Modern English biography

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.