Modern English biography

p._ 269 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xli_ 204 (1862) _portrait_. PREST, EDWARD (eld. son of John Prest). _b._ 1824; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; chaplain to Sherburn hospital 1851–7, and master 1857–61; hon. canon of Durham cath. Dec. 1860 to 1863; R. of St. Mary’s, Gateshead, and master of King James’ hospital 6 May 1862 to 1881; official of the dean and chapter of Durham 1880; resident canon and archdeacon of Durham 1863 to death; member of Gateshead sch. board 28 Nov. 1870, then vice-chairman; R. of Ryton-on-Tyne 1881 to death. _d._ Ryton rectory 26 Oct. 1882. PREST, EDWARD HENRY. Educ. Durham sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., rowed stroke oar in the Cambridge boat against Oxford 1878, and bow oar 1879 and 1880; won the university pairs with H. R. Jones 1880; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1884; assistant master of Repton sch. 1880–7; head master of Barnard Castle sch. Durham 1887 to death. _d._ Barnard Castle 18 Oct. 1893. PREST, THOMAS PECKETT. Author of a romance entitled The string of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May 26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey 1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844; The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846; The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins 1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the secret robbers of Bohemia 1852. PRESTON, BENJAMIN (son of a hand loom weaver). _b._ Bradford 10 Aug. 1819; a wool sorter and comber; a publican at Bingley common May 1865; called the Burns of Bradford; author of The dialect poems of Benjamin Preston, Saltaire 1872 with a memoir and portrait; Dialect and other poems 1881. _S. Baring Gould’s Yorkshire oddities i_ 267–79 (1874). PRESTON, CHARLES JAMES (4 son of Richard T. Preston of Liverpool). _b._ Rodney st. Liverpool 1818; educ. Downing coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1843; practised in Liverpool many years, also acting as deputy stipendiary magistrate; stipendiary magistrate for Birkenhead 18 May 1866, resigned 1893. _d._ 9 Southwick place, Hyde park, London 9 May 1896. _Law Times 16 May 1896 p._ 73. PRESTON, SIR GEORGE (son of W. Preston, first comr. of court of appeals in Ireland). _b._ Gloucester st. Dublin 1800; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by the marquess Wellesley in Dublin 1833; captain 4 Lancashire militia 1855–9. _d._ 37 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin May 1870. PRESTON, JAMES BLAIR. Assistant surgeon Madras army 1821, surgeon 27 Sept. 1833; inspector general of hospitals 14 Feb. 1854; surgeon general Madras 1 Jany. 1855, physician general 12 Feb. 1856 to death. _d._ near Southampton 28 June 1858. PRESTON, SIR JOHN (son of Alexander Preston of Dunyrewn, Loughgall, Belfast). _b._ 12 Jany. 1817; educ. Loughgall school; linen and yarn merchant 20 Callender st. Belfast as J. Preston and Co.; president of Belfast chamber of commerce; mayor of Belfast 1877 and 1878; knighted 8 Jany. 1878. _d._ Dunmore, Belfast 4 Aug. 1890. PRESTON, JOSEPH M. _b._ 22 Aug. 1864; a professional cricketer; played in the Yorkshire eleven for several seasons; a member of the Shrewsbury team which visited Australia 1887–8; a good batsman and a fast bowler. _d._ Bradford 26 Nov. 1890. PRESTON, MATTHEW MORRIS. _b._ 1781 or 1782; fellow of Trin. coll. Camb. to 1826, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; kept a school at Aspenden hall, Herts. 1813–25, where lord Macaulay, Henry Maiden and other eminent men were his pupils; V. of Cheshunt, Herts. 14 April 1826 to death: author of The benefit of scriptural instruction, illustrated in the case of two beloved sons 1837; Sermons addressed chiefly to young persons 1837, 2 ed. 1860; Memoranda of Charles Simeon 1840; Parochial lectures on the book of Josiah 1840; Cheshunt collection of psalms and hymns 1850; Sermons 1859. _d._ 18 April 1858. _bur._ in Cheshunt churchyard, the five-light east window in the church was erected to his memory. PRESTON, ROBERT BERTHON. _b._ Liverpool 25 June 1820; educ. Geneva; principal partner in firm of Fawcett, Preston & Co., mechanical engineers, Liverpool, made engines for many steamboats, sugar machinery, and rifled guns; M.I.C.E. 1855; member of Royal southern and Mersey yacht clubs; a patron of art; made a collection of modern and antique art; J. Gibson’s tinted Venus was executed expressly for him 1850–5. _d._ Gloucester 9 April 1860. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 157 (1861). PRESTON, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ 1 Oct. 1808; ensign 87 foot 24 Sept. 1829, lieut. 22 Feb. 1833; lieut. 22 foot 1834–9; captain 45 foot 5 Jany. 1841, lieut. col. 1 May 1861, retired on full pay 31 July 1867; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1878; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel of the Queen’s Own (royal West Kent regiment) 28 Feb. 1888 to 5 Oct. 1890; colonel of the Royal Munster fusiliers 5 Oct. 1890 to death. _d._ 6 The Esplanade, Plymouth 6 April 1892. PRESTWICH, SIR JOSEPH (son of Joseph Prestwich of London). _b._ Pensbury, Clapham, near London 12 March 1812; educ. in Paris and Univ. coll. London; wine merchant in city of London to 1872; F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1849, president 1870–2; F.R.S. 2 June 1853, royal medallist 1865, vice-president 1870–1; served on the royal coal commission 1866, and on the royal commission on water supply 1867; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. 1874; name placed in Ch. Ch. Oxf. matriculation register 3 Nov. 1874; M.A. by decree 11 Nov. 1874; professor of geology at Oxford 29 June 1874 to death; presented with freedom and livery of the Turners’ company 4 April 1878; corresponding member of French academy of sciences 1885; honorary D.C.L. Oxford 1888; president of the Congrès géologique international, which held its fourth session in London Sept. 1888; knighted by patent 20 January 1896; author of The geology of the water-bearing strata around London 1851; The geology of Clapham and neighbourhood of London 1858; and of Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphical, 2 vols. Oxford 1886–8. _d._ Shoreham, Kent 23 June 1896. _Times 24 June 1896 p._ 7; _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870) _portrait xiv_; _I.L.N. 11 Jany. 1896 p._ 52 _portrait_. PRETTEJOHN, RICHARD BUCKLEY. _b._ 10 March 1815; cornet 4 light dragoons 23 Feb. 1838; lieut. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. 14 light dragoons 3 April 1841, captain 17 Sept. 1850; served in the South Mahratta campaign 1844, the war in the Punjab 1848–9, the Persian war 1857, and the Indian mutiny 1857–8; major 18 hussars 5 July 1864, lieut. col. 14 June 1873, retired on full pay 1 April 1876; M.G. 20 March 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; colonel 13 hussars 1 July 1890 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Exmouth 4 Jany. 1891. PRETTY, EDWARD. _b._ Hollingbourne, Kent 5 March 1792; drawing master Rugby school 1809–29; a miniature painter at Northampton 1829–58; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. London 1811–37; curator of the Charles’ museum, Chillington house, Maidstone 1858 to death; assist. sec. Kent, archæological soc.; F.S.A. 31 May 1859; member of British archæol. assoc. 1843; author of A guide to Northampton. _d._ Chillington house 4 Aug. 1865. _bur._ Maidstone cemetery, left his books and paintings to the Charles’ museum, and his coins to the rev. Beale Poste. _G.M. Oct. 1865 p._ 516; _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea vi_ 311–14 (1868); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxii_ 325–6 (1866). PRETYMAN, GEORGE THOMAS (2 son of George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln and Winchester, who assumed in 1803 additional surname of Tomline 1750–1827). _b._ the deanery house, Dean’s court, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 5 April 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814; chancellor of cathedral church of Lincoln 15 April 1814 to death; R. of Wheathampstead with Harpenden, Herts. 1814 to death; prebend. of Lincoln 11 April 1814 to death; P.C. of Nettleton, Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1817 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 1 Sept. 1825 to death; his income from ecclesiastical sources seems to have been upwards of £6,250. _d._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 190 (1859). PREVOST, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost 1767–1816, governor general of Canada). _b._ Roseau, Dominica 20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death; rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death; archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84 of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Stinchcombe 18 March 1893. _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii_ 37, 280 (1894); _Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p._ 9 _portrait_. PREVOST, GEORGE PHIPPS (eld. son of sir George Prevost, 2 baronet 1804–93). _b._ 10 Nov. 1830; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852; ensign 85 foot 26 Aug. 1853; lieut. 25 foot 26 Jany. 1855, adjutant 9 Oct. 1855 to 21 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Sept. 1870, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; brevet colonel 3 Sept. 1875; assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general home district 7 Aug. 1880 to death. _d._ Chart lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 March 1885. PREVOST, JAMES CHARLES (only son of James Prevost, rear-admiral 1771–1855). _b._ 31 July 1810; entered navy 1829; lieut. 10 Dec. 1835; captain 17 April 1854, R.A. 16 Sept. 1869, retired 1 April 1870, admiral 9 Jany. 1880; first comr. for marking boundary between Vancouver island and Oregon 1856–62; superintendent of naval establishment at Gibraltar 1864–9; employed on the San Juan boundary question 1871–3; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 6 Sept. 1877. _d._ 133 Ebury st. London 28 Jany. 1891. PREVOST, JOHN LEWIS (son of professor Prevost, _d._ Geneva 27 June 1796). Came to England 1814; vice-consul of Swiss confederation in London 1818, and consul general at 24a Gresham st. city of London from 1830; F.G.S., treasurer 1843 to death; resided at 3 Suffolk place, Pall Mall East, London. _d._ Geneva 4 Nov. 1852. _Quarterly journal of geological society ix_ 25 (1853). PREVOST, LOUIS AUGUSTINE. _b._ Troyes, Champagne 6 June 1796; educ. at a college in Versailles; came to England and became tutor in the family of Wm. Young Ottley 1823; taught languages in London 1823–43; learnt 40 languages, including most of the European languages and many Asiatic; employed at the British Museum cataloguing the Chinese books 1843–55. _d._ Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 25 April 1858. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 30 April. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 358–62; _G.M. July 1858 p._ 87. PREVOST-PARADOL, LUCIEN ANATOLE (only son of Madame Lucinde Prevost-Paradol 1798–1843, actress). _b._ Paris 8 July 1829; eminent littérateur; lectured in English in Edinburgh 1869; sent letters to The Times on French politics from A Parisian Correspondent to 1869; French minister at Washington 12 June 1870; author of many works including, Jonathan Swift, sa vie et ses œuvres 1856; France, an address, Edinb. 1869; _shot himself_ at Washington 11 Aug. 1870. _Newspaper Press iv_ 194 (1870); _Appleton’s American biography v_ 116 (1888). PRIAULX, OR DE PREAUX, OSMOND DE BEAUVOIR (2 son of Antony de Preaux). _b._ Guernsey 5 March 1805; educ. Catherine hall, Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 19 April 1832; the last survivor of the original members of the Reform club, an active member of committee; author of Outlines of a system of national education 1834; National education 1837; Quaestiones Mosaicae, or the first book of Moses compared with the remains of ancient religions, 2 ed. 1854; The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana and the Indian embassies to Rome 1873. _d._ 8 Cavendish sq. London 15 Jany. 1891, left his library to the college at Guernsey with money for its continued support. PRICE, ANDREW (son of Roger Price of Leigh, Essex). _b._ Lee, Kent 23 July 1754; educ. Magd. coll. Oxf., chorister 1767–72, usher of the school 1772–88; B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778; ordained deacon 22 Sept. 1776, priest 20 Dec. 1778; chaplain of Ch. Ch. Oxf. and of bishop Warner’s coll. at Bromley 1778–1800; R. of Britwell Salome, Gloucs. 1782 to death; V. of Down Ampney, Gloucs. 1778 to death. _d._ Britwell Salome 7 June 1851. PRICE, ANNIE, her maiden name was Annie Allen. _b._ County Tyrone, Ireland 1842; weighed 245 lbs. in 1856, afterwards scaled 525 lbs., fell to 400 before her death; travelled with Adam Forepaugh’s circus in U.S. of America; exhibited in the museums about Gotham, New York; _m._ (1) Mr. Pettit, who died leaving her with 2 children; _m._ (2) at 210 Bowery, New York an Albino. _d._ New York Nov. 1889, lay in state in an ice box at 19 Bayard st. New York. _bur._ Greenwood cemetery. PRICE, ASTLEY PASTON (3 son of Dr. Price of Margate). _b._ 1826; studied chemistry at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and took the Ph.D. degree; studied in Paris under Théopile J. Pelouze; assistant to Dr. August W. Hofman at Royal college of chemistry, London 1845; held an appointment in the School of mines; chemist in the silver works of Dillwyn and Co. Swansea 1851–7; a consulting chemist in London from 1857; had much practice in chemical patent cases, conducted the case Young _v._ Fernie in which the validity of Young’s patent for making parafine oil was maintained; took out patents for manufacture of sugar, the treatment of metals and ores, the distillation of carbonaceous materials and the treatment of sewage; F.C.S.; A.I.C.E. 23 May