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PRIOR, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 13 April 1824; colonel Bengal infantry 17 Sept. 1871; general 20 Aug. 1878. _d._ 21 April 1881. PRIOR, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1821, cornet 27 April 1822; lieut. 23 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 12 March 1846 to 1847; lieut. col. of 15 N.I. 1847–8, of 47 N.I. 1848–9; of 46 N.I. 1849–51, of 23 N.I. 1851–3, and of 37 N.I. 1853–7; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 14 March 1856 to 1859; col. of 19 N.I. 30 Dec. 1859 to 1863, and of 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 2 Dec. 1857. _d._ Cotteshall, Norfolk 10 Jany. 1870. PRIOR, SIR JAMES (son of Matthew Prior of Lisburn, co. Antrim). _b._ Lisburn 1787; sailed from Plymouth as surgeon of the Nisus frigate 22 June 1810, served on coast of Africa, the East Indies and Brazil; flag surgeon; present at the surrender of Heligoland, and at the surrender of Napoleon 15 July 1815; staff surgeon to Chatham division of royal marines and to three of the royal yachts; assistant to director general of medical department of the navy; deputy inspector general of hospitals and fleets 1 Aug. 1843; M.R.I.A. 1830; F.S.A. 25 Nov. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 June 1858; member of British Archæol. assoc. 1845; author of Memoirs of the life and character of Edmund Burke 1824, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1854 (Bohn’s British classics 1854); Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vols. 1837; The county house and other poems 1846; Life of Edmond Malone 1860; edited The miscellaneous works of Goldsmith, 4 vols. 1837; resided 20 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London. _d._ Brighton 14 Nov. 1869. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvi_ 268 (1870); _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 304 (1869). PRIOR, THOMAS ABIEL. _b._ 5 Nov. 1809; engraved the following plates from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Heidelberg castle and town 1846, Zurich 1852, Dido building Carthage 1863, Apollo and the Sybyl 1873, The sun rising in a mist 1874, and The fighting Temeraire 1886; engraved plates after Richard Wilson, James Ward, and John Linnell; engraved Crossing the bridge after sir Edwin Landseer; and for the Art Journal The Windmill after Ruysdael, The village fête after David Teniers, and four other pictures in the royal collection; exhibited two pictures at the R.A. 1864 and 1874; taught drawing at Calais. _d._ Calais 8 Nov. 1886. PRITCHARD, ANDREW (eld. son of John Pritchard of Hackney). _b._ London 14 Dec. 1804; apprenticed to his cousin Cornelius Varley, patent agent; an optician at 18 Picket st., at 312 Strand, and at 162 Fleet st. London; brought up an Independent but became a Unitarian about 1840; a microscopist, fashioned a single lens out of a diamond 1826, also fashioned single lenses of sapphire and of ruby; F.R.S. Edinb. 1873; author of A practical treatise on optical instruments 1828; The microscopic cabinet 1832; The natural history of animalcules 1834, issued as A history of Infusoria, living and fossil 1842, 3 ed. 1861; A list of all patents for inventions in the arts, manufactures, etc. during the present century 1841. _d._ 87 St. Paul’s road, Highbury, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1882. PRITCHARD, CHARLES (4 son of Wm. Pritchard, manufacturer). _b._ Alberbury, Shropshire 29 Feb. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school, Christ’s hospital, and St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow March 1832; fourth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; head master of a school at Stockwell 1833–4, and of Clapham gr. sch. 1834–62; ordained deacon 1834; delivered addresses at church congresses and preached before the British Association; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1867; select preacher at Cambridge 1869 and 1881, and at Oxford 1876 and 1877; had a small observatory at Clapham; F.R.A.S. 13 April 1849, member of council 1856–77 and 1883–7, president 1866, gold medallist Feb. 1886; Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford 10 Feb. 1870 to death, designed the new observatory in the Parks, Oxford, completed 1875; invented the wedge-photometer for determining the magnitude of stars; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1840, member of council 1885–7, royal medallist 1892; F.G.S. 1852; M.A. Oxford 1870, D.D. 1880; fellow of New coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; hon. fellow of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1886 to death; member of the Solar physics committee 1885; issued 4 numbers of Astronomical observations made at the university observatory, Oxford 1878–92; wrote many popular essays including a series in Good Words; author of A treatise on the theory of couples 1831; Occasional thoughts of an astronomer on nature and revelation 1889, and of 50 papers in transactions of learned societies 1873–93. _d._ 8 Keble terrace, Oxford 28 May 1893. _bur._ Holywell cemet. Oxford. _Proc. of Royal soc. liv pp. iii–xii_ (1894); _Daily Graphic 31 May 1893 p._ 4 _portrait_; _Observatory xvi_ 256 (1893) _portrait_; _Journal of British Astronom. Assoc. iii_ 434 (1893) _portrait_. PRITCHARD, EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John White Pritchard, captain R.N.). _b._ Southsea, Hampshire 1825; studied surgery at King’s college, London 1843–6; M.R.C.S. 29 May 1846; assistant surgeon on board steam-sloop Hecate, 4 guns 1846–7; L.S.A. 1847; purchased degree of M.D. from univ. of Erlangen, Germany; practised at Hunmanby, Yorkshire 1851–4, at Filey, Yorkshire 1854–9, at Edinburgh 1859, and at Glasgow 1860 to death; suspected of murdering his servant Elizabeth McGirn, who was found burnt to death in her bedroom at 11 Berkeley terrace, Glasgow 5 May 1863; purchased the practice of Dr. Corbertt with his house in Clarence place, Sauchiehall st. Glasgow May 1864; his mother-in-law Jane Cowper Taylor _d._ 25 Feb. 1865, and his wife Mary Jane Pritchard _d._ 17 March 1865; tried for the murder of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Pritchard 3 to 7 July 1865, sentenced to death 7 July 1865, confessed his guilt, _hanged_ in front of Glasgow gaol 28 July 1865, the last public execution in Glasgow; author of A visit to Pitcairn Island 1847; Observations on Filey as a watering place 1853; Guide to Filey and its antiquities 1854; Coast lodgings for the poorer cities 1854. _Brown and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 397–448; _A.R._ (1865) 107, 221–7; _Illust. times 15 July 1865 p._ 24 _portrait_; _A complete report of the trial of Dr. E. W. Pritchard_ (1865). PRITCHARD, GEORGE (son of a journeyman brassfounder). _b._ Birmingham 1 Aug. 1796; went to Tahiti as a missionary 27 July 1824; British consul for the Leeward, Navigator’s and Tonga islands April 1837; adviser of Pomare, queen of the Society Islands during her quarrel with French government 1836–43; went to England to advocate the queen’s case 1841, returned Feb. 1843, seized by the French authorities on the pretence he encouraged disaffection among the natives 5 March 1844, released on condition that he should leave the islands and never return; consul in the Navigator’s islands March 1844, resigned 14 Sept. 1857; author of The missionary’s reward or the success of the gospel in the South Pacific 1844; Queen Pomare and her country 1878. _d._ Hove, near Brighton May 1883. _Foreign office list_ (1885) 214; _I.L.N. v_ 68, 82, 84 (1844) 2 _portraits_. PRITCHARD, HENRY. _b._ 1 Jany. 1810; ensign Madras army 8 Jany. 1826; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 23 Aug. 1826, major 23 Sept. 1857; lieut. col. Madras infantry 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 6 March 1868; general 20 Aug. 1878; placed on retired list 1 Jany. 1880; took part in the Goomsoor and Kolapore campaigns of 1835 and 1845. _d._ 14 Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 20 June 1893. _Graphic 8 July 1893 p._ 38 _portrait_. PRITCHARD, HENRY BADEN (3 son of Andrew Pritchard 1804–82). _b._ Canonbury, London 30 Nov. 1841; educ. at Eisenach and Univ. college school, London; employed in the chemical department at royal arsenal, Woolwich 1861, conducted the photographic department there to his death; proprietor and editor of the Photographic News 1878–84; author of A peep in the Pyrenees 1867, anon.; Tramps in the Tyrol 1874; Beauty spots on the continent 1875; Dangerfield, 3 vols. 1878; Old Charlton, 3 vols. 1879; George Vanbrugh’s Mistake, 3 vols. 1880; The doctor’s daughter, 3 vols. 1883; The photographic studios of Europe 1882; A trip to Sahara with the camera 1884. _d._ 1 Kidbrook grove, Blackheath, Kent 11 May 1884. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 16 May. _The British journal of photography May 1884 p._ 325 _portrait_; _The year book of photography_ (1885) _p._ 26 _portrait_. PRITCHARD, JOHN (2 son of John Pritchard, banker, Bridgnorth, _d._ 1837). _b._ 24 Sept. 1796; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; banker at Bridgnorth and Broseley; M.P. Bridgnorth 1853–68. _d._ Stanmore, Shropshire 19 Aug. 1891. PRITCHARD, THOMAS SIRRELL (son of Thomas Pritchard, surgeon, Hereford). _b._ Nov. 1834; educ. Hereford coll. sch., King’s coll. sch., and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1858, went the Oxford circuit; recorder of Wenlock 10 March 1871 to death; common law editor of Law Journal reports 1879 to death; author of A handy-book for executors 1861; The jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in judicial matters 1875; edited R. Burn’s Justice of the peace, 13 ed. 1869; J. Stone’s Practice for justices, 8 ed. 1877. _d._ 44 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 8 Aug. 1879. _Law Journal lxvii p._ 307 (1879). PRITCHARD-RAYNER, GEORGE (1 son of Henry Pritchard of Trescawen, Anglesea, _d._ 1881). _b._ 1843; cornet 5 dragoon guards 7 Nov. 1862, capt. 28 Oct. 1871, sold out 24 April 1872; sheriff of Anglesea 1879; contested Anglesey April 1880; won horse races in Ireland and England; a pigeon shooter; master of the Anglesey harriers 1876; a good all round man in all sports; _m._ 1871 Mary Brady, dau. of John B. Rayner, assumed name of Rayner. _d._ Aug. 1893. _Baily’s Mag. May 1882 pp._ 1–3 _portrait_, _Sept. 1893 p._ 206. PRITCHETT, JAMES PIGOTT (4 son of Charles Pigott Pritchett 1743–1813, rector of St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire from 1781). _b._ St. Petrox 14 Oct. 1789; architect in London 1812, and at York 1813 to death in partnership with Mr. Watson; built the deanery, St. Peter’s school, the Saving’s bank, Lady Hawley’s hospital, and Lendal and Salem chapels at York; built the asylum at Wakefield, and the court-house and gaol at Beverley; surveyor and architect on the estates of three earls Fitzwilliam. _d._ York 23 May 1868. _Pedigree of Pritchett by G. M. G. Cullum and J. P. Pritchett_ (1892) _pp._ 5, 6. PRITT, LONSDALE. _b._ 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844; minister of St. Mark, Auckland, New Zealand; incumbent of Reumera, Auckland 1870 to death; archdeacon of Waikato 1873 to death. _d._ St. Mark’s parsonage, Reumera 31 Oct. 1885. PRITT, THOMAS EVAN. Manager of London and Yorkshire bank; manager of Leeds joint stock bank; founder of Yorkshire angling association, and of the Headingley golf club near Leeds; author of Yorkshire trout flies 1885, 2 ed. 1886; The book of the grayling 1888; resided Lyntonville, near Leeds. _d._ Torquay 11 Sept. 1895. PROBERT, CHARLES KENTISH (4 son of Thomas Probert of Newport, Essex). _b._ Newport 1820; solicitor at Newport 1845 to death; partner with C. M. Wade of Walden 1850, they opened an office in St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 1867; member of Essex Archæological soc.; wrote in Notes and Queries, East Anglian Mag., Antiquarian Mag., and other journals; author of Arms and Epitaphs of Essex, etc., 11 vols. quarto of illuminated MSS. which he bequeathed to the British Museum library, they are catalogued as Additional MSS. No. 33,520–33,530. _d._ Saffron Walden, Essex 30 Nov. 1888. _bur._ Newport 4 Dec. PROBERT, MARTHA. _b._ 1774; wife of Wm. Probert, one of the murderers of Wm. Weare at Gills lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, he turned king’s evidence but was hanged at Newgate for horse stealing 9 April 1825; she then called herself Heath; from that time to her death she lived at Cheltenham; _found drowned_ in the river Chelt, near Barrette’s mill Oct. or Nov. 1857. PROBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Painscastle, Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1790; Wesleyan local preacher at Bolton, Leeds, Liverpool, and in Staffordshire; stationed at Alnwick, Northumberland where he became a unitarian 1815; minister of unitarian chapel at Walmsley, near Bolton, Lancs. 1821 to death; Walmsley chapel is generally called ‘Old Probert’s chapel’; wrote A history of Walmsley chapel in the Christian Reformer 1834; author of Calvanism and Arminianism 1815; The Godolin and the odes of the month, being translations from the Welsh 1820; The ancient laws of Cambria 1823; The elements of Hebrew and Chaldee grammar 1832; Hebrew and English concordance 1838; Hebrew and English lexicon grammar 1850; Laws of Hebrew poetry 1860. _d._ Dimple, Turton 1 April 1870. _bur._ in graveyard attached to Walmsley chapel. PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (eld. child of Bryan Waller Procter 1787–1874). _b._ 25 Bedford sq. London 30 Oct. 1825; contributed poems to the Book of beauty 1843; joined the Church of Rome about 1851; wrote poems in Household Words under name of Mary Berwick 1853–4; all her poems except two in Cornhill mag. and two in Good Words were first published in Household Words or All the year round; appointed by the council of National association for promotion of social science, member of a committee to consider fresh ways of providing employment for women 1859; edited a volume of miscellaneous verse and prose set up in type by women compositors and entitled Victoria Regia 1861; wrote eight hymns, the best known are I do not ask O Lord, that life may be, and I thank thee, O my God, who made 1858–62; Legends and lyrics, a book of verses, 2 vols. 1858–61, 10 ed. with an introduction by C. Dickens and a portrait 1866; A chaplet of verses 1862. d. 32 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 2 Feb. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_, _2 series_ (1893) 268–96 _portrait_; _Bessie R. Belloe’s In a walled garden_ (1895) 164–78; _C. Bruce’s Book of noble Englishwomen_ (1875) 445–52; _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 913; _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii_ 359–64 (1891); _Atlantic monthly Dec. 1865 pp._ 739–43 _by C. Dickens_; _Eclectic Mag. lxxxviii_ 759 (1877) _portrait_. PROCTER, ANNE BENSON (dau. of Thomas Skepper, lawyer, York, by Miss Benson, a lady who afterwards married Basil Montagu). _b._ York 11 Sept. 1799; saw much of society in Basil Montagu’s house in Bedford square; _m._ 7 Oct. 1824 Bryan Waller Procter, who _d._ 1874, they lived for some years in Basil Montagu’s house; an acquaintance of Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Browning; very well known in London society, her Sunday receptions were crowded with visitors; befriended Mrs. Anna B. Jameson in 1854; edited Letters addressed to Mrs. Basil Montagu and B. W. Procter 1881. _d._ 19 Albert hall mansions, Kensington Gore, London 5 March