Modern English biography

PIM, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market, Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of Royal yacht club. _d._ Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896. PINCHIN, ROBERT. _b._ 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa 1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death; partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H. L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L. Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ Port Elizabeth 9 May 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv_ 388 (1889). PINCKARD, GEORGE HENRY (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court Barton, Devon, _d._ 1839). _b._ Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court, Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. _d._ Combe court 23 July 1892. _The Times 26 July 1892 p._ 9. PINCKNEY, FREDERICK GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 73 foot 8 April 1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858. _d._ off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859. PINCOFFS, PETER. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840, where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841; in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond. 1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari 1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec. 1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. _d._ Munich 17 July 1872. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 165–6 (1872). PINDER, FRANCIS FORD (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa, Bath). _b._ 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857, went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. _d._ 129 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876. PINDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. _d._ Clifton 14 Jany. 1881. PINDER, JOHN HOTHERSALL (son of Francis Ford Pinder of Barbadoes). _b._ 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2 ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures 1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. _d._ West Malvern 16 April 1868. _bur._ in West Malvern churchyard. _G.M. May 1868 p._ 783. PINE, SIR BENJAMIN CHILLEY CAMPBELL (eld. son of Benjamin Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). _b._ 1813; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831, barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer 1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849 to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855, governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher, West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31 May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16, and others. _d._ Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. _The Times 2 March 1891 p._ 7. PINE, RICHARD. Employed on important missions to native kings and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia 1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866; registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870. _d._ 6 Feb. 1878. PINHEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army 15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1 May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board 1843–6. _d._ Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860. PINK, CHARLES RICHARD (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester). _b._ Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London 1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886; designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. _d._ Hyde, near Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church. _Pink memorial_ (1889) _portrait_; _Journal of proc. of royal instit. of British architects v_ 172, 314 (1889). PINKERTON, ALLAN. _b._ Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other books. _d._ Chicago 1 July 1884. _Appleton’s American biography v_ 25 (1888); _Harper’s Mag. xlvii_ 720–7 (1873). PINKETT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of Barnstaple). _b._ about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany. 1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T. 19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement June 1880, administered government of the West African settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883; acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements 31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. _d._ Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. _Law Times 11 June 1887 p._ 108. PINKS, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29 Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde, bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries, the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals; a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i, no more published. _d._ at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 19 Nov., memorial stone erected by subscription. _Memoirs of W. J. Pinks_ (1861); _W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell_, _2 ed._ (1881) _memoir pp. v–viii portrait_. PINNEY, CHARLES (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed surname of Pinney 1762). _b._ 29 April 1793; partner with E. Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received £3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833; mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol