Modern English biography

British architects_ (1887) 113, 137. POYSER, THOMAS. _b._ 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading medical practitioner at Wirksworth, Derbyshire 1821 to death; contributed a succession of papers on ‘The authors of articles in the Quarterly Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent. Mag., also contributed to Medico chirurgical review and the London journal of medicine. _d._ Wirksworth 11 June 1860. _G.M. ix_ 319 (1860); _Lancet i_ 634 (1860). NOTE.--He gave Florence Nightingale her first hints in nursing and medicine, when as a girl she used to attend the sick poor near his home. PRAED, BULKELEY MACKWORTH (7 child of William Mackworth Praed, banker, _d._ 1791). _b._ St. Lawrence, Exeter 21 Nov. 1771; entered navy 21 Sept. 1780; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; transferred to the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. of the White 9 Nov. 1846; purchased Acton castle, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall. _d._ Acton castle 6 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 634 (1852). PRAED, CHARLES TYRINGHAM (2 son of James Backwell Praed, M.P. 1779–1837). _b._ 18 Aug. 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 19 March 1851; partner in Praed and Co. bankers, Fleet st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1874–80; resided 95 Queen’s gate, London. _d._ Edgcombe hall, Wimbledon 19 Oct.