Modern English biography

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