885).

OLDFIELD, JOHN (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant in royal marines, d. 1793). b. Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2 lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p. April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct. 1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March 1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23 July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E. in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. d. Oldfield lawn, Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. bur. Westbourne.

OLDHAM, JAMES. b. 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53 Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. d. Lucastes, Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. Lancet i 40 (1882).

OLDHAM, JAMES (son of a millwright). b. Hull 23 June 1801; at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817; built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull; gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E. 28 Jany. 1834. d. Hull 10 June 1890. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 377–80 (1891).

OLDHAM, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). b. Dublin 4 May 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D. 1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland 1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846; local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow, the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849; superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired 1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857, president four times; author of On the geological structure of part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the Geological survey of India 1868 etc. d. 18 Hillmorton’s road, Rugby 17 July 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv 46–8 (1879); Geological Mag. (1878) 382.

OLDHAM, WILTON. b. 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A., LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction sales in Ghazipore 1873. d. St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883.

OLDKNOW, SIR JAMES (son of John Oldknow). b. Nottingham 1821; a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878, and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878. d. Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888.

OLDKNOW, JOSEPH (son of Octavius Oldknow mayor of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 16 March 1809; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; D.D. of Hartford univ. U.S. of America 1857; V. of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, Birmingham 1841 to death; leader of high church party in Birmingham, established daily services and the observance of saints’ day 1841; he was libelled by marks put on the copper coins, such as ‘Oldknow is a papist and has pay from Rome,’ others were marked ‘No surplice,’ and such coins were at times thrown through the windows into the church during service time; the first in Birmingham to establish early weekly communion and harvest festivals; author of The catholic church, its nature, constitution and privileges 1839; A letter on the relations of the church of England to the church of Rome and the protestant bodies 1848; A month in Portugal 1855; The validity of the holy orders in the church of England 1857; Anti-ritual proceedings, a letter to the clergy of the rural deanery of Birmingham 1866; Sermons on various points of doctrine and practice 1868; and with A. D. Crake The priest’s book of private devotion 1872, 4 ed. 1891. d. Birmingham 3 Sept. 1874. bur. Holy Trinity churchyard. Guide to the church congress (1883) 54–5.

O’LEARY, DANIEL FLORENCE. Served in the war of Colombian independence, general of brigade; aide-de-camp to general Bolivar 1819–27; British consul at Puerto Cabello 11 Aug. 1841; chargé d’ affaires and consul general in New Granada 28 Nov. 1843 to death. d. 24 Feb. 1854.

O’LEARY, ELLEN (dau. of a shopkeeper). b. Tipperary 1831; contributed verse to The Commercial journal, The Irishman, The Shamrock, and to the Irish People newspaper Nov. 1863 to 15 Sept. 1865, when the paper was seized by the government; assisted James Stephens, chief organiser of the Irish republic, in directing the affairs of the Fenian organisation; raised £200 on a mortgage of her property to help Stephens to escape from Ireland 1866; resided in Tipperary 1866–85, and with her brother John O’Leary in Dublin from 1885. d. Cork 16 Oct. 1889. Ellen O’Leary’s Lays of country, home and friends (1891) portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century (1893) 449–58; Irish Monthly xvii 83–94 (1889); Academy xl 70 (1891).

O’LEARY, WILLIAM HAGERTY (son of Thomas O’Leary of Charleston road, co. Dublin). b. 16 June 1839; educ. catholic univ. Ireland, gold medallist; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1861, F.R.C.S. Ireland 1871; professor of anatomy and physiology at Sedwick school of medicine 1872–4; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin to 1874; M.P. Drogheda 5 Feb. 1874 to death; wrote on Original researches on the sources of animal heat; New theory on the functions of iron in the blood; Food, its relation to animal heat and muscular motion; received a treasury grant to assist him in prosecuting investigations in scientific philosophy. d. 1 Cottage green, Camberwell, London 15 Feb. 1880.

OLIPHANT, SIR ANTHONY (3 son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Perth, d. 1807). b. Condie 1793; educ. Hyde Abbey school; advocate Edinburgh; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; attorney general, Cape of Good Hope 1826–38; chief justice of Ceylon 22 Oct. 1838, retired on a pension 1855; knighted by patent 7 Aug. 1839; C.B. 27 April 1848. d. London 9 March 1859. Gent. Mag. vi 429 (1859).

OLIPHANT, FRANCIS ROMANO (younger son of the succeeding). b. Rome Oct.-Dec. 1859; educ. Eton, at Balliol coll. Oxf. and at New Inn hall; B.A. 1883; assistant to R. R. Holmes in the royal library at Windsor castle; contributed frequently to The Spectator and other periodicals; assisted his mother M. O. Oliphant in the preparation of her Victorian age of literature 1892; author of Notes of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1891. d. about 4 Oct. 1894. Times 5 Oct. 1894 p. 3, 13 Oct. p. 6.

NOTE.--His elder brother Cyril Francis Oliphant, b. 1856, educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1883, published in 1890 in the Foreign classics series A biography and criticism of the work of Alfred de Musset, he d. 1890.

OLIPHANT, FRANCIS WILSON (son of Thomas Oliphant of Edinburgh). b. Newcastle 31 Aug. 1818; educ. Edinburgh academy of art; designer of painted glass in the works of Messrs. Wailes of Newcastle; worked with Welby Pugin in London, especially upon the painted windows in new houses of parliament; sent in a cartoon to the competition for the decoration of Westminster Hall; exhibited the Prodigal son nearing home and 4 other pictures at R.A. 1849–55; produced the windows in the ante-chapel of King’s college, Cambridge, those in the chancel of Aylesbury church, and designed the famous choristers’ window in Ely cathedral; author of A plea for painted glass 1855. d. Rome Oct. 1859.

OLIPHANT, HENRY WILLIAM. b. 1822; connected with Drury lane theatre 1842–46; edited Weekly Despatch; edited Sunday Times to death; resided 8 Brigstock road, Croydon. d. Clapham, London 5 March 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 March.

OLIPHANT, LAURENCE (only child of sir Anthony Oliphant 1793–1859). b. Capetown 1829; private secretary to his father in Ceylon 1848; called to the bar in Ceylon; barrister Lincoln’s Inn 30 April 1855; secretary to lord Elgin during negotiation at Washington of reciprocity treaty with Canada 1854; superintendent of Indian affairs at Quebec 1854; went to the Crimea with lord Stratford de Redcliffe 1855; joined the force under Omar Pasha, present at battle of the Ingour 6 Nov. 1855, was correspondent of The Times during this expedition; a candidate for Stirling 1855; private secretary to lord Elgin in China and Japan 1857–9; first secretary of legation in Japan, arrived at Yeddo June 1861, severely wounded by a Japanese 5 July, returned to England; started with sir Algernon Borthwick and others a journal called The Owl 1864, contributed to the first ten numbers; M.P. the Stirling burghs 13 July 1865 to April 1868; joined the community of The Brotherhood of the New Life, of which Thomas Lake Harris was the leader, at Brockton Junction or Salem-on-Erie, Chautauqua county, United States of America 1867, where he gave all his money to the community and was employed in very menial occupations; Times correspondent in the Franco-German war 1870–71; m. June 1872 at St. George’s, Hanover sq. London, Alice, dau. of Henry le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk (she d. at Haifa, Syria 2 Jany. 1886 aged 40), returned with his wife and mother to Brockton by Harris’s orders 1873; recovered his land at Brockton by legal proceedings from Harris May 1881; resided a great deal at Mount Carmel, Palestine from 1882; m. (2) at Malvern 16 Aug. 1888 Rosamond Dale, dau. of Robert Dale Owen; author of A journey to Khatmandu 1852; The Russian shores of the Black Sea 1853; The Trans-Caucasian campaign under Omar Pasha, a personal narrative 1856; Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the years 1857–8–9, 2 vols. 1859; Patriots and filibusters incidents of political and exploratory travel 1860; Universal suffrage and Napoleon the Third 1860; Piccadilly, a fragment of contemporary biography 1870, 5 ed. 1874; The land of Gilead with excursions in the Lebanon 1880; The land of Khemi, up and down the Middle Nile 1882; Traits and travesties 1882; Altiora Peto, 2 vols. 1883; Massollam, 3 vols. 1886; Episodes in a life of adventure 1887; Fashionable philosophy 1887; The star in the east 1887; Scientific religion 1888; author with Alice Oliphant of Sympneumata 1885. d. at residence of sir M. G. Duff, York house, Richmond road, Twickenham 23 Dec. 1888. M. O. W. Oliphant’s Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice, his wife, 2 vols. (1891) with portraits; L. Liesching’s Personal reminiscences of L. Oliphant (1891); R. Mac Cully’s Brotherhood of the new life (1893) 146–61; The Times 21 Jany. 1886 p. 7, 23 Jany. p. 10.

NOTE.--He is described under name of Cyril Gordon in Haskett Smith’s novel For God and humanity, a romance of Mount Carmel, 3 vols. 1891, the dedication is inscribed ‘To the memory of my beloved friend Laurence Oliphant.’

OLIPHANT, THOMAS (son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Strathearn, Perthshire). b. Condie 25 Dec. 1799; educ. Winchester; member of the stock exchange, London a short time; member of the Madrigal society 1830, adapted for the use of its members English words to Italian madrigals, honorary secretary of the society many years, president 1871; sang as a bass vocalist in the chorus at the Handel festival, Westminster Abbey 1834; engaged cataloguing the music at British museum some years; wrote English versions of Beethoven’s Fidelio and the Mount of Olives, and the words for many songs; author of Comments of a chorus singer at the royal musical festival in Westminster abbey. By Solomon Sackbut 1834; A brief account of the Madrigal society 1835; A short account of madrigals 1836; La musa madrigalesia 1837; In C. E. Pascoe’s Everyday life in our public schools 1881 he wrote the section Life among the Oppidans, Eton pp. 37–62; edited and arranged Catches and rounds by Old Composers 1835; Ditties of the olden time 1835; Ten favourite madrigals 1836; German songs adapted to English words, two series, Nos. 1 to 40, 1838–49; Six ancient part songs for five voices 1845; Six English songs 1847; Select German and English vocal duets 1849; Phœbe and Corydon by W. Croft 1853; National and popular ballads 1863; his name is attached to upwards of 70 pieces, chiefly of arranged music 1835–73. d. Great Marlborough st. London 9 March 1873, his collection of ancient music sold by Puttick and Simpson April 24–6.

OLIPHANT, WILLIAM. b. Edinburgh 14 Jany. 1807; bookseller as Wm. Oliphant & co. 7 South Bridge, Edinburgh 1831 to death. d. 21 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 13 Nov. 1860. Bookseller Dec. 1860 p. 908.

OLIVEIRA, BENJAMIN (3 son of Dominick Oliveira of Madeira, then of London, merchant, naturalised by R.L. 30 Aug. 1811, and d. 1846). b. England 24 June 1806; contested Reading 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Pontefract 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; revived the Star club 1830, president 1831 to death, in 1855 sir F. G. Moon the lord mayor conferred on the club a charter constituting it The Star club of London; author of Wine duties reduction, committee proceedings 1861; A few observations on the works of the isthmus of Suez canal 1863; A visit to the Spanish camp in Morocco during the late war 1863. d. 8 Upper Hyde Park st. London 28 Sept. 1865. Memorials of Star club of London (1860) memoir and portrait; G. M. xix 658 (1865); I.L.N. xxii 277, 278 (1853) portrait.

OLIVER, EMMA SOPHIA (dau. of W. Eburne of Rathbone place, London, coachbuilder). b. 15 Aug. 1819; exhibited 34 landscapes at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1842–74; member of New society of painters in water-colours 1849; m. 1840 Wm. Oliver landscape painter 1804–53; m. (2) about 1856 John Sedgwick of Watford, Herts, solicitor, b. 1812, d. 23 Oct. 1882. She d. Brewery house, Great Berkhamstead 15 March 1885. Clayton’s English female artists ii 227–30 (1876).

OLIVER, GEORGE. b. Newington, Butts, Surrey 9 Feb. 1781; educ. Sedgley park, Staffs. and Stonyhurst college 11 years; ordained at Durham May 1806; served the mission of the society of Jesus at St. Nicholas, Exeter Oct. 1807 to 6 Oct. 1851, but never became a member of the society; hon. member of Historical society of Boston 30 March 1843; created D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI 15 Sept. 1844; provost of the chapter of Plymouth 1852–7; author of Historic collections relating to the monasteries in Devon 1820; The history of Exeter 1821, 2 ed. 1861; Ecclesiastical antiquities in Devon, 3 vols. 1840–2; Collections towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English and Irish members of the society of Jesus 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Merrye Englaunde or the golden daies of goode queene Besse 1841, anon.; Monasticon diœcesis Exoniensis, a collection of records illustrating conventual, collegiate and eleemosynary foundations in the counties of Cornwall and Devon and a supplement 1846, additional supplement 1854; Collections illustrative of the history of the Catholic religion in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts. and Gloucester 1857; Lives of the bishops of Exeter and a history of the cathedral 1861. d. St. Nicholas priory, Exeter 23 March 1861. bur. near the high altar in the chapel 2 April. T. N. Brushfield’s Bibliography of the rev. G. Oliver (1885) portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 410 (1874); G.M. x 575–7 (1861).

OLIVER, GEORGE (eld. son of Samuel Oliver, R. of Lambley, Notts.). b. Papplewick, Notts. 5 Nov. 1782; educ. Nottingham; second master of gr. sch. at Caistor, Lincs. 1803–9; head master of Great Grimsby gr. sch. 1809; C. of Grimsby 1814–32; V. of Clee, Lincs. 1815–35; V. of Scopwick, Lincs. 12 Oct. 1831 to death; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1834–46; created D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 25 July 1835; R. of South Hyckham, Lincs. 1846 to death; deputy past grand master of masons for Lincolnshire 1832; author of The antiquities of freemasonry 1823 and 1843; The star in the east 1825, new ed. 1842; The monumental antiquities of Great Grimsby, Hull, 1825; The history and antiquities of the Town and minster of Beverley 1829; History of the Holy Trinity guild at Sleaford, Lincoln 1837; Historical landmarks and other evidences of freemasonry, 2 vols. 1845–6; The golden remains of the early masonic writers, 5 vols. 1847–50; The book of the lodge or officer’s manual 1849, 4 ed. 1879. d. Eastgate, Lincoln 3 March 1867, bur. in cemetery attached to St. Swithin’s church 7 March.

OLIVER, JOHN (son of John Oliver, shopkeeper). b. Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire 7 Nov. 1838; educ. Carmarthen sch. and at Carmarthen presbyterian college to 1859; Congregational minister and an occasional preacher in Welsh and English; author of Welsh poems on David, the prince of the Lord; The beauties of nature; The widow of Nain; The wreck of the Royal Charter and Myfyrdod; author of English poems on Life, and When I die. d. Llanfynydd 24 June 1866. Cerddi Cystudd edited by Henry Oliver (1867) portrait.

OLIVER, JOHN. b. 1804; educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; V. of Warmington, near Oundle 1844–73; chaplain to King’s college hospital, London 1855–62; warden of the London diocesan penitentiary, Highgate 1862 to death, where he was very successful in the reformation of the poor girls. d. The Penitentiary, Highgate 10 July 1883. Guardian 11 July 1883 p. 1023.

OLIVER, MARTHA CRANMER (dau. of John Oliver, scene-painter). b. Salisbury 1834; appeared at Salisbury theatre 1840; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre 1847; played at Lyceum 1849–55; always known as Pattie Oliver; acted Matilda in Married for money at Drury Lane 10 Oct. 1855, and Celia in As you like it 4 Sept. 1856; played in Talfourd’s burlesque of Atalanta at Haymarket 14 April 1857; leading actress at Strand theatre 1858–61, where she played Amy Robsart in Ye queen, ye earl and ye maiden 29 Dec. 1858, Pauline in Byron’s burlesque The lady of Lyons 14 June 1859, Lisetta in Talfourd’s burlesque Tell and the strike of the cantons 26 Dec. 1859, and the Prince in Byron’s burlesque Cinderella 26 Dec. 1860; the original Mary Meredith in Our American cousin at Haymarket 16 Nov. 1861; played Beautiful Haidee in Byron’s burlesque of that name at Princess’s 10 April 1863; lessee and manager of New Royalty theatre March 1866 to 30 April 1870; played Meg in H. T. Craven’s Meg’s Diversion 17 Oct. 1866; produced F. C. Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, in which she played Susan 29 Nov. 1866, which ran 420 nights and was revived 3 March 1870; produced A. Halliday’s drama Daddy Gray 1 Feb. 1868, and his drama The loving cup 26 Nov. 1868; m. 26 Dec. 1876 Wm. Charles Phillips of Bond st. London, auctioneer; she d. 5 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Dec. 1880. The Players i 97–8 (1860) portrait.

OLIVER, NATHANIEL WILMOT. Second lieut. R.A. 2 June 1796, colonel 10 Jany. 1837; col. commandant 18 Feb. 1851 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Clifton 11 Jany. 1854.

OLIVER, RICHARD ALDWORTH (son of admiral Robert Dudley Oliver). b. 1811; entered navy 26 April 1825, lieut. 28 June 1838, captain 11 Dec. 1854, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 Oct. 1884; served at battle of Navarino 1827; commanded the Monarch in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854; chairman of the sanitary committee of Marylebone, London to death; published A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand 1853. d. 38 Grove-end road, St. John’s Wood, London 13 Sept. 1889.

OLIVER, RICHARD SILVER (1 son of Robert S. Oliver of Darrington, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, d. 1842). Educ. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 29 July 1830, captain 16 Dec. 1836, sold out 25 June 1844; hunted at Melton, Bicester and Northampton; settled at Bolton Percy, Yorkshire; a supporter of the Bramham Moor hounds; a coachman and a good shot. d. Bolton lodge Feb. 1889. Baily’s Mag. li 208–9 (1889).

OLIVER, SAMUEL. b. 1801; V. of Calverton, near Nottingham 1826 to death; author of Emma Whiteford, or death in the bosom of the church 1852; War and its probable consequences as foreshadowed in holy scripture 1855; Village lectures on some controverted articles of Catholic faith. d. in a cottage in Calverton village Sept. 1874. bur. 1 Oct.

OLIVER, THOMAS. b. about 1776; founded with George Boyd, firm of Oliver and Boyd, publishers, Edinburgh 1806, retired in 1843 after George Boyd’s death. d. Newington lodge, Edinburgh 26 April 1853.

OLIVER, THOMAS. b. Breadlow, Bucks. June 1789; employed by Mr. Baker of Millbank, London, gardener; fought and beat Kimber a stone-mason at Tothill Fields, Westminster 1811; always known afterwards as the Chelsea gardener; beat George Cooper at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 15 May 1813, and Edward Painter at Shepperton Range, Middlesex 17 May 1814; landlord of the Duke’s Head 31 Peter st. Westminster 1814; fought Jack Carter at Gretna Green for 100 guineas a side 4 Oct. 1816, when he was badly beaten in 32 rounds lasting 46 minutes; beaten by Wm. Neat at Rickmansworth, Herts. 10 July 1818 in 28 rounds lasting one hour; beat Kendrick the black 28 May 1819; beaten by Daniel Donnelly, the Irish champion 21 July 1819 at Crawley Hurst, Sussex for 100 guineas a side; beat Tom Shelton at Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 13 Jany. 1820; beaten by Edward Painter at North Walsham, Norfolk 17 July 1820; beaten by Tom Spring at Hayes, Middlesex 20 Feb. 1821 for 100 guineas a side 25 rounds in 55 minutes; beaten by T. Hickman 12 June 1821 at Blindow Heath, Surrey for £100 a side; beaten by Wm. Abbott at Moulsey Hurst 6 Nov. 1821, 33 rounds in 54 minutes; commissary of the ring, taking charge of the ropes and stakes; beat Benjamin Burn at Hampton, Middlesex 28 Jany. 1834; a fruiterer and greengrocer in Pimlico and Chelsea. d. London June 1864. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii 89–103 (1880) portrait; The Fancy. By An Operator i 609–16 (1826) portrait; Boxiana ii 954 (1818), iii 262 (1825) portrait, iv 233 etc.; Hannan’s British boxing, part 2, pp. 43–6.

OLIVER, THOMAS. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 6 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1805, captain 16 Nov. 1818; major 3 N.I. 13 July 1827; lieut. col. of 3 N.I 3 July 1832 to 1838, and of 12 N.I. 1838 to 10 April 1843; col. of 37 N.I. 13 March 1844 to 1869; general 19 June 1866. d. 43 Duke street, Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1872.

OLIVER, THOMAS (son of a farmer and maltster). b. Angmering, Sussex; a stable boy to his uncle, Mr. Page of Epsom; rode light weights for lord Mountcharles; sold horses at fairs for Mr. Farrell of Liverpool; became a steeple chase rider; rode Harlequin at Clifton and won; won the Great Dunchurch steeplechase on Foreigner; a partner with Mr. Curlewis; in Northampton gaol for debt; landlord of The Star at Leamington; won the Great Liverpool on Jerry; a steeple chaser trainer at Prestbury; brought out Charles Boyce and Robert James. Sporting Review xli 249–54 (1859).

OLIVER, WILLIAM. b. about 1804; landscape painter, chiefly in water-colours; member of the New society (now royal institute) of painters in water-colours 1834; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 54 at B.I., and 36 at Suffolk st. 1829–53; published Scenery of the Pyrenees, lithographed by G. Barnand, T. S. Boys, Carl Hughe and others 1843. d. Langley Mill house, Halstead, Essex 2 Nov. 1853.

OLLENDORFF, HEINRICK GODEFROY, OR HERMANN GERSCHAL. b. Rewitsch, Posen, Prussia about 1802; professor of the German language and literature; resided in 1843 at 23 Titchbourne st. Westminster; his system of acquiring a language was founded on the principle, that each question contained nearly the answer required to be returned; Capt. Basil Hall recommended this system to the English; naturalised in England 20 Dec. 1850; author of A new method of learning to read, write and speak a language in six months, adapted to the German, two parts 1838–41; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the French 1843, 9 ed. 1861; A new method of learning to read, etc., applied to the Italian 1846, 5 ed. 1865; Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à parler une language en six mois, appliquée à l’Anglais, Paris 1848, 6 ed. 1856; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the Spanish 1858; Introduction à la méthode Ollendorff, appliquée au Latin, Paris 1862; the above works all went to many editions in various languages, with keys to them in other volumes. d. Paris 1865.

NOTE.--On 10 Dec. 1850 he obtained an injunction against Alexander Black to restrain him from selling a pirated edition of A new method of learning French, originally published in London by Ollendorff 25 April 1843. The son Paul Ollendorff is a teacher of languages at 28 bis Rue de Richelieu, Paris.

OLLIER, CHARLES. b. Bath, Somersetshire 1788; clerk in Coutt’s bank, Strand, London 1802; publisher with his brother James Ollier at 3 Welbeck st. and then in Vere st. Bond st. 1816–22; a friend of Leigh Hunt; published Leigh Hunt’s Foliage 1818, Hero and Leander 1819, and The story of Rimini, 2 ed. 1819; also Keats’s Poems 1817, and Shelley’s The revolt of Islam 1817, the Collected works of Charles Lamb 1818, and several of Barry Cornwall’s volumes of Poems; literary adviser to Henry Colburn and then to Richard Bentley; a lecturer on celebrated writers; a publisher in Southampton st. Strand, London 1845–9; author of Altham and his wife, a domestic tale 1818; Inesilla, or the tempter, a romance, with other tales 1824; Ferrers, a romance, 3 vols. 1842; Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories of witchcraft, life-in-death, and monomania 1848; Original views of London 1842, and Original views of Oxford 1843, 2 vols., letterpress by C. Ollier. d. 5 Caroline place, Fulham road, London 5 June 1859. Correspondence of Leigh Hunt i 308–11, ii 61 etc. (1862); Spectator 18 June 1859 p. 640; Lady Shelley’s Shelley memorials (1875) ix 80 etc.; Temple Bar lviii 243–52 (1880); St. James’s Mag. xxxv 387–413 (1875).

OLLIER, EDMUND (son of the preceding). b. near London 26 Nov. 1826; wrote for Ainsworth’s magazine, the Athenæum, All the year round 1850–70, and Household Words 1850–9; edited the first series of The essays of Elia for Hotten’s Worldwide library 1867; edited Leigh Hunt’s Tale for the chimney corner 1869; on staff of the Daily News 1853–77; sub-editor of The Leader 1855–8; editor of The Atlas 1859–60; literary editor of London review 1874–6; worked for the firm of Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, publishers; granted cross of the Italian order of S.S. Maurice and Lazarus 1867; author of Poems from the Greek mythology 1867; The Doré gallery 1870; Cassell’s History of the war between France and Germany, 2 vols. 1871–2, 3 ed. 1887–9; Cassell’s History of the United States, 3 vols. 1874–7; Our British portrait painters, from sir P. Lely to J. Sant 1874; Cassell’s Illustrated history of the Russo-Turkish war, 2 vols. 1877–9, 3 ed. 1889–91; Cassell’s Illustrated universal history, 4 vols. 1882–5, 2 ed. 1892; The life and times of queen Victoria by R. Wilson 1887, the first eleven chapters were by E. Ollier. d. 154 Oakley st. King’s road, Chelsea 19 April 1886. Biograph ii 533–5 (1879); Academy xxix 309–10 (1886); Athenæum i 583 (1886).

OLLIFFE, SIR JOSEPH FRANCIS (son of Joseph Olliffe of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 1808; educ. univ. of Paris, M.A. 1829, M.D. 1840; began practice in Paris 1840; fellow of Anatomical society of Paris; president of Paris Medical society; a knight of the Legion of honour 1846, officer 1855; physician to British embassy, Paris from March 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 13 June 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; took part with count de Morny in unremunerative building operations at Deauville, near Trouville. d. 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 14 March 1869. British medical Journal 20 March 1869 p. 274; Reg. and mag. of biog. April 1869 p. 296.

OLLIVANT, ALFRED (son of Wm. Ollivant of Ashton-under-Lyne, cotton spinner). b. Mosley st. Manchester 16 Aug. 1798; educ. St. Paul’s school 1809–17, captain of the school; Campden exhibitioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 1817; Perry exhibitioner 1819, Craven scholar 1820, sixth wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1821; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1836; fellow of Trin. coll. 1821; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1822; vice-principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827–43; prebendary of St. David’s 28 July 1829; R. of Llangeler, Carmarthenshire 1831, vicar 1832–43; prebendary of Brecon 10 Nov. 1831; R. of Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire 1835–7; V. of Kerry, Montgomeryshire 1836–43; regius professor of divinity at Cambridge and R. of Somersham, Hunts. March 1843 to Nov. 1849; bishop of Llandaff 20 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec; restored the cathedral and built, restored, or enlarged about 170 churches; established the Church extension society; member of the Old Testament revision company, which he had suggested 1870; presented with his portrait in the town hall at Cardiff 30 Nov. 1882; author of An analysis of the Hebrew text of the history of Joseph 1828, 3 ed. 1836; Some account of the condition of the fabric of Llandaff cathedral 1857, 2 ed. 1860; and of upwards of 30 charges, letters, and sermons 1827–81. d. Bishop’s court, Llandaff 16 Dec. 1882. bur. in churchyard of Llandaff cathedral 21 Dec., tomb with effigy in marble by Armitstead, on north side of the altar steps. J. Morgan’s Four biographical sketches (1892) 1–60; Church portrait journal i 41 (1880) portrait; Red Dragon iii 193 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. xv 376 (1849) portrait, lxxxi 680 (1882) portrait.

OLMAR, stage name of James Chadwick. Performer on a trapèze-swing; a walker head downwards with his feet in rings; performed at the Alhambra palace, London in Nov. 1862; weighed 130 lbs.; his biceps, fore-arm, wrists, pectoral muscles and muscles of his back were of great strength. d. 1 King st. Chester road, Manchester 24 Feb. 1885. bur. Ardwick cemetery 27 Feb. F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of natural history, 3rd series, 2 ed. ii 92–6 (1868).

O’LOGHLEN, SIR COLMAN MICHAEL, 2 baronet (eld. son of sir Michael O’Loghlen, 1 baronet 1789–1842). b. Dublin 20 Sept. 1819; B.A. univ. of Dublin 1840; admitted King’s inns 1838; called to Irish bar 1840, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of Carlow quarter sessions 1856–9; chairman of Mayo quarter sessions 1859–61; M.P. Clare 1863 to death; third sergeant-at-law 1865, second sergeant 1866; judge advocate general 16 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1870; P.C. 12 Dec. 1868; introduced and carried the bill enabling Roman Catholics to hold the lord chancellorship of Ireland. d. suddenly on board the mail-boat while crossing from Holyhead to Kingstown 22 July 1877. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 301–6.

OLPHERT, WYBRANTS (son of rev. John Olphert, d. 1851). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; always resided on his estates in Ireland, where he had a large number of small tenants; in 1884 after formation of the Land league had to evict 32 of his tenants; refusing to make large reductions in his rents 1887 Father M’Fadden organised the ‘Plan of campaign’ and the evictions were resisted by cutting and barricading the roads, loopholding the houses, and using pitchforks, stones and boiling water against the bailiffs, the tenants eventually paid up and were reinstated 1892. found dead in his arm chair, Ballyconnell house, co. Donegal 21 Sept. 1892.

O’MAHONY, JOHN FRANCIS. b. Kilbeheney, co. Limerick 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; took part in Smith O’Brien’s attempted insurrection 1848, fled to France, lived in Paris 1849–54, and in New York 1854 to death; one of the founders of the Emmet movement association about 1854; for a short time in a lunatic asylum; col. of 69th regt. in U.S. of America; took a prominent part in the Fenian movement from 1858; was head centre of the Fenian brotherhood several years; published Foras feasa ar Eirinn, The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D., translated from the original Gaelic and copiously annotated, New York 1857. d. New York 7 Feb. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin in Feb. Appleton’s American biography iv 579–80 (1888).

O’MALLEY, PETER FREDERIC (son of Charles O’Malley of the Lodge, co. Mayo). b. 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 2 May 1834; went Oxford circuit; migrated to Middle Temple 1839, bencher 1850 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; leader of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Norwich April 1859 to death; contested Finsbury as a Conservative 16 Nov. 1868; author of Religious liberty and the Indian proclamation 1859; The articles, liturgy, and subscription 1865; To the electors of the borough of Finsbury, two addresses 1868. d. 7 Lowndes st. Belgrave sq. London 10 Dec. 1874. Irish Law Times viii 649 (1874); Law Times lviii 124 (1874).

O’MALLEY, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (son of Owen O’Malley of Borrishowle, co. Mayo). b. 26 Dec. 1779; created baronet 2 July 1804. d. Kilboyne house, Castlebar, Mayo 18 Aug. 1864. G.M. xvii 529 (1864).

O’MALLEY, THADEUS JOSEPH. b. Garryowen, near Limerick 1796; a Roman Catholic minister, Philadelphia, U.S. of America, but was suspended by bishop England 1825; assistant priest to the cathedral in Marlborough st. Dublin under archbishop Daniel Murray 1827; advocated a poor law for Ireland and a system of national education; rector of R.C. university of Malta, but dismissed by the government; started a newspaper in Dublin entitled The social economist and another entitled The Federalist, No. 1 Sept. 24, 1870, which ran to No. 31 April 22, 1871; tried to unite the Old Ireland and Young Ireland parties; advocated home rule from 1870; author of A sketch of the state of popular education in Holland, Prussia, Belgium and France, 2 ed. 1840; Home rule on the basis of federalism 1873. d. 1 Henrietta st. Dublin 2 Jany. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. The works of the right rev. J. England, bishop of Charleston v 187–202 (1849).

O’MEARA, KATHLEEN (dau. of Dennis O’Meara of Tipperary). b. Dublin 1839; resided in Paris most of her life, where she was correspondent of The Tablet newspaper many years; author of the following works under pseudonym of Grace Ramsay, A woman’s trials, 3 vols. 1867; Iza’s story, 3 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1877; The bells of the sanctuary, Agnes 1871; The bells of the sanctuary, A daughter of St. Dominick 1873; A salon in the last days of the Empire 1873; Thomas Grant, first bishop of Southwark 1874, 2 ed. 1886; The battle of Connemara 1878, 2 ed. 1878; Are you my wife, 3 vols. 1878; translated Henri Perreyve and his counsels to the sick 1881; author under own name of The Bells of the sanctuary, Mary Benedicta, etc. 1879; The blind apostle 1890; Frederic Ozanam, his life and works 1876, 2 ed. 1878; Madame Mohl, her salon and her friends 1885, 2 ed. 1886; Narka, 2 vols. 1888; The old house in Picardy 1887; One of God’s heroines, Mother Mary Teresa Kelly 1878; Queen by right divine and other tales 1885; The ven. Jean Baptiste Viauney 1891. d. at residence of Father Faber, Paris 10 Nov. 1888. Irish Monthly Oct. 1889 pp. 527–36; Tablet 17 Nov. 1888 p. 789.

OMMANNEY, HENRY MANATON. b. 1775; entered navy June 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; retired R.A. 28 June 1838, placed on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. 11 West Emma place, Stonehouse 22 March 1857.

OMMANNEY, SIR JOHN ACWORTH (eld. son of rear admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney, d. 1801). b. 1773; entered navy 1786; captain 16 Oct. 1800; flag captain to sir Erasmus Gower on the Newfoundland station 1804–6; commanded the Albion 1825–30; served at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827, for which created C.B. 1828, and knight of the orders of St. Louis, St. Vladimir and the Redeemer of Greece; R.A. 22 July 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 May 1835; commanded the Lisbon station 1837–40, and the Mediterranean station 1840–1; K.C.B. 20 July 1838; V.A. 23 Nov. 1841, admiral 4 May 1849; commander-in-chief at Devonport 17 April 1851 to 1 May 1854. d. Warblington house, Havant 8 July 1855.

O’NEILL, JOHN BRUCE RICHARD O’NEILL, 3 Viscount (younger son of 1 viscount O’Neill 1740–98). b. Shane’s castle, co. Antrim 30 Dec. 1780; ensign Coldstream guards 10 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 21 April 1808 to 29 March 1810; lieut. col. 19 dragoons 29 March 1810 to 11 July 1816; captain Coldstream guards 11 July 1816 to 27 May 1825; M.G. 27 May 1825; general 20 June 1854; M.P. co. Antrim 1802–41; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 25 March 1841; constable of Dublin castle May 1811 to death; vice-admiral of the coast of Ulster; a representative peer of Ireland Feb. 1842 to death. d. Shane’s Castle 12 Feb. 1855.

O’NEILL, WILLIAM O’NEILL, 1 Baron (eld. son of rev. Edward Chichester, R. of Kilmore, Armagh, d. June 1840). b. Culdaff house, co. Donegal 3 March 1813; educ. Foyle college, Londonderry, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1836; C. of Kilmore 1837; prebendary of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1848–59; succeeded to the O’Neill estates 1855, when he took name of O’Neill in lieu of that of Chichester; acted frequently as organist in the Dublin cathedrals; composer of church music, glees, and songs; composed the poetry and music of an ode when prince Arthur visited Shane’s Castle 1869; created baron O’Neill of Shane’s Castle in the county of Antrim 18 April 1868; a great supporter of the disestablished church; a member of the Victoria institute 1875; author of Friendly suggestions on Christian consistency, Exeter 1847; The christian sabbath 1859; Unchanging love, or the final perseverance of all believers in Christ Jesus 1860; Absolution and the prayer book 1871; Essays and addresses on the truths of the christian religion 1886; composer of Let others quaff the racy wine, a glee 1881. d. Shane’s Castle 17 April 1883. The O’Neill scholarship founded in the divinity school, Trin. coll. Dublin in his memory. Sermon by the rev. lord O’Neill (1885), memoir pp. ix–xlviii portrait.

O’NEILL, HENRY. b. Dundalk 1800; Irish archæologist; author of A guide to pictorial art 1846; The most interesting of the ancient crosses of ancient Ireland, drawn to scale and lithographed by H. O’Neill 1857; The fine arts and civilization of ancient Ireland, illustrated with chromo and other lithographs 1863; Ireland for the Irish 1868. d. 109 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 21 Dec. 1880.

O’NEILL, HENRY ARTHUR. Ensign 41 foot 22 Nov. 1821; captain 12 foot 8 March 1827, major 28 Aug. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Nov. 1870. d. St. Ann’s Donnybrook, co. Dublin 23 Nov. 1874.

O’NEIL, HENRY NELSON. b. St. Petersburg 7 Jany. 1817; came to England 1823; studied at the R.A. from 1836; historical painter; exhibited 94 pictures at R.A., 34 at B.I., and 14 at Suffolk st. 1838–79; A.R.A. 1860; with other persons supplied illustrations to L’Allegro and Il penseroso 1848; author of Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy 1866; Two thousand years hence 1868; Modern art in England and France 1869; Satirical dialogues 1870; The age of stucco, a satire in three cantos 1871. d. 7 Victoria road, Kensington, London 13 March 1880. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 343 (1862); Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi 180, 181 (1860) portrait, lxxv 308 (1880) portrait.

O’NEILL OR O’NIELL, JOHN (son of a shoemaker). b. Waterford 8 Jany 1777; a shoemaker at Garrick-on-Suir 1800, afterwards in London from 1812; a strong advocate of temperance; author of The clothier’s looking-glass, a poem 1799; Irish melodies; The sorrows of memory, a poem; Alva, a drama 1821; The Drunkard 1840, a poem, new edition with George Cruikshank’s etchings of the effects of the Bottle 1842; The triumph of temperance, or the destruction of the British upas tree 1852, a poem; Handerahan the Irish fairy-man and legends of Carrick 1854; Hugh O’Neill the prince of Ulster, a poem 1859; Mary of Avonmore, or the foundling of the beach, a novel. d. White horse yard, Drury lane, London 3 Feb. 1858. J. O’Neill’s Blessings of Temperance (1851), memoir pp. i–vi, portrait; W. E. Winks’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 316–9; D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland, part iii, p. 195 (1893); S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 338–9.

O’NEILL, JOHN. b. about 1837; employed in the war office; retired on a pension of £350 in 1879; accountant general in Cyprus, where he had to reduce eleven different currencies to a common denomination; made a special study of Japanese, and compiled a grammar which was adopted by the Mikado; contributed to philological and literary journals in London and Paris; an authority on the Provençal language and literature; author of A first Japanese book for English students 1874; The night of the Gods, an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology 1893. d. Selling, near Faversham 12 Jany. 1895.

O’NEILL, JOHN ROBERT (only son of Robert O’Neill of Talylyn, co. Brecon, who was brother of lady Becher). b. Ireland 1823; matric. from Magdalen hall, Oxf. 5 Dec. 1844; appeared on the stage at Exeter; a reader and lecturer; author of the plays, Don Roderick; The Loose fish; Mrs. Johnson; Ali Baba, or a night with the 40 thieves, extravaganza performed by the marionettes at the St. James’ theatre, London 27 Dec. 1852; An optical delusion, a farce, St. James’ theatre; under the name of Hugo Vamp, esq. he wrote the dramas Aladdin; The Arcadian brothers; Poll Practice; Roscius in spirits; The manager at home; composer (as Hugo Vamp) of Alonzo the brave 1856; Lord Ronald the bold, duke of Putney 1861; Mazeppa, the cream of Tartars 1869; King Leah, a comic scena 1872; Othello, a comic scena 1872. d. 39 Paulton square, Chelsea 12 June 1860. W. Donaldson’s Recollections of an actor (1865) 309–21; The Era 24 June 1860 p. 11.

ONSLOW, GEORGES (son of Edward Onslow). b. Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne 27 July 1784; pupil of Hullmandel, Dussek, and J. B. Cramer in England; studied music in Vienna two years; pupil of Reicha in Paris 1808; composed 3 operas, produced at the Théatre Feydeau, Paris, L’Alcalde de la Vega 10 Aug. 1824, Le Colporteur 22 Nov. 1827, and Le Duc de Guise 8 Sept. 1837; one of the first honorary members of the Philharmonic society, London 1832; nine of his symphonies were played at the Conservatoire concerts in Paris 1831, &c.; member of the French Institute Nov. 1842; published at Paris, Vienna and Leipsic 34 quintets, 36 quartets and 6 trios for piano, violin, and violincello 1824–50; printed in London An air for the pianoforte 1828. d. Clermont-Ferrand 3 Oct. 1853. F. Halevy’s Souvenirs et portraits, Paris (1861) 161–86; Georges Onslow, Esquisse par, Auguste Gathy.

ONSLOW, GUILDFORD JAMES HILLIER MAINWARING-ELLERKER (2 son of succeeding). b. Bulstrode st. London 29 March 1814; educ. Eton; lieut. Scots fusilier guards; M.P. Guildford 1858–74; assumed by R.L. additional names of Mainwaring-Ellerker 19 Aug. 1861; a friend of sir Roger Tichborne from 1847; a firm believer in the Tichborne claimant 1867, to whom he gave continuous support, assisted him with money and was a holder of Tichborne bonds, a believer in Tichborne to his death; the claimant in June 1895 admitted that he was Arthur Orton and not sir Roger Tichborne; author of Tichborne, Reasons why he should have the benefit of the doubt 1874; Two hundred facts proving the claimant to be Roger Tichborne, in De Morgan’s Popular series, No. 2, 1876. d. The Grove, Ropley, Alresford 20 Aug. 1882. bur. Old Alresford churchyard 24 Aug.

ONSLOW, THOMAS CRANLEY (2 son of 2 earl of Onslow 1754–1827). b. 7 Oct. 1778; educ. Harrow; ensign 3 foot guards 29 April 1795, captain 26 Sept. 1805, sold out 1812; colonel 2 Surrey militia to 1852; M.P. Guildford 1806–18. d. Upton house, Alresford 7 July 1861.

ONSLOW, WILLIAM. Cornet 11 dragoons 12 Dec. 1798, lieut. 26 Feb. 1801; captain 4 dragoons 29 Jany. 1805, major 23 Nov. 1820; major 88 foot 15 Feb. 1827, placed on h.p. 2 July 1829; major 55 foot 7 Feb. 1840, sold out same day; K.H. 1832.

NOTE.--He is in Burke’s and Dod’s Peerages 1887, but probably died some years before this date.

ONWHYN, JOSEPH. b. 1787; bookseller 3 Catherine st. Strand, London; published Onwhyn’s Guide to the Highlands of Scotland 1839; Onwhyn’s Welsh tourist 1840, 2 ed. 1853; Onwhyn’s Pocket guide to the Lakes 1841; and The Owl, a Wednesday journal of politics and society. First issue numbered 1001 27 April 1864, last issue 1095 22 July 1868, a satirical journal treating chiefly on political subjects. d. New Hillingdon, Cowley, Uxbridge, Middlesex 27 Nov. 1870.

ONWHYN, THOMAS (youngest son of the preceding). b. London 1811; designer and engraver; in Additional illustrations to the Pickwick Papers by Samuel Weller, issued in 8 monthly parts, Lond. E. Grattan 1837, he executed 21 of the 32 plates, some of which bear his initials; and in Illustrations to Nicholas Nickleby by Peter Palette, esq., issued in 9 parts, Lond. E. Grattan 1839, he executed all the 40 plates, this work was reprinted in 1848, another set of illustrations to the same work by Onwhyn appeared in 1893; he illustrated The memoirs of David Dreamy 1839; Charles Selby’s Maxims and specimens of William Muggins 1841; M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1844; Etiquette illustrated by an X M.P. 1849; he illustrated the following works by Henry Cockton, Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist 1840; George St. George Julian, the Prince 1842; Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist 1844; The Love Match 1845; The Steward 1850; The Sisters 1851; Lady Felicia 1851; Percy Effingham 1853; under the name of Peter Palette he wrote Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s Visit to the Exhibition 1851; Peter Palette’s Tales and Pictures, 1856, second series 1856; with J. Onwhyn he produced Costumes of the times of George iii, designed for her majesty’s state ball 1845; his 12 pictures entitled Cupid and crinoline, dated 20 Oct. 1858, were reprinted in The Picture Magazine June 1893, pp. 326–7. d. 9 May’s buildings, Strand, St. Martin in the Fields, London 21 Jany. 1886, his son Thomas Onwhyn present at his death. Jas. Cook’s Bibliography of C. Dickens (1879) 12, 17, 83, 85.

OPIE, AMELIA (only child of James Alderson of Norwich, physician, d. Oct. 1825). b. Calvert st. Norwich 12 Nov. 1769; took charge of her father’s house on her mother’s death 31 Dec. 1784; wrote a tragedy entitled Adelaide about 1787; author of The dangers of coquetry 2 vols. 1790, anon.; m. at Marylebone church 8 May 1798 John Opie, the Cornish painter, who d. April 1807, aged 46; received into the Society of Friends 11 Aug. 1825; author of The father and daughter 1801, 4 ed. 1804; Poems 1802, 6 ed. 1811; Adelaide Mowbray or the mother and daughter, 3 vols. 1804, new ed. 1844; Simple Tales 1806, 4 ed. 1815; The warrior’s return and other poems 1808; Temper or domestic scenes, 3 vols. 1812; Tales of real life, 3 vols. 1813, 3 ed. 1816; Valentine’s Eve, 3 vols. 1816; New tales, 4 vols. 1818; Tales of the heart, 4 vols. 1820; Madeline, 2 vols. 1822; Illustrations of lying in all its branches, 2 vols. 1825; Detraction displayed 1828; Lays for the dead 1834, 2 ed. 1840; a collected edition of her Miscellaneous tales was published in 12 vols. 1845–7. d. Castle Meadow, Norwich 2 Dec. 1853. bur. in the Friends’ burying-ground, Gildencroft, Norwich 9 Dec. C. L. Brightwell’s Memorials of life of A. Opie (1854) portrait; C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, 2 series (1893) 175–90 portrait; Biographical catalogue of lives of friends (1888) 473–80; A book of memories by S. C. Hall (1877) 167–80; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii 15–30 (1858); J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters ii 237–84 (1863); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 329–36; A book of sibyls by Miss Thackeray (Mrs. R. Ritchie 1883) pp. 149–96; Cornhill magazine Oct. 1883 pp. 357–82.

ORANGE, JAMES. b. 1799; minister of the Gospel, formerly resident at Castle terrace, Nottingham; edited Narrative of the late George Vason, missionary in the ship Duff, with An essay on the South Seas, Derby 1840; author of The ecclesiastical and civil history of the town and people of Nottingham, 2 vols. 1840; Synoptica Hebræa, Anglo-Hebrew Bible expositor, a manual of self instruction, London 1858; a teacher of Hebrew at 471 Mile end road, London 1866 to death. d. 471 Mile end road, London 6 Jany. 1878. Christian World 25 Jany. 1878 p. 72.

ORANMORE, DOMINICK BROWNE, 1 Baron (2 son of Dominick Geoffrey Browne, governor of Mayo 1755–1826). b. Sackville st. Dublin 28 May 1787; educ. Eton, Edinburgh, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.P. Mayo 1814–36; P.C. Ireland 1834; lord lieutenant of Mayo 1834–42; cr. baron Oranmore and Browne of Carra Browne castle, Oranmore, co. Galway and of Castle Mac Garrett, co. Mayo 4 May 1836. d. Brighton 30 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 296 (1860).

ORCZY, BODOG, Baron. b. Hungary 1835; composer of II rinnegato, opera in 3 acts, Hungarian libretto by Farkas Deak, Italian adaptation by S. C. Marchesi, English adaptation by Frederick Corder, London 1881. d. 23 Wimpole st. London 20 Jany. 1892.

ORD, SIR HARRY ST. GEORGE (eld. son of Harry Gough Ord, captain R.A.). b. North Cray, Kent 17 June 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 14 Dec. 1837; adjutant of the R.E. at Chatham 1 Jany. 1852 to July 1854; brigade major of the R.E. in the Baltic July 1854; lieut. col. R.E. 28 Nov. 1859, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 16 April 1869; lieutenant governor of Dominica 2 Sept. 1857; governor of the Bermudas 16 Feb. 1861 to Nov. 1866; governor of the Straits Settlements 5 Feb. 1867 to Nov. 1873; governor of Western Australia 12 Nov. 1877, retired on a pension 6 April 1880; C.B. 9 Oct. 1865; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1867; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. d. Homburg 20 Aug. 1885. bur. in churchyard of Fornham, St. Martin, near Bury St. Edmunds, portrait in chamber of legislative council, Bermuda.

ORD, JOHN WALKER (son of Richard Ord of Guisborough, Yorkshire, tanner). b. Guisborough 5 March 1811; educ. univ. of Edinb.; apprenticed to Robert Knox the anatomist; founded in London 1834 the Metropolitan literary journal, which was merged in the Britannia; author of England, a historical poem, 2 vols. 1834–5; Remarks on the sympathetic condition existing between the body and the mind, especially during disease 1836; The Bard and minor poems 1841; Rural sketches and poems chiefly relating to Cleveland 1845; The history and antiquities of Cleveland 1846; edited Roseberry Topping, a poem by Thomas Pierson, Stockton 1847. d. Guisborough 29 Aug. 1853. J. W. Ord’s History and antiquities of Cleveland (1846) portrait.

ORD, WILLIAM REDMAN. b. about 1792; second lieut. R.E. 25 April 1809, colonel 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 20 April 1861 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Stoke Damarel, Devonport 11 April 1872.

ORDISH, ROWLAND MASON (son of John Ordish, land agent and surveyor). b. Melbourne, near Derby 11 April 1824; employed by R. E. Brounger, civil engineer, London 1847, afterwards by Charles Fox; made the working drawings for the iron work of the Great Exhibition building 1851, and was engaged on the re-erection of the building at Sydenham 1852–4; chief draughtsman in the works’ department of the admiralty at Somerset house Jany. 1856 to March 1858; engineer at 18 Great George st. Westminster 1858; partner with W. H. Le Feuvre; took out a patent April 1858 for an improvement in suspension bridges, which is known as Ordish’s straight chain suspension system; designed the Franz-Joseph bridge over the Moldau at Prague 1868, and the Albert bridge over the Thames at Chelsea, opened Sept. 1873, both constructed on this principle; designed the roof of the Dutch-Rhenish railway station at Amsterdam 1863, roof of the Dublin winter palace 1865, winter garden for Leeds infirmary 1868, and the railway station at Cape Town; designed with J. W. Grover the roof of the Albert Hall at South Kensington 1870; member of the Society of Engineers 1857, president 1860. d. Stratford place, Camden Town, London 12 Sept. 1886. bur. Highgate cemet.

O’REARDON, JOHN. b. 1776; educ. Maynooth 1797; a physician 1802; studied in Paris 1803; a prisoner in France to 1814; physician to fever hospital, Cork st. Dublin 1814–48, wrote the annual reports for 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833; physician to Daniell O’Connell; author of De ictero 1802; A memoir of Richard Kirwan, the chemist. d. Mount Prospect, Killarney 14 March 1866. Medical Times 31 March 1866 p. 353.

O’REGAN, ANTHONY. b. Kiltullagh, Ireland 1809; a priest in Tuam cathedral; professor and then president of St. Jarlath’s coll. Tuam; went to U.S. of America; vicar-general of diocese of St. Louis; president of the college of Carondelet and professor of theology and sacred scriptures; bishop of Chicago 1854, resigned 1858 and was transferred to the titular see of Dora; resided in Europe 1858 to death. d. Michael’s grove, Brompton, London 13 Nov. 1866. bur. Cloonfad, co. Galway, 22 Nov. The Tablet 17 Nov. 1866 p. 721, 1 Dec. p. 764.

O’REILLY, BERNARD. b. co. Longford 1803; embarked for U.S. of America 17 Jany. 1825; educ. Ecclesiastical seminary, Montreal 1825, and at St. Mary’s coll. Baltimore; ordained in New York 13 Oct. 1831; a priest at St. James’ ch. Brooklyn from 1831; devoted himself to the sick during the cholera of 1832; pastor of St. Patrick’s ch. Rochester Dec. 1832; vicar-general of the new see of Buffalo Oct, 1847; consecrated bishop of Hartford in St. Patrick’s ch. 1850; introduced Sisters of mercy to the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and protected them against a mob in 1855; went to Europe 5 Dec. 1855; embarked at Liverpool on board the steamer Pacific on his return to his diocese 23 Jany. 1856, but the ship was never again heard of, requiem masses said for him in June 1856. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in United States ii 391–407 (1872).

O’REILLY, BERNARD (son of a farmer). b. Ballybeg, co. Meath 10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4 minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19 Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec. 1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852, erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec. 1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873. d. St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. bur. Upholland cemet. Wigan 13 April. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii 423 (1877).

O’REILLY, DOWELL (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey castle, co. Louth, d. Jany. 1817). b. May 1795; called to Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. d. St. Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. bur. in R.C. cemet. Kingston 14 Sept. G.M. xliv 651 (1855).

O’REILLY, EDMUND JOSEPH. b. London 30 April 1811; studied at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college 1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph 1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland 1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus 1863–70. d. Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to society (1892) memoir pp. i–viii; Irish Monthly vi 695–700 (1878).

O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of the national school attached to the Netterville institution at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, d. 17 Feb. 1871). b. Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863; a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston 1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889; edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man, a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. d. Winthrop st. Boston 10 Aug. 1890. bur. Holyhood cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts 12 Aug. J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly (1891) portrait; Cosmopolitan ix 768 (1890) portrait; Irish Monthly xiii 19 (1885).

O’REILLY, MONTAGU FREDERICK. b. 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835, lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870, R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut. of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches are at Windsor Castle. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May 1888.

O’REILLY, MYLES WILLIAM PATRICK (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). b. Dublin 13 March 1825; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845, LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept. 1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862 to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors, New York 1878. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. bur. Philipstown near Knock Abbey.

ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford 1752–1822). b. Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh 5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim 1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17 Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth 1833–6. d. Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.

ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding). b. Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.

O’RIORDAN, DANIELL O’CONNELL. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880. d. 13 Aug. 1890.

ORKNEY, GEORGE WILLIAM HAMILTON FITZMAURICE, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). b. 6 May 1827; known as viscount Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23 Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G. 28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the Ionian islands 1864. d. 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 21 Oct. 1889.

ORLEANS, HELENE LOUISE ELISABETH, Duchess of (youngest dau. of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, d. 1816). b. Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; m. at palace of Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July 1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. d. Cambourne house, Richmond 18 May 1858. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques, La duchess d’Orleans (1856); The duchess of Orleans, a translation by Mrs. Austin (1859); I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp. 168–9, 29 May 1858 p. 544 portrait; G.M. June 1858 p. 668.

ORLEBAR, JOHN (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house, Bedfordshire 1775–1833). b. Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810; entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1 Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30 years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. 91 Pevensey road, St. Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. An account of families of Boase (1893) 112.

ORMATHWAITE, JOHN BENN-WALSH, 1 Baron (only son of sir John Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). b. Warfield park, Bracknell, Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2 bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P. Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite, Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. d. Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.

ORME, COSMO. b. Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn, bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees, London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803, retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’ provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. d. Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug. personalty sworn under £200,000. Bookseller Aug. 1859 p. 1169; G.M. vii 312 (1859).

ORME, HENRY ROBERT. b. Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham, £50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10 May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. d. 103 Shoreditch, London 9 June 1864. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 253–70, 330–8 (1880) portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 160–7; Fights for the championship, by the editor of Bell’s Life (1860) 244–55, 405; Illust. sporting news iii 196, 203 (1864) portrait.

NOTE.--He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.

ORMEROD, EDWARD LATHAM (6 son of the succeeding). b. London 27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851; demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7; physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. d. 14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital reports vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873); J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 503–6.

ORMEROD, GEORGE (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.) b. High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school, Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818; purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester, with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby, 3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6; Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. d. Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. G. Ormerod’s History of Chester, 2 ed. vol. 1 (1875) portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 575 (1873).

ORMEROD, GEORGE WAREING (2 son of the preceding). b. Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford, Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S. 1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874; wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club 1888. d. Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 56; Academy xxxix 43 (1891).

ORMEROD, THOMAS JOHNSON (brother of the preceding). b. 27 July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to 1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges, lectures, and sermons. d. Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec. 1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200. I.L.N. lxv 571 (1874).

ORMEROD, WILLIAM PIERS (brother of the preceding). b. Welbeck st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec 1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, d. Canterbury 10 June 1860. bur. St. Martin’s, Canterbury. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports, vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873).

ORMISTON, THOMAS. b. Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7; chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay 1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1880. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 9 July 1882. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi 409–15 (1883).

ORMOND, FRANCIS (son of capt. Ormond of the mercantile marine). b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1829; educ. Liverpool; a squatter in Victoria, Australia, made a fortune; gave £40,000 for building the Presbyterian coll. Melbourne 1877–87; contributed to the Working men’s coll. 1887 and was the first president; founded Ormond coll. Melbourne; gave £20,000 to endow a chair of music at the Melbourne univ. 1887; member of legislative council; resided Egoleen, Toorak, Melbourne. d. Pau, France 5 May 1889, left £40,000 to Ormond coll., £10,000 to Melbourne Working men’s coll., and many other gifts to institutions and charities. P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 356–7; Times 11 May 1889 p. 12.

ORMONDE, JOHN BUTLER, 2 Marquess of (eld. child of James Butler, 1 marquess of Ormonde 1774–1838). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 24 Aug. 1808; educ. Harrow 1821 etc.; known as viscount Thurles 1808–38; succeeded as 2 marquess 22 May 1838; hereditary chief butler of Ireland 1838 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. 1853 to death; K.P. 17 Sept. 1845; author of An autumn in Sicily, an account of the remains of antiquity in that island, Dublin 1850; translated F. P. G. Guizot’s Meditations and moral sketches 1855, and A. Dumas’ Memoirs of a mâitre d’ armes 1856. d. Loftus hall, co. Wexford 25 Sept. 1854. bur. in Kilkenny cathedral 2 Oct. G.M. xlii 505 (1854); I.L.N. xxv 361 (1854).

ORMONDE, ALFRED. b. Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. d. April or May 1852. Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852 portrait.

ORMSBY, ARTHUR SYDNEY (youngest son of rev. Owen Ormsby). b. Seatown house, Dundalk Feb. 1825; articled to George Halpin, engineer 1839–44; resident engineer on a portion of Midland great western line; an engineer in U.S. of America 1849–51; assistant colonial engineer Melbourne, Australia 1852; executive engineer public works department Calcutta 1858–61; experimented on the water supply to London 1861, proposing to collect the rain fall before it reached the ground, and to discriminate between the potable water and the water for ordinary purposes; constructed water works at Hillbottom, Berks.; author of A new idea for the water supply of towns 1867. d. London 24 Feb. 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 479–81 (1887).

ORMSBY, HENRY W. (son of Henry Ormsby, R. of Kilskier, co. Meath). b. Kilskier Feb. 1812; educ. Trinity college, Dublin, B.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s Inns 1874; solicitor general for Ireland 1868 and 12 March 1874; attorney general 21 Jany. to 12 Nov. 1875; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1875; judge of landed estates court 12 Nov. 1875; judge of chancery division of high court of justice in Ireland 1878–85. d. Marine terrace, Bray 17 Sept. 1887. Law Times 1 Oct. 1887 p. 386.

ORMSBY, JOHN WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 6 Aug. 1828; colonel R.A. 9 Aug. 1858; M.G. 5 April 1866; lieut. governor and commandant royal military academy Woolwich 1 April 1867 to death. d. Woolwich 17 March 1869.

ORNSBY, GEORGE (eld. son of George Ornsby of the Lodge, Lanchester, Durham, d. 1823). b. Darlington, Durham 9 March 1809; educ. Durham gr. sch. 1823–7; practised as a solicitor in Durham; studied theology at Univ. coll. Durham 1839–41; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1841–3; C. of Sedgefield, Durham 1843–4; C. of Whickham, Durham 1845–50; V. of Fishlake, South Yorkshire July 1850 to death; hon. M.A. Durham 1872; F.S.A. 29 May 1873; preb. of York 15 Feb. 1879 to death; author of Sketches of Durham 1846; York 1882 in Diocesan histories; edited for the Surtees society The works and letters of D. Granville, dean of Durham 1861–5; The correspondence of John Cosin, bishop of Durham, 2 vols. 1869–72, and Selections from the household book of lord William Howard of Naworth castle 1878. d. Fishlake vicarage 17 April 1886. Proc. of soc. of antiq. xi 376 (1886); Biograph July 1881 pp. 26–8.

ORNSBY, ROBERT (brother of preceding). b. 1820; educ. Linc. coll. Oxf.; exhibitioner 1836–43; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1843–7, and lecturer in rhetoric 1844; master of the schools; C. of St. Peter-the-less, Chichester 1845–7; entered the church of Rome May 1847; helped to manage the Tablet newspaper in Dublin; professor of classical literature in the Catholic univ. Dublin Oct. 1854–82; librarian at Arundel Castle a short time; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland and examiner in Greek 1882 to death; author of The life of St. Francis de Sales 1856; Η Καινη Διαθηκη the Greek testament from cardinal Mai’s edition of the Vatican bible, with notes, Dublin 1860; Memoirs of James Robert Hope Scott, Q.C., 2 vols. 1884. d. Earlsfort terrace, Dublin 21 April 1889. E. G. K. Browne’s Tractarian Movement (1861) 145, 151.

O’RORKE, PATRICK HENRY. b. co. Cavan, Ireland 25 March 1837; taken to U.S. of America 1838; educ. Rochester, New York; a marble cutter; second lieut. of engineers in the Federal army 24 June 1861, first lieut. 3 March 1863, brevet colonel 2 July 1863; served at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861; colonel of the 140th regiment of New York volunteers Sept. 1862, which became one of the best in the army of the Potomac; killed in the battle of Gettysburg 2 July 1863. Appleton’s American biography iv 591 (1888) portrait.

O’ROURKE, HUGH. Professor of English, rhetoric and French in royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1862–85; elected bishop of Clonfert 10 Feb. 1881, but declined the charge. d. 1885.

ORPEN, SIR RICHARD JOHN THEODORE (2 son of Francis Orpen, V. of Kilgarvan, co. Kerry, d. 1805). b. Cork 6 Nov. 1788; educ. Middleton and Cork; solicitor at Dublin 1809 to death; president of Incorporated society of attorneys and solicitors of Ireland 1860 to death; one of the comrs. to inquire into practice of courts of law and equity in Ireland; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868. d. 41 George’s st. Great North, Dublin 4 May 1876. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 8 May. I.L.N. lxviii 478 (1876); Irish Law Times x 266, 281, 300 (1876).

ORR, SIR ANDREW (eld. son of Francis Orr of Glasgow, wholesale stationer). b. Glasgow 1802; educ. univ. of Glasgow; partner in firm of S. Orr and Co., stationers, Glasgow; member of town council 1842–60; lord provost of Glasgow 1854–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; took an active part in procuring for Glasgow a water supply, public parks, and a gallery of arts 1857–9; chairman of Glasgow and south western railway 1849; acquired estates of Harvieston and Castle Campbell 1859, Aberdona 1860, and Sheardale 1861. d. Bridge of Allan, Perthshire 19 April 1874. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii 253–4 (1886) portrait.

ORR, CHARLES ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Madras engineers 9 June 1831, colonel 29 June 1863; colonel commandant 24 March 1871 to death; L.G. 20 March 1876. d. 6 Oct. 1876.

ORR, JOHN H. b. Grey Abbey, co. Down 26 Nov. 1826; ordained at Antrim 19 March 1851; D.D.; clerk of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in Ireland 1869 to death; moderator of the general assembly 1887; sec. of the trustees of the fund of the Regium Donum; sent letters to The Times on 1 and 6 July 1892 in reply to Mr. Gladstone, giving the views of Irish Presbyterians on home rule. d. Antrim 23 Jany. 1895. Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p. 4 portrait.

ORR, ROBERT SCOTT (son of a chemist). b. Edinburgh 1819; apprentice to sir George Newbigging; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1840, M.R.C.S. 1866, M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1856; medical assistant royal lunatic asylum; superintendent Glasgow royal infirmary 1843, afterwards physician; member of general medical council 1 April 1878 to death; president of Faculty of physicians and surgeons 1880–3; author of Statistical tables of the Royal infirmary of Glasgow 1845–7, 3 vols.; Historical sketch of epidemic fever in Glasgow 1848. d. 9 Albany place, Glasgow 15 May 1886. Lancet i 1001 (1886).

ORR, SUTHERLAND GEORGE GORDON. b. 1816; ensign European regiment (left wing) 23 Feb. 1836; captain 23 Madras light infantry 12 March 1846 to death; commandant 3 regt. Hyderabad cavalry 27 Jany. 1854 to death. d. at the residence of his brother-in-law Greenhill, Barnet, Herts. 19 June 1858. Mrs. C. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine of a soldier’s life.

ORR, WILLIAM ADAM (eld. son of Wm. Orr, d. 1816). b. 1810; educ. Addiscombe coll.; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 15 Dec. 1826, colonel 9 June 1862 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 1862 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859; succeeded to the property of Patrick Orr of Bridgeton 1828. d. Weston super Mare 11 Sept. 1869.

ORR, WILLIAM SOMERVILLE. Publisher at 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 1837–59; the London publisher of W. & R. Chambers’ works 1850; published Orr’s Circle of the Sciences, 9 vols. 1854–6; A primary atlas of ancient and modern geography 1855; in the employment of Chapman and Hall, publishers, London, at time of his death. d. 129 Blenheim crescent, Notting Hill, London 6 Jany. 1873. The Publishers’ circular 1 Feb. 1873 p. 72.

ORRIDGE, BENJAMIN BROGDEN. b. 1814; a medical agent and valuer at 30 Bucklersbury, London; common councilman for ward of Cheap 1863–9; chairman of the library committee of city of London; F.G.S.; member of London and Middlesex archæological society to 1870; author of A letter on eminent Londoners and civic records 1866; Some account of the citizens of London and their rulers from 1060 to 1867, 1867; Some particulars of alderman Philip Malpas and alderman sir Thomas Cooke, K.B. 1868; Illustrations of Jack Cade’s rebellion from researches in the Guildhall records 1869. d. 33 St. John’s Wood park, London 17 July 1870. Trans. of London and Middlesex Archæol. Soc. iv 70–1 (1871).

ORRIDGE, ELLEN AMELIA (eld. dau. of Edward Orridge of 2 Houghton place, Ampthill square, London). b. London 1856; educ. Royal academy of music under Manuel Garcia 1875, took bronze medal 1876, silver and gold medal 1877, Parepa gold medal, second Christine Nilsson prize and certificate of the Academy 1878; had a fine contralto voice; sang in Mr. Pyatt’s autumnal tour concerts 1877 and 1878, at John Boosey’s ballad concerts 1878, and at A. and S. Gatti’s promenade concerts 1878; sang in oratorios at Birmingham and other places. d. Guernsey 16 Sept. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 21 Sept. Illust. sp. and dr. news x 265, 271 (1878) portrait.

ORROCK, HECTOR HEATLEY (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). b. Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish academy exhibitions. d. 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb. 1862.

ORTON, CHARLES JAMES. b. 1817; solicitor in city of London 1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen; master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. d. Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893.

ORTON, JAMES. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809, surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. d. 3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857.

ORTON, REGINALD (only son of James Orton, inspector-general of Bombay hospitals). b. Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810; educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862; surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling apparatus. d. Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862. G.M. Nov. 1862 pp. 644–6.

OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (son of George Osbaldeston of Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, d. 1794). b. Wimpole st. London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8, and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs. he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket 5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won; fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17 April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the Squire. d. 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866. C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana (1867) 6–54; Baily’s Mag. ii 295–306 (1861) portrait; Sporting Review lvi 170–80 (1866) portrait; Day’s Reminiscences of the turf (1891) 84, 85; Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck (1892) 402–8; Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences (1843) 43–6; Wildrake’s Cracks of the day (1841) 32–5; H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport (1895); Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 342 (1862); Grace’s Cricket (1891) 21 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news ix 144, 163 (1878) portrait.

OSBORN, GEORGE (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper 1764–1836). b. Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester 1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863 and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols. 1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. d. 24 Cambrian road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. Wesleyan Methodist mag. June 1891 pp. 468–78 portrait; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp. 124, 126 portrait, 2 May 1891 p. 563 portrait.

OSBORN, MARMADUKE CLARK (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). b. Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death; secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed. 1882. d. of influenza at Hydropathic establishment, Baslow, Derbyshire 11 May 1891. bur. Norwood cemet. 15 May. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp. 553–5; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 227; Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p. 377 portrait.

OSBORN, ROBERT DURIE (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col. 13 Bengal N.I., d. 1849). b. Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60; lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of 1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death; London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed. 1884. d. of syncope while playing lawn tennis at the Hyde Park tennis court, London 19 April 1889, portrait by J. R. Hodgson exhibited at the R.A. 1877. Academy xxxv 304 (1889); Athenæum i 538 (1889).

OSBORN, SAMUEL (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91). b. Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield 1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker, Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield; master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of 12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884, and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885. d. Blackpool 7 July 1891. bur. Ecclesall 11 July. Sheffield Independent 8 July 1891 p. 5, 10 July p. 6, 13 July pp. 5–6.

OSBORN, SHERARD (eld. son of Edward Osborn, colonel Madras army). b. 25 April 1822; entered navy Sept. 1837; commanded the Pioneer steam tender in the Arctic expedition under captain Austin 1850–1; commanded the Pioneer again in the Arctic expedition under sir Edward Belcher 30 Oct. 1852, all the ships were abandoned 20 Aug. 1854; commanded the Vesuvius in the Black Sea 1855; senior officer in Sea of Azov June 1855 to end of the war; commanded the Furious in the Chinese war 1857, and the Donegal in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war 1861–2; commanded the Royal Sovereign 1864; agent at Bombay to the Great Indian Peninsular railway 1865–6; managing director of the Telegraph construction and maintenance company 1867–71; R.A. 29 May 1873; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; contested Birkenhead 18 Nov. 1868; wrote many papers in Blackwood’s Mag.; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of Stray leaves from an Arctic journal 1852, 2 ed. 1865; Quedah, or stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters 1857, 2 ed. 1865; A cruise in Japanese waters 1859; The career, last voyage and fate of sir John Franklin 1860; The past and future of British relations in China 1860; Japanese fragments with facsimiles of illustrations 1860; edited The discovery of a north-west passage by captain M’Clure 1856, 3 ed. 1865. d. 33 Charles st. Berkley sq. London 6 May 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 May. Geographical Mag. ii 161 (1875); Colburn’s United service mag. 1875 part 2, p. 254; I.L.N. xx 336 (1852) portrait, lxvi 475, 489, 495, 571 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 486, 492 (1875) portrait.

OSBORNE, CATHERINE REBECCA (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major R.E.). b. 1795; m. 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8 baronet, b. 1757, d. 3 June 1821. She d. Newton Anner, co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. Memorial of life of Lady Osborne, edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne 2 vols. (1870).

OSBORNE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (3 son of the organist of Limerick cathedral). b. Limerick 24 Sept. 1806; studied music at Brussels 1824–6; chapel master to the prince of Orange 1826–31; wrote with Charles A. de Bériot 33 duets for violin and pianoforte; served as a volunteer on the royalist side during Belgian revolution of 1830; resided in Paris 1831–44, and in London 1844 to death; made tours of the provinces with other musicians; a popular teacher of the piano, noted for his performances of Bach’s music; member of the Philharmonic Society and of the Musical Association and a director of the Royal academy of music; wrote Sylvia and another opera; La pluie de perles, valse brillante 1848; Classical pianoforte works 1851–2, thirty numbers; Fallen leaves, twelve short pieces 1861; The reapers, a part song 1862; The communion service 1878; his name is attached to upwards of 250 pieces of music 1834–84. d. 5 Ulster terrace, Regent’s park, London 17 Nov. 1893. Musical times Dec. 1893 and Jany. 1894.

OSBORNE, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY. b. 1808; second lieut. Madras army 6 April 1820; lieut. 19 Madras N.I. 17 July 1823, captain 25 May 1830, major 14 March 1843, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1850 to 1855; lieut. col. of 46 N.I. 1855–7, of 31 light infantry 1857–8, of 32 N.I. 1858–60, of 48 N.I. 1860–1, and of 33 N.I. 1861 to 31 Dec. 1861; commandant Thayat Mew 22 March 1859 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 5 Lower Seymour st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

OSBORNE, HUGH STACEY. b. 1770; entered Bombay army 1788; lieut. 1 Oct. 1790; captain European infantry 6 March 1800, major 25 Feb. 1807 to 6 July 1811, lieut. col. 1813–15; lieut. col. 1 Bombay N.I. 1815; col. 14 N.I. 27 May 1825 to death; M.G. 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1854. d. Brighton 15 Sept. 1855.

OSBORNE, JOHN. b. Yorkshire; hunting groom to Mr. Taylor of Kirton; trained Ararat for Liverpool races; trained horses in the North; trained for the marquis of Westminster 1842; trained some horses which his son rode; ran Exact and Lambton at York 1852; had 40 brood mares; ran Brown Brandy. Cherry Brandy, and Lord Alford; trained for lord Zetland, lord Londesborough, and sir Charles Monk. d. Aug. 1865. bur. Coverham ch. yard. Sporting Review Sept. 1865 pp. 165–8.

OSBORNE, JOHN (son of Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol). b. 10 Oct. 1810; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835; Q.C. 29 Nov. 1862; judge of county courts circuit S. Lancashire 26 Jany. 1871 to death. d. Bent house, near Prestwich, Lancs. 23 Nov. 1872. Law Times liv 122 (1872).

OSBORNE, JOHN WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY. b. 25 Sept. 1833; ensign Indian army 1 Jany. 1850; executive engineer Mhow division July 1855; political agent at Réwah 1857, defeated the mutineers near Réwah in nine actions 1857, and preserved Bandalkhand during the mutiny; lieut. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1876 to death; hon. aide-de-camp to the governor general Feb. 1858; C.B. 18 May 1860; adviser to the Begum of Bhopal 1860; administered the Gwalier state to death, where he was in much favor with Scindhia; colonel in the army 2 April 1877; hon. A.D.C. to the viceroy of India; author of A pilgrimage to Mecca by Sikandar Begam, followed by a sketch of the reigning family of Bhopal 1870. d. Mussoree 4 Oct. 1881. Army and navy mag. iii 539–45 (1882); Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny v 75–7, 134, vi 167 (1889).

OSBORNE, SIDNEY GODOLPHIN (3 son of 1 baron Godolphin 1777–1850). b. Stapleford, Cambs. 5 Feb. 1808; educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Stoke-Pogis, Bucks. 1832–41; R. of Durweston-with-Bryanstown, Dorset 1841–75; inspected the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean war 1855; granted the rank of a duke’s son 28 June 1859; wrote letters in the Times, all signed with the initials S. G. O. 1844–88; author of A word or two about the new poor law 1835, 8 ed. 1836; Hints to the charitable 1838; Hints for the amelioration of the moral condition of village populations 1839; Gleanings in the west of Ireland 1850; Lady Eva, her last days, a tale 1851; Scutari and its hospitals 1855. d. Lewes, Sussex 9 May 1889. Letters of S. G. O. edited by Arnold White, 2 vols. (1888) portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait; I.L.N. 25 May 1889 p. 647 portrait; Punch 18 May 1889 p. 235.

OSBORNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of William Osborne of Worcester). b. Clapham, Surrey 1814; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1824, captain of the school 1831–2; Camden exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. 1832; Craven scholar 1836, senior chancellor’s medalist 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; ordained 1838; head master Macclesfield gram. sch. 1836–49; head master of Rossall sch. 1849, retired on £400 a year 1869; English chaplain Wiesbaden 1870–75; R. of Doddington, Somerset 1876–88; prebendary of Wells 1876 to death; author of The revised version of the New Testament, a critical commentary 1882; with C. Girdleston Horace with notes 1848. d. Melrose house, Hampton road, Teddington, Middlesex 4 Jany. 1891. The Little Journal i 219–21 (1884).

OSCROFT, JOHN. b. Arnold, Notts. 21 July 1807; a frame work knitter; played in Nottingham cricket matches many seasons; in Nottingham v. England match 1845 he was 3½ hours at the wicket; bowler to various clubs in England and Scotland; kept a public house at Nottingham 1854 to death. d. of dysentery Nottingham 28 Sept. 1857. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 85 (1862).

OSCROFT, JOHN. b. Arnold, Notts. 24 March 1846; a frame work knitter; professional cricketer at the Old Trafford ground, Manchester 1864, at Lord’s 1865, at Bradford 1866–7; played in Gentlemen of Yorkshire v. M.C.C. at Lord’s 18 and 19 May 1865; played with the All England eleven 1868; engaged with the East Lanarkshire club at Blackburn 1870–3, and at Burnley 1874–5; a good hitter and fine medium pace bowler. d. Arnold 16 June 1885. Marylebone club cricket scores ix 25 (1877); Bell’s Life in London 17 June 1885 p. 4.

OSGOOD, JAMES RIPLEY. b. Fryeburg, Maine, U.S. of America 1836; graduated at Bowdoin college, Maine; a manager for Charles Dickens in America 1867; agent for Harper brothers, publishers at 30 Fleet st. London 1888–90; head of the firm of Osgood, Mc Ilvaine and co. publishers 45 Albemarle st. London 1890 to death; compiled Massachusetts Artists’ centennial album 1876; Osgood’s Pocket guide to Europe 1882. d. 161A Piccadilly, London 18 May 1892. J. Forster’s Charles Dickens iii 391, 395 (1874).

O’SHANASSY, SIR JOHN (son of Denis O’Shanassy, land surveyor, d. 1831). b. Henry street, Tipperary 1818; landed in Port Philip bay, Victoria 15 Nov. 1839; a draper in Melbourne 1846; a promoter of the Colonial bank 1856, chairman of the board of directors 14 years; founded the St. Patrick’s society; one of the members for Melbourne in the first legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851; leader of the opposition in the council; a member of the gold commission 1855, and of the crown land commission 1855; member for Kilmore of the first legislative assembly Sept. 1856 to 1866; premier and chief secretary 11 March to 29 April 1857, premier again 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; negotiated the first Victorian loan of eight millions; created knight of the order of St. Gregory the Great by pope Pius IX in 1866; member for Central province of the legislative council Feb. 1868 to 1874; member of the assembly for Belfast May 1877 to death; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870, K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; author of Primary education in Victoria, speeches, Melbourne 1878. d. Tara hall, near Melbourne 8 May 1883. Irish Monthly xvii 586–90 (1889); James F. Hogan’s The Irish in Australia (1887) 13, 265–8, 271–4.

O’SHAUGNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR. b. London 14 March 1844; a junior assistant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861, assistant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death, prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; m. 1873 Eleanor, dau. of Westland Marston, the dramatist, she d. 8 Feb. 1879; he d. 163 Goldborne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. L. C. Moulton’s Arthur O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work (1894), memoir pp. 13–46 portrait; E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets (1887) 284, 440; A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii 171–92 (1893); H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 508–12; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 629–32 (1883).

O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. b. 1797; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 16 June 1859. d. Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept. 1884.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick). b. Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830; entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major 1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta; laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847, director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854; connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired 1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A. Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases 1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842; The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta 1844. d. Southsea 10 Jany. 1889. Laurie’s Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1st series (1887) 281–2.

OSLER, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Osler). b. Falmouth 30 Jany. 1798; educ. Guy’s hospital, London, M.R.C.S. 1818; resident house surgeon to Swansea infirmary about 1819–25; a surgeon in the navy 1825; visited the West Indies; on the staff in London and Bath of the Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge about 1836; edited at Truro the Royal Cornwall gazette 1841 to death; published with rev. W. J. Hall Psalms and hymns, adapted to the services of the church of England 1836, to which he contributed 15 versions of the psalms and 50 hymns, including the well known hymn O God unseen yet ever near; author of The voyage 1830, a poem; Life of admiral viscount Exmouth 1835, revised editions 1841 and 1854; Church and dissent considered in their practical influence 1836. d. The Parade, Truro 7 March 1863. bur. Kenwyn where is memorial window. Julyan’s Hymnology (1892) 873.

OSMENT, DAVID. b. 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D., tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death. d. Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p. 345 portrait.

OSSINGTON, JOHN EVELYN DENISON, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P. Chichester, d. 6 May 1820). b. Ossington 27 Jany. 1800; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings 1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P. Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18 and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. d. Ossington hall, Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 366–68 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 20–21 portrait; Illust. news of the world iii 65 (1859) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 455, 456 (1857) portrait, lxii 259, 297, 355 (1873) portrait.

OSTEN, WILHELM, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16 lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834; K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. d. Rufford abbey, Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 299 (1852).

OSTREHAN, GEORGIANA AUGUSTA (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan). b. 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. d. at the Convent 5 Jany. 1884. Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 221–32 portrait.

O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL. b. 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at Solihull from 1879. d. Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892.

O’SULLIVAN, MORTIMER (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel, Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20 Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug. 1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an Irish gentleman in his search for a religion, Dublin 1833; The case of the protestants of Ireland stated 1836; Of the apostasy predicted by St. Paul, Dublin 1842; Theory of developments in Christian doctrine 1846; The hour of the Redeemer 1853. d. Dublin 30 April 1859. bur. Chapelizod churchyard.

O’SULLIVAN, SAMUEL (brother of the preceding). b. Clonmel 13 Sept. 1790; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1825, D.D.; C. of St. Catherine’s, Dublin 1818, and chaplain of the Marshalsea, Dublin 1819; chaplain to the royal Hibernian military school in Phœnix park, Dublin 1827 to death; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag., Fraser’s Mag., and the Dublin Univ. review; author of The agency of divine providence manifested in the principal transactions connected with the history of Great Britain from the reformation to the revolution in 1688, Dublin 1816; The catechism of the united church of England and Ireland explained and confirmed, Dublin 1850. d. Royal Hibernian school, Dublin 6 Aug. 1851. bur. churchyard of Chapelizod, Dublin 9 Aug. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1851 pp. 504–8; Remains of rev. S. O’Sullivan, 3 vols. (1853) memoir vol. i pp. i–xlviii.

O’SULLIVAN, WILLIAM HENRY (only son of Thomas Luke O’Sullivan of Rathkeale, co. Limerick). b. 1829; merchant Kilmallock, co. Limerick; under strict police surveillance, his house at Kilmallock being the rendezvous of the Fenians down to 1867, when they resorted to arms; imprisoned in Limerick gaol some months, but never brought to trial 1867; sat as a home rule M.P. for co. Limerick 1874–85; a follower of C. Parnell for some time; chairman of Kilmallock board of guardians. d. Kilmallock 27 April 1887.

OSWALD, ALEXANDER HALDANE (son of Richard Alexander Oswald, d. 1822). b. 1811; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; M.P. Ayrshire 1843–52; contested Weymouth 10 July 1852, and Ayrshire 30 Dec. 1854; inherited Aunchincruive estate near Ayr, from his uncle James Oswald, M.P. in 1853; assumed the name of Haldane. d. Aunchincruive house 6 Sept. 1868. I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1868 p. 283.

OSWELL, WILLIAM COTTON (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrewsbury). b. Leytonstone, Essex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Livingstone 1849, and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853; served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groombridge, Kent 1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. d. Hillside, Groombridge 1 May 1893. C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting (1894) memoir vol. i 28–34; Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp. 307–12; Daily Graphic 9 May 1893 p. 14 portrait.

OSWIN, CHARLES HANNAY. A member of the Marylebone literary and scientific institution, established April 1832, where he was known as Alphabet Owen; a writer on the Dispatch 1838; a writer of verses; was residing in Harley st. London in 1842; author of Elsdale hall, or the days of Oliver Cromwell, a play in 3 acts, with the pirate’s bride and other poems 1843. The Town ii 513 (1838).

NOTE.--Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842.

OTLEY, JONATHAN. b. Loughrigg, Westmoreland 11 Jany 1766; resided at Keswick; author of A concise description of the English lakes, with observations on mineralogy and geology, Keswick 1825, 6 ed. 1837, 8th ed. to which is added an excursion through Lonsdale to the caves 1849. d. Keswick 7 Dec. 1856.

OTTAWAY, CUTHBERT JOHN (only son of James Cuthbert Ottaway of Inverness terrace, Bayswater). b. Dover 20 July 1850; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., scholar 1869–74, B.A. 1874; in the Eton eleven 1867–69, in the Oxford eleven 1870–3, secretary of the Oxford univ. cricket club 1872, president 1873; played for the Gentlemen against the Players 1870; one of Fitzgerald’s eleven in America 1872; played for Middlesex 1872, making an average of 89 runs; the Oxford racquet and tennis champion 1870–2; played in the football team against Scotland 1872, and in the first match Oxford against Cambridge 3 Dec. 1873; barrister I.T. 1876. d. 34 Westbourne place, Harrow road, London 2 April 1878. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 350; Marylebone club cricket scores x 177 (1878).

OTTER, FRANCIS (1 son of Francis Otter of Ranby hall, Louth). b. 4 Nov. 1832; educ. Rugby and Corpus Christi coll. Oxf., scholar 1850–61, fellow 1861–75, tutor, vice-president 1871; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856; mathematical moderator 1859, 1861, and 1869; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; returned as a liberal for Louth division of Lincolnshire Dec. 1885 to 1886; contested the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire Sept. 1889; an intimate friend of George Eliot. d. 37 Gordon sq., London 29 May 1895.

OTTER, HENRY CHARLES. b. 1807; entered R.N. 1822; commanded the Sparrow, the Avon, the Porcupine and the Shamrock surveying vessels 1844 etc.; capt. R.N. 8 Sept. 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; compiled Scotland, North West coast, Little Minch, its lights, buoys, etc. 1859; F.R.A.S. 11 Nov. 1842; published Sailing directions for the west coast of Scotland 1867; and with W. Stanton Western Hebrides, sailing directions for the sound of Harris 1859. d. Clare park, Hants. 26 March 1876. Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xxxvii 152 (1877).

OTTER, WILLIAM BRUERE (eld. son of Wm. Otter, bishop of Chichester 1768–1840). Educated St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1838; V. of Cowfold, Horsham 1839 to death; prebendary of Chichester cathedral 1850 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 1855 to death; author of The ornaments of ministers, Brighton 1866. d. Cowfold vicarage 25 June 1876.

OTTLEY, HENRY (son of William Young Ottley, F.A.S., 1771–1836). b. 1811; author of Remarkable sieges, from the siege of Constantinople in 1453 to that of Sebastopol 1854, 1854; Fechter’s version of Othello critically analysed 1861; A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, forming a supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of painters 1866; On the errors of diplomacy, with reference to the treaty of Washington 1872. d. Torquay 3 Feb. 1878. Times 6 Feb. 1878 p. 1.

OTTLEY, LAWRENCE. b. 1808; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1850 to death; canon of Ripon 1858 to death; proctor in convocation for Richmond; revised W. Barne’s A selection of psalms and hymns 1852; and printed some sermons. d. London 11 June 1861.

OTTON, GEORGE RALPH. b. 1825; entered the house of Simpkin, Marshall and co. publishers, Stationers’ hall court 1837, where he became the right hand man of the chief partner Mark Lockwood; a partner in the firm 1859 to death. d. 34 Highbury hill, London 24 Jany. 1878. The Bookseller 1 Feb. 1876 p. 84.

OTWAY, SIR GEORGE GRAHAM, 2 baronet (son of sir Robert Waller Otway, bart. 1772–1846). b. Westwood, near Southampton Sept. 1816; entered navy 15 July 1828; succeeded his father 13 May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; commander of Virago steam sloop in Mediterranean; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. d. the Rione Amadeo, Naples 22 Aug. 1881.

OTWAY, JOHN HASTINGS (eld. son of rev. Cæsar Otway 1768–1842). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 25 July 1808; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1832; professor of law of personal property at Dublin twice; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; judge of Antrim county court 1858 to death; recorder of Belfast 1867 to death; author of Public opinion, a lecture 1854. d. Lisburn, co. Antrim 28 May 1884.

OTWAY, LOFTUS (only son of sir Loftus Wm. Otway, K.C.B., colonel 84 foot 1774–1854). b. Brighton 4 Sept. 1815; attached to the missions at Stockholm 1830, at St. Petersburgh 1833, and at Madrid 1834; paid attaché at Lisbon 1843, at Madrid 1845; sec. of legation at Madrid 1850 and chargé d’affaires 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857; minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 19 Feb. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1859; consul general at Milan 2 April 1860 to death; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. Madrid 26 Sept. 1861.

OTWAY, SIR LOFTUS WILLIAM (4 son of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, d. Dec. 1800). b. 28 April 1775; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 May 1796; major 18 dragoons 12 Feb. 1807 to 1811, when placed on h.p; served in Ireland during rebellion 1798; saw service in Peninsular war, commanded 3 regt. of Portuguese cavalry at Albuhera; colonel 84 foot 30 Dec. 1840 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; knight commander of Spanish order of Charles III; knighted by prince regent 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. 13 Grosvenor square, London 7 June 1854. bur. Highgate cemet. G.M. xlii 389 (1854); Cansick’s Epitaphs at St. Pancras ii 76 (1872).

OUDIN, EUGENE (of French parentage). b. New York 1858; a member of the New York bar 1879; came to London 1886 and sang at private parties; appeared as the Templar in Sullivan’s Ivanhoe at the English opera house, London 31 Jany. 1891 with great success; a baritone; sang in Peter Tschaikowsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Olympic theatre on 17 Oct. 1892; translated Albert Carré’s The Basoche 1891, and P. Ferrier’s Elaine, an opera 1892; sang at concerts French songs, which he adapted to English verse; sang at Birmingham festival Oct. 1894; an expert amateur photographer; taken ill at the Richter concert at the Queen’s hall 20 Oct. 1894, carried home in an ambulance. d. 31 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 4 Nov. 1894. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Nov. The Times 5 Nov. 1894; Illust. sp. and dr. news 10 Nov. 1894 p. 337 portrait.

OUSELEY, SIR FREDERICK ARTHUR GORE, 2 Baronet (younger son of sir Gore Ouseley, diplomatist, 1 baronet 1770–1844). b. Grosvenor square, London 12 Aug. 1825, godson of dukes of Wellington and York; educ. privately and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, Mus. Bac. 1850, Mus. Doc. 1854, incorporated Mus. Doc. at Durham 1856, Cambridge 1862, and Dublin 1888; succeeded his father 1844; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London, and C. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London 1849–51; precentor of Hereford cathedral 1855; professor of music in univ. of Oxford May 1855 to death; LL.D. Camb. 1883, LL.D. Edinb. 1884; canon residentiary of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; composed music at three years of age and opera to words by Metastasio at eight; composed two oratorios The martyrdom of St. Polycarp 1855, and Hagar 1873; bequeathed his musical library of about 5,000 vols. to the college of St. Michael, Tenbury, which he built and partially endowed, the church was consecrated and the college opened 29 Sept. 1856, when he became the first vicar and warden, he spent £64,000 on this college; edited E. Naumann’s The history of music 1882; author of A treatise on harmony, Oxford 1868, 2 ed. 1875; A treatise on counterpoint, canon, and fugue, based upon that of Cherubini, Oxford 1869, 2 ed. 1880; A treatise on musical form and general composition, Oxford, 1875; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music. d. suddenly in the Birmingham, Dudley and district bank, Hereford 6 April 1889. bur. St. Michael’s, Tenbury. F. T. Havergal’s Memorials of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1889) portrait; J. S. Bumpus’s Compositions of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1892); Church portrait journal, n.s. ii 17 (1881) portrait.

OUSELEY, JOSEPH WALKER JASPER. b. 1799; attached to the college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83; colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. d. 10 Inverness terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. Times 1 Nov. 1889 p. 5, 9 Nov. p. 6.

OUSELEY, THOMAS JOHN. Published and edited the Manx Punch several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. d. May 1874.

OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM GORE (eld. son of sir Wm. Ouseley, orientalist 1767–1842). b. London 26 July 1797; attached to British embassy at Stockholm Nov. 1817; attaché at Washington Nov. 1825; secretary of legation at Rio de Janiero June 1832; chargè d’affaires in Brazil 20 April 1838; minister to the Argentine confederation 13 Dec. 1844; went on a special mission to Monte Video Jany. 1847; secured the evacuation of Uruguay by the Argentine troops and the withdrawal of their fleet from Monte Video; sent on a special mission to Central America 30 Oct. 1857; returned to England 1860, retired on a pension of £1,000; K.C.B. 29 June 1852, D.C.L. Oxford 20 June 1855; author of Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the United States 1832; Notes on the slave trade 1850; A description of views in South America from original drawings made in Brazil, the river Plate, the Parana, &c. 1852. d. 31 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 6 March 1866. G.M. i 588–9 (1866); I.L.N. xxxi 460 (1857) portrait.

OUTRAM, SIR BENJAMIN FONSECA (son of captain Wm. Outram). b. Kilham, Yorkshire 1774; educ. United Borough hospitals, London; entered naval medical service 1794, surgeon 1796; surgeon in the Superb in the action off Cadiz 12 July 1801; surgeon to the Royal Sovereign yacht several years; studied at univ. of Edinb. 1806–9, M.D. 24 June 1809; L.C.P. London 16 April 1810, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1852; a physician at Hanover sq. London 1810–50; physician to the Welbeck st. dispensary; F.R.S. 3 May 1838; F.R.G.S.; medical inspector of fleets and hospitals 1841; K.C.B. 17 Sept. 1850; author of De feber continuâ, Edinburgh 1809; Suggestions to naval surgeons, previous to, during, and after a battle. d. Brighton 16 Feb. 1856. bur. at Clifton. Munk’s College of physicians iii 90 (1878); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xiii 66–8 (1857).

OUTRAM, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Outram 1732–1810, manager of the Clyde ironworks, near Glasgow). b. the Clyde ironworks 25 March 1805; educ. Leith high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1827; edited the Glasgow Herald May 1837 to death; member of the Edinburgh angling club; author of Legal lyrics and metrical illustrations of the Scotch forms of process 1851, 2 ed. 1874, new ed. by J. H. Stoddart 1887; privately printed a collection of legal anecdotes; assisted John Wilson in his Dies Boreales, a series of articles contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1836–46. d. Rosemore on the Holy Loch 15 Sept. 1856. bur. Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. George Outram’s Lyrics (1888), memoir pp. 1–26 portrait.

OUTRAM, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Benjamin Outram, civil engineer 1764–1805). b. Butterley hall, Derbyshire 29 Jany. 1803; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen 1818–19; ensign 4 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1819; lieut. 1 grenadier N.I. 4 Aug. 1819; lieut. 23 Bombay N.I. 1824, major 1848–53; raised and commanded a corps of Bhils 1825; conducted an expedition into disturbed districts, lying between Kabul and Kandahar 1839; political agent in Lower Sind Dec. 1839, and in Upper Sind 18 Aug. 1841 to 1842; called by sir Charles James Napier 5 Nov. 1842 the Bayard of India; defended the British residency at Haidarabad against 8,000 Baluchis Feb. 1843; presented with a sword and piece of plate at Bombay April 1843; resident at Sattara 26 May 1845, at Baroda May 1847 to 1852; lieut. col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 1854–5; resident at Baroda again 19 March 1854; political agent and commandant at Aden June 1854; resident at Lucknow Nov. 1854; Oudh was annexed Feb. 1856 after his report on that country had been made; commanded the army during the Persian war Nov. 1856, defeated the Persians at Khush-áb 8 Feb. 1857; commanded Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions of the Bengal army during the mutiny from 8 Aug. 1857; chief comr. of Oudh 5 Aug. 1857 to 4 April 1858; besieged in Lucknow Sept. to Nov. 1857; captured Lucknow 19 March 1858; military member of the governor-general’s council 16 April 1858 to July 1860; created baronet 9 Oct. 1858; voted an annuity of £1,000 by house of commons; presented with a silver shield by his friends in Bombay June 1858, which is on loan at South Kensington Museum; L.G. 16 July 1858; presented with freedom of city of London 20 Dec. 1860; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 30 July 1857; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. June 1862; author of Rough notes of the campaigns in Sinde and Afghanistan in 1838–9, 1840; The conquest of Scinde 1846; Baroda intrigues and Bombay Kutput 1853; A few brief memoranda of the public services rendered by lieut. colonel Outram 1853; Lieutenant general Sir James Outram’s Persian campaign in 1857–8, 1860. d. Pau 11 March 1863. bur. Westminster abbey 25 March, bust by Matthew Noble, R.A. over the doorway on south side of the nave. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s James Outram, a biography, 2 vols. (1880) portrait; J. Chapman’s Baroda and Bombay, in relation to removal of lieut. col. Outram from office of resident at Gaekwar 1853; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii 109–72 (1880); E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India ii 635 (1860) portrait; Golden Hours (1869) 599–610 portrait; J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 17–20 portrait.

NOTE. There is an equestrian statue of him by Foley in the Maidan of Calcutta, another by Noble on the Thames embankment, London, erected Nov. 1871, Illust. Times 2 Dec. 1871 p. 345 view of his monument in Westminster abbey, uncovered 29 May 1866.

OUVRY, FREDERIC (3 son of Peter Aimé Ouvry of the Ordnance office). b. 6 Abingdon st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1814; partner in firm of Robinson, King, and Ouvry, solicitors 13 Tokenhouse yard 1837; partner with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W. J. Farrer 66 Lincolns Inn Fields 1855 to death; member of Incorporated law society 12 March 1838, member of council 21 July 1861 to death, vice-president 1870–1, president 1871–2; solicitor to regiment of Scots Guards 9 Nov. 1858 to death; member of Weavers’ company; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1848, member of council 1850–78; treasurer 1854–74, vice-president 1874, president 4 Jany. 1876 to 1878; is depicted by Charles Dickens in a paper in Household Words as Mr. Undery; printed The Cobler of Canterburie 1862; T. Eulenspiegel’s Howleglas 1867; G. Markham’s The famous whore 1868; T. Cranley’s Amanda 1869, and other facsimiles of rare publications; his library, including the first four folios of Shakespeare, was sold for £6,169 at Sotheby’s 30 March to 5 April 1882. d. 12 Queen Anne st. London 26 June 1881. bur. at Acton, bust by Marshall Wood at Society of Antiquaries. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series, ix 7 114–7 (1881–3).

OVANS, CHARLES. b. about 1793; entered Bombay army 1808; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1809; lieut. European regiment 6 July 1811, captain 17 Dec. 1821; major of right wing of the regiment 8 Feb. 1829 to 10 Nov. 1835; quarter master general Bombay 1835–8; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 1837–8, and of 4 N.I. 1838 to 1845; commander and political agent at Sattara 22 June 1837 to 26 Feb. 1845, where he was the chief agent in dethroning the Raja 1845, and was impeached before the court of directors of H.E.I.C. in London on 24 Sept. 1845, but the motion was negatived; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 1845 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel of 19 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1856, and of 14 N.I. 1856 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; author of An account of the settlements made with the Naiks and Bheels of the districts comprising the Kumir agency 1830. d. Gloucester sq. London 19 July 1858. Case of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhider, the accuser of lieut. col. Ovans, of bribery 1845; Debate at India house on case of deposed rajah of Sattara and impeachment of col. C. Ovans 1845.

OVENS, EDWARD (son of Hugh Ovens of St. Catherine’s, Fermanagh). b. 1817; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; chairman of Salford hundred quarter sessions 31 May 1858 to 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 8 (Manchester) 6 May 1862 to death. d. Enville house, Bowdon 19 Feb. 1869. Law Times xlvi 418 (1869).

OVERALL, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Overall). b. St. John’s Wood, London 18 Jany. 1829; educ. City of London college; employed in the town clerk’s office at the Guildhall, London 1847–57; sub-librarian of the corporation library 1847, librarian 23 March 1865 to death; removed the collections to the new building in Basinghall st. and arranged the museum; F.S.A. 11 June 1868; member of council of the Library Association 1879, and of the London and Middlesex archæological society; presented with freedom and livery of Clockmakers’ co. 1877; author of Catalogue of Sculpture, paintings and other works of art belonging to the corporation of the City of London, 2 vols. 1867–8; Some account of the ward of Vintry and the Vintners company 1869; The dictionary of chronology or historical and statistical register 1870; Catalogue of books, pictures, etc. presented by Mrs. Letitia Hollier to, and also of books and music in the library of Gresham college 1872; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, clocks, watches, paintings and prints in the library and museum of the company of Clockmakers 1875; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters, etc. belonging to the Dutch church, Austin Friars, London 1879; edited The accounts of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill from 1456 to 1608, 1871; Civitas Londinum, a survey of the cities of London and Westminster, published in facsimile with a biographical account of Ralph Agas 1874. d. Crouch End, Middlesex 28 June 1888. bur. St. Pancras cemetery, Finchley 3 July. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 391 (1887–9).

OVEREND, WILLIAM (youngest son of Hall Overend of Sheffield). b. 1809; educ. Sheffield gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, bencher 2 Nov. 1855 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1855; contested Sheffield 7 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Pontefract 29 April 1859, resigned Jany. 1860; contested East Derbyshire 23 Nov. 1868; chief comr. to assess damage by bursting of the Bradfield reservoir 11 March 1864, which resulted in the loss of 250 lives and property valued at nearly half-a-million; chief comr. to inquire into Sheffield trade outrages, commission sat at Sheffield 3 June to 8 July 1867; retired from practice about 1872. d. East Retford, Notts. 24 Dec. 1884. Law Times 3 Jany. 1885 p. 177.

OVERSTONE, SAMUEL JONES LOYD, 1 Baron (only child of Lewis Loyd of London, banker 1768–1858). b. 43 Lothbury, London 25 Sept. 1796; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; a banker in Manchester 1844 to 23 Dec. 1848; M.P. Hythe 1819–26; contested Manchester 15 Dec. 1832; the last survivor of those who held seats in the house of commons in the reign of George III; sheriff of Warwickshire 1838; presided over a great liberal meeting at the London tavern 15 June 1841; head of Jones Loyd and co. bankers, London 1844, afterwards merged in London and Westminster bank 1864; chairman of the Irish famine committee of 1847; member of senate of univ. of London July 1850 to 1877; a great authority on finance, the Bank act of 1844 was chiefly based on his principles; cr. baron Overstone of Overstone and of Fotheringay, Northamptonshire 5 March 1850; author of Reflections on the causes and consequences of the pressure on the money market 1837; Further reflections on the currency and the action of the Bank of England 1837; A letter on the management of the Bank of England 1840; Remarks on the management of the circulation of the Bank of England and of the country issues 1840; Thoughts on the separation of the departments of the Bank of England 1844; Tracts and publications on metallic and paper currency 1858. d. 2 Carlton gardens, London 17 Nov. 1883. bur. Lockinge, Berks. 23 Nov.; will proved under £2,100,000 Dec. 1883. Times 19 Nov. 1883 p. 8, cols. 1, 3, p. 9, col. 3; Graphic xxviii 560 (1883) portrait; W. J. Lawson’s History of banking (2 ed. 1855) 232–34; I.L.N. lxxxiii 525 (1883) portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 130–47; Manchester Guardian 20 Nov. 1883 p. 8.

OVERTON, CHARLES (6 son of John Overton 1763–1838, rector of St. Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). b. York 1805; assistant curate of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37; V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull 1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848; The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2 vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham 1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. d. Cottingham 31 March 1889. Memoir of rev. Charles Overton (1889).

OVERWEG, ADOLF. b. Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. d. of fever near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. Notice of recent discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg. By J. Hogg 1852; Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 130 (1851), xxii 133 (1852), xxiii p. cx (1853), xxvi pp. clxi, clxii (1857); Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv 19–24 (1887).

OWDEN, SIR THOMAS SCAMBLER (youngest son of John Owden of Brighton). b. Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845, alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. d. Mulgrave house, Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 139–47; Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait.

OWEN, ANEURIN (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe). b. 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp. 153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848) pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). d. Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July 1851. Archæologia Cambrensis, 3 ed. series iv 208–12, 245–9 (1858), vi 184–6 (1860), vii 93–103, 169–71, 263–7 (1861), viii 289–90 (1862).

OWEN, CONRAD JOHN. Entered Bombay army 1823; captain 1 Bombay light cavalry 30 Oct. 1838, major 7 Dec. 1850, lieut. col. 28 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1858 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Malta 3 April 1860.

OWEN, DAVID (son of Benjamin Owen of Llanpumpsant, near Carmarthen, shoemaker). b. Llanpumpsant 1794; originally known as David Benjamin; kept school at Gilfach, near Aber, Carnarvonshire; in charge of the Baptist churches of Talygraig, Galltraeth, Tyndomen and Rhos Hirwaen in Carnarvonshire; expelled from the Baptist denomination; member of the Independent church at Capel Newydd; wrote an article signed Brutus on The poverty of the Welsh language in Seren Gomer, the leading Welsh magazine 1824; edited an undenominational monthly magazine entitled Lleuad yr Oes, Swansea 1827–31; edited at Llandovery an Independent magazine entitled Efengydydd 1831–5, and a church magazine entitled The Haul 1835 to death; author of A treatise in defence of infant baptism, Aberystwith 1828; Allwedd y Cyssegr new Eglurhad byr ar yr Ysgyrthyrau Sanctaidd, Llanmddyfri 1834; Proceedings of the established church 1841; Eliasia. By Bleddyn 1844, being notes on the career of John Elias of Anglesey; Brutusiana 1855, a selection of his non-controversial writings. d. Bron Arthen near Llandovery 16 Jany. 1866. bur. Llywel churchyard. Ashton’s History of Welsh literature (1894); Red Dragon iii 385–405 (1883) portrait; Y Traethodydd, Denbigh (1867) 213–27, 421–8.

OWEN, DAVID DALE (son of Robert Owen, the Socialist 1771–1858). b. Lanarkshire 24 June 1807; graduated at Ohio medical college 1835; conducted the survey of Minnesota territory 1849–52; state geologist of Kentucky 1854–7, of Arkansas 1857–9, and of Indiana 1859 to death; author of Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, Philadelphia, 2 vols. 1852; Report of a geological reconnoisance of Indiana 1839; A geological report of the Marble hall quarry 1853; Report of the geological survey in Kentucky, 2 vols. 1856–7; Reports of a geological reconnoisance of Arkansas, 2 vols. 1858–60. d. New Harmony, Indiana 13 Nov. 1860.

OWEN, EDWARD (only son of Edward Owen of Garthyngharad, Merioneth). Educ. Friars school, Bangor, and Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1852; C. of St. George, Hulme 1856–7; C. of Stockton Heath, Cheshire 1858–9; in charge of Eastham, Cheshire 1859–60; V. of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1861 to death; author of A brief history of the church and parish of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1868; Jottings on the rubrics for morning and evening prayer 1874. d. Oldham 22 Jany. 1883 aged 52. bur. Chaddington cemetery.

OWEN, EDWARD PRYCE (only son of Hugh Owen 1761–1827, archdeacon of Salop). b. March 1788; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; minister of Park st. chapel, Grosvenor sq. London; V. of Wellington and R. of Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors, Shropshire 1823–40; contributed several plates to Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury 1825; published Etchings of ancient buildings in Shrewsbury, 2 numbers 1820–1; Etchings 1826, containing 45 plates with his portrait; The book of etchings, 2 vols. 1842–55. d. Roderic house, Cheltenham 15 July 1863.

OWEN, ELLIS (son of Owen Ellis of Cefnymeusydd in the parish of Ynys Cynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, farmer). b. 31 March 1789; educ. Penmorfa and Shrewsbury; farmer at Cefnymeusydd to his death; a local antiquary and genealogist; a writer of englynion (stanzas); president of the Literary Society of Cefnymeusydd 1846–57; F.S.A. 23 Jany. 1868; his poetical and prose writings were published with a biographical notice under the title of Cell Mendwy, The Hermit’s Cell 1877. d. Cefnymeusydd 27 Jany. 1868.

OWEN, SIR FRANCIS PHILIP CUNLIFFE (3 son of Charles Cunliffe Owen, captain R.N.) b. 8 June 1828; entered navy 1840, served in the Mediterranean and West Indies 1840, retired from ill health 1845; clerk in the Science and art department, Marlborough house, London 1854; one of the superintendents of the British section of the International exhibition at Paris 1855; deputy general superintendent of the South Kensington museum 1857, assistant director 1860–73, and director 1873–93; director of the foreign sections of the London exhibition 1862; assistant executive comr. at Paris exhibition 1867; secretary of the English commission at the Vienna exhibition 1873; entertained at a banquet in London and presented with 3,500 guineas for his services as secretary of royal commission at Paris exhibition of 1878, 12 March 1881; one of the executive committee of the Fisheries exhibition 1883, the Health exhibition 1884, and the Inventions exhibition 1885; executive officer of the Colonial and Indian exhibition 1886; C.B. 5 Jany. 1875, K.C.B. 28 June 1886, K.C.M.G. 29 Oct. 1878; C.I.E. 30 June 1879; grand officer of the legion of honour. d. Lowestoft 23 March 1894. New monthly mag. cxvi 1260 (1879) portrait; Touchstone 3 May 1879 pp. 1–2 portrait; Biograph March–April 1882 pp. 249–51; Huish’s Year’s Art (1892) 15 portrait; Graphic xiii 459, 472 (1876) portrait, and 20 May 1893 p. 562 portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 445 (1873) portrait.

OWEN, FREDERICK. b. 1800 or 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; R. of Aghold with Mullinacuffe, co. Wicklow 1857–89; precentor of Leighlin 1880–90; dean of Leighlin 1890 to death. d. Aghold rectory 3 July 1895.

OWEN, GEORGE. Secretary of the Welsh property defence association; organized the landlord’s case for the Welsh land commission; chief organizer of the conservative party in North Wales; committed suicide by taking poison at Carnarvon 9 July 1895.

OWEN, HENRY CHARLES CUNLIFFE (brother of Sir Francis P. C. Owen 1828–94). b. Lausanne, Switzerland 16 Oct. 1821; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 March 1839, lieut col. 1 April 1862 to death; served in the Boer war 1845, and the Kaffir war 1846–7; computer of space for the United Kingdom at the Great exhibition 1851, then superintendent of the foreign departments, and lastly general superintendent of the exhibition; inspector of art schools in the department of practical art at Marlborough house 1851–4; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 3 Feb. 1852; lost his leg in the Crimean war 1855; granted pension of £100 per annum; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; assistant inspector-general of fortifications at the war office Oct. 1855, deputy inspector-general April 1856 to Aug. 1860; commanded R.E. of the Western district Aug. 1860 to death; colonel in the army 22 Nov. 1861; a founder of the English church union 1860. d. Plymouth 7 March 1867, memorial window in St. James’s church, Plymouth.

OWEN, HENRY JOHN (son of John Owen, minister of Park chapel, Chelsea 1812–22, d. Ramsgate 1822). b. 22 Sept. 1796; perpetual curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1822–34; Miss Hughes miraculously cured in the chapel July 1831; Dr. Bayford spoke in the spirit there; built the Catholic Apostolic church in College st. Chelsea, ordained to be the angel there 1834, some of his former congregation joined him there, held office to his death, it was generally known as Owen’s chapel; author of Discourses on the Lord’s Supper 1830; The prayer of faith viewed in connexion with the healing of the sick 1831; We are not our own, a discourse 1859. d. 11 Foulis terrace, South Kensington, London 26 Nov. 1872. A. Beaver’s Memorials of Old Chelsea (1892) 146, 342; Miller’s Irvingism i 139–40 (1878).

OWEN, HUGH. b. Denbigh 23 May 1784; captain Shropshire volunteers 24 Nov. 1803; cornet in sir Stapleton Cotton’s regiment 31 July 1806; captain of cavalry in the Portuguese army 1810; brigade major to sir Loftus Otway and then to sir Benjamin D’Urban; led a brigade into action at battle of Vittoria 21 June 1813; captain 18 hussars 22 June 1813; placed on h.p. 25 May 1816; sold out of British army 4 Sept. 1817; went with lord Beresford to Brazil 1820; retired and resided on his estate near Oporto; knight commander of San Bento d’Aviz and knight of the Tower and Sword; author of A Guerra civil em Portugal, o sitio do Porto e a morte de Don Pedro. Por hum Estrangeiro 1836; The civil war in Portugal and the siege of Oporto 1836; Memoir of major the hon. Somers Cocks, privately printed by sir John Rennie. d. Garratt’s hall, Banstead, Surrey 16 Dec. 1861.

OWEN, SIR HUGH (son of Owen Owen). b. Voel, parish of Llangeinwen, Anglesea 14 Jany. 1804; educ. Carnarvon 1812–17; clerk to W. Bulkeley Hughes, barrister the Temple, London 1825; clerk to R. Vaughan Williams, solicitor, Hatton garden 1819 and for many years; clerk in the poor law office, Somerset house 22 Feb. 1836; advanced to be in the secretary’s office; chief clerk of the poor law board 1853 to Nov. 1872, gave evidence before parliamentary committees on the poor law board which led to the establishment of local government board; sec. to a committee for establishing the South Islington and Pentonville British schools 1839; a great advocate of improved education in Wales and a promoter of the Bangor training college, established 1858, and the Swansea training college for women; founded social science section of the national Eisteddfod at Carnarvon 1862; a founder of the honorable society of the Cymmroderion Nov. 1873; chief founder of the University college of Wales at Aberystwith, opened Oct. 1872; member of London school board for Finsbury 3 April 1872; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. Mentone 20 Nov. 1881. bur. Abney park cemetery 26 Nov., bronze statue unveiled at Carnarvon 22 Oct. 1888, bust at royal institution, Swansea. Red Dragon i 291–300 (1882) portrait; The Times 8 and 23 Oct. 1888.

OWEN, SIR HUGH OWEN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Owen, d. 1861). b. Lincoln’s inn, London Jany. 1804; M.P. Pembroke boroughs 1826–38 and 1861–68; lieut. col. Pembrokeshire militia 1830; succeeded 6 Feb. 1861; lieut. col. commandant royal Pembroke artillery 14 May 1872, hon. col. 10 Feb. 1875 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 24 May 1872 to death. d. Cranmore, Midhurst, Sussex 5 Sept. 1891.

OWEN, JACOB. b. North Wales 28 July 1778; clerk of the works to royal engineer department at Portsmouth 1804–32; principal engineer and architect at Irish board of works in Dublin 1832–56; erected criminal lunatic asylum at Dundrum, near Dublin 1848, and Mountjoy prison, Dublin 1850; erected model schools and other government buildings in Ireland. d. Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs. 26 Oct. 1870. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. Dictionary of architecture vi 54 (1877).

OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS (son of Jacob Owen 1778–1870). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1852; architect to Irish board of works at Dublin, in succession to his father, 1856 to death. d. 9 April 1891.

OWEN, SIR JOHN. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 March 1796; served in battles of Camperdown and Trafalgar; commanded the detachment of marines at Languilia, which defeated the 52 French regt. 1812; commanded marines in lord John Hay’s squadron on coast of Spain 1836–7; aide-de-camp to the sovereign 21 April 1837 to 11 Nov. 1851; deputy adjutant general of R.M. 1 Jany. 1838 to 13 Dec. 1854; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1844 to Nov. 1851; L.G. 20 June 1855; K.H. 1 Jany. 1833, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852. d. 47 Connaught sq. London 15 Feb. 1857.

OWEN, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Lord of Pembroke, d. 15 June 1801). b. Pembroke 1776; barrister I.T. 23 May 1800; M.P. Pembrokeshire 1806–41; M.P. Pembroke district of burgh 1841 to death; assumed by R.L. name of Owen in lieu of Lord on succeeding to estates of sir Hugh Owen on 23 Aug. 1809; cr. baronet 12 Jany. 1813; governor of Milford Haven 14 June 1821 to death; lord lieut. of Pembrokeshire 1824 to death. d. Taynton house, near Newent, Gloucestershire 6 Feb. 1861.

OWEN, JOHN. V. of Thrussington, Leicestershire 1845 to death; rural dean 1853; translated from the Latin of John Calvin Commentaries on the twelve minor Prophets 1846; On Paul to the Romans 1849; On Jeremiah and Lamentations 1850; On Paul to the Hebrews 1853; On the Catholic Epistles 1855; from the Latin of Martin Luther Commentary on the Galatians 1845; from the Welsh of W. Rees The Mercy seat 1861; author of A memoir of rev. Daniel Rowlands 1840; Lectures on popery 1843; Memoirs of rev. T. Jones 1851; Church government according to the New Testament 1852. d. 1867.

OWEN, JOHN (son of the captain of a small vessel). b. Crane st. Chester 14 Nov. 1821; apprenticed to Messrs. Powell and Edwards, cutlers; became a professional musician 1844; organist successively of Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, S. Paul’s, Boughton, St. Bridgets, St. Mary’s, and the Welsh church, all in Chester; known in Wales as Owain Alaw 1863; won the prize for the best anthem at the royal Eisteddfod of Rhuddlan 1850; edited Gems of Welsh melody, 2 series 1862, 4 series 1873; composed The prince of Wales cantata 1862; The festival of Wales cantata 1866; The Welsh harp, national songs 1880; wrote glees, songs, and anthems in Welsh musical magazines; his name is attached to upwards of 25 pieces of music. d. Lorne st. Chester 30 Jany. 1883. Y Geninen, Carnarvon (1883) 124–30; The musical world 3 Feb. 1883 p. 74.

OWEN, JOHN BLACKMAN. In the service of Great Eastern railway from 1836, secretary 1850 to death. d. 17 Upper Hornsey Rise, London 31 July 1873. bur. Great Northern cemetery, Southgate 7 Aug.

OWEN, JOHN PICKARD. b. Goodge st. Tottenham court road, London 5 Feb. 1832; received baptism by immersion in a pond near Dorking; joined the church of Rome; became a Deist, but afterwards a believer in christianity; author of The fair haven, a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord’s ministry upon earth, by J. P. Owen, ed. by W. B. Owen 1873, memoir pp. 1–70. d. 15 March 1872.

OWEN, JONATHAN. b. 3 April 1820; billiard player; teacher of billiards; marker in annual matches between Oxford and Cambridge many years; known as Oxford Jonathan; father of Fred Owen, the actor. d. Craven Buildings, Strand, London 26 March 1879. Bell’s Life in London 29 March 1879 p. 2.

OWEN, JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH (5 son of Jacob Owen, architect, Dublin 1778–1870). b. Portsmouth 22 July 1809; educ. St. Paul’s gram. sch. near Portsmouth, and at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of Walsall Wood, Staffs. 1835; in charge of Farthingstone, Northants. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary, Bilston, Staffs. 1838–54, also preacher at St. George’s ch. Wolverhampton, on leaving received a service of plate valued at £1,000; incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1854–7, when the chapel fell in and the ruins were taken down; preached in Store st. music hall 1857; preacher at St. Swithin’s, Cannon st. 1856; chairman of directors of Royal Polytechnic soc. 1857 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Chelsea 1858 to death; lecturer St. John’s, Wapping 1858 to death; author of Six plain sermons on the Sabbath 1835; Six lectures on the rite of confirmation 1840; The pottery schoolmaster, a biographical sketch of Silas Even 1852; Diligent in business, a memoir of G. B. Thornycroft 1856; Business without christianity, with statistics and facts 1856, 2 ed. 1858; The mischief and miseries of temper 1857; Cliques, social, professional, and religious, with sketches of the Latch-Key and the Lock-out-the-Town’s libel 1864; The homes of scripture 1865; Men’s infirmities, natural and acquired 1865. d. 40 Cadogan place, London 18 May 1872. bur. Brompton cemetery 24 May. Lectures and sermons by J. B. Owen (1873), memoir pp. 1–96; R. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1874) 339–40.

OWEN, SIR RICHARD (younger son of Richard Owen, West India merchant 1754–1809). b. Brock st. Lancaster 20 July 1804; educ. Lancaster gr. sch. 1810–20; apprenticed to Leonard Dickson of Lancaster, surgeon 11 Aug. 1820; matric. at univ. of Edinb. Oct. 1824, where he founded with Gavin Milroy the Hunterian society; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825–6; M.R.C.S. 18 Aug. 1826; surgeon at 11 Cook’s court, Carey st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1826; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1829; assistant conservator to Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons 1827, joint conservator 1842, sole conservator 1849; started the Zoological Magazine Jany. 1833, sold it in July; F.R.S. 13 Dec. 1834, royal medallist 1846, Copley medallist 1851; Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at royal college of surgeons April 1836 to 1856; Wollaston gold medallist of Geological Society 1838; corresponding member of Institute of France 1839; helped to found Royal microscopical society 1839, president 1840–1; granted civil list pension of £200, 25 Nov. 1842; resided at Sheen lodge, Richmond park, lent to him by the queen 1852 to death; juror of Paris exhibition 1855, created a knight of the Legion of Honour; devised the exhibition of models of extinct animals at the Crystal palace 1855; superintendent of natural history department of British museum 26 May 1856 to 1883, with £800 a year; new Natural history museum at South Kensington opened 1881; Fullerian professor of physiology in the Royal institution 1859–61; president of British association at Leeds 1858; Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1859; awarded the prix Cuvier of the French academy 1857; went to Egypt 1869, 1871, 1872, and 1874; C.B. 3 June 1873, K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1884; granted another civil list pension of £100, 26 Feb. 1884; the first gold medallist of the Linnæan society 1888; author of Odontography, text and atlas, 2 vols. 1840–5; Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals 1843, 2 ed. 1855; A history of British fossil mammals and birds 1846; A history of British fossil reptiles, 4 vols. 1849–84; On the anatomy of vertebrates 3 vols. 1866–8; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. d. Sheen lodge, Richmond park 18 Dec. 1892. bur. Ham churchyard, portrait by Holman Hunt exhibited in Grosvenor gallery 1881. Rev. R. Owen’s Life of Richard Owen, 2 vols. (1884) 4 portraits; British medical journal 19 Dec. 1892 special supplement; Maguire’s Portraits of distinguished naturalists, Ipswich (1852) portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; Nature xxii 577–79 (1892) portrait; Modern thought March 1883 pp. 97–101; The coward conscience by Charles Adams (1882) passim; Graphic xxviii 260 (1883) portrait; Vanity Fair 1 March 1873 p. 71 portrait; Daily Graphic 19 Dec. 1892 p. 8 portrait; Strand Mag. ii 274 (1891) 3 portraits.

OWEN, ROBERT (6 child of Robert Owen of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, saddler). b. Newtown 14 May 1771; employed by James Mc Guffog, draper, Stamford, Northants 1780–5; a machine maker at Manchester, then a yarn spinner; manager of Mr. Drinkwater’s spinning business, Manchester 1790–4; founded the Chorlton Twist company 1794–5; he and his partners purchased David Dale’s mills at New Lanark on the falls of the Clyde for £60,000, which he managed from about 1 Jany. 1800, in 1814 he and six others bought the business for £114,000; founded schools at his works for all children under twelve, claimed to be the founder of infant schools 1816; gave up the Lanark works 1823; at meeting at London tavern 14 Aug. 1817 declared that all the religions in the world were founded in error; contested the Lanark district of burghs 31 March 1820; retired from business 1819; started the Economist a paper explanatory of the new system of society, No. 1 27 Jany. 1821, No. 26 21 July 1821, succeeded by the Political economist 1823, and The advocate of the working classes 1827; bought the village of New Harmony in Illinois and Indiana with 20,000 acres for £30,000 April 1825, the scheme failed and he retired 1827; edited The Crisis, or the change from error and misery to truth and happiness, a penny paper, No. 1 14 April 1832, last issue No. 20, vol. iv 23 Aug. 1834; opened an Equitable labour exchange at The Bazaar in Gray’s Inn road, London 3 Sept. 1832, which was moved to Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. 1 May 1833, and ultimately became bankrupt; took part in the seven cooperative congresses 1830–4, and in the 14 socialist congresses 1835–46; published The new moral world 1834–41; presented to the queen by lord Normanby 5 Jany. 1840; published the Rational quarterly June 1853; author of A statement regarding the New Lanark establishment 1812; A new view of society, or essays on the principle of the formation of the human character 1813–4, 3 ed. 1817; The addresses of R. Owen 1830; The book of the new moral world containing the rational system of society 1836; The catechism of the new moral world 1840; An outline of the rational system of society 1840, 9 ed. 1871; Manifesto of R. Owen, the discoverer of the rational system of society 1840, 8 ed. 1841; The signs of the times or the approach of the millenium 1841; The future of the human race 1853; R Owen’s Journal, No. 1, Nov. 2 1850, No. 104 Oct. 23,1852, 4 volumes. d. Bear’s head hotel, Newtown, Montgomeryshire 17 Nov. 1858. The Life of R. Owen, written by himself 1857, vol. 1, no more published; C. Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living (1877) 3–6; J. Grants Portraits of public characters ii 163–91 (1841); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 307–15; Georgian Era iv 37–41 (1834); The Times 9 Aug. 1817 p. 4, with A view of the Agricultural and manufacturing village of Unity and Mutual Co-operation 8 Jany. 1840 p. 7, 11 Feb. p. 7, 26 March p. 4; S. J. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 275–8; Reynold’s Miscellany xviii 88 (1857) portrait; G.M. v 643–5 (1858).

OWEN, ROBERT DALE (eld. son of preceding). b. Glasgow 9 Nov. 1800; educ. at the Swiss college of Hofwyl, near Berne 1820–3; joined his father’s community at New Harmony 1825; became a citizen of U.S. of America 1827; published with Francis Wright at New York The free inquirer Nov. 1828 to 1832; member of the legislature of Indiana 1835, member of the house of representatives 1843; chairman of committee for promoting the Smithsonian institution 1846, one of the regents; United States chargé d’ affaires at Naples 1853, minister 1853–8; chairman of a committee to examine into condition of emancipated freedmen 1863; author of Moral physiology 1831, 12 ed. 1870; Darby and Susan, a tale of Old England 1840; Footfalls on the boundary of another world 1859; The wrong of slavery, the right of emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United States 1864; The debatable land between this world and the next 1872. d. at his summer residence on Lake George, New York 17 June 1877. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1874); Appleton’s American biography iv 615 (1888) portrait.

OWEN, ROBERT HENRY. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1839; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. d. 15 Lower Pembroke st. Dublin 8 Jany. 1869 aged 64.

OWEN, SAMUEL. b. Drayton, Shropshire 1774; introduced steam boats to Sweden. d. Stockholm 15 Feb. 1853. Historiskt Bildergalleri, No. iii, Samuel Owen (Norrkoping 1863) portrait.

OWEN, SAMUEL. b. about 1769; water-colour painter; exhibited 2 paintings and 6 drawings at the R.A. 1794–1807; member of the Associated artists in water-colours 1808, resigned 1810, exhibited 29 pictures; made 84 drawings, engraved by W. B. Cooke, for his work The Thames 1811, and 7 drawings for the Picturesque tour on the river Thames, published by Wm. Westall and himself 1828; his Shipping in a calm, and 9 other river and sea pieces are in South Kensington museum. d. Sunbury, Middlesex 8 Dec. 1857.

OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (brother of Joseph Butterworth Owen 1778–1870). Architect at Portsmouth; surveyor for the South Hampshire district; helped to develop Southsea as a watering place; designed the French protestant church at St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London 1842–3, and the church of St. Jude’s, Southsea 1851. d. 1862.

OWEN, WILLIAM (son of Luke Owen, maltster). b. Rotherham 1810; apprentice to Sandford and Yates, Phœnix foundry, Greasborough road, Rotherham 1823, a partner 1832, sole proprietor to March 1864, when the Wheathill foundry works were transferred to a limited liability co., chairman and managing director 1864–72; chairman of Midland wagon co.; a judge of machinery at Royal agricultural society’s meetings; A.I.C.E. 3 March 1857; member of Instit. of Mechanical engineers 1847; author of several inventions for making solid wrought-iron wheels and tires. d. Clifton house, Rotherham 20 Jany. 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. lxiii 333 (1881); Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 10.

OWEN, WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM (son of Wm. Owen, captain R.N., d. 1778). b. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1788; explored the Maldive Islands Sept. 1806, discovered the Sea-flower channel between Si-biru and Si-pora on the west coast of Sumatra; captain 2 May 1811; surveyed the Canadian Lakes 1815–6; captain of the Leven Aug. 1821, surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–5; settled the colony at Fernando Po 1827; R.A. on h.p. 21 Dec. 1847, V.A. on h.p. 27 Oct. 1854; granted a pension 6 Feb. 1855; author of Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, 2 vols. 1833. d. St. John’s, New Brunswick 3 Nov. 1857.

OWEN, WILLIAM GEORGE. b. 5 May 1817; ensign 11 Madras N.I. 7 Aug. 1835, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col Madras infantry 30 April 1866, colonel 30 April 1878; M.G. 4 Aug. 1866; commanded the Ceded districts 1874–6; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. d. Folkestone 1 May 1895.

OWENS, JOHN EDWARD (son of a shoemaker). b. Liverpool 4 May 1824; taken to Philadelphia 1834; first appeared on the stage at National theatre, Philadelphia, where he acted until 1843; played at Peak’s museum, Baltimore 1844–7; one of proprietors of Baltimore museum 1849–53; opened the Charles st. theatre with Uncle Tom’s cabin, playing Uncle Tom 1853; manager of the Varieties in New Orleans 1858–60; played with great success at the Broadway, New York 29 Aug. 1864 to 14 April 1865; played Solon Shingle at Adelphi theatre, London 3 July 1865; acted at Broadway theatre again 8 Jany. to 28 April 1866; played in California 1880, where he lost most of his fortune in mining speculations; acted in Esmeralda in many American cities 1882; owner of the Academy of music, Charleston, South Carolina to his death. d. near Towson, Baltimore county, Maryland 6 Dec. 1886. Atlantic xix 750 755–8 (1867); T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 270 portrait.

OXBERRY, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Oxberry, actor 1784–1824). b. Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney; apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32; acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833; played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20 March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39 original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec. 1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama, Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; m. (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster; m. (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was b. Portsmouth 28 April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres and in the provinces. d. on 28 February 1852. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 5 March. Dramatic and musical review 1842 p. 102 et seq.; Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp. 49–50 portrait, and iv 25–6 (1849) portrait of his second wife; Actors by gaslight (1838) 129–30 portrait; I.L.N. xx 194 (1852).

OXENDEN, ASHTON (5 son of sir Henry Oxenden, 7 baronet 1756–1838). b. Broome park, Canterbury 20 Sept. 1808; educ. Ramsgate, Harrow and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1869; C. of Barham, Kent Dec. 1833, resigned 1838; R. of Pluckley with Pevington, Kent 1848–69; hon. canon of Canterbury 1864 to death; bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada (nine dioceses) May 1869, resigned April 1878, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 1 Aug. 1869, installed in Montreal cathedral 5 Sept.; V. of Hackington or St. Stephen’s, near Canterbury 30 May 1879 to 1884; dean of Canterbury 1879 to 1884; author of The cottage library, 6 vols. 1846–51; The pathway of safety 1856, circulated 350,000 copies; The Barham tracts, 49 numbers, collected and published as Cottage readings 1859; My first year in Canada 1871; The Christian life 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. d. Biarritz 22 Feb. 1892. A. Oxenden’s History of my life: an autobiography (1891); A. Oxenden’s Plain sermons (1893) memoir pp. xiii–lxxxv with portrait; Graphic 5 March 1892 p. 298 portrait.

OXENFORD, HENRY. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. d. Putney 26 Nov. 1883, in his 100 year.

OXENFORD, JOHN (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, d. London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). b. Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812; educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on commercial and financial matters; taught himself German, Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks, a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta, Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2 Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct. 1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10 March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864; Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama, Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of 40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography 1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe 1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853; F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of French songs 1851. d. 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. Life of E. L. Blanchard ii 465 (1891) portrait; Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp. 270–2; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi 553 (1877) portrait; Graphic xv 236 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 229 (1877) portrait; Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 78 portrait; The theatre i 55–57 and 68 (1877); You have heard of them by Q (1854) 121–27; E. Yates’s Recollections i 307–10 (1884); Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p. 5 portrait; Illust. Times 1 Dec. 1866 p. 340 portrait; The Period 11 Feb. 1871 p. 55 portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait.

OXENHAM, HENRY NUTCOMBE (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second master of Harrow school). b. Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall, Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857; entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school, Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems, Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement 1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876; Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. d. 42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. Tablet 31 March 1888 p. 534, 7 April pp. 571–2; Saturday Review lxv 380 (1888).

OXENHAM, WILLIAM (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter 1771–1844). b. Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ. Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death; author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862; Death the christian’s gain 1861. d. Somers villa, Reigate 13 Oct. 1863. bur. Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. G.M. xvi 660 (1863).

OXFORD, EDWARD (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop in the Borough road, London). b. Birmingham 19 April 1822; discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840, found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. Reports of state trials iv 498–555 (1892); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 102–50 (1850); L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials (1871) 528–45; A. Griffith’s Newgate ii 285–9 (1884); The Reginacide (1840).

NOTE.--The pistol with which he shot at the queen is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland Yard, Victoria embankment, London.

OXFORD, JACOB. b. 1834; only 4 feet high; played the concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for 28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100 lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. d. Morpeth court, Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.

OXLEE, JOHN (son of a farmer). b. Guisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch. 1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave 1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July 1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60 more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer, and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. d. Molesworth rectory 30 Jany. 1854. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1882) 55–6 portrait; Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography (1839) 183, 184; Church review 22 March 1862 pp. 175–6; G.M. April 1854 p. 437, and Feb. 1855 pp. 203–4; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 105–11.

OXLEY, RICHARD. b. Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. d. 13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.

OXTOBY, THOMAS. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife fox hounds 1853–9. Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds (1883) 92 portrait.

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PACIFICO, DAVID. b. Gibraltar 1784; in business at Lagos, Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5 Jany. 1837, dismissed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter, 4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who delaying to make compensation, lord Palmerston sent the British fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs. endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted in a quarrel, and the French ambassador left London 15 May 1850; Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in London and d. 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854. bur. Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. Correspondence respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851; Hansard’s Debates 25 June 1850, cols. 380–444; Ashley’s Life of lord Palmerston i 176–227 (1876); Finlay’s History of Greece vii 209–14 (1877); Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy (1855) 412–25; McCarthy’s History of our own time ii 41–62 (1879); G.M. June 1854 p. 666.

PACKE, CHARLES WILLIAM (1 son of Charles James Packe of Prestwold hall, near Loughborough). b. 23 Sept. 1792; M.P. South Leicestershire 1836 to death; chairman of Leicestershire quarter sessions to death. d. 7 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 27 Oct. 1867.

PACKE, GEORGE HUSSEY (brother of preceding). b. 1 May 1796; educ. Eton; cornet 13 dragoons 24 June 1813; captain 21 light dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817, sold out 1861; sheriff of Lincs. 1843; chairman of Sleaford quarter sessions; deputy chairman of Great northern railway company 1851, chairman 1865 to death; contested Newark 31 July 1847; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1859–68. d. 41 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1874.

PACKER, SIR CHARLES (3 son of John Culling Packer of Barbados). b. Barbados 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; solicitor general of Barbados 12 March 1847 to 1874; escheator general 1859; vice-chancellor, judge of the admiralty court, and chief justice 30 Oct. 1874 to 1886; member of general assembly 1846–67, speaker 1861–7; member of legislative council 1868–76; knighted by patent 29 Oct. 1879. d. Ruttal house, Barbados 21 Feb. 1888. Law Times lxxxiv 396 (1888), lxxxvi 265 (1889).

PACKER, JOHN GRAHAM. b. 1812; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, London 1837–41; V. of St. Peter, Bethnal Green 1841–73; R. of Wootton, Kent 1873–9; V. of Arreton, Isle of Wight 1879 to death; author of Companion to Euclid 1835; Plain sermons 1838; Bethnal Green sermons, sermons on the Lord’s prayer 1848; Theopolis 1850; Sermons on death 1856. d. St. Audries, Bridgwater, Somerset 1 Aug. 1883. Guardian 8 Aug. 1883 pp. 1168, 1169.

PADDOCK, THOMAS. b. Redditch, Worcs. 1824; beat Elijah Parsons in 23 rounds 3 Dec. 1844; beat Nobby Clarke in 42 rounds 27 Jany. 1846, and again in 35 rounds 6 April 1847; beaten by Wm. Thompson, the champion known as Bendigo, at Mildenhall 5 June 1850, £200 a side, 49 rounds in 59 minutes; beaten by Wm. Perry at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes; beaten by Harry Paulson at Sedgebrook, near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851, £25 a side, 71 rounds in 95 minutes; beat Paulson at Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, £50 a side, 86 rounds in 95 minutes, sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour for this fight March 1852; beat Paulson at Mildenhall 14 Feb. 1854, £100 a side, 102 rounds in 2½ hours; beat Aaron Jones at Long Reach, Kent 18 July 1854, £100 a side, 121 rounds in 2 hours and 24 minutes; beat Aaron Jones again at Mildenhall 26 June 1855, £100 a side, 61 rounds in 89 minutes; beat Harry Broome at Bentley, Suffolk 19 May 1856, £200 a side, 51 rounds in 63 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers, the champion, at Canvey island 16 June 1858, £150 a side, 21 rounds in 80 minutes; fought Samuel Hurst for £200 a side, near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860, when Hurst won in five rounds and obtained the champion belt. d. 41 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 30 June 1863. bur. Finchley 5 July, his widow d. 9 July 1863. Bell’s Life in London 5 July 1863 p. 6, 12 July p. 7; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 271–307 (1881) portrait; F. W. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9, 168–81; J. Hannan’s British Boxing (1850) 15–26.

PADMORE, RICHARD (1 son of Thomas Padmore of Ketley, Salop). b. Ketley 28 Sept. 1789; educ. Wellington school; came to Worcester as a working man, became member of firm of Hardy and Padmore, iron founders, retired some years before his death; sheriff of Worcestershire 1845; alderman of Worcester 1838, mayor 1848 and 1852, retired from the corporation 1874; M.P. Worcester 1860–8; managing director of Worcester City and County banking co.; gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert asylum, Worcester. d. Henwick hall, near Worcester 12 Jany. 1881. bur. Worcester cemetery 19 Jany. Berrow’s Worcestershire Journal 15 Jany. 1881 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.

PADWICK, HENRY (2 son of William Padwick, butcher, d. 1834). b. Horsham, Sussex 1805; a solicitor at 38 Davis st. Berkeley sq. London 1846, retired 1855; resided at 2 Hill st. 1855–68, at 4 Hill st. 1868 to death; commenced horse racing 1849 under the name of Howard; his horses were trained at Danebury, then transferred to Findon under John Barnham Day 1853; with Virago won the 1,000 guineas 1854; sold Kangaroo to the marquess of Hastings for £12,000 in 1865, and Oulston to Mr. Elwes for £8,000; won £80,000 on Virago, and lost the money the same year on the stock exchange 1854; J.P. for London and Westminster; deputy lieutenant for Sussex; deputy keeper of Holyrood palace, Scotland; a well known money lender. d. 4 Hill st Berkeley sq. London 23 Sept. 1879. J. Rice’s History of British Turf i 371–80 (1879); W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 1–34; Times 25 Sept. 1879 p. 9.

PAE, DAVID (son of a miller). b. Amulree, Perthshire 6 May 1828; was with Thomas Grant, publisher, Edinburgh 1848; wrote stories for the Penny Post and the North Briton, Edinb.; editor of The Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Numbers 1851–2; edited for some years the People’s Journal, Dundee, a weekly paper; wrote 27 works of fiction, printed in instalments in the Journal from 5 Sept. 1863 to his death; wrote the dramatic criticisms for the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, from 1877; wrote Mrs. Macgregor’s Levee for W. C. Gourlay, the Comedian, and other dramas; author of The coming struggle among the nations of the earth 1853, 2 ed. 1854, five replies were made to this work; The coming rest for the nations of the earth 1853; The mission and destiny of Russia as delineated in scripture prophecy 1853; Jessie Melville or the double sacrifice 1856; The merchant’s daughter 1857; Fraud and friendship 1857; Two years after and onward, or the approaching war among the powers of Europe 1864; The present war among the powers of Europe 1866; Hard times, or the trials of the Linwood family, 2 ed. 1886. d. Craigmount, East Newport, Fife 9 May 1884. bur. Western cemet. Dundee 13 May. Dundee Advertiser 10 May 1884 p. 5, 12 May p. 5, 14 May p. 3.

PAGAN, JAMES (son of James Pagan, a bleacher). b. Trailflat, parish of Tinwald, near Dumfries 18 Oct. 1811; educ. Dumfries academy; a compositor and reporter on the Dumfries Courier; partner in a printing firm in London; reporter and sub-editor of the Glasgow Herald 1839, and editor 1856 to death, he converted it into a daily paper 1857; the correspondent of The Times in Glasgow 1857 to death; edited The prospective observer, a broadsheet; author of Sketches of the history of Glasgow 1847; History of the cathedral and see of Glasgow 1851, 2 ed. 1883; Glasgow, past and present, illustrated in dean of guild reports, 3 vols. 1851–6, another ed. 1884; Old Glasgow and its environs 1864; with J. H. Stoddart Relics of ancient architecture in Glasgow 1885. d. Glasgow 11 Feb. 1870. In memoriam, Mr. James Pagan (1870); Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 255–60 (1886) portrait; Newspaper Press iii 82, 106 (1870).

PAGAN, JOHN. b. Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire 21 May 1842; assistant surveyor to corporation of Preston 1867–9, and to corporation of Bradford 1869–72; deputy borough surveyor Sheffield 1872–5; borough surveyor Wakefield 1875–9, where he executed the main sewerage extension; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1875; surveyor general to the Gold Coast, May 1879 to death. d. Accra 13 Dec. 1888. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvi 348–9 (1889).

PAGAN, JOHN M. (only son of Andrew Pagan, sheep farmer). b. Halglenmuir, parish of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Jany. 1802; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827, hon. librarian some years; in practice at Preston, Lancs. 1825, removed to Glasgow 1827; had a class for forensic medicine 1839; regius professor of midwifery and the diseases of women and children, univ. of Glasgow 1840 to death; president Glasgow Medico-chirurgical soc. 1860; invented an obstetric forceps known by his name; author of De syncope anginosa 1823; The medical jurisprudence of insanity 1840. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 19 May 1868. Glasgow Medical journal i 129–31 (1869).

PAGANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. b. Borgomanero province of Novara, North Italy 14 May 1806; a priest 1828; prefect in theological seminary, Novara 1829; professor of dogmatic theology and canon law; spiritual director of the young ecclesiastics 1831–6; served his noviciate at San Michele della Chiusa, near Turin, in connection with the Institute of Charity 1836–7; joined Fr. Gentili at Prior park, Bath, July 1837, where he was professor of theology to 1841; superior of the English province of the Institute of Charity, established 8 houses with 80 brethren; elected general of the order of the Institute of Charity at Rome 24 July 1855, visited England every year; translated Liguori’s Instructions on the religious state 1848; L’ Anima amante or the soul loving God 1848; Leonardo’s The path to Paradise 1850; author of The Anima Divota, translated by the rev. J. Shepherd, Prior Park 1844; The way to heaven, a manual of devotion 1849; The life of the rev. A. Gentili 1851; The one thing needful, or the attainment of our last end 1852; A help to devotion, a collection of novenas 1853, new ed. 1892; The science of the saints in practice 1853–5, 3 vols.; The end of the world 1855. d. Rome 25–26 Dec. 1860. G. B. Pagani’s The Anima Divota (1891) memoir pp. 7–12; G.M. x 230 (1861).

PAGE, AUGUSTINE. b. 1783; master of Boys’ hospital, Ampton 6 March 1821 to death; author of Memoranda concerning the Boys’ hospital at Ampton in Suffolk, Ipswich 1838; A supplement to the Suffolk traveller 1843, another copy is dated 1844. d. Bury St. Edmunds 18 Sept. 1853.

PAGE, DAVID (son of a mason and builder). b. Lochgelly, Fifeshire 24 Aug. 1814; educ. univ. of St. Andrew’s 1828–34; lecturer and editor of a Fifeshire newspaper; scientific editor to W. and R. Chambers in Edinburgh 1843–51; professor of geology in Durham univ. college of physical science at Newcastle July 1871 to death; F.G.S. 1853; president of Geological society of Edinb. 1863 and 1865; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1867; author of Introductory text book of geology 1854, 12 ed. 1888; Advanced text book of geology, descriptive and industrial, Edinb. 1856, 5 ed. 1872; Handbook of geological terms and geology 1859, 2 ed. 1865; Introductory text book of physical geography 1863, 12 ed. 1887; The earth’s crust 1864, 6 ed. 1872; Geology for general readers 1866, 12 ed. 1888; and 13 other books. d. Newcastle 9 March 1879, his widow was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Aug. 1890.

PAGE, JAMES AUGUSTUS. b. 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; vice-chancellor’s prize 1844, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1865; C. of Lymm, Cheshire 1845–6, and V. of Tintwistle 1846–73; lecturer at Rusholme, near Manchester 1873 to death; author of Gathered leaves 1843; The ruined cities of Central America 1844; My church 1845; Protestant ballads 1852. d. Anson terrace, Rusholme 25 March 1880.

PAGE, THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Page of City of London, solicitor). b. London 26 Oct. 1803; employed by Edward Blore, the architect; A.I.C.E. 2 April 1833, M.I.C.E. 18 April 1837; one of the assistant engineers on the Thames tunnel works 1835, acting engineer 1836 until completion of tunnel 25 March 1843; designed the embankment of the Thames from Westminster to Blackfriars 1842, but the scheme was abandoned; prepared plans for harbours at Holyhead and Port Denllaen, also for docks at Swansea; designed and executed the Albert embankment between Vauxhall and Battersea bridges, and the Chelsea suspension bridge, opened 28 March 1858, the Albert embankment was opened 24 Nov. 1869; designed Westminster bridge, commenced May 1854, opened 24 May 1862; engineer for the town of Wisbeach; invented a system for firing guns under water; author of Report on the eligibility of Milford Haven for ocean steam ships, and for a naval arsenal 1859. d. Paris 8 Jany. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix 262–5 (1877).

PAGE, WILLIAM EMMANUEL (2 son of rev. Wm. Page of Westminster). b. 9 April 1808; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1826, faculty student 1826–56; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.M. 1834, D.M. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838, treasurer; lecturer on theory and practice of medicine St. George’s hospital, senior physician at his decease; author of Oratio ex Harveii instituto in ædibus collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis habita 1860; An introductory address delivered at St. George’s hospital 1864. d. 106 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 2 Jany. 1868. Medical Times and Gazette i 49 (1868).

PAGET, ALFRED HENRY (5 son of 1 Marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. 29 June 1816; educ. Westminster; cornet royal horse guards 6 July 1832, lieut. 14 March 1834; captain 7 hussars 3 July 1841, placed on h.p. with rank of major 16 May 1845; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to March 1852, Dec. 1852 to March 1858, and June 1859 to Aug. 1874; clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to death; his boat the Mystery 25 tons was the first iron yacht built; M.P. Lichfield 1837–65; m. 8 April 1847 Cecilia, 2 dau. of George Thomas Wyndham, she was one of the Court beauties in 1858; he d. on board his yacht Violet at Inverness 24 Aug. 1888. bur. Hampton churchyard 30 Aug. H. Vizetelly’s Glances back through seventy years ii 6 (1893); Yachting (Badmington Library 1894) ii 15, 185–6.

PAGET, CHARLES (elder son of Joseph Paget). b. Loughborough, Leics. 1799; a manufacturer at Nottingham; sheriff of Notts. 1844; a practical and scientific farmer; established schools for his labourers’ children at Ruddington, near Nottingham; M.P. Nottingham 1856–65; contested Nottingham 11 July 1865; author of Results of an experiment on the half-time system of education in rural districts, as carried on at Ruddington 1859; drowned with his wife off Filey Brigg, Yorkshire 13 Oct. 1873. Scarborough Mercury 18 Oct. 1873 p. 4, 25 Oct. p. 2.

NOTE.--Mr. and Mrs. Paget while standing on a ridge of rocks known as Filey Brigg, were washed off by a huge wave, and the bodies were not recovered.

PAGET, CLARENCE EDWARD (4 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. 17 June 1811; educ. Westminster school 1821–3; entered navy 1827; a midshipman on board the Asia at Battle of Navarino; captain 26 March 1839; commanded the princess Royal, 91 guns, in the Baltic 1854, and during blockade and bombardment of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 1 April 1870, placed on retired list 18 June 1876; M.P. Sandwich 1847–52 and 1857–66; secretary to the admiralty 1859–66; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 28 April 1866 to 28 April 1869; C.B. Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886; P.C. 9 May 1866; m. 1852 Martha Stuart, dau. of admiral Sir Robert Otway, she d. 23 March 1895; he d. Brighton 22 March 1895, they were both buried at Patcham, near Brighton 28 March. Illust. news of the world viii (1861) portrait.

PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD (eld. son of sir Edward Paget, general 1775–1849). b. 24 May 1806; educ. Westminster school 1817–24 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1825–36; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; R. of Elford, near Lichfield 1835 to death, the church was restored 1848; chaplain to Dr. Bagot, bishop of Bath and Wells; author of Caleb Kniveton, the incendiary, Oxford 1833; St. Antholin’s, or old churches and new 1841; Milford Malvoisin, or pews and pewholders 1842; The warden of Berkingholt, or rich and poor 1843; The owlet of Owlstone Edge 1856; The curate of Cumberworth and the vicar of Roost 1859; Lucretia, or the heroine of the nineteenth century 1868, a satire on the sensational novel; Some records of the Ashstead estate and of its Howard possessors, Lichfield 1873; A student penitent of 1695, 1875; Homeward bound 1876; edited The Juvenile Englishman’s library, and wrote for it 5 volumes, namely, Tales of the village children 1845, 2 vols.; The hope of the Katzekopfs 1845, also issued separately under pseudonym of William Charme of Staffordshire; Luke Sharp 1845; Tales of the village 1860. d. Elford 4 Aug. 1882. Guardian 16 Aug. 1882 p. 1124; Church congress (1883) 55.

PAGET, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (brother of Clarence E. Paget 1811–95). b. Burlington st. London 16 March 1818; educ. Westminster school 1829; cornet 1 life guards 25 July 1834, lieut. 1837–41; captain 4 light dragoons 17 June 1842, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1846, placed on h.p. 1 May 1857; served at battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman; commanded the light brigade in the Crimea 25 Feb. to 29 July 1855; brigadier general in the Crimea 30 July 1855 to 14 May 1856, and at Aldershot 1 April 1860 to 31 Aug. 1861; commanded the Sirhind division of the Bengal army 26 Dec. 1862 to 23 March 1865; inspector general of cavalry at head quarters 1 April 1865 to 31 March 1870; col. of 7 dragoon guards 28 Jany. 1868, and of 4 hussars 7 Jany. 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. Beaumaris 1847–57; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; author of The light cavalry brigade in the Crimea, 1875, 2 ed. 1881. d. Farm st. Mayfair, London 30 June 1880. I.L.N. xxxii 461 (1858) portrait; Times 2 July 1880 p. 5.

PAGET, SIR GEORGE EDWARD (7 son of Samuel Paget of Great Yarmouth, merchant). b. Great Yarmouth 22 Dec. 1809; educ. Charterhouse 1824–7, and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1827, scholar 1828, eighth wrangler Jany. 1831; fellow of his college 1832 to 11 Dec. 1851, elected fellow again 2 May 1881; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1833, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1838; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; physician to Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge 1839–84; Linacre lecturer on medicine at St. John’s college, July 1851 to 1872; president of Cambridge philosophical society 1855–6; member of council of the senate of Cambridge univ. 1856, and their representative on general council of medical education 27 Nov. 1863 to 9 July 1869, president 9 July 1869 to 18 July 1874; president of British medical association 1864; regius professor of physic at Cambridge 15 Feb. 1872 to death; delivered Harveian oration at royal college of physicians 1866; F.R.S. 12 June 1873; K.C.B. 19 Dec. 1885; author of Notice of an unpublished manuscript of Harvey 1850; The Harveian oration 1866. d. St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 29 Jany. 1892. Proc. of royal society l, p. xii (1892); Some lectures by sir G. E. Paget, edited by C. E. Paget, Cambridge (1893) memoir pp. 1–26 portrait; Graphic 6 Feb. 1892 p. 174 portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) portrait 6.

PAGET, JOHN (son of John Paget). b. Thorpe Satchville, Leics. 1808; a lay student in Manchester college, York 1823–6; studied medicine in univ. of Edinb. 1826, M.D. 1830 but never used title of doctor; studied medicine in Paris and Italy; m. at Rome 1837 baroness Polyxena Wesselingi, widow of baron Ladislaus Bánffy, she d. 1878; developed his wife’s estates in Hungary, where he introduced an improved breed of cattle, and paid special attention to viniculture; member of the Unitarian church of Transylvania; author of Hungary and Transylvania, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1855; Unitarianism in Transylvania, in J. R. Beard’s Unitarianism exhibited 1846, pp. 296–315. d. Gyeres, Hungary 10 April 1892. bur. Kolozsvár 12 April. Keresztény Magretö (1893) pp. 90 et seq., memoir and portrait; Inquirer 30 April 1892 p. 278.

PAGET, THOMAS TERTIUS (1 son of Thomas Paget, M.P.) b. 27 Dec. 1807; proprietor of banking firm of T. T. Paget, Leicester; M.P. South Leicestershire Nov. 1867 to Nov. 1868; contested S. Leicestershire 26 Nov. 1868, 13 June 1870 and 14 Feb. 1874; M.P. S. Leicestershire 1880 to death; sheriff of Leicester 1869; proprietor of the opera-house in Leicester; well known in the hunting field; author of Talbot v. Talbot, a statement of facts 1855; A letter on the judgement of the high court of delegates in Talbot v. Talbot 1856. d. Humberstone, near Leicester 16 Oct. 1892, will proved 1 Nov., personalty amounted to over £589,000.

PAGET, WILLIAM (2 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. Wigmore st. London 1 March 1803; entered navy 1 April 1817, captain 18 Oct. 1826; M.P. for Carnarvon 1826–30, and for Andover 1841–7. d. Boulogne 17 May 1873. A.R. (1844) 21–4, 25; I.L.N. lxii 523 (1873).

PAGLIARDINI, TITO. b. Italy 1817; second French master St. Paul’s sch. London 28 July 1853, head French master 4 Feb. 1859 to 1879; member of the order of the Corona d’Italia 1893; a member of Workman’s Peace association, of the National Education association, of the National health soc., of the Paddington parliament, and of the Social science congresses; translated L. Manzotti’s Excelsior, a ballet at Her Majesty’s theatre 1885; C. Lisei’s Giovanni Bottesini 1886; L. Manzotti’s Amor love, a choreographic poem 1886; author of Le petit précepteur; Le petit grammairien 1868. d. 21 Alexander st. Westbourne park, London 26 March 1895.

PAICE, WILLIAM. b. 1836; educ. University coll. sch.; matric. Univ. of London 1852, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; edited Light, a journal devoted to the highest interests of humanity, both here and hereafter, No. 1, 8 Jany. 1881; author of Energy and motion, a text book of elementary mechanics 1884. d. 1 Portman mansions, Baker st. London 24 Jany. 1895.

PAIN, JAMES (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). b. Isleworth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of Buttevant, Midleton, and Carrigaline, the gaols at Limerick and Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitchelstown castle, near Cork, for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the churches and glebe houses; George b. London 1793, d. 1838, bur. St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James d. Limerick 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Limerick cathedral. Dictionary of architecture vi, Letter P, 6–7 (1881).

PAINTER, EDWARD. b. Stratford, near Manchester March 1784; a brewer by trade; fought J. Coyne of Kilkenny at St. Nicholas, near Margate 23 Aug. 1813 and won in 40 minutes; beat J. Alexander in 20 rounds at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 20 Nov. 1813; beaten by Tom Oliver 17 May 1814; beaten by John Shaw the lifeguardsman in 28 minutes at Hounslow heath 18 April 1815; beaten by Harry Sutton the Black at Moulsey Hurst 23 July 1817; beat Sutton at Bungay, Suffolk in 15 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beaten by Tom Spring at Mickleham Downs, Surrey in 31 rounds 1 April 1818; beat Spring at Russia farm, near Kingston in 42 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beat Tom Oliver at North Walsham 17 July 1820; landlord of the Anchor inn, Lobster lane, Norwich 1818 many years, then of the White Hart inn, Market place, Norwich. d. at his son’s residence near the Ram, Lakenham, Norwich 18 Sept. 1852. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard, Norwich 22 Sept. Miles’ Pugilistica ii 74–88 (1880) portrait: The Fancy. By An Operator i 393–400 (1826) portrait.

PAKENHAM, CHARLES REGINALD (4 son of Thomas Pakenham, 2 earl of Longford 1744–1835). b. 21 Sept. 1821; ensign 72 foot 14 June 1839; captain 69 foot 1 Dec. 1846; lieut. grenadier guards 5 March 1847, sold out 2 May 1851; aide de camp to the queen, and accompanied her to Ireland 1849; sold all his possessions and gave the proceeds to charitable institutions 1851; joined the order of the ‘Barefooted clerks of the most sacred passion of our Lord Jesus Christ’ 1854, ordained a priest 29 Sept. 1855; visited Rome 1856; rector of the ‘Retreat of blessed Paul of the Cross’ at Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Aug. 1856 to death; known as Father Paul Mary. d. Harold’s Cross, Dublin 1 March 1857. bur. in chapel of the Retreat 4 March. The Tablet 7 March 1857 p. 148.

PAKENHAM, EDWARD WILLIAM (1 son of sir Hercules Robert Pakenham 1781–1850). b. Ireland 20 Sept. 1819; M.P. Antrim July 1852 to death; ensign grenadier guards 12 Jany 1838, captain 24 Feb. 1854 to death; one of the foremost at the battle of the Alma, in the charge of the guards, he was the officer who first jumped over the embrasure of the Russian battery; at Inkerman he defended at the head of the 7 company of grenadier guards the Sand-bag battery and fell pierced by many wounds 5 Nov. 1854. bur. 6 Nov. G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 167–8.

PAKENHAM, JOHN (4 son of admiral sir Thomas Pakenham 1757–1836). b. 18 Oct. 1790; entered navy 22 April 1804; commanded the Harrier on the Cork station 1825; captain 26 Aug. 1826, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 15 June 1864. d. Cannes 1 June 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. (1849) 851.

PAKENHAM, SIR RICHARD (brother of preceding). b. Pakenham hall, Castle Pollard, Westmeath 19 May 1797; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; attaché at the Hague 15 Oct. 1817; secretary to the legation in Switzerland 26 Jany. 1824, and to the legation in Mexico 29 Dec. 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the United Mexican states 12 March 1835, obtained treaty for abolition of the slave trade 1841; P.C. 13 Dec. 1843; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to United States of America 14 Dec. 1843, went on leave of absence 29 May 1847, retired on a pension 22 March 1849; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 28 April 1851, retired on pension 28 June 1855; sent on a special mission to Lisbon 7 Aug. 1855, returned to England Oct. 1855, granted pension. d. Coolure, Castle Pollard 28 Oct. 1868. Men of the time (1868) p. 630; I.L.N. liii 459 (1868).

PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP (eld. son of Edmund Paley, R. of Easingwold, near York, then R. of Gretford, Lincs., d. 1850). b. Easingwold 14 Jany. 1815; educ. Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; resided at St. John’s 1838–46; an original member of Cambridge Camden society, hon. secretary and member of committee, contributed to the Ecclesiologist; joined the church of Rome 1846; tutor to Bertram Talbot, heir to earldom of Shrewsbury 1847–50; tutor in the Throckmorton family 1850–2; non-resident tutor in the family of Kenelm Digby 1852–6; resided at Cambridge as a private tutor 1860–74, examiner in the classical tripos 1873–4; professor of classical literature at the new catholic univ. college at Kensington 1874–7; classical examiner to univ. of London 1875–80, and to the civil service commission; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1883; edited the greater part of the Greek tragedies separately in Cambridge Greek and Latin texts with notes; published Ecclesiologists’ guide to the churches within seven miles of Cambridge 1844; Æschyli quæ supersunt omnia 1850; A manual of Gothic mouldings 1845, 5 ed. 1891; S. A. Porpertii Carmina with English notes 1853, 2 ed. 1872; The tragedies of Æschylus with an English commentary 1855, 4 ed. 1879; The tragedies of Euripides, 3 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1872; The Epics of Hesiod, with an English commentary 1861, 2 ed. 1883; The Iliad of Homer, with English notes, 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1884. d. Apthorp, Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth 11 Dec. 1888. bur. R.C. churchyard, Boscombe.

PALEY, GEORGE BARKER (eld. son of John Green Paley of Langcliffe and Oatlands, Yorkshire 1774–1860). b. 28 Oct. 1799; educ. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., 25 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1833; fellow of his college 1822–32; P.C. of Little St. Mary, Cambridge 1832–3; V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs. 1833–5; R. of Freckenham, Suffolk 14 Oct. 1835 to death; published Form of family prayer for Sunday and daily use 1839; A tract for the foundry, or hear what the furnace teacheth 1846; Saul of Tarsus, a drama 1855. d. 90 Onslow gardens, London Feb. 1880, personalty sworn as £300,000, 10 April 1880. Times 14 Feb. 1880 p. 10.

PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS (only son of Meyer Cohen, member of the stock exchange). b. London July 1788; articled to Loggin and Smith, solicitors, Basinghall st. 1803, and was their managing clerk 1808–22; solicitor in King’s Bench walk Temple 1822; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, engaged in pedigree cases before the house of lords; became a Christian 1823; m. 13 Oct. 1823 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., by Mary, 2 dau. of William Palgrave of Coltishall, Norfolk, having assumed by R.L. the name of Palgrave in lieu of Cohen 30 Sept. 1823; his plan for publication of the public records was accepted Aug. 1822, edited for the record commission Parliamentary writs and writs of summons, 2 vols. 1827–34; Rolls and records of the court held before the king’s justiciars or justices 1195–1199, 2 vols. 1835; The antient kalendars and inventories of the treasury of his majesty’s exchequer, 2 vols. 1836; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland preserved in the treasury of her majesty’s exchequer 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1821; one of the municipal corporations’ comrs. 18 July 1833, but withheld his signature from their report; deputy keeper of her majesty’s records Dec. 1838 to death; collected at the rolls’ office the national muniments from 56 different offices in Lendon, issued 22 annual reports 1840–61; author of History of England vol. 1 only 1831; The rise and progress of the English commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon period, 2 parts 1832; An essay on the original authority of the King’s council 1834; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland, vol. 1 1837; Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy 1842, and 6 other editions 1847–60; The history of Normandy and of England, 4 vols. 1851–64. d. The Green, Hampstead 6 July 1861, after residing there from 19 March 1834. Proc. of royal soc. xii 13–20 (1862); G.M. Oct. 1861 pp. 441–5; Palgrave family memorials, edited by C. J. Palmer and S. Tucker (1878) 91, 108, portrait of sir F. and lady Palgrave; Blackwood’s Mag. June 1857 pp. 731–47.

PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD (2 son of sir Francis Palgrave 1788–1861). b. 22 Parliament st. Westminster 24 Jany. 1826; educ. Charterhouse 1838–43, gold medallist and captain of the school; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1843–7; 2 lieut. 8 Bombay N.I. 1847; entered a Jesuit establishment in Madras and was ordained a priest; employed in the missionary work of the order in Southern India until June 1853; a missionary in Syria 1853, made many converts, barely escaped from the massacre at Damascus June 1861; a perfect Arabic scholar; delivered lectures in Ireland on the Syrian massacres 1861, published under title of Four lectures on the massacres of the Christians in Syria 1861; travelled across Central Arabia disguised as a Syrian christian doctor and merchant 1862–3; sent on a special mission to Abyssinia to obtain from king Theodore the release of consul Cameron, July 1865; British consul at Soukem-Kaleh 23 July 1866, and at Trebizond 20 May 1867; consul at St. Thomas in the West Indies 30 Jany. 1873, and at Manila 3 April 1876; consul-general in Bulgaria 23 Sept. 1878, and in Siam 26 Nov. 1879; minister-resident in Uruguay 16 Jany. 1884 to death; F.R.G.S. 1878; author of Narrative of a year’s journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 2 vols. 1865, with portrait; Hermann Agha, 2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1878; Essays on eastern questions 1872; Dutch Guiana 1876; Ulysses, or scenes and studies in many lands 1887; A vision of life, semblance and reality 1891; m. 1868 Katherine, dau. of G. E. Simpson of Norwich, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 23 Jany. 1889; he d. Monte Video 30 Sept. 1888. bur. St. Thomas’s cemet. Fulham. T. Cooper’s Men of mark, vol. iv (1880) portrait 4.

PALIN, WILLIAM (youngest son of Richard Palin). b. Mortlake, Surrey 10 Nov. 1803; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 17 Dec. 1829; migrated to Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1851, M.A. Oxf. 1861; C. of Stifford, Essex, Trinity Sunday 1833; R. of Stifford 6 June 1834 to death, restored the parish church 1861–3; edited the Churchman’s Magazine 1853–7; author of Village lectures on the litany 1837; Bellingham, or narrative of a christian in search of the church 1839; The history of the church of England 1688–1717, 1851; The Christian month, original hymns, set to music by Ann Sheppard Mounsey 1842; Stifford and its neighbourhood, past and present 1871, and More about Stifford and its neighbourhood 1872. d. Stifford rectory-house 16 Oct. 1882. W. Palin’s Stifford (1871) 72, 179–80.

PALIN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of an officer in H.E.I.C. service). b. India 1824; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1840, captain 21 May 1855, retired 29 May 1857; chief constable of Manchester 1857, resigned Feb. 1881. d. 24 Belvidere road, Prince’s park, Liverpool 16 June 1882. bur. Southern cemetery, Withington.

PALLISER, FANNY BURY (dau. of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich 1832–4). b. 23 Sept. 1805; (m. 8 Aug. 1832 captain Richard Bury Palliser, 3 son of John Palliser of Derrybuskan, co. Tipperary, he d. Cowley Grove, Middlesex 29 Oct. 1852, aged 55); contributed to the Art Journal and the Academy; helped to organise the international lace academy held at South Kensington 1874; author of The modern poetical speaker 1845; History of lace 1856, 3 ed. 1875; Brittany and its byways 1869; Historic devices, badges and war cries 1870; A descriptive catalogue of the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington museum 1871, 3 ed. 1881; Mottoes for monuments 1872; The china collector’s pocket companion 1874, 2 ed. 1875; A brief history of Germany to the battle of Könizgratz; translated from the French J. Labarte’s Handbook of the arts of the middle ages 1855; A. Jacquemarts History of the ceramic art 1873, and A history of furniture 1878. d. 33 Russell road, Kensington 16 Jany. 1878. F. Marryat’s Life of captain Marryat i, 256–60 (1872); Academy i 73 (1878).

PALIOLOGUS, WILLIAM THOMAS (son of Nicholas Paliologus of Calcutta, notary public d. 1840). b. Calcutta 20 Oct. 1827; educ. by Frederick M. Walter, P.C. of St. Petrox, Dartmouth, England 1840–6; matric. at univ. of London 1846; studied medicine in London; M.R.C.S. 1851; F.R.G.S.; assistant surgeon in the army 1 Sept. 1854, served in the Crimea and India 1854–9; surgeon 20 Oct. 1869, placed on h.p. 13 April 1872; was a representative of the Palæologus family, emperors of the East. d. Isleworth, near Twickenham, Middlesex 15 July 1873. Illustrated Times 17 Jany. 1863 p. 45 portrait; N. and Q. 1 S. v 173 et seq. (1852); Archæologia xviii 84–104 (1817).

PALLISER, HENRY. b. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 4 June 1810, colonel 13 Dec. 1854 to 22 Feb. 1863; M.G. 22 Feb. 1863. d. Victoria park, Dover 17 Dec. 1864.

PALLISER, JOHN (eld. son of Wray Palliser of Comragh, co. Waterford, d. 1862). b. 29 Jany. 1817; sheriff of Waterford 1844; captain Waterford artillery militia; went on a hunting expedition among the Indians of the western states of America 1847; appointed by the government leader of the expedition for exploring the west of British North America 31 March 1857; explored the Rocky Mountains 1858, for which he was granted the Victoria gold medal of the royal geographical society, May 1859; returned to England 1861; C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies 1853, eighth thousand 1856. d. Comragh, co. Waterford 18 Aug. 1887.

PALLISER, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 June 1830; educ. Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, Trin. hall, Camb., and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 22 April 1855, lieut. 31 Aug. 1855; lieut. 18 hussars 1858, captain 5 Aug. 1859; brigade major of cavalry Dublin 6 July 1860, placed on h.p. 4 Oct. 1860; major in the army 4 Oct. 1864, sold out Dec. 1871; patented improvements in the construction of ordnance and in the projectiles to be used therewith 11 Nov. 1862; took out a patent for screw-bolts 6 Dec. 1862, and another for chill-casting projectiles 27 May 1863, which were introduced into the service 1866; took out 14 patents relating to guns, bolts, and projectiles 1867–81; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Osborne 16 Jany. 1873; granted cross of a commander of the crown of Italy 1875; contested Dungarvon 15 July 1865, and Devonport 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Taunton April 1880 to death; author of Notes of recent experiments at Shoeburyness with chilled shot and shells 1866, which he withdrew from circulation; The use of earthen fortresses for the defence of London and as a preventive against invasion 1871; m. 1868 Anna, dau. of George Perham, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 20 June 1883. d. 21 Earl’s court sq. London 4 Feb. 1882. bur. Brompton cemet. 9 Feb. Professional papers of the corps of R.E. xiii 128, xiv 163, xvi 125; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix 418–21 (1882); I.L.N. lxii 177, 178 (1873) portrait.

PALMER, ARTHUR (only son of John Jordan Palmer of Bristol). b. 1783; barrister G.I. 16 May 1821; judge of county courts, circuit 55, comprising Bristol, Thornbury, and Chipping-Sodbury 15 March 1847, resigned Jany. 1854. d. the Hot Wells, Clifton 19 Nov. 1856. J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887) 303.

PALMER, CHARLES (eld. son of John Palmer, projector of mail-coaches 1742–1818). b. Weston, near Bath 6 May 1777; educ. Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1793; cornet 10 dragoons 17 May 1796, lieut. col. 3 May 1810 to 12 Nov. 1814; lieut. col. 23 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1814; A.D.C. to the prince regent, afterwards the king, 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; served during the whole of the Peninsular war; M.G. 27 May 1825; M.P. Bath 1808–26 and 1830–7; proprietor of the Bath theatre from 1818; a large vine-grower in the Gironde; author of Speech on the state of the nation, on the third reading of the reform bill 1832. d. 17 April 1851. G.M. July 1851 p. 92; Royal military calendar iv 243 (1820).

PALMER, CHARLES JAMES. b. 1808; collector of rare prints and etchings; bought the great etching by Rembrandt of “Christ healing the sick,” better known as “the hundred guilder print,” at sir Charles Price’s sale for £1,180, the largest sum ever paid for a print down to May 1883; some of his paintings were sold at Christie’s on 16 May 1868. d. 46 Portland place, London 3 Jany. 1868. Athenæum 18 Jany. 1868 p. 98.

PALMER, CHARLES JOHN (only son of John Danby Palmer, ship owner). b. Yarmouth 1 Jany. 1805; articled to Robert Cory, attorney 1822–7; a freeman of Banff 12 Oct. 1824, and of Yarmouth 28 June 1825; a notary public 10 May 1827; an attorney 29 June 1827; proctor to admiralty court, Yarmouth 12 Aug. 1827; practised at Yarmouth 1827–77; an alderman of the old corporation to 1835, member of the town council, mayor 1854 and 1855; chief promoter of the Victoria building company; a promoter of the Wellington pier and of the assembly rooms; hon. sec. of church restoration committee 1845–75; F.S.A. 1830; edited The history of Great Yarmouth by Henry Manship 1854; author of The history of Great Yarmouth 1856; The perlustration of Great Yarmouth with Gorleston and Southtown, 3 vols. 1872–5; Memorials of the family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth and of New York 1873; edited with Stephen I. Tucker, Palgrave family memorials, Norwich 1878. d. Villa Graham, Great Yarmouth 24 Sept. 1882. Leaves from the diary of C. J. Palmer, edited by F. D. Palmer (1892) portrait; Law Times lxxiii 388 (1882).

PALMER, EDWARD (3 son of James Burden Palmer of Charlottetown, Prince Edward island). b. Charlottetown 1 Sept. 1809; called to the local bar 1831, admitted solicitor 1834; Q.C. 1857; member of the assembly to 1860, of the legislative council 1860; solicitor general Prince Edward island 1848–51; attorney general 1854, 1863–9, and 1872–3; president of executive council 1859; judge of county court of Queen’s county 1873, and chief justice July 1874 to death. d. Charlottetown 3 Nov. 1889. Law Times 25 Jany. 1890 p. 229.

PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Palmer, schoolmaster). b. Green st. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1840; educ. Perse gr. sch. Cambridge; clerk in the office of Hill and Underwood of Eastcheap, London, wine merchants 1856–9; learnt Persian, Arabic and Hindustani; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Camb. 9 Oct. 1863, scholar 16 June 1865, fellow 5 Nov. 1867 to death; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish manuscripts of King’s and Trinity colleges and of the university library; one of the surveyors of Sinai for the Palestine exploration fund 1869; walked from Sinai to Jerusalem with C. F. T. Drake, identifying sites and searching for inscriptions 1870; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Cambridge 10 Nov. 1871 to death, lectured on Arabic, Persian and Hindustani 1873–81; barrister M.T. 6 June 1874; wrote leading articles for the Standard, London, daily paper Aug. 1881 to June 1882; sent by the government to Egypt on a secret-service mission June and July 1882; rode from Alexandria across the desert to Suez; interpreter-in-chief to British forces in Egypt Aug. 1882; started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, shot by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. London 6 April 1883; portrait in hall of St. John’s coll. Camb., his widow was granted civil list pension of £200, 2 Feb. 1883; author of Oriental mysticism, a treatise on the Sufiistic and unitarian theosophy of the Persians 1867; A catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in Trinity college, Cambridge 1870; The desert of the exodus, journeys on foot 1871; A grammar of the Arabic language 1874; A dictionary of the Persian language 1876; The Arabic manual 1881; Simplified grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic 1882; with W. Besant, Jerusalem the city of Herod and Saladin 1871, 2 ed. 1888; with C. G. Leland English gipsy songs 1875. W. Besant’s Life of E. H. Palmer (1883) portrait; A. E. Haynes’ Man-hunting in the desert, a narrative of Palmer’s Search-expedition (1894) portrait; Graphic xxvi 469 (1882) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi 461 (1882) portrait.

PALMER, EDWIN (4 son of William Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, V. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). b. Mixbury 18 July 1824; educ. Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1841, scholar 1841–5; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1843; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1850, D.D. 1878; fellow of Balliol 29 Nov. 1845 to 19 Sept. 1867, hon. fellow 1870; senior dean 1855, catechetical lecturer 1871; select preacher univ. of Oxf. 1865–6 and 1873–4; fellow Corpus Christi coll. 1870–8, vice-president 1877, hon. fellow 1878; Corpus professor of Latin literature 1870–8; examining chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1869; archdeacon of Oxford with canonry of Christ Church 1878 to death; edited The Apology of Plato 1867; Catulli Veronensis Carmina selecta 1872; The Greek testament 1881; author of Bishop Patteson missionary bishop and martyr 1872, and of charges and sermons. d. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Oct. 1895. bur. Osney cemet. Oxford 21 Oct. I.L.N. 26 Oct. 1895 p. 510 portrait; Black and White 26 Oct. 1895 p. 530 portrait.

PALMER, FRANCIS ROGER. b. 21 Oct. 1811; ensign 89 foot 22 March 1833; 1 lieut. rifle corps 26 Feb. 1836, lieut. col. 22 June 1858 to death; colonel in the army 22 June 1863; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Villa d’ Este, Lake Como, Italy 18 Oct. 1872.

PALMER, GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Palmer of Wanlip, Leics. and of London, merchant, d. 1821, aged 53). b. 11 Feb. 1772; educ. Charterhouse; served in the East India company’s navy 1786–99; East India merchant and shipowner at 28 Throgmorton st. London 1802; master of the Mercers’ company 1821; connected with the National lifeboat institution 1826, lifeboats on his plan were used at more than 20 ports until 1858, deputy chairman 25 years, resigned Feb. 1853; chairman of the General shipowners’ society 1832; contested South Shields Dec. 1832; M.P. South Essex 1836–47; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1818; sheriff of Essex; author of Memoir of a chart from the strait of Allas to the island Bouro 1799; A new plan for fitting all boats so that they may be secure as lifeboats at the shortest notice 1828. d. Nazeing park, Essex 12 May 1853. The lifeboat July 1853 pp. 28–32; G.M. June 1853 pp. 656–7.

PALMER, GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of Henry Palmer of Brynbank, Carmarthenshire). b. Wernligoes parish, Llanvalteg, Carmarthenshire 29 Dec. 1831; educ. Narberth and Carmarthen college; usher at a school in France; a student of univ. of Glasgow Nov. 1853, M.A. 1856; resident lecturer in classics and history at cavalry college, Richmond, Jany. to Dec. 1859; sec. of Law amendment society 8 April 1861 to 1864; barrister G.I. 6 June 1861; contributed to Law Magazine and Law Times; edited a trades’ protection paper 1863; edited The law magazine and law review 1864; secretary of jurisprudence department of Social science association 1864; left Gravesend for Melbourne in the steamer “London” 30 Dec. 1865, the ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. Law Mag. and Law Review xxi 129–36 (1866).

PALMER, GEORGE JOSIAH (son of George Josiah Palmer, printer in Savoy st. Strand, London). b. Clapham, Surrey 30 June 1828; educ. Clapham gram. sch. and King’s coll. sch. London; a compositor in his father’s establishment, then manager of the printing office; a printer at 27 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1853–60; removed to 32 Little Queen st. Holborn 1860; publisher of the Union newspaper to 27 June 1862; started The Church Times, a penny weekly paper in the high church interest, which he also edited, No. 1 7 Feb. 1863, editor to his death; hon. treasurer of Church of England working men’s soc.; a publisher of books. d. Ramsgate 27 Jany. 1892. bur. Highgate cemet. 1 Feb. Church portrait journal 15 July 1885 pp. 45–6 portrait; Church Times 29 Jany. 1892 p. 97, 5 Feb. 1892 p. 119.

PALMER, HENRY. b. 11 July 1807; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 13 Feb. 1826, major 5 June 1853; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 4 Oct. 1857, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; served against Bheel tribes 1827–8; served in Afghan and Belooch campaigns 1838–40; commanded 48 B.N.I. at Modkie and Ferozeshah; brigade major of general Wheeler’s force in the Punjab 1848–9. d. Mussoorie, North West Provinces of India 23 Aug. 1892.

PALMER, HENRY ANDREWES (son of Arthur Palmer of Bristol, solicitor). b. 1803; articled to his father 1817–22; solicitor at Bristol 1826–60; comr. of bankruptcy for Bristol district 1833 to date when local courts of bankruptcy were established; registrar and deputy judge of the Tolzey court, Bristol 1838–60; defended owner of Ashton Court estates against Thomas Provis, calling himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth, 8–10 Aug. 1853, he was found guilty of perjury and forgery and sentenced to be transported for 20 years. d. South Dulwich 16 Dec. 1884. Solicitor’s Journal 3 Jany. 1885 p. 156.

PALMER, HENRY SPENCER (youngest son of colonel John Freke Palmer of the East India company’s service). b. Bangalore, Madras 30 April 1838; lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1856, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1887; surveyed in British Columbia 1858–63; joined the ordnance survey Dec. 1863, surveyed Kent and East Sussex; assistant comr. in the parliamentary boundaries’ commission 1867–8 and 1869; surveyed the Sinaitic peninsula Oct. 1868 to May 1869; chief of the party sent to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venus, June 1874; went to Barbados Nov. 1875, A.D.C. to the governor Feb. 1877 to March 1878; went to Hongkong Jany. 1878, engineer of the admiralty works, A.D.C. to the governor 11 May 1878 to June 1880; designed a physical observatory for Hong Kong 1881; commanding R.E. of the Manchester district July 1883; designed and constructed waterworks for Yokohama, Japan 1883–7; superintendent of the Yokohama harbour works and engineer to the Yokohama docks’ company 1889 to death; published with sir C. W. Wilson Ordnance survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, &c. 1869; author of The ordnance survey of the kingdom: its objects, mode of execution, history, and present condition 1873; Ancient history from the monuments, Sinai from the fourth Egyptian dynasty to the present day 1878, new ed. 1892. d. Tokio, Japan 10 March 1893. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxiii 373–5 (1893).

PALMER, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (youngest son of John Palmer 1752–1827, R. of Great Torrington, Devon). b. Torrington 27 June 1803; a surgeon in London to 1839; surgeon to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary to 1838; went to New South Wales 1839; a doctor at Port Philip some time, then a manufacturer of cordials, then a wine merchant; mayor of Melbourne 1846; member for Port Philip of legislature of New South Wales Sept. 1848 to July 1849; member for Normanby district of legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851, elected speaker Dec. 1851; member for Western province to the new legislative council 23 Nov. 1855, first president 21 Nov. 1856, re-elected five times, resigned Oct. 1870; knighted by patent 13 July 1857; edited The works of John Hunter, 4 vols. 1835–7; and A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect 1837. d. Burwood road, Hawthorn, Melbourne 23 April 1871. Colby’s Pedigree of Palmer family (1892) 7–9.

PALMER, JOHN BERNARD (son of Wm. Palmer of Charmouth, Dorset, farmer). b. 15 Oct. 1782; joined the Church of Rome 1806; a novice in the Cistercian monastery of St. Susan, Lulworth, Dorset 1808, professed there by the name of Bernard 21 Nov. 1810; received minor orders at the abbey of La Meilleraie, near Nantes, where the community had taken refuge in 1817; the abbey was suppressed 1831 and Palmer was confined at Nantes by the French government 1831–7; joined a community of Cistercian monks in Charnwood forest, Leics. March 1837, received priest’s orders 31 July 1838, superior of the monastery 1841, a new monastery called Mount St. Bernard was built by Pugin 1844, the monastery was constituted an abbey and Palmer appointed abbot 9 May 1848, consecrated with mitre, crozier, ring, and gloves 18 Feb. 1849, being the first English mitred abbot since the reformation. d. Mount St. Bernard abbey 10 Nov. 1852. The metropolitan and provincial catholic almanac for 1855 pp. 1–16 portrait; G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 101.

PALMER, JOHN HINDE (only son of Samuel Palmer of Dulwich common, Surrey). b. Surrey 1808; barrister L.I. 24 Jany. 1832, bencher 16 June 1869 to death; Q.C. 10 June 1859; contested Lambeth 7 Aug. 1850; M.P. Lincoln 16 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874. d. 11 St. George’s sq. London 2 June 1884.

PALMER, JOHN HORSLEY (4 son of Wm. Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). b. 7 July 1779; partner with his brother George Palmer and captain Wilson as East India merchants in City of London 1802, retired April 1857; a director of the bank of England 1811–57, governor 1830–2, gave evidence before the committee of secrecy on the bank of England charter 1832; a leading authority on currency and finance; a member of royal commission on bankruptcy and insolvency 4 Dec. 1839; examined by select committee on banks of issue 1840; author of Reasons against the proposed Indian joint-stock bank 1836; The causes and consequences of the pressure upon the money market, with a statement of the action of the bank of England from 1 Oct. 1833 to 27 Dec. 1836, 1837; Reply to the reflections of Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd on the pamphlet entitled ‘Causes and consequences’ 1837. d. Mulgrave house, Hurlingham, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1858. Maclaren’s History of the currency (1858) 173–8.

PALMER, NATHANIEL (son of Nathaniel Palmer government contractor for the navy and stamp distributor at Great Yarmouth). b. Great Yarmouth Oct. 1792; solicitor at Great Yarmouth; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1827, went Norfolk circuit; a county comr. of bankruptcy; judge of Guildhall court of record at Norwich; recorder of Great Yarmouth June 1836 to death. d. Coltishall, near Norwich 30 March 1872. Law journal vii 264 (1872).

PALMER, RICHARD (son of Robert Palmer, landlord of the White Horse inn, Preston). b. Lancaster 23 Feb. 1773; articled to Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, attorney 6 June 1788; admitted attorney March 1794; partner with N. Grimshaw Dec. 1799; one of coroners for Lancashire 12 Nov. 1799 to death; town clerk of Preston 1801 to death, officiated at the three guilds of 1802, 1822, and 1842, when a medal was struck in his honour; N. Grimshaw died in 1835, when all his public offices were conferred on Palmer; clerk to local board of health 7 Oct. 1850, resigned 12 Feb. 1852; attended the Lancaster assizes for the 127th time 7 Aug. 1852. d. Preston 13 Dec. 1852. G.M. Feb. 1853 pp. 212–3.

PALMER, ROBERT (1 son of Richard Palmer of Hurst and Sonning, Berks.) b. 31 Jany. 1793; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Berks. 1818; M.P. Berks. 1825–59; chairman of Berks. quarter sessions. d. Holme park, near Reading 24 Nov. 1872. bur. Sonning churchyard 29 Nov. I.L.N. lxi 527 (1872).

PALMER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Palmer, bookseller, d. Dec. 1848). b. Surrey sq. St. Mary’s, Newington 27 Jany. 1805; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1817 etc.; exhibited 57 landscapes at R.A., 20 at B.I., and 8 at Suffolk st. 1819–80; his first picture exhibited at the British institution sold 1819; resided at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent 1826–32; lived at Rome and Naples 1837–9; associate of Society of painters in water-colours Feb. 1843, member June 1854; member of the Etching society 1853; nearly the last of the ideal school of landscape painters; resided at Mead Vale, Redhill 1862 to death; his eight pictures, illustrating Milton’s poems L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso were exhibited at the Water-colour society 1868–82; seven of his plates were published by the Etching club 1872–80; author of English version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with illustrations 1883; he illustrated A. A. Procter’s Legends and lyrics 1866, and The shorter poems of John Milton 1889; m. 1837 Hannah, eld. dau. of John Linnell, the painter, she exhibited 8 Italian views at the R.A. and B.I. 1840–2, and d. Nov. 1892 in 76 year; he d. Furze hill house, Mead Vale, Redhill 24 May 1881. bur. Reigate old church 28 May; a collection of his works was exhibited by Fine Art Society 1881, and 17 of his drawings were lent to the winter exhibition of the R.A. 1893. A. H. Palmer’s Life and letters of S. Palmer (1892) portrait; S. Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer (1882) portrait; P. G. Hamerton’s Etching and etchers (1876) 325–38; The Portfolio (1872) 161–9; I.L.N. lxviii 616 (1881) portrait; F. G. Stephens’ Notes on a collection of drawings by S. Palmer, with an account of the Milton series (1881).

PALMER, SHIRLEY (son of Edward Palmer, solicitor). b. Coleshill, Warws. 27 Aug. 1786; educ. Coleshill gr. sch. and Harrow; M.R.C.S. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1815; practised at Tamworth, Staffs. 1807 to death, also at Birmingham from 1831; edited with Wm. Shearman and James Johnson the New medical and physical journal 1815–9; and with D. Uwins and S. F. Gray the London medical repository 1819–21; author of The Swiss exile, Lichfield 1804; Popular illustrations of medicine 1829; Popular lectures on the vertebrated animals of the British islands 1832; A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in anatomy, physiology, pathology, practical medicine, &c. 1845. d. Tamworth 11 Nov. 1852. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894) 345.

PALMER, SILAS (son of Mr. Palmer of 47 regt.) b. Stirling castle 1815; educ. in medicine at Paris, Vienna, and Rome; M.D. Edinb. 1836; L.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Speenhamland, Newbury, Berks. 1846 to death; a leading authority on archæological matters in Berks.; local sec. of congress of British Archæological assoc. at Newbury in 1859; a founder of the Newbury district field club 1870; contributed to Provincial medical journal, to the Lancet, and to British Archæol. journal. d. London road, Newbury 24 March 1875. A rod taken out of pickle, correspondence between J. Taylor and S. Palmer during the late annual meeting at Newbury, Berks. 1860; Journal British Archæol. assoc. xxxii 282–3 (1876).

PALMER, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 28 Oct. 1804, capt. 11 Jany. 1818; major 39 N.I. 30 Sept. 1827, and lieut. col. 15 Oct. 1832 to 18 June 1834; lieut. col. of 21 N.I. 18 June 1834 to 1840, and of 27 N.I. 1840 to 16 April 1844; col. of 72 N.I. 16 April 1844 to death; commanded at Delhi 13 June 1846 to 14 July 1851; commanded Cawnpore division 9 April 1852 to death. d. Mussoorie 15 April 1854.

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffs., timber merchant). b. Rugeley, baptised there 21 Oct. 1824; educ. Rugeley gr. school; apprenticed to Evans and Sons, druggists, Liverpool, dismissed for opening letters; apprenticed to Dr. Tylecote at Heywood, near Rugeley 1842; studied at Stafford infirmary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1846, house surgeon 8 Sept. 1846, resigned Oct. 1846; M.R.C.S. 10 Aug. 1846; practised at Rugeley from 1846 for several years; owner and breeder of racehorses 1850; won the Liverpool autumn handicap with The Chicken Nov. 1855, this horse afterwards named Vengeance won the Cesarewitch; m. 7 Oct. 1847 Ann, dau. of colonel William Brookes, insured his wife’s life for £13,000, she died of bilious cholera 25 Sept. 1854, when he was paid the amount; insured his brother Walter Palmer’s life for £13,000, he died suddenly 16 Aug. 1855, when the insurance office refused to pay, on account of the suspicious circumstances; arrested 15 Dec. 1855 on the charge of poisoning his friend, John Parsons Cooke, a betting man from Lutterworth, who d. 21 Nov. 1855 at the Talbot arms, Rugeley; verdicts of wilful murder were found against Palmer at the inquests on the exhumed bodies of his wife and brother; tried at the Old Bailey before lord chief justice Campbell 14–27 May 1856, found guilty of murder 27 May; hanged outside Stafford gaol 14 June 1856, in the presence of 20,000 people; he had poisoned many persons 1850–6. Illustrated life of William Palmer (1856) portraits; Central criminal court proceedings xliv 5–225 (1856); A. S. Taylor On poisoning by strychnine (1856); Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials (1883) 84–232; J. F. Stephen’s General view of the criminal law of England (1890) 231–72; J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law iii 389–425 (1883); Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894) 345–6; Reynolds’s Miscellany xvi 377–9, 391–2 (1856) portrait; Sporting Review xxxvi 110–14 (1856); Law Mag. and Law Review i 332–56 (1856); I.L.N. xxviii 560–4, 554–5, 566–7, 598–9, 694 (1856); A.R. (1856) 13, 60–62, 387–529; Griffith’s Newgate ii 432–9 (1884).

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of George Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). b. 9 Nov. 1802; educ. St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; had a large practice as a conveyancer; professor of civil law at Gresham college, city of London 1836 to death; author of An inquiry into the navigation laws 1833; Discourse on the Gresham foundation, two introductory lectures 1837; The law of wreck considered with a view to its amendment 1843; Principles of the legal provision for the relief of the poor 1844. d. 56 Eaton place, London 24 April 1858. Law Times xxxi 87, 101 (1858).

PALMER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, R. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). b. Mixbury 12 July 1811; educ. Rugby and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 1826–32, fellow 1832–55, tutor 1838–43; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; tutor and censor and member of the senate in univ. of Durham 1833–6; examiner in classical schools at Oxford 1837–9; resided in Russia examining oriental christianity 1840–1; sought admission to the Greek church, but was refused 1841–52; received into church of Rome in chapel of Roman college at Rome 27 Feb. 1855; resided at Rome 1855 to death; always known as Palmer of Magdalen; author of Aids to reflection on the foundation of a Protestant bishopric at Jerusalem, Oxford 1841; Short poems and hymns 1843; Harmony of Anglican doctrine with the doctrine of the Eastern church, Aberdeen 1846, translated into Greek 1851; An appeal to the Scottish bishops and clergy, and generally to the church of their communion. By N. N., deacon of the church of England, Edinburgh 1849; Dissertations on subjects relating to the orthodox or eastern-catholic communion 1853; Egyptian chronicles with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, 2 vols. 1861; Commentatio in Librum Danielis, Rome 1874; The Patriarch Nicon and the Tsar, 6 vols. 1871–6. d. Piazza di Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome 5 April 1879. bur. cemet. of S. Lorenzo in Campo Verano 8 April. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college vii 297–318 (1881); Life of Leon Papin Dupont (1882) 55–64; Contemporary Review May 1883 pp. 636–59; H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii 287 (1893).

PALMER, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Palmer of St. Mary’s, Dublin, d. 1865). b. 14 Feb. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; M.A. Oxf. 1829; incorporated at Magd. hall, Oxf. Oct. 1828, removed to Worcester coll. 1831; always known as Palmer of Worcester; founded with Hurrell Froude and Hugh James Rose the Association of friends of the church 1833; he wrote No. 15 of the Tracts for the Times 13 Dec. 1833, On the apostolical succession in the English church, but it was revised and completed by J. H. Newman; V. of Monkton-Wyld, Devon and Dorset 1846–69; V. of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Dorset, with Chideock, Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, in Dorset and Wilts. 1846 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1849–58; claimed and assumed the title of baronet on his father’s death 1865; author of Origines liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual, 2 vols. Oxford 1832, 4 ed. 1845; A treatise on the church of Christ, 2 vols. 1838, 3 ed. 1842; A letter to N. Wiseman, D.D. (calling himself bishop of Melipotamus) containing remarks on his letter to Mr. Newman, Oxford 1841; A narrative of events connected with the publication of Tracts for the times 1843, 4 ed. 1883; The doctrine of development and conscience considered in relation to the evidences of Christianity and of the Catholic system 1846; Results of the expostulations of W. E. Gladstone in their relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism. By Umbra Oxoniensis 1875. d. London Oct. 1885. J. H. Newman’s Essays, 2 ed. i 143–85, ii 454 (1846); H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i 263, ii 146, 524, iii 137, 485 (1893–95).

PALMER, WILLIAM ISAAC. b. Manor house, Elberton, Gloucestershire 31 May 1824; educ. at a quaker school at Sidcot, Somerset; signed the temperance pledge 1836; an apprentice at Reading, then in Liverpool; one of the founders of the firm of Huntley and Palmer, Reading Biscuit factory, the most extensive manufactory in the United Kingdom, employing continuously 4,000 hands; gave £5,000 towards Reading municipal buildings; connected with and contributed liberally to all the Reading public institutions and libraries; presented with his portrait 19 March 1885; a great supporter of the Blue Ribbon movement and the first to wear the ribbon 1882; for many years he conducted a weekly gathering of the work people of Reading for a pleasant Saturday evening. d. Hillside, Reading 4 Jany. 1893. bur. Friends’ ground 9 Jany. Reading Mercury 7 Jany. 1893 p. 5, 14 Jany. p. 2; Daily Graphic 7 Jany. 1893 p. 14 portrait.

PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry Temple, 2 viscount Palmerston 1739–1802). b. Park st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb. M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April 1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov. 1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Bletchingley 1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov. 1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April 1818, by lieut. David Davies, who d. of apoplexy at Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July 1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec. 1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18 Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27 March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals of tours in France (1871). d. Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct. 1865. bur. north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. Bulwer’s Life of viscount Palmerston to 1847, 3 vols. (1870) portrait; Ashley’s Life of viscount Palmerston, 2 vols. (1879) portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc., New York (1863) pp. 137–44; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1st series (1859) portrait; Justin McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii 121–63 and 259–94 (1879); Rice’s History of the British turf i 319–22 (1879); Opinions and policy of viscount Palmerston, with a memoir by George Henry Francis (1852); The two great statesmen, a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Russell and Viscount Palmerston (1862); Materials for the true history of Lord Palmerston (1866); Memoir by Edward Walford (1865); Lord Palmerston, a biography by John McGildrist (1865); Life and times of Lord Palmerston by J. Ewing Ritchie (1867); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 163 portrait; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 124–41; Illust. news of the world i (1858) portrait; D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties (1859) 154–84; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 143–53; G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of British parliament (1880) 268–78; Baily’s mag. ii 229–35 (1861) portrait; The betrayal of England by Wm. Coningham; The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 70–113; I.L.N. i 309 (1842) portrait, xvi 457 (1850) portrait; Representative statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii 294–355 (1879); St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 164–72; Malmesbury’s Memoirs, 2 vols. (1884) passim; Sporting Review liv 317–20 (1865); Sporting Times 9 May 1885 p. 2; W. Day’s Reminiscenses, 2 ed. (1886) 210–7; Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp. 312–3, double page portrait; P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii 307–36 (1881).

NOTE.--Lord Palmerston was dismissed from the office of foreign sec. on 17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject. Ashley’s Life ii 193–228.

He had race horses in training from 1815. He first raced at Winchester in 1816, with Luzborough he won small races in 1824, with Iliona he won the queen’s plate at Guildford in 1840 and the Cesarewitch in 1841, with Buckthorn the Ascot stakes in 1853. His horse Maidstone was a favourite for the Derby in 1860. A member of the Jockey club 1845, he frequently rode from London to the Derby race at Epsom, and in 1864 trotted from London to Harrow to hear the speeches, twelve miles in one hour.

At his funeral in Westminster Abbey the Rev. H. Sullivan threw into the grave several diamond and gold rings, as ‘a precious offering to the dead.’ Times 28 Oct. 1865 p. 9.

PALMERSTON, EMILY MARY, Viscountess (1 dau. of Penistar Lamb, 1 viscount Melbourne, d. 1828). b. 21 April 1787; m. 20 July 1805 Peter Leopold, 5 earl Cowper, who d. 27 June 1837; a leader of society; one of the first six patronesses of Almacks when quadrilles were introduced 1813; m. (2) 16 Dec. 1839 Henry J., 3 viscount Palmerston, who d. 1865; her houses at Panshanger park, Herts. and Cambridge house, London, were frequented by the élite of society, including diplomatists and politicians; resided later on at Brocket hall, Herts. and Broadlands; on death of her brother Frederick, 3 viscount Melbourne 1853, she inherited the family estates in Herts. and Derbyshire. d. Brocket hall 11 Sept. 1869. bur. Westminster abbey 17 Sept., will proved 22 Jany., resworn June 1870 under £170,000. A. Hayward’s Essays ii 293–302 (1873); A.R. (1869) 101; Register and Mag. of Biography Oct. 1869 pp. 189–90; Every Saturday viii 503 (1873).

PANIZZI, SIR ANTHONIO GENESIO MARIA (son of Luigi Panizzi of Brescello in duchy of Modena). b. Brescello 16 Sept. 1797; educ. Reggio and univ. of Parma 1814–8; practised as an advocate 1818; became a Carbonaro March 1820, arrested 22 Oct. 1822, escaped and fled to Lugano, was sentenced to death 6 Oct. 1823 in his absence, having published a pamphlet entitled I Processi di Rubiera, denouncing the Modenese government; came to London May 1823; taught Italian in Liverpool to 1828; professor of Italian at London univ. May 1828 to 1837, the univ. opened 1 Oct. 1828; assistant librarian in the British Museum 27 April 1831, keeper of the printed books 15 July 1837, principal librarian 6 March 1856, procured an annual grant of £10,000 for the library 1845; submitted a design for the new reading room to the trustees 5 May 1852, foundations were laid May 1854 and the building opened 2 May 1857; resigned librarianship 26 June 1866 on his full pay; naturalised 24 March 1832; received cross of the legion of honour 24 Dec. 1851; received Sardinian order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus Dec. 1855; a senator of the Kingdom of Italy 12 March 1868; a commander of the order of crown of Italy 22 April 1868; K.C.B. 27 July 1869; edited Works of Ariosto 1818, Bojardo 1830, and Dante 1858; author of An elementary Italian grammar for the use of students in the London university 1828; Extracts from Italian prose writers 1828; On the supply of printed books from the library to the reading room of the British museum 1846; On the collection of printed books at the British museum, its increase and arrangement 1845. d. 31 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 April 1879. bur. St. Mary’s catholic cemet. Kensal Green 12 April, bust by Marochetti and portrait by Watts at British Museum. L. Fagan’s Life of sir A. Panizzi, 2 vols. (1880) portrait; R. Cowtan’s Biographical sketch of sir A. Panizzi (1873); F. Espinasse’s Literary recollections (1893) 15–21; L. Fagan’s reform club (1887) 125–6 portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 369 (1879) portrait; Graphic xix 396 (1879) portrait; Leisure Hour xxx 344 portrait.

PANMURE, WILLIAM MAULE, 1 Baron (2 son of George Ramsay, 8 earl of Dalhousie, d. 15 Nov. 1787). b. 27 Oct. 1771; succeeded to the greater part of the Panmure estates on death of his great uncle Wm. earl of Panmure 4 Jany. 1782, when he assumed the name of Maule; cornet 11 dragoons 10 Oct. 1788; raised an independent company of foot, which was disbanded 1791; M.P. Forfarshire 25 April 1796 to 20 May 1796, and 24 June 1805 to 9 Sept. 1831, and was a great supporter of Fox; a boon companion of George IV; cr. baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar, co. Forfar, by letters patent 10 Sept. 1831, on coronation of William IV; his dinner parties were sometimes protracted to eighteen hours, when the consumption of claret was enormous; gave considerable sums in charity to Dundee and neighbouring towns. d. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 13 April 1852, portrait in Dundee town hall. G.M. xxxvii 515 (1852); I.L.N. xx 315 (1852); Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 136–9; Times 16 April 1852 p. 8.

PANOFKA, HEINRICH. b. Breslau 2 Oct. 1807; a singer and violinist; gave concerts in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Paris 1827 etc.; came to London 1844; an assistant of Benjamin Lumley at Her Majesty’s opera 1847; resided in London as a teacher of music and singing to 1852; composer of The practical singing tutor, 24 studies 1849; Twelve two part studies for soprano and contralto 1850; Two romances for the violin and piano 1851; The dear old Linden tree, a song 1852; The mountain flower, a song 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1830–85. d. Carlsruhe or Florence 18 Nov. 1887. Allgemeine Deutsche biographie xxv 124 (1887).

PANTIN, THOMAS PINDEN (son of Thomas Pantin of St. Sepulchre’s, London). b. 1792; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; R. of Westcote, Gloucs. 1828 to death; author of Observations on certain passages in Dr. Arnold’s Christian duty of granting the Roman Catholic claims, Lutterworth 1829; The novelty of popery in matters of faith and practice 1837; The church of England apostolical in its origin, episcopal in its government, and scriptural in its belief 1849; edited G. Bull’s The corruptions of the church of Rome 1836; and Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ, 2 vols. Oxford 1842. d. Westcote rectory 2 Sept. 1866.

PANTON, CHARLES. b. 1802; educ. Westminster; clerk in the Pipe office in the exchequer 1819–33, when office was abolished; clerk in the Queen’s Remembrancer’s office 1833, and chief clerk 1855 to Nov. 1879. d. 18 Woburn square, London 27 Sept. 1882. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 29 Sept. Law Times lxxiii 388 (1882).

PANTON, DAVID BROOKE. b. 1832; educ. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; C. of Birnan Wood and St. Andrew’s parish ch. Jamaica to 1884; R. of Mandeville and acting archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica 1884 to death. d. Mandeville 14 Sept. 1891.

PANTON, WILLIAM. Surgeon Bengal army 23 June 1818; inspector general of hospitals 16 Feb. 1844; surgeon general 15 Feb. 1845; physician general 24 July 1848, retired 10 Feb. 1849. d. Tunbridge Wells 10 May 1858.

PAPAFFY, NICHOLAS. b. Hungary; alchemist; professed to have an invention by which he could convert base metals into silver; with bismuth, aluminium and other ingredients, a crucible and a furnace he manipulated, in the presence of Barnet, Cox, Cole, and co., and produced 10 pounds of silver; a company was formed to work the patent, with offices at 104 Leadenhall st. London, the inventor to receive £12 a week; having drawn £600 in advance and raised £10,000 on bills in the name of the company, he decamped 1860 and was not heard of afterwards. Bell and Redwood’s Progress of pharmacy (1880) 297.

PAPE, C. First clarionet in Crystal palace band 1855 to death. d. 11 St. Hugh road, Anerley, Surrey 7 Sept. 1874.

PAPINEAU, LOUIS JOSEPH (son of Joseph Papineau, notary 1752–1841). b. Montreal 7 Oct. 1786; educ. Quebec seminary; member for Kent of legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1809, member for West ward of city of Montreal 1811; called to the bar 1811; served in the militia in the American war 1812; speaker of the legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1815–37; denounced the government in violent speeches 1837; attended the meeting held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, when armed rebellion was decided on; fled to the U.S. of America 1837; resided in Paris 1839–47; member of the Lower house of Canadian legislature 1847–54, was paid £4,500 arrears of salary as speaker. d. Montebello, Quebec 28 Sept. 1871. L. O. David’s Ls.-Jos. Papineau (1872) portrait; H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of Canadians (1862) 327–30; C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie i 352 etc., ii 13 etc. (1862); S. Walpole’s History of England iii 413–35 (1880); Appleton’s American biography iv 642 (1888) portrait.

PAPWORTH, EDGAR GEORGE (only son of Thomas Papworth of London, builder 1773–1814). b. 20 or 21 Aug. 1809; pupil of E. H. Baily, R.A.; student at the R.A. 15 Dec. 1826, silver medallist 1829 and 1831, and gold medallist 1833, travelling student 1834; exhibited a panorama of Rome at a gallery in Great Portland st. about 1844; published Original sculptural designs executed in Rome 1834–6, London 1840; exhibited 62 busts and statuettes at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. 1832–60; his best known works are Adam and Eve, The woman of Samaria, and The Moabitish maiden; executed Bunyan’s memorial tomb in Bunhill Fields; gained the third prize of £300 in the competition for the Wellington monument for St. Paul’s cathedral 1857. d. 90 Milton st. Dorset sq. London 26 Sept. 1866. bur. Highgate cemet.

PAPWORTH, GEORGE (3 son of John Papworth of London, builder 1750–99). b. 9 May 1781; exhibited 4 drawings at R.A. 1796–1803; an architect in Dublin 1812 to death; constructed the King’s bridge, Dublin 1822–7; designed two Roman Catholic churches in Dublin; built the Kilkenny lunatic asylum 1849, and the museum of Irish industry, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1851; architect to the ecclesiastical comrs. for province of Connaught 1837–42; architect to Dublin and Drogheda railway and to the Royal bank, Dublin; member of royal Hibernian academy 1831, treasurer 1849; introduced into Ireland external decoration in architectural design especially in private houses. d. Dublin 14 March 1855.

PAPWORTH, JOHN WOODY (elder son of John Papworth, architect 1775–1847). b. 4 March 1820; secretary to the council of the government school of design, Somerset House, opened 1 June 1837; associate of Institute of British architects 1841, a fellow 1846; made designs for glass, pottery, terra cotta, paper hangings and other art manufactures; designed the carpet presented by 150 ladies to the queen, exhibited at great exhibition of 1851; designed the Albert Institution, Gravel Lane; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1837–51; author of An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families in Great Britain and Ireland upon a new plan 1874; author with his brother, Wyatt A. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style, selected from the designs of Raffaello in the Vatican 1844; Museums, libraries, and picture galleries, their establishment, formation, arrangement, and architectural construction 1853; contributed papers to the Architectural Publication society. d. 13 Hart st. Bloomsbury sq. London 6 July 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery. Dict. of architecture vi p. 39 (1881); Builder 16 July 1870 pp. 559–60.

PAPWORTH, THOMAS. Wrote poetry; author of Letter of recommendation, a romance of the Levant by Frank P. Worth, 2 vols. 1870. d. Smyrna Feb. 1871.

PAPWORTH, WYATT ANGELICUS VAN SANDAU (brother of John Woody Papworth). b. London 23 Jany. 1822; employed by the comrs. of sewers for Westminster; assistant surveyor to the Alliance assurance company June 1866, sole surveyor, retired on a pension 1887, designed and erected a branch office at Ipswich; member of the clothworker’s company, junior and senior warden 1879–81, master 1889; founded the Architectural publication society for the production of detached essays and illustrations 1848; edited and compiled Dictionary of explanation and reference, brought out in parts May 1853 to April 1892, making 11 vols. at cost of nearly £10,000; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, member of council many years; curator of sir John Soane’s museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London Jany. 1893 to death, rewrote catalogue of the museum and brought out a new edition of the General description; edited Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of architecture, 2 ed. 1867, 3 ed. 1876 and 4 ed. 1889; author with his brother, J. W. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style 1844, and of Museums, libraries, and picture galleries 1853; author alone of J. B. Papworth, a brief record of his life and works 1879; Memoir of A. W. W. Morant 1881; The renaissance and Italian style of architecture in Great Britain 1883. d. the Soane museum, London 19 Aug. 1894. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 Aug.

PARADISE, JOHN. b. 1812; editor of Lincoln Rutland and Stamford Mercury. d. 24 St. Mary st. Stamford 29 Jany. 1887.

PARDEY, JOHN QUIN. b. 17 Feb. 1796; ensign 66 foot 18 July 1811; ensign royal staff corps 22 Oct. 1811, lieut. 17 Dec. 1812; in Spain 1813 in connection with quartermaster general’s department, engaged in constructing the rope bridge at Alcantara; present at Vittoria, San Sebastian and Toulouse 1813–4; aided in restoring French bridges 1814; war medal and clasp; received Decoration du Lis 1819; captain 53 foot 9 July 1830; paymaster 12 Feb. 1836, placed on h.p. 1 May 1844; served at Gibraltar, Malta, and Ionian islands; adjutant of auxiliary forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. d. 12 Sion hill, Bath 17 March 1887.

PARDOE, JULIA S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols. 1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833; Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3 vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854; The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839, reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858; Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century, 3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties, 3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis, king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3 vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3 vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home, tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. d. at her lodgings, Upper Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi 323–4 (1849) portrait; S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) 765 portrait; Eclectic Mag. xlii 135–6 (1857) portrait; Godey’s Lady book xlvii 344 (1853); J. Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus (1839) portrait.

PARDON, CHARLES FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 28 March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack, under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886; an original member of London press club and president Jany. 1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist 1888. d. 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London 18 April 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 83 portrait; London Figaro 26 April 1890 p. 10 portrait.

PARDON, GEORGE FREDERICK. b. London 1824; sub-editor of the Evening Star 1841–2; on staff of European mail 1870; projected the Illustrated exhibitor 1852, a weekly description of the exhibition; projected and edited the Popular educator and other publications for John Cassell; he edited The people’s and Howitt’s journal 1847–50; The quarterly magazine of the order of Odd Fellows 1858; The Working man’s friend 1850; The family friend and the home companion 1854–5; The literary gift book 1858; Tales from the opera 1858; B. Taylor’s A visit to India 1860; Hoyle’s Games modernized 1863; The London magazine, vols. 2 and 3 1876–7; author of The juvenile museum by Quiet George 1850; The Christmas tree 1856; The faces in the fire 1856; The months 1858; Games for all seasons 1858, 2 ed. 1868; Stories about animals and birds, 2 vols. 1858; Dogs, their sagacity, instinct, and use 1857, 2 ed. 1877; Boldheart the warrior 1859; Handbooks of chess, whist, draughts, and billiards, 4 vols. 1860–2; A guide to the international exhibition 1862, 20th thousand 1862; The card player 1863; The popular guide to London 1862, 2 ed. 1866; Parlour pastimes 1868; Noble by heritage, a novellette 1877; under the name of Rawdon Crawley he wrote 17 works, but many of these seem to be same as those under his own name, Billiards, its theory and practice 1857, 10 ed. 1876; Backgammon 1858; Cricket 1866; Croquet 1866; Gymnastics 1868; The book of manly games for boys 1873; Bezique 1876. d. Fleur de Lis hotel, Canterbury 5 Aug. 1884. Bookseller Sept. 1884 p. 907; Illust. sporting news v 381 (1866) portrait.

PARE, WILLIAM (son of John Pare cabinetmaker). b. Birmingham 1805; apprenticed to his father; became a reporter; kept a tobacconist’s shop in New st. Birmingham; an original member of council of the Political Union 1830; secretary of the Reformer’s registration society 1835; the first registrar of Birmingham under the act legalising civil marriages 1837–42; a member of the first town council of Birmingham 1830; a founder of the first Birmingham co-operative society 1828, presided at the anniversary 28 Dec. 1829; lectured in support of co-operation at Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, one of the secretaries of the co-operative congresses 1830–8; vice-president of Robert Owen’s society The Association of all classes of all nations to 1840; acting governor of Owen’s community at Queenwood, Hampshire 1842–4; a railway statist in London 1844–6; resided near Dublin and managed ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool, and Chepstow 1846–65; literary executor of Robert Owen 1858, presided at the Owen centenary 1871; edited Wm. Thompson’s Inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most conducive to human happiness, 2 ed. 1850; author of The claims of capital and labour, with a sketch of practical measures for their conciliation 1854; A plan for the suppression of the predatory classes 1862; Co-operative agriculture, a solution of the land question as exemplified in the history of the Ralahine co-operative association, co. Clare, Ireland 1870. d. at his son’s house, Ruby lodge, Park hill, Croydon 18 June 1873. bur. Shirley churchyard, near Croydon 23 June. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation (1875) passim; Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life i 40, 41, 77, 141 (1893); Bunce’s History of the corporation of Birmingham i, 109, 113, 131, 145, 155, 158, 245, 289 (1878).

PAREPA-ROSA, EUPHROSYNE (dau. of baron Georgiades de Boyesku, a Wallachian noble, d. about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer, d. 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). b. Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta 1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritani; played Camille in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La reine Topaze in Massé’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in Macfarren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860 and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S. of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera, Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; m. (1) Dec. 1863 captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde park, London, he d. Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; m. (2) in New York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, b. 22 March 1842, he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and d. 30 April 1889; she d. 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale, London 21 Jany. 1874. bur. Highgate cemet. 26 Jany. The Western monthly iii 213–21 (1870); Musical World (1873) 113, 265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, &c.; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxiv 129 (1874) portrait; Orchestra 23 Jany. 1874 p. 266, 30 Jany. pp. 281–2.

PARES, THOMAS. b. Leicester 30 Oct. 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Leicester 1818–26; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1818; sheriff of Derbyshire 1845. d. Hopwell hall, near Derby 26 April 1866.

PARFITT, EDWARD (son of Edward Parfitt 1800–75, gardener to lord Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk). b. East Tuddenham, Norfolk 17 Oct. 1820; gardener with his father; gardener to Anthony Gwyn, Sennow lodge, Norfolk; while on a voyage shipwrecked near Cape of Good Hope; gardener to John Milford, Conver house, Exeter Nov. 1848 to 1860; studied plants, insects, geology, and palæontology, and wrote in Trans. of Devonshire association, Annals and mag. of natural history, Entomological mag., the Naturalist, Trans. Royal microscopical soc., Bath and West of England journal, and the Zoologist; curator of Somerset Archæological and natural history soc. at Taunton 1860–1; librarian of Devon and Exeter institute, Exeter 26 Jany. 1861 to death; published The fauna of Devon, 22 parts 1866–91; left in M.S. The fungi of Devonshire, 12 vols., illustrated by 1,530 plates, drawn and painted by himself. d. at the Devon and Exeter institution, Cathedral close, Exeter 15 Jany. 1893. N. and Q. 30 Sept. 1893 p. 262; Natural Science, April 1893.

PARHAM, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Benjamin Parham of Ashburton, Devon 1769–1851). b. 1793; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; went Western circuit; judge of county courts, circuit 23, Worcestershire March 1847, resigned Oct. 1859. d. Chelstone manor house, Torquay 16 Aug. 1861. County Court chronicle Oct. 1861 p. 266; Law Times xxxvi 523 (1861).

PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT D’ ORLEANS, Comte de (elder son of Ferdinand, duc d’Orleans 1810–42). b. Pavilion Marsan, the Tuileries, Paris 24 Aug. 1838; became heir to the French throne 13 July 1842; a refugee in England 1849; confirmed by cardinal Wiseman at French ch. Portman sq. London 1849; resided in Devonshire 1852; visited the East 1860, and U.S. of America 1861; permitted to return to France 1872, and had some of his estates restored to him; banished from France and returned to England June 1886; conspired with general Boulanger in London March 1889; leased Stowe house, Bucks. from trustees of duke of Buckingham 1873; received large sum of money by will of duke de Galliera; m. in R.C. chapel at Kingston 30 May 1864 his cousin Marie Isabella, dau. of the duke de Montpensier; author of The trades’ unions of England 1869; History of the civil war in America 1875. d. Stowe house, Bucks. 8 Sept. 1894. bur. R.C. chapel, Weybridge 12 Sept. Illustrated Times 4 June 1864 p. 361, view of marriage; Times 10 Sept. 1894 p. 4; Saturday Review 26 Dec. 1891 pp. 716–7; A.R. (1894) 178–81; I.L.N. 15 Sept. 1894 pp. 333, 339–47 portraits and views of Stowe house.

PARIS, JOHN AYRTON (son of Thomas Paris of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1785; entered Caius coll. Camb. 30 June 1803, scholar Oct. 1803 to 1808; Tancred student in physic 3 Jany. 1804; M.B. 1808, M.D. 1813; physician to Westminster hospital 1809–13; practised at Penzance 1813–7, chief founder and first secretary of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall 1814–17, contributed many papers to its Transactions; returned to London 1817, practised at 27 Dover st. Piccadilly 1818 to death; lectured on materia medica in Windmill st. 1818, etc.; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sept. 1813, fellow 30 Sept. 1814, censor 1817, 1828, 1836 and 1843, lectured at the college on materia medica 1819–26, Harveian orator 1833, president 20 March 1844 to death, Swiney prizeman 20 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 21 June 1821; author of Pharmacologia 1812, 9 ed. 1843, by which he made £5,000; A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End 1815, 2 ed. 1824; A memoir of the life and scientific labours of the Rev. William Gregor 1818; Medical jurisprudence 1823; The elements of medical chemistry 1825; A treatise on diet 1827, 5 ed. 1837; Philosophy in sport made science in earnest 1827, 8 ed. 1857; The life of Sir Humphry Davy 1831. d. 27 Dover st. London 24 Dec. 1856. bur. Woking cemet. Munk’s College of physicians iii 120 (1878); Lives of British physicians (1857) 369–87; Munk’s Goldheaded cane (1884) 186–90, 196–219; The Bibliographer i 65–7 (1882), this a key to Philosophy in sport.

PARISH, JAMES. Champion of the Thames; a member of Waterman’s hall; the coxswain and trainer of the Leander club; kept the Lion public house 1 Newcastle st. Strand, London 1852 to death. d. 1861. Diprose’s Parish of Saint Clement Danes i 110 (1868).

PARISH, JOHN EDWARD (2 son of succeeding). b. 1823; educ. Naval coll. Portsmouth; entered R.N. 1836, commander 1857, captain 25 March 1863, retired 11 July 1876, R.A. 11 Dec. 1878; commander of the Ardent in Brazil 1859–61; refused to give up the ex-president of the Argentine government when received on board the Ardent in the Parana, the English government approved of his conduct; captain of the Satellite 1862; commanded the Sphinx on North American station 1873; good service pension of £150, 1875; retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884. d. Beech hill, Headley 22 Jany. 1894.

PARISH, SIR WOODBINE (eld. son of Woodbine Parish). b. 14 Sept. 1796; educ. at Eton; entered foreign office 1812, sent to Sicily 1814, to Naples 1815, then to Paris; was with lord Castlereagh at meeting of the allied sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle 1818; comr. and consul general at Buenos Ayres 1823; concluded a treaty of amity and commerce 2 Feb. 1825, chargé d’ affaires 1825–32, when the government presented him with letters of citizenship and a diploma to take and bear the arms of the republic for himself and his descendants; K.C.H. 1832; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; sent to Naples as chief comr. to settle the British claims upon the Neapolitan government in consequence of the sulphur monopoly 17 Nov. 1840; joint plenipotentiary with sir Wm. Temple to make a new commercial treaty with the king of Naples 1842, treaty signed 1845; F.R.S. 4 March l824; F.G.S. 1832; F.R.G.S., vice-president many years; author of Buenos Ayres and the provinces of Rio de la Plata 1838. d. Quarry house, St. Leonards-on-Sea 16 Aug. 1882. bur. Fairlight cemet. Hastings 22 Aug. Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxix 39 (1883); Proc. of royal Geol. Soc. iv 612 (1882); Conduct of the consul-general Mr. Parish to J. Oughgan in Buenos Ayres (1824).

PARK, ALEXANDER ATHERTON (younger son of sir James Allan Park, judge 1763–1838). b. 1802; educ. Harrow 1813–9, and at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 May 1827; went Midland circuit; prothonotary and master of court of common pleas 1837 to death. d. Heddon house, Isleworth, Twickenham 21 Nov. 1871. Law Times lii 90 (1871).

PARK, ANDREW. b. Renfrew 7 March 1807; educ. Glasgow univ.; in a warehouse in Paisley 1826; salesman in a hat manufactory in Glasgow 1827; began business on his own account 1828; resided in London to 1840; a bookseller, Ingram st. Glasgow 1841 for a short time; visited Egypt 1856; author of A vision of mankind, Glasgow 1833; The bridegroom and the bride 1834; Blindness 1839; Miscellaneous poems 1844; Silent love. By James Wilson, druggist, Paisley 1843, re-issued 1845; Veritas 1849; Beauty 1853; The poetical works of A. Park 1854; Egypt and the East 1857; The world 1862; several of his lyrics have been set to music by Auber, Donizetti and others. d. Glasgow 27 Dec. 1863. bur. Paisley cemet. 2 Jany. 1864, memorial monument erected 7 March 1867. J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii 289–92 (1877); C. Rogers’s Scottish minstrel v 248–57 (1857); Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 92.

PARK, JOHN (son of John Park, wine merchant). b. Greenock 14 Jany. 1804; educ. at Aberdeen and at Glasgow univ.; licensed as a probationer 1831; assistant at West church, Greenock, and then at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire; minister of Rodney st. presbyterian church, Liverpool 1832–43; minister of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 1843–54; minister at St. Andrews 1854 to death; D.D. St. Andrews 1854; composed O gin I were where Gadie rins, Montgomery’s mistress, The miller’s daughter, and other popular airs; author of Lectures and sermons, Edinburgh 1865; A Greenockian’s visit to Wordsworth 1887. d. suddenly from paralysis at St. Andrew’s 8 April 1865. bur. in grounds of St. Andrew’s cathedral. Songs composed and in part written by the late Rev. John Park, Leeds (1876), with memoir and portrait; D. H. Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets (1889).

PARK, PATRIC (3 child of Matthew Park, mason and builder). b. Glasgow 12 Feb. 1811; apprenticed to Mr. Connell, a builder 1826–9; employed by Gillespie, the architect 1829–31; pupil of Thorwalsden, the sculptor, in Rome 1831–3; executed the full-length statue of Michael Thomas Sadler, exhibited at the R.A. 1837 and erected in Leeds 1841, and the colossal statue of Charles Tennant in the Glasgow necropolis; resided in Edinburgh 1848–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1849, R.S.A. Feb. 1851, exhibited nearly 90 works in the R.S.A. 1839–56; modelled a colossal statue of Wallace at Edinb. about 1850; executed a bust of Napoleon III in Paris 1854, which is at South Kensington museum; exhibited 54 sculptures at R.A., 8 at B.I., and 29 at Suffolk st. 1836–55; author of On the use of drapery in portrait sculpture, privately printed 1846. d. Warrington, Lancs. 16 Aug. 1855. G.M. ii 451–8 (1884).

PARKE, THOMAS ADAMS. b. 1781; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 May 1795, colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the sovereign 21 Aug. 1835 to 11 Nov. 1851; general 6 Feb. 1857; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. d. Hythe, near Southampton 3 Sept. 1858.

PARKE, THOMAS HEAZLE (2 son of Wm. Parke, justice of the peace). b. Clogher house, Drumsna, co. Roscommon 27 Nov. 1857; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1878, hon. F.R.C.S. 1890; L.K. and Q.C.P. Ireland and licentiate in midwifery 1879; surgeon to the Eastern dispensary at Bath; surgeon in army medical department Feb. 1881; served in the Tel-el-Kebir campaign of 1882; senior medical officer at the Helouan cholera camp near Cairo 1883; served in the Nile expedition 1884–5, and went with the column across the Bayuda desert to rescue Gordon; served at the battles of Abu Klea and Gubat; went with H. M. Stanley as a volunteer to the Congo forest for the relief of Emin Pasha 1887–8, returned to England May 1890; hon. D.C.L. Durham 1890; granted the gold medals of royal geographical societies of London and Antwerp 1890; received the orders of the Medjidie and the Brilliant star of Zanzibar; attached to the 2 lifeguards in London 1890; employed at royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1891; author of Report to the war office on the cholera outbreak in Egypt 1883; Evidence before the vaccination commission 1890; My experiences in Equatorial Africa 1891; A guide to health in Africa, with notes on the country and its inhabitants 1893; and of articles in periodicals. d. while on a visit to the duke of St. Albans at Alt-na-Craig in Argyleshire 10 Sept. 1893. bur. at Kilmessan, co. Leitrim 16 Sept. Graphic 16 Sept. 1893 p. 351 portrait; Westminster Budget 15 Sept. 1893 p. 29 portrait.

NOTE.--An oil portrait by Miss Ffolliott is in the masonic lodge, Boyle, co. Roscommon, but is to be removed to the Parke memorial, being erected at Carrick-on-Shannon. A fund has also been opened to erect a statue of Parke in Dublin.

PARKE, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Roger Parke of Dunally, co. Sligo, lieut. col. of Sligo militia). b. March 1779; ensign 53 foot 14 Dec. 1791; major 2 foot 27 June 1811; major 66 foot 5 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1817, when placed on h.p.; served in the West Indies, Egypt, Holland, the Peninsula, Walcheren, and St. Helena; wounded in battle of Corunna; sheriff of co. Sligo twice; knighted by marquess of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland 1836. d. Dunally, Sligo 1 Sept. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 453 (1851).

PARKE, WILLIAM (son of James Parke). b. Churchgates of Brewood, Staffordshire 23 March 1797; educ. Brewood gram. sch.; apprenticed to Mr. Smart, bookseller and printer, High Green, Wolverhampton 1812–8, partner in the business 1828, sole proprietor 1833 to death; part proprietor of Wolverhampton chronicle 1831–2; a great friend of Harrison Ainsworth from 1872; exercised great hospitality to literary men; known as the Murray of Wolverhampton; warden of Wolverhampton collegiate ch. 1856 to death. d. the Deanery, Wolverhampton 10 June 1876. bur. Brewood 15 June. W. Parke, a sketch by J. B. Brodhurst, Wolverhampton (1876).

PARKER, CHARLES. b. 1800; pupil of sir Jeffrey Wyatville; studied in Italy many years; architect in London about 1830; designed Messrs. Hoare’s bank in Fleet st., the Italian Roman Catholic church at Kingston, Surrey, and the chapel in Stamford st. Blackfriars 1830–2; F.R.I.B.A. 1834, retired 15 Nov. 1869, contributed many papers to the sessional meetings; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1834, withdrew 1844; steward and surveyor to duke of Bedford’s London property 1859–69; became totally blind; author of Villa rustica, selected from the buildings and scenes in the vicinity of Rome and Florence, and arranged for rural and domestic dwellings 1832, 2 ed. 1848. d. 48 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 9 Feb. 1881.

PARKER, SIR CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 5 Baronet (3 son of vice-admiral Christopher Parker, d. 1804). b. Harley st. London 16 June 1792; entered navy June 1804; commander of the Harlequin on the coast of Ireland 1819–22; captain 23 April 1822, retired R.A. 7 Oct. 1852, retired admiral 27 April 1863; succeeded his brother, sir J. E. G. Parker, as baronet 18 Nov. 1835. d. Clifton 13 March 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 387–8, 524 (1869).

PARKER, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Second lieut. R.M. 23 Sept. 1811, lieut. colonel 13 Dec. 1852, colonel commandant 6 Feb. 1857; retired on full pay as major general 24 Feb. 1858; war medal with one clasp, and the cross of the Tower and sword of Portugal. d. Park villa, Charlotte st. Park st. Bristol 8 June 1875.

PARKER, FRANKE. b. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; C. of Sampford Peverell, Devon 1829–31; C. of Starcross, Devon 1831–2; R. of Luffincott, near Launceston 30 Jany. 1838 to death; author of The church, with a chart 1851; Chronology, 2 vols. 1858; The Parian chronicle subversive of the common chronology 1859; Replies to the first and second part of the bishop of Natal’s Pentateuch 1863, and Replies to the third and fourth part 1864; A light thrown upon Thucydides to illustrate the prophecy of Daniel 1865; The Athenian year and its bearing on the eclipses of Thucydides and Ptolemy and the metonic cycle 1866. d. Luffincott rectory 3 April 1883.

PARKER, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Wm. George Parker, 2 baronet, d. 1848). b. 1813; educ. at Addiscombe; cadet Bengal army 1833; lieut. 74 Bengal N.I. 30 Jany. 1837, captain 3 Oct. 1845 to death; superintendent of Akbara and joint magistrate at Meerut 10 June 1847 to June 1852; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 March 1848; returned to India Dec. 1854; superintendent of Akbara and magistrate at Cawnpore 5 May 1856 to death; major in the army June 1857. d. of sunstroke during the sortie from Cawnpore 6 July 1857. Malleson’s History of the Indian mutiny ii 228 (1889).

PARKER, GEORGE (3 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent 1772–1861). b. 1 April 1804; educ. Charterhouse 1818 etc.; solicitor at Lewisham 1831–63; gave £2,000 towards restoration of nave of Lewisham parish church; built at his own cost church of St. George’s, Perry Hill, Greenwich 1878–80. d. Lewisham house, 224 High st. Lewisham 10 March 1889.

PARKER, GEORGE CHARLES (son of a captain in the marines). b. Havant, Hants. 19 Feb. 1836; midshipman H.E.I.C.S. 3 April 1853 to 30 April 1863, retired as a lieut. and was transferred to the Indian marine, captain 1883; served in the China wars 1856–7 and 1860; in naval brigade in Indian mutiny 1857–8; port officer at Carwar 1863; master attendant at Karáchi 1873, where he aided in improving the port; raised and formed the Karáchi brigade of naval volunteers; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1884; F.R.G.S. d. at sea on his voyage to England 15 Nov. 1890. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. civ 318–20 (1891).

PARKER, GEORGE HARGREAVE. Educ. St. Bees theol. coll.; C. of Anstey, Leics. 1838; C. of Grooby 1841; V. of St. Andrew’s, Bethnal Green, London 1843 to death; edited Juliana’s Sixteen revelations of divine love 1843; J. Eaton’s The true doctrine of baptism 1850; author of Letters on the great revolution of 1848, 1848. d. 3 Grove st. South Hackney, London 18 April 1864.

PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (son of Robert Parker of Devonport, drawing master). b. Devonport 15 March 1795; a portrait painter at Plymouth 1815, and at Newcastle 1816; secretary of the Northumberland institution, Newcastle, for the promotion of the fine arts 1822; became known as ‘Smuggler Parker’ from his pictures of smugglers; gave his picture of the rescue of John Wesley from the fire at Epworth in 1709 to the Wesleyan conference 1840, to be placed in the centenary hall, London; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I., and 23 at Suffolk st. 1817–63; drawing master at Wesley college, Sheffield 1840–4; resided in London 1844 to death; author of Critiques on paintings, together with a few slight etchings showing the compositions, Newcastle 1835. d. 1 Blenheim villa, Goldhawk road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 11 Nov. 1873. Walford’s Men of mark twixt Tyne and Tweed iii 249 (1895); Newcastle Weekly chronicle 22 Aug. 1891 portrait, and 3–8 Nov. 1894; I.L.N. 23 May 1874 p. 493 portrait.

PARKER, HENRY PERROTT (son of Joseph Parker). b. Upton Cheyney, Gloucestershire 21 Sept. 1852; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1875; at Church missionary coll. Islington; C. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1876–8; sec. of Church missionary soc. and chaplain to bishop of Calcutta 1878; missionary at Urgui, Africa 1882; bishop of the church of England in Eastern Equatorial Africa Oct. 1886, consecrated 14 Oct. d. in the Unyoro country to the south east of the Albert Nyanza 26 March 1888. Times 15 Oct. 1886 p. 9, 19 Oct. p. 7, 2 May 1888 pp. 7, 11.

PARKER, HENRY WALTER. b. 9 Oct. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1820 etc.; barrister G.I. 15 June 1832, went home circuit; assistant sec. poor law board 9 April 1836 to 21 April 1839; author of The rise, progress, and present state of Van Diemen’s land 1833; Letters to sir James Graham on the proceedings connected with Andover union 1845; A digest of the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1849. d. Adelaide 1874.

PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (4 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent). b. Lewisham 1808; private secretary to sir George Gipps, governor of New South Wales 1838–46; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 8 Dec. 1848 to 1856, chairman of committees 17 May 1849; member for Paramatta of legislative assembly 1856; contested the speakership 1856, when beaten by one vote; premier 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sept. 1857; knighted at Buckingham palace 7 May 1858; resided in England about 1859 to death; contested Greenwich against W. E. Gladstone 18 Nov. 1868; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; a comr. for the exhibitions held at Sydney 1880 and Melbourne 1881. d. Stawell house, Richmond, Surrey 2 Feb. 1881.

PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (son of John Goodhand Parker of Kingston-upon Hull). b. 1825; admitted solicitor Nov. 1853; partner with Fred. Clarke 1857–81; head of firm of Parker, Garrett, and Parker, St. Michael’s rectory, Cornhill. London 1881 to death; a royal comr. on Loss of life at sea 1884–7; member of council of Incorporated law society 20 Aug. 1873, V.P. 1885–6, and president 1886–7; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887. d. 10 Rosslyn hill, Hampstead, London 31 May 1894. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 5 June. Solicitor’s Journal 9 June 1894 p. 527.

PARKER, HYDE (eld. son of admiral sir Hyde Parker 1739–1807). b. about 1782; entered royal naval academy 5 Feb. 1796; a volunteer on board the Cambrian, Sept. 1799; captain 13 Oct. 1807; extra naval aide-de-camp to Wm. 4, 5 Sept. 1831; C.B. 18 April 1839; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral superintendent Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1842 to 15 Dec. 1847; V.A. 4 June 1852; one of lords’ comrs. of the admiralty 30 Dec. 1852 to death. d. Ham, Surrey 25 May 1854. G.M. xlii 76 (1854).

PARKER, SIR HYDE, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Harry Hyde Parker, 5 Bart., d. 1812). b. 1785; succeeded his brother, sir William Parker, 6 Bart. 21 April 1830; M.P. West Suffolk 1832–5. d. Government house, Devonport 21 March 1856. G.M. xlv 519 (1856).

PARKER, SIR JAMES (son of Charles Steuart Parker of Blochairn, near Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1803; educ. Glasgow gr. sch. and college, and Trin. coll. Camb., seventh wrangler 1825; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1829. bencher 1844 to death; went northern circuit; Q.C. July 1844; vice-chancellor 8 Oct. 1851 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851; member of the chancery commission 11 Dec. 1850; contested Leicester 30 July 1847. d. Rothley Temple, Leics. 13 Aug. 1852. Foss’s Judges ix 233–5 (1864); Law Mag. xlviii 321–2 (1852).

PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Netherton Parker of Sweeney hall, Shropshire, d. 1854). b. 3 Oct. 1798; educ. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825; R. of Llanmarewic, Montgomeryshire 1827–44, added a tower and south porch to his church; designed the church and vaulted apse of Trinity church, Oswestry 1835; V. of Llan-y-Blodwell, Shropshire 1844 to death, rebuilt the church at his own cost and from his own designs and carved the altar-piece himself; local secretary of the Cambrian archæological association; author of The Passengers [a dialogue between three tourists in North Wales] 1831. d. Llan-y-Blodwell vicarage 13 Aug. 1860. G.M. Dec. 1860 pp. 675–8.

PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Parker of High Wycombe, Bucks.) b. 1801; solicitor at High Wycombe 1823–80; town clerk 40 years; clerk to the bench of magistrates many years; registrar of Wycombe county court; author of A brief history of the church of Christ in Crendon lane meeting house, Chipping Wycombe 1848; The early history and antiquities of Wycombe 1878. d. High Wycombe 22 Dec. 1880. Solicitor’s Journal xxv 183 (1881).

PARKER, JOHN (eld. son of Hugh Parker of Tickhill, near Doncaster, d. 1861). b. Woodthorpe, near Sheffield 21 Oct. 1799; educ. Repton school and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; M.P. Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 18 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; first secretary of the admiralty 9 June to 10 Sept. 1841, and 21 May 1849 to 3 March 1852; joint-secretary of the treasury 7 July 1846 to 22 May 1849; P.C. 24 Oct. 1854. d. 71 Onslow square, London 5 Sept. 1881. bur. Healaugh, near Tadcaster 9 Sept. Law Times lxxi 366 (1881); Chapters in the political history of Sheffield (1884).

PARKER, JOHN. b. 1822; huntsman of the Sinnington hunt, Malton 1853, retired 1890; subscription raised for him by editor of Vanity Fair, April 1890. d. 14 Nov. 1890. St. Stephens Review 24 May 1890 pp. 15–16 portrait, 22 Nov. p. 15 portrait; W. S. Dixon’s In the North countree (1889) 137–40 portrait; Blair Athol by Blinkhoolie, 3 vols. 1881.

PARKER, JOHN BOTELER. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1802; lost his left leg at Waterloo; lieutenant governor of royal military academy, Woolwich; lieut. col. R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 20 July. 1840; C.B. 22 June 1815; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Woolwich 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 665 (1851).

PARKER, JOHN HENRY (son of John Parker of London, merchant). b. London 1 March 1806; bookseller and publisher at the Turl, Oxford 1832, retired 1863; secretary of Oxford architectural society 1839; issued the libraries of the Fathers and of Anglo-catholic theology and the series of Oxford pocket classics; published Dr. Pusey’s works, also all John Keble’s works 1832–73; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; went to Rome 1863, where he excavated the walls, especially the gates, and took 3,300 photographs; hon. M.A. Oxf. 27 June 1867; endowed the keepership of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, with £250 a year 1869, keeper of the museum 1870 to death; member of the Oxford architectural society, vice-president; knight of Italian order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, April 1879; awarded a gold medal by Pope Pius IX for his researches in Rome; C.B. 30 Oct. 1871; author of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture 1836, 4 ed. 1845; A handbook for visitors to Oxford 1847; An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture 1849, 6 ed. 1881; The mediæval architecture of Chester 1858; Mosaic pictures in Rome and Ravenna 1866; Historical photographs illustrative of the Archæology of Rome, 7 vols. 1872–5; The archæology of Rome, 1874–6, second ed. 1878; Historical photographs, a catalogue of 3,300 historical photographs of antiquities in Rome and Italy 1879; A.B.C. of Gothic architecture 1881, 2 ed. 1882. d. The Turl, Oxford 31 Jany. 1884. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Oxford 5 Feb. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. (1884) 79–81; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 312–24; Bookseller March 1884 pp. 247–50; I.L.N. lxxxiv 157 (1884) portrait.

PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Mr. Parker of the royal navy). b. 1792; apprenticed to William Clowes, printer, Duke st. Blackfriar’s road, London 1806, became manager of the business; worked on his own account; superintendent of the Cambridge university press Feb. 1829, retired 1854; publisher at 445 Strand, London 1832–63; publisher to the Society for promoting Christian knowledge; published and edited the Saturday Magazine 1832; printer to univ. of Cambridge 15 Nov. 1836; publisher to the committee of council on education 1839; published Fraser’s Mag. and the works of Buckle, Froude, Hare, Kingsley, Lewes, Maurice, Mill, Whately Whewell, and others; partner as publishers with Wm. Butler Bourn 1860, they sold the business to Messrs. Longman 1863 for £20,000; partner with Thomas Richard Harrison as printers in St. Martin’s lane 1863 to death, they printed the London Gazette; author of Bibles, testaments, books of common prayer and proper lessons, printed at the Cambridge university press by J. W. Parker 1839. d. Warren corner house, near Farnham, Surrey 18 May 1870. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 317–24; R. Bowes’ Biographical notes on the university printers (1886) 329; Bookseller 16 Jany. 1861 p. 2, and 1 June 1870 pp. 491–2.

PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of the preceding). b. 1820; partner with his father 1845 to death; edited Fraser’s Magazine about 1848 to death. d. 9 Nov. 1860. G.M. Feb. 1861 pp. 221–4.

PARKER, KENYON STEVENS. b. 1789; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Oct. 1805; 1 lieut. on half pay 1 Sept. 1814 to death; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1819; migrated to Lincoln’s inn, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; examiner in court of chancery Jany. 1853 to death; run over by a cab in Chancery lane and d. 49 Lancaster gate, London 2 June 1866. Law Times xli 607 (1866).

PARKER, RICHARD. b. 29 June 1803; cornet 1 life guards 2 Aug. 1822, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Aug. 1861; colonel of 5 dragoon guards 7 Dec. 1871 to death; M.G. 24 Aug. 1861, L.G. 2 Jany. 1871; placed on retired list with rank of general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Castle Malwood, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire 15 March 1885.

PARKER, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Parker comptroller of customs in New Brunswick). b. 1796; educ. Bideford, Devon, and King’s coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia; solicitor general of Nova Scotia 1828; acted as attorney general; puisne judge of New Brunswick 31 Oct. 1834; chief justice of supreme court Sept. 1865 to death. d. St. John’s, New Brunswick 24 Dec. 1865.

PARKER, ROBERT TOWNLEY (only son of Thomas T. Parker, d. 1794). b. 27 Aug. 1793; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1811; sheriff of Lancs. 1817; M.P. Preston 1837–41 and 1852–7; contested Preston 29 June 1841 and 29 July 1847; guild mayor of Preston 1862; constable of Lancaster castle 1874. d. Cuerden hall, near Preston 11 Aug. 1879. I.L.N. xli 285 (1862) portrait.

PARKER, ROGER. Ensign 113 foot 30 June 1795; lieut. 39 foot 1 Oct. 1795, major 25 Feb. 1808, lieut. col. 18 May 1826, served in the Peninsula 1809–12; silver medal for Albuera; lieut. col. 22 foot 6 March 1828, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1828; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; granted distinguished service reward 26 July 1847; col. 86 foot 26 May 1852 to death. d. 28 April 1854.

PARKER, SAMUEL WILLIAM LANGSTON (son of Wm. Parker, surgeon). b. Birmingham 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1828, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in Birmingham 1830 to death; professor of comparative anatomy at Queen’s college, Birmingham 25 years, a college which with Sands Cox he had established; surgeon to the Associated hospital 1840–65, and consulting surgeon 1865 to death; an authority on syphilis, introduced new methods of treatment; author of The stomach, in its morbid state 1838; The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases 1839, 5 ed. 1871; Digestion and its disorders 1849; The treatment of secondary syphilis 1850; On the nature of some painful affections of bone 1852; The treatment of cancerous diseases by caustic 1856; The mercurial vapour bath 1868. d. Paradise st. Birmingham 27 Oct. 1871. bur. Ashton-juxta-Birmingham. Literary remains of S. W. L. Parker, edited by Josiah Allen (1876); Medical times and gazette ii 602, 605 (1871); Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vii 43–44 (1875).

PARKER, TASS, ring name of Hazard Parker. b. West Bromwich, Staffs. 10 April 1811; fought Hammer Lane for £25 a side at Kensale Corner 15 Sept. 1835, when Lane won in 48 rounds; fought Lane again for £50 a side at Woodstock 7 March 1837, when Lane won in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours; beat Harry Preston near Castle Donnington in 13 rounds for £100 a side; fought Tom Britton for £100 a side at Woore, Staffs. 8 May 1838 after 33 rounds the fight was adjourned to 5 March 1839, when they met at Wem in Shropshire, but Britton was arrested by the police; beat Britton at Worksop, Notts. 9 June 1840 in 77 rounds lasting 110 minutes; fought Brassey for £100 a side at Brunt Lays, Worksop 10 Aug. 1841, when Parker won in 158 rounds; fought Wm. Perry for £100 a side at Dartford Marshes 19 Dec. 1843, the police interfered after 67 rounds; fought him again for same sum at Horley 27 Feb. 1844, after 133 rounds Parker went down without a blow; fought him again for same sum at Lindrick Common 4 Aug. 1846, beaten again in 23 rounds lasting 27 minutes; beat Con. Parker for £100 a side at Trimley Green 26 Nov. 1849 in 27 rounds lasting 97 minutes; fought a drawn battle with Burton of Leicester, £100 a side, 87 rounds in 100 minutes 19 May 1851; employed by James Merry the great racing man. d. June 1884. Fistiana by the editor of Bells’s Life in London (1868) 95; W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 319–23; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 187–99, 344–55 (1881); J. Hannan’s British boxing (1850) 29–30.

PARKER, THOMAS LISTER (eld. son of John Parker of Browsholme hall, Yorkshire 1755–97). b. Browsholme hall 17 Sept. 1779; educ. Clitheroe gr. sch. and Christ’s coll. Camb.; formed a collection of antiquities and pictures; bought many engravings and prints during a tour on the continent 1800 and 1801; F.S.A. 14 May 1801; F.R.S. 1 June 1815; sheriff for Lancashire 1804; trumpeter to the queen; hereditary bow-bearer of the forest of Bowland, Lancs. 1797; author of A description of Browsholme hall and of the parish of Waddington 1815; some of his letters are printed in F. R. Raine’s Miscellanies of rev. Thomas Wilson (Chetham Soc. vol. xlv 1858) pp. 20, 159–64, 170, 205. d. the Star inn, Deansgate, Manchester 2 March 1858. bur. in his family chapel Waddington church, Yorkshire 9 March. Whitaker’s History of Wally i 336 (1872).

PARKER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (3 son of George Parker of Almington, Staffs. 1730–1819). b. Almington hall 1 Dec. 1781; entered navy Feb. 1793; captain 9 Oct. 1801; commanded the Amazon, 38 guns, Nov. 1802 to 16 Jany. 1812; commanded the Warspite in the Mediterranean 1828; commanded the royal yacht Prince Regent Dec. 1828 to 22 July 1830; R.A. 22 July 1830; second in command of the channel squadron April to Sept. 1831; commanded a squadron in the Tagus river Sept. 1831 to June 1834; a lord of the admiralty July to Dec. 1834 and April 1835 to 12 May 1841; commanded a squadron on coast of China 10 Aug. 1841; captured Amoy, Ningpo, Woosung, Shanghai, and Chin-kiang-foo; concluded peace at Nankin 27 Aug. 1842; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 16 July 1834, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; granted good-service pension of £300 a year 26 April 1844; created baronet 18 Dec. 1844; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 27 Feb. 1845 to 17 Jany. 1852; commanded the Channel fleet May 1846 to 28 April 1852; principal A.D.C. to the queen 10 Dec. 1846 to death; admiral 29 April 1851; chairman of committee to inquire into the manning of the navy, July 1852; commander-in-chief at Devonport 1 May 1854 to 4 May 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1861; R.A. of the United Kingdom 20 May 1862, admiral of the fleet 27 April 1863 to death. d. Shenstone lodge, near Lichfield 13 Nov. 1866. bur. Shenstone churchyard, monument in Lichfield cathedral. Sir A. Phillimore’s Life of Sir W. Parker, 3 vols. (1876–80) portrait; I.L.N. lv, 233 (1869) view of monument.

PARKER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of John Parker, principal keeper of judicial records of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1818; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; assistant keeper of judicial records in general register house, Edinb. 1839; advocate at Edinb. 1853; chief judge and member of legislative council of the Gold Coast 1866; chief justice and judge in admiralty of St. Helena 8 April 1869 to 1875; chief justice of British Honduras 1 Nov. 1875, retired on a pension 1881; an originator and first hon. sec. of Architectural Institute of Scotland. d. Hillside, Gorey, Jersey 27 July 1886. Journal of jurisprudence xxx 495 (1886); Law Times 14 Aug. 1886 p. 283.

PARKER, WILLIAM KITCHEN (2 son of Thomas Parker, yeoman farmer). b. Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough 23 June 1823; apprenticed to a druggist at Stamford 1839; articled to Mr. Costal at Market Overton 1842–4; studied at Charing Cross hospital 1844; L.S.A. 1849; a general practitioner at 124 Tachbrook st. Pimlico, London 1849, at 18 Bessborough st. 1853, and at 36 Claverton st. to 1883; M.R.C.S. 1873, Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy at the college, 1873, gave ten courses of lectures; wrote 99 scientific memoirs in Trans Palæontographical Soc., Trans. Ray Soc., Trans. Royal Irish academy, Annals and Mag. of Natural history, and Trans. Microscopical Soc.; F.R.S. 1 June 1865, gold medallist 1866; Baly medallist of royal college of physicians; president of royal microscopical society 1871–3; a director of the Star life assurance soc. 1874; with T. H. Huxley he made a minute study of the skull; differed from sir R. Owen about the anatomy of animals; author of On mammalian descent, the Hunterian lecture 1885; and with G. T. Bettany The morphology of the skull 1877; in the Ray Society series he printed A monograph on the structure of the shoulder-girdle and sternum in the vertebrata 1868. d. in his son’s house 74 Llandaff road, Cardiff 3 July 1890. bur. Wandsworth cemet. London 7 July. T. J. Parker’s W. K. Parker (1893) portrait; Proc. of royal soc. xlviii pp. xv–xx (1890); G. T. Bettany’s Professor W. K. Parker (1891).

PARKER, WINDSOR (eld. son of William Parker of Hardwick court, Gloucs.) b. 1802; cornet 6 Bengal light cavalry 24 Nov. 1820; lieut. 10 Bengal light cavalry 1 May 1824, captain 30 July 1829; served at siege of Bhurtpore 1825–6; aide-de-camp to commander-in-chief 1827–8; brigade major Malwa field force 1829–35; brigade major in Oude 1835–6; sheriff of Suffolk 1854; M.P. western division of Suffolk 1859–80; major west Suffolk militia 9 Oct. 1852 to 6 May 1869; celebrated his golden wedding 1880. d. Clopton hall, Rattlesden, Suffolk Feb. 1892.

PARKES, ALEXANDER (son of a brass lock manufacturer). b. Suffolk st. Birmingham 29 Dec. 1813; in charge of the casting department in the works of Messrs. Elkington; took out a patent for the electro-deposition of works of art 1841; patented a method of electro-plating flowers 1843; took out 66 patents in 46 years; superintended the erection of Elkington and Mason’s copper-smelting works at Pembrey, South Wales 1850–3; his method of using zinc for the desilverisation of lead, patented 1850, is in universal use in America; showed articles made from the compound of pyroxyline, named Parkesine, at exhibition of 1862, when he received a medal, this compound is now known as zylonite or celluloid. d. Rosendale road, West Dulwich 29 June 1890. Engineering 25 July 1890 p. 111; Birmingham Weekly Post 5 July 1890.

PARKES, CAROLINE. b. Islington, London 1 Jany. 1838; appeared as Bacchus in a ballet at Her Majesty’s 1842; a columbine at Sadler’s Wells 1849, and often from that time to 1865; acted many characters in Phelps and Greenwood’s revivals of Shakespeare’s dramas at Sadler’s Wells 1850–60; a great favourite at the Marylebone theatre; chief dancer at the Eagle tavern, danced in Jason and Medea there 28 Aug. 1851; columbine at the Surrey 1851, at Sadler’s Wells 1852–3, 1855, 1857, and 1859; acted Donaldbain in Macbeth at Her Majesty’s 19 Jany. 1858; had a character in Cock Robin pantomine, Lyceum 1867; played Joe Tiller in Poll and my Partner Jo burlesque, St. James’ 6 May 1871; acted Dicky Dilver in Little Dicky Dilver pantomime, Princess’s 26 Dec. 1871; Jack in Jack and the bean stalk pantomime, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; played in Crystal palace pantomime 20 Dec. 1873, and several succeeding years, when her songs and dances were very popular; was seen at the majority of the London theatres and music halls; a teacher of dancing; m. Charles Gill Fenton, actor and scene painter, d. 15 Feb. 1877. She d. 17 Medina road, Holloway, London 7 March 1887. Illustrated Sporting News 15 Nov. 1862 p. 308 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard i 86 etc., ii 397, 720 (1891).

PARKES, CHARLES HENRY. b. 1816; clerk in election office of house of commons; clerk to Dyson and co., parliamentary agents 24 Parliament st. London, partner in the firm; a director of the Eastern counties’ railway 1869, deputy chairman Aug. 1873, chairman Nov. 1874 to July 1893, greatly improved the line, increased the traffic, built and then enlarged Liverpool station at a cost of £3,000,000, and developed the continental traffic by a route from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, the quays at Harwich are called after him, the main line was renamed the Great Eastern 1862, was voted sum of £2,000 on retirement from the chairmanship. d. Netherfield, Weybridge 9 May 1895. bur. Weybridge cemetery 14 May. Times 17 May 1895 p. 10; I.L.N. 25 May 1895 p. 638 portrait.

PARKES, EDMUND ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Parkes of the Marble-yard, Warwick). b. Bloxham, Oxfordshire 29 March 1819, or Warwick 30 March 1819; educ. Christ’s hospital, and Univ. coll. and hospital; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1840; assistant surgeon to 84 foot April 1842, served in Madras and Moulmein 1842–5, retired Sept. 1845; practised in London 1845; special professor of clinical medicine at Univ. college 1849–60, emeritus professor 1860; physician to Univ. coll. hospital 1849; edited British and foreign medico-chirurgical review 1852–5; sent to Turkey to select a site for and organize and superintend a large civil hospital, he selected Renkioi on the Asiatic bank of the Dardanelles and remained there till 1856; professor of hygiene in army medical school at Fort Pitt, Chatham 27 March 1860, the school was transferred to the royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1863; invented the new military valise which displaced the old knapsack; the founder of the science of modern hygiene; wrote an annual review of the progress of hygiene in the army medical department blue-book 1861–75; crown member of general medical council 17 Nov. 1863 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council; member of senate of univ. of London 1871 to death; author of Remarks on the dysentery and hepatitis of India 1846; Researches into Asiatic or algide cholera 1847; On self-training by the medical student 1856; The composition of the urine in health and disease 1860; A manual of practical hygiene for use in the army 1864, 8 ed. 1891; A scheme of medical tuition 1868; On the issue of spirit ration during the Ashanti campaign 1875. d. Sydney cottage, Bitterne, near Southampton 15 March 1876. bur. Solihull, near Birmingham, bust at Univ. coll. London. Good Words (1879) 553–8; Medical times and gazette i 348–9 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii 325, 326 (1876) portrait; Saturday Review 2 June 1883 p. 687.

NOTE.--The Parkes museum of hygiene was instituted 1876 at University college, London, in 1882 it was incorporated and removed to Margaret st. Cavendish sq. and opened by the duke of Albany 26 May 1883, it was incorporated with the Sanitary institute of Great Britain Aug. 1888. In Dec. 1894 Hermann Weber, M.D., M.R.C.P, gave the royal college of physicians the sum of £2,500 in trust for the purpose of founding a prize to be called the Weber-Parkes prize to be given at intervals for the best essay in tubercular consumption.

PARKES, GEORGE. b. 1827; a barber in Old Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster 1845; had a fine baritone voice, sang at Vauxhall and Cremorne gardens and the Bower saloon, Stangate st.; lessee with Wm. Tanner of the Alhambra music hall, Shoreditch 1871–5, and of the Raglan music hall, Southwark; in partnership with Wm. Tanner, lessee of the Elephant and Castle theatre 1880, and alone 1881–3, produced Walter Burnot’s burlesque of The German silver king 24 March 1883; proprietor of Richardson’s theatre at the World’s fair at the Agricultural hall, Islington Dec. 1883 to Feb. 1884; generally known as Baron Parkes. d. 29 Hercules road, Lambeth, London 16 Oct. 1895. bur. Brompton cemet. 21 Oct.

PARKES, SIR HARRY SMITH (youngest child of Harry Parkes of Walsall, ironmaster, d. 1833). b. Birchill’s hall, Bloxwich, near Walsall 24 Feb. 1828; educ. Birmingham gr. sch. 1838–41; joined his sisters in China 1841; attached to sir Henry Pottinger’s suit 1842; interpreter at Foo-chow March 1845 to Aug. 1846; interpreter at Shanghai Aug. 1846 to 1850; interpreter at Canton 21 Nov. 1851; consul at Amoy 10 Aug. 1854; secretary to special mission to Siam March 1855, first treaty signed 18 April 1855; acting-consul at Canton June 1856, city stormed by sir Michael Seymour, who entered it with Parkes 29 Oct. 1856, Canton was bombarded 28 Dec. 1857, after which Parkes tracked and arrested commissioner Yeh 5 Jany. 1858, who was transported to Calcutta; British comr. of the allied commission at Canton 9 Jany. 1858; attached as joint Chinese secretary to earl of Elgin’s special embassy in China 1860 to Feb. 1861; accompanied vice-admiral Hope when he advanced upon Tien-tsin 23 Aug. 1860; taken prisoner by the Chinese at Tungchow 18 Sept. 1860, released 8 Oct.; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul-general in Japan 28 March 1865, obtained the ratification of the treaties of 1858 by the Mikado 24 Nov. 1865, left Japan Aug. 1883; minister plenipotentiary in China July 1883; concluded a treaty with the Korean government Nov. 1883; minister plenipotentiary to king of Korea 7 March 1884; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 19 May 1862. d. Peking 22 March 1885. bur. Whitchurch 26 June, statue at Shanghai unveiled by duke of Connaught April 1890, memorial bust by T. Brock, R.A. unveiled in St. Paul’s cathedral 1887. S. Lane-Poole and F. V. Dickins’s Life of sir Harry Parkes, 2 vols. (1894) portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii 250 etc., 827 (1884); Illust. times 19 Jany. 1861 p. 31 portrait; I.L.N. xxxvii 587 (1860) portrait; Times 23 March 1885 p. 7.

PARKES, JOSEPH (younger son of John Parkes, manufacturer). b. Warwick 22 Jany. 1796; articled to a solicitor in London 1817–22; practised as a solicitor in Birmingham 1822–33; a member of Birmingham political union 10 May 1832, made active preparations for an armed rebellion; secretary of the commission on municipal corporations 1833; parliamentary solicitor at 21 Great George st. Westminster 1833–47; taxing master to court of exchequer Nov. 1847 to death; secretary to commission for inquiry into public charities 1840; author of A history of the court of chancery 1828; author with Herman Merivale of Memoirs of sir Philip Francis, K.C.B., with correspondence and journals, 2 vols. 1867. d. 17 Wimpole st. London 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 17 Aug. Law mag. and law review xx 174 (1865).

PARKES, JOSIAH (brother of the preceding). b. Warwick 27 Feb. 1793; worked in his father’s mill at Warwick 1810–20; carried out near Woolwich a new process for refining salt; A.I.C.E. 11 March 1823, M.I.C.E. 26 Dec. 1837; carried on business at Puteaux-sur-Seine 1825–30; fought on the popular side in the revolution 1830, after which he returned to England; a land drainer 1830–54, employed 1,000 men; drained part of Chat Moss, Lancs. for Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, invented the deep drainage system of not less than four feet; in 1846 sir Robert Peel advanced four millions to be spent in draining on the Parkesian principle; drained the fortifications at Yaverland and Warden Point, Isle of Wight for the war office 1862–9; author of Lecture on draining 1846; Essay on the philosophy and art of land drainage 1848; Fallacies on land drainage exposed 1851. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 16 Aug. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 231–6 (1872).

PARKES, WILLIAM. b. Gloucester 6 Oct. 1822; in the office of James Walker, C.E. 1845; resident engineer at the Alderney harbour works 1847–9; a civil engineer in Parliament st. and then at 23 Abingdon st. London from 1849; connected with the lake Fucino, Italy, draining works 1853; reported on Kurrachee, India, harbour 1854, and again in 1868, the breakwater, the first constructed on the sloping-block system, completed 1873; designed and erected lighthouses in the Red sea 1860; at Madras in 1873 and 1876 in connection with the harbour works, which were destroyed by a cyclone in 1882; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1849, M.I.C.E. 17 April 1860. d. 8 Grove road, Surbiton 1889. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 328–30 (1889).

PARKIN, GEORGE LEWIS (son of George Patey Parkin of Woolwich). b. 30 Sept. 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1829; admitted solicitor 1841; partner with H. W. Woodhouse many years; partner with Frederick John Pagden, retired 1884; one of the Antients and subsequently principal of Barnard’s inn; a governor of Christ’s hospital; an early member of the Solicitors’ Benevolent institution, d. 22 Park lane, London 23 April 1885. Solicitors’ Journal 2 May 1885 p. 442.

PARKINS, WILLIAM. b. Great Berkhampstead, Herts.; a manufacturing stationer in Hanway st. London about 1842; introduced cheap paper and envelopes; partner with Henry Gotto at 25 Oxford st. 1851 to death, having a very large establishment of fancy goods, especially of articles for presents, employed nearly 500 people; published Parkins and Co.’s Almanack and price list 1850 etc.; Parkins and Gotto’s Rent book 1858; Parkins and Gotto’s Annual Diary 1861 etc. d. 43 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 19 Sept. 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 25 Sept. Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxx 494–8 (1881); Puseley’s Companies (1858) 167.

PARKINSON, EDWARD. Cornet 33 light dragoons 27 Feb. 1796; captain 33 foot 3 July 1805, major 17 March 1814, placed on h.p. 11 Sept. 1817; C.B. 19 July 1831; granted distinguished service reward 15 Nov. 1849; colonel 93 highlanders 10 Dec. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1858.

PARKINSON, JOHN. b. 1779; practised as solicitor in London; solicitor to the Grenadier guards 19 July 1831 to death. d. Gray’s Inn sq. London 30 Jany. 1855.

PARKINSON, JOSEPH (son of James Parkinson, proprietor of a museum in London 1730–1813). b. 1783; articled to Wm. Pilkington, the architect, London; designed the library to the Surrey institution 1809; laid out Bryanston square 1811; surveyor to the Union assurance society to 1854; directed rebuilding of body of Streatham church 1831; had many professional pupils. d. 41 Sackville st. London 17 May 1855. bur. Kensal Green.

PARKINSON, RICHARD (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.) b. Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston 1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St. Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St. Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept. 1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41; fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church 1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation: Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880. d. the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. R. Parkinson’s Old church clock, 5 ed. (1880), memoir pp. ix–xcvii; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 198–204; G. Huntington’s Random recollections (1893) 263–82; Raines’s Fellows of the collegiate church of Manchester ii 361 (1891); G.M. iv 556–8 (1858).

PARKINSON, STEPHEN (7 child of a land agent). b. Keighley, Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845; fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics, tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D. 1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate 1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed. 1884. d. Newnham, Cambridge 2 Jany. 1889. bur. Madingley, Camb. Cambridge Review 24 Jany. 1889 pp. 148–9; The Eagle March 1889 pp. 356–62; Proc. of royal soc. xlv pp. i–iii (1889).

PARKYNS, MANSFIELD (2 son of Thomas Boultbee Parkyns). b. Ruddington, Notts. 16 Feb. 1823; matric. from Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1839; travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan 1843–50, living like a native, and was given up for dead by his relatives, during the first part of the time he was in correspondence with the Foreign office; attaché to embassy at Constantinople 15 Feb. 1850 to 1852; knew many languages and dialects; resided at Woodborough hall, Notts. 1852; in the Sherwood forest militia; lieut. col. of Nottinghamshire rifle volunteers; comptroller of court of bankruptcy, London, Jany. 1870 to 1884; F.R.G.S.; author of Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during three years’ residence in that country, 2 vols. 1853, new ed. 1868; carved the oak choir stalls for Woodborough church. d. Woodborough hall 12 Jany. 1894. bur. Woodborough church, Notts. Times 19 Feb. 1894 p. 8.

PARLBY, BROOK BRIDGES (son of Samuel Parlby, C. of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk). b. 1 June 1783; educ. Rugby 1796–8; entered Madras army 1798; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800, major 15 April 1817; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 1823–28; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1828 to 13 Nov. 1829; col. 35 N.I. 13 Nov. 1829 to 5 July 1854; col. 20 N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 13 Oct. 1857; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826; in the battle of the Argaum; wounded at storming of Gawilghur 1803, and at Lassoulgaum Oct. 1804; commanded a division at Rangoon 8 Dec. 1824, and at Melloon 13 Jany. 1826; in Burmese war 1824; author of Revenge, or the novice of San Martino, a tragedy 1818; A brief sketch of the establishment of the Anglican church in India 1851. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 7 March 1873.

PARLBY, WILLIAM. b. 19 May 1801; cornet 8 dragoons 3 Oct. 1816; captain 4 dragoons 7 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 10 hussars 7 Aug. 1846 to 10 Aug. 1856, when placed on h.p.; col. 21 hussars 24 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1880; general 22 May 1876; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; col. 4 hussars 1 July 1880 to death. d. Hubberston, Milford Haven 26 Oct. 1881.

PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART (2 son of John Henry Parnell of Avondale, co. Wicklow, d. 1859). b. Avondale 27 June 1846; educ. at Yeovil, Somerset; matric. as a pensioner from Magdalene coll. Camb. 1 July 1865, left Cambridge May 1869; resided at Avondale 1869–72; an officer in the Wicklow militia; travelled in the U.S. of America 1872–3; sheriff of Wicklow 1874; contested co. Dublin 19 March 1874; M.P. co. Meath 1875–80; joined the Amnesty association 1876; his plan for obstructing the business of house of commons caused the house to sit continuously from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. on the following evening 31 July to 1 Aug. 1877, this was then the longest recorded sitting; president of the National land league of Ireland, founded at a convention in Dublin Oct. 1879; went to U.S. of America to obtain funds for the league 21 Dec. 1879, addressed the house of representatives at Washington 2 Feb. 1880, also addressed the legislatures of 5 states; M.P. Cork city 1880 to death; chairman of the home rule party in the house of commons 17 May 1880; founded The Irish national newspaper and publishing company, July 1881; held a great land league convention at Dublin 15 Sept. 1881; arrested at Morrison’s hotel, Dublin 13 Oct. 1881, imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol, released 2 May 1882; at a meeting of the Ladies’ land league at Dublin 2 Jany. 1882 Parnell was described as the uncrowned King of Ireland, which title was adopted by his supporters; attended a national conference in Dublin 17 Oct. 1883, when the Land League was revived as the Irish national league; presented with sum of £37,000 at a banquet at the Rotunda in Dublin 11 Dec. 1883; elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party 11 Jany. 1886, re-elected 25 Nov. 1890; the freedom of city of Edinburgh was conferred on him 20 July 1889; his friend capt. Wm. Henry O’Shea obtained a decree nisi for a divorce 17 Nov. 1890 with costs against Parnell as co-respondent; on 25 June 1891, Parnell married Mrs. Katherine O’Shea in the registry office at Steyning, near Brighton; deserted by 45 of his followers in the house of commons 6 Dec. 1890; repudiated by the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops 4 Dec. 1890. d. of inflammation of the lungs at his residence 10 Walsingham terrace, Aldrington, Brighton 6 Oct. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin 11 Oct. T. P. O’Connor’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1891) portrait; R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume, C. S. Parnell (1892), memoir pp. 1–210 four portraits; J. S. Mahoney’s C. S. Parnell (1886) two portraits; T. Sherlock’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1887) portrait; J. Connellan’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1888) portrait; A. Filon’s Profils Anglais, Paris (1893); H. Le Caron’s Twenty five years in the secret service (1892) 178 portrait.

NOTE.--In 1887 The Times published articles entitled Parnellism and Crime, and on 18 April gave a facsimile of a letter said to be by C. S. Parnell in which he extenuated the Phœnix park murders. On 22 Oct. 1888 three judges, forming a special commission, commenced inquiring into all the charges which had been made against Parnell. On 1 March 1889 Richard Piggott, who had forged the letter, committed suicide at Madrid. The report of the commission acquitted Parnell of any sympathy with the Phœnix park murders 13 Feb. 1890. He brought an action for libel against The Times claiming £100,000 damages, but the action was compromised by a payment of £5,000 on 3 Feb. 1890. Annual Register 1887 p. 99 etc., 1888 p. 233 etc., 1889 pp. 477–507, 1890 p. 7; David Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 202–21; I.L.N. lxxix 389 (1881) portrait; Graphic 10 Oct. 1891 p. 424 portrait.

PARNELL, FANNY (sister of the preceding). b. Avondale, co. Wicklow 3 Sept. 1854; contributed poems to the Irish People, the Fenian newspaper, under signature of Alena or Alerta 1867, and wrote poetry in the Nation and the Irishman; went with her mother to America and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey;. wrote much verse in the Boston Pilot and Dublin Nation 1879–82; made many speeches during the land league agitation in America 1880; organized in 1881 the despatch to Ireland of Irish-American women to take the places of women who had helped to administer the ladies’ land league in Ireland and had been imprisoned. d. Bordentown, New Jersey 29 July 1882. bur. Mount Auburn cemetery, near Boston. R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume (1892) p. 3 portrait.

PARR, GEORGE. b. Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. 22 May 1826; first played at Lord’s 1845; member of Clarke’s touring eleven 1847, captain 1857; played for the Players against the Gentlemen 1846–65; played for Notts. 1846–70, made 130 runs against Surrey 1859; took a team to Canada 1859, winning all the five matches against twenty-twos; coached the Harrow eleven 1859–62; captain of a team in Australia 1863, winning ten matches; captain of the All England eleven 1857–70; played his last match 1871; the finest batsman in England, especially famous for his leg hitting. d. Radcliffe-on-Trent 23 June 1891. Baily’s Mag. ii 215–20 (1860) portrait; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 115 portrait; Illust. sporting news iii 161 (1864) portrait, v 36 (1866) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 161 (1874) portrait.

PARR, THOMAS. b. 1809; travelled in Dorset and Devonshire as a dealer in tea; began racing 1839 with two horses, increased his stud to about 20; ran second for the Cesarewitch with Giselle; won 18 races with Rataplan 1854; won the St. Leger with Saucebox 1855; won the Queen’s vase and 22 other races with Fisherman 1856; won the Goodwood stakes and the Cesarewitch with Weathergaze and the Cambridgeshire with Odd Trick and Malacca. d. Manor house, Letcomb Regis 19 Jany. 1880. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 286–300; W. Day’s The race horse in training (1880) 19.

PARR, THOMAS CHASE (son of John Owen Parr of London). b. 1802; entered Bombay army 1818; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 5 Feb. 1819; captain 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827, major 19 Oct. 1839 to 21 Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 1 European regiment right wing 21 Jany. 1846 to 15 Aug. 1847; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1850, of 7 N.I. 1850–1, of 2 N.I. 1851–3, and of 6 N.I. 1853–6; commandant Kurrachee 28 March 1854 to 13 March 1856; col. of 2 European regiment 18 March 1856 to 1863, and of 12 N.I. 1863; general 10 Feb. 1876. d. Powis lodge, Bickley, Kent 15 June 1883.

PARR, WILLIAM CHASE (2 son of rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of Preston). b. 4 Dec. 1826; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 27 Jany. 1844, captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 Sept. 1869; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 2 July 1885; general 1 April 1894. d. King’s Holt, West Lyss, Hants. 6 March 1895.

PARRAVICINI, STEFANO ANNONI DE (only son of Carlo De Parravicini, advocate, Milan). An officer in the Italian army; joined an opera company in England; business manager to Willert Beale to 1856; a musical and professional agent 49 Duke st. St. James’, London 1856–86, in partnership with Wardle Corbyn and then with J. F. P. Hyatt 1876–86; agent for Blondin; for the Alhambra music hall, under F. Strange, where he introduced Madame Pitteri, the dancer; he brought Pauline Virginie Déjazet to the Charing Cross theatre Oct. 1870; agent for the circuses at Covent garden, for Barnum’s show and Venice at Olympia; joint lessee with W. Corbyn of Park theatre, London, opened Oct. 1875. d. Addison road north, London 13 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 18 Jany. The Era 21 Jany. 1893.

PARRIS, EDMUND THOMAS (son of Edward Parris). b. parish of St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for the Colosseum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, &c.; made a sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph of Arimathea converting the Britons; repainted Thornhill’s paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Countess of Blessington’s The confessions of an elderly gentleman 1836, her Flowers of loveliness 1836, and her The confessions of an elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. d. 27 Francis st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853 portrait xxix, 145, 146 (1856) portrait, lxiii 543, 564, 587 (1873) portrait.

PARROTT, THOMAS. b. 1796; admitted attorney 1826; practised at Macclesfield, Cheshire 1826 to death; town clerk 27 Jany. 1830 to death; partner with Thomas Michael Colville and with John May 1839, firm becoming Parrott, May and Sons; clerk to the county and borough magistrates, also coroner; his portrait was presented to the corporation of Macclesfield March 1879; a successful proprietor of a dairy farm. d. Green bank, Higher Sutton, Macclesfield 29 May 1879. bur. St. James’ ch. yard, Sutton 6 June. The Macclesfield courier 31 May 1879 p. 5, 7 June p. 5.

PARROTT, WILLIAM. b. 1814 or 1815; exhibited 25 landscapes at the R.A., 19 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–69. d. 3 Nether st. North Finchley, London 23 Sept. 1893.

PARRY, ALBERT WOODWARD (son of Richard Parry, builder). b. Salford 19 Jany. 1834; principal assistant to borough surveyor, Bradford 1863–71; borough surveyor, Reading 1871–91, completed the sewerage, enlarged the water works, and erected the sewage farm buildings; consulting engineer for Reading 1891 to death; a surveyor with his son Richard Parry at 27 Great George street, Westminster 1893; A.I.C.E. 1 April 1873, A.M.I.C.E. 1878. d. Reading 13 July 1894. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii 462–3 (1894).

PARRY, CHARLES HENRY (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen; travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb. 24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812; practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital, Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. d. 5 Belgrave place, Brighton 21 Jany. 1860. bur. Weston, near Bath. Munk’s College of physicians ii 385–8, iii 45–6 (1878).

PARRY, EDWARD (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). b. Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey 1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870; D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to 1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69, and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26 Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882; author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed. 1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. bur. in churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral. Graphic 19 April 1890 p. 444 portrait; I.L.N. 19 April 1890 p. 483 portrait.

PARRY, FRANCIS CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of Speen, Berks., d. 1788). b. Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June 1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1819–23. d. Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. Law Times lxvi 213 (1879).

NOTE.--He occupied a prominent place in the Collier Shakespeare controversy as having been the possessor of a folio which was for some time wrongly identified with the Perkins folio.

PARRY, GEORGE FREDERICK. b. India 8 Dec. 1794; first played at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818; played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from 1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket, a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park, Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. d. Mentone 11 Jany. 1872. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 407 (1862).

PARRY, HENRY HUTTON (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). b. 18 Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity, Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college, Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia 20 May 1876 to death. d. Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov. 1893.

PARRY, JAMES (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’ work. d. Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in royal Salford museum.

PARRY, JOHN. b. Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15 June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb. 1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800; Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814; Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp, 2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions 1800–50. d. 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April 1851. Grove’s Dictionary of music i 484, 651, ii 248, iv 443 (1878).

PARRY, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52 Charlotte st. Portland place, London). b. London 1809; clerk in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract 1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. Actors by gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp. 161–2 portrait; Theatrical times 3 July 1847 pp. 201–2 portrait.

PARRY, JOHN BILLINGSLEY (2 son of James Parry of Preston Montford hall, Salop). b. 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845; judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847, resigned Sept. 1874. d. Brighton 28 March 1876.

PARRY, JOHN HAYDN (son of Dr. Joseph Parry of univ. coll. of South Wales, Cardiff). b. April 1864; musical instructor Harrow school; professor of London Guildhall school of music Sept. 1889 to death; composer of Gwen, a cantata produced by students of Guildhall school of music 1890; Cigarette, an opera, T.R. Cardiff 15 Aug. 1892, and Lyric theatre, London 7 Sept. 1892; Miami, a musical version of The green bushes, Princess’s theatre 16 Oct. 1893; O Lord abide with me, a song 1894. d. 87 Broadhurst gardens, West Hampstead, London 29 March 1894. bur. West Hampstead cemet. 2 April.

PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (son of John Humffreys Parry, Welsh antiquary 1786–1825). b. London 24 Jany. 1816; employed in the printed-book department of the British Museum, engaged on the new catalogue Jany. 1839 to June 1843; barrister M.T. 9 June 1843, bencher 15 Nov. 1878 to death; obtained a large criminal practice; sergeant-at-law 9 June 1856, obtained patent of precedence 9 Feb. 1864; largely employed in compensation cases; leader of the home circuit; retained in the trials of Manning 1849, Muller 1864, Overend and Gurney 1869, the Tichborne claimant 1873–4, and Whistler v. Ruskin Nov. 1878; a founder of the Complete suffrage association 1842; contested Norwich 30 July 1847 and Finsbury 30 March 1857; edited The National association gazette, No. 1–28, 1841–2. d. 56 Holland park, Kensington, London 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Woking cemet. 15 Jany. M. William’s Leaves of a life (1891) 39, 50, 58, 90, 127, 141, 143, 181, 218; Law Times lxviii 211 (1880); I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880) portrait; Graphic xxi 93 (1880) portrait.

PARRY, JOHN ORLANDO (only son of John Parry 1776–1851). b. London 3 Jany. 1810; first appeared as a vocalist at Hanover sq. rooms, London 7 May 1830; sang at the Antient and Philharmonic concerts, and at musical festivals; pupil of Luigi Lablache at Naples 1833; sang at St. James’s theatre in a burletta The Sham prince 29 Sept. 1836, and in Charles Dickens’s Village Coquettes 6 Dec.; sang at concerts and in the provinces 1842–9; produced an entertainment by Albert Smith entitled Notes, vocal and instrumental, at the Store st. music hall, Bedford sq. London 25 June 1850, gave another entertainment there The portfolio for children of all ages 17 Aug. 1852 to Aug. 1853; was mentally deranged some time; organist at St. Jude’s church, Southsea; gave musical monologues with Mr. & Mrs. German Reed at Gallery of illustration, Regent st. London 1860–9; wrote his own entertainments and composed his own music; received prizes for songs from the Melodists’ club; his farewell benefit at Gaiety theatre 7 Feb. 1877 realised £1,300; lost his 40 years’ savings 1877; author of Ridiculous things: scraps and oddities 1854; composer of Wanted a governess, a song 1840; Charming Chloe Cole 1854; Don’t be too particular 1868; Take a bumper and try 1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 compositions. d. at his daughter’s residence Pembroke lodge, East Molesey, Surrey 20 Feb. 1879. bur. East Molesey cemet. 25 Feb. Theatrical times ii 201 (1847) portrait; Dramatic and musical review ii 541–3 (1843); Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 253–5; I.L.N. iv 389 (1844) portrait; Illust. sporting news iv 657 (1865) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news x 572, 574 (1879) portrait; Life of Ignatz Moscheles i 289, ii 10, 107 (1873).

PARRY, LOUISA (3 dau. of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont, Essex). Author of The young christian’s Sunday evening or conversations on scripture history, the Old Testament 1836, Second series, on the Four gospels 1837, Third series, on the Acts of the Apostles 1840; m. 1824 Rev. Thomas Parry 1795–1870.

PARRY, SIR LOVE PARRY JONES- (eld. son of Thomas Jones of Lwynen, Denbighshire, who took surname of Parry 1780). b. London 28 Nov. 1781; educ. Westminster sch.; elected to Trin. coll. Camb. 1799; gentleman commoner Ch. Ch. Oxf. 8 May 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1811; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1802; ensign 105 foot April 1794; captain 112 foot 30 Oct. 1794, placed on h.p. June 1795; captain 81 foot 9 July 1803; major 90 foot 28 Aug. 1804, placed on h.p. 16 June 1808; major 103 foot 5 Sept. 1811; commanded a brigade on the Canadian frontier during the war 1812–4; major 6 garrison battalion 1 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p. 1814; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted 1835; K.H. 1836; M.P. Horsham 1806, re-elected 1807 but unseated on petition; M.P. Carnarvon 1835–37; contested Shrewsbury 30 June 1841; sheriff of Anglesey 1840; chairman of quarter sessions of Carnarvon many years. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire 23 Jany. 1853. bur. in family vault, Llanbedrog church 1 Feb.

PARRY, ROBERT. b. Carnarvon Feb. 1804; a lecturer in the Principality; a Welsh bard of great renown; known as Robyn Ddu Eryri; received grant of £100 from Royal Bounty fund; author of Awdl ar etholiad, Arglwydd Newborough yn aelod seneddawl dros Swydd Caernafon 1826; Teithiau a barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri 1857. d. Ludlow, Salop Nov. 1892. bur. Ludlow 8 Nov.

PARRY, SEFTON HENRY. b. 1822; conducted dramatic performances at Cape Town 1859; travelled with a small company in various parts of the world; designed and built the Holborn theatre, which he opened with Boucicault’s drama The flying scud 6 Oct. 1866, lessee of the house until 1872; built the Globe theatre, which he opened with Byron’s Cyril’s success 28 Nov. 1868, lessee until 1871; built the Avenue theatre, which he opened with Offenbach’s Madame Favart 11 March 1882; proprietor of theatres at Hull and Southampton; wrote The bright future, a drama, produced at the opening of Grand theatre, Islington 4 Aug. 1883. d. Cricklewood lodge, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1887. bur. Old Willesden churchyard 24 Dec. E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 283, 327, 364, 552, 613; Era 24 Dec. 1887 p. 14.

PARRY, THOMAS (brother of John Parry of the Britannia theatre). b. 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight, a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama, Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. d. Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862. The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p. 11.

PARRY, THOMAS (4 son of Edmund Parry, R. of Llanferras, Denbighshire). b. Llanferras 1795; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of Balliol coll. 1816; R. of St. Leonard’s, Colchester 1817; archdeacon of Antigua 1824–40; archdeacon of Barbados 1840–2; bishop of Barbados 1842–69, consecrated in Westminster abbey 21 Aug. 1842; author of Parochial sermons preached in the West Indies, Oxford, 1828; A practical exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1832; The apostleship and priesthood of Christ: an exposition of the epistle to the Hebrews 1834; Ordination vows, a series of sermons 1846. d. Malvern 16 March 1870. bur. West Malvern. I.L.N. lvi 386, 643 (1870).

PARRY, THOMAS GAMBIER (only child of Richard Parry, director of H.E.I.C.) b. 22 Feb. 1816; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1848; purchased estate of Highnam, near Gloucester 1838, which he raised from a small hamlet to an important parish; built and endowed Highnam church, adorned the walls with frescoes of his own designing, for which he invented and employed a process named by him spirit frescoe; painted from his own designs the frescoes on the six eastern bays of the roof of the nave of Ely cathedral 1862–5; painted frescoes in St. Andrew’s chapel, Gloucester cathedral; reported officially on Painting on glass in the Paris exhibition of 1867, and on Mosaic and glass painting in the London exhibition of 1871; founded and endowed in Gloucester the free hospital for children, the St. Lucy’s home for orphans, and the Gloucester schools of science and art; author of Spirit fresco painting, an account of the process 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The ministry of fine arts to the happiness of life 1886. d. Highnam court, near Gloucester 28 Sept. 1888.

PARRY, SIR THOMAS LOVE DUNCOMBE JONES-, 1 Baronet (eld. son of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). b. Llanbedrog, Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon 1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug. 1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec. 1891. bur. Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.

PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30 June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26 Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer 1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827, reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr. for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834; D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk 7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death; author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. d. Ems 8 July 1855. bur. in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July, portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. E. Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry (1857) portrait; Marshall’s Royal naval biography viii 315 (1833); G.M. ii 233–9 (1826); Proc. of Royal Soc. vii 603–12 (1855); Georgian era iii 87–91 (1833).

PARSELLE, JOHN. b. 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen; attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9; acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market, Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860, Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut. Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865; wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept. 1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April 1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New York 1873 to death. d. New York 17 Feb. 1885. bur. Evergreen cemetery. Entr’acte Annual (1882) 58 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard (1891) 105, 720.

PARSONS, BENJAMIN (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). b. Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5; congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud 1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. d. at the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. E. P. Hood’s The Earnest minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons (1856) portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 520–41; S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 339–40.

PARSONS, DANIEL (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs. 1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870; edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. d. Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.

PARSONS, ELIZABETH (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon, congregational minister). b. Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns for adults; m. 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she d. Plymouth 1873. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 69, 834, 882, 996, 1267; W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover (1889) 442.

PARSONS, GEORGE SAMUEL. b. 1783; entered R.N. July 1795; signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut. 1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander 15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. d. Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany. 1854. G.M. July 1854 p. 79.

PARSONS, GERTRUDE (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall, captain in 22 foot, d. 30 June 1838). b. Restormel near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844; m. 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman, or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June 1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30 Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3 vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3 vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879; Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends 1890. d. Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. bur. the Priory church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p. 348.

PARSONS, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846 to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany. 1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July 1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53; col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death; commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18 March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. d. Almorah, N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.

PARSONS, JAMES (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational minister 1762–1833). b. Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York, opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society 1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827; Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. d. York 20 Oct. 1877. bur. York 26 Oct. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 282–323; Congregational year book (1878) 332–5; Congregational magazine (1831) 229–40; Congregationalist (1877) 748–53; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait and xvi 250–2, 365; E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials (1878) 343–80.

PARSONS, JOHN MEESON (youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport, Shropshire). b. Newport 27 Oct. 1798; a member of the Stock exchange, London; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1839; a director of London and Brighton railway company 9 Feb. 1843 to 21 Aug. 1848, chairman 19 June 1843 to 11 April 1844; a director of the Shropshire union railway 1845–9; resided at 6 Raymond buildings, Gray’s inn to 1869; collected a gallery of pictures of the German and Dutch schools and of water-colour drawings by English artists; bequeathed 92 oil and 47 water-colour paintings to South Kensington museum 1870; he also gave three pictures to the National gallery, and many fine engravings to British Museum. d. 45 Russell sq. Bloomsbury, London 25 March 1870. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi 252–3 (1871).

PARSONS, NEEDHAM THOMPSON. b. 1 Nov. 1826; ensign 1 European Bengal fusiliers 26 July 1845; captain 101 foot 12 March 1858, major 15 Sept. 1869; lieut.-col. 103 foot 24 July 1872, placed on h.p. 8 Dec. 1877; lieut.-col. regimental district 19 Dec. 1877 to 19 Dec. 1882; honorary M.G. 17 Nov. 1883; served in the Burmese war 1852–3, the Indian mutiny 1857, and the Indian north west frontier war 1863. d. Isle of Man 7 Aug. 1895.

PARSONS, PERCIVAL MOSES (son of John Parsons of Seraptoft house, Leics.) b. London 1819; under chief engineer Portsmouth dockyard 1834–6; articled to Braithwaite, Milner & co. 1836–40; engaged laying out Eastern counties’ railway 1841–5; an engineer in London from 1850; invented improved switches and axle-boxes; connected with the Permanent way co.; designed a central railway station for London on north bank of the Thames, near Charing Cross 1853; patented an invention for rifled cannon which had occupied him 8 years; patented improved bolts Feb. 1867; engineer to the Bessemer steel and ordnance co. 1871; invented white brass for shaft bearings, and manganese bronze for propellers; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1873; took out 52 patents 1851–89; author of Proposed London railway 1853; Guns versus armour plates 1863. d. Melbourne house, Blackheath, Kent 5 Nov. 1892. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxi 385–9 (1893).

PART, JAMES. b. Wigan 1809; apprentice to Christopher Morris of Wigan; educ. St. Bartholomew’s, Aldersgate sch. and Univ. coll.; L.S.A. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1854; F.M.C. and C.S. 1851; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1860; surgeon Artists’ annuity fund soc.; president North London medical soc.; author of Medical and surgical case book. d. 89 Camden road, London 1 Oct. 1875. Lancet 24 Dec. 1875 p. 931; Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc. viii 71 (1875).

PARTINGTON, CHARLES FREDERICK. Lecturer on modern improvements in mechanics and on other subjects at mechanics’ institutions; published Lectures on select subjects in mechanics and hydrostatics by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present state of science 1825; The century of inventions by the Marquis of Worcester, with notes and a biographical memoir 1825; edited The scientific gazette July 1825 to 4 Feb. 1826; edited with Wm. Newton the second series of The London journal of arts and sciences, 9 vols. 1834–42; edited with other authors The British cyclopædia of arts and sciences, 10 vols. 1835–8; author of An historical and descriptive account of the steam engine 1822, 3 ed. 1826; A brief account of the royal gardens, Vauxhall 1822; A manual of natural and experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 1828; The builder’s complete guide 1852; he was living in 1857.

PARTON, JAMES. b. Canterbury 9 Feb. 1822; taken to America 1827; a teacher in Philadelphia and New York; a contributor to the Home journal 3 years; a public lecturer; resided in New York to 1875, then at Newbury Port, Massachusetts; m. Jany. 1856 Sarah Payson Willis (1811–72) widow of Charles H. Eldredge, she became a well known author under the name of Fanny Fern; he was the author of The life of Horace Greeley 1855; General Butler in New Orleans 1864; The life of Aaron Burr 1861; Life of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1864; Life of J. J. Astor 1865; Famous Americans of recent time 1867; Eminent Women of the age 1868; People’s Book of biography 1869; Life of Thomas Jefferson 1874; Caricature and other comic art in all times 1877; The humorous poetry from Chaucer to Saxe 1881; Life of Voltaire, 2 vols. 1881; Life of Andrew Jackson, 3 vols. 1883. d. Newbury port, Massachusetts 17 Oct. 1891. Appleton’s American Biog. iv 665–6 (1888) portraits of J. and S. P. Parton.

PARTRIDGE, JOHN (son of Samuel Partridge). b. Glasgow 28 Feb. 1790; pupil of Thomas Phillips, R.A. about 1814; studied in France and Italy 1823–7; a fashionable portrait painter in London 1827; painted portraits of the queen and prince Albert 1840; portrait painter extraordinary to the queen 1842; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A. and 58 at B.I. 1815–61; presented to the National portrait gallery 1872 his picture entitled Meeting of the fine art commission at Gwydyr house, Whitehall in the year 1846; author of On the constitution and management of the royal academy 1864. d. 60 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Nov. 1872. Art Journal (1873) 44.

PARTRIDGE, RICHARD. b. 19 Jany. 1805; apprenticed to his uncle W. H. Partridge of Birmingham 1821–7; entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1827; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1852, examiner 1854, Hunterian orator 1865, and president 1866; L.S.A. 1827; demonstrator of anatomy at Kings’ college, London 1831–6, professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy 1836 to death; assistant surgeon to Charing Cross hospital 23 Dec. 1836, surgeon 8 Jany. 1838 to 13 April 1840; surgeon to Kings’ college hospital 13 April 1840 to 1870; F.R.S. 23 Feb. 1837; professor of anatomy at the royal academy 1853 to death; fellow of royal Med. and Chir. soc. of London 1828, secretary 1832–6, member of council 1837–8 and 1861–2, vice-pres. 1847–8, president 1863–4. d. 18 Wimpole st. London 25 March 1873. Illust. times 4 Oct. 1869 p. 369 portrait; Lancet 29 March 1873 pp. 456, 464.

NOTE.--The body of the murdered Italian boy Carlo Ferrari was brought to Kings’ coll. hospital for dissection, and it was through Partridge’s astuteness that the murderers Bishop and Williams were arrested, and executed 5 Dec. 1831.

PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM (1 son of John Partridge of Monmouth). b. 2 Jany. 1818; educ. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 12 June 1840; barrister M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; stipendiary magistrate, Wolverhampton 1860–3; police magistrate at the Thames court 2 April 1863, at Southwark 1867–79, at Westminster 1879–89, at Lambeth 1889–90, and at Marylebone 1890 to death; presided in his court 29 Aug. 1891. d. The Grange, Uxbridge road, London 10 Sept. 1891. Graphic 19 Sept. 1891 p. 327 portrait; I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1891 p. 369 portrait.

PASCO, JOHN. b. 20 Dec. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1784; lieutenant of the Victory in the Mediterranean April 1803; served at the blockade of Toulon, in the chase of the French fleet to the West Indies, and in the battle of Trafalgar, where as signal officer, he made Nelson’s famous signal England expects that every man will do his duty, severely wounded in the right arm for which he was afterwards granted pension of £250 a year; captain 3 April 1811; captain of the Rota frigate on the Lisbon station 1811–5; commanded the Victory at Portsmouth 1846; R.A. 22 Sept. 1847. d. East Stonehouse, Devon 16 Nov. 1853. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 869–70.

PASCOE, FRANCIS POLKINGHORNE (only child of Wm. Pascoe of Penzance, Cornwall, d. 1817). b. Penzance 1 Sept. 1813; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1835; assistant surgeon in the navy 1836–43; resided in London 1851–91, where he formed the entomological collection, which is in the Natural history museum at South Kensington; F.L.S. June 1852; member of Entomological society of London 1854, president 1864–5; author of Zoological classification 1877, 2 ed. 1880; Hints for collecting and preserving insects 1882; The student’s list of British coleoptera 1882; Notes on natural selection and the origin of species 1884; List of British vertebrate animals 1885; Analytical lists of the orders of the animal kingdom 1886; The Darwinian theory of the origin of species 1890. d. Brighton 20 June 1893. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 427–9, iii 1302 (1882–90); Entomologists’ monthly mag. (1893) 194–6.

PASHLEY, ROBERT (son of Robert Pashley of Hull). b. York 4 Sept. 1805; admitted at Trin. coll. Camb. 3 May 1825, fellow 1830–53; took a double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; travelled in Greece, Asia Minor and Crete 1833; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837, bencher 1851 to death; Q.C. July 1851; contested King’s Lynn 9 July 1852; assistant judge of the Middlesex sessions 19 Jany. 1856 to death; author of Travels in Crete, 2 vols. 1837; Pauperism and poor laws 1853; Observations on the government bill for abolishing the removal of the poor 1854, 2 ed. 1854. d. 16 Manchester sq. London 29 May 1859. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4 June. G.M. vii 191 (1859); Law Times xxxiii 154, 225 (1859).

NOTE.--He acquired great reputation as a settlement lawyer, raising the most ingenious points and arguing them with such pertinacity, that the act for regulating appeals which gave the court the power of amendment was jocosely called in Westminster Hall “An act for the better suppression of Pashley” about 1850.

PASLEY, CHARLES (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Brompton barracks, Chatham, Kent 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Rochester gr. sch. and R.M. Academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1843; served in Canada and Bermuda 1846–50; on the staff of the Great Exhibition 1851; colonial engineer to the colony of Victoria 18 Sept. 1853, member of legislative council 16 Oct. 1854; comr. of public works for Victoria 25 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857, professional head of department of public works 1857–60; served in the war in New Zealand 1860, where he was wounded in the attack of the pah at Kaihihi, for which he was granted a pension of £100 per annum; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; special agent for Victoria in London 1864 to Dec. 1868; in charge of the great extension works at Chatham dockyard Oct. 1865 to 1873; secretary to the committee on designs for ships of war Dec. 1870, member of the committee May 1871, drafted the report; colonel in the army April 1876, retired as major general Aug. 1881; director of engineering works and of architecture at the admiralty Sept. 1873 to Sept. 1882; acting agent general for Victoria with title of chairman of the board of advice May 1880 to 1882; C.B. 23 April 1880. d. 7 Queen Anne’s grove, Bedford park, Chiswick 11 Nov. 1890. Royal engineer’s journal (1891); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 388–92 (1891).

PASLEY, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM. b. Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire 8 Sept. 1780; educ. at Selkirk and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 April 1798, col. commandant 28 Nov. 1853 to death; served at the battle of Corunna, also in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege of Flushing 1809; director of the establishment for field instruction at Chatham June 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; hon. M.I.C.E. 1820; presented with freedom of city of London, for having removed the brig William and the schooner Glenmorgan from the bed of the Thames, near Gravesend in 1838; blew up wreck of the Royal George at Spithead 1839–43; formed the schools for the royal engineers and for the navy; inspector general of railways 23 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.S. 7 March 1816; general 20 Sept. 1860; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831, K.C.B. 21 Dec. 1846; author of Essay on the military policy and institutions of the British empire 1810, 4 ed. 1812; Course of instruction for use of the royal engineer department, 3 vols. 1814–7; A course of elementary fortifications, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1822; The practical operations of a siege, 2 parts 1829–32; Observations on limes, calcareous, cements, mortar, stuccos, and concretes 1838. d. 12 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 19 April 1861, portrait in royal engineers’ mess-room at Chatham. Proc. of royal society xii 20–5 (1862); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 545–50 (1862).

PASLEY, SIR THOMAS SABINE, 2 Baronet (only son of colonel John Sabine of the grenadier guards 1773–1805). b. Welbeck st. London 26 Dec. 1804; succeeded his grandfather sir Thomas Pasley as baronet 29 Nov. 1808; assumed surname of Pasley by R.L. 20 March 1809; entered navy Dec. 1818; captain 24 May 1831; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1849–54; captain of the Agamemnon in the Black sea Nov. 1854 to 31 Jany. 1856; superintendent of Devonport dockyard Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1866 to 25 Feb. 1869; admiral 20 Nov. 1866; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Moorhill, Shedfield, Botley, Hampshire 13 Feb. 1884.

PASSMORE, JOSEPH. b. 1822; member of firm of Alabaster and Passmore, printers and publishers, 34 Wilson st. Finsbury, London 1853, Alabaster died 1891; a member of C. H. Spurgeon’s church, actively assisted in building the Tabernacle institutions and in founding the Stockwell orphanage 1867; suggested the weekly issue of Spurgeon’s Sermons 1855 and continued printing it without intermission 36 years; printed and published the whole of Spurgeon’s works 1855–95. d. at his residence in London 1 Aug. 1895. Bookseller Sept. 1895 p. 778.

PASTA, GIUDITTA (dau. of Mr. Negri, a Jew). b. Sarrano, near Milan 1798; had a soprano voice of two octaves and a half, from A above the bass clef note to C flat and even to D in alt.; appeared at King’s theatre, London 11 Jany. 1817 as Telemaco in Cimarosa’s Penelope; then acted Cherubino in Nozze de Figaro; appeared at King’s theatre 24 April 1824 as Desdemona and was a great success, her salary being £14,000; was also seen in London 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1831, 1837, 1850; among her parts were Tancredi, Romeo, Desdemona, Medea, Semiramide, Maria Stuarda, Niobe, Anna Bolena, and Norma; lost her fortune in the failure of Guymuller’s bank, Vienna 1841. d. at her villa at Como 1 April 1865. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii 1–32 (1863) portrait; Musical gem for 1831 p. 2 portrait.

PASTRANA, JULIA, called the Nondescript; said to have been born near Copala, Mexico 1834; a servant to Pedro Sanchez, governor of the state of Sinaloa to 1854; brought to the United States April 1854 and was publicly exhibited; her nose, forehead, face, shoulders and arms were covered with thick black hair, and all her body was hairy except her bosom, hands and feet; had no apparent pupil in the eye, no cartilage in the nose; possessed double gums in her jaws, but only one row of front teeth; spoke and sang in English and Spanish, and danced the Highland fling, etc.; could sew, cook, wash and iron; 4 ft. 6 inches high and weighed 112 pounds; was exhibited at the Regent gallery 69 Quadrant, London Aug. 1857; m. Lewis B. Lent, circus manager. d. in childbirth at Moscow April 1860. Account of Miss Pastrana, London (1857) portrait; F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3 Series, ii 40–2 (1868); G. Van Hare’s Fifty years of a showman’s life (1888) 46.

NOTE.--Mr. Lent sold her body to Dr. Suckaloff for £500, who embalmed it so naturally that Lent thought he could make a fortune by exhibiting it and gave the doctor £800 for it, but the authorities would not allow him to show it in Russia; he exhibited it at the Burlington gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London in March 1862.

PATCH, JOHN. b. 1798; surgeon Bombay army 29 Dec. 1833; superintending surgeon in Sinde 31 March 1846 to 1848; surgeon general Bombay army 29 Aug. 1848, retired 17 Sept. 1849. d. Penzance, Cornwall 20 Aug. 1865.

PATE, ROBERT (son of Robert Francis Pate of Wisbeach, sheriff of Cambs. 1848). Cornet 10 hussars 5 Feb. 1841, lieut. 22 July 1842, sold out March 1846; struck the Queen on the head with his cane, outside Cambridge house, 94 Piccadilly 27 May 1850, sentenced at central criminal court to 7 years’ transportation 11 July 1850; resided Hobart Town, Tasmania. d. Broughton, Ross road, South Norwood, Surrey 6 Feb. 1895, will proved for £22,464. A.R. (1850) 73, 331–9; Griffith’s Newgate ii 93 (1884).

PATER, WALTER HORATIO (younger son of Richard Glode Pater of Shadwell, London, physician). b. Shadwell 4 Aug. 1839; educ. at Enfield and King’s school, Canterbury; entered Queen’s college, Oxford as a commoner 11 June 1858; B.A. 1862, M.A. 1865; fellow of Brasenose college 1864, junior dean 1866, tutor 1867–83, dean 1871, lecturer 1873; wrote an essay on Winckelmann in the Westminster Review Jany. 1867, which made him famous; wrote essays in the Fortnightly Review and other periodicals; is caricatured by W. H. Mallock in his novel The new republic, 2 vols. 1877, under the name of Mr. Rose; author of Studies in the history of the renaissance 1873, 2 ed. called The renaissance 1877, 4th thousand 1888; Marius the epicurean 1885, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1892; Imaginary portraits 1887; Appreciations, with an essay on style 1889; Plato and Platonism 1893; The child in the house, an imaginary portrait 1894. d. 64 St. Giles’s, Oxford 30 July 1894. bur. St. Giles’s cemet. Oxford 2 Aug., his sisters Hester and Clara Pater were granted civil list pensions of £50 each 8 Jany. 1895. W. H. Pater’s Greek Studies, a series of essays (1895) portrait; Contemporary Review Dec. 1894 pp. 795–810; I.L.N. 4 Aug. 1894 p. 135 portrait; Westminster Budget 3 Aug. 1894 p. 21 portrait.

PATERSON, ADAM (son of rev. Mr. Paterson). b. Kinghorn manse, Flint-shire 8 March 1811; educ. St. Andrew’s univ. LL.D. 1871; partner in firm of H. and R. Moncrieff, writers, Glasgow 1837 to death; defended some of directors of Western bank of Scotland 1857; dean of faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1870–5; member of Soc. of Sons of the clergy 1848 to death, and president 1858; a royal comr. on the Scotch courts of justice 1878, issued 5 reports. d. Springhall, Rutherglen, near Glasgow 1 July 1881. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 261–2 (1886) portrait; Law Times lxxi 254 (1881).

PATERSON, EMMA ANNE (dau. of Henry Smith 1808–64, head master of the schools of St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London). b. London 5 April 1848; a German and Italian scholar; assistant secretary of the Workmen’s club and institute union 1867–72; secretary of the Women’s suffrage association Feb. 1872, resigned 1873; visited America 1873; founded the Women’s protective and provident league 8 July 1874, honorary secretary to death, attended many annual conferences; contributed to the Labour News 1874; a delegate to the trade union congress at Glasgow, being the first female delegate 1875; edited the Women’s union journal, a monthly record of the league proceedings, started Feb. 1876, and wrote greater part of the contents; founded the Women’s printing society at Westminster 1876; m. 24 July 1873 Thomas Paterson 1828–1852; she d. at her lodgings in Great college st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1856. bur. in Paddington cemet. Willesden 6 Dec. The Woman’s union journal Dec. 1886 pp. 111–18; Englishwoman’s Rev. Dec. 1886 pp. 540–3.

PATERSON, JAMES (son of James Paterson, farmer at Struthers, Ayrshire). b. Struthers 18 March 1805; apprenticed to a printer at Kilmarnock; stationer and printer at Kilmarnock 1826–35; Dublin correspondent of the Glasgow Liberator 1835; wrote at Edinburgh the letter-press for Kay’s Edinburgh portraits 1837–9; edited the Ayr Observer 1839–46; author of The contemporaries of Burns and the more recent poets of Ayrshire 1840; History of the county of Ayr 1847; Memoir of James Fillans, sculptor 1854; Origin of the Scots and of the Scottish language 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Wallace and his times 1858, 4 ed. 1870. d. Edinburgh 26 May 1876. James Paterson’s Autobiographical reminiscences (1871) portrait.

PATERSON, JAMES (3 son of Alexander Paterson of Janefield, Lauder, Berwickshire). b. 1823: barrister M.T. 24 May 1850; author of The wine and beer house act 1869–70, with notes 1870; The bastardy laws amendment act 1872, 1873; The intoxicating liquor acts 1872; Commentaries on the liberty of the subject, 2 vols. 1877–8; The liberty of the press, speech, and public worship 1880; Notes on the law of master and servant 1885. d. 10 Hyde park mansions, London 10 Dec. 1894.

PATERSON, JOHN (3 child of George Paterson of Duntocher, near Glasgow). b. Duntocher 26 Feb 1776; educ. univ. of Glasgow 1798; a preacher under the rev. Robert Haldane; congregational missionary in Denmark 1804–7, at Stockholm 1807–12, at St. Petersburgh 1812; conducted the affairs of the Russian bible society 1822–5; served at Edinburgh as secretary for Scotland of the London missionary society many years; chairman of the committee of the Congregational union; doctor of theology univ. of Abo in Finland 1 Nov. 1817; author of The book for every land, reminiscences of labour in the work of bible circulation in the North of Europe and in Russia, edited by W. L. Alexander 1858, memoir pp. xi–xxxv. d. Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 6 July 1855. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 162–4.

PATERSON, JOSEPH. b. 1775; ensign 28 foot 17 May 1779; captain 77 foot 7 May 1807; major York chasseurs 29 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p. 14 Dec. 1819; lieut.-col. on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825; lieut.-col. rifle brigade 1 Jany. 1838 to 6 Feb. 1839, when placed on h.p.; colonel commandant of 60 rifles 14 April 1857 to death; a cavalry volunteer in Irish rebellion 1798; served in Egypt 1801, in the Peninsula 1811–14, also in the West Indies and Canada; L.G. 26 Aug. 1858. d. at the residence of his niece Lower Baggot st. Dublin 31 March 1863.

PATERSON, NATHANIEL (eld. son of Walter Paterson, stone-engraver). b. parish of Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire 1787; educ. univ. of Edinb.; church of Scotland minister of Galashiels 1821–33; minister of St. Andrew’s parish church, Glasgow 1833–43; minister of free St. Andrew’s, Glasgow 1844 to death; moderator of the free church assembly 1850; author of The Manse Garden 1836, 9th thousand 1860. d. Glasgow 25 April 1871. Letters to his family by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., with memoir by Rev. Alexander Anderson (1874).

PATERSON, NOEL HUNTINGDON (son of John Paterson, commander R.N., of Calcutta and Camberwell, London). b. London 14 June 1844; educ. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1853–63; exhibitioner of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1863, resigned to take Stuart exhibition at St. John’s coll. 1863; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1869; went south eastern circuit; published A manual of the usages of the stock exchange 1870; edited Woolrych’s Metropolitan building acts, 2 ed. 1877; assisted in editing Wharton’s Law lexicon, 6 ed. 1876. killed by an accident on the Lyskamm, near Zermatt 6 Sept. 1877. bur. at Zermatt 10 Sept. Law Times lxiii 353 (1877).

PATERSON, THOMAS (son of Robert Paterson of Plewlands, Ayrshire). b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1795, col. commandant 15 Aug. 1850 to death; served in Canada and West Indies 1796–1804, in expedition to Copenhagen 1807, and in Walcheren expedition 1809; superintendent of royal military repository at Woolwich 1836–46; L.G. 30 June 1854. d. Woolwich 13 June 1856.

PATERSON, THOMAS (son of a cabinet maker in London). b. Elgin 1828; a cabinet maker and wood carver in London; a political economist; member of council of Women’s protective and provident league 1874; hon. sec. Clerkenwell Working men’s club 1863; hon. sec. of Working men’s club and Institute union 1866, vice-chairman of the council; member of council of Workmen’s Peace association to death; with Auberon Herbert and J. W. Probyn organised the Workmen’s international exhibition at Agricultural hall, London 1870; much engaged in endeavouring to improve the education and prosperity of the working classes. d. 2 Queen sq. place, Bloomsbury, London 15 Oct. 1882. bur. Paddington cemet. Willesden 19 Oct. T. Paterson’s A new method of mental science (1886) memoir pp. i–viii; The women’s union journal Nov. 1882 pp. 89–90.

PATERSON, THOMAS VARLEY. b. 1811; author and journalist in England and America; author of How to get money quickly or thirty ways of making a fortune 1868; The art of living or good advice for the young and old 1875. d. 35 Harrison st. Gray’s Inn road, London 2 Feb. 1880.

PATERSON, WILLIAM (son of a market gardener). b. Shepherd’s Loan, Dundee; assisted in his father’s business; experimented in raising new varieties of potatoes from 1853; produced the new varieties known as Paterson’s Seedlings, which since 1860 have been extensively cultivated, not only in the United Kingdom but also on the Continent, in America and Australasia; awarded silver medal of Manchester and Liverpool agricultural society and gold medal of Highland and agricultural society of Scotland; received medal of the Erfurt society and their diploma of honour. d. 3 Jany. 1870. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 352.

PATESHALL, EVAN (youngest son of David Thomas of Welfield, Radnor). b. 21 Dec. 1817; educ. Shrewsbury and King’s coll. London; M.P. Hereford 1874–8; m. 1842 Anne Elizabeth, only child of William Pateshall of Hereford, and assumed name of Pateshall 1855. d. Allensmore court, Hereford 9 April 1885.

PATEY, CHARLES GEORGE EDWARD (son of Charles Patey, commander R.N.). b. 1811; entered navy 20 Jany. 1824, commander 4 Nov. 1840; commanded the Resistance troopship March 1842 to 18 May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; organized the emigration from Liverpool to Australia 1851 and was head emigration officer at Liverpool to 1852 when he received a testimonial; captain of the Amphion at Sheerness Dec. 1852 to 1853; emigration officer at Plymouth 1855–7; superintendent of the packet service at Southampton 1857–64; administrator at Lagos 1866, at the Gambia Oct. 1866; governor of St. Helena 6 Dec. 1869, retired on abolition of the office 1873; C.M.G. 8 May 1874; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. Newton St. Loe, near Bath 25 March 1881. I.L.N. xxii 181 (1853), view of testimonial plate.

PATEY, CHARLES HENRY BENNET (son of preceding). b. 1844; clerk in secretary’s office, Post office, London 1863; actively employed in purchasing the telegraphic lines from the railway companies 1868 etc.; assist. sec. to post office 1877; third sec. 1882; conducted negotiations for taking over telephones from private companies 1881; re-organised the department on introduction of sixpenny telegrams 1883; attended International telegraph congresses and corresponded with continental governments on international telegraphy; C.B. 3 Aug. 1886; m. 1871 Helen, dau. of Nathaniel Overberry, she was granted civil list pension of £200, 10 May 1889. d. South lawn, Bickley, Kent 28 March 1889.

PATEY, JANET MONACH (dau. of Andrew Whytock of London, grocer). b. 30 Kingsgate st. Holborn, London 1 May 1842; first sang in 1860 at Birmingham, under name of Ellen Andrews; pupil of Ciro Pinsuti and Mrs. Sims Reeves; made her first concert tour 1865; m. 23 April 1866 John George Patey, baritone singer; principal contralto at Worcester festival 1866, at Birmingham 1867, and at Norwich 1869; the principal English contralto 1870 to death; sang in America 1871; sang in four performances of the Messiah in French in Paris Jany. 1875; sang at two conservatoire concerts there 31 Jany. and 7 Feb. 1875, when presented with a medal; was known as the English Alboni; made a tour in Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan 1890; began a farewell tour of the English provinces at end of 1893. d. of apoplexy at the royal Victoria hotel, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1894. bur. Brompton cemet. London 3 March. Biograph Jany. 1882 pp. 36–8; London sketch book 7 Aug. 1875 pp. 8–9 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news v 12 (1876) portrait, xv 217 (1881) portrait, 3 March 1894 p. 885 portrait; I.L.N. lxvi 391, 393 (1875) portrait.

PATMORE, GURNEY (younger brother of Coventry Patmore, poet, b. 1823). Sub-editor of Daily News; edited Derby Mercury; connected with Melbourne Argus; returned to England about 1868. d. Manchester 24 March 1883.

PATMORE, HENRY (3 son of Coventry Patmore the poet, b. 1823). b. Finchley 8 May 1860; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 1870–7; matric. at univ. of London 1877; lost sight of one eye 1878; went a voyage to the Cape 1881; articled to Henry Watson Parker, solicitor, London 1882; author of Poems by Henry Patmore (1884) memoir pp. i–vi. d. Hastings 24 Feb. 1883.

PATMORE, PETER GEORGE (son of Peter Patmore, dealer in plate and jewellery). b. Ludgate hill, London 1786; friend of Charles Lamb and Wm. Hazlitt from 1824; edited the New monthly magazine 1841–53; contributed to the Liberal, the Westminster and the Retrospective reviews, Blackwood and the London magazines; author of Letters on England, by Count Victoire de Soligny [a pseudonym], 2 vols. 1823; Mirror of the month 1826, anon; British galleries of art 1824, anon; Imitations of celebrated authors, or imaginary rejected articles 1826, anon, 4 ed. 1844; Sir Thomas Lawrence’s cabinet of gems 1837; Chatsworth or the romance of a week, 3 vols. 1844, anon; Finden’s Gallery of beauty, or the court of queen Victoria 1844; Marriage in Mayfair, a comedy 1854; My friends and acquaintances, recollections of deceased celebrities of the nineteenth century, 3 vols. 1855. d. near Hampstead 25 Dec. 1855.

NOTE.--W. Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris 1823 was based on letters written by P. G. Patmore, and some of Charles Lamb’s epistles are addressed to him. P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii 34–9 (1886).

PATON, ADAM (son of Hugh Paton, publisher). b. Edinburgh 1836; an inventor of lithographic machines; was engaged in working at a multi-colour machine at time of his death. d. Belston road, Leeds 7 Jany. 1893.

PATON, ANDREW ARCHIBALD (son of Andrew Paton, saddler). b. 75 Broughton st. Edinburgh 19 March 1811; travelled in Eastern Europe, Syria, and Egypt; private secretary to colonel George Hodges in Egypt 1839–40; acting consul-general in Servia Oct. 1843; vice-consul at Missolonghi in Greece 5 April 1858, and at Lubeck 19 Aug. 1859; consul at Ragusa and at Bocca di Cattaro 12 May 1862 to death; F.R.G.S. 11 Feb. 1857; author of The modern Syrians. By An Oriental student 1844; Servia, or a residence in Belgrade 1845, 2 ed. 1855; Highlands and islands of the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1849; The Mamelukes: a romance of life in Grand Cairo, 3 vols. 1851, republished as Melusina, a new Arabian nights entertainment 1861; Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic, 2 vols. 1861. d. 5 April 1874.

PATON, JOHN STAFFORD (son of John Forbes Paton, captain Bengal engineers). b. 3 March 1821; lieut. 14 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840, captain 8 Feb. 1851; served in the Sikh war 1845–6, and the Punjaub campaign 1848–9; A.Q.M.G. at Lahore 12 Sept. 1851, deputy Q.M.G. 15 Sept. 1858, Q.M.G. in Bengal 10 April 1863 to 1868; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; was mentioned in despatches and orders 30 times; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 86 Oxford terrace, London 28 Nov. 1889.

PATON, Mary Ann (eld. dau. of George Paton, writing-master at the Edinburgh high school). b. Edinburgh Oct. 1802; appeared at public concerts as a singer and as a performer on the harp and pianoforte 1811; sang at concerts in London 1811–14; played Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro at the Haymarket 3 Aug. 1822; sang at Covent Garden as Mandane in Artaxerxes, Rosetta in Love in a village, Adriana in The comedy of errors, and Clara in The Duenna 21 Dec. 1825; sang Agatha in Der Freischutz 14 Oct. 1824, and created part of Reiza in Weber’s opera Oberon 12 April 1826; the leading English soprano singer many years; sang in La Cenerentola and other Italian operas at the King’s theatre 1831, and Alice in Robert le Diable at Drury Lane 1832; sang in America 1834–6; retired to a convent for a year, but reappeared at Princess’s theatre and at concerts, finally retired 1844; became a Roman catholic 1843; lived abroad 1854–63; m. (1) 7 May 1824 lord Wm. Pitt Lennox (1799–1881), she obtained a divorce in the Scotch court of session in 1831; m. (2) 1831 Joseph Woods, tenor singer; she d. Bulcliffe hall, near Chapelthorpe, Wakefield 21 July 1864. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii 45–67 (1863); The London stage, vol. iv portrait; Georgian era iv 309 (1834); W. Ball’s London Spring Annual for 1834, pp. 34–35 portrait; Musical Gem for 1832, p. 46 portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography v 19 (1826) portrait.

PATON, WALLER HUGH (son of Joseph Neil Paton, damask designer). b. Wooers-Alley, Dunfermline 27 July 1828; pupil of John Houston, R.S.A.; an associate of the R.S.A. 1857, member 1865, contributed pictures to its exhibitions 1851 to death; prepared with his brother, sir Noel Paton, illustrations for Aytoun’s Lays of the Scottish cavaliers 1863; exhibited 16 landscapes at Royal academy, London 1860–80; F.S.A. Scotland 1869; member of royal Scottish society of water-colour painters 1878; his diploma picture Lamlash Bay is in the national gallery, Edinburgh; illustrated Poems and songs of R. Burns 1868; and The poetical works of E. A. Poe 1869. d. 14 George sq. Edinburgh 8 March 1895.

PATON, WALTER. b. 1793; an eminent penman; author of Penmanship 1825; Paton’s Flowers of penmanship 1840. d. Richmond, Surrey 11 Sept. 1855.

PATRICK, JOHN GEORGE. b. 4 June 1803; a musical composer; made collections of books, paintings, and minerals; Associate British Archæol. assoc. from 1847; composer of Forget me not, a ballad 1829. d. 20 Feb. 1859. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvi 168 (1860).

PATTEN, GEORGE (son of Wm. Patten, miniature-painter, d. 1843). b. 29 June 1801; student at the R.A. 1816; painted miniatures 1819–30, and portraits and historical pictures 1830 to death; A.R.A. 1837; portrait painter in ordinary to the prince consort; painted the only portrait of Paganini, the violinist, exhibited at the R.A. 1833; exhibited his own portrait at the R.A. 1858; painted mythological, fancy, and scriptural subjects; exhibited 131 pictures at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1819–64. d. Hill house, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex 11 March 1865. bur. St. James’s churchyard, Friern, Barnet. Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 211 (1862).

PATTERSON, ALEXANDER SIMPSON (son of Robert Paterson of Crofthouse, Alnwick). Licensed by presbytery of Dunbar 5 Dec. 1822; minister at Whitehaven 3 May 1837; elected by Glasgow church building soc. 11 March 1839, served to 28 June 1843; called to the Free church, St. Andrews 1847; minister of Hutchesonton free church, Hospital st. Glasgow to death; edited The Imperial illustrated bible 1858; The self-explanatory family bible 1859; Illustrated family bible 1876; author of A brief commentary on the First epistle to the Thessalonians 1846; A commentary on the Hebrews 1856; Commentaries on the First epistle to the Thessalonians, the Epistle of James, and the First epistle of John 1857; Poets and preachers of the nineteenth century 1862; The Redeemer and the redemption, discourses 1865; Sketches in verse of a continental tour 1866. d. 1885. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 238–44; H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part 1 p. 48.

PATTERSON, SIR JAMES BROWN (youngest son of James Patterson, district road inspector). b. Alnwick, Northumberland 18 Nov. 1833; went to Forest Creek goldfields, Victoria 1852; member for Castlemaine of legislative assembly of Victoria 1871 to death; comr. of public works and vice-president of the board of land and works 23 Aug. to 20 Oct. 1875 and 28 May 1877 to March 1880; postmaster general July 1878 to March 1880 and Sept. to Nov. 1890; minister of railways Aug. 1880 to July 1881; minister of customs Feb. 1889 to Sept. 1890; minister of public works June to Sept. 1890; K.C.M.G. 26 May 1894. d. Melbourne 30 Oct. 1895. I.L.N. 9 Feb. 1895 p. 574 portrait; Daily Graphic 12 July 1893 p. 4 portrait.

PATTERSON, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Patterson, merchant). b. Belfast 18 April 1802; apprenticed to his father’s business 1818; one of the 8 founders of the Natural history society of Belfast 1821, president many years; an early member of British association, one of the secretaries of the natural history section 1839–44; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; one of the Belfast harbour comrs. 1858–70; author of Letters on the insects mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays 1838; Introduction to zoology 1848; First steps to zoology 1849; Patterson’s Zoological diagrams 1859. d. 6 College sq. North, Belfast 14 Feb. 1872.

PATTERSON, ROBERT. b. Cappagh, co. Tyrone 12 Jany. 1792; taken to Delaware county, Pennsylvania 1798; served in the war of 1812 as first lieut. of infantry; major general of volunteers in the Mexican war; commanded the Pennsylvania militia; M.G. of volunteers in the civil war 15 April to 27 July 1861; one of the largest mill-owners in the United States; president of board of trustees of Lafayette college; author of A narrative of the campaign in the valley of the Shenandoah 1865. d. Philadelphia 7 Aug. 1881. Appleton’s American biography iv 673 (1888) portrait.

PATTERSON, ROBERT HOGARTH. b. Edinburgh Dec. 1821; press-corrector in John Ballantyne’s printing office; edited the Edinburgh Advertiser 1852–8; editor in London of The Press 1858, afterwards proprietor; edited The Globe newspaper 1865–9; member of board of referees appointed by parliament to investigate and report upon the best means of purification of coal-gas in London 1869 to death; edited in Glasgow the Glasgow News 1872–4; F.S.S., member of council; author of The new revolution, or the Napoleonic policy in Europe 1860; Essays in history and art 1862; The economy of capital, or gold and trade 1865; The science of finance 1868; Robespierre, a lyrical drama 1877; The new golden age and the influence of the precious metals upon the world, 2 vols. 1882. d. 22 Wingate road, Hammersmith, Middlesex 13 Dec. 1886. Athenæum ii 863 (1886).

PATTERSON, WILLIAM THOMAS LAIRD (son of James Patterson of 57 Wimpole st. London). b. 17 Oct. 1820; ensign 91 foot 22 Feb. 1839, lieut-col. 12 Nov. 1860, placed on h.p. 16 Jany. 1869; brigadier major in Greece 2 June 1855 to 24 Dec. 1855; assistant adjutant general Cork district 1 July 1870 to 30 June 1875; lieut.-col. 88 foot 23 Oct. 1875, placed on h.p. 18 Dec. 1875; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 2 April 1889.

PATTESON, SIR JOHN (2 son of rev. Henry Patteson of Drinkstone, Suffolk). b. Coney Weston, Suffolk 11 Feb. 1790; educ. at Eton 1802–8; scholar of King’s coll. Camb. 1809, fellow 1812, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; the first Davies univ. scholar 1810; student at Middle Temple 1813, barrister 6 July 1821; began practice as a special pleader 1821; one of the legal comrs. on the reform of the Welsh judicature 1829; judge of court of king’s bench 12 Nov. 1830, resigned 10 Feb. 1852, when presented with a testimonial by the Metropolitan common law clerks 30 June; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852, member of the judicial committee; a comr. to examine into the state of the city of London July 1853; arbitrator in disputes between the crown and duchy of Cornwall, between the post office and the Great Western railway, and between the university and town of Cambridge; edited Sir E. Saunders’ The reports of cases in the king’s bench, 5 ed. 1824, another ed. 1845. d. Feniton court, Honiton, Devon 28 June 1861. bur. Feniton churchyard 5 July, memorial window placed in Feniton church Jany. 1865. E. Manson’s Builders of our law (1895) 95–9 portrait; Creasy’s Eminent Etonians (1876) 589–90; I.L.N. xxii 45 (1852), view of testimonial; Law Magazine xlvii 90–104 (1852); Law magazine and law review xiii 197–224 (1862); Foss’s Judges ix 235 (1864).

NOTE.--No other instance has ever occurred of a barrister of only nine years’ practice being raised to the bench.

PATTESON, JOHN COLERIDGE (elder son of preceding). b. 1827; educ. Ottery, St. Mary gr. sch. 1835–8, and Eton 1838–45, captain of the cricket eleven; a commoner of Balliol coll. Oxford 1845–8; B.A. 1848, M.A. 1853, D.D. 1861; fellow of Merton 1852 to death; C. of Alphington, South Devon Sept. 1853 to March 1855; landed at Auckland, New Zealand May 1855; took boys from the Melanesian islands and taught them in New Zealand 1856–61; missionary bishop in Melanesia 1861 to death; learnt to speak 23 languages, translated into the Mata language the gospels of St. Luke and St. John and other parts of scripture; killed by the natives on the island of Nukapu, Melanesia 20 Sept. 1871. bur. at sea 21 Sept., memorial cross erected at Nukapu 1884. C. M. Yonge’s Life of J. C. Patteson, 2 vols. (1878), two portraits; F. Awdry’s Story of a fellow soldier (1875); Creasy’s Eminent Etonians (1876) 624–8; I.L.N. lix 559, 561 (1871) portrait, lxiv 383, 384 (1874) portrait.

PATTI, CARLOTTA (dau. of Salvator Patti, singer, d. 21 Aug. 1869). b. Florence 30 Oct. 1835; first appeared as a concert singer at Academy of music, New York 1861; toured in North America with Max Strakosch’s concert party 1862; came to London 22 March 1863; sang at Covent Garden theatre and Crystal palace 16 April and 9 May 1863; sang in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1863–9; sang the Queen of the night in Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte and other parts with Strakosch’s company in New York 1869; sang in Rossini’s Barber of Seville and in Don Pasquale at Buenos Ayres 1870; sang with Mario in the United States 1872, and at the London Philharmonic, and other concerts from 1872; had a soprano voice extending from C below the clef to G sharp in alt.; retired 1879; m. 3 Sept. 1879 Ernest de Munck, solo violoncellist to the grand duke of Saxe Weimar; she d. from cancer at her house, Rue Pierre-Charron, Paris 27 June 1889. London sketch book Nov. 1874 pp. 1–2 portrait; Illust. news of the world xi 221 (1862) portrait; Illust. sporting news iv 441 (1865) portrait, v 529 (1866) portrait; Illust. times 13 June 1863 p. 405 portrait.

PATTINSON, HUGH LEE (son of Thomas Pattinson of Alston, Cumberland, retail trader d. 19 May 1812). b. Alston 25 Dec. 1796; assay master to the lords of the manor at Alston 1825, discovered method of separating the silver from lead ore Jany. 1829, which he patented 1833; manager of Wentworth Beaumont’s lead works 1831–4; established with John Lee and George Burnett chemical works at Felling 1834, and at Washington, 1843, both in Durham; his process for desilverisation of lead has led to the invention of the German verb Pattinsoniren and French substantive Pattinsonage; discovered a simple method for obtaining white lead, by a process which gave rise to formation of the new compound oxychloride of lead, patented 1841, a new process also patented 1841 for manufacturing magnesia alba; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S.; F.C.S.; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; author of 8 papers on lead mining and electrical phenomena; originally a quaker but was baptised into the church of England 23 Dec. 1815 when he took the additional name of Lee. d. Scot’s House, near Gateshead 11 Nov. 1858. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv 273–320 (1873) portrait; Percy’s Metallurgy lead (1875) 121–44.

PATTISON, DOROTHY WYNDLOW (youngest dau. of Mark James Pattison 1788–1865, rector of Haukswell, near Richmond, Yorkshire). b. Haukswell 16 Jany. 1832; village schoolmistress in parish of Little Woolston, near Blatchley, Bucks. 1861–4; member of the sisterhood of the Good Samaritan at Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire 1864, and adopted the name of Sister Dora; nurse at a small cottage hospital at Walsall 1865, was in charge of the new hospital built 1867, resigned Feb. 1877; trained lady nurses at Walsall; left the community of the Good Samaritan 1874; was in charge of the municipal epidemic hospital in Walsall Feb. 1877 to 21 June 1878, where the cases were chiefly smallpox. d. Walsall 24 Dec. 1878, memorial window in the parish church and statue unveiled at Walsall 11 Oct. 1886. M. Lonsdale’s Sister Dora (1880) portrait; Ridsdale’s Sister Dora (1880); Sister Dora and her statue, Walsall (1886) portrait; Fortnightly Review May 1880 pp. 656–71.

PATTISON, GEORGE HANDASYDE (eld. son of Wm. Pattison of Wooler, Northumberland). b. Wooler 1806; educ. high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate in Edinburgh 1834; sheriff of counties of Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk 1868 to death. d. 9 Albyn place, Edinburgh 5 April 1885.

PATTISON, GRANVILLE SHARP (youngest son of John Pattison of Kelvin Grove, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1792; member of faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow 1813; lectured privately on anatomy in Philadelphia 1818; professor of anatomy, physiology, and surgery in the univ. of Maryland in Baltimore 1820–5; returned to England July 1827; professor of anatomy at London univ. 1827, removed from his professorship 23 July 1831; surgeon to the univ. dispensary to 1831; professor of anatomy in the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia 1831–40; professor of anatomy in univ. of New York 1840 to death; edited the American recorder 1820, and the Register and library of medical and chirurgical science, Washington 1833–6; co-editor of the American medical library and intelligencer, Philadelphia 1836; translated J. N. Masse’s Anatomical atlas, New York 1881; author of Experimental observations on the operation of lithotomy, Philadelphia 1820; A lecture on the question, has the parotid gland ever been extirpated 1833. d. New York 12 Nov. 1851. Pattison’s Statement of his connexion with university of London (1831); New York journal of medicine viii 143 (1852).

PATTISON, MARK (brother of Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison 1832–78). b. Hornby, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1813; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1851; lived in Newman’s house in St. Aldate’s 1838–9; fellow of Lincoln coll. 8 Nov. 1839 to 1860, Greek lecturer 1841, tutor 1843–55, bursar 1843, sub-rector 1846, rector Feb. 1861 to death; Denyer theological prizeman 1841 and 1842; examiner in school of literæ humaniores 1848, 1853, and 1870; assistant comr. to report upon continental education 1859; pro vice-chancellor 1861; curator of Bodleian library May 1869; curator of Taylor institution at Oxford 4 March 1873; contributed Tendencies of religious thought in England 1688–1750 to Essays and reviews 1860, which went to 5 editions; wrote the articles Religion and philosophy in the literary chronicle of the Westminster Review to end of 1855; wrote for the Saturday Review 1855–77; edited for the Clarendon press Pope’s Essay on man 1869, 2 ed. 1872, and Pope’s Satires and epistles 1872, 2 ed. 1874; wrote seven biographical notices in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; collected about 14,000 volumes, the largest private library, at Oxford, which was sold at Sotheby’s July and Aug. 1885; is drawn by Rhoda Broughton in her novel Belinda 1883 as professor Forth; author of The life of Isaac Casaubon 1875, 2 ed. 1892; Sermons 1885; Essays, 2 vols. 1889. d. Harrogate 30 July 1884. bur. in Harlow Hill churchyard, near Harrogate. Memoirs by Mark Pattison, edited by Mrs. Pattison (1885); L. A. Tollemache’s Stones of stumbling (1893) 119–203; Temple Bar, Jany. 1885 pp. 31–49; Journal of education (1885) 149, 253–65, 427–8; Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1884 pp. 401–8; Academy 9 Aug. 1884 pp. 92–4; I.L.N. lxxxv 181 (1884) portrait.

PATTISON, SAMUEL ROWLES (son of S. R. Pattison 1785–1865). b. Stroud, Gloucs. 27 October 1809; a solicitor 1831; at Launceston, Cornwall 1836–53; F.G.S.; solicitor London 1853; head of firm of Pattison, Wigg, Gurney, and King, solicitors 11 Queen Victoria st. London 1875; author of Chapters on fossil botany 1849; Some account of the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Launceston 1852; Notes on Launceston castle 1852; The religious topography of England 1882; The earth and the world, or geology for bible students 1858; On the history of evangelical christianity 1875; The rise and progress of religious life in England 1864; resident at 17 Edwardes square, Kensington 1896.

PATTLE, THOMAS. b. 21 Dec. 1812; cornet 16 light dragoons 13 June 1834, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to 11 Feb. 1859; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 11 Feb. 1859 to 12 July 1868, when placed on h.p.; served in China as brigadier in command of cavalry in the campaign of 1860; col. 2 dragoon guards 27 Oct. 1881 to death; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 5 Camden crescent, Dover 21 Dec. 1881.

PATTLE, WILLIAM. b. 1783; cadet 1798; cornet in Bengal 19 March 1801, capt. 8 Jany. 1816, major 26 June 1826; lieut.-col. 4 Bengal light cavalry 27 April 1833; lieut. col. of 10 light cavalry 1837–8, of 8 light cavalry 1838–40, of 1 light cavalry 1840–1, and of 9 light cavalry 1841–3; commanded the cavalry throughout sir Charles Napier’s campaign in Scinde 1843; aide-de-camp to the queen 4 July 1843 to 20 June 1854; col. 1 Bengal light cavalry 5 Jan. 1844 to 1848; col. 11 light cavalry 1848–49; col. 4 light cavalry 1849–58; col. 3 European light cavalry 1858–62; col. 19 hussars 30 Sept. 1862 to death; general 9 Oct. 1863; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Dawlish, Devon 9 Feb. 1865.

PATTON, ARTHUR (son of a clergyman). b. 1854; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1876; called to the Irish bar 1884; an energetic speaker against the home rule movement in England and Scotland from 1886; a musician; edited Blue, white and red, a Christmas annual, Rathmines, Dublin 1872. d. Cirencester 20 Oct. 1892. Times 21 Oct. 1892 p. 7.

PATTON, GEORGE, Lord Glenalmond (3 son of James Patton, sheriff-clerk of Perthshire). b. the Cairnies, Perth 1803; educ. univ. of Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. Camb. 1826; admitted advocate 1828; solicitor general for Scotland 3 May 1859; M.P. Bridgwater Aug. 1865 to May 1866; contested Bridgwater 7 June 1866; lord advocate 12 July 1866; lord justice clerk and lord president of second division, with title of lord Glenalmond 27 Feb. 1867 to death; P.C. 4 Nov. 1867; planted extensive forests of coniferous trees on his Glenalmond estate 1831 etc.; cut his throat and threw himself into the river Almond at Glenalmond 20 Sept. 1869, body found near bridge of Buchanty 24 Sept. bur. Monzie churchyard. T. Hunter’s Woods, forests, and estates of Perthshire (1883) 356–64; Law mag. and law review xxix 267–71 (1870); Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 195 (1869); Law Journal iv 520, 534 (1869).

PATTON, HUGH (son of colonel Patton, governor of St. Helena). Entered navy Oct. 1804; commanded the Alban 12 guns on Plymouth station 1815–18; captain 12 Aug. 1819; retired 1 Oct. 1846; R.A. 19 Jany. 1852, V.A. 10 Sept. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. d. Cockspur st. London 18 March 1864.

PATTON, JOHN. b. 24 March 1800; ensign 33 foot 18 Sept. 1817; lieut. 46 foot 1821; captain 12 foot 16 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 18 Aug. 1843; inspecting field officer of recruits 8 Feb. 1850 to 19 Feb. 1859; col. of 47 foot 8 Dec. 1867 and of 12 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; general 10 Oct. 1874. d. Vicar’s Hill, Lymington, Hampshire 27 Feb. 1888.

PATTON, ROBERT (son of Charles Patton, captain R.N.) b. 1791; entered navy 1 Feb. 1804; served at battle of Trafalgar 1805; captain 30 April 1827; retired R.A. 7 Aug. 1854; retired admiral 16 Sept. 1864. d. Fareham, Hampshire 30 Aug. 1883. Graphic xix 217 (1879) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiii 285 (1883) portrait.

PATTON-BETHUNE, ANNE FLORENCE LOUISA MARY (2 dau. of Walter Douglas Phillips Patton-Bethune of Clayton priory, Sussex, b. 1821, col. 74 highlanders). b. Stoke house, Stoke St. Mary, near Taunton 17 March 1866; a good horsewoman, well known in the Sussex hunting fields; author of 2 novels Debonnair Dick 1892; Bachelors to the rescue 1894, 2 ed. 1894; while lieut. Constantine Palæologus of 29 Punjaub infantry was driving her in a tandem in Hyde park on 12 April 1894 the horses bolted and she was thrown out, she was taken to St. George’s hospital and d. of a fracture of the skull 13 April.

PATULLO, DAVID. b. near Brechin about 1806; a grocer in Dundee; emigrated to New York about 1830; a liquor seller in New York especially of Scotch whiskey, became known as ‘The whiskey punch king’; left a fortune of half a million dollars. d. New York Sept. 1868. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 317–8.

PATULLO, JAMES BRODIE. Ensign 30 foot 24 April 1840, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; present at Alma and Inkermann. killed in the storming of Sebastopol 8 Sept. 1855.

PATY, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (son of William Paty of Bristol). b. 1788; ensign 32 foot 28 April 1804, captain 28 April 1808, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; served in Copenhagen 1807, and in the Peninsula 1811–14; major 96 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on h.p. 9 June 1825; lieut. col. 94 foot 11 June 1826 to 31 Dec. 1841, when placed on h.p.; granted distinguished service reward 1 April 1848; col. 70 foot 8 May 1854 to death; general 14 March 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; K.H. 1832. d. 24 Regent st. London 8 May 1868. I.L.N. lii 523 (1868).

PAUL, HAMILTON. b. Parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 10 April 1773; educ. Glasgow univ.; partner in a printing establishment at Ayr; edited the Ayr Advertiser 3 years; licensed to preach by the presbytery 16 July 1800, assistant at Coylton 1800; minister of Broughton, Kilbucho, and Glenholm, Peebleshire 1813 to death; author of Paul’s first and second epistles to the dearly beloved the female disciples or female students of natural philosophy in Anderson’s institution, Glasgow 1800; Vaccination, or beauty preserved 1805; edited The works of Robert Burns 1819. d. Broughton 28 Feb. 1854. J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland i 498–500 (1876).

PAUL, ISABELLA, stage name of Isabella Hill (dau. of George Thomas Hill, leather merchant). b. Dartford, Kent 1833; educ. France and Italy; had a contralto voice ranging from A in the bass clef to A in alt.; first appeared in London as Isabella Featherstone at Strand theatre, playing captain Macheath in the Beggar’s opera March 1853; Lucy Lockit in Beggar’s opera Strand 5 May 1853; Juana in Mark Lemon’s Paula Lazarro Drury Lane 9 Jany. 1854; appeared at Wallack’s theatre, New York 10 Sept. 1855; acted Sir Launcelot de Lake in the Lancashire witches Lyceum 3 July 1858; m. 13 July 1854 at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London G. Henry Howard Paul, actor and dramatist, b. Philadelphia, U.S. of America 16 Nov. 1835 (son of Stephen Carmick Paul); they gave entertainments in London and the provinces from 1860, in which she imitated Sims Reeves, Henry Russell and other vocalists; gave an entertainment, Ripples on the Lake, Strand 2 Sept. 1867; she played Lady Macbeth and Hecate in Macbeth at Drury Lane Feb. 1869, and Mistigris in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; sang in comic opera in Paris; played the title role in Offenbach’s Grand Duchess at the Olympic 20 June 1868, and in Paris in a French version; played Little Gil Blas in Farnie’s extravaganza Little Gil Blas at Princess’s 24 Dec. 1870; toured the provinces with a company of her own in an entertainment 1873; played Lady Sangazure in W. S. Gilbert’s The Sorcerer at Opera Comique 17 Nov. 1877; taken ill while performing in The crisis at Sheffield 30 May 1879. d. 17 The Avenue, Bedford park, Turnham Green, London 6 June 1879. bur. Brompton cemet. 11 June. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 414; The Period 14 Jany. 1871 p. 15 portrait; Illust. sporting news vi 561 (1867) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news ii 489, 491 (1875) portrait, xi 302, 305 (1879) portrait; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 107, 721; Appleton’s American biography iv 678 (1888); The Era 1 June 1879 p. 9, 15 June p. 12. PAUL, JOHN. Presbyterian minister, Maybole; minister of St. Cuthbert’s or West Kirk, Edinb. 17 April 1827 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 27 April 1847; moderator of the general assembly 20 May 1847; author of The miraculous propagation of the gospel 1834. d. 4 Nov. 1883.

PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 1 Baronet (elder son of John Paul, M.D. of Salisbury, d. 15 June 1815). b. 25 Dec. 1775; educ. Westminster 1787, king’s scholar 1788; exhibited 20 landscapes at the R.A. 1802–37; partner in Snow, Strahan, Paul and co., bankers, which became Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, 218 Strand, London; baronet by patent dated 3 Sept. 1821; created D.C.L. Oxf. 13 June 1834; author of Journal of a party of pleasure in Paris 1802, 2 ed. 1814; The former times, an address by A Norfolk Independent whig 1820; Rouge et noir, Versailles, and other poems 1821 anon.; The man of ton, a satire 1828 anon.; Joseph, a poem 1840; Ruth, a poem, 1841; The country doctor’s horse, a tale 1847. d. Hill house, Stroud 16 Jany. 1852.

PAUL, SIR JOHN DEAN, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 218 Strand, London 27 Oct. 1802; educ. Westminster 1811 and Eton 1817; partner in Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, bankers and navy agents of 217 Strand, London 1828, which suspended payment 11 June 1855; Strahan, Paul and Bates, the partners in the firm, signed and handed in to the court of bankruptcy a list of securities amounting to £113,625 belonging to their clients but which had been fraudulently sold or deposited by them; they were indicted at the Old Bailey 26 Oct. 1855 for converting to their own use Danish bonds value £5,000 belonging to John Griffith, canon of Rochester, they were found guilty and sentenced to transportation for 14 years 27 Oct.; the debts proved against the firm amounted to three quarters of a million, the business was taken over by the London and Westminster bank; released from Woking prison 23 Oct. 1859; lived at Lower Lancing, Shoreham, Sussex 1861–7; a wine merchant at Wheathampstead near St. Albans 1867 to death; illustrated his father’s book The country doctor’s horse 1847; author of Harmonies of scripture and short lessons for young christians 1846; Bible illustrations, or the harmony of the old and new testament 1855; A.B.C. of fox-hunting, consisting of twenty six coloured illustrations by the late sir John Dean Paul, bart. 1871. d. St. Albans 7 Sept. 1868. D. M. Evans’s Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 106–53; Price’s Handbook of London bankers (1876) 128–30; P. Fitzgerald’s Chronicles of Bow st. ii 244–51 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clement’s i 108, 249, 315 (1868).

NOTE.--His grandnephew Wentworth Francis Dean Paul (2 son of Sir Edward John Dean Paul, 4 baronet), b. 26 Nov. 1870; one of the best four-in-hand whips in England or America, took first prize for driving a team at the Chicago world’s fair 1893; much dejected owing to his debts; poisoned himself with prussic acid at Bath hotel, Piccadilly, London 20 Dec. 1893.

PAUL, MATTHEW COMBE. b. 1791; entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 23 Feb. 1807, captain 9 Nov. 1818; major 9 N.I. 11 April 1828 to 19 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 9 N.I. 31 March 1835 to 2 Feb. 1845; col. of 29 N.I. 2 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 17 May 1859. d. 43 Harewood sq. London 7 Jany. 1865.

PAUL, ROBERT (son of Wm. Paul, pastor of the West Kirk, Edinb. 1754–1802). b. Edinburgh 15 May 1788; educ. Edinb. univ.; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinb. 1807, secretary 1823, manager to 1853, then a director to death; joined the Free church disruption 1843, an elder under Dr. R. S. Candlish at St. George’s ch. Edinb. 1843; assisted in promoting the theological college and library, the Soc. for training the children of ministers and missionaries, and the Orphan hospital; author of The finest of wheat, extracts from the writings of the older divines 1849; Memoir of rev. James Martin. d. Kirkland lodge, near Edinb. 16 July 1866. R. Bell’s Memoir of R. Paul (1872) portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 429–34.

PAUL, ROBERT BATEMAN (eld. son of Richard Paul, rector of Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall, d. 7 Dec. 1805). b. St. Columb-Major, Cornwall 21 March 1798; educ. Truro gr. sch. and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1817 to 11 Jany. 1827, bursar and tutor 1825; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; public examiner in classics 1826–7; C. of Probus, Cornwall to Jany. 1824; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1825–9; V. of Llantwit-Major with Llyswarney, Glamorganshire 1829–35; V. of St. John, Kentish Town, London 1845–8; V. of St. Augustine, Bristol 1848–51; went to New Zealand 1851; archdeacon of Waimea or Nelson 1855–60; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1864–72; prebendary of Lincoln 1867 to death; confrater of Browne’s hospital, Stamford 1868 to death; author of An analysis of Aristotle’s ethics 1829, 2 ed. 1837; An analysis of Aristotle’s rhetoric 1830; Journal of a tour to Moscow 1836; History of Germany 1847; Some account of the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand 1854; Letters from Canterbury 1857; New Zealand as it was and as it is 1861; The autobiography of a Cornish rector. By the late James Hamley Tregenna [pseudonym] 2 vols. 1872; published many editions of the plays of Sophocles and translations of German handbooks on subjects of geography and antiquities. d. Barnhill Stamford 6 June 1877. bur. Little Casterton churchyard 9 June. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 431–3, iii 1303 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 662, 1394–5.

PAUL, THOMAS HENRY. b. 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; ensign 5 Bengal N.I. 6 Oct. 1801, captain 16 Dec. 1814; major 20 N.I. 22 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 30 July 1828, col. 9 July 1840 to death; general 22 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Melcombe place, Dorset sq. London 11 June 1866.

PAUL, WILLIAM. b. 1810; connected with journalism from 1834; proprietor of The Chronicle of Convocation 1859 till it was remodelled by lower house of convocation; edited the Railway Times to 1881. d. at his house, West Kensington, London 12 April 1884. Railway Times 19 April 1884 p. 496.

PAUL, WILLIAM (son of rev. William Paul, professor of natural philosophy, Aberdeen). b. Manse of Marycutter 27 Sept 1804; M.A. Aberdeen 1822, D.D. 1853; assistant minister of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeen 1826, minister 1834 to death; author of Analysis of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1852; The scriptural account of creation vindicated by the teaching of science 1870; Past and present of Aberdeenshire 1881. d. Banchory-Devenish manse, end of April 1884. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 2, p. 494 (1871).

PAULET, FREDERICK (5 son of 13 Marquess of Winchester 1765–1843). b. 12 May 1810; ensign Coldstream guards 11 June 1826, lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 13 Dec. 1860; M.G. 13 Dec. 1860; col. 32 foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death; comptroller of the household and equerry to the duchess of Cambridge 1867 to death; L.G. 12 Feb. 1870; officer of the legion of honour 1856; C.B. 29 Dec. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 1 March 1860. d. D2 the Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1871.

PAULET, GEORGE (brother of preceding). b. Rupert house, Southampton 12 Aug. 1803; educ. royal naval college; embarked 18 Dec. 1819; captain 18 Nov. 1833, R.A. 21 July 1856, V.A. 3 April 1863, admiral 20 March 1867; the king of the Sandwich islands having offered indignities to British subjects, the islands were ceded to Paulet in Feb. 1843, but restored 31 July 1843; commanded Bellerophon 7 Nov. 1850 to 1855; aide-de-camp to the queen 22 Sept. 1854 to 21 July 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Nov. 1879.

PAULET, SIR HENRY CHARLES, 1 Baronet (1 son of vice-admiral lord Henry Paulet 1767–1832). b. 1 Aug. 1814; cornet 2 dragoon guards 13 Nov. 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1839, sold out 4 Aug. 1843; cr. a baronet 18 March 1836; a verderer of the New Forest; chairman of New Forest hunt club; often acted as a judge of horses at agricultural shows; resided 5 St. James’ place, London. d. Little Testwood, Southampton 11 Dec. 1886. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 72 (1887).

PAULET, WILLIAM (brother of George Paulet 1803–79). b. Amport house, Andover, Hants 7 July 1804; educ. Eton; ensign 85 foot 1 Feb. 1821; major 68 foot 18 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 21 April 1843, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1847; assistant adjutant-general of the cavalry division in the Crimea 8 March to 18 Nov. 1854; served at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commandant at Scutari 19 Nov. 1854 to 18 Jany. 1855; was in command on the Bosphorus at Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 19 Jany. 1855 to 9 Sept. 1855; commanded the light division in the Crimea; commanded the first brigade at Aldershot 1856–60, and the south-western district 1860–5; adjutant general of the forces 1 July 1865 to 30 Sept. 1870; colonel of 87 foot 27 July 1863, and of 68 foot 9 April 1864 to death; general 7 Oct. 1874, field-marshal 10 July 1886; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 18 St. James’ sq. London 9 May 1893. Times 10 May 1893 p. 5; Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p. 8 portrait.

PAULI, GEORG REINHOLD. b. Berlin 25 May 1823; private sec. to C. C. J. baron de Bunsen, Prussian ambassador in England 1852–5; professor of history at Rostock 1857, at Tubingen 1859, at Marburg 1867, and Gottingen 1869 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 15 April 1874, hon. LL.D. Edinb. 22 April 1874; edited J. Gower’s Confessio amantis 1857; The libell of English policye 1878; author of The life of king Alfred, a translation revised by the author 1852; Der Hansische Stahlhof in London, Bremen 1856; Der Gang der internationalen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und England, Gotha 1859; Bilder aus Alt-England 1860; Pictures of Old England, translated by E. C. Otté 1861; Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester 1876. d. Bremen 3 June 1882. Allgemeine Deutsche biographie xxv 268–73 (1887); F. Frensdorff’s R. Pauli, Gottingen (1882); The Academy 17 June 1882 p. 433.

PAULING, HENRY JOHN. b. Rochester 10 March 1821; district engineer of Wellington railway, Cape Town 1859, resident engineer 1864; chief resident engineer of the western railways 1881; engineer in chief to Cape government railways 1885–91, having control of 2,000 miles of lines; M.I.C.E. 4 May 1880. d. Cape Town 8 Sept. 1892. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxii 359 (1893).

PAULL, JAMES. b. 1781; D.D. of St. Andrews 1844; minister of College chapel of ease, Aberdeen 1804–12; minister of Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire 1813; convenor of Supplementary orphan fund; moderator of general assembly 1846; one of her majesty’s chaplains in ordinary in Scotland 29 May 1852 to death. d. Tullynessle 21 Oct. 1858. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 2, p. 571 (1871).

PAULSON, HENRY. b. Nottingham 4 May 1819; a ballast-heaver at Nottingham; beat Tom Paddock for £25 a side at Sedgebrook near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851; beaten by Paddock for £50 a side at Cross End near Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, there was a disgraceful riot, both men were apprehended and sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment in Derby gaol with hard labour, March 1852; beaten by Paddock for £100 a side at Mildenhall, Suffolk 14 Feb. 1854, in 102 rounds lasting 152 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers £50 a side at Appledore, Kent 29 Jany. 1856, in 109 rounds lasting 3 hours and 8 minutes; beat Harry Tyson £50 a side at Kentish Marshes 14 May 1859. d. at his daughter’s house, Newmarket yard, Sneinton Market, Nottingham 11 Dec. 1890. bur. 15 Dec. F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 277–83, 371–9 (1881); Illust. sporting news iii 261 (1861) portrait; Sportsman 12 Dec. 1890 p. 4.

PAULTON, ABRAHAM WALTER (son of Walter Paulton of Bolton, Lancs.) b. Bolton 1812; educ. Stonyhurst college; apprenticed to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton; lectured for the anti-corn-law league 1838–9; editor at Manchester of the Anti-corn-law circular April 1839, the title was changed to Anti-bread-tax circular in April 1841; edited in London the League newspaper Sept. 1843 to 1846; purchased with Henry Rawson the Manchester Times which he edited 1848–54; great friend of John Bright and Richard Cobden. d. Boughton hall, Guildford, Surrey 6 June 1876. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Prentice’s Anti-corn-law league i 64 et seq. (1853).

PAUMIER, MUNGO NOBLE. b. 1813; tragedian; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre 17 May 1836 as Hamlet; acted in many of the principal theatres in Great Britain; lessee of Whitehaven theatre 1867–71. d. Castle view, Egremont, Whitehaven, of cancer of the tongue 31 Jany. 1876. bur. Egremont cemet. 3 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1876 p. 5; Cumberland Pacquet 8 Feb. 1876 p. 3.

PAUNCEFOTE, BERNARD (only son of Bernard Pauncefote of Cuddalore, Madras presidency). b. Cuddalore 28 June 1848; educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1870; played his first cricket match at Lords in the match Marlborough v. Rugby 3 and 4 July 1865; scored 211 runs not out in a match Brasenose v. Corpus at Oxford 3 June 1868; in the Oxford univ. eleven 1868–70, captain 1869–70; played in the match Gentlemen v. Players 1869; student at Inner Temple 9 May 1870; a merchant at Colombo in Ceylon 1875. d. Blackheath, Kent 24 Sept. 1882.

PAUNCEFORT, GEORGIANA (dau. of Mr. Edwards). b. 1825; came from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat 15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864; Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4 Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22 Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept. 1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876, Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878, Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880, Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept. 1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June 1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham 26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; m. (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at Boston and Philadelphia; m. (2) Mr. Cooke. d. 4 Shawfield st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. Era 28 Dec. 1895; T. A. Brown’s American Stage (1870) 281.

PAVER, WILLIAM. b. 1802; registrar of births and deaths at 4 Rougier st. York 1867; author of Original genealogical abstracts of the wills of individuals of noble and ancient families resident in the county of York, Sheffield 1830; Pedigrees of families of the city of York, from a manuscript entitled “The heraldic visitations of Yorkshire consolidated,” York 1842; his collections relating to Yorkshire were bought by the British Museum 1874; his transcripts of marriage licenses commencing in 1567 were printed by rev. C. B. Norcliffe in Yorkshire archæological and topographical journal, vii 289 et seq. (1882). d. Rishworth st. Wakefield 1 June 1871.

PAXTON, JAMES. b. London 11 Jany. 1786; M.R.C.S. 16 March 1810; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; served in army medical service; practised at Long Buckley, Northamptonshire 1816–21, at Oxford 1821–43, and at Rugby 1843–58; assistant surgeon to Oxfordshire militia; edited Paley’s Natural theology, with plates and notes, 2 vols. Oxford 1826; An introduction to the study of human anatomy, 2 vols. 1831–4, new ed. 1841 republished in America; The medical friend, or advice for the preservation of health, Oxford 1843; The works of W. Paley, 5 vols. 1845; Living streams, or illustrations of the natural history and diseases of the blood 1855. d. Ledwell, in parish of Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordshire 12 March 1860. E. Marshall’s Account of Sandford (1866) 40.

PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near Woburn, Bedfordshire). b. Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821, constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40; travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height; succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of 1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854 to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières, France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president; F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844; edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley, Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. d. Rockhills, Sydenham 8 June 1865. bur. Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. Journal of horticulture viii 446 (1865) portrait; G.M. ii 247–9 (1865); Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p. 491: Practical Mag. vi 161 (1876) portrait; Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth iv 161 (1879) view of his house; The Crystal palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior (1851); I.L.N. xviii 343, 344 (1851) portrait, xlvi 601 (1865) portrait; Times 9 June 1865 p. 9, 16 June p. 9.

NOTE.--He devised a plan for girdling London with an arcade resembling the transept of the old Crystal palace, in which were to be lines of railway on the atmospheric principle, bordered by dwellings and shops. This plan he laid in detail before a committee of the house of commons in 1855.

PAYN, SIR WILLIAM (son of William Payn of Kidwells, Maidenhead, clerk to the Thames comrs.) b. 3 Feb. 1823; ensign 53 foot 27 May 1842, lieut. col. 13 July 1858; lieut. col. 72 foot 14 Aug. 1860 to 2 Dec. 1876; served in the Sutlej and other campaigns in India 1845–52; staff officer at Smyrna March 1855 to May 1856; in the Indian mutiny 1857–8, present at Cawnpore and Lucknow; brigadier general in Bengal 14 June 1872 to 9 March 1877; C.B. 14 May 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; commanded Mysore division of Madras army 1879–84; general 12 Aug. 1888, placed on retired list 20 Feb. 1889; col. of Bedfordshire regt. 26 Jany. 1892 to death. d. Lynwood, Ashtead, Epsom 14 June 1893. Daily Graphic 21 June 1893 p. 14 portrait.

PAYN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Anthony Payn of Dover). b. Dover 1802; educ. Henri Quatre college, Paris; solicitor at Dover 1827–79; proclaimed accession of queen Victoria at Dover 1837; coroner for Dover 1860–82; member of town council, mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Dover 16 April 1855, presented with diamond snuff box and gold medal by the emperor when he embarked for Calais 21 April 1855. d. Kearsney, near Dover 14 Sept. 1887. Law Times 29 Oct. 1887 p. 450.

PAYNE, ARTHUR GAY (son of John Robert Payne, d. 6 Nov. 1877). b. Camberwell, Surrey 7 Feb. 1840; educ. Univ. college school, London and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1866, coxswain of his college boat; a gourmet; a friend of J. G. Chambers (athlete 1843–83); advised and aided Matthew Webb the swimmer; sporting editor of the Standard 1871–83; assistant editor of Land and water to 1883; contributed to Bell’s Life in London and the Girls’ own paper; edited M. Webb’s Art of swimming [1875], and W. Cook’s Billiards 1884; edited Cassell’s Dictionary of cookery 1875–6, and wrote The principles of cookery, prefixed; author of Common sense cooking [1877]; Choice dishes at small cost 1882; Cassell’s Shilling cookery 1888; Cassell’s Popular cookery 1889; Cassell’s Vegetarian cookery 1891; edited The billiard news 1875–8; in Cassell’s Popular recreation 1873 he wrote on Conjuring, cricketing, etc. d. Bay View terrace, Penzance 1 April 1894.

PAYNE, CHARLES. Entered Bombay army 1803; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 12 Aug. 1805, captain 31 Oct. 1822; major 16 N.I. 29 Dec. 1828 to 16 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 16 Sept. 1833–9, of 13 N.I. 1839–44, of 13 N.I. 1844–5, and of 22 N.I. 1845–7; brigadier at Baroda 20 Sept. 1844 to March 1846; col. of 15 N.I. 9 June 1847 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. 24 April 1858.

PAYNE, CHARLES. b. 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5; whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65; huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. d. 30 Dec. 1893. bur. Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. Sporting Review xliv 14 (1860); Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp. 135–6.

PAYNE, FREDERICK (younger son of W. H. S. Payne 1804–78). b. Jany. 1841; first appeared in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; played harlequin at Covent Garden theatre about 1863–73; played harlequin also in the opening of E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; his mind became affected while playing in pantomine The yellow dwarf at Alexandra palace Jany. or Feb. 1877. d. 3 Alexandra road, Finsbury park, London 27 Feb. 1880. bur. Highgate cemet. 2 March. Era 29 Feb. 1880 p. 6.

PAYNE, GALLWAY BYNG. Second lieut. R.M. 17 May 1831, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1858, col. 22 May 1862; col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864 to 12 June 1865, when he retired on full pay as major general. d. Torquay 19 May 1870.

PAYNE, GEORGE (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall, Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). b. 3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about £300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine 1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. d. 10 Queen st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 6 Sept. Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt (1888) 4, 99, 117–48 portrait; Rice’s British turf ii 296–388 (1879) portrait; Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 113–20 portrait; Baily’s Mag. i 183–6 (1860) portrait, xli 148–53 (1883); Westminster Papers x 139 (1878) portrait; Racing in Badminton library (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; Illust. sp. and dr. news iv 475, 496 (1876) portrait; Sporting Times 8 May 1875 pp. 305, 308 portrait.

PAYNE, HENRY EDWARD (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). b. 1831; first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–; played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871; clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. d. Norfolk house 322 Camden road, London 27 Sept. 1895. bur. Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858 16 6. Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p. 832, 2 portraits; Illust. sporting news v 808 (1866) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xx 432 (1884) portrait; St. James’s Budget 4 Oct. 1895 p. 33 portrait; Era 28 Sept., 5 Oct., 24 Nov. 1895; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 214, 403, 721.

PAYNE, JOHN. Officer in charge of H.M. Indian mails 31 years; his grandfather René Payne was the founder of the banking house of Smith, Payne and Smiths’, London 1759. d. Dove’s Nest, Margate 17 Dec. 1893.

PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD (son of William Payne, schoolmaster). b. New York 9 June 1791; in a counting house 1805; first appeared at Park theatre, New York as Young Norval 24 Feb. 1809; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval 4 June 1813; played in principal cities of Great Britain; edited The opera glass, for peeping into the microcosm of the fine arts and more especially of the drama, London, 26 numbers 2 Oct. 1826 to 24 March 1827; resided in London and Paris, where he wrote dramas, chiefly adaptations from the French; his tragedy of Brutus was produced at Drury Lane 3 Dec. 1818 with Edmund Kean as Brutus; The accusation at Drury Lane 1 Feb. 1816; his dramas, Ali Pacha 19 Oct. 1822; The two galley slaves 6 Nov. 1822, and Charles the Second 3 May 1824, all at Covent Garden; his name is attached to upwards of 50 dramas; his song of Home sweet home, sung by Miss Tree in his Clari or the Maid of Milan, produced at Covent Garden 2 May 1823, made him famous all over the world, more than 100,000 copies were sold in twelve months; a friend and correspondent of Coleridge and Charles Lamb; returned to U.S. of America 1832; had a benefit at the Park theatre, New York 29 Nov. 1832 producing 4,200 dollars; American consul at Tunis 1841–4, and May 1851 to death. d. Tunis 10 April 1852, memorial monument in St. George’s cemet. Tunis, his body was reinterred in Oak Hill cemet. Washington June 1883, where is monument, colossal bust in Prospect park, Brooklyn. C. H. Brairard’s John Howard Payne (1885); Memoirs of J. H. Payne, the American Roscius (1815) portrait; Appleton’s American biog. iv 68 (1888) portrait; The Theatre vi 211–6 (1885).

PAYNE, JOSEPH (son of Wm. Payne of St. Alphage, London). b. 13 Nov. 1797; matric. from St. Edmund’s hall, Oxf. 6 May 1818; barrister L.I. 14 June 1825; migrated to Middle Temple; deputy assistant judge of court of sessions for Middlesex May 1859 to death; author of Lines written to commemorate the opening of London bridge 1831; An Easter Monday ode 1837; with F. A. Carrington Reports of cases at nisi prius 1825; and with J. B. Moore Reports of cases in the common pleas and exchequer chambers 1828. d. Westhill, Highgate 29 March 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery, where is marble memorial 16 feet high erected by friends of ragged schools and temperance societies. Illust. Times 19 Nov. 1870 p. 333, view of memorial in Highgate cemetery; Lectures edited by J. F. Payne (1883) portrait; Christian cabinet illustrated almanac for 1860 pp. 37–8.

PAYNE, JOSEPH. b. Bury St. Edmunds 2 March 1808; assistant master in a school in New Kent road, London 1828, a believer in Joseph Jacotot’s style of teaching; with Mr. Fletcher kept the Denmark Hill grammar school 1828–45; kept the Mansion house school at Leatherhead with great success 1845–63; member of council of Social science association 1871; chairman of council of Philological society 1873–4; chairman of the central committee of the Women’s education union 1871–5; professor of education at the College of preceptors, London Dec. 1872 to death; author of A compendious exposition of professor Jacotot’s celebrated system of education 1830; C. F. Lhomond’s Universal instruction, Epitome historiæ sacræ, a Latin reading book on Jacotot’s system 1831; Select poetry for children 1839, 18 ed. 1874; Studies in English poetry 1845, 8 ed. 1881; Studies in English prose 1868, 2 ed. 1881; A visit to German schools 1876; The works of Joseph Payne, edited by his son Dr. J. F. Payne, 2 vols. 1883–92, two portraits. d. 4 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 30 April 1876, portrait in common room of college of preceptors. Educational Times 1 June 1876.

PAYNE, LOUISA. First appeared theatre royal Birmingham; under Mrs. Nye Chart at Brighton theatre many years, where she was a favourite; acted in The world Drury Lane 31 July 1880, and played Maligna in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Mother Goose at Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1880; played Ursula in Much ado about nothing 11 Oct. 1882, and Bessy in Faust 19 Dec. 1885, at Lyceum. d. from cancer at Elm Bank, Malvern 11 April 1887.

PAYNE, WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Payne of London). b. 1799; coroner of London and Southwark 1829 to death, revived the ancient practice of holding an inquest touching fires 22 Aug. 1845; chief clerk at the Guildhall, London 1833, resigned Oct. 1843; student G.I. 13 June 1832; barrister G.I. 22 Nov. 1843; high steward of Southwark and judge of borough court of record 1850 to death; serjeant-at-law 11 May 1858. d. 26 Brunswick sq. London 25 Feb. 1872. I.L.N. lx 207 (1872).

PAYNE, WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD. b. City of London 1804; played small parts at T.R. Birmingham; studied pantomime and clowning under Grimaldi and Bologna at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1823; played small parts at Pavilion theatre 1825–31; played Medow Mawr the Welsh ogre in Charles Farley’s pantomime Hop o’ my thumb and his brothers at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1831, and Tasnar in Puss in boots 26 Dec. 1832; played harlequin to Grimaldi’s clown at Sadler’s Wells 1827, and dandy lover to young Joe Grimaldi’s clown; danced in grand ballet with Cerito, Grisi, and the Elsslers, and played in state before George IV, Wm. IV, Victoria, and Napoleon III; played Guy, earl of Warwick, in the pantomime at Covent Garden Dec. 1841; danced in a ballet at Vauxhall gardens 31 March 1847; played at T.R. Manchester 1848–54; in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; at Covent Garden about 1860–73; in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874. d. Calstock house, Dover 18 Dec. 1878. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii 204–5 (1881); Spectator 28 Dec. 1878 pp. 1633–4; Era 22 Dec. 1878 p. 12; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 57, 444, 721; The Sun 27 Dec. 1893 p. 1.

PAYNE, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of William Payne, serjeant-at-law 1799–1872). b. 1822; barrister L.I. 7 June 1844; counsel of the Southwark court of record 1852–72; steward of Southwark and judge of the Southwark court of record 1872 to death; coroner for duchy of Lancaster Jany. 1857 to death; recorder of Buckingham 10 Feb. 1866 to death; deputy coroner for the city of London and borough of Southwark Aug. 1843, coroner July 1872 to death. d. Fonthill, Reigate at midnight 14 April 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 19 April. Law Times 26 April 1884 p. 465.

PAYNE-SMITH, ROBERT (1 son of Robert Smith, land agent, d. 1827). b. Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 7 Nov. 1819; educ. Campden gr. sch. and Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1837; Boden Sanskrit scholar 1840, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1843; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843, B. and D.D. 1865; fellow of Pemb. coll. 1843–50; a well known Syriac scholar; C. of Crendon, Oxf. and C. of Thame Bucks.; classical master at Edinburgh academy 1847–53; incumbent of Trinity chapel, Edinb. 1848–53; head master of Kensington proprietary school 1853–7; sub-librarian at Bodleian library, Oxford 1857–65; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and R. of Ewelme 1865 to Jany. 1870; delivered the Bampton lectures on Prophecy a preparation for Christ 1869, 2 ed. 1871; helped to found Wycliffe hall 1877, chairman of council 1877 to death; canon of Christ Church 1865–71; dean of Canterbury Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Old Testament revision committee 1870–85; the intermediate church schools at Canterbury have been rechristened the Payne-Smith schools; edited Commentarii in Lucæ evangelium quæ supersunt Syriace 1858; Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars sexta codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendacos, complectens 1864; An Old Testament commentary for scripture readers in Genesis 1882, new ed. 1885; translated The third part of the Ecclesiastical history of John, bishop of Ephesus 1860; author of The authenticity and messianic interpretation of the prophecies of Isaiah vindicated 1862; Thesaurus Syriacus 1868–91; An exposition of the historical portion of Daniel 1886. d. the deanery, Canterbury 31 March 1895. bur. St. Martin’s churchyard 3 April, memorial in cathedral. Church portrait journal, v i (1884) portrait; Times 1 April and 3 April 1895.

PAYNTER, HOWEL (1 son of David Renwa Paynter). b. 1812; ensign 56 foot 21 Nov. 1828; lieut. 24 foot 5 April 1833, lieut. col. 14 Jany. 1849 to 8 Aug. 1851; wounded at Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Bath 13 Nov. 1851.

PAYNTER, JAMES AYLMER DORSET (2 son of David Renwa Paynter of Dale castle, Pembroke). b. 21 Oct. 1814; entered navy 1 Jany. 1826; captain 17 April 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; mayor of Bath 1874–6; author of Notes on night quarters and boat service 1848. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 17 Dec. 1876.

PAYNTER, JOSHUA (son of Joshua W. Paynter). L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1837; assistant surgeon 60 foot 7 June 1839; surgeon 73 foot 11 Feb. 1848; surgeon 13 light dragoons 16 Aug. 1850 to 9 Feb. 1855, placed on h.p. 31 July 1857; deputy inspector general of hospitals 31 Dec. 1858; inspector general at Malta 4 Sept. 1867, retired 19 Oct. 1872; C.B. 20 May 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846 and Crimean war 1854–5. d. The Croft, Tenby 19 June 1883.

PAYNTER, THOMAS (2 son of James Paynter of Boskenna, Cornwall 1748–1800). b. Boskenna 24 July 1794; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., senior optime Feb. 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; revising barrister Suffolk and Norfolk 1833; recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1838–41; police magistrate Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–5, at Hammersmith and Wandsworth 1845 to Dec. 1855, and at Westminster Dec. 1855 to death; author of The practice at elections, instructions for sheriffs and other returning officers 1837, 4 ed. 1852. d. 53 Thurloe square, London 20 April 1863.

PEABODY, GEORGE (2 son and 3 child of Thomas Peabody). b. Danvers, Massachusetts 18 Feb. 1795; managed his uncle’s business at Georgetown, Columbia 1812–4; opened with Elisha Riggs dry goods’ warehouse at Georgetown 1814, moved to Baltimore 1815, opened branches in New York and Philadelphia 1822; resided in London 1837 to death; retired from his American business 1843; a merchant and banker in London 1843 to death; negotiated in London a loan of £1,600,000 for the state of Maryland 1835; gave £2,000 for the Kane expedition in search of Franklin 1852; founded the Peabody institute at Baltimore 1857, gave it £200,000; gave Harvard university £60,000, 1866; gave £700,000 for negro education in the south 1866–9; presented £150,000 to the city of London in 1862 for the poor, gave altogether half a million to London from which the Peabody dwellings have been built, the first block was opened in Spitalfields 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 26 June 1867; bronze statue of him by W. W. Story, on east side of royal exchange unveiled by prince of Wales 28 July 1869; voted freedom of city of London 22 May 1862, admitted 10 July 1862; declined a baronetcy and the grand cross of the Bath. d. at the house of sir C. M. Lampson 80 Eaton sq. London 4 Nov. 1869, body lay for a month in Westminster abbey, taken to America and bur. at Danvers 8 Feb. 1870; personalty sworn under £400,000, 25 Nov. 1869. I.L.N. lv 498, 517–18, 519–20, 645, 648, 655, 661, 664–5 (1869), lvi 277–8 (1870); L. S. Mockett’s Men of our day (1868) 540–5; James Dafforne’s The Pictorial table book (1873) 121–22; H. N. F. Bourne’s Famous London merchants (1869) 285–300 portrait; Illust. Times 5 April 1862 p. 217, whole page portrait; Leisure hour xi 776 portrait, xv 471 portrait; S. T. Wallis’s Discourse on character of G. Peabody (1870); Appleton’s American biography iv 688–9 (1888) portrait.

PEACE, CHARLES (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). b. Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4 years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme, received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct. 1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany. 1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25 Feb. 1879. The life of C. Peace (London 1878) portrait; M. Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 257–63; Times 26 Feb. 1879 p. 10, cols. 1–3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb., 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March, 5 April 1879 portraits; Graphic xix 121 (1879) portrait; A. Griffiths’ Secrets of the prison house i 30, ii 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).

NOTE.--Nicholas Cock a policeman was shot by a burglar at Whalley Range, Manchester on 1 Aug. 1876, and William Habron, chiefly on the evidence of the police, was convicted of the offence and sent to penal servitude. Peace afterwards confessed that he had committed the murder and Habron was released 18 March 1879. Did Peace commit the Whalley Range murder (Manchester 1879).

His folding ladder by which he could ascend to a first floor window is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland yard, Thames Embankment.

PEACE, JOHN (son of Peter Peace). bapt. St. Peter’s ch. Bristol 8 Dec. 1785; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb. for some terms; an acquaintance of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; keeper of the city library Bristol for 40 years: edited Sir T. Browne’s Religio medici, with resemblant passages from Cowper’s Task 1844; author of An apology for cathedral service, anon. 1839; A descant on the penny postage, signed XAP 1841; A descant upon railroads, signed XAP 1842. d. Swiss cottage, Durdham downs, Clifton 28 March 1861. Axiomata Pacis by J. Peace (1862) anon., memoir pp. v–xxi; G.M. x 577 (1861).

PEACE, MASKELL WILLIAM. b. 1834; solicitor Wigan 1855 to death; town clerk of Wigan 1866–85; sec. to Mining association of Great Britain; sec. of the Wigan coal and iron co.; sec. of the Lancashire association; great supporter of Wigan mining industry; author of South Lancashire and Cheshire coal association, report on private bills 1885; The coal mines regulation act 1888. d. Lynwood, Southport 9 Nov. 1892.

PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (son of Charles Wm. Peach, yeoman). b. Wansford, Northamptonshire 30 Sept. 1800; a coastguardman at Weybourne, Norfolk Jany. 1824, at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to 1845; employed in the customs at Fowey, 1845–9, at Peterhead 1849–53, at Wick 1853, retired on a pension 1861; discovered many new species of sponges, cælenterates and molluscs; discovered fish remains in the Devonian rocks of the south west, and fossils which determined the age of the quartzites of Gorran Haven, and of the Durness limestone of Sutherlandshire; received Neill medal from royal society of Edinburgh 1875; author of 71 papers. d. Haddington place, Leith walk, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1886. Nature 11 March 1886 pp. 446–7; Academy xxix 171 (1886).

PEACH, WILLIAM. b. 1796; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; Hulsean prizeman 1818; fellow of St. John’s 20 March 1820 to 1823; P.C. of Brampton, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1826 to death; rural dean of Brampton 1836; author of The probable influence of revelation on the writings of heathen philosophers, Hulsean essay 1819; Themis, a satire 1853; Cwm Dhu or the Black Dingle, and other poems 1853. d. Brampton 31 Jany. 1867.

PEACOCK, SIR BARNES (3 son of Lewis Peacock of 38 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitor and messenger to the great seal, d. 1839). b. 1810; practised as special pleader 1831–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836, bencher 10 May 1850 to death, reader 1864; one of the counsel for Daniel O’Connell in his appeal to the house of lords Aug. 1844; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; legal member of supreme council of the viceroy of India at Calcutta 2 April 1852 to April 1859; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 1859–70; vice-president of legislative council of India June 1859; knighted by patent 26 May 1859; P.C. 6 July 1870; a paid member of judicial committee of privy council 10 June 1872 to death. d. 40 Cornwall gardens, Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1890. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 250–7; I.L.N. 20 Dec. 1890 p. 771 portrait; Pictorial world 18 Dec. 1890 p. 772 portrait; Saturday Review lxx 675 (1890); Times 4 Dec. 1890 pp. 8 and 14.

PEACOCK, DIMITRI RUDOLF (son of Charles Peacock, estate manager). b. village of Shakmanovka, district of Kozlov in the government of Tambov, Russia 26 Sept. 1842; educ. at a school in England and univ. of Moscow; British vice-consul at Batoum 25 Oct. 1881, consul 27 Jany. 1890, consul general at Odessa 14 Oct. 1891 to death; author of Original vocabularies of five west Caucasian languages, Georgian, Mingrelian, Lazian, Svanetian, and Apkhazian in the Journal of Royal Asiatic society for 1877, pp. 145–56; wrote a book on the Caucasus, which has not been published. d. Odessa 23 May 1892. Times 17 June 1892 p. 8.

PEACOCK, ELIZABETH, who was a Miss Stone. b. 1772; m. John William Peacock, cooper; successor to Johanna Southcott 1814; issued a proclamation to the believers in the divine mission of Johanna Southcott to attend their parish churches 3 June 1864; issued one number of The Morning Star Dec. 1864. d. 49 Westmoreland road, St. Peter’s, Walworth, Surrey 10 March 1875, aged 103.

PEACOCK, FREDERICK BARNES (eld. son of sir Barnes Peacock 1810–90). b. 1836; educ. Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1 Feb. 1857, registrar of the high court May 1864; student I.T. 16 April 1866, barrister 9 June 1880; officiating secretary to board of revenue Bengal Nov. 1871; a magistrate and collector July 1873; comr. of the Dacca division April 1878 to 1881, and of the Presidency division May 1881 to 1883; chief secretary to government of Bengal for the judicial, political and appointments departments March 1883 to 1890; an acting member of board of revenue 1884, member 1887–90, when he retired on annuity; C.S.I. 21 May 1890. d. on board the Britannia off Sicily 14 April 1894. Times 25 April 1894 p. 10.

PEACOCK, GEORGE (youngest son of Thomas Peacock 1756–1851, perpetual curate of Denton, near Darlington 50 years). b. Thornton hall, Denton 9 April 1791; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 21 Feb. 1809, scholar 12 April 1812, fellow 1814–39; second wrangler and second Smith’s prizeman 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, D.D. 1839; lecturer in mathematics at Trin. coll. 1815, joint tutor 1823–35, sole tutor 1835–9; moderator 1816–7, 1818–9 and 1820–1, and introducer of the symbols of differentiation into the papers set in the senate house 1816–7; one of the syndics for building the new observatory 1817, and for building the Fitzwilliam museum 1835; F.R S. 29 Jany. 1818, member of council 30 Nov. 1836, vice-president; F.R.A.S. 1820, F.G.S.; Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge Jany. 1837 to death; dean of Ely 7 May 1839 to death, installed 22 May, raised a large sum of money for restoration of the cathedral; prolocutor of the lower house of convocation 1841–7 and 1852–7; R. of Wentworth, near Ely 1847 to death; member of commission of enquiry into statutes of Cambridge university 1850, and of commission for making new statutes for the univ. and colleges 1855; author of A collection of examples of applications of the differential and integral calculus 1820; A treatise on algebra 1830; Syllabus of a course of lectures upon trigonometry and the application of algebra to geometry 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A treatise on algebra, 2 vols. 1842–5; Life of Thomas Young, M.D. 1855; edited vols. 1 and 2 of Young’s works 1855. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 8 Nov. 1858. bur. Ely cemetery. Proc. of Royal soc. ix 536–43 (1858); G.M. April 1859 pp. 426–8.

PEACOCK, GEORGE (son of Richard George Peacock, a master in the navy). b. Starcross, near Exeter 1805; entered navy 1828; master of the Medea steamer in the Mediterranean 21 Sept. 1835; made a survey of the isthmus of Corinth, marking line of a possible canal, presented with a gold snuff-box by king Otho 1836, and received order of the Redeemer of Greece 1882; resigned the navy 1840; superintended the building of the steamers of the Pacific steam navigation company, commanded the first steamer which he took through the Strait of Magellan, acted as the company’s marine superintendent 1841–6; started a company under style of Peacock and Buchan for manufacture of an anti-fouling composition for the bottoms of iron ships 1848; dockmaster at Southampton 1848–58; a shipowner at Starcross from 1858; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the Sahara for the discovery of nitrates 1860; took out a patent for chain cables 1873; edited Handbook of Abyssinia 1867; author of A treatise on ships’ cables, with the history of chains, their use and abuse 1873; The resources of Peru 1874, 4 ed. 1874; On the supply of nitrate of soda and guano from Peru 1878. d. at house of his son-in-law Henry Cookson, 16 Holly road, Fairfield, Liverpool 6 June 1883. bur. Starcross.

PEACOCK, JOHN MACLEAY (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine, Perthshire). b. Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker; employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. d. Glasgow 4 May 1877. Selections of verse, edited by W. Lewin (1880) portrait.

PEACOCK, MARK BEAUCHAMP. b. 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London 1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to death. d. Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.

PEACOCK, RICHARD (7 son of Ralph Peacock, superintendent of mines, d. 1843). b. Swaledale, North Riding of Yorkshire 9 April 1820; apprentice to Fenton, Murray, and Jackson, locomotive makers, Leeds 1834–8; locomotive superintendent Leeds and Selby railway 1838–40; worked under sir David Gooch on Great Western railway 1840–1; locomotive superintendent Manchester and Sheffield railway 1841–54, and builder of the Gorton locomotive depôt, Manchester; partner with Charles Beyer as locomotive and machine tool makers at Gorton 1854, with works covering 14 acres; experimented on the blast pipe and locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; a founder of the Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.P. Gorton 1885 to death. d. Gorton hall, Manchester 3 March 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii 404–7 (1889); W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 271–4 (1890) portrait; Figaro 9 March 1889 p. 9 portrait.

PEACOCK, THOMAS BEVILL (son of Thomas Peacock, merchant). b. York 21 Dec. 1812; apprentice to J. Fothergill, surgeon, Darlington 1828–33; studied at Univ. college, London, and at St. George’s hospital 1833–5; M.R.C.S. 1835; L.S.A. 1835; went two voyages to Ceylon 1835–6; house surgeon to the hospital at Chester 1838–42; M.D. Edinb. 1842; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1850, Croonian lecturer 1865; founded a dispensary in Liverpool st. London, which became the City of London hospital for diseases of the chest, physician to the hospital 1848; assistant physician to St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1849, physician 1862, retired 1877; dean of the medical school, delivered lectures on medicine to the nurses; a founder of the Pathological society of London 1846, secretary 1850, vice-president 1852–6, president 1865–6; member Med. and Chir. soc. 1845, sec. 1855–6, referee 1857–65, vice-president 1867; author of On the influenza or epidemic catarrh fever of 1847–8, 1848; On malformations of the human heart 1858, 2 ed. 1866; On French millstone makers’ phthisis 1862; On the prognosis in cases of valvular diseases of the heart 1877; and of many papers in medical periodicals; gave his preparations of cardiac diseases and malformations to Hunterian museum. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 31 May 1882. bur. Friends’ ground at Tottenham. St. Thomas’s hospital reports xi 179–85 (1882); Medico-Chirurgical transactions (1883) 20–3.

PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (only child of Samuel Peacock of St. Paul’s church yard, London, glass merchant, d. 1788). b. Weymouth, Dorset 18 Oct. 1785; secretary to sir H. R. Popham on board the fleet before Flushing 1808–9; made the acquaintance of Shelley at Nant Gwillt, North Wales 1812, Shelley’s executor 1822; clerk in East India house 1819, assistant examiner of correspondence 1822, chief examiner 1836, retired on a pension March 1856; author of The monks of St. Mark 1804; Palmyra 1806; The genius of the Thames 1810, 3 ed. 1817; The philosophy of melancholy 1812; Sir Proteus. By P. M. O’Donovan, Esq. 1814; Headlong hall 1816, anon.; Melincourt 1817, 2 ed. 1856; Rhododaphne, or the Thessalian spell 1818; Nightmare abbey 1818; Maid Marian 1822, dramatised by Planche as an opera and produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; The misfortunes of Elphin 1829; Crotchet Castle 1831, new ed. 1887; Paper money lyrics and other poems 1837; Gryll Grange 1861; and two translations, Gl’ingannati, The deceived, a comedy performed at Siena 1851, and Ælia Laelia Crispis 1862. d. Lower Halliford, near Shepperton, Middlesex 23 Jany. 1866. bur. new cemet. Shepperton. Macmillan’s Mag. liii 414–27 (1886); Temple bar lxxx 35–52 (1887); G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 111–50; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 417–26 (1883); St. James’s mag. Sept. 1875 pp. 332, 600–10; H. Cole’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 3 vols. (1875), memoir in i, xxv–lii portrait; R. Garnett’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 10 vols. (1891) memoir in x 7–43.

NOTE.--He married 20 March 1820 Jane Gryffydh, known as the Caernarvonshire nymph and ‘the Beauty of Caernarvonshire,’ she is celebrated by Shelley as the Snowdonian Antelope, and d. 1852. W. M. Rossetti’s Poetical works of P. B. Shelley ii 322 (1878), in Letter to Maria Gisborne line 240.

PEACOCKE, GEORGE JOHN. b. 3 April 1825; ensign 16 foot 8 July 1842, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1859, placed on h.p. 2 July 1870; A.A.G. North Britain 15 July 1871 to 31 Jany. 1876; lieut. col. brigade depôt 12 April 1876, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. 23 Lowndes sq. London 15 Dec. 1895.

PEAKE, THOMAS LADD (son of sir Henry Peake, surveyor of the navy). b. 1785; entered navy 1798; served in Walcheren expedition 1809; as first lieut. in the Victorious took part in action with the Rivoli 21 Feb. 1812; special magistrate at Cape of Good Hope 4 years; inspecting commander of coastguard 31 Aug. 1820 to 1825; captain 1 March 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846, rear-admiral 7 Oct. 1852, vice-admiral 28 Nov. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. d. Cumberland st. London 19 Jany. 1865.

PEARCE, ELIZABETH. A popular serio-comic singer and dancer at the principal London and provincial music halls many years; created the famous songs Betsy Gay, Buy a broom, and When the family are from home; retired some years before her death; m. Richard Arnold Burnett, map mounter; she d. 146 York road, Waterloo road, London 24 Dec. 1890.

PEARCE, PAULIN HUGGETT (son of Edward Pearce of Ramsgate, d. 25 Sept. 1851, aged 81, by Susannah his wife, who d. 19 May 1869, aged 92). b. Ramsgate 1809; a well known swimmer; saved many lives and had medals from Royal humane soc. 1818 etc.; instrumental in saving lives of crew of the Colonist at Barbadoes 1826; gave swimming exhibitions off Ramsgate pier; author of The funeral of lord Nelson 1850; The duke of Wellington’s grand funeral ode 1854; King Edward IV, a play 1868; King Richard I, a play 1868; Lord Nelson’s battles 1868; A treatise and poem on swimming 1868; P. H. Pearce’s Tragedy of the battle of Waterloo 1869; The infallible art of swimming 1869; The warrior’s swimming book 1869; Alexander the Great, a play 1872; Godwin island, a play 1872; King Darius of Persia, a play 1872; King Petri and the Black prince, a tragedy 1874; Tippo Sahib, the sultan of Mysore, a poem 1876. d. 10 Harbour st, Ramsgate 23 Nov. 1888. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard.

NOTE.--His brother Frederick Pearce was residing at Ramsgate 1894. His brother Charles Pearce made a fortune as a boot maker at No. 10 Harbour st. Ramsgate, was organist of St. Peter’s church 1846–91, d. 29 May 1891, aged 66.

PEARCE, THOMAS (youngest son of Francis Pearce, rector of Hatford, Berks.) b. 1820; educ. Lincoln coll. Oxf, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1848; C. of Golden hill, Staffs. 1845–7; C. of Highcliffe, Hants. 1847–9; C. of Waterperry, Oxon. 1850–2; C. of Sparsholt, Berks. 1852–3; V. of Morden, Wilts. 1853 to death; author of The dog, with directions for his treatment and notices of the best dogs of the day, by Idstone 1872; The Idstone papers, by Idstone of the Field 1872, 2 ed. 1874; he wrote a considerable portion of The dogs of the British islands edited by Stonehenge [John Henry Walsh] 1867. d. Kempstone, Westcliffe, Bournemouth 24 Sept. 1885.

PEARCE, WALTER. b. 1854; educ. St. Mary’s hospital, Univ. coll. London, and Rotunda hospital, Dublin; studied at school of mines; B.Sc. univ of London 1874, M.R.C.S. 1881, M.B. and B.S. 1885, M.D. 1886; L.R.C.P. 1886. M.R.C.P. 1886; took diploma in Sanitary science 1887; took diploma in Mental medicine of Medico-Psychological assoc. 1886; medical superintendent, then assist. surgeon St. Mary’s hospital, London; acting surgeon of the 20th Middlesex volunteers (Artists’ corps) 23 Aug. 1884; resided 63 Montagu square, London. shot himself in medical staff room St. Mary’s hospital 15 May 1890. Lancet 24 May 1890 p. 1156.

PEARCE, WILLIAM. b. 1789; quartermaster 4 West India foot 26 Dec. 1805; lieut. 44 foot 21 Sept. 1810; captain 60 foot 15 Aug. 1813, major 25 Dec. 1825; placed on h.p. as lieut. col. 29 Aug. 1826; K.H. 1835. d. Ffowdgrech, Brecknockshire 5 Feb. 1871.

PEARCE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (son of Joseph George Pearce of Brompton, near Chatham). b. Brompton 8 Jany. 1833; apprenticed in Chatham dockyard; superintended the building of the Achilles, the first ironclad built in a royal yard 1861; surveyor of Lloyd’s registry for the Clyde district 1863; general manager of the works of Robert Napier and son 1864; shipbuilder with Ure and Jameson, under style of John Elder and Co. 1869, his partners retired in 1878; the business was turned into a limited company under name of the Fairfield shipbuilding and engineering company of which he was chairman 1885; built all the steamers for the North German Lloyd’s and for the New Zealand shipping company; built 11 stern-wheel vessels for service on the Nile in 28 days 1884; chairman of the Guion steamship company and of the Scottish oriental steamship company; M.P. Govan division of Lanarkshire Dec. 1885 to death; created baronet 25 July 1887. d. 119 Piccadilly, London 18 Dec. 1888. bur. Gillingham, Kent 22 Dec., personal estate declared at £1,069,669. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry ii 409 (1884) portrait; D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding (1884) 30.

PEARCEY, MARY ELEANOR, taken name of Mary Eleanor Wheeler (dau. of James Whitford Wheeler, a marine, d. 17 Aug. 1882). b. Ightham, Kent 26 March 1866; worked as a furrier in Cannon st. Stepney; lived with Charles Pearcey about Nov. 1885 to Nov. 1888, and took his name; invited Phœbe Hogg to visit her at 2 Priory st. Kentish town 24 Oct. 1890, and then quarrelled with her and fractured her head and cut her throat, conveyed the body in a perambulator to Crossfield road, Eton avenue, South Hampstead, where it was found on 25 Oct. as well as the dead body of her young child; executed Newgate 22 Dec. 1890. Central criminal court minutes of evidence cxiii 44–72 (1891); Times 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Oct. 1890, 1, 3, 18 Nov., 6, 18, 20, 23, 24 Dec.; Western Morning News 14 Nov. 1890 p. 3; Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Dec. 1890, many portraits.

PEARD, JOHN WHITEHEAD (2 son of vice-admiral Shuldham Peard 1761–1832). b. Fowey, Cornwall, July 1811; educ. King’s school, Ottery St. Mary, and Exeter college, Oxford, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, stroke of his college boat; student Inner Temple 16 Nov. 1832, barrister 17 Nov. 1837; captain in Duke of Cornwall’s Rangers 4 June 1853, displaced 24 Dec. 1861; joined the forces of Garibaldi and organized and commanded a company of revolving-rifle soldiers 1860, distinguished himself at battle of Melazzo in Sicily 20 July 1860, raised to rank of colonel; commanded the English legion in the advance to Naples, received cross of the order of Valour from Victor Emmanuel; generally known as Garibaldi’s Englishman; was visited by Garibaldi at his seat Penquite on the Fowey river 25–7 April 1864; sheriff of Cornwall 1869. d. Trenython, Par, Cornwall 21 Nov. 1880. bur. Fowey cemet. 24 Nov. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 439, iii 1456 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 690, 1018; Sir C. Forbe’s Campaign of Garibaldi (1861) 94–9, 143, 200, 217–31; Trollope’s What I remember ii 222–1 (1887–9); Pycroft’s Oxford memories i 48–9, ii 71 (1886); Sir F. H. Doyle’s Reminiscences (1886) 222–3; I.L.N. 11 Aug. 1860 p. 135 portrait; Illust. times 9 Feb. 1861 p. 83 portrait.

NOTE.--His name was never inserted in the Law List, this is a very remarkable case.

PEARL, CORA, assumed name of Emma Elizabeth Crouch (one of the 16 children of Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, b. 31 July 1808, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen, who went to America in 1845). b. Caroline place, East Stonehouse, Devon 23 Feb. 1842; educ. at Boulogne to 1855; seduced by an admirer in London and thenceforth led a life of dissipation under the name of Cora Pearl 1856; went to France with the returning Persigny embassy March 1858; had a series of liaisons with persons connected with the imperial court; large sums of money, diamonds and jewellery passed through her hands; maintained an establishment in the Rue de Chaillot, which was known as Les Petits Tuileries; kept the finest horses and carriages of any one in Paris, crowds assembled daily to see her in the Bois de Boulogne and ladies imitated her dress and manners; appeared for 12 nights at Les Bouffes Parisiens as Cupid in Offenbach’s opera Orphée aux Enfers 1869; refused admission at the Grosvenor hotel, London 1870; converted her Paris residence into an ambulance during the war and spent 25,000 francs on the wounded 1870; a son of Pierre Louis Duval, founder of the Duval restaurants, spent seventeen million francs on her 1870–1, after which she deserted him and he attempted suicide; expelled by the police at various times from France, Baden, Monte Carlo, Nice, Vichy and Rome; blackmailed her acquaintances, to keep their names out of her printed memoirs; often called La lune rousse in allusion to her round face and red hair; her figure in marble was modelled by M. Gallois in 1880. d. of cancer in squalid poverty in a small room in the Rue de Bassano, Paris 8 July 1886. Memoirs de Cora Pearl, Paris (1886); The memoirs of Cora Pearl, London (1886); Folly’s Queens, New York (1882) 23–7; Truth 15 July 1886 pp. 105–6; London Figaro 24 July 1886 p. 6 portrait; Daily News 10 July 1886 p. 5.

PEARS, STEUART ADOLPHUS (7 son of rev. James Pears, head-master of Bath gram. sch.) b. Pirbright, Surrey 20 Nov. 1815; scholar of C. C. coll. Oxf. 1832–6, fellow 1836, dean 1844–6; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846; tutor to lord Goderich 1838–42; sent abroad by the Parker society to search the libraries of Zurich and other places for correspondence relating to the English reformation 1843; fellow and tutor of univ. of Durham 1846–7; assistant master at Harrow 1847–54; head-master of Repton school July 1854, resigned March 1874, raised the school from a local grammar school of fifty boys to a first-grade public school of nearly 300; R. of Childrey, Berkshire 1874 to death; translated from the Latin The correspondence of sir Philip Sidney and H. Languet 1845; author of Sermons 1851; Three lectures on education 1859; Short sermons on the elements of christian truth 1861; Sundays at school, sermons in Repton school chapel 1870; Sermons 1877. d. Childrey rectory 15 Dec. 1875.

PEARS, SIR THOMAS TOWNSEND (brother of preceding). b. 9 May 1809; lieut. Madras engineers 17 June 1825; commandant of the Madras sappers and miners 1836; chief engineer with the field force in Karnul 1839; commanding engineer with the army in China under sir Hugh Gough 1841–2, was present at nearly every action; consulting engineer for railways to government of Madras 1851–7; lieut.-col. 20 June 1854, col. 16 Feb. 1856; chief engineer in the public works’ department for Mysore 1857, retired on a pension with honorary rank of M.G. 8 Feb. 1861; military secretary at the India office, London 1861; organised the arrangements for the Abyssinian expedition, retired 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 June 1871. d. Eton lodge, Upper Richmond road, Putney 7 Oct. 1892. bur. Mortlake cemet. H. M. Vibart’s Madras engineers ii 133 et seq. (1883); J. Ouchterlony’s Chinese war (1844) 47 et seq.; Daily Graphic 12 Oct. 1892 p. 8 portrait.

PEARSALL, ROBERT LUCAS (son of Richard Pearsall). b. Clifton 14 March 1795; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821, went the western circuit 4 years; contributed to Blackwood’s and other magazines; wrote a cantata Saul and the witch of Endor 1808; studied music at Mayence 1825–9, and at Carlsruhe, Munich and Vienna 1830–6; a member of Bristol madrigal society 1837; sold Willsbridge house, Gloucs. 1837; purchased castle of Wartensee on the lake of Constance 1837, resided there to his death; received into the R.C. church and became known as R. L. de Pearsall; composed many settings of psalms, madrigals, a requiem, etc.; composer of Great God of love, an eight part madrigal 1840; The hardy Norseman’s house of yore 1840; O, who will o’er the downs so free 1853; The bishop of Mentz, a four part song 1863; 24 Choral songs 1864; Sir Patrick Spens, a ballad dialogue in ten parts 1880; The sacred compositions of R. L. de Pearsall 1880; Lay a garland, a madrigal 1883; his name is attached to upwards of 80 musical compositions 1840–83; published translations in English verse of Faust and Wilhelm Tell. d. Wartensee castle 5 Aug. 1856. G.M. Oct. 1856 pp. 511–2; Musical Times 1882 p. 376; Grove’s Dict. of music ii 678 (1880).

PEARSALL, THOMAS J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). b. at the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London 10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution, London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution, Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association 1853. d. London May 1883. Catalogue of Scientific papers iv 794 (1870).

PEARSE, GEORGE. b. 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals, Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861; hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. d. Cheltenham 28 March 1885. Times 2 April 1885 p. 7.

PEARSE, GEORGE. b. Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852; solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon 1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made highest aggregate score. d. Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894.

PEARSE, JOHN. b. 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval architecture, Plymouth 1835. d. 1864. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. (1849) 882.

PEARSE, RICHARD BULKELEY (son of B. Pearse of Munkham, Woodford). b. 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in 1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war 1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. d. 9 Hyde park st. London 19 Nov. 1895. Times 22 Nov. 1895 p. 10.

PEARSE, THOMAS. b. 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death, 68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address, the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning 1848. d. Westoning 14 June 1891.

PEARSON, ALFRED. b. 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. d. Oldham 29 Dec. 1868. bur. Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. The Era 3 Jany. 1869 p. 14.

PEARSON, CHARLES (son of Thomas Pearson, merchant). b. London 1794; educ. Eastbourne, Sussex; admitted solicitor 1816; solicitor to the Irish society 1839 to death; city solicitor 1839 to death; solicitor to city comrs. of sewers July 1859 to death; M.P. Lambeth 31 July 1847 to July 1850; the original promoter of Metropolitan underground railway 1859; author of The subject of an address, a brief history of the corporation of London as an asylum of English freedom in past ages 1844; Are the citizens of London to have better gas 1849; An address on the Fleet valley improvements 1852; City improvements 1853; A letter in favour of the Metropolitan railway and city station 1859. d. Oxford lodge, West hill, Wandsworth 14 Sept. 1862. Law Times xxxvii 577, 590 (1862).

PEARSON, CHARLES BUCHANAN (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson 1767–1856). b. Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832 to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct. 1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853; contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862; Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations 1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. d. 2 Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.

PEARSON, CHARLES HENRY (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson 1787–1865). b. 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept. 1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863; lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’ Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education 18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861; History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols. 1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873; National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H. Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; m. 6 Dec. 1872 Edith Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he d. at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 June. Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894 p. 4 portrait.