Modern English biography

_portrait xi_; _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208. PERCEVAL, ARTHUR PHILIP (youngest son of 2 baron Arden 1756–1840). _b._ at the Admiralty, London 22 Nov. 1799; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, B.C.L. 1824; fellow of All Soul’s coll. 1821–5; R. of East Horsley, Surrey 18 June 1824 to 1846; chaplain to the sovereign 7 March 1826 to death; author of The Roman schism illustrated from the records of the Catholic church 1836; The origin of church rates 1837; Sermons preached chiefly at the chapel royal, St. James’s 1839; An apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession 1839, 2 ed. 1841; A vindication of the principles of the authors of the Tracts for the times 1841, of which he wrote Nos. 23, 35, 36, and perhaps 17; A collection of papers connected with the theological movement of 1833, 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Results of an ecclesiastical tour in Holland and Northern Germany 1846; Plain lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 1846; Origines Hibernicæ. By A. P. P. Dublin 1849; his name is attached to upwards of 40 works. _d._ Little Bookham, Surrey 11 June 1853 after taking laudanum, verdict temporary insanity. _Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 247, 264, _ii_ 178 (1893–4); _E. Sheppard’s St. James’s Palace ii_ 341–2 (1894); _G.M. Aug. 1853 p._ 208. PERCEVAL, CHARLES SPENCER (only son of succeeding). _b._ 11 Feb. 1829; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1853, LL.D. 1858; fellow of his college 1855–67; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; principal secretary to lords chancellors Chelmsford and Cairns 1866–8; secretary to comrs. in lunacy May 1872 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1860, director 1847–72, treasurer 1874 to death, catalogued the collection of impressions and matrices of seals belonging to the society; edited Catalogue of a collection of works on pageantry bequeathed to the Society of antiquaries by F. W. Fairholt 1869; and with W. S. Walford Three rolls of arms of the thirteenth century 1864. _d._ 64 Eccleston sq. London 29 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 2 Feb. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 383–4 (1889); _Law Times 2 March 1889 p._ 340. PERCEVAL, DUDLEY MONTAGUE (4 son of Spencer Perceval 1762–1812, prime minister). _b._ 22 Oct. 1800; educ. Harrow Oct. 1811 to Dec. 1815, and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1822; student of Lincoln’s Inn 1823; clerk of the council at Cape of Good Hope 1825–8; first clerk and deputy teller of the exchequer in London 1828–34, when the tellerships were abolished; contested Finsbury 26 July 1837 and univ. of Oxford 20 Jany. 1852; wrote a series of letters signed Philalethes in the Standard on the Irish church temporalties bill; author of Quietus optabilissimus, or the nature and necessity of real securities for the United church with a settlement of the catholic question 1829; Remarks on the character ascribed by colonel Napier, in the History of the war in the Peninsula, to the rt. hon. S. Perceval 1835, 2 ed. 1835. _d._ 16 Wilton st. London 2 Sept. 1856. _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._ 649–52. PERCEVAL, FREDERICA. Attended the Mildmay conference Islington, London 1874; the chief means of establishing a protestant preacher at Spa, Belgium. _d._ Bruges, Belgium July 1875. _Women’s Work iv_ 299–301 (1875). PERCEVAL, SPENCER (brother of D. M. Perceval 1800–56). _b._ 57 Lincoln’s inn fields, London 11 Sept. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1816; received a grant from parliament on the assassination of his father 1812; one of the four tellers of the exchequer by patent 15 Feb. 1813, office abolished 10 Oct. 1834; M.P. Ennis 1818–20; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1827–31; M.P. Tiverton 1831–2; attended Henry Drummond’s meetings at Albury park 1826–30; called to be an apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic apostolic church 18 Dec. 1833, representing the tribe of Manasseh and taking Italy as his sphere; a compiler of The Testimony which he delivered to William IV and all the privy councillors 1836; with H. Drummond delivered a testimony to the Pope July 1838; the rev. Hugh M’Neile addressed him in “Letters to a Friend who has felt it his duty to secede from the church of England” 1834; resided 31 Portman sq. London. _d._ of apoplexy, Weymouth 16 Sept. 1859. _Spencer Walpole’s Life of S. Perceval i_ 26, _ii_ 303 (1874); _E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i_ 41, 98, 139, 178, 180, 191, 285–6 (1878); _Weymouth Journal 23 Sept. 1859 p._ 2. PERCEVAL, SPENCER. _b._ 1817; ensign Coldstream guards 13 Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 2 July 1861 to 9 Nov. 1862; M.G. 9 Nov. 1862; L.G. 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 6 Down st. Piccadilly, London 5 July 1877. PERCIVAL, CHARLES. _b._ England; lived in France 1789 to death; rode at Sablonville for comte d’Artois, afterwards Charles X, in the first race ever publicly run in France. _d._ Chantilly, near Paris Feb. 1865. PERCY, CHARLES GREATHEED BERTIE (youngest son of Algernon, 2 earl Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Portman sq. London 4 March 1794; educ. Eton 1805–9, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; M.P. Newport, Cornwall 1826–30; _m._ 20 March 1822 Anne Caroline, heiress of Bertie Bertie Greatheed, with whom he acquired the historic mansion Guy’s cliff, near Leamington, and assumed by R.L. the surname of Greatheed Bertie 1 April 1826; obtained precedence of a duke’s youngest son 16 March 1865. _d._ Alnwick castle, at the residence of his nephew the duke of Northumberland 11 Oct. 1870. _I.L.N. 22 Oct. 1870 p._ 435. PERCY, SIR HENRY HUGH MANVERS (3 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). _b._ Burwood house, Cobham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1817; educ. Eton 1832–5; ensign grenadier guards 1 July 1836, major 19 June 1860 to 3 Oct. 1862; served during Canadian insurrection 1838, and the Crimean war 1854–5; wounded at battles of Alma and Inkerman; brigadier general in command of the British-Italian legion in the Crimea 31 Aug. 1855; A.D.C. to the queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Feb. 1865; V.C. 5 May 1857 for bravery at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; sent to New Brunswick in command of first battalion of Grenadier guards Dec. 1861; col. of 89 foot 28 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. North Northumberland 19 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; K.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of Explanation of the manœuvres of a brigade of infantry 1852; Caution for company and battalion drill 1855; _found dead_ in his bed at 40 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1877. _bur._ in Northumberland vault, Westminster abbey 7 Dec. _O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross_ (1880) 31, 79. PERCY, HUGH (brother of C. G. B. Percy 1794–1870). _b._ London 29 Jany. 1784, twin with Josceline Percy; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825; migrated to St. John’s coll. Camb.; D.D. Oxf. 1834; R. of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent 1809; chancellor of Exeter 30 Jany. 1810 and prebendary 16 April 1810 to 1816; chancellor of Salisbury cathedral 21 Dec. 1811 to death; prebendary of Canterbury 16 May 1816 to 1825; prebendary of St. Paul’s 12 July 1816 to death; archdeacon of Canterbury 26 April 1822, dean 20 June 1825; bishop of Rochester 21 June 1827, consecrated at Lambeth palace 15 July 1827; bishop of Carlisle 17 Sept. 1827 to death; established a Clergy aid society 1838 and a diocesan education society 1855; restored Rose castle the episcopal residence and spent £40,000 of his own money on the gardens and grounds. _d._ Rose castle, Carlisle 5 Feb. 1856. _bur._ Dalston churchyard. _R. S. Ferguson’s Diocesan history of Carlisle_ (1889) 2, 242; _G.M. April 1856 p._ 421. PERCY, JOHN (3 son of Henry Percy, solicitor). _b._ Nottingham 23 March 1817; studied medicine in Paris and Edinb.; M.D. Edinb. 1838; physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1839; F.R.S. 22 April 1847, member of council 1857–9; F.G.S. 1851; lecturer on metallurgy at Metropolitan school of science in London 1851, which became the Royal school of mines where he was professor to Dec. 1879; invented the silver process and discovered aluminium bronze; lecturer on metallurgy to artillery officers at Woolwich about 1864 to death; superintendent of ventilation of houses of parliament 6 Feb. 1865; member of commission on application of iron for defensive purposes 1861, and on Gibraltar shields 1867; member of royal commissions on coal 1871 and on spontaneous combustion of coal in ships 1875; awarded Bessemer medal of the Iron and steel institute 1876, president 1885–6; wrote many letters to The Times signed Y; author of An experimental enquiry concerning the presence of alcohol in the ventricles of the brain after poisoning by that liquid 1839; On the importance of scientific knowledge to the practical metallurgist 1852; On the metallurgical treatment and assaying of gold ores 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Metallurgy, the art of extracting metals from their ores and adapting them to the purposes of manufacture, 4 vols. 1861–70, 2 ed. 1875; The manufacture of Russian sheet iron 1871; awarded Albert medal of Society of arts 18 June 1889. _d._ 1 Gloucester crescent, Hyde park, London 19 June 1889, his metallurgical specimens went to South Kensington museum, his other collections were sold. _Temple Bar July 1890 pp._ 354–74; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi pp. xxxv–xl_ (1890); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix_ 343–6 (1890); _Nature 27 June 1889 p._ 206; _Spon’s Industrial arts i_ 320 (1879). PERCY, JOSCELINE (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). _b._ London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept. 1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus 1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845; V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851 to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. _d._ at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts. 19 Oct. 1856. PERCY, JOSCELINE WILLIAM (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). _b._ Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston 1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in inscriptions and documents 1847. _d._ Pembroke lodge, Sonning hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881. PERCY, SIDNEY RICHARD (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape painter). _b._ about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’ _d._ Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. _Athenæum i_ 592 (1886). PERCY, WILLIAM HENRY (younger brother of Josceline Percy 1784–1856). _b._ 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801; commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany.