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of the proceedings to enquire into the sanity of the earl of Portsmouth_ (1823); _G.M. xl_ 307 (1852). PORTSMOUTH, NEWTON FELLOWES, 4 earl of (brother of the preceding). _b._ Hurstbourne park 26 June 1772; styled the hon. Newton Wallop 1772–94; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1792; took the name of Fellowes in lieu of Wallop by R.L. 9 Aug. 1794, on succeeding to Eggesford, north Devon, on death of his uncle Henry Arthur Fellowes; capt. independent company South Devon militia 6 Feb. 1795; M.P. Andover 1802–20; M.P. North Devon 1832–7; capt. 1 East Devon regt. of militia 26 July 1820; succeeded his brother as 4 earl of Portsmouth 14 July 1853. _d._ Eggesford, North Devon 9 Jany. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 190 (1854). PORTSMOUTH, ISAAC NEWTON WALLOP, 5 earl of (son of the preceding). _b._ Castle hill, North Devon 11 Jany. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838 and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 16 lancers 27 March 1846, sold out 16 April 1847; styled Isaac Newton Fellowes 1843–53; styled viscount Lymington 1853–4; succeeded his father as 5 earl of Portsmouth 9 Jany. 1854, and took name of Wallop in lieu of Fellowes; ran horses near Aldershot as Mr. Fellowes 1854; as lord Portsmouth won races with Aaconora 1855; his Buccaneer a favourite for the Derby 1859; a steward of the Jockey club 1859; master of his own fox hounds in the Anstey country, Dulverton 1847–50; master of the Vine hounds 1850–4; master of hounds at Eggesford 1854. _d._ Eggesford house 4 Oct. 1891, will proved at £58,166. _Baily’s mag. Sept. 1861 pp._ 219–22 _portrait_, _Nov. 1891 pp._ 353–4; _Sporting Mirror April 1883 pp._ 113–15 _portrait_. POST, JACOB (son of John Post). _b._ Whitefriars, London 12 Sept. 1774; educ. Ackworth school 1782–7; resided in Islington many years; a founder of the North London and Islington auxiliary of the Bible society 1812; author of Some popular customs amongst Christians, questioned and compared with gospel precepts and examples 1839; On the history and mystery of the Sacraments 1846; Some reasons for continuing to refuse the payment of all ecclesiastical demands 1849; The Bible the book for all 1848, reprinted 1849 and 1856. _d._ Church st. Islington, London 1 April 1855. _bur._ Winchmore hill near London. _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889) 25; _Annual Monitor 1856 p._ 155; _J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books ii_ 428–30 (1867). POSTANS, ROBERT BAXTER. _b._ 1787; in naval service of H.E.I.C. to 1840; saw Napoleon i lying in state at St. Helena and attended his funeral 1821, and was present at the reinterment in Les Invalides, Paris 1840; a great friend of Henry Mayhew and George Hodder; associated with the preliminaries of Punch and was an original contributor from 17 July 1841; his pen and ink etchings were unequalled, the constant work on these caused total blindness from 1884. _d._ Southsea 6 July 1892 aged 105. _bur._ Eastney cemetery. _M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch_ (1895) 12, 17, 19, 283. POSTE, BEALE (2 son of Wm. Poste one of the four common pleaders of the city of London). _b._ Hayle place near Maidstone 1793; educ. Trin. hall Camb. LL.B. 1819; C. of High Halden, Kent; C. of Milstead, Kent; a member of British Archæological association 1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History of the college of All Saints, Maidstone 1847; The coins of Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853; Britannic researches or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853; Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brought within the limits of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an atlas of coins 1861. _d._ Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April