Modern English biography

POPHAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). _b._ April 1791; entered navy May 1805; captain 19 May 1819; retired admiral 23 March 1863. _d._ Stourfield house, Christchurch 23 Aug. 1864. POPOFF, BASIL (son of Eugene Popoff, chaplain to Russian embassy, London). _b._ 1839; chaplain to Russian embassy in London 1875 to death; private chaplain to duchess of Edinburgh 2 March 1875 to death. _d._ 32 Welbeck st. London 19 March 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 23 March. POPPLEWELL, GEORGE OTWAY. Entered navy 14 Feb 1832; captain 15 April 1862, retired 12 Oct. 1868; retired admiral 1 May 1888. _d._ Ramsgate 12 Sept. 1889. _Times 16 Sept. 1889 p._ 6. PORRETT, ROBERT (son of Robert Porrett). _b._ London 22 Sept. 1783; assistant to his father, the ordnance storekeeper at the Tower of London 1795, chief of the department, retired on a pension 1850; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1840; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.A.S.; an original fellow of Chemical society 1841; contributed several papers on armour to Archæologia and Proceedings of Soc. of Antiquaries; awarded a medal by Society of Arts for discovery of prussous acid 1808, which he termed sulphuretted chyazic acid in 1814; discovered ferrocyanic acid, which he named ferruretted chyazic acid; discovered electric endosmosis 1816; author of 13 scientific papers. _d._ 49 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 25 Nov. 1868. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii p. iv_ (1870). PORTAL, GEORGE RAYMOND (4 son of John Portal of Whitchurch, Hampshire). _b._ 28 Feb. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; C. of Wilton, 1850–2; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1852–7; R. of Albury, Surrey 1858–71; R. of Burghclere with Newtown, Hampshire 1871 to death; honorary canon of Winchester Jany. 1882 to death; author of On some of the prevalent objections to ritual observances, a sermon 1854; Personal faith the only source of peace, a sermon 1855; Short prayers, &c. for those who have little time to pray 1867; Hymns for the use of the parish of Albury 1864. _d._ Burghclere rectory 5 April 1889. PORTAL, SIR GERALD HERBERT (2 son of Melville Portal). _b._ Laverstoke, Hampshire 13 March 1858; educ. Eton 1871–9, played in the cricket eleven 1886, 1887, editor of the Eton chronicle; clerk in the foreign office 12 July 1879; sent to Rome 29 June 1880, third secretary of legation there 22 July 1881; sent to Cairo 24 June 1882, present at bombardment of Alexandria 11 July 1882, third secretary at Cairo 1 April 1884, second secretary 1 April 1885; went to Massowah to procure a reconciliation between the king of Abyssinia and the Italian government 17 Oct. 1887; acting consul general at Zanzibar 30 April to 14 Nov. 1889, agent at Zanzibar 10 March 1891; consul general for German East Africa 2 June 1891, and for the British sphere 11 Feb. 1892; sent to Uganda to report whether that part of Africa should be retained by the British or evacuated 10 Dec. 1892; arrived at the coast again 21 Oct. 1893 and reached London Nov. 1893; C.B. 3 Feb. 1888; K.C.M.G. 4 Aug. 1892; author of My mission to Abyssinia 1888, 2 ed. 1892; _m._ 1 Feb. 1890 Alice Josephine, 2 dau. of 7 earl of Abingdon, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 March 1894; he _d._ 5B Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1894. _bur._ mortuary chapel, Laverstoke, Hants. 30 Jany. _Sir G. H. Portal’s The British mission to Uganda_ (1894), _memoir pp. xxv–xlvi portrait_; _Pall Mall Budget 1 Feb. 1894 p._ 5, _two portraits_, _and 14 June 1894 p._ 10 _portrait_; _Times 26 Jany. 1894 p._ 3. PORTARLINGTON, _Lionel Seymour William Dawson Damer_, 4 Earl of (only son of colonel George Lionel Dawson Damer of Came, Dorset, _d._ 14 April 1856, younger son of first earl of Portarlington). _b._ 7 April 1832; educ. Eton 1847–9; ensign Scots fusilier guards 23 Nov. 1849. lieut. 14 July 1854, served in the Crimea, sold out 15 Jany. 1856; lieut. Dorset yeomanry cavalry 20 April 1858; M.P. Portarlington 1857–65 and 1868–80; succeeded his cousin as 4 earl of Portarlington 1 March 1889; resided Emo park, Portarlington. _d._ Portman lodge, Bournemouth 17 Dec.