Modern English biography

NOTE.--The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Russian spy, son to the chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was censor of the press there previous to the last uprising. His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Russell st. in front of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet. POLHILL-TURNER, FREDERICK CHARLES (son of Frederick Polhill 1798–1848, capt. king’s dragoon guards). _b._ Howbury hall, Bedford 14 March 1826; educ. Dr. Burney’s sch. Gosport; cornet 6 dragoon guards 2 Aug. 1844, captain 24 Nov. 1848, sold out 10 Feb. 1852; took additional name of Turner by R.L. Feb. 1853; sheriff of Beds. 1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first mounted volunteers 1860; M.P. Bedford 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Bedford 29 April 1859, 28 June 1859, 18 Nov. 1868, and 1 April 1880. _d._ Newcastle, co. Down 18 Aug. 1881. POLLARD, JOHN (son of John Pollard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Kingsand, Cornwall 27 July 1787; entered navy 1 Nov. 1797; signal midshipman on board the Victory at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, helped to arrange the signal England expects every man will do his duty; shot the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson; congratulated by sir Thomas Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14 Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast guard, Stranraer district 2 Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at Greenwich hospital 12 Jany. 1853 to death. _d._ Greenwich hospital 22 April 1868. _G.M. May 1868 p._ 786; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1878) 504. POLLARD, JOSHUA. _b._ Leeds 1815; in a mercantile house; removed to Bradford where he was in business from 1837; the second person who signed the pledge in Leeds; representative of Leeds temperance soc. to conference of British temperance association at Preston 1836; president of Bradford temperance soc. some years; high chief ruler of Independent order of Rechabites; member of Bradford town council 1852–66, alderman to 1868; member of Bradford school board; removed to Nottingham 1877. _d._ Ossington villas Nottingham 9 Dec. 1886. _bur._ Scholemoor cemetery 13 Dec. _Bradford Observer 11 Dec. 1886 p._ 7. POLLARD, WILLIAM (9 child of James Pollard). _b._ Horsham, Sussex 10 June 1828; educ. Friends’ school, Croydon; a teacher at Ackworth school, Yorkshire 1853–66; employed by Francis Frith, photographer at Reigate 1866–72; secretary and lecturer to Manchester peace and arbitration society, living at Sale, Cheshire 1872–91; co-editor with W. E. Turner of the British Friend, monthly periodical 1891; a minister among the Friends from 1865; author of The Ackworth reading book 1865, 2 ed. 1872; The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history of that noble family 1868; Choice readings in English literature 1873; Old-fashioned quakerism: its origin, results, and future, four lectures 1887; contributed Primitive christianity revived and Congregational worship to the Old Banner series of Quaker tracts 1864–6; author with Francis Frith and W. E. Turner of A reasonable faith. By Three Friends 1884 and 1886. _d._ Manchester 26 Sept. 1893. _bur._ Friends’ burial ground, Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester. _Annual Monitor_ (1894) 126–39. POLLARD-URQUHART, WILLIAM (eld. child of Wm. Dalton Pollard of Kintuck, Castle-Pollard, co. Westmeath 1789–1839). _b._ Kintuck 19 June 1815; educ. Harrow 1829 and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 18th wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838. M.A. 1843; student at Inner Temple; sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of Urquhart by R.L. 1846; M.P. Westmeath 1852–7 and 1859 to death; author of Agricultural distress and its remedies, Aberdeen 1850; Essays on subjects of political economy 1850; The substitution of direct for indirect taxation necessary to carry out the policy of free trade 1851; Life and times of Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, 2 vols. 1852; A short account of the Prussian land credit companies, Dublin 1853; Dialogues on taxation, local and imperial 1867. _d._ 19 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 1 June 1871. POLLEN, SIR JOHN WALTER, 2 Baronet (son of sir John Pollen, 1 baronet, _d._ 1814). _b._ Redenham house, near Andover 6 April 1784; succeeded 17 Aug. 1814; M.P. Andover 1820–31 and 1835–41; contested Andover 29 June 1841; colonel of South Hants. militia 25 June 1827 to 1854. _d._ Grosvenor hotel, 30 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 2 May 1863. _G.M. xiv_ 791 (1863). POLLOCK, ALFRED ATKINSON (youngest son of sir David Pollock 1780–1847, chief justice of Bombay). _b._ 16 Feb. 1826; admitted at Westminster school 26 Jany. 1835; solicitor at 31 New Broad st. 1853–5; partner with Wm. Parke at 63 Lincoln’s inn fields 1855–64; practised alone 1864–72; partner with Arthur Pollock 1872 to death; composer of the songs O let the solid ground 1861; Remembrance 1861; O swallow, swallow, flying south 1880, the words by A. Tennyson; resided Heathfield, Hilford road, Hampstead. _drowned_ while bathing at Totland bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1873, personalty sworn under £400,000, 10 Sept. 1873. _Law Times 23 Aug. 1873 p._ 317; _Times 19 Sept. 1873 p._ 5. POLLOCK, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (youngest son of David Pollock of Charing Cross, London, saddler to George III). _b._ London 4 June 1786; educ. R.M.A. Woolwich 1801–3; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Dec. 1803, brigade major 1815–20; assistant adjutant general of artillery 1820–4; colonel commandant 3 March 1835 to death; commanded Bengal artillery in Burmese war 1824; commander of the armies west of the Indus Jany. 1842. forced the Kyber pass 5 April 1842, relieved sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad 16 April, defeated the Afghans at Mamookail Aug., at Jugdulluk 8 Sept., and again on 13 Sept., entered Cabul 16 Sept., released the prisoners 21 Sept., brought his army back in safety to India; commanded the Danapur division 1842; the thanks of both houses of parliament were voted to him 1843; acting resident at Lucknow Dec. 1843 to 1844; military member of supreme council of India 20 Sept. 1844 to 1845; granted a pension of £1,000 by the H.E.I. Co. 1846; voted freedom of city of London 6 April 1846, admitted 17 Dec. 1847; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel of 1st Surrey rifles (Camberwell) 6 July 1861 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; a director of the East India company 12 April 1854 to April 1856; general 17 May 1859, field marshal 24 May 1870; constable of the Tower of London and lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets 14 Nov. 1871 to death; created baronet 26 March 1872. _d._ Walmer 6 Oct. 1872. _bur._ Westminster abbey 16 Oct., portrait by sir Francis Grant in the India office, and marble bust by Joseph Durham in National portrait gallery. _C. R. Lowe’s Life of sir G. Pollock_ (1873) _portrait_; _J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan_ (1843) 201 _et seq._; _A. Forbes’s The Afghan wars_ (1892) 30 _&c. portrait_; _I.L.N. i_ 356 (1842) _portrait_, _lix_ 441, 442 (1871) _portrait_; _Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 349–52. POLLOCK, JAMES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Pollock, captain 43 foot). _b._ Strathallan, Isle of Man 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; C. of Bowdon, Cheshire 1861; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham 1861–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Hammersmith 1864–5; C. of St. Alban’s, Birmingham 1865–71, and P.C. of St. Alban’s 1871 to death; author of One hundred reasons against auricular confession 1867; Resting-places, a manual of christian doctrine 1870, 3 ed. 1877; Out of the body, a scriptural inquiry 1875; The measure of faith 1877; author with Thomas Benson Pollock of Gospel words 1876. _d._ St. Alban’s clergy house, Birmingham 22 Dec. 1895. POLLOCK, JESSIE (dau. of Mr. Fraser, actor). _b._ 1802; connected with the theatre royal, Marischal st. Aberdeen from 1817 to her death; _m._ (1) about 1830 Corbet Ryder, theatrical manager, Aberdeen, _d._ 1843; _m._ (2) about 1847 Mr. Pollock, actor, _d._ 1853; actress, lessee, and manager of the theatre, Aberdeen to 1862, on her final retirement from the stage presented with her portrait, as Lady Macbeth, painted by Innes 1874, the portrait is now in Her majesty’s opera house, Aberdeen; she was good in Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Emelia, Julia, Pauline, Lady Teazle, and Mrs. Simpson. _d._ Dalkeith 1 July 1875. _bur._ St. Peter’s cemetery, Aberdeen 5 July. _J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house_ (1878) 26–8; _Era 11 July 1875 p._ 9; _Aberdeen Journal 7 July 1875 p._ 6. POLLOCK, SIR JONATHAN FREDERICK, 1 Baronet (brother of sir George Pollock 1786–1872). _b._ Piccadilly, London 23 Sept. 1783; educ. St. Paul’s school 1800, Perry exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1803, scholar 1804, fellow 1807, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1807, went northern circuit, became leader; K.C. 13 June 1827; bencher of I.T. 1827–44, reader 1836–7, treasurer 1837; commissary of univ. of Camb. 1824–35; F.R.S. 1816, F.G.S. 1818; attorney general for county palatine of Lancaster 1834–5; M.P. Huntingdon 2 May 1831 to April 1844; a comr. for inquiry into practice of courts of law 1831; attorney general 17 Dec. 1834 to 9 April 1835, and 6 Sept. 1841 to 15 April 1844; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 29 Dec. 1834; sergeant-at-law 15 April 1844; lord chief baron of court of court of exchequer 15 April 1844, retired 12 July 1866; P.C. 17 April 1844; created baronet 24 July 1866. _d._ at his seat Hatton, Middlesex 23 Aug. 1870. _bur._ Hanwell cemet. 29 Aug. _Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet_, 2 _vols._ (1887); _E. Manson’s Builders of our law_ (1895) 76–81; _Law mag. and law review xxx_ 200–16 (1871); _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (_1 series 1836_) _portrait xxx_; _I.L.N. i_ 304 (1842) _portrait_, _xlix_ 424 (1866) _portrait_, _lvii_ 283 (1870); _Law Journal v_ 479–81 (1870). POLLOCK, JOSEPH (eld. son of Edward Pollock of co. Down, Ireland, barrister). _b._ co. Down, Ireland 1818; educ. Armagh college and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June 1842, went northern circuit; practised in Manchester; judge of Salford court of record to Nov. 1851; judge of county court of Liverpool Nov. 1851, retired on pension of £1,000, Oct. 1857. _d._ 2 Dorset st. Manchester sq. London 26 May 1858. _Law Times 5 June 1858 p._ 146. POLLOCK, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 22 Sept. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1868; V. of St. Thomas, Stockport to 1840; C. of Ch. Ch. Macclesfield 1841; V. of St. Helens, Lancs. 1841–6; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Liverpool 1846–56; V. of Bowden, near Altrincham 1856 to death; archdeacon of Chester and hon. canon of Chester cathedral 1867, resigned 1870; author of Foundations, being a series of essays on fundamental truths 1856; Fourteen reasons for responding and singing in church 1866; The temptation of our blessed Lord, and other poems 1873. _d._ Devonshire place, Claughton, Birkenhead 11 Oct. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873). POLLOCK, SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK, 2 Baronet (son of sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1 baronet 1783–1870). _b._ 23 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 3 April 1815; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1825–33, and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1835; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838; revising barrister northern circuit 1840; master in court of exchequer Aug. 1846; queen’s remembrancer 18 Dec. 1874; resigned Sept. 1886; president of Equitable assurance society; member of Royal toxophilite soc. 15 July 1858, which he assisted financially and gave to it prizes for competition; succeeded as 2 baronet 23 Aug. 1870; author of The divine comedy, or the inferno, purgatory and paradise of Dante rendered into English 1854; Personal remembrances 1887; edited Reminiscences of W. C. Macready, 2 vols. 1876; _m._ 1844 Juliet, dau. of rev. Henry Creed, vicar of Corse, Gloucs., she was a well known toxophilite. _d._ 59 Montagu sq. London 24 Dec. 1888. _Follett’s Archer’s register_ (1889) 67–9; _Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet_, 2 _vols._ (1887). POLLOK, ARTHUR (son of Thomas Pollok). _b._ Faside 1781; with his brother John entered grocery business of Allan Pollok, Glasgow; they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804, the firm being Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed the branch at Grangemouth, then the branch houses at St. John and Miramichi 1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and acquired forests and saw mills; the largest ship owners in the United Kingdom; retired from business 1853; John Pollock _b._ Faside 1778, _d._ 1858; he _d._ Broom, Faside 1870. _J. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 263–4 (1886) _portrait_. POLLOK, ROBERT. _b._ Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in Ayrshire; entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united secession presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven, Fifeshire 1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death; author of Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8. _d._ 1879. _Our Scottish clergy_, _2 series_ 266–71 (1849). POLTIMORE, GEORGE WARWICK BAMPFYLDE, 1 Baron Poltimore (only child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823). _b._ 23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823; created baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord in waiting to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841; colonel of North Devon militia. _d._ Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858. POLWARTH, HENRY FRANCIS HEPBURNE-SCOTT, 7 Baron (eld. son of 5 baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname of Hepburne). _b._ Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire 1826–32; succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for Scotland June or July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June 1859, and July 1866 to his death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle volunteers 9 Nov. 1861 to death. _d._ Merton house, co. Berwick 16 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_ 533 (1867). POLWHELE, THOMAS (5 son of rev. Richard Polwhele, author 1760–1838). _b._ Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal army 1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850 to 1851; lieut. col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7, and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4 May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March 1856 to 1857; general 13 Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816, in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah 1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan 1839–42, in the Sutlej campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R. G. Polwhele at Polwhele, near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. _d._ Tivoli lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885. _J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan_ (1843) 141 _et seq._; _G. C. Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 746. POND, CHARLES ALEXANDER MACLEAN (eld. son of B. C. Pond of 102 Brixton Hill, Surrey). _b._ 1864; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890; Prendergast Greek student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics at Auckland, New Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. _d_. Auckland 28 Oct. 1893. POND, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ England 1826; with Felix Spiers proprietors of the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia; connected with bringing the first English team of cricketers to Australia 23 Dec. 1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion restaurant and theatre 218–223 Piccadilly, London 1873, at cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened 21 March 1874; wine and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels and refreshment rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and Metropolitan railways, also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343 Strand, and of the Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne hill, Surrey. _d._ Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. _bur._ Norwood 5 Aug., will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty £215,000, bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand staircase of the Criterion Oct. 1886. _Morning Advertiser 1 Aug. 1881 p._ 4, _6 Aug. p._ 2. POND, RICHARD RADCLIFFE. _b._ 1824; advertising agent at 17 Upper Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at 1 Exeter Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers; connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. _d._ 1 Albert villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. _G. L. M. Strauss, Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 113–24 (1882). PONIATOWSKI, _Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann_ (son of Stanislas Poniatowski 1754–1833). _b._ Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a musician, tenor singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in Tuscany 1848; minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris 1848–70; naturalised in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to death; his opera Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872; among his compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song 1871; The flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico in tre atti 1872; The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen, song 1875; Mass in F for four voices and chorus 1876. _d._ at his residence, London 3 July 1873. _bur._ Chislehurst 8 July. _Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii_ 1391 (1874). PONSFORD, JOHN. _b._ Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome; painted portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter of his day in Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 5 at Suffolk st. 1823–57. _d._ London 1870. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106. PONSONBY, JOHN PONSONBY, 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). _b._ 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P. Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as 2 baron Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres 28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special mission to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8 June to 9 Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832 to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850; G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co. Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. _d._ Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. _Lamington’s Days of the dandies_ (1890) 75–9; _Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii_ 369–70 (1868); _Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord Ponsonby at Brussels_ 1831. PONSONBY, EMILY CHARLOTTE MARY (3 dau. of 4 earl of Bessborough 1781–1847). _b._ Margaret st. London 17 Feb. 1817; author of the following novels, most of them originally published anonymously, The discipline of life, 3 vols. 1848. 2 ed. 1848; Pride and irresolution, 3 vols. 1850, a new series of the former book; Clare abbey, or the trials of youth, 2 vols. 1851; Mary Gray and other tales and verses 1852; Edward Willoughby, a tale, 2 vols. 1854; The young lord, 2 vols. 1856; Sunday readings 1857; The two brothers, 3 vols. 1858; A mother’s trial 1859; Katherine and her sisters 1861, 2 ed. 1863; Mary Lyndsay, 3 vols. 1863; Violet Osborne, 3 vols. 1865; Sir Owen Fairfax, 3 vols. 1866; A story of two cousins 1868; Nora, 3 vols. 1870; Oliver Beaumont and lord Latimer, 3 vols. 1873. _d._ 3 Feb. 1877. _D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_, _part iii_, _p._ 206 (1892). PONSONBY, FREDERICK JOHN (3 son of sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby 1783–1837). _b._ 21 March 1837; educ. Harrow 1850–5, and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; champion tennis player at Oxford; C. of St. Giles, Reading 1862–7; chaplain of Hampton court palace 1867–8; R. of Brington, Northants 1868–77; V. of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1877 to death; rural dean of St. Pancras 1877; a member of the English church union; took a great interest in devotional retreats. _d._ 3 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 3 Feb. 1894. _Church portrait journal v_ 41 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Feb. 1894 p._ 163 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4 _portrait_. PONSONBY, SIR HENRY FREDERICK (eld. son of sir Frederic Cavendish Ponsonby, major general 1783–1837). _b._ Corfu 10 Dec. 1825; ensign 49 foot 27 Dec. 1842; lieut. grenadier guards 16 Feb. 1844, major 27 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 April 1870; A.D.C. to lords Clarendon and St. Germans, lord lieutenants of Ireland 1847–58; served in Crimean war 1855–6; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1880; equerry to prince Albert 1856–61; private secretary and extra equerry to the queen 8 April 1870 to May 1895, and keeper of the privy purse 8 Oct. 1878 to May 1895; C.B. 26 Aug. 1872, K.C.B. 12 March 1879, G.C.B. 21 June 1887; P.C. 20 April 1880; a hard worker and a faithful servant in the service of the queen. _d._ East Cowes, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Whippingham. _St. James’s Budget 29 Nov. 1895 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Strand mag. Dec. 1892 p._ 588, 5 _portraits_; _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 7; _Graphic 30 Nov. 1895 p._ 672 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 Nov. 1895 p._ 671 _portrait_. PONSONBY, RICHARD (3 son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). _b._ Dublin 1772; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 3 July 1817, installed 8 July; bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1828; translated to Derry patent dated 21 Sept. 1831, enthroned 2 Oct., the bishopric of Raphoe was united to Derry in pursuance of the Church temporalities act Sept. 1834; president of Church education society; author of A sermon 1834. _d._ the Palace, Derry 27 Oct. 1853. _G.M. xl_ 630 (1853). PONTON, MUNGO (only son of John Ponton, farmer). _b._ Balgreen, near Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1802; admitted writer to the signet 8 Dec. 1825; a founder of National bank of Scotland 21 March 1825, secretary 1825–46; communicated to the Society of arts for Scotland 29 May 1839 a simple method of preparing paper for photographic drawing in which the use of any salt of silver is dispensed with, in this paper he announced the discovery that the action of sunlight renders bichromate of potassium insoluble, a discovery which forms the basis of nearly all the photo-mechanical processes now in use; F.R.S. Edinb. 1834; author of The sanctuary, its lessons and worship 1849; The material universe, its vastness and durability 1863; Earthquakes and volcanoes 1868, 2 ed. 1888; The beginning, its when and its how 1871; Glimpses of the future life 1873; Songs of the soul 1877; The freedom of the truth 1878. _d._ Clifton 3 Aug.