Modern English biography

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