Modern English biography

PRENTICE, THOMAS RIDLEY. _b._ Paslow hall Ongar, Essex 6 July 1842; associate of royal academy of music; started the Monthly popular concerts at Brixton 1869, and the Kensington twopenny concerts 1880; organist of Ch. Ch. Lee; principal of Beckenham and Wimbledon schools of music: professor of pianoforte at Guildhall school of music Sept. 1880 to death; composer of The day is done, four part song 1866; Christmas, four part song 1869; Hear our prayer 0 heavenly father, an anthem 1874; Absence, reverie for the piano 1876; Linda, cantata for treble voices 1878; Short voluntary for a time of sorrow, organ 1882; edited W. Mason’s Touch and technic; J. C. Fillmore’s A history of pianoforte-music 1885; author of The musician, a guide for pianoforte students 1883–7, 2 ed. 1885–7. _d._ Wedderburn house, Wedderburn road, Hampstead 15 July 1895. PRENTIS, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; exhibited two pictures at the R.A. 1823, and 3 pictures at first exhibition of Society of British artists 1825, member of the society 1826; his pictures entitled The wife and The daughter 1836, and A day’s pleasure 1841 were engraved; executed for trustees of British museum a series of drawings of the ivory objects found at Nimroud, these were engraved on wood by J. Thompson and published in Layard’s Monuments of Nineveh 1849. _d._ 11 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 22 Dec. 1854. _Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855 p._ 221, _June p._ 656. PRENTIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1801; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1830; resided Dinan, France many years, where he privately printed some small books 1843–58; author of An apology for lord Byron, with miscellaneous poems 1836; The wreck of the Roscommon 1844, a poem; Winter flowers 1849; The debtor’s dodge, or the miller and the bailiff 1852; Opuscala 1853; Æsop on the Danube 1853, a translation; Jeux d’esprit on the Russian war 1854–5. _d._ Dinan 12 June 1862. PRESCOTT, ARTHUR. Cornet 2 Bombay light cavalry 1 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1858 to 5 Sept. 1861; colonel 1 Bombay light cavalry 5 Sept. 1861 to 1865; major general. _d._ near London 23 May 1866. PRESCOTT, SIR HENRY (son of admiral Isaac Prescott 1737–1830). _b._ Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796; commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July 1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23 Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May 1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde park, London 18 Nov. 1874. _Prowse’s History of Newfoundland_ (1895) 448 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 252 (1874), _lxvi_ 23 (1875). PRESCOTT, HENRY JAMES (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). _b._ 5 July 1802; banker London; director of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor 1849–50. _d._ Brighton 13 Aug. 1856. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut. col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3 N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept. 1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col. of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. _d._ Genoa 2 Dec. 1876. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). _b._ 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott, Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April 1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under £250,000, 3 June 1865. _Times 3 May 1865 p._ 5, _4 May p._ 11. PRESS, EDWARD (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) _b._ Barnham Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56, and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death, _d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. _Norwich Mercury 18 May 1878 p._ 5. PRESSLY, SIR CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pressly). _b._ Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex; sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849; deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to 1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 1 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880. PREST, CHARLES. _b._ Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull 1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death; president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit