Modern English biography

_Times 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4. PRENDERGAST, MICHAEL (son of Michael Prendergast). _b._ Cloth Fair, London 10 Aug. 1795; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1806, Parkins’ exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1821; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1820, bencher 1850 to death, went Norfolk circuit; recorder of Bedford 1846–8; recorder of Norwich Dec. 1848 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; judge of city of London, sheriff’s court April 1856 to death; revising barrister to 1856. _d._ Highgate rise 20 March 1859. _Law Times xxxiii_ 19, 45, 78 (1859). PRENDERGAST, THOMAS (son of sir Jeffrey Prendergast 1769–1856). _b._ 1806; a writer in service of H.E.I. Co. 23 June 1826; acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore 1831; acting assistant judge at Guntoor 1833; assistant judge of Tinnevelly 8 Aug. 1834 to 1838; collector and magistrate at Rajahmundry, retired on the annuity fund 1859; resided at Cheltenham 1859 to death; became totally blind about 1861; invented the mastery system of learning languages based upon the process pursued by children in learning to speak; author of The mastery of languages, or the art of speaking foreign tongues idiomatically 1864, 3 ed. 1872; Handbook to the mastery series 1868, 5 ed. 1882; The mastery series, French 1868, 12 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Spanish 1869, 4 ed. 1875; The mastery series, German 1868, 8 ed. 1874; The mastery series, Hebrew 1871, 3 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Latin 1872, 5 ed. 1884. _d._ Meldon cottage, The Park, Cheltenham 14 Nov. 1886. PRENTICE, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Prentice of Covington Mains, in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, farmer). _b._ Covington Mains 17 Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, Glasgow 1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner in the business on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a weekly paper entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed, published, and edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824, bankrupt 1826, the Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester Times 17 Oct. 1828, of which he was sole manager to 1847, when he sold the paper; chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at York hotel, Manchester 24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the Manchester gas office 1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester temperance league 1857; edited The life of Alexander Reid, a Scottish covenanter 1822; author of A tour in the United States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-law league 1853. _d._ Park view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24 Dec. 1857. _A. Prentice’s Historical sketches of Manchester_ (1851); _Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1889 pp._ 435–43; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 204–8. PRENTICE, SAMUEL (4 son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh, Essex). _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843, bencher 20 Nov. 1866, and treasurer 1881; Q.C. 24 July 1866; county court judge of circuit No. 40, Bow and Shoreditch 14 Jany. 1884, resigned July 1892; a commissioner for municipal election enquiries; common law examiner in the inns of court 1879; recorder of Maidstone March 1879, resigned June 1892; edited J. F. Archibald’s Practice of the court of queen’s bench, 9 ed. 1855 to 13 ed. 1879; J. W. Smith’s An elementary view of the proceedings in an action at law 1857, and the editions to 1873; H. Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence 1858; Sir W. O. Russell’s A treatise on crime, 5 ed. 1877; C. Abbott’s A treatise of the law relating to merchant shipping, 12 ed. 1881; J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways, 12 ed. 1881; author of Proceedings in an action in the queen’s bench, etc. 1877, 2 ed. 1880; Procedure and evidence relating to indictable offences