Modern English biography

PEMBERTON, SHOLTO THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis, West Indies). _b._ Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis 1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua 1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death; acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of British Honduras and of the Bahamas. _d._ Queen’s house, Nevis 29 June 1889. _Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p._ 359. PEMBROKE, GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, 13 Earl of (1 son of Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). _b._ 5 Carlton gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40 (Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll. Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers 2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover 1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. _d._ Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort, Germany 3 May 1895. _bur._ at Wilton. _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_ 142–65 (1854); _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 249 (1875) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p._ 570 _portrait_; _The new budget 9 May 1895 p._ 3 _portrait_; _Times 4 May 1895 p._ 11. PENDARVES, EDWARD WILLIAM WYNNE (2 son of John Stackhouse of Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). _b._ 6 April 1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796, sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815. _d._ Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853. PENDER, DANIEL. _b._ 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant, and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb. 1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ 20 Oxford gardens, London 12 March 1891. PENDLEBURY, SIR RALPH (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport, bleacher). _b._ Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of chartist disturbances of 1839. _d._ Mersey bank house, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester 1861. PENDLETON, FREDERICK HENRY SNOW. _b._ 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ. of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s, Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May 1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31 Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882 to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. _d._ St. Sampson’s rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. _Times 19 Sept. 1888 p._ 4. PENFOLD, CHARLES. _b._ 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc. 1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863; A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads, printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful knowledge 1840). _d._ Twickenham 23 May 1864. PENGELLY, WILLIAM (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting vessel 1788–1861). _b._ Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany. 1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay 1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; president of geological section of British Association meeting 1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian periodicals. _d._ Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. _bur._ Torquay cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to Torquay natural history society. _Quarterly journal of Geol. soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii_; _Geol. Mag._ (1894) 192, 238–9; _Natural science May 1894_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8. PENGILLY, RICHARD. _b._ Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7; minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed. 1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. _d._ Newcastle 22 March 1865. _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men_ (1884) 224–5. PENLEAZE, JOHN STORY. _b._ 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17 Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants. _d._ Hereford 12 April 1855. PENLEY, AARON EDWIN. _b._ 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70; member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856, reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861; master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The English school of painting in water colours, in theory and practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869; A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. _d._ 5 Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. _H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe_ (1894) 210–2 _portrait_. NOTE.--His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and teacher of painting, he became paralysed and _d_. 1866. PENLEY, BELVILLE (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor, Drury Lane, _d._ Paris April 1832). _b._ 1809; manager of Drury Lane, of the Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle; with Mr. Anderson co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general superintendent of the baths and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the Kingston baths at Bath for a time; his sister Rosina Penley, an actress at the Bath theatre, _d._ Budleigh Salterton, Devon 1879 aged 82; he _d._ 6 Chilton road, Bath 20 March 1893. _B. S. Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 118. PENN, ALFRED. _b._ Lewisham, Kent 6 Jany. 1855; a successful slow left round-armed bowler; played for county of Kent from 1875; resided at the cedars, Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent. _d._ 18 Oct. 1889. PENN, JOHN (son of John Penn, engineer 1770–1843). _b._ Greenwich 1805; apprenticed to his father, afterwards his partner; constructed the steam gun invented by Jacob Perkins 1826, which was erected and put in operation in Paris, and then exhibited Adelaide gallery London 1832 until gallery closed; fitted the admiralty yacht Black Eagle with Aaron Manby’s oscillating engines 1844; the firm of John Penn and Sons made engines for 735 ships, including many men-of-war, up to 1878; patented a method of lining the sea-bearings of screw-propellors with lignum vitæ 1854; A.I.C.E. 1826, M I.C.E. 1845, member of council 1853–6; president of Institution of mechanical engineers 1858–9 and 1867–8; F.R.S. 9 June 1859; retired from business