Modern English biography

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.