Modern English biography

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_. P 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