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1871 p._ 238. POTTS, ROBERT (son of Robert Potts). _b._ Lambeth 1805; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 1828; 25th wrangler 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; private tutor at Cambridge; hon. LL.D. William and Mary college, Virginia; author of Euclid’s Elements of geometry 1845, several editions, it had a great sale in America and the colonies; A view of the Evidences of Christianity and the Horæ Paulinæ of W. Paley 1850; Liber Cantabrigiensis, 2 parts 1855–63; Open scholarships in the university of Cambridge 1866, 2 ed. 1883; Aphorisms, maxims, &c. 1875; Elementary arithmetic with brief notices of its history 1876; Elementary algebra with brief notices of its history 1879–80. _d._ Park terrace, Cambridge 5 Aug. 1885. POULDEN, GEORGE (eld. son of Alexander Poulden). _b._ Portsea, Hants. 1802; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; counsel to post office; revising barrister on western circuit; recorder of Portsmouth April 1866 to death. _d._ 9A Stanhope place, Hyde Park, London 12 June 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery. _Law Times xlv_ 171 (1868). POULETT, JOHN POULETT, 5 Earl (1 son of 4 earl Poulett 1756–1819). _b._ Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1783; styled viscount Hinton 1788–1819; educ. Harrow, matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 12 June 1801; colonel 2 Somerset militia 20 Sept. 1804 to 23 Feb. 1819; colonel of 1 Somerset militia 23 Feb. 1819 to 1852. _d._ Hinton St. George, Crewkerne 20 June 1864, will proved under £120,000. POULETT, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ 10 May 1786; entered navy 2 Aug. 1797; captain 31 July 1806; naval aide-de-camp to William iv and Victoria Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; receiver general of the land and assessed taxes in Somerset 1840; V.A. 21 June 1850; _fell dead_ from his horse while hunting near West Marden, Sussex 11 Feb. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 420 (1854). POULSON, GEORGE (2 son of John Poulson of Petersfield, Hants.). _b._ 1785; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 11 Feb. 1823; author of Beverlac, or the antiquities and history of the town of Beverley in the county of York, 2 vols. 1829; The history and antiquities of the seignory of Holderness in the east riding of the county of York, 2 vols. Hull 1840–1; edited Henry Wm. Ball’s Social history and antiquities of Barton-upon-Humber 1856. _d._ Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincoln 12 Jany. 1858. _W. Boyne’s Yorkshire library_ (1869) 152–6, 165–6; _G.M. April 1858 p._ 449. POULTNEY, EDWARD. _b._ 1821; founder of The Home in the East reformatory, Old Ford Bow 1852. _d._ 8 Dec. 1853. POVEY, JOHN (son of James Povey of Birmingham, vocalist, called the Warwickshire Incledon). _b._ Birmingham 1799; a bass singer; sang at Drury Lane 1817, at English opera house 1821; made his first appearance in New York as Hawthorn in Love in a village 7 May 1827; actor and business agent at Park theatre 1827–49; had a complimentary benefit at the Broadway theatre previously to his return to England 26 May 1849. _d._ Surrey st. Strand, London 2 May 1867. _Ireland’s New York stage i_ 518, _ii_ 529 (1867); _Era 12 May 1867 p._ 10. POWELL, BADEN (eld. son of Baden Powell, sheriff of Kent). _b._ Stamford Hill, Middlesex 22 Aug. 1796; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Midhurst, Kent 1820–1; V. of Plumstead 1821–7; F.R.S. 13 May 1824, F.G.S. 1837; Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford Feb. 1827 to death; wrote many papers in scientific periodicals, chiefly on optical questions; member of the Oxford university commission 1851; _m._ 10 March 1846 Henrietta Grace, eld. dau. of Wm. Henry Smyth, president of royal astronomical society, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 April 1870; author of History of natural philosophy 1834; The connexion of natural and divine truth 1838; Tradition unveiled 1839, Supplement 1840; Essays on the spirit of the inductive philosophy and the unity of worlds 1855, 2 ed. 1856; The study of natural theology 1856; Christianity without Judaism 1856, 2 ed. 1866; The order of nature 1859; contributed an essay On the study of the evidences of Christianity to Essays and Reviews 1860 pp. 94–144 five editions, to which there were 14 replies. _d._ 6 Stanhope st. Hyde park gardens, London 11 June