Modern English biography

22 Dec. 1868. PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1815; educ. Chichester college 1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London 1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael, Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments before the judicial committee in Ridsdale _v._ Clifton 1878; Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton _v._ Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863; Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert _v._ Purchas 1877. _d._ Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891. PERRY, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of James Perry). _b._ 1801; educ. Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1 April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided at Venice 1860 to death. _d._ Venice 24 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lv_ 236, 547 (1874). PERRY, WILLIAM. _b._ Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec. 1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38 rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67 rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in 152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846; presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847; beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall 29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again 1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in 102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857 when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. _d._ Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 157–205 _portrait_, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); _John Hannan’s British boxing_ (1850) 26–9; _Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p._ 9. PERSIANI, FANNY (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and teacher of music, _d._ 1859). _b._ Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; _m._ at Florence 1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12 Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina 1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18 notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847; sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda, Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death. _d._ Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. _Grove’s Dict. of music ii_ 693–4 (1880); _C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera_ (1845) 17 _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii_ 257–73 (1863); _I.L.N. ii_ 438 (1843) _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s The prima donna ii_ 191–6 (1888). PERSIANI, or PERSIANO GIUSEPPE. _b._ Recanati in the Papal States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent Garden on lease in 1847. _d._ Paris 14 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 151 (1869); _Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii_ 3 (1864), _ii_ 325 (1880); _H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii_ 196–204 (1888). PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, DUC DE (son of M. Fialin, _killed_ at Salamanca 1812). _b._ St. Germain-Lespinasse, Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis, London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848; minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860 to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16 June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in England 1871. _d._ Nice 12 Jany. 1872. _H. Castille’s Portraits politiques_ (1857) _pp._ 1–60 _portrait_, _No._ 20; _Weekly Reporter xi_ 146 (1863). PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). _b._ Plymouth 1841; clown and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre, London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. _d._ of cancer of the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Edgbaston old church, Birmingham 5 Feb. _Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p._ 689 _portrait_. PERSSE, BURTON ROBERT PARSONS (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode castle, Galway, _d._ 1859). _b._ 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway 1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. _d._ Moyode castle, Galway July 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xliv_ 295 (1885). PESTER, HENRY. _b._ 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28 Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept.